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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 think it's one of the best promos ever released by LEGO. Very cute and classic at the same time.

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?

they are merely "sold out" with "retiring soon" tag.. They are not retired officially. De-facto they are. But neither "sold out" not "retiring soon" mean jack. Combined, they are quite definite, but unless they are marked retired, they are not retired

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

now we know who the 3rd person is in the picture w/in this post. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/6530-10220-volkswagen-t1-camper-van-eol/?p=324600

If I remember correctly, exclusives rarely make these lists.

The comments in this topic make me realize that is set is going to be huge and fantastic, people that are normally not into SW, Spaceship, UCS etc. wanting this set. Can't wait for the aftermarket!

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.

So when should we start the Retiring Soon thread?

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

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.

Right, there is no grand scheme to cheat non-US members of anything. On the contrary, we are trying to make the site more friendly for non-US members. The SSD thread is becoming too large. It slows emails and response time, so maybe some responses are moved or deleted. It's not personal...just computer guy mumbo jumbo...

the first Lego flip I have done was for Cloud Cuckoo Palaces, bought around 6 of them for $10 or less each. Sold the Uni-Kitty / Snail combo for $18.00 each.

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.

EU data is a good proxy for US and vice versa. We are all talking about sunspots no better than soothsaying regarding retirement, however the strongest sign still is that a product goes EOL in one of the markets. No better indicator of close EOL than that. If a product retires in one market you can bet that it will retire in the other one within a year in the worst case, but usually only within a few months. Anybody in this game who disregards fluctuations of stocks in other markets as well as retirement neglects vital information from him- or herself, thus potentially making his or her investment decisions less profitable. In a market where information is the most valuable asset disregarding it is not the wisest to do, even if some pieces turn out eventually to be worthless because ignoring all of it leads to overlooking key data in the long run. For example SSD went first in the US. Just assume the reverse scenario for a moment, that SSD went EOL in the EU first. Considering the US is still being the stronger market in terms of reselling activity, so the remaining stocks dry up faster, resulting a shorter time window for acting, which investor would have made more profits? The one who had jumped at EU EOL news and bought a stash at MSRP or the one who had waited out US EOL and bought at $600?

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).

Don't forget the poor mans Rancor (the rock monster from the Rock Raiders theme)

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.

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

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.

Just wait. Some lego outlets have as much as 80 cases in the stockroom and they are not selling. Same with simpsons house. I used to buy all the box damage ones with the bonus pts and promos and there never ending. If there not selling at that price which amounts to about 155 after the extra points and poly I think there definitely heading down before up. Not saying they wont long term but something that you should see a better price on later on

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

This set will NOT retire this year, neither will the Pet Shop. SSD and GE will though. Please don't ask for my source.

I think that a lot of investors feared that the SSD would become the new Death star (staying in the place for ever), and prefered to wait for real signs of retirement.

This is a topic for another thread, but buying LEGO on credit is a viable practice...and actually smart at times. Using someone else's money to buy an appreciating asset(especially when bought at a discount) works for many on this site. You just have to be careful not to overextend one's self.

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.