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Before the end of last year, I purchased several 12 volt Lego trains off of ebay from sellers in Europe. When I would search, I would get many results. Now when I search, I get no results from Europe? Has anyone else experienced this? I was (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I never saw all that much on the US eBay site. I usually use eBay Germany. Frank (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Man, I'm trying to get my hands on one of those. I don't have one, and have never had one in my hand. Pity... -Rob "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3C8E7658.9EE9C5...ing.com... (...) of (...) results. (...) experienced (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I look for old 12v and 4.5v trains every week. I used to be able to type in "lego eisenbahn" pull up alot of trains from Germany. Now I can only pull up those sets by going to the international site. I didn't realize there was a change until a few (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's possible it's an artifact of the way the categories work. Note that German eBay has a category for LEGO trains while eBay US does not (or didn't as of a couple months ago, though US eBay does now have multiple categories for LEGO). Do (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If you're willing to stumble through eBay Germany (Babelfish is a good friend of mine), it's pretty easy to get 12v stuff for not unreasonable prices (I got a 7740 for about $150 including shipping - though it was missing most of the stickers (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I figured out why my search results have changed. ebay changed the way their system does a search. Go to Smart Search, then select the Advanced Search tab. In the lower right there is a box that is checked by default that searches English (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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