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Re: Parting out sets, to trade for parts.
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:32:18 GMT
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Thank you I am new at this and am working on a castle project. I am tired of
paying alot of money for a few peices thought someone might need the
speacial pieces out of these sets for their own projects. Thank again.
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Richard Marchetti writes:
> Julie:
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> I realize that you are not asking for opinions here, but I thought I'd throw
> this out there anyway. My apologies to you if it annoys...
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> The problem with your approach is that it requires all the work be done by
> the other trader -- they have to look up the sets (many of which are not in
> the database because of the fact that they are fairly recent sets -- a
> problem in itself in terms of trade value), they have to figure out what
> bits they want, and then they have to cough up castle bits in trade. This
> is not that likely to happen, it's too much work! [And from my point of
> view, I also would not be trading castle stuff for sets I can go out and get
> at clearance sales right now.]
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> I don't claim to be an expert on the subject, but when I want certain
> elements I post about those wants a few at a time so as to not overwhelm the
> reader, I also have a website set up with viewable elements so that there
> can be no confusion (or at least as little as possible) as to what I am
> seeking. If I were trying to part out sets, I'd probably use brickbay or
> set up my own site with a similar feel -- it wouldn't have to be a fully
> setup e-commerce site with a shopping cart and all that, but it would at
> minimum provide viewable images of what was being offered for trade and what
> I expected in terms of trade value.
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> Anyway, there it is. I am just trying to help.
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> -- Hop-Frog
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| Julie: I realize that you are not asking for opinions here, but I thought I'd throw this out there anyway. My apologies to you if it annoys... The problem with your approach is that it requires all the work be done by the other trader -- they have (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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