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Yeah, Shiri, your recent adventures with advertising as well as my driving
around most of today without finding anything at garage sales made me decide
that instead of me going and finding the Lego, that the Lego should come and
find me.
Adam
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Adam Murtha writes:
> > Has anyone ever put an advertisement in your local newspaper looking for
> > Lego? Any comments about your experience or thoughts on doing something
> > like this? I am considering trying to do that, but I'm unsure what would be
> > the best way to word such an advertisement. I've tried garage sales, but I
> > am never able to find any Lego. I'd rather (like everyone here I guess) to
> > buy someones old Lego at a 'garage sale' type price. What I'm trying to get
> > at, I think, is a way to word an advertisement to buy people's Lego that
> > they would otherwise have sitting in an attic or at a garage sale. Did that
> > make any sense to anyone?
>
> Yes, that makes sense to me.
>
> Personally, I have just recently taken up the method of advertising for used
> lego... I tried around my school. I actually went up to a lot of people and
> talked to them personally. So far I have only gotten few responses but I'm
> hoping that over the weekend, people will take the time to look.
>
> I don't know if ads in the newspaper will prove worthy though; I haven't
> tried that... but a good way to word it is something like "Make some space
> in your attic! Get paid for your children's old legos!"
>
> (yes, legos, a lot of people weren't sure what I meant when I said I'll buy
> old lego!)
>
> -Shiri
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