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Re: New picts Cisalpino Passenger train
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:43:29 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.trains, Jeff Barnett writes:
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> > Those pictures are slick. I have been very impressed with the work i • have
> > seen many of you do. I dont have a ton of lego. Maybe 200 sets. You • guys
> > (and girls) seem to have lego out the wazoo. What do you people do for a
> > living to be able to afford all this lego. I would nearly kill to have • as
> > much lego as some of you have.
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> I don't think James has that much, he's just a shrewd builder.
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> As to how people afford large collections, I know people that have very • large
> collections who have got there with a budget of 500 a year... the rest • comes
> from shrewd trading (buying used globs, turning them into sets again and
> selling.... or buying new sets, parting them out and keeping some but • covering
> costs...).
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> ++Lar
I will second that. My collection grows faster an cheaper when I buy with
the intent to resell. I cannot justify buying 10 Technic Space Shuttles,
but if I buy 22 and sell parts of some and wholes of others, I can afford to
keep all I need and then some.
The trick is not to buy much Lego until you see a super deal. Target
clearances are an excellent example. I was able to buy scads of sets for a
fraction of the cost. Many were sets I didn't even want, but I know I will
eventually be able to trade them for sets I do want, or just add them to the
parts bins for a really cheap infusion of extra pieces.
Mike Poindexter
By the way, does anybody have 1-3 4552 cargo cranes they want to trade for a
like number of 4532 crossings?
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| (...) I don't think James has that much, he's just a shrewd builder. As to how people afford large collections, I know people that have very large collections who have got there with a budget of 500 a year... the rest comes from shrewd trading (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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