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Re: item prices
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lugnet.market.auction
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:56:06 GMT
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James Powell wrote:
> > This is an old argument, the prices should be fair, etc. ad nauseam ad
> > infinitum. There has been a huge line of debating on this subject
> > before, I think it was the Blue Hopper Mania in off-topic.debate, you
> > can see all sides of it there.
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> I'm going to add to what Scott said. I sold 6 copies of 4555 to Tom S., for
> around what it cost me.
Yep, and James did it KNOWING I was going to keep 2-4, and Ebay the others. In
fact, my NEED for them hinted to him that maybe he should buy a few extra for
himself ;-)
Of course, I'm only selling 2. I MAY sell 2 more, I may not, I am DEFINITELY
keeping at least 2 for myself, it's a killer set.
> I sold 7 copies of _the same set_ for around the same
> amout to 4 other individuals, and just covered my costs (got something in
> trade, which is worth it for me).
Yeah, he got a really nice set from me - and that's the ONLY way he would have
gotten that set from me, I'm not selling any of the others I have.
> Tom is selling the sets on Ebay for $100,
> which is more than what he paid me for them, but _I_ don't have the sets, I
> sold them. I offered in this case to buy sets (I ended up buying 13 copies for
> various people) and resell them to people (look on .trains, the info is there,
> not too loudly, but I did post it up)
And if you look all over Lugnet, you will see that I have offered to do the same
for US only sets for over a year - if the set is readily available in the US but
not in your country, I will sell it to you for cost plus shipping. But Ebay helps
me keep more of the sets I want to keep. If I sold everything at cost, I couldn't
afford to keep anything.
> That Tom and I both made some money on the deal to me is perfectly fair. I
> satisified people who _looked_ for the set, whereas Tom is satisfing people who
> want the set to reach out to them. I have bid on various auctions (none yet on
> Ebay), and won some, lost some. I get some of the rare stuff I want, at a
> price I think I can afford (or, that I think is reasonable for the set, given
> when the set was released, and its play value _to me_)
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> No-one is forcing you to bid on Ebay, you can take out a classified ad in your
> local paper, and see if you get any lego that way. You can go garage saling,
> and see if you get any that way, or you can go to Ebay and pay top $ for sets,
> that lots of people all around the world with different ideas of the value of
> the set are bidding on.
And occasionally you will get some REALLY good deals on Ebay. You just have to
have the patience to wait, and keep a constant lookout for the parts/sets you want.
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| Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp
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| (...) I'm going to add to what Scott said. I sold 6 copies of 4555 to Tom S., for around what it cost me. I sold 7 copies of _the same set_ for around the same amout to 4 other individuals, and just covered my costs (got something in trade, which (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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