Loking for Input on Potential Craigs List Purchase

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• dougts Member Posts: 4,110

  January 2012

  seems like you have answered your own question:

  I estimate is ~25% less than the combined best bl price.

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• choob99 Member Posts: 147

  January 2012

  I assume its worth the deal, but please list the sets so we can see if it is indeed a good deal

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• CapnRex101 Administrator Posts: 2,364

  January 2012

  It really depends on what the sets are.

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• bazzert Member Posts: 4

  January 2012

  The sets are
  
  10131 Fighter Collection
  10134 Y Wing Attack Fighter
  6206 Tie Interceptor
  7661 Jedi Star Fighter
  7664 Tie Crawler
  7665 Republic Cruiser
  10178 Motorized AT-AT
  
  For a total of $650.
  
  Thanks!

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• gmpirate Member Posts: 1,654

  January 2012

  I'm not going through the numbers but I don't understand your questioning. They are cheaper, no shipping, and you can inspect them in person.
  
  Hold out for better? There's always better. How long do you want to wait and how much time do you have to keep searching???
  
  Its no different that Ebay. If you have the time and patience you can play the auction game. Or, like me, you can simply find the best "Buy it Now" and be done with it.

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• tk79 Member Posts: 329

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  If it's a new set I want "now", I'm happy with 25% off. Under that same reasoning, if these are 25% less than BL and you want them now, seems like an easy choice. As others have said, this is really a question only you can answer though.
  
  If you want to play the wait and see game, your best chance at matching these prices will probably be in the summer when buying really cools off...and even then, how much are you really going to save (especially adding in your extra time and the shipping costs involved with multiple purchases).

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• hewman Member Posts: 93

  January 2012

  It's only a bargain if you actually want all of those sets.

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• jeffmace Member Posts: 28

  January 2012

  Actually it doesn't look like a bad deal at all. Below is a listing of current used prices from brickpicker.com
  
  10131: 81.76
  10134: 245.42
  6206: 24.95
  7661: 46.37
  7664: 26.14
  7665: 78.62
  10178: 142.98
  Total: 646.24
  
  Then I looked at the price guide from bricklink.com
  10131: 97.47
  10132: 308.43
  6206: 23.03
  7661: 57.10
  7664: 38.80
  7665: 104.80
  10178: 166.22
  Total: 795.85
  
  The amount of sets sold is probably more than 5x since the numbers on brickpicker are coming from eBay, so the average is always lower than that of bricklink. So either you can see that the price is right on the money, or you are getting a deal if you are comparing it to whats on bricklink.
  

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