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Re: Ulterior motives (was Re: Don Quixote puts away his lance (was Re: McDonalds set
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Tue, 28 Sep 1999 03:43:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
I want a successful venue to exist that is not eBay, if at all possible.

Ditto.

It may not be. If the differential is too great, I will sell my stuff on
eBay while holding my nose. I'd rather sell it on SC or JABA or
Brickyard or Busse or anywhere that doesn't have fixed ending time
auctions and doesn't stack things against buyers... but I personally am
only willing to sacrifice about 10% of the price I can get, if that.

I haven't been paying attention lately(1), but for quite a while I was watching
SC and Ebay prices, and they were generally comparable.  Within a few percent,
in fact.  Although I will confess that I tossed (IMO) extraneous data
points.(2)  Has anyone been paying enough attention to see if that is still the
case?

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/

1:Because I've been broke.  And when I watch auctions, I buy things in
auctions.  ;)
2:When set xxxx goes for $50-$75 once or twice a week, and one of them sells
for >$100, I consider it an extraneous data point.



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  Re: Ulterior motives (was Re: Don Quixote puts away his lance (was Re: McDonalds set
 
(...) Here's a data point for you There have been two 6990s auctioned off on SC. The first one had a box but had some missing pieces. The condition of the set is pristine, almost brand new. All the missing parts save one control stand and 4 1x2 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.theory)

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(...) Yes, it's a classic Kohlberg dilemma. [1] I think you can make a good argument for _either_ response being the high moral ground, depending on your framework of morality. 1. In Europe, a woman was near death from a very unusual kind of cancer. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory)

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