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Re: Tracking down older Star Wars sets
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:36:25 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Zac Soden writes:
> > Do you think I am best to:
> > a) Buy the sets I want on a shop@home order immediately
> > b) wait until some of the sets show up miraculously on sale at Toys R Us or
> > c) make millions of phone calls etc, trying to track the sets down.
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> A year ago, I would have thought you crazy to consider option b, but now,
> you never know what's going to turn up where... My local KMart now has
> Vader/Y wing sets, which they've NEVER had before.
Yeah, I recall that when a line would be discontinued, Big W would wait a
month or so and then bring the sets back out at discounted prices. But now
all Big W has is Jack Stone and Harry Potter rubbish.
> In fact, a year ago, I would have laughed at option a too.... S@H in
> Australia? Who would have thought?
heh
> This doesn't help with your dilemma much, so:
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> a) will work, but is expensive (esp if you can't share freight)
Oh, I'd definitely be sharing freight if I did do it this way!
> b) might work (more likely for very large and very small sets), and if it
> does is likely to be quite cheap
> c) might work, but is likely to be at RRP or higher.
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> Your best bet (and likely the cheapest) is to hope that a local AFOL (sorry,
> I haven't) has stockpiled a few of the sets you're after and is willing to
> pass them on to you at or near cost.
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> And keep an eye on eBay... recently deleted sets (excepting the 'Falcon
> during its brief deletion) can go for around retail as well.
Hmmm. Good points. Really, the thing I'm after most is prolly the 'Falcon so....
thanks for the feedback, Richie,
Zac
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| (...) so.... Why not post a list of exactly what you are after? Some shops still have various older Star Wars sets and, as Pete White said recently, LUGnet is a beast with a thousand eyes (or something very insightful like that). For example, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) A year ago, I would have thought you crazy to consider option b, but now, you never know what's going to turn up where... My local KMart now has Vader/Y wing sets, which they've NEVER had before. In fact, a year ago, I would have laughed at (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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