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(...) Yup. Although some sets are just plain cooler than others, any discontinued set becomes more valuable. Today's commonplace set becomes tomorrow's rarity. The moo-men will eventually command the sort of premium that wolfpack or forestmen sets (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I doubt it. The demand for the older sets, will go up exponentially, and DYA will probably raise prices at that point IF Emmanuel deems it necessary (like he thinks "hm, not getting as much through my contacts as I used to..."). As the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John Neal wrote in message <3853EF6C.1D77857F@u...st.net>... (...) wouldn't (...) business (...) when a (...) like to (...) service to (...) I wonder how long the type of things he does will continue to work. Right now there is a feeding frenzy as (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Has the world gone mad?!?
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(...) I actually foresaw the problem enough to have two separate entry categories - "set" and "original". Of course the judge was still clueless as to which entries were really sets or not, and apparently didn't even care enough to really (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.loc.us.tn.mem, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.tn)
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Mecanno? What's that? I don't know my Mecanno from my Medinano;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Just remember, that he doesn't live on Lego alone ;-) Mecanno collectors seem to be pretty diehard, and he lists LOTS of Mecanno. So I'm sure he's doing fine ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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James Brown: [ LEGO retailer catalogues ] (...) I have seen them in at least two Danish stores. They are definitely not made generally available to the costumers. But on the other hand, they don't appear to be any more secret than that retailers (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, time will tell, but I do know one thing from being in a streaky business myself-- you have to strike while the iron is hot. It is times like those when a business is hot that will carry a business through the cool times, and I'd like to (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Scalpel? This is Lasik, the ONLY time a blade gets anywhere near the eye is to shave back the top of the cornea. About the worst that can happen at that point is if the shaved layer isn't even, in which case they lay it back down, call of the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) Emmanuel KNOWS he can charge more. Time after time, he has gotten sets that people have requested, and he has sold them out virtually instantly. He HAS to know he could raise the prices and still sell them out. But he doesn't/hasn't. Again, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, man, BUT -- isn't it great knowing that the worst thing that could've happened is that you'd only lose one eye if the scalpel slipped? --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Naive Sellers (Was Re: 4561 alternates (was: sale at kbkids)
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(...) What makes you so sure? Some of his prices are SO far below MV ($38 for a 4547??) that I wonder. You won't question them because you don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth. At what point do you say as a friend, "dude, you need to be (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I had one eye done June, and am going to try to schedule the other ASAP in Jan (when my Flex Spending account will pay for it with pretax dollars). I have HATED only having one eye done - it made me really hate dealing with a contact lense in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hey all, I just had Lasik eye surgery for my extreme myopia (I was about -10 diopters, got my first glasses when I was 6 years old, and then wore hard contacts for over 20 years). I imagine there are a lot of other nearsighted folk among the AFOL (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) can the court distinguish between a link which is clearly for the purpose of encouraging people to use a web site which contains copyright infringing material, which the case this court decision is dealing (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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)
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| | 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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