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(...) You know, I get tired of hearing how we live in a capitalistic world. We don't. Not hardly. (if you disagree, take it to off-topic.debate). But even so, this particular seller isn't (apparently) demonstrating much capitalism. LEGO placed a (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) David, I was referring to this: (URL) It walks using a little red micromotor. (...) I was not disagreeing with Orion very hard. There is a scale of reusability, and some parts have a very low reusability score. Orion's point is that there are (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) How about the value of making the market more efficient? Suppose that person A is willing to pay $20 for a set and person B is willing to pay $40 for a set[1]. Perhaps A is lucky[2] and finds the set for $20, but that outcome does not maximize (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) 1. I thought about the PAB. If it were PAB, then we would all know about it and a whole lot of other AFOLs would be doing the same thing. 2. Tent sales would probably mean that they would have to buy whole sets and there's no evidence of them (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Maybe they've picked them up through Pick-A-Brick or tent sales? The one store listing massive quantities of the Gryffindor shield is in Denmark, and they might have liquidated their leftover stock of light-grey when they switched over to (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs We live in a capalistic world and if the market is willing to pay such a price for (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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AFAIK, this seller, NinjaPrincess, is a woman who deals with bulk bought Lego which she sorts and resells. I vaguely recall her having bought some 20,000 copies of Final Duel IIs for $1 each for resale from some clearance/wholesale group. (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I just went to Yahoo to see what was going on with that link and perhaps getting it reinstated. However, it seems that Yahoo no longer has free webpages for members. I did toss out the idea late last year for another run at the comp, but there (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
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(...) Dunno about any of the others, but my entry was (URL) this>. Still together, too (mostly). T'was a fun little compo. I'd agree that nearly any part can be used in a creative and original way that has never even been thought of before... (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Ah, you must mean the (URL) Lame Parts> contest. (...) Don't forget the Throwbot discs... (...) Yeah, Allister did set up a webpage for the winners at one point, but the link he posted is dead. (...) It still pops up from time to time. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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