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I only buy. :-)
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Scott-A (<38746A5C.6766DFF8@hw.ac.uk>) wrote at
10:11:40
> Yesterday, I had quite a haul of Lego Technic. Amongst the pile (15-20
> sets) , there were two sets which I hardly even paid attention to. I
> year or so ago I would have been very happy to even get a glimpse of one
> of them, now I found myself wondering if it was worth the hassle
> actually buying them. The sets were 8880 and the 8480. In the last 6
> months, both of these sets have been sold by UK retailers for less than
> UKP50, whilst a year ago an opened 8880 would go for over $200 easy. So,
> after I tried to explain my purchase to my wife and stopped my youngest
> daughter from sitting on the boxes, I was left wondering if any of my
> other prized sets would suffer similar falls over the next year? The
> only thing which justifies me paying $200 for a metroliner, is the
> knowledge that I can always sell it for about the same when we get bored
> with it. Notwithstanding this, I'd still be happy if DYA found a pile of
> them, and did the good thing... if I got one
>
> A worried Scott A
--
Tony Priestman
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