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Re: FOTM
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:46:24 GMT
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Steve Burge (<GHn21z.IsE@lugnet.com>) wrote at
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> So, get friendly with local toy dealers and ask to see their
> stockrooms - you don't know what gems may be in there :)
Been there, done that, none left :-)
Congrats on the haul. I got my first 6277 from a shop where it was about
a tenner off msrp a couple of years ago, but these places are getting
harder to find.
Many shops no longer *have* a store room: what you see on the shelf is
all there is. And these days, it isn't much.
--
Tony Priestman
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| (...) Yeah, I just got suspicious as for a while they'd had a flow of older sets that hadn't been on the shelves before, so I thought that there must be more in the stock room. Steve (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Well I finally plucked up courage to ask something I'd been meaning to ask for a while... I was visiting my father this weekend and I'd previously had some good luck on getting old sets from a nearby toyshop, last time I asked them to have a look in (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)
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