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Re: Inventory Pricing?
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:59:51 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade (and 1 other group), David Eaton wrote:
> Flat Rate Based on BrickLink sale prices, Ebay prices, Lego.com (or
> Lugnet in the absence of a Lego.com price) for items < 3 years old.

the three might vary greatly - and I guess ebay doesn't count as flat?
unless I'm missing something? But you can take into account all the
online places that have the set for sale...

> Auction Rate Based on Past/Present BrickLink & Ebay final
> auction prices.

nod - Jennifer and I actually built a system that did that, years ago...
you have to take a rolling window, since prices go up as the set gets
older. it's high maintenence though, since it's hard to tell what
auctions count.

> Original Rate Probably based off of Lugnet set DB price

easy to do...

> Going price/piece ration rate Tricky. Very tricky. Perhaps better to
> take the theme's overall price/piece ratio, but as a price base, you'd
> have to go off of one of the aforementioned price schemes (Hey, they
> spell FAO! Does that mean they're too pricey?). Or just use a generic
> (roughly $.10 USD) price/piece rate.

you can also get this data from ebay/bricklink - look for bulk
auctions, and figure the piece count/price from there. We collected
that data for a while, but seperated price/brick and price/pound, just
because it was easier.

I do agree it's a cool thing to have - make it so, Dave!

:)

Dan



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  Inventory Pricing?
 
(...) This got me thinking-- I've kept set inventories in Excel, and also in a several flat files (currently one used in combo with a Perl parser), but going back over my nearly 1000 sets that I've entered and locating prices for them is quite the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)

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