 | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —Todd Lehman
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| | | (...) That sounds pretty high to me, but you never know. Probably a good idea at that price to find out whether it's mint-in-box with mint-box, or just mint-in-box. If you don't want the box, and the box is mint, you could probably resell the box (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) Oh, I did not know there was this kind of distinction. It's sealed, new, as if you could buy it off the shelf today. It is in the highest state of newness-- what would, technically speaking, this be called? -John (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | (...) I think MISB - Mint In Sealed Box. Is there anything that's more accurately descriptive? -Tom McD. when replying, don't go vacationing on SpamLake, where it's said that spamcake first crawled out onto land eons ago. (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —John DiRienzo
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| | | | | | | | Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) just (...) spamcake (...) I agree that MISB is the most accurate term. However, I have had many auctions on eBay using that term where people emailed me asking what it meant, or after they had received the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Usually there isn't, :) but if you're paying that much, don't you want to know? (...) No, that's not the highest state of newness. Sets off the shelves -- especially sets with large boxes -- often have nicks and scrapes in them. It might also (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) As you say, it's darn near impossible to find pristine mint in boxes this large. Unless a miracle occurs this is the closest to pristine mint you're gonna find for this set. Period. I'm pretty happy with the box condition on mine, and mine (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —Eric Joslin
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| | | | (...) If the box is really worth THAT much of the cost, it's probably a good idea to go over the box with a fine toothed... err, magnifying glass and enumerate any and all scratchesm creases, tears, rips, etc for location and size. You don't want to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Yeah! :) Ask for a scanning electron micrograph (or whatever they're called) for the front and back panels. --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | Re: Airport Shuttle 6399 for sale —Eric Joslin
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| | | | (...) to (...) any (...) don't (...) Well, *that* might be going a little far... I was just saying that at high costs, things that are in valuable boxes can lose a lot of money for what seem like ridiculously small defects- and people will be quick (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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