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Re: Resurecting the lego parts auction
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Date: 
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 01:26:19 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Brian Lanning writes:
> Nearly four years ago, my wife and I ran a parts auction.  We had 33,000
> pieces from 149 sets, and 135 different bidders.  It was the only one with
> variable lot sizes.  It was a great success.  After the success of the
> auction, we planned to have another.  And spent the next couple years slowly
> accumulating sets for the next auction.  It sort of never happened though.
> Here it is four years later.  We have a huge pile of sets, and a vast amount
> of software I wrote to run the site.  So do you think there's still an interest?
> 
> brian

With the advent of BrickLink, the need for such auctions (like Auczilla) is
greatly diminished.  You'll probably do better by opening a shop there.

-Rob.



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  Resurecting the lego parts auction
 
Nearly four years ago, my wife and I ran a parts auction. We had 33,000 pieces from 149 sets, and 135 different bidders. It was the only one with variable lot sizes. It was a great success. After the success of the auction, we planned to have (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-02, to lugnet.market.auction)  

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