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Re: Sell by Sets or Pieces?
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Mon, 31 May 1999 16:24:52 GMT
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cjc@newsguyNOMORESPAM.com
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Pawel Nazarewicz <ORPawel@aol.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Dan Kees writes:
> > I'm thinking of focusing my inventory, and am wondering what people
> > prefer at auctions...sets or pieces. I, of course, am trying to balance
> > buyer satisfaction with makin some $$ to get the pieces I want. I'm
> > going to be auctioning some 80's castle and space sets and I have all
> > the instructions, but no boxes. I've never sold a single LEGO brick
> > before, so I'm curious what regular buyers prefer.
>
> My thought on it are that older sets should be sold at sets. Newer ones should
> be sold by pieces since anyone that wants to buy them as sets has a chance to
> do
> so. When it comes to older sets though, even though you might sell the
> instructions, people will still want the pieces - all of them. Plus ... your
> profit will be greater if you sell them as sets.
Yeah, that makes sense. Still, I'd love to get a lot of pitchforks
and yellow timber walls, without having to buy a lot of older sets.
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| Thanks you guys, I think I'll sell the castle stuff as sets, but now that I look at the space sets...there's some pretty cool pieces there, so I'm not sure how I'll handle those. Thanks again, Dan P.S. Now I have to go build my sets to make sure I (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) My thought on it are that older sets should be sold at sets. Newer ones should be sold by pieces since anyone that wants to buy them as sets has a chance to do so. When it comes to older sets though, even though you might sell the (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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