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| | | (...) Yes. But I did not want to name names since I did not want to risk besmirching your good name. And, as I said, you did not raise my frustration meter. (...) Positive. You're an important market force in the online Lego market. Sarah Heacock (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Can you elaborate? I may be important to certain sellers but I rather suspect a number of buyers would prefer I folded my tent and slunk away quietly into the night. (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Jim Baker
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| | | | | Also sprach Larry Pieniazek: : Can you elaborate? I may be important to certain sellers but I rather : suspect a number of buyers would prefer I folded my tent and slunk away : quietly into the night. hehehe ... fortunately I collect space and don't (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) (Standard disclaimer: I'm a classicist, not an economist.) I think you benefit other buyers as well, and I'll try to explain why. Sellers need buyers, right? So when more people are buying, or some people are buying lots, or anything like (...) (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) and I'm an architect but when have I ever let THAT stop me from pontificating?? < Essence: Larry primes the demand pump > Yes, I see. Prolly. (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) Really? An architect? Wow, cool. (...) I know I can be a bit wordy. I usually attribute it to my study of Latin, which lends itself to the saying, "why use one word when five will do?" But that's an exceptional job of boiling down my rambling (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —David Zorn
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| | | | | | Mike Stanley wrote in message ... :Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote: :>> >Are you SURE you really wouldn't rather I was really broke? :>> :>> Positive. You're an important market force in the online Lego market. :> :>Can you (...) (26 years ago, 19-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Wow, thanks. :) (26 years ago, 19-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | I dunno, Mike, she could be complementing you here, or saying some of the economists she knows REALLY suck ;-) <duck> (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | | Please do not associate my personal views with my (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Sarah Heacock
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| | | | (...) If a seller does not have the reasonable expectation that they will make enough from their auctions to be worth running the auction, then they will not run them. You are one of the regular buyers who make it worth their while to run such (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Flush? (was Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) OK, I see. Fair warning to all, though. Stop planning on my heavy participation. I am cutting back. I've reached saturation. In just about every category, I have enough pieces to build a great many different things. Sure, there are rare pieces (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Flush? (was Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Oh, I don't count on you at all anymore. In fact, I didn't mean to imply that the market (or sellers anyway) DEPENDS on you. I just think you did a lot to "prime the pump" as you put it. It seems to have taken off pretty well. (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Flush? (was Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Jim Baker
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| | | | | Also sprach Larry Pieniazek: : 2 - And I guess there is a chance I'll get the space bug harder, and try : to become Space Complete but that seems unlikely. Might go for M:tron : complete though, I am almost there. I think you said that just to scare (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Flush? (was Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Waittaminut. Aren't you the one who once said 'M:tron is goofy'? One of these days, I'm going to save up the money for a Multi-Core Magnetizer. Or maybe a Mega-Core Magnetizer. I'll bet those are bigger. Steve (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Flush? (was Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | Steve Bliss wrote in message <367a6227.6609958@lu...et.com>... (...) Yes, but there are fewer of them. (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | | Re: Flush? (was Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Yes. Your point was? :-) :-) :-) (...) I HAVE one, I just haven't SEEN it yet. Matt H and I keep agreeing to defer the shipment of it. :-) (26 years ago, 19-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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