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Re: Boot sale Prices
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Tue, 8 May 2001 14:18:10 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Alan Kershaw writes:
> I've noted a steady rise in the prices asked for Lego at car boot sales.
I would'nt disagree but there is another slant!
> A couple of years ago a stacker box full with assorted instructions would be
> around £5, Now people ask extortionate amounts for plastic bags of dirty, broken and Megabloked lego.
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 as well as other boxed sets.
It appears to me that either there are less sellers now than a few years
ago? and or more people are buying the cheap stuff before you or I get to
it! I beleive the latter myself, as getting to the sales early 5.30am this
week its worthwhile. As I say I picked up a small tub which looked like
rubbish but it actually contained the best part if not all a 918! Seller
asks £5 I offer £3 and we settle at £4, now I'm happy to simply dump the
toot and have the 918 for £4 as to me thats a good deal?
However its easy to be duped. I have also tried a tip suggested to me by
Scott, which works well, if a seller is asking a high price or there seems
to be a lot of cruddy bricks/megablobs, them simply offer to buy a handful
of pieces for a £1. I have had some good buys this way!!!
> 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)
I like this idea a lot! However who wouod be willing to put i) effort in in
first place ii) keep it up to date? I suppose a keen person could sell the
book? buy are there enough UKAFOLBSB (last bit is Boot sale buyers in case
your having difficulties!) to make such a venture viable?
> 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.
Yes Definately!
PS. What ever happened to the planned Northampton fest?????
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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