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Re: 8007, 8008 sighting, COS
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Date: 
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:15:45 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Hodges wrote:

So I grabbed the Technic Stormtrooper and contemplated buying it.  In fact I
carried it around the store with me for about 20 minutes, but I finally
decided that it was probably more important to pay bills.  The recent "3PO
in an ST" box problem also kept me from buying it.  While it would
definately be a cool collectors item that will probably be worth lots of
money in a few years, that would require it to remain unopened, which would
also mean there's no real way to verify the contents.

So, if you bought it, and left it in the box, you'd have 50% of a C3P0 and
50% of a Stormtrooper, right?

Heisenberg would lead you to think so, wouldn't he?
Statistically speaking, it's not a 50/50 chance that it's incorrectly boxed,
is it?  If only 5% of the time it's incorrectly boxed, then you have 95%
storm trooper and 5% C3P0, but I'm not a statistician.

Adrian
--
www.brickfrenzy.com



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  Re: 8007, 8008 sighting, COS
 
(...) Right... but since there's no conventional way of verifying the contents, you wouldn't know if it's a 3PO or a ST in there, which would make it quite difficult to sell to a collector of "sw rarities." If you were to open the box to verify the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) So, if you bought it, and left it in the box, you'd have 50% of a C3P0 and 50% of a Stormtrooper, right? Steve (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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