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Re: We spend a lot of money...
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:00:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, James Brown writes:
> At least, according to the latest Brickshelf poll:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/poll.cgi?poll=8
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> I'll conceed that I'm curious as to how accurate it is - did people mostly
> estimate down, or up? I put myself in the 1-5 catagory, which is probably a
> catagory too low for me, but I haven't kept track quite that exactly.
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> I'm also wondering (curiosity only, no one is being asked to divulge their
> personal finances!) who the 17 people spending more than $25 grand are. I
> hadn't figured on there being more than about 5 or 6 in that range.
Yes, and I wonder how many of the people in the top two highest dollar
categories resell some or a large part of this to ofset the spending on the
stuff they keep.
Example: Person A buys $10K a year, but sells off $5K of that for $8K. Person
A is only out of pocket $2K for $5K worth of stuff. Person B spends $8K buying
the sets/parts person A was selling. They both report their total purchases in
the poll resulting in a total purchase of $18K, which if TLC is looking at
these polls to see how much "buying power" AFOLs have then they are getting a
skewed view.
BEN GATRELLE
(just my 2% worth)
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| At least, according to the latest Brickshelf poll: (URL) by the minimum value only for the ranges given, AFOL's have spent over 3/4 of a million in the last 12 months. I'll conceed that I'm curious as to how accurate it is - did people mostly (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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