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Re: 8007, 8008 sighting, COS
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lugnet.starwars
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:15:45 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Hodges wrote:
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> > 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.
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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?
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
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www.brickfrenzy.com
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 | | Re: 8007, 8008 sighting, COS
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| (...) 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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