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Re: Boot sale Prices
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Wed, 9 May 2001 10:49:45 GMT
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What is really needed is a portable polygraph machine. I have asked 100's of
times "is this set complete". NOT ONCE HAVE I BEEN TOLD THE TRUTH!
Scott A
In lugnet.loc.uk, Alan Kershaw writes:
> Dear all
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> 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)
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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.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan Kershaw
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