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Re: Looking for Sand Red bricks
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lugnet.market.brickshops
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:16:02 GMT
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In lugnet.market.brickshops, Kevin Salm writes:
> In lugnet.market.brickshops, Allan Bedford writes:
> > I've spent some time searching around BrickLink for a quantity of Sand Red
> > bricks but can't seem to find anyone with more than a half dozen.
Let me qualify/clarify my own original posting. What I should have said was
that I could only find sellers with 'lots' of between 2 and 6 or so bricks
each. I was hoping to find someone with a good supply in order to reduce
the number of orders it might take to get a usable quantity. No sense
asking some seller to do up an order for 8 bricks. :)
> Is there
> > any one out there who has some bricks and/or slopes in this color? And
> > perhaps quantities of 10 or 20 of each? If so, perhaps you can reply to
> > this post, or better yet just email me at: SandRedBricks@apotome.com
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Allan
> > p.s. Please be a seller who is willing to ship via USPS to Canada. Or a
> > Canadian seller of course. :) Thanks!
Kevin,
I was a bit confused by your post, but let me add some comments that might
help shed some light on my position.
> I think you may have missed a few listings. There are currently 147 lots of
> Sand Red items, 27 of which are Bricks. Of those 27, twelve lots contain at
> least 100 pieces. I did not factor price into the search.
I hadn't had much experience with searching for things on Bricklink. I
suspect some additional work will help me more accurately find what I'm
looking for. I did find sand red bricks, but only in quantities as noted above.
> Keep in mind that Sand Red is not easily obtainable outside of Lego Shop At
> Home (and I know you don't use SAH) so you are pretty lucky to have BrickLink
> shops that offer these parts.
Quite true. I did order from Shop At Home when they had an actual Canadian
office and staff. However, once that office was closed I decided not to use
the U.S. service. Call me silly. Call me naive. Call me nationalistic.
But whenever possible I like to spend my money in Canada. Even if it's a
U.S. company, I would rather support the Canadian arm of it, and those jobs,
if I can.
> Also keep in mind that ONLY 4 SIZES of Sand Red
> bricks have been available from Shop At Home so far.
To be honest, I hadn't realized that until this post appeared:
http://news.lugnet.com/market/brickshops/?n=925
Thanks Ray!
I guess I had made the assumption that since they were available as bulk
packs (which I knew) that perhaps they had been used in other sets and I
just wasn't seeing them. This was my mistake. They certainly are a rarer
brick than some.
> I have been buying Lego parts and sets for over 20 years and can tell you that
> it may take a long time and many sources to obtain the quantity of certain
> parts that you want.
I agree completely. I just wish the kid in me had the kind of patience
required for buying bricks this way. :)
> Just expecting what you want to be available all the time
> is just silly and economically unfeasible, no matter how much you may wish
> otherwise.
I must apologize if my original post gave this impression. I wasn't
expecting anyone to suddenly make buckets of sand red bricks available to me
at a penny apiece. I was really just looking for some help as a first time
user of Bricklink. And, as mentioned above, to economize my # of purchases.
Sorry if my posting confused this purpose.
> If the following link does not work, simply use the ADVANCED SEARCH feature of
> BrickLink to search for the color Sand Red and then sort how you want to see
> the results displayed.
> http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=&sortBy=Qty&sortDesc=DESC&sz=100&h=&t=&c=
> 58&u=&i=&uR=&invNew=&itemType=P
Thanks for the help.
All the best,
Allan B.
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