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Re: Boot sale Prices
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Tue, 8 May 2001 18:55:17 GMT
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"Alan Kershaw" <alan@kershawcomputing.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:GD0rMp.JsE@lugnet.com...
> 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.
One solution that I use is to look at ebay completed auctions.
These are held on line for 30 days I think.
Though this isnt the only authoritive source of valuations, it at least
gives an indication of what a set or part would realise at auction.
A couple of times in the past I have copied the data of the page into a
spreadsheet.
If ebay had a nice XML feed with proper meta data (specific to lego) you
could automate the thing. (sorry, being computer techie for a minute there)
But it the mean time it requires a lot of grunt work at present to sort it
and maintain it.
regards
lawrence
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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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| | Boot sale Prices
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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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