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It would nearly be a full time job for your posts alone.

I'm sorry you & your wife don't live together but congrats on the RIs.

My entry is ready

Did my good deed for the season. Went by a couple of local TRU to check their stock on 75056. One was all out, the other had 1 hidden behind a Super Heroes sets. Saw a mother looking in the spot where the kept the calendars, she walked away. I picked it up, placed it on the shelf when I knew she was looking and walked away. Walked around the corner, turned around, and watched her quickly pick it up and rush to the counter. Hopefully me passing on this one, will translate to me selling my stock for profit.

We get it. I really don't like when people make fun of Special "Ed" kids. Relax and move on...

Craziest thing... my wife was just at the TRU looking for any 75056 left. She didn't see any at first, and then some weirdo dug one out from hiding at put it back on the shelf where it was supposed to be. She snapped it up, posted it on ebay, and flipped it for $65 before she left the store.

Instead of focussing on the quantity of your posts, perhaps you could start working on the quality.

Submitted an offer of $55 each for 8 9450's for $79.99 each (make offer) listing on Ebay and the seller accepted. Ended buying 8 of them for $55 each with free shipping. Didn't expect to get them at this price. But will part them out now.

Pull that off the shelf and tell them, "I'm Ready!!!"

TRU is having a Winter City Scene building event this Saturday Nov 22nd from 12p - 4p You will also get the chance to be entered to win $1000 GC if you create a wish list Kids get to meet the giraffe and more .. RR?? Link : http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=4311963&camp=CME:TRU:EM111814B_UltimateWishSaturdayLego&csep=000017dc-b94a-4317-9793-0f7ad86a56dd

Yes, don't get upset if you miss a deal. There's always other deals and investments, and of course, other ways to spend your money.

You can absolutely do deals like this outside eBay, but do not use the eBay messaging system to make them. Basically, if you have something listed on eBay and you or the buyer try to take that deal off eBay, that's a violation of the agreement you made with eBay (and, in my mind, totally tacky besides -- eBay found you that buyer for that deal, they deserve their cut.) HOWEVER, once you have sold something to an eBay customer, there's nothing wrong with you or that customer contacting each other OFF eBay (like using the email address you have for him thru PayPal) to make a separate deal that has nothing to do with an existing eBay listing. eBay may have introduced the two of you via the first deal, but that doesn't mean they own the both of you for all new deals going forward.

Friends Summer Riding Camp for $150+shipping. I bought this using the 20% coupon during Bricktober getting my price down to about $70. Unfortunately it was the last one I could find around here. Now it's time to start listing my clearance Heartlake Stables and Vets.

Waayyy ahead of you:

i would monitor latest eBay price endings for your set ... list it around that much ... maybe $5-$10 more if you want to ... but also check how many competition you have ...

I am more worried about the bad reputation of the sticker's cockpit. Some buyers may be upset by this, and would be more inclined to pass this UCS (or may be ok to get one but not at a high price). Overall I would fear that it would arm the CAGR of new sets. I would even think that a used R5 in great condition (with box and instructions) with the sticker applied perfectly could be sold the same price as a MISB set. Because I'm really goofy, I would be ok with that (and maybe I'm not the only one).

Isn't being the best LOTR set sort of like being the smartest kid in special ed?

Ironically, the guy who spotted 150 TBs did not use ain't no scripts. Just plain old "well, I was just browsing walmart search results"

I agree to some extent depending on the commodity, but with a tangible product like we have, I like having some variety to keep turnover higher. Lower # of unique sets usually results in slower sellthrough.

Fire brigade's for 119.00 on Amazon for an entire year was better then tb deal. Something I see posted here and talked about quite often is '' I got this set to diversify my portfolio '' I think that's kind of silly. Would you rather have 1 of all these random sets or have nothing but hh or ssd. I personally am really narrowing my picks down in regards to the long haul. Mark Cuban said diversifying a portfolio is stupid. And he rules.

