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Re: LOTS of pieces wanted/needed! Can anyone help?
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Mon, 17 Jun 2002 05:30:59 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > Okay, I have a LONG list of pieces that I need. However, the problem is
> > that I want to buy as many from one person as possible. Bricklink is great,
> > but I find it difficult to look for the piece I need when I don't know the
> > name of it and just by stating color does not narrow things down. I do not
> > want to go to one store to see they have one piece, and then go through
> > 30,000 other pieces they have to see if they have any more on my list. SO,
> > here is my list and hopefully some people will be able to help me out. I
> > shall try and do the best to explain them as I can. Work with me! :-)
>
> <snip>
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> Hi Brendan,
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> One thing you might want to try is making a "want list" at Brickbay. Then
> Brickbay gives you the option of looking at your want list by store - They
> will list them in the order of "who has the most parts on my list".
He means BrickLink(tm) here rather than Brickbay... we all make this slipup
all the time but don't let it confuse you.
> Also, when trying to identify a part, there are two excellent resources:
> Partsref (Steve Bliss), hosted here on Lugnet, is excellent for browsing
> through parts and identifying by picture.
> http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/
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> Peeron.com (Jen & Dan Boger) hosts a set inventory which is really useful
> for identifying parts if you know what sets they came in.
> http://www.peeron.com/inv/
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> The best part is that all 3 of these sites (Partsref, Peeron and Bricklink)
> use the common index of parts that the Ldraw (and other CAD utlities)
> creates, so if you find the part in one, you can use the part number to find
> it in the other two. :)
If the part number has been assigned. When it hasn't the congruence isn't
quite as good. Also the names and categories are not as reliable a
congruence as the part number so always try to use it if you can determine
it from one of the three sources.
Hope that helps!
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