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Gee, it seems the seller could have purchased a digital camera, listed that
auction and made enough more than $100 to pay for the camera...what do you
think?
In lugnet.general, Mike Walsh writes:
> A couple of weeks ago I was watching an auction on eBay. There was no
> pictures, just a description.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1631985687
>
> From the description I thought it might be worth taking a shot on it
> thinking the statment "Has the rail station and the crane to lift cars and
> other things onto the train. The crane comes with an extra train car. " so
> it might be a 4555. I forgot about the auction but I had put it in my watch
> list. Seeing that it closed without any bids I contacted the seller and
> asked about a direct sale. Seller said, sure, meet my opening bid. I
> figured why not, every once in a while a gamble is worth taking.
>
> Well today my box showed up.
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70794
>
> Right on the top you can see the train platforms and in it were lots of
> yellow pieces. Hmm - MetroStation? Some more digging around, hmmm ... more
> goodies. So I started a real quick rough sort of things I recognized.
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70795
>
> Parts from 4555, 4554, 4552, 4549, 4532, and 4564!
>
> After the kids went to bed tonight I set it all out on the floor to see what
> I really had. The box had no instructions with it which exactly what I had
> expected. I had contacted the seller when the auction was running to get a
> list of set numbers. Seller stated - "no boxes, no instructions, no idea as
> to which sets they are".
>
> Fortunately I have instructions for all of the sets that appeared to be in
> the box. So I spent the evening building.
>
> Here is what I ended up with:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70796
>
> 4554 MetroStation - mostly complete, missing lamp posts, one sign and one
> minifig.
> 4552 Cargo Crane - missing the small tool car (the one w/ small train
> wheels)
> 4549 Road 'N Rail Hauler - missing four 1x2 red tiles (which oddly enough I
> don't have any of)
> 4544 Car Transport Wagon - missing the white car
> 4555 Freight Loading Station - missing the building
> 4564 Freight Rail Runner - missing the truck
> 4539 Level Crossing (#1) - complete
> 4539 Level Crossing (#2) - missing the tower
> 6514 Trail Ranger - complete
> 6562 Gas Stop Shop - missing the tanker truck
>
> All in all, a pretty good haul for $100. ;-)
>
> Mike
>
>
> --
> Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
> http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nclug.net/ctb - Carolina Train Builders
> http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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