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Re: LARGEST LEGO LOT ON EBAY EVER!! (???)
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Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:21:39 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
>   Now *unsorted* I'd agree with your assessment of the likely value
>   someone will place on the collection.  I was talking above about the
>   potential value of the pieces, if sorted and sold by someone with
>   the knowledge to do so strategically.
> 
>   best,
> 
>   LFB

The auction listing mentions that he may be willing to take the hi-bid if the
reserve is not met.

<trying to remember the rules of ebay proxy biddy>

Does the proxy bidding of your high-bid only apply *after* you pass the reserve
? In other words, if you bid something below the reserve (but way above the
other guys current bid), I think it goes all the way to your max if you don't
hit the reserve. Normally it takes two bidders to get to a really high bid,
below the reserve I think one can do it.

Ray



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  Re: LARGEST LEGO LOT ON EBAY EVER!! (???)
 
(...) It doesn't quite work that way. Proxy bidding works the same way even before the reserve is met. (26 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.theory)

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  Re: LARGEST LEGO LOT ON EBAY EVER!! (???)
 
(...) I don't know--your mass/pieces reckoning is fine by me, but you're far undervaluing the market value of the pieces, IMHO. $0.10 is a good rule of thumb buying them at MSRP; even then, we'd be talking $47,500. But my experience of selling parts (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.theory)

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