ashmire13 wrote:I would be surprised if people take offence at you because you spend soooo much cash and buy soooo much stuff.

No. The guy enjoys acting like a dick.

Pipswich wrote:Mbassoc..... hmm.  Read your last fifteen posts.  You define yourself with your poor language and repeated attacks on others.  The preponderance of cursing and personal attacks speaks for itself.

Maybe, having read my previous posts, you just clicked on mt profile, and were either too lazy to read them in context, or didn't understand the nuances of the english language you were reading. Attacks on others in open forum by me, is generally confined to those who troll the forum with no other purpose than to pick a fight, screw it's membership, or justify their eBay frauds. I have no personal grievance with you, except that whernever you seem to appear on the forum, it is to rub others up the wrong way. Whether that's a misplaced sense of humour (which we're all entitled to), or a superiority complex based either on your own perception of how rich you or, or more likely your own fear of inferiority; it is guaranteed to get on peoples' nerves here. You do it a lot.

Pipswich wrote:I won't be bidding and driving up the price on your rare module missing maps whether you attack me or not!

This is Ashmere's observation of you to a tee. I'm honestly surprised you didn't PM me to tell me that. You are trying to telegraph that you your decision to bid on something I have is based on my previous interactions on the forum, and that I should give note to it because you have the money to spend on things. Your staement is all about you and your money. If it has nothing to do with you and the amount of money you have, and as your statement says, you wouldn't bid anyway, why did you mention it? As Ashmere has stated. You just have to get in there and point out how much money you have and use that to justify why that should give you status here.

I therefore stand by the statement in my last post. You enjoy acting like a dick.

nuff said then really...

I would agree that combining more than one incomplete copy of a rare item together to make a complete "new" copy is perfectly fine, as long as it is represented that way.  It would probably go for a respectable price, possibly even close to an intact original of the same quality.

The key is that it needs to be represented as it really is, a Frankenstein, albeit a hopefully well done Frankenstein.

So, I go back to my original commentary:

I would volunteer that a "rule of thumb" for items that are incomplete would be a valuation of 50% of the going rate for a given grade.

Our adopted "rule of thumb" for SW is 150% so why not 50% for incomplete?

No statistics to back this up, just an educated guess...

Two halves makes a whole.  

More people here than a few, at least as far as my personal experience goes, have quite a large budget for this stuff. Note: I'm no buyer or seller of this type of thing but seeing what people I know purchase...