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Re: Boot sale Prices
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Date: 
Tue, 8 May 2001 18:44:20 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Alan Kershaw writes:

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.

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!

Actually on a serious note I'm more concerned with whether a brick is merely
scratched or actually gouged, cause if it's gouged it may not fit correctly
and with Technic that can hamper operation.

Steve



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  Boot sale Prices
 
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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