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Ed and I want to create a page here in the forum (or somewhere) that will allow anyone who has an eBay and/or Amazon store to create a banner ad and advertise their store during the holiday season. Just PM me with a 728x90 banner and any small message about possible deals that you might be offering. Also make sure you include a link to your store and store name if there is one. If you want to include your Brickpicker name, let me know, otherwise I will keep it anonymous. This can be a good way for you to bring some new life to your store and get your holiday season sales off to a good start.

Doing some organizing today...out with the old, in with the new. We have a "what did you not buy today" thread, maybe we need a "what did you not sell today" thread also. My calculator says yes to these two, but my hoarding heart says no, just can't do it...too nice of a set...my preeeciousss:

I got a misb winter village cottage (10229) for $100 shipped! :D

I have that set...but it was called the Emporer's Throne Room

I updated my SDCC

The LEGO boomers (the generation that spent their childhood in the 80s), is just now entering their prime income earning years (mid/late 30s or early 40s). The typical LEGO boomer has 2-3 kids, at least one is probably a boy, and that son is most likely at least 3 by now (I know girls like LEGO too). This is the prime season of their life to leave the Dark Ages and rekindle their love for LEGO. I think its only just begun. Christmas of 2015 will be even more special when LEGO capitalizes on Star Wars. After that will be the new LEGO movie featuring Batman and who knows what else LEGO has up its sleeve? So I agree with Ed, I have no concerns that I won't be able to sell a TH, SSD or HH in 3-5 years for big bucks.

Well, a completed Modular street is quite a display and the Town Hall is the centerpiece IMO. I think you underestimate LEGO fans and their habits.

Wait till our resident expert ebayer logs in and see what she has to say, I'm personally not sure but I do know video taping will do zero good.

A comment like this dosnt make sense. You have no idea what one paid for them. I got 7 of mine for free.... Without purchasing a thing. Some I did purchase. I used points and gift cards. Many got these with purchase of actually doing promo. Your assuming people paid 20.00 for all of theirs which just isn't the case.

My guess $19.99 on birds and $49.99 on TBBT.

If part of Lego's strategy is to introduce new AFOL's to the brand, TBBT is a great set to approve. I don't follow the show myself, but the ratings don't lie. From Lego's perspective, this set may introduce a massive new audience to their products. And the more AFOL's acquired, the better for Lego, and, we investors.

It seems like a lot of people are disappointed by the big bang theory (TBBT) set in this forum. I'm extremely surprised. Of course you have to be a fan to understand of incredible is this Ideas set. Cool details, like the heating switch or green lantern's... lantern next to the skyrocket. And seven minifigs ! About the display, it can easily been MOCed and have the kitchen added, etc. Great. In my country, TBBT is extremely popular, as much as walking dead or game of thrones (to compare with series which are on TV screens at the same moment). The only (fun) TV serie which is as popular here is Malcom. Next, I would say American Housewives or Friends (but it's not as fun as it was in the 90's). But Dr Who... I'm sure a lot of french people don't know who he is. Well, geeks do know of course. Why isn't he popular ? Because the series have not been on TV screens, or for a short time. David Tennant and Matt Smith episodes have been on TV screens but I'm not sure about the others Doctors... at least I can't remember them. We have not that much TV series here. Lots of stupid shows (supposed to be fun, ah ah.... kill me please). So when a fun TV serie like TBBT come to us, it's a success. I can imagine TBBT lego set being as much popular as the ecto-1 here. No problem.

my dad can beat up your dad.

Take a gander at all the characters you can get a glimpse at here. Alien Trooper King Lady Cyclops Snake Charmer Paleontologist Sheriff Disco Diva Unicorn Girl Egyptian Warrior Source: Hoth Bricks

Someone just sent me a best offer - $6,000.00 for 2 10230 mini modular sets. Should I horrify them by accepting?

It will never get cheaper.....even less after the holidays when there will be fewer available.....

Chima has the coolest minifigures. Period.

