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Subject:	Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date:	Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:28:10 GMT
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Completely cool idea! Sign me up. I have to weigh in on this sorted bags issue however. I too would love to acquire large quantities of classic windows and other specific pieces. But if when the boxes start out all of the windows are in box A and I'm 6th on the list to get that box, what are the odds there will by *any* left by the time they get to me. By then it will be a random assortment of pieces, heavy in whatever theme(s) the last recipient was unloading and light in what they were taking. So why not start them that way? Signing up for a specific box could actually be counter productive since it would encourage people with similar taste in parts to be in the same queue. I guess what I'm saying is, if you have a large collection of a certain type of piece and would hate to see it broken up, maybe it doesn't belong in the trade boxes. Auction them, sell them, trade them, whatever, but IMO the trade boxes will work best when they contain a wide variety of pieces. Frank, in what to me looked like a rather despairing tone :-), mentioned a possible rule limiting what percentage of the pieces one person could take. Okay, he just said "a rule you can't take the whole bag..." but I'm sure someone will get more specific. Again, defeats the purpose, IMO, and quite cruel to boot. Can you imagine getting a whole box of piece X, which you've hunted for and coveted for years, and being told you can only keep 10 of them but if the box makes it back around to you in a few months and if there are any left you can have 10 more? Ouch! Doug

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		Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
What Doug said... either put the windows up for auction, they are highly prized by large numbers, or spread them around to lots of boxes, or just sell them outright to me. I promise to pay a lot, then share with other townies for what I paid. :-) I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

		Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
(...) I'm sure the odds would be zero. Anyone who wants any old windows would want all the old windows. (...) I don't want it on my conscience to have separated a small collection of old classic windows. If someone else wants to do that, fine by me. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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		Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
(...) I'd have to agree with both of these. I'd love to get my hands on a bunch of classic windows, don't know if I value them as much as Larry and Garry though, so maybe I should vote for keeping them in a trade bag, if there is a rule you can't (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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