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Re: Misc. '70's Lego sets. Question on selling?????
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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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:
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> > 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??
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> << list of a couple dozen sets removed>>
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> > I think, though a hassle would be to go through e-bay... separately the
> > monetary value would be increased... sometimes dramatically!
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> 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/ |
> | http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rfarver |
> +-------------------------------------
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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