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Re: Great town buildings available as part of Shell Promo sets
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.town, lugnet.promo
Date: 
Tue, 5 Dec 2000 06:55:22 GMT
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Hi All-

Christopher was kind enough to bring this thread to my attention or I would
have missed it completely, not being a frequent scanner of Lugnet.
Christopher, your apology is of course fully accepted. :)

Yes, it is true that the particular sets you mention are priced rather high.
In this case they came from Singapore about a year ago and I was not able to
get a good price on them myself (they cost quite a bit more than the current
US Shell stations price!).  It is one of the risks of my business that they
are now selling them in the US.

Personally, I think it is very cool that Shell is now selling these sets in
the US, and if their pattern for the last batch of Lego continues, we may
see them all over the country in coming months.  And in the meantime I'll
just be sitting on a ton of overpriced Shell sets for a long, long time!  If
we are all lucky (except possibly me) Lego will release more and more sets
worldwide instead of in specific regions.

-Matt :)

In lugnet.market.theory, Christopher J. Dean writes:
I want to apologize to Matt Chiles if he is anyway offended by my comment.
I admit that my comments may be harsh for some.  I am sorry.  I did not take
into account the various factors and risks Matt takes, but thanks to Mike
Walsh and Rose Regner, I am able to see another perspective of the
situation.  I felt that Matt was like some of the people I see on Ebay,
buying a set for cheap, and then selling the sets at an unbelievable price
to collectors who may not know of such sources as Lugnet.  In response to
Larry Pieniazek's comments, I do not expect everything done on a favor basis.

Set       Shell     Vault     Mark-up
#1254     11.99     45.00     275%
#1255     11.95     45.00     277%
#1256     19.95     55.00     176%



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  Re: Great town buildings available as part of Shell Promo sets
 
I want to apologize to Matt Chiles if he is anyway offended by my comment. I admit that my comments may be harsh for some. I am sorry. I did not take into account the various factors and risks Matt takes, but thanks to Mike Walsh and Rose Regner, I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.town, lugnet.promo)

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