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Went and bought 2 - 8777 Vladek Encounter sets last night with the intention of removing the decal on a Vladek armour in order to get a blank black armour. Got to work with a cloth and some Brasso. It seems the metallic element in the design makes (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded)
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(...) 20 mins? that's nothing! When I went during lunch to a local Big W store on toy sale opening week, I almost fainted when I saw this HUGE line of trolleys... 76 to be exact! one lady who was around the 30th trolley in line said she had been (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Target Toy Sale is on (and they folded)
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(...) Went to the opening day to grab a spiderman origins during lunch. Had a look and low and behold, HC2 is now down to $114. Looks like someone informed target that BigW was still on sale. This is for the Melbourne City store, so I don't know (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: no reserves on aussie ebay
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(...) guess (...) opinion (...) I don't recall being asked. But I would assume that ebay have a lot of stats about the "success rates" (the item sells) with and without reserves being used. Of course, success to ebay (the item sells) and success to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Target Toy Sale Catalogue is out now (some things really amuse me)
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(...) Foxtel does have National Geographic, Discovery and History Channels though ;^) (...) 1 Big W ! You have more senators ! (...) Mothers (stay@home dads too) tend to be fairly astute, there are some ebay magnates masquerading as harmless moms (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: no reserves on aussie ebay
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(...) Low minimums do get more bids.........which leads to more bids. Bidders are funny, they see price validation in another unknown entity bidding. I have given buyers generous discounts when an ordinary item just got way out of hand with 2 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Garage sale trawlers can afford to start low, but sale item scalping must be risky with no reserve and a low starting price. (...) Glad it's just not me getting persecuted ;^) I just delete them, I have never read any. pete.w (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) LEGO's focus group was probably some soccer busloads of soccer moms and some plainloads of NASCAR dads sitting around a (very large)primary coloured table. (...) I have been quietly maintaining an empty closed shop on Bricklick ;^) Though it's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: no reserves on aussie ebay
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(...) There is, but it's not immediately obvious. If you post a hot item with a $1000 minimum bid, you might scare off bidders before they even get started. If you post the same item with a $1 minimum bid and a $1000 reserve, any guy with a buck to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: no reserves on aussie ebay
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(...) I'm mostly a buyer, so I approve of getting rid of 'reserves', they were mostly very annoying, and as I saw it, no advantage for the seller over just setting a reasonable minimum price. (...) Of the approximately 1033 Spam emails I've got (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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