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Re: Gotta clear my conscience...
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Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:53:40 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
> Ergh. Okay, I'm going to 'fess up, not that I should need to defend myself, but
> there's conscience-clearing in the air, so what the heck:
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> 1) I ordered a dozen WP sets. I generally loathe Castle.
> 2) I ordered a dozen Town Folks sets. I generally loathe Town.
> 3) I ordered four 6399 Nebula Outposts. Um, those are okay. (Yes, I like
> Exploriens. No laughing.)
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> So what's the big deal, you say? Well, I ordered the 1992 Town Folks with the
> intention of increasing my female population and getting some torsos from my Dark
> Ages to put around my ships and docks. Not so bad, really--I ordered the WP sets
> in order to open one or two and add to the diversity of my minifigs. However, the
> bulk of both sets are actually intended to be sold--not today, not (necessarily)
> tomorrow, but *some day* when this pulse of 1992 sets has died down.
>
> That may seem crass, that may seem heartless/soulless, but it's not.
It's not. There's a difference between reselling for profit and scalping. It
seems pretty clear that you're just going to re-sell at a profit.
If you were deliberately trying to create a shortage of WP sets to drive the
price up, up, up and then sell before the market crashes - that's scalping. (One
of the worst things about capitalism, IMHO.)
J
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| (...) OK, I'll bite. How does someone "deliberately try to create a shortage" in Lego ? Occasionally I come across something that is HTF (examples being exploriens and armada). I *usually* find these languishing on a store shelf where they have been (...) (27 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) Ergh. Okay, I'm going to 'fess up, not that I should need to defend myself, but there's conscience-clearing in the air, so what the heck: 1) I ordered a dozen WP sets. I generally loathe Castle. 2) I ordered a dozen Town Folks sets. I (...) (27 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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