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| | | (...) At a guess, I'd say that it's a combination of eBay finally reaching a market saturation, and the blah economy starting to trickle down to secondhand markets. By market saturation, I mean that enough people are aware of and using eBay that the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Jan-Albert van Ree
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| | | | | (...) Well your reasoning sounds logical to me... and eBay Germany is doing even worse than eBay USA... now since I'm mainly an eBay BUYER I'm not complaining :-) Indeed, there isn't much that isn't offered at least once a month on eBay at the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | (...) I have argued this point many times -- nothing in the Lego market is unique. [N.B. Bionuckle fans!] Unique *might* apply to something made a hundred years ago of which less than 500 of this item still exist. Something made in the tens of (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Thomas Main
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| | | | | | | richard marchetti wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Richard, I connot understand why you think Frank Filz' method of enjoying the Lego hobby is any less valid than your own. Or, rather, why you feel you have to criticize his methods of acquiring Lego in a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yeah, I agree -- Frank's a pillar of the online plastic brick community... ...do I need another reason? =oP -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) I'm not quite sure why you are running on about Frank. I don't see anything inherently wrong (well, perhaps beyond a compulsive pack-rat behaviour displayed by a great many people here, which would hardly make him unique) with what he is (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Ray Sanders
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| | | | (...) Yep, I think so too. Seems like sales (at least on BB) started to trail off about mid-April. They are just now showing renewed signs of life. I think this is somewhat cyclical. I saw something similar happen (although now quite as intense) (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Ray Sanders writes: <much snippage> (...) One postscript to my other comments above... somewhere in the back of my mind, I had this nagging little item about the Lego Star Wars sets and the weekly S@H specials. So I (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Wayne R. Hussey
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| | | | (...) I think that your data, while being sound by numerical standards, is flawed by interpretation. I agree that there are as many (way more in fact) parts available today on BB as have been sold throughout the life of the site. But look at what (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) All my parts are fluff. I freely admit it. At least, they are fluff to me, because they are leftovers from the kit parting process. So I keep discounting them, perhaps not as aggressively as I should, but I do discount them when I remember. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits —Ray Sanders
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| | | | (...) Which goes to something I have said several times already.... BrickBay gives you a mechanism to show 'general level of interest', but no ability to say 'I need XX of this piece in this color and I'm willing to pay $YY/ea for them'. Individuals (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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