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Re: Major revision/expansion of my wantlist page
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:38:49 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Tom Stangl writes:
Larry,  don't take this the wrong way, but...

Aren't many of these prices extremely unrealistic?  (I would say insanely
unrealistic)

I think the prices are odd in some places, but as Larry says, his stock changes
how much he wants certain things.

What I don't get is stuff like the bogie plates at $1.25 each.  Doesn't S@H
sell these at 2 for $1.99?  How many do you want at $1.25 each Lar?  I wonder
if I can have them just ship directly to you? ;-)

Another thing I'm considering is that if I have to start paying, for instance,
2 dollars a pane for train glass, you're just not going to see any of it in
under 100 dollar sets from Milton Train Works.

And that might be a shame, but if that's what how the market says it's going to
be...

Worse, if big plates really cost that much in bulk, that rules them out of my
designs too. That would be a shame.

I'd say more like $1-1.75 for 6x16 black plates is what I've gotten though I
guess it's been higher sometimes.  And 6x12s are less $.7-1 or so.

Maybe I'll take another pass through it yet tonite. But I'm convinced someone
could still make a good profit feeding me parts, even at these prices,
assuming they have a steady stream of discount sets for input.

Maybe.  I'm not convinced.  But they'd be making so much less than they could
for a trivial amount more work that it would be foolish.  In fact, I'll pay you
10% higher than your prices on almost everything and sell them on eBay for
wildly more than I spent.  Do you get takers regularly from this?  I might need
to set that up too, but just for resale.  Also, would you pay a higher amount
in credit that could only be spent at MTW?

Chris



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  Re: Major revision/expansion of my wantlist page
 
(...) changes (...) That was a mistake. For some reason I had fixed in my mind that the big three accessory packs were 3 bucks (3.25 in the old scheme) each. I lowered my price on bogie plates to USD 0.85. (when I order from S@H the shipping is (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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  Re: Major revision/expansion of my wantlist page
 
(...) Maybe. I'll see what happens and raise stuff as I need to in order to balance supply and demand. One thing to note is that sellers are competing against my own ability to just go out and buy sets and part them out to get the same parts. My (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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