40139 - Gingerbread House

[Val-E]

  On 9/27/2017 at 9:06 PM, Jackson said:

It was selling just fine around $155 shipped. Not sure why some sellers are so eager to take $45 less.

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If you are flying in a hot air balloon and you know air is slowly leaking, either you land safely or you risk making your destination and possibly crashing. 110 for something that was literally worthless is not a bad day´s work for those that misses the earyl September gold rush.

[Jackson]

  On 9/27/2017 at 9:30 PM, Val-E said:

 something that was literally worthless

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[Darth_Raichu]

  On 9/27/2017 at 9:06 PM, Jackson said:

It was selling just fine around $155 shipped. Not sure why some sellers are so eager to take $45 less.

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I took my $5 and never looked back 

[gregpj]

  On 9/27/2017 at 9:36 PM, Darth_Raichu said:

I took my $5 and never looked back 

 

I opened mine and used the extra 1x1 orange plates for my custom Mini Cooper and never looked back. It's sitting in bags that have been taped shut.

[Vader888]

Darn, I feel like a fool for recently selling a set for a measly $55 CDN to someone on Kijiji.  Can't believe there are buyers paying over $100 USD!!!

[Val-E]

  On 9/28/2017 at 1:31 AM, Vader888 said:

Darn, I feel like a fool for recently selling a set for a measly $55 CDN to someone on Kijiji.  Can't believe there are buyers paying over $100 USD!!!

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I got a mighty 15 euros for mine back in 2015 so there is always someone more foolish.

 

[HandyHand]

  On 9/28/2017 at 5:49 AM, Val-E said:

I got a mighty 15 euros for mine back in 2015 so there is always someone more foolish.

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My lowest sale for the 40139 was €20 back in 2015. But I did sell the 40138 Christmas train for even less than €15. Though that set now only reaches around €22 here so that's not a big loss. 

Sold my last 40139 for €65 (including the Gingerbread Man minifig to sweeten the deal). The current peaking rate for 40139 in The Netherlands is €55 but there are sets sold for less than €40 as well.

[MrToes16]

  On 9/27/2017 at 9:06 PM, Jackson said:

It was selling just fine around $155 shipped. Not sure why some sellers are so eager to take $45 less.

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Might also be that, at least on eBay, there were ~20ish listings at the start of the month and then jumped to about ~60ish listings after the spike hit. Now prices are dropping and there are almost 90 listings. 

People might be eager to get some kind of profit than to get lost in the growing crowd.

[Val-E]

  On 9/28/2017 at 1:19 PM, MrToes16 said:

Might also be that, at least on eBay, there were ~20ish listings at the start of the month and then jumped to about ~60ish listings after the spike hit. Now prices are dropping and there are almost 90 listings. 

People might be eager to get some kind of profit than to get lost in the growing crowd.

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Back up to 140 USD on Amazon. At least what happened has made people show their hands and there is still plenty of stock out there.

Edited September 28, 2017 by Val-E

[tyclin]

  On 9/28/2017 at 1:27 PM, Val-E said:

Back up to 140 USD on Amazon. At least what happened has made people show their hands and there is still plenty of stock out there.

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it might be the same stock rotating through the market. The buyers who bought turn around becoming sellers.

[Val-E]

  On 9/28/2017 at 1:32 PM, tyclin said:

it might be the same stock rotating through the market. The buyers who bought turn around becoming sellers.

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If that´s true, they ought to have read the LE Crawler thread. Best piece of free education on Lego investing out there.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

LOL - I give all my promo sets and polybags away to "nice" customers. I always have and it's led to lots of fee-free repeat business. Of course, I still have my stash of Gingerbread Houses and Snow Globes ;-)

[Val-E]

  On 9/28/2017 at 4:12 PM, TabbyBoy said:

LOL - I give all my promo sets and polybags away to "nice" customers. I always have and it's led to lots of fee-free repeat business. Of course, I still have my stash of Gingerbread Houses and Snow Globes ;-)

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Me no understand.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

  On 9/28/2017 at 5:05 PM, Val-E said:

Me no understand.

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I meant MOST - oops!

[Val-E]

It´s well bedded in at 123$ with 43 sellers now on Amazon.com.

[bagalux]

Sold one on eBay for £75 last week. Nice.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

I forgot about mine, I need to dig them out from that dark corner in the attic if I can remember which dark corner it is! I think I have about 5 or so. I may list one on my remaining private eBay account and see what it fetches with a 1p start ;-)

[Val-E]

  On 10/11/2017 at 8:26 PM, Val-E said:

It´s well bedded in at 123$ with 43 sellers now on Amazon.com.

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Wrong! Down to 109 USD now with 46 sellers.

[biking_tiger]

  On 10/13/2017 at 7:46 AM, Val-E said:

Wrong! Down to 109 USD now with 46 sellers.

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134.90 with Prime this morning (6:51 CST). It fluctuates... It's the buy box that matters (most customers don't even think about other offers). 

Edited October 13, 2017 by biking_tiger

[conceptmachine]

Ill sell all mine for 60 and be happy.   Im too busy to deal with it.  I think i have 6 or 10 of them. Pick up only

Edited October 13, 2017 by conceptmachine

[Calgary]

I’d buy all of them if you shipped.

Name the price

[Val-E]

Aaaand back down to 65 USD again thanks to AWD!

[Sfcommando14]

  On 10/19/2017 at 9:06 PM, Val-E said:

Aaaand back down to 65 USD again thanks to AWD!

Fishing for negativity? We call that an outlier...

[Val-E]

Of course but the 154 USD one is also an outlier when you have 8 sellers shipping for less.

When there is a queue of people who just click on the first thing Amazon shows them, without thinking or due diligence, the sky is the limit.

[Val-E]

Time for a pricewatch. Cheapest FBA 90 USD,  non FBA 74 USD, 52 sellers.

Basically back to what it was like before Facebook lady got involved. Good luck to those who bought at a premium and didn´t sell quickly enough.