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(...) My wife any myself braved one of these opening sales last year at a local K-mart. Arriving 30 minutes before the store even opened and had to queue at the door to get in. The astute shoppers had already collected empty trolleys (some with (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Review of Lego Creator Show at David Jones, Sydney.
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All, (...) I never saw the original posting on this (before my time on Lugnet). Does anyone know if this show is appearing in other parts of Australia and when? Particularly interested in Brisbane (as that is where I am). Jay (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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Hey, Here's what I can make out, doing some Googling and using this site to help me with flags: (URL) left - Hmm. This looks like a few of the flags, but only Pitcairn and Cook Islands fall into "Asia Pacific". The text looks like "Convention (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) This picture: (URL) that all depicted buildings are actual real life locations, but I'm not able to make out all the building names and nation flags in this image. Opera House in Australia and Great Wall in China are obvious. Could someone (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote: -snip- (...) -snip- Not exactly: What is is 'worth' is one bid increment more than the second highest bidder is prepared to pay. For example, if there are two bidders, one prepared to pay $50, the other (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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 $1000 reserve, any guy with a buck to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'm mostly a buyer, so I approve of getting rid of 'reserves', they were mostly very annoying, and as I saw it, no advantage for the seller over just setting a reasonable minimum price. (...) Of the approximately 1033 Spam emails I've got (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'd ponder how their sample size compared to Lego's colour change sample size, but I'd just be accused of stirring up trouble about... well... you know... ;-) (...) My eBay purchases are pretty much restricted to bargains, and few of those (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I don't watch much TV at all, and I only ever buy the weekend newspapers. Catalogues in my letterbox seem to be rather a hit and miss affair at the moment (not delivered in a timely manner if at all). From this rather limited perspective I can (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Do Big Dubya even have an advertising campaign, if they do it shows the impact it has on me, though I only watch satellite TV (which does have Target ads). I wonder how many normal toy shoppers do the price-checking Lugnet ALFs do. Maybe they (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Got an email from ebay(australia) saying they were getting rid of 'reserve' amounts for auctions. They said it was only for auctions run through .au, as opposed to running auctions in other currencies like in US$ which means they would run as per (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) They are advertising a hell of a lot for not a hell of a lot, aren't they? I suppose they think they'll fool the masses with lots of bright light and noise, but from the conversations I've had so far I don't think it's working very well! (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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