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Re: "Buy The Brick"
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lugnet.market.appraisal
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Tue, 10 Oct 2000 03:09:43 GMT
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Am I mistaken or have we as a whole (Lego community) tried to avoid a price
guide!!??
I can see why the price guide..To make money.. and of course why not we all
have to earn a living..
I suggest the heck with price guides and the heck with the spam.. the
Andreas Stabno got slammed on not but a week or two ago..
Should we not be boycotting this as its accuracy(like Todd already
mentioned) is off the mark..??
anyone else have any ideas/feedback??
Regards
Dave
"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:G26x0y.3FE@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.market.auction, Sean Harrington writes:
> > [...] Based on what I saw quoted in the price guide, I overpaid, so it
> > neither affected my desire for the product, nor did it hurt the seller's
> > profits.
>
> Don't feel bad.
>
> I really question whether the prices there accurately reflect demand and
> "real-life experience" market prices. I had a quick look over the Space
> stuff and some of the other stuff and it seemed to me that, in my • experience,
> many of the prices shown there were ridiculously low. Less than $100 on a
> <set:6987>? Come on. If one ever sells that low, then there's something
> wrong with the set (incomplete or dirty) or the seller (unknown or bad
> reputation) or the venue (poorly advertised or too-short auctioned). $70
> for a <set:6980>? Where are they? I'll take 10 at that price.
>
> On the plus side, it seems like most of the values I examined were within • 2x
> of a reasonable price -- so that's at least helpful in comparing the • relative
> values of sets. Also, the "high" column seems fairly accurate to a • typical
> auction price, or somewhere about 1/3 of the way between the "high" and • the
> "price" column. Nobody's gonna see a price like the "low" column unless
> they're extremely lucky or are buying a set in really rough shape.
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> I thought it was nice to see prices on current sets, BTW.
>
> --Todd
>
> [xfut -> .market.appraisal]
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| (...) Probably. I know it's been debated to death before. I don't find price guides useful myself, and (perhaps somewhat cynically) have seen them used primarily as a useful tool by profiteers. (...) Well, I know that if I had received this, it (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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