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(...) $57 for a Maiden's cart is a steal! (compared to this one) (URL) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I always thought that people did this on brickbay because they didn't really want to sell it, but would let it go if someone _really_ wanted it. I saw a MISB 171 for over $400 on there. I have a boxed used one, and would never believe it was (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 10:47:11, "D. Jezek" <danjezek@REMOVEaloha.net> wrote: > $57 for a Maiden's cart is a steal! (...) As a matter of curiosity: has this shop actually sold anything? I see a feedback rating of "0", but I know *I* wouldn't want to go (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Hard to tell if a shop has sold anything based on feedback. I know people generally tend to be happy with me as a seller: (URL) have a feedback rating of 38. You'd think maybe that I've had around 38 selling transactions, wouldn't you? I've (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I e-mailed John about his prices - his answer was that he didn't really want to sell. :) James (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I only leave feedback for excellent transactions. I have to be positively impressed by some aspect of the deal. Otherwise, I just try to get my money's worth. I have had more than my fair share of bad transactions, esp. from eBay -- not so (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) That's usually my policy too, for established buyers or sellers (i.e. those who already have several positive responses). I try to be more diligent with those with little or no feedback since getting from 0 to 10 is much more important than (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hi ! (...) left (...) probably (...) and (...) reason, (...) it (...) And what about us - "Lugnet sellers" ? I don't have any rating (while there is no place where people could leave it (except if I make a website)) although I had 28 sucessfull (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I know what you mean - I too am a Lugnet seller / trader with no "rating". Although I do have an ebay rating which I suppose helps my case, I have had countless successful sales and trades through Lugnet which will not be recognised. There (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Actually it is not "unrecognized". I'm not a seller, just made less than ten trades, but bought at least 80 times, so I might be classified as a Lugnet buyer. I don't have a recorded feedback of course, but in many cases, people just sent my (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) That information is confidential and can only be disclosed by the shop owner if they choose to do so. It is good to check the feedback rating but then feedback can be posted for both selling and buying. On another note, I find it interesting (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) That's always seemed strange to me - how people still have MISB sets from so many years ago, resisting the temptation to open them. The more time I spend taking note of other Lego builders habits and traits the more I am starting to understand (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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"David Jolley" <Trapnet2@aol.com> wrote in message news:G2zLFt.qG@lugnet.com... (...) so (...) spend (...) starting (...) I also have a lot of MISB boxes.. I sure want to open them to get my hands of all the pieces. But then I feel bad, to have (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I once opened a set that had been 25 years in the shrinkwrap. What a rush that was. I currently have a number of older unopened sets and some of them I will be letting my kids (or grandkids) open, once they are old enough to appreciate why it (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) It also cuts the other way... I recently opened a factory sealed 12 volt train motor (7865) which could be 20 years old, only to find that the rubber gaskets for the wheels had hardened so much that they crumbled in my hands. What a rush (of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I know the feeling..... when I got those 35 London Bus sets back in the 1980's, I opened every single set! (Ouch!!!) I ripped off the shrink wrap of every single one of them, and sorted all the pieces (there were 840 classic windows!) In (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Why not? Don't let it pass by you. What I did is made a page with listing all the people I've traded with: (URL) are all people from lugnet that I've had successful transactions with. True, I haven't showed anyone this page til this day, but (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, D. Jezek (<G2zCE2.621@lugnet.com>) wrote at 09:44:26 (...) I have many MISB sets saved for a (not too distant) rainy day when there are no more good LEGO sets, and some for future trades. I *love* people who save MISB sets, cos (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Really? I'd have to disagree with that judgement, but it is certainly yours to make. I'd say it matters as much for someone with 60 feedback to get a + from an old-timer like yourself than from 10 people I don't recognize. I leave positive (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) It's interesting to note that speedy payment matters primarily to sellers, sometimes I am speedy, sometimes I am not. I usually need around two weeks to get to it, so that some other matters have accumulated and made it worth my while to open (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Good point. One could correctly deduct from my statement that I don't pay much attention to the names on other peoples feedback. But since some people do I'll try to leave positive feedback (when warranted) for everyone I deal with, not just (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Which London Bus set would you have got? I notice from a quick search on lugnet, that there are three with a picture, and one without. The one without a picture is 769, the rest are 313, 760, and 384 - I bet anyone finding sets that old would have a (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I don't know what you mean about gyrations if you're talking Paypal. Postal MO being a pain I can understand - that involves going to the post office - something I try real hard to do not more than once a week since the only time I can get (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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I'm with Richard on this. 7 - 10 days is unreasonable, especially as we enter the holiday season and the PO gets busy. If it takes 5 days to get an envelope from SF to NY or DC, that gives me 2 days to get a money order, which is not always (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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The ones that I got were the 760 (US version). Even though they were 1975-76 sets, I got them in 1985 at about 6 different toy clearance stores in the metro Detroit area (about 5-7 per store). The reason that I scoured all their stores in the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:39F86D4D.64B495...ich.edu... (...) 1975-76 (...) metro (...) stores (...) because I (...) Jets (...) That's good. They do seem to be an excellent parts pack if you need red LEGO pieces. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Oh, believe me, I think 7-10 days might be approaching unreasonable if you're talking mailing it through the postal service. I explained pretty clearly that I don't make more than one trip a week to the post office if I can help it, so I (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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As a reply to this post, I got the following email: --- Hi Shiri ! I'd need a little help from you ... (...) I mean - where to ... ? .. To be honest I am totaly new at html - I can make webpage using editor (and this is only text which makes it (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.faq)
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