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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Rutenberg [mailto:paul_germany@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 11:41 PM
> To: lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade@lugnet.com
> Subject: smokers
>
>
> Hello
> Read your tittat on smoking lego salespersons, as far as i
> can see, most of us
> that sell something, have just bought it somewhere and are
> not selling out of
> our own collections, we buy a package at a flea market, or
> over the papers or
> thru on-line auktions, what we have double in the package or
> what we don't
> need, we put up for sale again to help pay for our
> colloction, i don't ask the
> guy at the fleanmarket selling a bunch of stuff from 60s/70s,
> even 80s, has
> anybody smoked near this Lego in the last 30 years? come on
> guys, price is
> right and i want it, i buy it, take it home, clean it, air
> it. If you are
> really worried about somebody having smoked next to the Lego,
> don't buy it, go
> to the store, buy it new, that way your sure. If an
> Auctioneer dosn't smoke,
> but the previous owner did, and seller dosn't know it, all he
> say's is "i Don't
> smoke" and hes won with you guys "sorry that you didn't ask
> about my wife, my
> kids, my dog, the peaple that visit me, but I don't smoke"
> sorry like i said,
> buy it new if that worried about it.
> Paul
I can understand your point on this topic, but there are people [myself
included] who prefer the older models and parts. If it wasn't for health
reasons [1] I probably wouldn't overly mind smoke residue on items, although
I would always prefer to acquire an item without this. My preference would
be for sellers to have a warning of some form, to say that the 'items have
some smoke residue', or similar. I agree with what you say about the seller
not smoking and stating that, but if they say something about the items,
then you should be safe to assume that they're 'clean'. [The discussion was
about smoke residue [eg. smell] and not about whether someone has smoked
near it in its history. as long as there is no smoke smell to an item
[especially paperwork] it's okay. After all, I buy second-hand lego quite a
bit, and having a smokey smell to it would probably stop me buying it. [I
don't know for sure...I haven't yet come across any where there was this
problem...lucky, I guess]]
BTW, buying new is well and good, unless you're after parts that haven't
been produced in the past 15-20 years, or instructions for discontinued
sets.
[1] My fiancee suffers from chronic asthma [2] and even a small amount of
smoke can be enough to trigger a major asthma attack. Luckily she's
understanding of my lego collection. [even though she claims to dislike
lego, she likes causing train crashes...the crocodile engine is continually
the victim of side impact from the 3225 engine.] But something like buying
smoke-damaged items may result in my being requested to stop collecting, and
as I'd prefer to keep collecting, I'm forced to limit purchases from sellers
where I'm not sure of the condition [smoke-wise] that the items will be in.
[2] Chronic as referring to hospitalization at least once every 6-12 weeks,
along with a long list of 'preventative' medication. [And there have been
many 'wonder-drugs' that specialists have tried her on that don't work,
either.] [smoke is only 1 of many triggers that can set her asthma off, but
probably the major trigger that lego can carry.]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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