I was not able to resell those, even for a cheap price. I can't blame people, I think it's not appealing. The minifig reminds me an orange Woody Woodpecker and the vehicule is far too small. I gave my polybags as freebies with the big chima and ninjago sets I sold.

I think you are right and here is the proof:

There are alot of completionist collectors in the lego world, especially for the modular theme. They are not rare at all and there are plenty with good amounts of discretionary income to spend. There are 151 TH available worldwide on bricklink. Contrast that to 1545 GE. More importantly alot of people were caught off guard by the early retirement of TH, alot more than any other modular to date. This includes builders, collectors and the big resellers who have hundreds of GE but only a handful of TH. Alot still refuse to believe it has been EOLd by TLG. Listen to the market (both the demand and supply side). Projecting irrelevant past experiences and personal bias onto the market will only cost you profit.

These are not for flipping, these are for next year when they do series 2. Sorry, IF they do series 2. Micro Modulars ( i like the sound of that )

I know most people didn't pay $20. They came with the $75 purchase so you either spent $500+ before coupons to get 7 of them or knew somebody at the store who gave you a special deal. Driving to multiple stores and paying fees, shipping, and taxes will whittle that $140 or less down to $100 or less. Alot of people are working really hard to flip LEGO short term for less than minimum wage.

Me not personally liking a set just makes it easier to offload the last few when they are going for huge money. That's all I'm saying. Also, any guesses as to MSRP on these? My guess is that between the licensing and 7 figs that TBBT set will be pricey.

Recommend this be discussed further in the ethics thread where one without blame can throw the first stone

Unfortunately I have to agree with this. I just wish it wasn't scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Don't forget the tiger blood!

There is but one thing: The DS factor. Personally I think R2D2 will be a winner. The only question is "when". Even after its retirement there will be a lot of resellers. With the three upcoming movies and all I can see how LEGO would like to keep this one alive. So if you do have the money and the space to go all emazer/ed on this one... (see the pun? ;-) ) it's worth a try. As for me I will be a little bit (maybe too) cautious. (If it does go EOL next year BAM!)

90% of my sets are also long-term holds. I use to be the same exact way about box condition. Then reality set in. It's just a box. Being sealed is what matters to the majority of AFOL buyers in the secondary market for expensive sets. Additionally, no matter how well I pack my sets when selling (and my packing skills are solid), I'm still at the mercy of the postage carriers. I rarely ever buy sets when they are released but if I do, that's when I'm anal about box condition. Same goes for if I'm at the store and there are 2+ copies of the same set, of course I'm buying the better box. Since most of my set purchases are toward the end of a set's retail life, box condition is less important especially when I'm buying online. Additionally, severe damaged boxes are sometimes discounted either before or after the sale so that money saved is more important to me. But hey, everyone is different,

Thats the double points been added Alfiepops, so don't worry about them, you will receive them.

relatively healthy in Europe meaning that its not selling as they expected. which would be the case in us as well "has it not been people hoarding it for investment" probably LEGO is not an investment vehicle in Europe. whatever they are doing they are just feeding "the same people they hate"

When does the $600 in fees hit your account? It will get reversed but not sure you want to deal with that hassle unless they do not charge your account until it is paid (I've never looked at that in all the hundreds of my sales). I would message them and not accept.

After holidays the leftover sets will be raised in price to because less availability and sellers won't be as urgent to sell a month after the Christmas rush. Slow and steady with big $$$$

Jeff is away on a business trip next week. When he comes back, he is looking to get the Classifieds into the hands of the Mods so they can play around with it and find any issues.

It depends on how the buyer sends a PayPal payment. PayPal would refund the buyer if the buyer sends the payment as payment for goods and services and specifies a delivery address. PayPal Seller Protection only protects sellers for physical goods that are shipped by a third party major shipper (government postal service, DHL, UPS, etc) that has online tracking available that they can independently verify. If the Paypal payment for goods/services does not have a delivery address, it can be considered local pickup/delivery where verification is not required and the money can not be taken away. There are also PayPal payments that are gifts, not for goods/services. Those can not be taken away either.

