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The Retrostation pieces will be gone Monday, but most of the items in the 4565 Freights and Crane Railway or still open up for grabs. The date for bids to advance will be moved though (after taking some suggestions into concern) The address to the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | eBay: Pirate Renegade Runner, Forestmen's Hideout
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I've got a couple of Lego sets up on eBay, including descriptions and pics: 6268 Renegade Runner Missing only the ship's compass, a musket, and a pirate's map tile. Instructions, but no box. (URL) Forestmen's Hideout Complete with instructions (no (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Ad for Ebay in Sunday Paper
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Rachael saw a full-page ad for Ebay in the Parade magazine section of the Sunday paper today. Guess they're really pushing to grow even larger than they already have. (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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(...) TRAINS and Model Railroader (which I dropped my subscription to) and Classic Trains (a tinplate and other toy train collector's mag which I never got, I like scale stuff better) have a lot of cross traffic. You find ads for proto videos in MR (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Auction concerns...
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"Pawel" <orpawel@aol.com> asked (...) I prefer open ended auctions or direct sales. I can't always be around to place final bids on items when there is a hard ending time. (...) Either contact all the bidders involved privately and explain the (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) I heard an ad on TV about ebay (I was at the computer, and I can't see the TV, but I can hear it). (26 years ago, 1-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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(...) That's an interesting place to advertise, what market are they trying to relate to with an ad in TRAINS? (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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(...) I heard them on the radio too. In the ad they played up how exciting it was in the last few minutes of an auction. Julie (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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Well if you grant that psychology is a legitimate reason to cater to bidders (and if catered to, I think most would agree, the seller would get more money by getting people to inch up a bit from what they thought their max was) then fixed end time (...) (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Auction concerns...
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Pawel wrote in message ... (...) or (...) case, (...) advances. Well, in the last auction I ran, I had a set ending date, and had a system worked out where the bidding would automatically advance every 24 hours the last 3 days so that everything (...) (26 years ago, 31-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Auction: train and LEGOLAND
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Hello, I have the autoloading station 4544 doubly. The set is used, but in good status and inclusive of the guidance and the box. Also I have the Sets 681 and 683. They are used, but in good status and inclusive of the guidance and the box. At last (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Auction: 8880 Supercar
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Hello, I have today found two 8880 supercar.I only need one, the other is now for auction. The set is new in sealed box. 8880 Shawn Buel: 160$ TECHNIC: supercar The price is without shipping.,shipping by airmail is 30$ . I will ship when I get the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Auction: Soccer sets
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Hello, I would like to sell my double football(soccer) set. Because the costs of overseas shipping is very high,I would sell them in one lot. The price is including shipping ( airmail). I would be to be exchanged also ready the complete posts for a (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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(...) And they still have to be there at the end. This is another big issue other people have mentioned, that they don't want to arrange their lives around eBay. The only option to fixing THAT particular problem is changing eBay to allow much longer (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Auction: Classic Space Instructions + set #886 - last chance
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Latest update can be found at: (URL) Friday 30th. SET 886 SPACE BUGGY: >>>>> Bid: $10 - Pat - SOLD INSTRUCTIONS 897, 920, 924, 928, 6980: >>>>> Bid: $27.50 - Donny.D - GOING 2 - - - * * * - - - DESCRIPTION SET 886: 886 Space Buggy. All parts, (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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(...) I was afraid that might be it. :) (...) Thanks for the link; a search on "eBay sniping" pretty much brought up both sides of the issue. (...) I think that's the key here. A post I found via the Deja news link you provided suggested that every (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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As my first auction is coming to a close, I have received some feedback from the people that participated, which led me to be concerned about a few things... Hopefully this will lead to more feedback, which in turn will make the auctions a lot (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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Adam Yulish wrote in message <3638F22C.52FB3CAB@ee.net>... (...) Short answer: human psychology. Long answer: check the dejanews files (see my sig). Medium answer: In a lot of ways it is the principle of the thing. Someone hides until the last (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Why do I beat my head against the wall?
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@NOSPAM.ctp.com> wrote in article <F1K0HE.3KD@lugnet.com>... (...) do it (...) I (...) end I (...) gets (...) I removed EBay from my list of Favorite sites right before I knew was going to be away from the net for a few days. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | eBay lego sniping? Why it is a problem?
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I'm both a seller and buyer of lego stuff on eBay, as I clear out some sets to make way for others. I fail to understand why people get upset over "sniping". If there is something I want on eBay, I put in the maximum amount I'm willing to pay for (...) (26 years ago, 29-Oct-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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