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| | | (...) I've got the box now, and by some miracle of scheduling, if I can arrange to meet Shiri while I'm back home for the holidays, we can effect an in person hand-off, and then I won't have to venture into the Post Office during the mad dash for (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | What I forgot to mention last night was that a couple things dissapointed me about the box: 1. Somewhere in the past few folks it went through a smokers house, and will have a new box when I send it along (hmm, Shiri, will this be a problem for you? (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Kyle Keppler
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| | | | | | | (...) Hmm, I didn't notice this but I do remember it being rather dusty. And FYI no one at my house smokes. Alot of the bags were in poor shape so I was going to replace them, but then we were out of baggies. (...) Yea I was dissapointed about all (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'm pretty sensitive to smoke, so perhaps you just didn't notice it, in any case, the existing box is now in our recycle bin, I'll use a new one. I did also notice a "greasy" residue on my hands after handling the parts which is characteristic (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | (...) I thought I had posted earlier that my son basically wiped out JB#3... he went crazy when he hear that they were pieces like I had when I was his age... I contacted a couple of the next people on the list and they said that JBs were meant to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: JJB#4 —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Perhaps I missed it. Glad your son found stuff of use. When I collect enough junk for another box, I'll re-start JJB#3 and send it to the next person on the list. If I clean up the Weeks box some, I may actually be close to having enough stuff (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | (...) Hmm... well this is the first time I actually saw I'm included, but hey, awesome! Thanks for cc'ing it to me or I'd miss it entirely. <wipes forehead> I'm gonna be away between 22-29 of December (1), when are you gonna be around here? I'd be (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) I'm in New England from 12/22 to 12/31, so perhaps we can connect the 30th, which is the best day for me to connect anyway. If that won't work out, I'll just hold onto the box and mail it to you after New Years. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Tom Stangl
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| | | | Hey, don't forget the rest of the list! The last list posted by Chris was: Tamyra Teed anything interesting RockR, SW, WW Kyle Keppler Space, SW, trans RockR, SW, Castle Frank Filz Castle, Train, Pirate Space, Castle, Pirate Shiri Dori Castle, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | Gad! I was supposed to update it a thousand years ago too. Well, maybe not a thousand, it just seems like it. Uh...When I get it back, after Shiri, I'm likely to alter the list forward of me to include people who emailed but didn't respond to the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | The Weeks box has been passed on to Shiri. I switched out the box with one which didn't smell like a chimney. I also sort of organized some of the parts (though my contribution is in a separate bag). If you want to be surprised by the box, don't (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | (...) You passed on it in DC. What changed? (...) Oh good. I was frightened by the tone of your note earlier talking about the suckiness of the box. For the record, taking out anything that could reasonably be called junk would have been OK with me. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) I took one in DC also (at least I thought I did - I know I took some Fabuland). (...) My first glance showed it to be a lot worse than I realized. Saturday night I actually went through quite a bit of the box looking for some extra doo-dads (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Tamyra Teed
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| | | | | | (...) Well this makes me wonder because all the parts I put in were brand new, I just opened the box and dumped into brand new baggies. And there was only one other person between us :( I noticed from looking at the pics there doesn't seem to be (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Fabuland). (...) future (...) the (...) I (...) think (...) chimney, (...) and (...) just (...) be (...) I'm beginning to wonder if I mixed up the smoky box with something else (Shiri - who did the box I brought the JB in come from before me - (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | | Well, I just go the box back yesterday and just looked through it today. I have to say that I am less than enthused. I think that the value of the box is similar to how it was before I dropped the RCX in. So basically, I think it lost about $50 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | (...) I think one problem is the wide variation in values of items. For example, back at Brickfest when I traded in a couple packs of shooting cannon, what value is best to use for them? The $5.25 or so they cost me, or the $20+ that they go for on (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Doug Finney
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| | | | | | | [Major trimming since I figure all of you just read Chris' post] Bleah, that sounds majorly disappointing. My guess is there are people (or person - it obviously doesn't take many) who view the boxes as a place to "get cool pieces they want in (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Kyle Keppler
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| | | | | | | This is kind of confusing here. I admit that I don't sell parts and might not have the best idea of what parts are worth but I took very little out, so I think my trades were fair. If I remember correctly I took out I think 3 adventures torsos, 3 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Tamyra Teed
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| | | | | | | Christopher Weeks wrote: <snip> (...) I didn't give it to anyone else. (...) I have no idea on the figs, I didn't look at any of them since I have enough figs right now, and spare parts for a couple if needed. <snip> (...) I know it took me a little (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hmm, it does almost seem like there was an extra person between you and me. Did you check the box when it came back to you after the first attempt to mail to Kyle? I wonder if I managed to misplace a bag of stuff (or could Kyle have?)? As I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm... (...) Yep, I saw most of them... (...) Not that I can think of...? (...) It definitely had Tamy's return address, i remember it clearly. (...) Actually, I took a few pairs of hands - they were in useful colors. But there were minifigs (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Shiri Dori
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| | | | More spoiler warning! These are actual pictures of the contents right now. So don't look if you don't wanna know!! Pictures of the jambalaya - don't look unless you're sure you want to! (URL) 504 contains things I decided I'm taking out so far; (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | | | | | Re: UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) I'm glad some of the bits from the castle set I bought and put in got snarfed up immediately (of course I kept a few of the parts for myself). Frank (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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