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Here is my inventory situation: I have bought most of my sets on sale or clearance. I had a Bricklink store as well as selling on eBay. The sets I bought on clearance, then resold for profit, was intended to "finance" the pieces for MOC and the sets (...) (16 years ago, 22-May-08, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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(...) Some very good observations and points. A set only has a value if someone wants to buy it. To sell a substantial collection at one time would probably be impossible. If the collection is large, few people would have the money at one time to (...) (16 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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(...) Very different, yes. Mostly because selling the collection as a whole attracts almost nobody as buyers. You won't find many people willing to shell out thousands of dollars for an entire AFOL collection. (...) I'm not sure if that's (...) (16 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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(...) Thanks for your input John. I am in a weird position. I am looking for an appraisal, not for insurance value, but for a fair value. I believe that because I am not in a selling position, that an overall collection has a different value than (...) (16 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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(...) What I did was go through Bricklink, item by item and list the average price of each set I owned in the computer. This was not easy as I took into consideration the condition of the box, the instructions and the bricks. While this might not be (...) (16 years ago, 14-May-08, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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