#3 made me lol and wake up the wife....got kicked to the couch. Thanks a lot!

It's not?????...what's wrong with this world?

Too many damn watchers, not enough buyers

Hey all, (Apologies in advance, I know there's been a thread or two on this but couldn't find them, please merge if so desired :-) I am in the process of getting sales tax exemptions as we're going to be doing a LOT more Lego buying this year and I'm tired of applying for refunds from the state. The online ones are pretty straightforward and I'm getting those all done, but can anyone tell me how it works for brick and mortar stores? Do I head to my nearest WalMart and apply there, or do I have to go through a corporate office? And if the former, will the exemption hold at all Walmarts, or do I have to apply at each one individually? Also, do they give you some sort of i.d. card to use at checkout, or??? (Same question for Target, TRU, KMart, etc.) Thanks!

A Mystery Machine to the T1 scale would be pretty cool.

This ^^^ Well said. For those of us old enough to remember growing up watching Kung Fu movies on Saturday's or just wanting to recreate a scene out of Kill Bill these sets are great.

That was effin' hilarious! Thanks for the laugh!!

10217 Diagon Alley $340 incl shipping

It will be good for those with the 10% back in EBay Bucks promotion that's running right now.

Lego Creationary 2 sets for $100 shipped. Wow.

I usually list at the price I want and then raise, depending on how many of an item I have. My prices are usually based on current selling prices plus 10% - 20%. If they sell fast or if I hear prices are rising, I'll raise them proactively. Some stuff I'm holding until December or for the items to start trickling out of stock. I sell many items in lots by theme, especially the under $50 MSRP sets.

Bricklink is a powerful avenue for parting out. For example, check http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=9498-1 Under "Lots for Sale" click "Part Out" For the "Default Prices to:" dropdown select something like "Current Items For Sale Average" and Bricklink will automatically price everything. Click "Submit for Edit" then you can review the prices automatically set and edit them for all the pieces and minifigures. In this case, the minifigs are: Even Piell @ $9.67 R3-D5 @ $9.46 Saesee Tiin @ $8.45

Touche

I'm wondering who will put this in their quote archive for later use?

I keep seeing references to the $150 Walmart Tower Bridge deal being the best deal ever. Was it really? Would you not have been better off spending all of your capital on Haunted Houses or Super Star Destroyers? You could have quick flipped those within 6 months for 50+% ROI, and then invested in RRP Tower Bridges if you really thought Tower Bridge was such a prolific long-term gainer. Don't get me wrong; I would have loved to have purchased a handful of TBs at $150. But it wasn't the best deal ever and there were/are better uses of capital.

When you look at the back, you see 3 sets, maybe you thought of 3 on the back + 1 on the front = 4 sets (but the one on the front is also on the back). Or you saw the 10230 mini modulars: '> And the back of the PS displays this one on the corner, it looks wide so you could have thought there were 4 buildings side by side instead of 3. BTW here are the back of the modulars. Feel free to check. CC: '> GG: '> FB: '> GE: '> PS: '> TH: '> PC: '> PR: '> DO: '> (now I'm done with this off-topic, lol)

I must admit I have done this a few times. 1) I hate waiting up to 2 days for the buyer to maybe accept maybe not, especially if it is already a very good price and worried someone might give a better offer of buy it now 2) Sometimes it is because the ebay bucks deal is in play and worried the buyer will take too long to accept and I won't get the 10% back 3) Makes me feel like a real man

OOS at LEGO Shop at Home until Dec 1st. Can still be ordered though. Could be a decent flip for a few weeks.

all fixed

There is a a lot of discussion about them in the results thread. The bird is ok. TBBT is horrible and will probably be the demise of lego

I believe it was a limit of 5 still this past summer. It will be out 2 years come May 2015, so I wouldn't be surprised if it "retires" around then. The set always seems to be at the bottom of the list when you sort by "best selling" at places like Target and TRU, if those indicators mean anything.

