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It has been revealed! and boy is it gorgeous! More info and fotos at: http://brickset.com/article/12209 Set will most likely be a $250 set, hope it will have a big box. I like big boxes. What do you guys think of the set? Time to unload 8097 to start with

Jeff and his programming minions are making nice progress on the Classifieds. I feel really bad always saying this because I've been saying it for a long time, but the newest version looks and works great. There are just do many small details that always need to be addressed when dealing with money. It has to be done right or people will lose faith immediately. I will just leave you with one main idea of the Classifieds...We are seller friendly.

Bought this beauty for $300 this weekend on CL, complete with minifigs and instructions

Thought I would post Found the Rockefeller Center 21007 as they were putting out stock at a thrift store for $3. Box and instructions included. Just sold for $31 on eBay I am happy, can justify my new hobby easier to the wife Any other first flip success stories?

Guess what decided to surface this fine afternoon? Don't really care for all the stickers... But otherwise I really like it! EDIT: Video seems to not want to work... Link is correct. If you would like to see the pictures check out Just2Good's channel on Youtube. Pictures are NOT confidential.

I'm very sorry that you're having to deal with this. Has your other account been suspended as well? While I think our favorite amphibian will be best able to answer your questions (you may want to PM Frog) I will say that I never use stock photos. I have also never heard of an account being suspended for the reasons you cite.

I'm reckoning that the Macks' mean GOOD seller friendly. Buttheads and scammers will be shown the door with a boot unless I miss my guess. With a seller friendly environment, more sellers are attracted, which means more competition, better prices for buyers, and lots of good sellers to choose from. I call that pretty buyer friendly and look forward to buying here.

Watching the cat from the tree is an expression used by Dutch native speakers that moved to germany Sent from my GT-I9300 using Brickpicker mobile app

My wallet is crying.... still haven't picked up the sandcrawler and now this must have comes out. Looks nice!

Who is your source? ???? Actually, I already know as I snapped a photo of the 3 of you. He's the one to the left in the dark (no pun)

That's what I told my wife when I walked out of the store with them. "honest, honey, they just followed me home...can we keep them?"

I bought an Imperial Flagship 10210 used missing three small pieces but comes with manual and box for $150 on ebay from a 1 feedback seller, doh. I figured I would take that chance as it was too good to pass up.. It showed as shipped just now. Keeping the fingers crossed.

Uh oh!!!!

But does your source look....LIKE THIS??

This made me LOL.

I did that but it still showed up in my ID history. Maybe I was being too paranoid. I might try Bricklink, too. I've bought several sets from there and enjoyed the experience. It's nice dealing direct with AFOLs. I'm looking into Amazon too. I'm so timid now after this eBay ordeal.

I have almost finished building mine. Had a very similar issue to you and thought I was missing a couple of those same 1x2 tiles. Turns out in the step before or a few before you put two tiles on some sort of a hinge piece that clips on next to each seat kind of like a mini control panel (sorry set is at home and I'm not so hard to describe exactly). In that step it was supposed to be the printed keyboards used and not the blank tiles, it was hard to tell without looking very closely in decent light. That meant I then had the 10 free for the step with the seats.

Just stroke the box... feel the softness of it...love the box!

There was a Cloud City guard with the second last Slave 1. I put him in my old 7119 twin pod cloud car to keep the old style Lobot company

The factory is still pumping out new ones or they just have a ton of already made stock they are getting rid of?

I've seen similar deals in my city. All of them were a scam. If the prices are too good to be true, they usually are.

Well, I hope Jack Bauer gets his own interrogation room with an electrified bed and waterboarding bench.

Decision making time. A good % of 10123 Cloud City's current value is due to it's Boba Fett. I believe only Leia and Lando are exclusives now w/o refreshes or can be made from other minifig parts. Hmmm. By the way, yet another set Ed named before other people. update : luke's legs are still exclusive to this set. at least 10123's fett's arms are still unique (not reused with this set).

I don't think TLC wants Elsa's Palace and Cinderella Castle to be competing

I would like to retire soon!

I'm sure that discussion will commence shortly. Seriously though, Star Wars + UCS + Boba Fett. All the boxes are ticked here. I don't even really enjoy building spaceship sets of any kind but even I want one.

The coupon code is 941612846. Says it's good on toys and much of the Lego is on sale. Might stack nicely but unfortunately their mobile site scums and won't show me more than 10 sets.

Excellent! They`ve actually managed to do a great job, another great set for 2014 has been revealed!

Day one purchase for me without a doubt.

