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Re: **WTB Orange 1x4s**
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:08:57 GMT
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JOHNNEAL@USWESTihatespam.NET
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"Alan G. Carmack" wrote:
> > > When I saw the various buckets with silver bricks, I thought to myself LEGO
> > > was really trying to suck as much money out of people who would buy a whole
> > > set just for one piece.
> >
> > At *first* one might think this. But in reality, and especially at 20% off or
> > some such discount, these buckets were good deals, regardless of the silver
> > brick. And the silver brick was like an additional $2.00 off, because I think
> > that's what they are worth now:-)
>
> 1. Of course, if the buckets w/ silver bricks could be bought at a discount,
> that would be swell. The same goes for any bucket.
Well, isn't that *when* you buy your buckets? That's when I do.
> 2. Have you sold your silver brick for $2.00?
No, but I'd bet there are folks out there who would pay that. They live at:
Ebay.com;-)
> Only with such a "realized
> gain" does your claim really stand, since they could drop to being worth .02
> if LEGO later casts more bricks in that color.
Yeah, and bats might fly out of my butt (my favorite Madonna quotation). TLG will
*never* mass produce silver, and even if they did and it became the most abundant
color, they value of a 2x4 would never go below $.10;-) All seriousness aside,
you *can't* buy Lego thinking about the future. How could *anyone*, then, bring
themselves to pay what they do for train doors and windows? It's like a computer;
pay $1500 for one now, and in a year they are worth $1000. But you still buy it.
That's just the way it is.
> Or, if you lose your silver
> brick or it becomes scuffed, etc. Also, it is only worth $2.00 if you think
> it is, and I already stated that it wouldn't be worth such a price to me.
Sure not to you and to me; that's why you sell them to the Ebays down the
street;-) Doesn't matter how much you or I value them, but how much *they* value
them.
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| (...) 1. Of course, if the buckets w/ silver bricks could be bought at a discount, that would be swell. The same goes for any bucket. 2. Have you sold your silver brick for $2.00? Only with such a "realized gain" does your claim really stand, since (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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