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Re: Why Does Everyone else here get a good deal!!!!!
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Date: 
Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:09:33 GMT
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Hello Braden:
    At the risk of being really off topic.

    You have to change your strategy.  The probability of finding exactly
what you are looking for at a great price is low.  The probability of
finding something that others are looking for is considerably higher.  Then
you can trade for what you are looking for.  I missed out on some great buys
until I changed my strategy.  About a year ago I passed up on the Airport
Shuttle for about 120$ Canadian (80$US).  Not so smart.  That set was gone
by the time I realized my mistake.  That would be a good "Donkey of the
year."

    I have been looking for trains and technics sets.  I'm wiser now.  I
still haven't found the Metroliner.  Let me make a correction.  I still
haven't found a used Metroliner at garage sale prices.  If it makes you feel
better, I had to pay 300$US for my MISB Metroliner plus shipping from
Europe.  But I have found the 6285 Black Seas Barracuda , 6067 Guarded Inn
and 6023 Maiden Cart.

    It looks like that is how Alan Demlow got his Metroliner.

Albert Shikaze


"Braden Fox" <bdbfox@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:G0FAs4.IB5@lugnet.com...
> I'm sorry i asked, you guys are killing me! Everyone got a good deal
> except me! I'm about to go spend 250 USD on a USED one for gods
> sake! argh!!!!! Oh, and Chris, maybe i'm clueless, but what are those
> pieces holding the top and bottom of your boxcar door? Very nice boxcar,
> big, but if the rest of your stuff fits it's size than keep building like
> that, it
> gives it a lot more options when it's that size, although cornering in a • tight
> layout like mine is a different story! And, Kevin it was who told me?
> thanks for the idea of a race track, i an use my legions of horses now
> seeming as i have no castle things built. So any news on our track
> cleaner project anyone?
> 
> Anyone knoe someone who has a metroliner for trade, i know i got one
> e-mail about it from lugnet, and i could only do it if i had a monorail
> shuttle to trade for it, the town monorail. Not a very good deal i guess, • i
> think it goes for more on ebay than a metroliner.
> 
> Well, thanks for everyone's help.
> 
> Braden Fox  (STILL after a half decent deal for a metroliner :)



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Why Does Everyone else here get a good deal!!!!!
 
(...) Yup! I found the Guarded Inn at a used toy store for $15, including box, near-mint parts, instructions and a 1989 European catalog (this was in the US, btw). I have yet to replicate that deal! Finding garage sale and other second-hand deals (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Why Does Everyone else here get a good deal!!!!!
 
"Albert Shikaze" <ans2@home.com> wrote in message news:G0FEMw.FMu@lugnet.com... (...) Then (...) buys (...) feel (...) This is excellent advice and essentially how I recently got my Metroliner. About two months ago I found an Airport Shuttle, not (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)

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I'm sorry i asked, you guys are killing me! Everyone got a good deal except me! I'm about to go spend 250 USD on a USED one for gods sake! argh!!!!! Oh, and Chris, maybe i'm clueless, but what are those pieces holding the top and bottom of your (...) (26 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)

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