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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
> However, lets take Troy's Surplus for example - he sells the Dark Grey 1x2 brick
> for .04 a piece! TLG sells it at .06 a piece - at the max discount of 15%, it
> is .052 per piece.
>
> So, either Troy is buying in bulk, parting them out, and taking a severe cut.
> OR TLG isn't selling at the lowest profitable price they can. Or there are
> hidden costs in supply to bulk, that Troy avoids by parting himself.
But the seller isn't buying the bulk bricks from TLG and then directly reselling
them. Instead, the seller buys a $10 set that has five less common pieces.
Let's say he can sell those pieces for $2 each, then there are a bunch of other,
more common pieces in the set that he can sell for whatever he wants and it's
all profit. The dark grey brick in the above example is a pretty common piece,
and shows up in lots and lots of sets.
Bruce
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