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Re: Conidtion of Sets (MIB, MISB)
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Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:23:52 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Well, my condition grading differs a bit. Here are mine
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> MISB - Sealed. Outer seals are intact
> MIB - The outer seals may be off, but that is it. Pieces are still in
> their ineer polybags.
This is the rule that I follow. I had a situation just a couple of days
ago--one of my sets up for auction, although MIB, wasn't MISB (even though
I'd put it down that way). I contacted the buyer immediately and offered to
make it up with a free new 7101 Lightsaber Duel (the set in question was a
6492 Hypno Cruiser, so it was a substantial offer for that supposedly
"minor" distinction), which did more than mollify him--it made him ecstatic,
because it turns out he just wanted it for parts anyhow. But I do consider
making good on even those semantic issues to be at the core of honesty--just
as important as proper listing in the first place. After all, we're all
human, and we all goof once in a while. It's not making the mistake
(misteak?), but where you go from there, that distinguishes good sellers
from bad or just plain malicious ones.
> As a general note, in my book anything that has BITE MARKS or fading or
> yellowing of any sort cannot ever be called good.
Even if they're LUGNET-celebrity bite marks? :) (I'm sensing a new market
opening up here...) narf
Re: The piece description scale: I generally don't sell pieces that are
less than brand new, unless I'm trading older pieces--even then, I reserve
the "yucky" ones for myself and send the better ones to the person who's
been kind enough to trust me for a trade.
> For boxes, basically the same notion, is the box itself worn or torn or
> faded? Note that most sets, when they come from the factory, don't have
> boxes that I would grade as 'excellent'. The boxes get shelfwear pretty
> fast. So a MISB may have a box that I would grade as only good, or even
> poor! The seals just need to be intact.
If the box has crushed corners, scratching, or denting, I specify it as
"shelf-worn" and use descriptives to say just *how* shelf-worn that is.
Since I've started including images of the actual item in my possession I
can't be too loose in my description of shelf wear, because it will show in
the photo.
> NOW, having said that, I should note that I usually don't care about box
> condition or whether seals are present. But I DO care about brick
> condition and I would be mighty upset to get a VG from you and find it
> to have bite marks...
"I have a pitchfork, but it has bite marks. Do you want it?" :) I'm
transported back a year, when I was over at a friend's house, and saw a grey
train door in the kids' LEGO bucket...covered with bite marks. Aagh! (And
no, I didn't seek it out and pillage it, these are kids, for the love of
Mike...note: the saint, not Stanley, who is probably mortified at the mere
*suggestion* of chewing a pitchfork. It's like painting over a Guarded Inn
flag, which I also saw in my younger years. The horror...the horror...)
best,
Lindsay
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| Well, my condition grading differs a bit. Here are mine MISB - Sealed. Outer seals are intact MIB - The outer seals may be off, but that is it. Pieces are still in their ineer polybags. After that, merely use a statement of whether the box is (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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