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| FWIW, I only keep the box itself (the outside shell, with the printing on it). I don't keep any of the plastic bags or plastic trays. And if I buy a used set in an auction that says 'with box', I only assume that they have the outer shell of the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think the point here is largely mute, since (call me cynical) even if TLG beefs up its offering of parts for club members, it seems to me very unlikely that they would make available each piece currently in production. So it simply wouldn't (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, unless a set is New-In-Box, I wouldn't expect the holey bags or the catalogs to be there. Maybe I'm an exception, but I doubt it. The plastic inlays of the (very) large boxes, that's a different thing. I'd want those to be there. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) And why would having a few thousand of, say, any particular part stop the sale of sets? Anyway, if sets generally have costs /part of $.10-$.20, Why not make the bulk ordering service at $.25/piece, for the medium-hard-to-get pieces, $.50-$1 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...")
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| (...) Now I'm thoroughly confuzzed. :) I thought Jacob said that an LDU = 1/4 LU, which would have been in reference to the LU which means 1/5 of the inter- stud spacing and 1/6 of a standard brick height. So a Jessiman LDU = 1/40 of the standard (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:59:32 GMT, Simon Robinson uttered the following profundities... (...) They still have 2 dozen of these at the Hayes TRU. They had started the sale off with about a gross (or so it seemed). (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:56:50 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) Our political parties are still tearing their guts out over the issue. Despite the fact that it is the best thing for everyone (60% or more of our (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) How far does that go toward stopping an individual from buying $25,000 in bulk bricks and reselling these to a local toystore for $25,250? (The profit is only $250 on the transaction. Not bad for about 1 hour of work. :-) Any restriction (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...")
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| (...) Almost. 1/20 Gyugyi LU = *1* Jessiman LDU = .4 mm. Steve (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, for one thing, memberships would only be available to individuals, not corporations. Although this wouldn't necessarily stop a person from doing this altogether, it would put a cap on the amount of profit that they would be allowed to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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