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Please..not data from Ed or Jeff.. ..Random, chaotic speculation is better

Same thing was said about the Fire Brigade which was the most stocked set by members overall before being retired and look how that scenario turned out.

Not evil at all, it's just business, customer still has choice to buy or not. When they are selling MHC for $16, everyone loves them!

Fair enough. Apology accepted. By the way, Tony's address is 633 Stag Trail Road, North Caldwell NJ. His phone number is 201-867-5309 if you want to call and vent.

TIME OUT I already cop-ed to the offense in this thread and PMed Jeff and Ed an apology, but since this is spiraling out of control I want to address it head on. In the past when someone has asked for numbers Jeff has jumped and provided them. Since someone asked this morning I figured Jeff would run a report. So I thought it would be cute to leave an inside joke easter egg for him to find. I added 800+ GE to my portfolio with a note "Totally not fake". I expected he would see it, giggle, exclude the amount and that would be the end. After seeing the firestorm this has created I completely understand why Ed threw down the warning. I am truly sorry for the out of control discussion this has caused. It was supposed to be a little inside joke and it's spun way out of control. I messed up, I take responsibility, so if anyone is upset about this topic you can direct it at me. I appreciate that Jeff and Ed are protective of the data and try to at least bring sanity to what can sometimes be an insane forum. Please, for the love of god, let the bad data topic die. TIME IN

Grand Emporium by 10%. Also, for those members who want to mess with Brickfolio and put in BS numbers, we will catch you and ban you. This is a warning. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

From BBC News: The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up

I chatted with TRU and asked why their price was higher before Target jacked theirs, I was told it was because their version had more features.

Or it's like when you tell wife you have a 2x12 brick, but really it's just a 2x4 plate.

I would disagree with this for multiple reasons. First there are many many more investors than there were when the FB was being stockpiled. Also the FB seemed to disappear quicker. There has been many more chances to grab a GE. Also I think a lot of people were hesitant to grab a FB because they weren't sure when it was going to retire or how it would do after retirement. Now that it is retired we know the GE has a very good possibility of retiring this year and we have seen the performance of the FB and know that GE is more of a sure bet. Only Jeff or Ed could tell us for sure but my guess would be the GE is more stockpiled.

FBTB just posted the Batmobile!!! http://www.fbtb.net/ Suh-weet!!!

Brickelements, thanks for sharing this story, what a cool little guy. I've got a sealed set of 16 Simpsons minifigs going out to him this afternoon (w/ a card of course). I also talked with the instructor at my sons summer care program, they are going to have all the kids there make cards for him this morning which I'm going to pick up & get into the package as well, should be about 30 - 40 kids making them. Thanks again for sharing brickelements!

10196 Grand Carousal. Loose, complete, no box, stickers applied but also included an unused sheet, very nice conditioned manuals, and never used Power Function elements that work. Here is what the music box sounds like (15 sec clip). https://www.dropbox.com/s/969xwqfvjq94giq/Lego_10196.m4a

Here is my new video. I'm in the process of filming the Teenage Mutant Turtle set 79116 Big Rig Getaway. Arriving in the mail tomorrow is the mini cooper. While I work on those projects here is the link to the Turtle Van Takedown.

25 hours, 18 minutes to go...

Why would anyone complain? It's like an easy way to bring up the sale price for resellers. It's $100 over retail and if people are seeing it sold out except for target at that price they will buy more from eBay/Amazon. That in turn will increase (collectively) our sales in turn bringing up the market price. Now if this has been retired for 12 months and target still had them at $250 then that would be a problem

I bought 2 SSDs from Target two weeks ago for $499 each. I took them back to Target today to see if they would price match Walmart.com and they said yes. They allowed me to return both and then allowed me to repurchase for $399 each. Woohoo. Also Target at Tanforan San Bruno CA had two more 70404 Castles for $15.04 each, bought both.

Yes, this was a point that I did think of. So let's say its a push. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

You also have to account for people cashing in on the fire brigade since it has performed so well since December. The brickfolios will drop as the flippers start moving inventory. This 10% doesn't mean much to me.

