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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 14:28:06 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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>
> >
> > Hi Brendan,
> >
> > 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.
Yup yup yup! I coulda sworn I typed "Bricklink" though...betrayed by muscle
memory... :)
> > 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/
> >
> > 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/
> >
> > 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.
Ya, I realized that, but from skimming his list it looked like he was
hunting older parts, and most of the non-aligned things are fairly new.
James
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