I made my very FIRST sale ever! Sold a handful of polybags on Bricklink (IronMan, Martian Manhunter and Lake Town Guard). Wow, does that feel good.

This thread has unintentionally become comedy gold.

On Wednesday, I was able to find 15 of the Arctic polybags at 90% off due to the Halloween clearance. That's $0.34 each!

OK, nobody but trekgate. Better yet, summarize it in the daily summary.

These are both horrible. They are really making these?

I'm bringing balance back....

Well I thought I sold few TH @ Amazon today and every single one was cancelled . Yes I'm accusing anyone that can read this. Lol

I always loved the knights theme so personally I cannot wrong with it I'm a little bit sad that I missed out on the other cool kingdoms sets but to be honest I could buy them if I wanted to since the price didn't go that high. I cannot imagine that LEGO will not eventually bring out even cooler sets for that theme. The Joust Set always reminds me of Game of Thrones ;-)

Alas poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest...

I'm guessing there are thousands of HH in hoardage...I mean storage.

6987 Message Intercept Base - pieced together from a bulk lot I bought. Saw the big trans-yellow piece and took a chance that the rest of the set was in there. Only missing a few common parts that I easily found in my collection. It was also missing the crater baseplate, but I had a stack of those on hand. The trans-yellow pieces are in great shape, very clear. This is the only Blacktron I set I needed to complete my collection, very happy to finally have this. It's sooo cool.

After (a while ago) seeing jaisonline modifications (which I really liked) I bought some 1x8 door rail pieces and modified my DeLorean Time Machine myself. I'm pretty satisfied with the results. Just where the window is I had the feeling that something was amiss and my solution is far from being perfect... but somehow I still like it more than leaving this area "naked" ;-) Here are some pictures so that you can see what I did and how it looks. I added: -Some smooth elements on the doors lifting arms (or however you call it... ) -a 1x1 brick and a 1x4 brick both black underneath the door because of -a 2x6 brick on the roof underneath the smooth brick (+ two 1x2 smooth bricks) and additionally two 1x2 bricks to elevate the roof even more (just on top of the flux capacitor and the bricks behind it). -an angular smooth 1x1 brick on both sides (rear mirror) and I replaced the smooth black 1x1 bricks with those round smooth silver 1x1 bricks -a 1x2 silver grid behind the... eh... binoculars brick thingy on the roof - and those bricks you can see where the window is situated Now it does not only look better/cooler (at least to me ;-) ) but there's also enough space to put Doc Brown into the car. Maybe even both minifigs but I guess putting one minifig inside already is a great achievement ;-P Thanks again to everybody who posted his modifications, without I probably would not even have had the idea to modify anything. I feel much more pleased with my result now than with the original design of the set.

It gets even worse when you compare it to the ecto 1 ** sigh ** And you're right. Minifigs hardly fit in. Every time I look at those pics makes me more depressed they didn't make a UCS out of that gullwinged car.

No, this set is a bust.

Everyone settle down. Listen, these same exact words were said last year. Everyone was freaking out about lack of sales. Black Friday was decent last year - couple of nice things, especially the Walmart deal. But Cyber Monday, none of us expected or knew about. Amazon has had some super deals and will continue to. I trust TRU will do some serious selling again. It is true they have had less sales as of late, but they just increased their points back for the TRU CC which is awesome, and they have had a lot of coupons, etc. I think you will see a lot from them during Christmas. Barnes and Noble has proved that though they aren't big on Lego coupons anymore (mine luckily still work at my store) but they already started the Toy and game BOGOs they had late last year (I destroyed my BN stock with these). Target and Walmart have been the exact same all year. You know why I trust all these places will have huge sales? Because Lego sells better than anything else. They have room and will sell insane amounts of it. No way Amazon looks at what was sold on Cyber Monday last year and says "lets not do that again". Like 30 sets went OOS. Im taking Cyber Monday off work BTW.