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Re: The Best thing about Brickbay...
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sun, 1 Oct 2000 17:31:50 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Eric Kingsley writes:
> Well I guess that brings up an important division within our hobby, those that
> collect sets and those that mostly build MOC's.
hold on there... I think you misunderstood right from the start - why do you
say that those who collect sets don't build MOCs? When I say "collecting sets"
I mean I don't want to have any incomplete sets, and I want to have one of
everything. It DOESN'T mean I build all the sets as per the instructions, and
put them on a shelf, and never touch them again....
> I will admit that I usually will get a set and build it once and keep all the
> parts for my collection. After that though I could care less. I don't need • 10
> complete copies of any set. If there are a few parts I need for a project and
> I can get them in a couple copies of the set why not take out those parts and
> sell the rest? Especially those parts you don't see yourself having a need
> for.
I used to think that, however, too many times I (or more commenly someone else)
found a use for a piece I would have never saved...
> It's economies of scale for me anyway. I can afford to buy 10 copies of a set
> very rarely if I keep all the parts for myself. If I keep only the parts I
> need and sell the rest then I can afford to by many more sets and keep many
> more sets and sell many more parts.
I can understand that, just can't do it myself. I try to buy sets only at a
bit discount....
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> I guess I am saying that instead of waiting for TLC to provide true bulk
> ordering I decided get what I need myself buy buying sets and then selling the
> other parts to defray my costs, which in turn provides a service to the
> community.
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> For those that have a need for complete sets I guess this isn't such a good
> plan but if you are building lots of MOC's too then this is one way to supply
> yourself with some of the parts you need. And in the end you get the parts • for
> an excellent price plus a bit of work.
Again, those who collect complete sets CAN build a lot of MOCs too. I'm not a
gifted builder, but look at this week's CSotW - Tom Cook collects sets, only
complete sets, and build a lot of very cool MOCs:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cook_thomas/
:)
Dan
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