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What you all need is a place to sell your sets that protects the sellers more than the buyers....hmmmmm. Interesting. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

The Silly Codes Believers club would like to extend their welcome to Ed Mack. Here is a tin foil hat for joining our club.

And now we wait for rockefeller make a joke out of your silly beliefs in silly codes...

I suspect we are now going to see repeat of GE daily availability cycle...

If some of you remember, I had a survey that many of you answered and I was happy to see that most that answered would be interested in posting videos. When we launch the update to the site there will be a new video feature that I will explain in time. I know some of you will find ways to benefit you. The reason for the large gap is because you never know what advertisers will pop up in the videos. It can be an ad that pays .25 or an ad that pays 2.25. There is no "exact" way to figure what people are making. Those ranges also do not include the people that use plugins like adblock which will take out another percentage of those figures.

Max is my son's name and he is mad. LOL Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Thank you. Speaking of selling, I noticed a couple sellers on eBay are already selling just the minifigures from the Juniors set but stating the listing as though they were from the exclusive set minus the Batmobile starting from $50 to $80. I really don't like how Lego's LDD gallery does not offer links for individual projects as you can't directly link to anything there. Here's a quick link to start from for everyone. Anyway, Tormentalous (The Brick Fan) usually gets a chance to review these exclusive Comic-Con items like last year so I may be able to see if he can take an image of the parts list for the set. I'm pretty good at building from that. Also I can post sequential images here just like an instruction booklet so that everyone can build this themselves if they want to.

I would highly encourage members to watch this when they have some free time:

BIN is free for first 150 on basic store. Past that its 20 cents each. Then you get some very nice reporting tools and listing stuff and you get markdown manager where you can make and have sales on products. Also you get 1% less in fees - its like 9% instead of 10% Final Value Fees. If you sign up for a year, its 19.99 a month which is pretty sweet. Depending on your gross sales per month, if you do 1000$ or so a month, even with low listing numbers, thats 10$ you save right there in the 1% fee drop.

Why does there needs to be some kind of explanation that explains everything in some kind of neat, all encompassing definitive way? With all the panic buying and stock chasing people with their page monitors hammering the LEGO website every 10 secs and then posting every single change, I'm not surprised the reports of status changes is flipping so often. The status on the LEGO website is probably automated and tied to some inventory control level. Things, plans, stock levels can change every day with today's need to know instantly technology and mindset. I doubt there is some person evilly cackling behind a keyboard changing stock statuses on a whim just to screw with consumers. And the average consumer isn't checking every 10 seconds and probably hasn't seen any of the wild swings that we are. It just is what it is. Remember the "old" days where store websites said inventory levels/status would be updated after midnight after the batch processing runs so you would have to wait until the morning for any updates.

We are not pissed, we are just reclaim in it "passively" jejejejje

I switched all of my listings to auction style with the opening bid price being my old buy it now price. I have been selling a decent amount the past few weeks, but nothing extraordinary. The thing that is a pain is that now I have to wait to get paid, when with buy it now they had to pay immediately. Once the holiday season gets here ill probably create a store account to get the buy it now listings for the busy season. There is no way I am paying 30cents a listing right now during the slow season, with no guarantee that it will sell. Side note...I made my first bricklink sale this past weekend. Was paid right away and shipped it out this morning. The best part? Wait for it.......only 3% fees! and only on the sale amount (not on sale + shipping charge). I could get used to that! All I sell is sets. Check out my store. It's named Everything is Awesome!!

Some are still pissed about something that happened two hundred years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington

According to "South Park", all life lessons are learned in Colorado.

Nothing like seeing middle aged men trying to get in touch with their inner street cred...Slap me some skin!

Completed build : Rear picture showing the battery packs and the pull mechanism handle that releases and catches the inner leg. Comparison of latest two R2 minifigs. Too bad the recent R2 from the latest Sandcrawler & Ewok Village wasn't included in recent produced 10225s. "Special features" Inner leg not used. Nice picture of entire build w/ minifigure and UCS display plaque. Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

I just finished the cargo plane and attached are a couple profile pics next to the Volvo and the mobile crane.

poof

Im pretty sure Target prices are linked to Amazon at this point.

Oh man that unikitty is gonna chap some completist hides.

Just waiting on a few subcontractors to finish a few mods. These people don't have the same sense of priority as Jeff does. As Jeff explained to me yesterday after he showed me the new Daily Deals, people haven't seen many changes going on...but when they come...there will be a bunch in a short time. I know everyone has been patient, but it takes time. Look at Bricklink for instance. They have 20 or so full time people working on the new site and it might not be ready for more than a year. Jeff is one man, plus a couple of people we can hire to help with small tasks. The Brick Classifieds has taken on several forms and codes over the past year or so, but we are almost there and ready to let some people play around. When you are dealing with money and transactions, all the Is have to be dotted and the Ts crossed before you launch it. We don't want to put out a poor product Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

I just finished this late last night. Great build. Steering wheel is a bit big. Best part is the front and back seats. A close second is the picnic set fitting in the trunk. Enjoy the video.

Gandalf Departs?

I know you are getting out of eBay, but PLEASEEE do not share with the world our super secret ways for listing on eBay.

