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Re: Wal-mart sale/3033
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Mon, 3 May 1999 21:45:00 GMT
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On Sat, 1 May 1999 16:42:46 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) wrote:
> Chris Ernest Hall <fozboot@best.com> wrote:
> > less bricks in the bucket or raise the price. Maybe TLG has realized that the
> > main purpose of buckets is to feed the very active, Internet-based secondary
> > economy of Lego bricks, and the cancellation of buckets is a prelude to TLG
> > switching to an auction-based distribution of bricks.
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> I don't see how they could have realized that, considering the fact
> that it simply can't be true. No matter how many buckets or piles of
> bricks you see for sale on eBay, RTL, here, wherever, I would be
> willing to be huge sums of money that the parents who buy them for
> their kids buy a hundred times more buckets than AFOLs or eBay
> scalpers.
You know, I get tired of seeing eBay sellers generally referred to as scalpers.
Can't you just say eBay sellers? From what I've seen, very few buckets are
sold whole (the obvious exceptions being the halloween bucket and occasional
silver bucket). For the most part people are breaking up buckets and selling
bulk lots by color. This is done occasionally here on LUGNET and RTL and
isn't referred to as scalping, so why should it be on eBay? Not only that,
but many of these bulk brick sellers are doing it to support their own LEGO
buying habits, just as parts sellers do on LUGNET and RTL.
The way I see it, if I want to sell something, I'm going to the place where
I can get the best price, and right now that seems to be eBay. I know a lot
of you don't like eBay, and won't use it and that's fine, but just because
you don't like it doesn't mean you have to bash the people that DO use it.
Rob
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| Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com |
| http://www.farver.com/lego/ |
| http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rfarver |
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| (...) No, I can't. If I had meant eBay sellers in general (I belong to that group, and you do too, I think) I would have said eBay sellers. I meant (and still do) eBay scalpers. I'd say after last night it is painfully obvious that a very LARGE (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) I don't see how they could have realized that, considering the fact that it simply can't be true. No matter how many buckets or piles of bricks you see for sale on eBay, RTL, here, wherever, I would be willing to be huge sums of money that the (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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