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Boot sale Prices
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Tue, 8 May 2001 13:47:13 GMT
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Dear all
I've noted a steady rise in the prices asked for Lego at car boot sales. A
couple of years ago a stacker box full with assorted instructions would be
around £5, certainly in Northamptonshire where i 'booted' regularly. Now
people ask extortionate amounts for plastic bags of dirty, broken and
Megabloked lego. Last year a family wanted £40 for what amounted to a large
shoebox with heavily sun damaged and broken bits - "It cost more than double
that price when it was new !"
One solution to the problem is (as we are all computer literate) to print up
a lego equivalent of Glass's Guide to Car Prices. About 8 A5 sheets with a
glossy cover is enough, with tempting things like MISB 928's at £200 at the
front and 1p per kilo for the kind of rubbish they are trying to flog at the
back.
Condition guide should be :
M Mint
P Played With
H Heavy Use
BV Baby Vomit (and other unmentionable encrustations)
Different pages can be shown to the putative seller depending on the items
for sale - finally resorting to the back cover which points out that all
Lego is merely rented out from the Lego company, not purchased and that
possesion of the items more than 5 years after they were obtained is a crime
punishable by death, and that as an authorised collector you can take the
stuff off their hands.
Cheers
Alan Kershaw
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) I would'nt disagree but there is another slant! (...) True, but from a southern perspective these sellers have always been asking this much, although the most I have paid at a car boot sale was £25 and that included best part of a metroliner (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) <alan@kershawcomputi...rve.co.uk> (...) DigExt; (...) car boot (...) instructions would (...) regularly. Now (...) dirty, broken and (...) amounted to a (...) cost more than (...) literate) to (...) A5 sheets (...) 928's at £200 at (...) (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) Perhaps simply providing irefutable evidence of damaging their lego to these extents should be punished by death :-). I have some really grotty secondhand bricks from the Cheshirefest, come to think of it, I think I bought them from you Alan! (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| "Alan Kershaw" <alan@kershawcomputi...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:GD0rMp.JsE@lugnet.com... (...) up (...) the (...) the (...) One solution that I use is to look at ebay completed auctions. These are held on line for 30 days I think. Though (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| What is really needed is a portable polygraph machine. I have asked 100's of times "is this set complete". NOT ONCE HAVE I BEEN TOLD THE TRUTH! Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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