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Re: Set Mysteries
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:52:46 GMT
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Well, I'm not so worried now. At least it sounds like he is informed. I
would just hate to see him get ripped off and regret it later.
-David
In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
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> David Carriker wrote in message ...
> > This is all some good stuff, I hope that the kid doesn't reget selling it
> > someday. I sure would have if I had ever sold my Lego.
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> He probably will regret it someday, but you know how teens have to have
> their cars...
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> The good part for him is that he probably realized close to or over $2000
> (he got over $1000 from me, $550 or so for sets he had already built and
> separated, and $500 for the remainder [which was a REAL good price for what
> is there]). Most of the sets he had built up he was selling for prices
> comparable to auction prices, though a few were bargains (and a few were not
> so good prices due to yellowing of parts or poor condition stickers). He
> also still has (or had) a few hundred dollars more in separated sets which
> he had not yet sold.
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> He certainly got a heck of a lot more for it than he would have had he sold
> it to a used toy store, or to one of the non AFOL eBay LEGO sellers.
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> I don't know how aware he was of the online LEGO community, though he did
> use Brickset scans where he didn't have the original instructions (and
> somewhere I have a stack of diskettes with instructions he had downloaded).
> He mentioned that he had sold stuff to people outside the area that he had
> contacted on the internet, so he probably also used RTL.
>
> Frank
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| David Carriker wrote in message ... (...) He probably will regret it someday, but you know how teens have to have their cars... The good part for him is that he probably realized close to or over $2000 (he got over $1000 from me, $550 or so for (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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