Watching the cat from the tree, is that a saying in English? Sounds a little like "don't worry, we will wash that little pig" (a phrase I actually do use, always gets a laugh out of people)

You should be concerned about that person because there is very little chance that someone sitting on 360 copies of a set, which likely cost somewhere close to $40k, is going to be pricing them higher than a small time reseller like yourself. One of the things that has happened over the last few years to the secondary Lego market is that the number of larger resellers has grown significantly. As a result, there is more price competition than there ever has been before. When you have multiple resellers sitting on 100+ copies of a single set that retails for over $100 and is rarely discounted, that is a recipe for pretty fierce price competition that will depress the price of the set until those resellers begin selling through their inventory. I could be wrong and this could be the one guy who has pie-in-the-sky dreams of selling all 360 copies of the Camper for $500+, but I think that someone who is willing to sink $40k into a single set is going to be far more pragmatic. What you should be hoping for is that the demand for the Camper van is so off the charts that he'll sell through that stock in 6 months.

Again, please remain on topic. These Euro vs. America posts are not about retiring sets. 2nd time in less than 45 mins. This will be my last warning to everyone before posts get deleted. Please remain on-topic.

I understand Ed gave his opinion. I just reacted that I did not understand that reselling was an american phenomenom. I do not take it personal at all. Was just an opinion. Offcourse reselling Lego is bigger in the US. Lego reacts to it accordingly. As it does react differently on other continents. I will stop giving my opinion or react on others opinion. It was no harm intended.

Yes, there clearly is a difference between US and EU/Asia/Australia/etc. However, does this mean the thread had to be moved/closed? As us europeans are in the minority on this site. I believe we paid a more than fair contribution to the thread. For us europeans and other continents except US the discussion is still alive and kicking. So I do not quite understand the reasoning above. I am still curious if there is some data available on how the members geographically are divided. Which % are americans, Ausies, etc. On a side note: I think reselling is not more of an American Phenomena. For example the dutch have had a longer trading history. The story even goes we traded New Amsterdam (currently New York).

I am thinking the same way. Keep in mind that Europe always is a bit "behind" on the US. It takes a bit more time here to appreciate. This has advantages but it means we (Europeans) just have to wait a bit longer to sell. In Europe people seem to be a bit more conservative in spending money and they watch the cat from the tree first. If this set will get the retired tag at ShopatHome it will do just fine.

My first flip was from a treehouse into an above ground swimming pool when I was very young. Well, at least I made it into the pool. I didn't flip much after that....unless you want to count 'the bird'. On a more related note, I remember back when I did the whole auction thing years ago that I had purchased a box lot of odd glassware some of which were really old 'carnival glass' for dirt cheap. I ended up selling everything separately to individuals for more than I paid. Heck, just one of the pieces turned out to be so rare that it paid for the whole lot by itself. I did keep one of the items because it was this nice deep aqua greenish hue plus it looks nice in the bathroom.

Same as Stud-u-like, how did you guys manage that! Where did you buy them from? I had mine very close to MSRP, hence the need to wait much longer to make the whole thing worth while! I just bought one of them at

You do always remember your first. For me it was Hulk's helicarrier. Bought at 35 sold at 90 plus shipping. Still remember the moment the phone went ca-ching. Pulled it out and went 'wow it sold' Congrats almost 1000% return after all is said and done. Wish they all were like that.

Sold a used 10198 Tantive IV (no box) for $180 shipped. If only every sale could be like this one as I Picked this set up for $45 at the beginning of July

Sold a 10133 BNSF GP-38 Locomotive, NISB for $330. This was my first foray into buying a retired set, that already had some value associated with it, and flipping it for more. Found it on Goodwill a few months ago. Couldn't pass it up, and bought it at about $220. Not a bad return on 3 months hold.

My first flip was DC this past Christmas. Buy at $56 sell at $128. U always remember your first

It is now back down to the 28th. I am going to go ahead and buy 2 more, (a total of 4). Seeing that it is close to a 50$ increase in just the last month, I would recommend for other people who have not already bought this set to do it as soon as possible.

So I sold a few used SW figs a week ago, mostly Hoth rebels with a couple of Taun-Taun. Not a big deal, just some bits sorted from bulk. Anyway I get a mail from the Lady I sold them too on eBay today, saying that the Taun-Taun weren

It really is too bad this set retired in the US before double VIP this year.

You don't need LEGO when you're stilling moonshine, trapping, hunting, or making babies.

Yeah they sold like hot cakes in my area and nobody was trying to sell them in the parking lot for a 2x profit either.

At first, when I read the topic title, I thought it was about hiding lego for the wife or IRS.

I have had one on ebay for a few weeks at 220 with no takers. Not sure its a great flip. Two bodies were just found on a Maersk ship that looks just like the lego ship. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/world/asia/seychelles-maersk-deaths/ Maybe I should add two dead minifigures to the auction?

Firstly, this is my first post so I apologise for any wrongdoings or rule-breakings. >< After many years of not buying LEGO due to zero/little income, I've finally managed to start saving to get the SSD. I've been reading over some other threads and nobody seems to know much for certain so I'm hoping for any kind of solid info, even just the tiniest bit, but I've been incredibly paranoid lately about the SSD going EOL. It appears they're quite unpredictable at LEGO about the products ending. I'd love this set more than any other, although it may cause a few sparks around here as I understand most of you are largely buyers & sellers and not really builders lol.