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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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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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 (...) (24 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 (...) (...) (24 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! (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) I've almost given up on boot sales, probably because I don't get there early enough and miss the bargains. The only one I had was when I did the 'vulture' [1] as a latecomer arrived. Got a Tesco bag with an 853 in for £2. I've had a lean time (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) Grrrrrrrr!!! Woof Woof Woof!!!! (...) Yep. Nothing better than parking yourself on the loungeroom floor surrounded by a sea of Lego and having a good sort! The missus starting to put the clamps on is she?! My last Loot haul has done me for a (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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I find its swings and roundabouts, the very nature of a boot sale means you just don't know what you'll find. you get a few sellers who always have lego and its usually quite expensive, but then you get a mother selling stacker tubs for 1.50 (OK my (...) (24 years ago, 9-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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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