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| | | Author: | Ziegelmeister  | | Posted: | Oct 14, 2022 23:53 | | Subject: | Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 194 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Life threw me a curve ball back in February and I had to unexpectedly shut the
store. We're talking bricks sitting on the sorting table for several months.
I reopened it today and when I went to adjust the prices for the last 6 months
I noticed a drop of nearly 33% of the total value of my inventory. Have all
the pandemic fanatics finally left the building?
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| | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 00:05 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Possibly, this past summer has been the slowest sales period in awhile so people
probably have been putting higher sale % to try to get more sales
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 04:33 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | Have all the pandemic fanatics finally left the building?
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LEGO are screwed if they have, since they are pumping out so many large expensive
18+ sets now. And that is likely the cause, there is so much variety on offer
at RRP plus currently 10% VIP and GWPs, why would someone overpay on the secondary
market unless it is a retired item they really want.
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| | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 08:58 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Yellow.Brick writes:
| | Life threw me a curve ball back in February and I had to unexpectedly shut the
store. We're talking bricks sitting on the sorting table for several months.
I reopened it today and when I went to adjust the prices for the last 6 months
I noticed a drop of nearly 33% of the total value of my inventory. Have all
the pandemic fanatics finally left the building?
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I think it's also the race to the bottom where too many sellers list their
parts 'just below average' to try and generate sales even when they are
basically selling at a loss. The only prices going up now that I observe are
bricks, tiles and minifig stuff. 
Jen
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| | | | | | | Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 14:29 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, jennnifer writes:
| | In Selling, Yellow.Brick writes:
| | Life threw me a curve ball back in February and I had to unexpectedly shut the
store. We're talking bricks sitting on the sorting table for several months.
I reopened it today and when I went to adjust the prices for the last 6 months
I noticed a drop of nearly 33% of the total value of my inventory. Have all
the pandemic fanatics finally left the building?
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I think it's also the race to the bottom where too many sellers list their
parts 'just below average' to try and generate sales even when they are
basically selling at a loss. The only prices going up now that I observe are
bricks, tiles and minifig stuff.
Jen
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Good point on that. I think previously I was last six months + 20%, I dropped
it to +14% but may put it back.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 15:26 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | | | | | Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 15:26 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | | | Author: | bahpstore | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 10:29 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Yellow.Brick writes:
| | Life threw me a curve ball back in February and I had to unexpectedly shut the
store. We're talking bricks sitting on the sorting table for several months.
I reopened it today and when I went to adjust the prices for the last 6 months
I noticed a drop of nearly 33% of the total value of my inventory. Have all
the pandemic fanatics finally left the building?
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All of above and one other thing - EUR (and almost all other currencies) is weak.
Most EU stores using EUR, that sales price 4-6 months ago is more than 10% lower
now.
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 10:53 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | All of above and one other thing - EUR (and almost all other currencies) is weak.
Most EU stores using EUR, that sales price 4-6 months ago is more than 10% lower
now.
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This is plain wrong - here 1€ is still 1€ !
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | bahpstore | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 11:25 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | All of above and one other thing - EUR (and almost all other currencies) is weak.
Most EU stores using EUR, that sales price 4-6 months ago is more than 10% lower
now.
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This is plain wrong - here 1€ is still 1€ !
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1€ is still 1€, but 1€ is $1.1 before only $0.97 now. When you calculated average
price using USD, there is a big difference 😳.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 11:34 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, bahpstore writes:
| | In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | All of above and one other thing - EUR (and almost all other currencies) is weak.
Most EU stores using EUR, that sales price 4-6 months ago is more than 10% lower
now.
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This is plain wrong - here 1€ is still 1€ !
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1€ is still 1€, but 1€ is $1.1 before only $0.97 now. When you calculated average
price using USD, there is a big difference 😳.
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Sylvain was half-joking 
“Half-” because when you buy and sell (mostly) in € and in EU or even in your
own country, the exchange value doesn’t matter (yet).
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, bahpstore writes:
| | In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | All of above and one other thing - EUR (and almost all other currencies) is weak.
Most EU stores using EUR, that sales price 4-6 months ago is more than 10% lower
now.
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This is plain wrong - here 1€ is still 1€ !
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1€ is still 1€, but 1€ is $1.1 before only $0.97 now. When you calculated average
price using USD, there is a big difference 😳.
