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Re: Ebay and Lego Afficianados
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Date: 
Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:58:42 GMT
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Bernie Manderville wrote:

Hi All,

I was just on ebay looking at the Lego auctions.  Do these people have any
idea of what they are bidding on?  For example a Superstreet Sensation is
now over $135 US yet you can get one from shop.lego.com for 129.99 inlcuding
shipping.  What is happening here, auction fever, or something else.


<TONGUE IN CHEEK>

Yes, but shop.lego.com is so appallingly designed that if you're a
moderately
high earner, the time it takes to order it there costs you more than the
difference in price.

<TONGUE OUT OF CHHEK>

Actually, my tongue wasn't all _that_ far in my cheek.

   Andrew



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(...) Andrew, I totally agree that the shop at home sites sucks. Yet it is still cheaper than buying through ebay for the new sets. My feeling is that if you have time to browse the site and look at the prices then ebay is not such a good deal. I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Ebay and Lego Afficianados
 
Hi All, I was just on ebay looking at the Lego auctions. Do these people have any idea of what they are bidding on? For example a Superstreet Sensation is now over $135 US yet you can get one from shop.lego.com for 129.99 inlcuding shipping. What is (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)

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