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(...) Well, I can't say I've *bought* anything in that condition, but in my 20 years of Lego collecting, I have *thrice* found bricks with insect-egg-sacks in them amongst my non-airtight Lego boxes. All hatched before I found them. Made me wish I (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I can't speak for Hop-Frog but I have received bulk LEGO(r) brand pieces with things such as dead insects and dried insect eggs mixed in. That was from eBay though. Never live larvae. (or at least I didn't really check all that closely) I'll (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Please tell me this was just hyperbole, and you didn't actually receive pieces with LARVAE in it! (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) GoodWill Stores here I come, and... Obviously, not everyone in the world (who gives LEGO products to GoodWill) is aware of the Internet. Todd (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) appreciated your attempt to provide a standard for everyone to use. (...) LARVAE INFESTED!?! If this ever happened to me I'd probably abandon my LEGO buying completely. Snot I can handle but creepy crawly things...YECCH! (...) As I pointed (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Greg Perry stated: (...) I once purchased 8460 and 5580 from the same person in two seperate auctions in eBay. It was in my early and, dare I say, naive days of purchasing online. Both sets were described as assembled, hardly played with, kept on a (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Greg, I'm going to respond to a couple points that you made from the viewpoint of a seller on Bricklink. (...) of (...) left) I believe this is at the core of the "problem". If a seller gets positive feedback for something that was less then a (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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Greg: As the person that wrote this: (URL) can tell you that I have certainly come across dirty, already been chewed, bubble gum encrusted, snot caked, putty filled, milk spattered, larvae infested, and otherwise disgusting elements in my time. It (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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How many people have purchased a "used, but 100% complete set" from e-Bay or Bricklink only to find that it's not true when it arrives 4-6 weeks later from overseas? I recently purchased an 8460 and an 8839 from a seller in Germany who claimed that (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I had to chime in on this thread. I'm right there with you Greg. (...) A month or two ago I made my first "used" purchases on Bricklink. The three shops that I purchased from stated that these used parts were in "excellent condition" and most were (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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