Ah, ok, sorry, certainly it's because my english is poor and sometimes it's hard for me to 100% understand a post, that's why I thought that your post... ...meant "there are usually more than 3 sets on the back" (that's what I interpreted as a misinformation). IMHO there's nothing "interesting to note" (no offense) and that's this part that has tickled me ^^ because it has always been this way that Lego has displayed the back of modulars boxes, since 2008. If you had written "as usual, only the last 3 sets are displayed", I wouldn't have pointed your message. I didn't want to upset anyone but sometimes it's better to be a little rude to stop immediately rumors and speculations which are spreading online at light speed. Unfortunately it seems that I misunderstood your message, sorry for that. Well, I can't really explain what I feel with words, so let's use a smiley:

I'll finally be able to create my Chief Wiggum, PI scene now, especially if Simpsons minifigs series 2 has Principal Skinner in it.

Have you bought your ipad in Australia ?

A bit like the guy a year or two ago who put in his listings, "If you're not buying my stuff, STOP WATCHING MY LISTINGS"

LEGO won't lose Star Wars. It is a huge part of their line up and with new movies coming out that will give them tons of opportunities to make new sets and cash in.

I think this line is going to do very well in the coming year. The 'TRU exclusive' nightmare is finally coming to a close, which has clouded the actual potential of this line over the last ten months or so. Even now, there are still a few VCs and werewolves floating around at TRU in Canada (as well as the other sets in the line in other places at MSRP), so I don't think we'll see the best gains until next Halloween and 2016. That being said, I think this line has classic appeal and unless it is remade in the next 12 months or so those that stuck by the MF line will be rewarded. Or I'm delusional.

If anyone here is a 30 Seconds To Mars fan, then this video is a must see. If you don't know who 30 Seconds is....watch and you will like! Sorry, I'm not talented enough to copy the video here, just a link. nvm.......

Or it is an extremely slow mover with a warehouse full of them and they intend to make it retire.

Hello fellow BrickPickers... Starting October 1, 2014, BrickPicker will be starting a BrickPicker Blog Group. In the past, we utilized blog contests to acquire new content. We would like to improve on that method and actually pay experienced and knowledgeable BrickPicker members to write new content for the site. The content will be similar to older blog articles and reviews, with a heavy emphasis on LEGO investing...but any quality LEGO topic can qualify. Qualified members will earn a $5 Gift Card to Amazon, LEGO S@H, etc... for every 1000 words/5000 characters in the content that is submitted and approved by Jeff and myself. There is a new application in the Wordpress blog editor that tracks this and the "readability" of the blog. It is one method that I will use to differentiate quality writing from poor writing and helps take photos and images out of the equation as well. I will talk more about this to approved blog writers. How does one become an approved blog writer? Several ways. Mods will have access to the group and will be able to post new content. Previous blog contest winners/runner ups are automatically qualified to be a blog writer. Jeff and I will invite some people who we think would be qualified to write content(if they are interested in doing so). Also, members can either produce content or show me previous work that indicates high literary ability. Approval is not guaranteed, but we will be honest and fair with any member that is interested in joining the group. We are trying to up the content bar. Jeff is working on a new homepage that will have a more interactive blog section to it. Some blog writers will have the ability to produce daily updates/content on the homepage that be front and center on the homepage. We want to produce "new" content, not just post links from other sites...and are willing to pay for it. If you are interested in joining this group and believe you are qualified, let me or Jeff know by PM. We will be sending out some invites to people over the next week or so. If you want to start writing, you can begin in the Wordpress blog editor. Please ask Jeff or I to enable your access to the Wordpress editor. There will be a private forum for blog writers and I will go over the new editor app and readability indexes with members. Also, Jeff will come up with a basic tracking system for blog writers that shows what they have produced and how much they earned. Any questions, please feel free to ask. Thanks...