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In lugnet.general, Ray Sanders writes:
> In lugnet.general, William Brumbach writes:
> > The more I look at the pictures in the auction and the partial list on the
> > website the more disheartening it is. It's just one big mess. It looks
> > like the legos in my apartment gone completely berserk on speed. And I
> > thought my 110 gallons worth of unsorted stuff that I have was a lot...
> >
> > Bill
>
> Earlier, I posted a message where I estimated about 475K pieces. The more I
> think about this (and reread the specific wording of the auction), I wonder if I
> overestimated. If that 'over a ton' includes the weight of the containers, then
> I would chop my piece estimate severly.
>
> Most of the hype and runup to bidding for this auction seem to focus on the
> quantity and the scarcity of the lot. There appears to be a number of old
> catalogs & instructions booklets. There may be alot of older & unusual parts.
> Some older sets are visible. There is almost assuradly a large amount of work
> sorting whatever is here.
>
> The seller obviously knows that lugnet exists (he is using lugnet links for his
> set list). It would be nice/helpful if the seller joined this discussion to
> answer any/all questions concerning this auction. If it is indeed a ton of legos
> and over a million pieces, it would be in his best interest to inform the
> maximum number of bidders.
>
> Ray
I would also treat an auction like this with a healthy dose of skepticism.
I am not implying anything about this seller, but consider someone who wants
to exit the LEGO hobby and boosts his collection by buying a bunch of blue
tubs. Depending on the quantities involved it is possible that all of a
sudden the real value per brick or per pound shrinks drastically to the
value of basic bulk bricks. 2000 pounds of specialty pieces are worth a
bunch more than 2,000 pounds of blue tubs...
Reason well,
Andreas Stabno
http://www.megsinet.net/~stabno/SimiLego.htm
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