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| (...) him/her.) Just my opinion, but doing something like this is just as bad as entering a Lego set. We have a contest in my city every year at the Homedays as part of the arts and crafts section. Fortunately for me, all of the homedays contests (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
| | | | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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| But you know, Emmanuel is a big boy - I'm SURE he knows by now that he can raise prices on some sets without problems, and make more money, but he doesn't. His reasons are his own, I will not question them. Besides, who knows, maybe he's having (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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| J G Gregory wrote in message ... (...) him/her.) (...) Well, far better than some reasons people have kids... Frank (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
| | | | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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| (...) Ah, not a good reason... --Jack Gregory (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
| | | | Re: Naive Sellers
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| (...) The 4547, for example, sold for $37.50 through S@H. You're saying that he might be in some way restricted to marking it up only 50 cents?! Dubious at best. (...) Ah, deja vu all over again;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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| I saw the same thing and decided enough was enough. I found who was in charge and told them about it. Her reply was that the judges don't know all the sets available currently. I offered to judge the following year and then I told her that if it was (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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| (...) Unless he is somehow getting them from TLC directly, and has some sort of agreement that he cannot mark them up more than a certain percentage? Or maybe it's a slight mixup, and they're really selling for $380! ;-) John (no, the other one) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | Re: Your Resumes
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| (...) Actually, the whole ten fathoms thing is just a joke. I just did it to further harass already wearied McDonalds employees. Honestly, I don't have a clue how deep a fathom is. The point was to see how much nonsense that they'd put up with. Kind (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'd gotten the idea that he was just yanking their chain. Chris (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Actually, they use founder. McDonald's may use styrofoam containers and throw away 15.7 billion tons of meat a year, but at least they know how to recycle personnel. So why can't the fish be from below 10 fathoms? Would this include fish that (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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