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Re: Wal-mart sale/3033
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Tue, 4 May 1999 08:10:05 GMT
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CJC@NEWSGUY.saynotospamCOM
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Rob Farver <rfarver@rcn.com> wrote:
> > 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.
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> 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
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
percentage of the people selling Lego stuff on eBay are scalpers.
Just read some of the SW descriptions.
> 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.
In some cases, you're right.
> 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.
I don't care for eBay at all, but I'm going to sell my 10
Scouttroopers on it just the same.
I didn't mean to bash everyone who uses eBay. Sorry you misunderstood
what I meant.
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