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I have a large collection of lego including sets purchased new, sets purchased second hand and parts (some from sets I have bought and kept only some parts from but most from second hand sources). The parts are in various levels of quality (some are (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Easy: Ring your current insurance company and ask what they will accept. (A good point to start at will be a list of purchases and how much you paid. Receipts would be good too. Keep in mind that Lego might not be a particularly risky (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Frances in Tassie has her Lego insured as a separate collection. Better to do it this way rather than through the general household insurance. I believe (though I'm happy to be corrected) that she used Bricklink prices as evidence of the value of (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I have my LEGO collection insured under a special collection agengy insurance. I tried to have my renter's insurance thru ALL STATE give me a quote but they did seem to understand that my collection of lEGO was worth $20,000. They wanted to (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) The insurance company wants a list. I have no clue what all this stuff is worth. Or how much I paid for the various items in my collection. Any ideas on how to come up with a value that the insurance will accept? (19 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:IAL6w5.xFL@lugnet.com... (...) paid. (...) particularly (...) Well, sets are the easy part - you could take the average listing value off of Bricklink. Doesn't matter what you really paid (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hmmm, I was hoping for a way to do this that didnt involve going through and building every set in my collection and then valuing each set plus all the parts that are left. Assume they dont want lists of individual parts, is there another (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) How good's your memory? How about making a list of all the sets you've acquired over the years (don't do it in one hit, take a few days), making a note of the set number and number of pieces. See what you can come up with. (No need to build (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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ok, what I will do is to make a list of all the sets I have instructions for along with sutable average bricklink prices for same. And a list of the "rare"/"unusual" parts in my collection (anything that would be hard to find again if my collection (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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For many years we have been keeping a list of the Lego instructions we have to help prioritise our purchases (ie, buy instructions/sets we don't have first). Note, instructions do not necessarily mean sets, but close. Somewhere along the line we (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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