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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 (...) (27 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. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory)

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