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In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> Hi Everyone!
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> This whole thing has just fascinated me. There are all of those guys
> selling MISB sets from Italy! What is the deal with this? Do these people
> just have insane collections and they are selling it off? Are they finding
> them in shops?
Finding them in shops.
When I was on a Swiss assignment, I was privileged to go to northern Italy
and fest with a few folks who turned me on to stuff. Italy is a treasure
trove of shops (individual and small chains) with poor inventory management
and poor retailing skills (when compared to the sophisticated software and
techniques employed by large US chains to drive inventory turns by
preventing overstocks and "stale" merchandise). Bad for the shops but good
for people who are willing to visit every one and see what they actually have.
We hit something lik 4 shops in one afternoon, these being ones that had
been previously mined out already by my contacts, and Horst and I came away
with 2000 USD worth of goodies that excited ME but weren't rare enough to be
bothered with by them.
> They all have so many great sets and are making a huge
> profit from them.
And why shouldn't they? Finding these sets takes a LOT of work if you stop
and think about it. (and gas/petrol, which ain't cheap in europe) These
sellers are performing a very valuable service and have earned their
profits. And then some
FUT market.theory
> So what do people know about these? I suppose I could
> try and contact the sellers themselves but I don't want them to think I'm
> going to try and get in on it. Can anyone shed some light on this? Just
> curious. Thanks a lot! :-)
>
> Brendan
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| One of the main reasons I have a good supply of rare parts is that I did this same thing in Germany in 1979, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 87, 89, 92, 93. I hit every mom&pop toy store I could find between the Iron Curtain (Coburg) and Garmisch-Patenkirchen (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| Hi Everyone! This whole thing has just fascinated me. There are all of those guys selling MISB sets from Italy! What is the deal with this? Do these people just have insane collections and they are selling it off? Are they finding them in shops? (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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