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Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:12:36 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Richard Marchetti writes:
> or in other words,
> look at what Frank Filz does on eBay and then do something else -- perhaps
> the opposite.
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 doing. I trumpet myself as cheap, and if anything he's a
cheaper bidder than I am, or at least in my experience. I don't quite
understand the vehemence of the denunciations.
> I am sitting on approx. 100 Blacktron I figures that I purchased primarily
> during the last 6-9 months or so. These are not the glued-together promo
> figures -- these are honest minifigures with airtanks and all! How rare
> does that make them? They seemed easily available if one was willing to
> spend the right amount of money on them (approx. $3-5 USD each). And again,
> a lot of that was perceived value imputed to the items by the seller. I
> also have 16 pitchforks -- some I paid through the nose for, others not.
> How rare are these pitchforks when I can get 16 of them in under a year or
> so (before that I was doing mostly pirate stuff)?
You are making a classic mistake: it's NOT a matter of supply, it's a matter
of supply AND demand (excoriated by impatience). You found it easy to get
your Blacktron figures quickly (for a premium price). You can still get
them, but slower, for a lesser price, or for a greater cost in time. Yes,
perceptions can be wrong, but those usually are self-correcting given some time.
Bruce
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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