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Re: Boot sale Prices
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Tue, 8 May 2001 18:22:00 GMT
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In article <GD0rMp.JsE@lugnet.com>,
alan@kershawcomputing.freeserve.co.uk (Alan Kershaw) wrote:
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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
Alan
They probably know your ugly mug by now !
I have taken to wearing a disguise or feigning
ignorance which is easy for me !
Yesterday I picked up.....
6539 Victory Cup Racers
6594 Gas Transit
6561 hot Rod Club
6344 Jet Speed Justice
6348 surveillance Squad
6596 Wave Master
6663 Wave Rebel
6342 Beach Rescue Chopper
6336 Launch Response Unit
6536 Aero Hawk
6668 Recycle Truck
6038 Wolfpack Renegades
6649 Street Sweeper
....all boxed built and with plans for £15 !
Its the traders that are picking up on price and they are
the ones to avoid.
Michael Pratt
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