LOVE the store name. I'm loving Bricklink, too. We're growing steadily, and the nicest part is that when we hit a lull in sales, I know it's only because we don't happen to have the right parts at the right price for the buyers shopping that day. Unlike on eBay, where I have to wonder if a lull in sales means Cassini has disappeared my listings again (all my fault, of course, because I didn't remember to dance counter-clockwise while entering my item specifics during the solstice attended by South American virgins spitting owl's blood at the moon.)

hope this is the beginning. still 'allowed' to order up to 5. "Out of stock, expected ship date 15 Sep 2014" http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Tower-Bridge-10214

This will explain it all

Pushed to Sep 29 now... weird...

Yeah... I picture it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfNzZre-sIU

Walmart dead! Argh! This is what I get for doing yard work. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

But how can it be Europe production run.... doesnt USA have law where pieces have to be on box and Europe gets it without.... Do you really think LEGO would re-box the sets for Europe to USA moving? I find that hard to believe honestly

Of course!

I really like these new sets, color wise that is!

If Lego were to ban every person who ordered an ssd over the last 2 hours deeming that they are resellers, they will probably get it 99% right. Lol

Right after I blow my lego budget...

Now that ssd is back :)

Looks like some sort of LEGO Minifigure Gummy candy. I have no idea who he is, but he looks delicious!

Mission Impossible! Booyah!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAYhNHhxN0A

Opening the set before sellling will help - to a point. It will tell us as sellers that we are sending out what we advertised and were not duped ourselves when we purchased the set for resale. However, it only goes so far in preventing actual scammers. No matter how many photos you take of the set, or of yourself packing the set, or of you personally handing the package to the mailman, it doesn't help eBay in a he-said/she-said situation (because you could take all those photos and still not actually be sending that to the buyer, if you - generic you - are a scammer yourself). What matters at that point is your reputation on eBay versus the buyer's reputation on eBay. Also, I understand the desire to not fuss over $40 and not require the return, but understand that that encourages this buyer to try the same thing with the next seller (and every other seller who caves in because $40 isn't worth the hassle encourages the buyer to try the same thing with you) and that eBay has a better record of a buyer's scamming tendencies if you actually go through the process so they can see a pattern of "not as described" "returned" "good seller disputed the return".

It could have possibly been purchased, emptied and replaced with junk, returned, and then put back on the shelf where you found and purchased it without knowing of the contents. We have been hearing about this occurring more and more lately. It seems people have gotten very good at removing and replacing the seals so the package looks un tampered with. It's scary to think how many sets like this are sitting in our stashes, and the only way we will ever discover them is after we sell and ship them to an unsuspecting buyer who immediately labels us as a scam artist ourselves. The wargs isn't a highly valued set, but people who do this sort of thing don't always care about value. They just do it for the rush and the feeling of "getting away with something". Sadly, the only thing you can do in this situation is issue the refund, explain what happened (or what you think might have happened), apologize, cut your losses, and move on. Just be thankful that it didn't happen with a highly valuable set. If you have been selling for 11 years then consider yourself lucky that this is only the first time it has happened.

Be very polite. Respond to the case requiring them to return the set to you. If they bother to do that (most scammers won't, they're hoping you'll just pay them) dispute the return with eBay (there is an option to state they did not return what you sent them, and a place to add photos.) eBay will review your track record and the buyer's track record. The most likely outcome, if the buyer hasn't tried scamming before, is that eBay will issue them a refund but not deduct from your account, IF you follow the return steps properly, dispute it, and don't become emotional and sound like a whack-a-mole in your communications with eBay and the buyer. The next most likely outcome, if the buyer hasn't tried scamming before, is that they'll refund the buyer and charge that refund to your PayPal account. The last outcome is if the buyer has a record of scamminess, and then eBay will refuse the return. The buyer may not be lying. I personally purchased a set that appeared sealed and fine, for my Bricklink inventory, and when I opened it I found resealed LEGO bags full of random used toys. But Ed is right that on a low value set that seems less likely.

Only made a little bit of progress today. Final assembly of the first escalator. Preliminary fire inspection. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

My daughter and I got in line for the chance to win UniKitty today. Got they're at 1215. We left the line at 1. We had hardly moved. Wasn't worth my time, and my daughter was fine with her standard out of the box UniKitty Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

I am sure many of you have had the pleasure of building this set so I won't go in to a full review. I am taking this build slow, partly because I want to make it last, and also because a large amount of my time (outside of work) is spent with my wife and five month old son. This is my first big set, and modular, since I came out of my dark age. It has been really cool to see some new parts and pieces as well as some new techniques that have been developed in my absence. Enough of my "talking", here are some pictures. Part 1 bags Cool sidewalk pattern. A special visitor stopped by to help Starting the walls. Interior details. Awnings and columns. Revolving door. Almost done with Book 1 Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

enjoy~

I still think the Battle Goddess is my favorite, but the Pizza Delivery guy is right there. New pizza piece is great. Just need to MOC an old Ford Escort for his car now. For the most part, a lot of retreads that we've seen before from either sets already made or different sexes of CMF's we've already had.

They remind me of the CITY Coast Guard sets and will probably perform the same way...above average.