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  2nd largest lot on ebay (?)
 
Here's another one. 404 sets starting at 8K, search under huge in the Lego. Why do people sell these in such huge chunks ? Surely it would be better to split it by theme ? pete.w (who lives on another continent) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
 
  Re: 2nd largest lot on ebay (?)
 
(...) At least this one has an up-front list of the sets it contains. Seems a tad pricey to me, but who am I to say what something is worth. I wonder why that big bright Lugnet logo is at the bottom of the auction ? Is the seller a lugnet member ? (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
 
  Re: 2nd largest lot on ebay (?)
 
(...) At their estimate the starting bid is two thirds their estimate of retail. Buy it now is five-sixths. Throw in a big chunk of freight and splitters and resellers are going to struggle to make decent money for their time. I don't see many Lego (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
 
  Re: 2nd largest lot on ebay (?)
 
(...) It's 66,000 (roughly) pieces. I usually ballpark $0.10 a piece as a fair estimate of true 'value' for retail sets. By that standard those sets ought to be worth perhaps $6,000. But without pictures, they shouldn't be surprised to get an offer (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
 
  Re: 2nd largest lot on ebay (?)
 
(...) I have to agree with other posters, slapping a huge logo (which, I noted, was sourced from LUGNET(tm), not hosted elsewhere) on your auction with no text saying "this is neat, go here" or "Thanks for the set info" or whatever is cheesy. It (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory)

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