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| (...) That's all well and good, but if you *do* find someone that has what you want and wants what you have, trading can be both a positive experience *and* an efficient way to do the deal. And sites that seem to be biased towards cash transactions (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) and (...) even (...) Personally I never understand why anyone bothers with trading. The whole point of inventing the concept of money was because one-on-one bartering (trading) isn't scaleable because it depends on finding the person who not (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) That would be better suited to market.theory than .general, at least in my opinion. (...) I find trades to be a fair bit of work and I find myself doing them less and less. The advent of automation at sites to aid buying and selling tilts it (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | Re: 10152 Update
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| moving thread to lugnet.market.theory (...) (attn: spite what the following text reads, it isn't sarcasm. You'd be right in saying that I'm not primarily a collector. So help me out.(and others who don't understand this either) So instead of having (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 10152 Update
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| Hello! (...) TLC keeps their vault for their lawyers. So when, for example, MegaBloks produces a set that's tooo similiar to any LEGO set they walk into their catacombs, take the respective set and show the world: We have done this first! On this (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | Re: 10152 Update
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| (...) moving thread, probably doesn't belong in .lego. Market.theory I think should be better. Insomuch as magazine and newspaper companies are collectors as well. They also keep one (or more) copies of their product for future reference. I believe (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 10152 Update
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| (...) No. I've never said that. In fact I myself have sold sets above MSRP. Just not while they were still on sale from S@H, while hiding that fact from my ebay buyers, or while trying to corner the market, or while giving the false impression that (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Custom Space: Obsidian Stealth Strike Craft for sale - The Brickee Mart
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| (...) It is most certainly on-topic for LEGO. It should be in lugnet.market.theory. Followup to lugnet.admin.nntp. (22 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.admin.nntp, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Taz
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| (...) I thought about administering my own list (which you could do by having an alias for a bunch of addresses) but I chose to use a Yahoo group. It works well enough for what I want it for. See groups.yahoo.com for more info on starting a group. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.market.theory)
| | | | | Re: Toys R Us and TLC
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| (...) Speaking of TRU... Yahoo: Toys R Us Wants to Prevent Piecemeal Sale (URL) (22 years ago, 28-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.theory)
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