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Re: What some people will buy!
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lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:38:12 GMT
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To date, I think only about TWO or THREE of these sets have even been mentioned
on Lugnet or RTL.  It is VERY rare.

$128 worth of rare, heck NO, imnsho.


Will Middelaer wrote:

In lugnet.market.auction, Tamyra Teed writes:
These is really insane, have you seen the final bid? 128.some odd
cents.. This has got to be close if not a record for insane prices...

I guess the real "value" here is not the parts, but the instructions.  The
parts are available in many other sets, but the "set" isn't complete without
the instructions and a box, if this set even came in a box.

The wording of the ad that mentions how the set was largely unknown until
recently made me think, just for a second, that this was some MOC with sham
instructions printed up, so that someone could "discover" a lost set and sell
it for big money.  Sort of like the way variants crop up for mini-fig
collectors.

The other theory I had on this one was that someone is trying to artificially
inflate the market, trying to draw out other high bidders by carrying on a
sort of farce auction, which would then create an unreasonable comparable out
there so that $100 for this tiny set would look like a bargain.

I wouldn't have bid $5 on this set.  You can't play with instructions!

Will

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(...) mentioned (...) hmmmm... makes you wonder what a "created" set with color copies of the instructions could go for... he heeh e.. hell.. even if it's only 1/4 what that one raked in, it'd be a hell of a windfall per piece... J (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)

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(...) I guess the real "value" here is not the parts, but the instructions. The parts are available in many other sets, but the "set" isn't complete without the instructions and a box, if this set even came in a box. The wording of the ad that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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