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I think there are plenty of people on this forum who will help the novice sellers out there, just don't ask for a step by step instruction manual. People have to do some homework themselves and the only real teacher is experience. I think many members get upset for instance when a new member comes on the site and requests a list of sets to buy or the best methods when selling. The info is here. Search for it. Study it. Then ask educated questions. The founding fathers of this site hate lazy people.

sorry to cause a major thread derailment. When I replied to mscheaf's post was just trying to put out there what needed to be done to get more exposure and why his items may or may not being ignored. Didn't know it would turn into a "not to help or help" debate. I'll always help with whatever advice I can in the fields I have a ton of expertise in. 15 years on ebay and 250,000+ feedbacks over that time period has taught me quite a few lessons and if I can share some of that advice with newer users than I am more than happy to (time permitting). All sorts of users on here give out plenty of info that helps us all out in there fields (stock levels, store inventories, coupons codes, script alerts etc etc). So for some to say giving out strategies to get higher search results and better sales is helping to much I don't buy into that. There is more than enough room for this business online. This site's success is based on help and information and that shows in its member growth. Just in the last week I've had multiple users help out in various ways through forums or pm's of which if they didn't post that or contact I would never have that info in the first place. So if I can help in my fields than that is my way of contributing to the community.

I just finished this massive project. It took so long. It's my first time capturing a technic build on video. I'm not sure why I went all out crazy, but I'm pleased with the results. I even included an extremely fast build on the Hovercraft at end. I hope you enjoy watching as much as I did building.

Wait...are you guys saying that you never have received BOGO for every order you've made in the past? I thought everyone got that deal...I always just figured it was an unwritten promo they ran... "Here's a Chima bike with your order and hey, if you lift that polybag up, under that you'll see..no no, keep going, under the random Bionicle promo flyer, lift that up. No no, that's the invoice. Now, take that out and you'll see...No, that's the circular with the page of random sets we need to increase sales on, lift that up. Oh dam**t, there's the keychain and the Jor-el, we sure do pack a lot of sh*t in here for you guys. Ok ok, now lift that up...There it is!! The EXTRA 10225 R2-D2 we tossed in for your loyalty. That's just a bonus because well, we like you. A lot."

Using an Apple device by any chance?

There are ways to help people without giving out all your trade secrets. Beginners who are smart will read through the blogs and posts and learn before they ask. Everyone is a novice at some point. Treat them with respect, but let them earn their information.

5 MF 180 6 Elsa 110 3 Chi Lion Temple 150 4 Sith Interceptor 90 2 AA 280 3 20216 90 1 SC 180 Forest Police $90 3 X Wing $80 a bunch of random stuff too

That one is mine She is always in the middle of everything as you can see here

Just swapped them over to energizer. That's the last time Duracell embarrasses me on a public forum!

I hear LEGO is starting a new production run of AAs to make it up to the people who didn't get one. I guess the set is not done. That will serve you right!!

Have you ever had the desire to sell any? