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Got off night shift, early in the morning, cleaned up the house and put out some flowers for my wife to find in the morning when she wakes up. Seemed bland. Took a few extras and spiced it up a bit. Im sure my little boys will be amused too (Mother's day is May in the U.S. for the Euro readers. That gives me time to prep for a cooler gift for the mother in law in EU. )

It will let me do it, I'm familiar with the feature but I could have sworn when I tried it, it required a store. Oh well I.guess I was wrong, time to update my listings!!!

Not eBay but Bricklink. I just sold my 10132 Motorized Hogwarts set AGAIN to yet another non-payer. 2nd time in 3 weeks. This specific set in my possession must be jinxed. Ugh. For all the non-payers out there, here's a cap for you... Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

Gotta live the card players. You wouldn't ruin the birthday of a child whose parent is on her deathbed, would you you mean old LEGO dealer?!?! Also, just a heads up, the lady at the gas station panhandling "just to get a few gallons of gas" so she can get home will be there next week too.

The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep.

I Like the set. Add this next to HH and start hunting some ghost ?

Nice thread idea! If it gets plenty of responses I'll put together a table and edit the original post to include it and keep it updated. I'll add: 10188 Death Star = 1 71006 Simpsons house = 2

I think the only panic buying you may be seeing on this set initially are all of us that want to build this thing as soon as it comes out!

Nobody should be panic buying the Ecto-1,or when they see the Sold Out sign on Lego, lego know's that they have a Gold Mine on this set. since its a License Movie Piece it will be out at least a year, just like the Back to the Future Set. "So Don't Panic" You will have plenty time to get as many as you want.

In some cases it is where people buy goods with stolen credit cards and the item is shipped direct from a retailer to the purchaser, who usually gets a nice deal on the item. But later on the card is reported as stolen, and if bought from LEGO direct, you may be banned if you use your same name and/or address as you normally use to order LEGO. Not all drop shipping is bad though, but in this certain scenario, and in ones similar to this, it is.

I typically have a similar experience to Loren - if you go to usps.com and load in the tracking number, and then ask for email updates, they'll send them to you if the package ends up getting scanned. There's no harm in asking the buyer to wait and letting him know you'll be refunding or replacing if it doesn't show up in the system by a certain date, and the day before he can escalate is a good choice. USPS almost always ends up finding them eventually (unless the package was attacked and eaten by postal machinery) and once you've refunded or replaced the item for the buyer, you can also send them a polite request that if the package shows up in future, you'd appreciate if they'd either pay you at that time, or mark the package "refused" so that it will come back to you. Most buyers are honest, so you have a good shot at not being permanently out the money and item.

$1200. I'm selling the GG because I already have one so that will knock off $500. I'll sell the two town buildings for 60 or so each. That will bring the CC and Market down to 300 each. They are going into my personal collection.

Whenever I have the time and the line is short, or non-existent, I ask for a receipt when dropping off at USPS. It only takes a moment -- they scan the barcode right there, and hand you a receipt with the tracking info on it. Tracking always shows up for me for these within a few hours, where-as those that I drop off without the receipt sometimes don't show tracking for up to 2 days...

I don't have a ranking but i would invest in these exclusive sets: 10214 TB 10220 VW 10226 Sopwith 10211 GE 10221 SSD 10188 DS (yes, it has to retire anytime!) 10228 HH 10225 R2

I think im going to Cry! Check out all those key words (consider, chronic illness, desperately, sweet little girl, ecstatic, little sweetie, kindness, & consideration)

You must have sunk some serious amount of money into these.

Bought a cafe corner, market street, green grocer and two of the town plan buildings.

Yes, Happy Mother's day to all. As someone who nearly knew his mother, watching both my grandmother and wife made me appreciate this holiday. Go moms especially ones who are Lego fans or simply put up with their husband's multiple shelving units. On a lighter note...

It's a common variant. It won't affect resale value if you decide to sell the set as used. Lego does alter parts design as they go along, and during the course of a set's production life it might get two or three different variants of parts as they change the design and molds. I know what you're thinking, "But Frog, that must make the life of a novice parts store owner like you a living hell!" You're right, it does.

I like some of the Hobbit/LOTR sets.....but if I'm spending a hundy eighty on LEGO.....I'm getting a big set like a Haunted House,Emporium or that ilk. That being said, I'd farm those dozen.....a few here and a few there over a period of time....but I wouldn't lose any sleep if/when someone else gets them.

eBay will look at his track record. They're not going to ban a guy for calling one seller an idiot if he has an otherwise clean record. If he misuses the message system regularly, they might. If you're using best offer on the item, it was silly to lower the price in your counter-offer by such a tiny amount, regardless of the buyer's low original offer. Either decline the offer or provide a decent counter-offer. If you're not using best offer on the item, he's not even supposed to contact you with offers, and in the future you can simply ignore the offer or respond with a polite, canned response (I use, "Thank you for the offer, but this is our best price at this time.")

I have had this happen a few times, but it seems once I call the USPS and have them put in a request to locate, they always seem to find it and tracking starts again within a day or two. I think you have to wait 5 days before you can request a trace, but it is past that so if you didn't I would. I would agree that you should refund instead of shipping another.

Unless tracking shows delivered, I'm afraid your only options are either refund or send another Revan. I would refund on the odd chance that the buyer did receive the item and is pulling a fast one. Make sure to check the tracking # on the USPS website directly, eBay always has a lag.

True. I just hate returning stuff. I am going to do it though. Definitely work it. On that note too, I picked up every new Technic set they had. I was dissapointed with them all when I first saw them at the beginning of the year on Brickset. I have to say - they look pretty sweet.

Unless you know of a way to make it literally print money. :money:

Pretty good haul today. I picked up 2 x 9472 - Attack on Weathertop for $35.00 apiece at my local Walmart. The rest of the stuff I didn't actually but today, but it finally got warm enough for my parents to come back from Florida and they smuggled a few packages over the border for me. 1 x 76015 - Dock Ock Heist 2 x 76000 - Arctic Batman 2 x 76004 - Spider-Cycle Chase 1 x 21103 - Delorean 1 x 6869 - Quinjet 2 x 75020 - Sail Barge 1x 79111 - Constitution Train 1 x 70725 - Nindroid Mechdragon 1 x 4842 - Hogwarts. Everything was at least 50% off retail (or Canadian retail, at any rate) except for Hogwarts. I got that from shopgoodwill.com for $98 and I was a bit nervous because there was no guarantee of completeness. Turns out it had 1289 of 1290 pieces. It was only missing one of the small sand green nose cones. I was pretty pumped about that, let me tell you. It even came with the customary handful of extra bits.

Here's a good one; The Crimson Permanent Assurance! http://www.flickr.com/photos/gotoandlego/sets/72157625268071448/

I'm not sure how much fun that would really be to build. I imagine the parts list might look something like this:

There is better place - http://www.psychicfriendsnetwork.com/ , they have Live Chat, and they have "Full Money Back Guarantee" , so, if something does not retire, you can just ask for money back

Everyone on here is a lego scalper. If sets get that much it only helps the rest of us.