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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
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> > For one or two of them, not knowing what the condition is? Maybe $3 bucks
> > each. For the possibility of getting 20+, brand new? I'd pay $7 or $8 a
> > piece. (and the rest of the pack is worth the leftover, easily)
> >
> > My $20 offer for 5138's was prompted by the possibility of getting a large
> > volume of them, brand new, all at once (relatively). Convenience and a
> > guarantee of good condition is worth a lot to me (and I expect most people).
> >
> > Consider that the other main source of this armour part is 6009, which is
> > not too hard to find at $10-$15, but is almost always used, and you'd be
> > paying for shipping 20 times.
> >
> >
> > James
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> Hmmm, now I was thinking that for a volume purchase you'd want the price to
> go down, not up. I'd rather mail stuff out all at once and take a lower
> price rather than have to deal with 20 packages.
I'm not thinking about it as paying more for a volume purchase. I'm willing
to pay more for the convenience of not having to deal with 20 packages (it's
not just a hassle for sellers), and for the guarantee of good condition.
Also, I have more costs involved than just the straight price. I've got
about a 50/50 chance of having to pay 7% GST + $5.00 brokerage for every
international package I receive. So on average, I'm automatically paying
$3.00 more for everthing I buy. Consider also that most of the time, I'm
paying $3 or more for shipping from the US, and much more than that for
overseas.
You can see how my overhead drops drastically as the number of packages I
receive goes down, neh?
> Six euro-armors literally just landed on my desk (what timing!) for just
> under $4 each - and that includes a minifig and visored helmet with each.
> And I got a 6009 for $5 on my desk yesterday (MIB). I guess I'm just cheap.
Maybe, but I'll bet it's just that you have a lot more time than I do to
shop for deals. Also, deals for you are not necessarily deals for me. That
MIB 6009 would probably have ended up costing me 10 or more after shipping &
border crossing, so it jumps above what I'm willing to pay for the armour.
When I was spending lots of time cruising eBay, on-line sites, and other
sources of potential deals, I ended up finding that most "deals" ended up
not being worth it by the time they got to me.
James
(FUT market.theory... this isn't very castle-y anymore, and much more market-y)
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