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Re: Boot sale Prices
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Tue, 8 May 2001 19:38:42 GMT
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Jason Briscoe wrote:
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> In lugnet.loc.uk, Alan Kershaw writes:
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> > I've noted a steady rise in the prices asked for Lego at car boot sales.
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> I would'nt disagree but there is another slant!
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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!!!
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> > 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)
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> 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?
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> > 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.
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 selling lego at them as well. Small SW sets go
fairly well for the boys, not surprising to say that I have a hard time
selling 7121s at £2.50 when 7128s literally disappear at twice that
price.
My only advice is to do a boot sale with a Lego bought and sold sign. I
find people tell you about what's on other stalls, so they do the leg
work for you. This way I got an antique pine drawer filled with Lego
for £12. Full of early town classic, space and Technic, it has already
netted me over £150 and added to my collection. Someone even bought the
drawer from me at the next sale!
I mostly concentrate on small ads now, as I'm sure the rest of us do.
Unfortunately, you have to be quick or another fellow loc.uker is in
there. Maybe we should mark out our territories and come to an amicable
agreement. (The reason I'm saying this is that I'm moving house on
Friday and will be overlapping Pete Callaway's hunting ground!)
Another reason is that I may host a microfest/house warming at the new
house in Surbiton to help me sort out my Lego. (and get rid of a bit
more) I was subjected to my first car inspection the other day after
popping out 'to the shops'. Any Takers?
Mark
[1] Vulture - lowest form of human life that descend as you unload the
contents of your car.
They don't give you time to think and you end up selling
all your best stuff for 50p.
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 9-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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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