It's 120 w/ Red Card, 90 otherwise.

lol, such lame lame attempts.. I'd be more satisfied with "Our market researched group noticed that Lego no longer carries this, thus we can increase our price to reflect availability" And then for a laugh, say "Plus, people on eBay say it's rare".

If charging market rate is evil then we are all bad, bad people.

If you visit be sure to wave to Agent Harris. (Well played Ed)

sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht!

This is not a topic that is taking high priority right now, but it will. Maybe I was a little harsh in my warning, but I didn't mention names. But my point remains that we want people to be honest as possible with their inputs. When members ask for information, we do our best to supply it to everyone and as accurately as possible, as I did when I stated that the GE is more popular than the FB by around 10%. There is some data that is withheld for various reasons, this is not really one of them. I can't recall the thread, but I believe I gave the Top 5 or 10 sets in members Brickfoilios months ago. Does it really matter though? The Fire Brigade was hoarded by more people in the history of this site and it has almost doubled in value since EOL. So much for over saturation of the market. ;-)

Pfff... $200 in the US and

I was being sarcastic

Ordered on the 12th, received today.

Isn't the brickfolio private by default anyway? Who cares what numbers I put in a private brickfolio ...

What are BS numbers? I have heared about set numbers and seal codes. But never heared about BS numbers.

103 sellers on amazon for Grand Emporium compared to 78 for Fire Brigade but ebay looks to have more fire brigade than grand emporium. I think the GE will be more stockpiled.

Greed.

AT-TE is back in stock online at $70. http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/lego-star-wars-at-te-75019/6000107232843

My small contribution to his new Lego stash is: 70400, 70401, 70403 All castle. Recently purchased for 50% off. And of course his wish of another birthday card.

I believe that is their stated policy on the promotion, but they never fill orders that way, at least in the U.S. If your order qualifies for the promotion then they add the promo to your shopping cart and it gets shipped to you, no matter how many orders you place. I can't say that is true in all cases all of the time, but it seems to be how they have handled it for years now.

Regarding the ebay motive - One of the higher ups at ebay accidently stated at some public function that the % of TRS plus sellers was higher than they had expected, and that the new changes were expected to bring it down in line with the projections that they were looking for. I don't know what happened to this person, but I would guess there is a good chance that he also lost his ebay status.

I am in the same boat. Losing TRS plus because of too many cases opened for stuff that should have just been a message sent to me. Look at it on the bright side, this is happening to many other sellers and it takes away the pressure to offer holiday returns into January.

When I shoplift at Target, I prefer a really big trenchcoat. Oh, wait, sorry, that's not the law we're talking about breaking. Reset. Holleman is correct on how PayPal should track and report it, I'm not sure if they do. Regardless, however, you must (under the law) report your income to the IRS. PayPal's reporting requirement to you and the IRS has no bearing on YOUR reporting requirement to the IRS.

People speak straight forward English less often than people realize.

Is today your first day on the Internet?

Or, since it was post-empire, perhaps government regulations required lower carbon emissions while in the atmosphere of any inhabited planet as well as increased MPG. Hence, manufacturers had to reduce number of engines.

i did read the accompanying article saying its not the headhunter and the replies to the multiple tweets saying it looks like a z-95 headhunter and i watched the whole video and it looks like a z-95 with 2 turrets. just because its tweeted doesn't make it the truth. xwings have 4 engines. this thing has 2. and it is pretty ugly. oh but its an x-wing didn't you read the article.

agree - thinking about going and seeing if the clearance head hunters are still at walmart... it has only one engine per side like the z-95 but two gun turrets at thend of the wing like an x-wing. the engine thing makes it look more like a z-95.

So I broke my number one rule and finally bought the chima 2 in 1 super pack that's sat at my toysrus for $22 lol

when these guys are international i'd like to send them back a cinder block postage due and mark the customs postage value at $2000 cost would be what, couple hundred bucks they'd lose?

OK, never mind Weird Al. 20R4 looks like thanks to using a flashlight heh. That's the last run we are aware of I take it?

I decided to order GE from LEGO. I have a strange feeling when the next batch ships, it's done.

That is amazing!