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Re: Trading get-together?
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Sun, 18 Aug 2002 06:25:41 GMT
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I'm all for it, but it depends on when.

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Russell Clark
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> From: "David Simmons" <xenobuzz@earthlink.net>
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:18:54 GMT
> Subject: Trading get-together?
> 
> Well, now my wife and I have decided that we need to buckle down and pay off
> our collective credit card debt, my spending budget for Lego is somewhat
> limited (somewhat!).  Since it seems that a meeting place for the end of the
> year may not come available, I have a modest proposal.  Our apartment
> doesn't have the space to display creations or to comfortably fit more than
> a dozen or so people, but I was wondering how many of you might be
> interested in having a trading get-together?  My collection is totally
> sorted in Iris storage shelves and very easy accessible.  There's a wide
> range of pieces since my collection is only partly new sets and mostly what
> I've bought used, so there are quite a few older pieces as well.  Now, keep
> in mind, I'll probably want to keep some of the pieces that make you go
> "ooh! ooh!", but I also have things I'd be willing to trade.  Of course, I
> can't list them all but you'll see if you come!  Technic fans take note, I
> have quite a bit of Technic and hardly ever use the majority of it (lots of
> 1x beams and 2x plates, gears too!).
> 
> Depending on when my digital camera is fixed, anyone who does come will be
> able to see my first Lego castle MOC, and it's a big one!  There's a great
> little pizza place around the corner where we could order lunch.  Anyone
> who's interested in this idea let me know so that we could arrange a date
> that works for all concerned.  I think this could be a fun idea since we
> wouldn't have to contend with the public or wrestling a lot of MOC's to and
> from our cars (just a little trade fodder!).  We can just haggle ("Ten?!
> Are you joking?!  It's worth twenty if it's worth a sheckel!) and talk brick
> and revel in our abs geekdom!



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Hey all, Well, now my wife and I have decided that we need to buckle down and pay off our collective credit card debt, my spending budget for Lego is somewhat limited (somewhat!). Since it seems that a meeting place for the end of the year may not (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)

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