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Sylvain was half-joking
“Half-” because when you buy and sell (mostly) in € and in EU or even in your
own country, the exchange value doesn’t matter (yet).
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It does matter for the global price guide. If a single 1 euro item sold six months
ago and another sold now then the average price in USD has gone down.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 14:18 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, bahpstore writes:
| | In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | All of above and one other thing - EUR (and almost all other currencies) is weak.
Most EU stores using EUR, that sales price 4-6 months ago is more than 10% lower
now.
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This is plain wrong - here 1€ is still 1€ !
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1€ is still 1€, but 1€ is $1.1 before only $0.97 now. When you calculated average
price using USD, there is a big difference 😳.
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Sylvain was half-joking
“Half-” because when you buy and sell (mostly) in € and in EU or even in your
own country, the exchange value doesn’t matter (yet).
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It does matter for the global price guide. If a single 1 euro item sold six months
ago and another sold now then the average price in USD has gone down.
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That’s what bahpstore said, and/therefore I was just trying to explain the not-joking
other half of Sylvain’s comment.
Besides, Yellow.Brick said it’s the opposite that happened: the prices in € are
lower now.
Prices in a weakening currency go up, not down (if the price variation is only
due to the exchange rate).
Say the $ price didn’t change / the $ is stable. Something that cost €10 6 months
ago was €10*1.1 = $11, it should cost $11/0.97 = €11.34 now. So if the item’s
at €9 (old price in € minus 10%) now, like Yellow.Brick said, that’s 20% lower
in $ (9*0.97/11 = 79.4%).
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | bahpstore | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 16:17 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, bahpstore writes:
| | In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | All of above and one other thing - EUR (and almost all other currencies) is weak.
Most EU stores using EUR, that sales price 4-6 months ago is more than 10% lower
now.
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This is plain wrong - here 1€ is still 1€ !
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1€ is still 1€, but 1€ is $1.1 before only $0.97 now. When you calculated average
price using USD, there is a big difference 😳.
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Sylvain was half-joking
“Half-” because when you buy and sell (mostly) in € and in EU or even in your
own country, the exchange value doesn’t matter (yet).
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It does matter for the global price guide. If a single 1 euro item sold six months
ago and another sold now then the average price in USD has gone down.
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That’s what bahpstore said, and/therefore I was just trying to explain the not-joking
other half of Sylvain’s comment.
Besides, Yellow.Brick said it’s the opposite that happened: the prices in € are
lower now.
Prices in a weakening currency go up, not down (if the price variation is only
due to the exchange rate).
Say the $ price didn’t change / the $ is stable. Something that cost €10 6 months
ago was €10*1.1 = $11, it should cost $11/0.97 = €11.34 now. So if the item’s
at €9 (old price in € minus 10%) now, like Yellow.Brick said, that’s 20% lower
in $ (9*0.97/11 = 79.4%).
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Let's use a simplest example:
One part sold twice, one for €1.00 another for $1.12 when the exchange rate is
€1.00 = $1.12. At that moment US buyer would see the average price was $1.12,
EU buyers would see the average price was €1.00.
Fast forward to €1.00 = $0.97, the same US buyer will find the average price
is $1.045 (1*0.97 + 1.12)/2 and the EU buyer will see the average price is €1.077
(1.12/0.97 + 1)/2
The strong dollar drag down average price for US sellers, but pop up average
price for EU sellers.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 14:36 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | Sylvain was half-joking
“Half-” because when you buy and sell (mostly) in € and in EU or even in your
own country, the exchange value doesn’t matter (yet).
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Yes, it's why I always put 25€ of gas in my car, a smart way not to have
any change in the gas price!
BTW in fact we use LPG (GPL in France), which means a tank full and around 450
km  for about 22€
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 18:26 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | Sylvain was half-joking
“Half-” because when you buy and sell (mostly) in € and in EU or even in your
own country, the exchange value doesn’t matter (yet).
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Yes, it's why I always put 25€ of gas in my car, a smart way not to have
any change in the gas price!
BTW in fact we use LPG (GPL in France), which means a tank full and around 450
km for about 22€
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My first car was a Ford Taurus, about which the less said the better. But my
2nd car was a Toyota Corolla and (at the time) I could fill up the tank on that
bad boy for $8-9.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 18:31 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, peregrinator writes:
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| | BTW in fact we use LPG (GPL in France), which means a tank full and around 450
km for about 22€
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My first car was a Ford Taurus, about which the less said the better. But my
2nd car was a Toyota Corolla and (at the time) I could fill up the tank on that
bad boy for $8-9.
