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Re: The meaning of "Complete"
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Date: 
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:22:52 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.market.theory, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
In lugnet.market.theory, Frank Filz writes:

<sigh> I hate this.  I once saw somebody sell off a Classic Space
collection as parts lots..., sorted by colour!  There were some
great sets in there, but the odds of winning all of the colour lots
without paying through the nose for them were pretty low so I
just steered away from them.  Anyhow for my part most of the sets
I'm interested in are the ones that fetch high prices as sets,
so sellers generally offer them as such.

This cuts both ways. While I share your anguish at seeing rare sets get
parted, the flip side is this: Is it better to sell a somewhat incomplete
set as is, or part it out, recoup your investment and potentially see the
parts complete SEVERAL other incomplete sets in the hands of others?

I do not know.

  My experience is that if the set isn't MISB (or at least
  100% complete), you're far better off parting it out.  I always
  do better--but then again, I rarely get anything more than a few
  years old to part out.

Oh, I totally agree.... from the perspective of a seller. My bad, I didn't
write this clearly enough to show that I was asking the question from the
perspective of a BUYER. I think it's a tossup, there. Kyle, I think, feels
that from the buyer's perspective, parting out is very bad.

Helps?

++Lar



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  Re: The meaning of "Complete"
 
(...) My experience is that if the set isn't MISB (or at least 100% complete), you're far better off parting it out. I always do better--but then again, I rarely get anything more than a few years old to part out. YMMV. LFB (23 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.market.theory)

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