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Re: Misc. '70's Lego sets. Question on selling?????
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Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:50:14 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Robert Farver writes:
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 06:47:01 GMT, "Morgan Smith" <Bumfluff@home.com> wrote:

In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Rose Regner writes:
Hi all:

   I have a friend in France that has the sets listed below, w/ boxes and
manuals. His question (and mine) is how should they be sold? Opinions are
asked for. E-bay would be OK, but a lot to deal with. Selling on Lugnet/RTL
individually would also work. Or, the easiest would be sell as a lot.

   What does everyone think??


<< list of a couple dozen sets removed>>


I think, though a hassle would be to go through e-bay... separately the
monetary value would be increased... sometimes dramatically!

How would eBay be a hassle?  You register as a seller, give some information
as to how you'll pay your fees, list your items and then wait for them to
end.  It doesn't get much easier than that.  I've done auctions on RTL and
LUGNET and just don't have the time required to update by hand every night.
I recently ran a SW parts auction just to see how it compared to running one
on eBay.  It was tedious to update and didn't pay me back what I had hoped
it would for the amount of time I spent splitting the parts and running the
auction.  I followed this with a number of SW parts lots on eBay, which more
than paid back my time and effort (minimal as it may be).  I've heard
arguments that people should sell stuff on the newsgroups to make sure it goes
to people that really like LEGO, but believe it or not, most of the people
buying my stuff on eBay really like LEGO.  They just haven't all heard about
newsgroups.

Rob



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|  Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com             |
http://www.farver.com/lego/              |
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What I thought the foreseen hassle might be was to list each set individually,
rather than as a huge lot of sets... I am not saying that ebay is a hassle, or
that any other auction site is better than the other etc... I just think that
with the amount of sets in this collection, and having to list each set
individually with a description and/or a photograph (to help the uninitiated
legophile thus possibly increasing the final price of each set), might be
considered a "hassle"... that's all I meant.
ps. I actually found this newsgroup -before- i heard about ebay.



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  Re: Misc. '70's Lego sets. Question on selling?????
 
(...) << list of a couple dozen sets removed>> (...) How would eBay be a hassle? You register as a seller, give some information as to how you'll pay your fees, list your items and then wait for them to end. It doesn't get much easier than that. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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