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Small tank then 
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 19:26 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, peregrinator writes:
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| | BTW in fact we use LPG (GPL in France), which means a tank full and around 450
km for about 22€
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My first car was a Ford Taurus, about which the less said the better. But my
2nd car was a Toyota Corolla and (at the time) I could fill up the tank on that
bad boy for $8-9.
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Small tank then
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I think it was 11.9 gallons = 45 liters.
I'm dating myself but gasoline was about $0.85 per gallon then, and I never
let the tank get under 1/4 full.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 19:57 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, peregrinator writes:
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I'm dating myself but gasoline was about $0.85 per gallon then, and I never
let the tank get under 1/4 full.
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You in the US always had cheap oil.
As far as I can remember, I haven’t known the price of gasoline to be below 4
francs/litre (= €0.6/L), so about $3/usgallon at the time.
E10 was around €1.6/L, so €6/usgallon a bit before the war. It’s now around
or above €2/L.
(And I quickly checked to see if I was wrong: I’m not. Or not really: I was
too young to count before that )
(Also, I checked but it seems there’s been a ‘Corolla’ model from 1966, so that
didn’t help know when you had yours )
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 20:03 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | (Also, I checked but it seems there’s been a ‘Corolla’ model from 1966, so that
didn’t help know when you had yours )
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I got it in 1998 and drove it for almost 11 years
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 20:12 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, peregrinator writes:
| | In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | (Also, I checked but it seems there’s been a ‘Corolla’ model from 1966, so that
didn’t help know when you had yours )
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I got it in 1998 and drove it for almost 11 years
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In 2009, gasoline was €1.25/L = €4.7/usgallon here, that’s €42 for 3/4 of a 45L
tank.
Your prices for a gallon was/are cheaper than our prices per liter.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 20:33 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, peregrinator writes:
| | In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | (Also, I checked but it seems there’s been a ‘Corolla’ model from 1966, so that
didn’t help know when you had yours )
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I got it in 1998 and drove it for almost 11 years
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In 2009, gasoline was €1.25/L = €4.7/usgallon here, that’s €42 for 3/4 of a 45L
tank.
Your prices for a gallon was/are cheaper than our prices per liter.
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In 2009 the avg US price for a gallon of gas was $2.35 - fill-up would have been
more like $20 then. Of course that was also the year we got a minivan to transport
our growing family so a fill-up could be $30-$40.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2022 08:05 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, peregrinator writes:
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| | Your prices for a gallon were/are cheaper than our prices per liter.
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In 2009 the avg US price for a gallon of gas was $2.35 - fill-up would have been
more like $20 then.
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Okay. It doesn’t change much with 1998’s prices: still a factor of 3 or 4.
| | Of course that was also the year we got a minivan to transport
our growing family so a fill-up could be $30-$40.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 20:06 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, peregrinator writes:
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I'm dating myself but gasoline was about $0.85 per gallon then, and I never
let the tank get under 1/4 full.
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You in the US always had cheap oil.
As far as I can remember, I haven’t known the price of gasoline to be below 4
francs/litre (= €0.6/L), so about $3/usgallon at the time.
E10 was around €1.6/L, so €6/usgallon a bit before the war. It’s now around
or above €2/L.
(And I quickly checked to see if I was wrong: I’m not. Or not really: I was
too young to count before that )
(Also, I checked but it seems there’s been a ‘Corolla’ model from 1966, so that
didn’t help know when you had yours )
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Warning OP¨: this guy will tell you you're using wrongfully your car, or
you could have get a better price somewhere else he knows and you should have
read the Map where it is
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 20:17 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
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Warning OP¨: this guy will tell you you're using wrongfully your car, or
you could have get a better price somewhere else he knows and you should have
read the Map where it is
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Well, I actually said the opposite and, anyway, you’re just jealous because you
couldn’t use a tool
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 18:59 | | Subject: | Re: Zoinks! | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | | | BTW in fact we use LPG (GPL in France), which means a tank full and around 450
km for about 22€
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My first car was a Ford Taurus, about which the less said the better. But my
2nd car was a Toyota Corolla and (at the time) I could fill up the tank on that
bad boy for $8-9.
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While right now with this amount you barely can run up to the next gas station
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