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Re: How to get appraisals?
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Date: 
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:15:21 GMT
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In lugnet.market.appraisal, Jennifer L. Boger wrote:

Dan and I are working on a rather large project that may be able to assist.  We
take and analyse data from ebay, by "complete" sets (no box, no instructions
are ok, as long as they're not missing any pieces) that are in the US (or
canada, or APO/FPO) and average them by set.. we only have about 3.5 months
worth of data (6 months we figured would be ideal as prices would change with
availability, discontinuation, and release, etc).  Anyway... eventually, we'd
like people to be able to enter in the set numbers for sets they own, and get a
tally of what each set is "worth" and what the total collections' worth also...
I don't know if this kind of information would be good enough for an insurance
agency... but i'd bet it wouldn't hurt :)

Are you discounting the instructions and boxes (and other materials)
entirely?  Or are you flagging the presence/absence of these extras?  I
would expect that in high-price-tag cases, completeness and condition of
the lot would play a large role in determining the value.

Steve



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(...) discounting them entirely for right now... it's a lot of data to deal with as it is, it'd be hard to deal with only MIB or MISB or such... I try to make sure all the pieces are there and that the stickers are there, and no, i probably wouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.appraisal)

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  Re: How to get appraisals?
 
Dan and I are working on a rather large project that may be able to assist. We take and analyse data from ebay, by "complete" sets (no box, no instructions are ok, as long as they're not missing any pieces) that are in the US (or canada, or APO/FPO) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.appraisal)

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