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Re: Finding a bargain
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Mon, 11 Nov 2002 03:36:05 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Kevin MacGinnis writes:
> At what point do you determine that a set is a good purchase? ...
I'll go along with Larry and Maggie too. (And I also happily buy Diagon
Alleys at full price.)
In the US, the cheapest price/piece easily available is 2 cents per brick
for the new red bucket available at Walmart, KMart, Target and others. (1.5
cents per brick during KMart's BOGO sale that started today.) I've bought a
bunch of these because they have a good selection of brown bricks, and I'll
use the other colors as well.
The blue bucket available at TRU has 600 bricks for 2.5 cents a brick, a
good bargain if you're attracted by the purple and orange bricks it contains.
I generally try to buy parts for 5 cents a piece, but only if I can identify
that there are some essential parts (essential to me, that is) and mostly
useful parts. It's hard to find sets at this price range unless they're
buckets, tubs or at least 50% off.
This weekend, I had the rare opportunity to take a driving trip for a few
hundred miles, and visited dozens of large box outlets. I found something
worth buying at maybe 1 in 5, and sometimes that was a single set in the
entire store. Economically, I'd have been much better off staying home and
paying full price, but the thrill of the hunt made it worthwhile.
Cary
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| At what point do you determine that a set is a good purchase? Is it best to go by price per piece or discount from MSRP? If price per piece, what is a good price per piece? If discount is it 20, 25 or???? Thanks for your inputs:) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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