biggest ever mark-up on ebay?

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• Ravenhook Member Posts: 70

  October 2011

  I've seen a Café Corner at $1950...
  
  http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LEGO-Exclusive-10182-Cafe-Corner-BRAND-NEW-SEALED-BOX-MINT-CONDITION-/220867257492?pt=AU_LEGO&hash=item336cb6e494

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• Eric Member Posts: 376

  October 2011

  ^^ If I were in the market for a complete city like that, I'd pay a little bit extra for the convenience of getting everything in one hit, but not that much more.
  ^ ah, He's lowered the asking the price. $1500 now.
  

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• Lambringo Member Posts: 104

  October 2011

  But if you purchase it, at least you know a fire will never get out of control in your city

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• Redbullgivesuwind Member Posts: 2,117

  October 2011

  yeah appears no one lives there either just the police, fire and medical departments and criminals. Not sure what they are stealling then or who the hell from

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• drdavewatford Administrator Posts: 6,755

  October 2011

  Set 7779 Batman Dragster : Catwoman Pursuit had an RRP of £7.99 when it was available at retail in 2006. They could barely give these sets away, and many people got multiples for a couple of pounds.
  
  Complete examples with box now regularly sell for 10 times the RRP on eBay - a 900% increase - or more, particularly when they're MISB. Other Batman sets have also increased in value, but none more so than 7779 I suspect.

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• madforLEGO Member Posts: 10,789

  October 2011

  ^^ If I were in the market for a complete city like that, I'd pay a little bit extra for the convenience of getting everything in one hit, but not that much more.
  ^ ah, He's lowered the asking the price. $1500 now.
  

  At a huge markup with no boxes? not that desperate.. also the only thing really rare there is the 4559 train, and that is not that rare either...
  
  

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• madforLEGO Member Posts: 10,789

  October 2011

  Someone has their whole lego town on sale for $2100 ($2400 buy now)
  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-City-Complete-Train-Set-and-Instruction-Booklets-/280755259019
  But when I totted it up on bricklink i make it $610. Granted that was just the sets but that's a lot of roads & trees you could buy with the change!

  $610? Try $400-$50 with the plates and other miscellanious, maybe 610 if all the boxes were there

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• madforLEGO Member Posts: 10,789

  October 2011

  I've seen a Café Corner at $1950...
  
  http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LEGO-Exclusive-10182-Cafe-Corner-BRAND-NEW-SEALED-BOX-MINT-CONDITION-/220867257492?pt=AU_LEGO&hash=item336cb6e494

  Thats absurb... it will take at least 2-3 more years to get to that amount.....lol

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• bricking Member Posts: 58

  October 2011 edited October 2011

  ^^ I used a few criteria:
  •100% complete (but not worried about box or instructions)
  •if the cheapest was in US that's the price I used
  •if the cheapest was in EU then I would compare with cheapest US & factor in about $10 handicap for shipping.
  
  I'm not saying you couldn't get it cheaper but those are the prices on bricklink right now. Shipping from separate vendors is going to add around $200 & you still won't have boxes.
  
  Another, much quicker but less accurate, exercise is to take the average set price from the data on the brickset homepage ($26) and times by the number of sets on offer (28) gives $728.
  
  My first impression looking at ebay was that it could be good value, so I was surprised to see how overvalued it was. But that's how we get a 'feel' for these things.

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• madforLEGO Member Posts: 10,789

  October 2011

  ^--- Understood.. I used the eBay method, which is usually the quicker way to sell and value sets if they were to be resold..
  Whether 410-610 it is way too much that they are asking though :-)
  

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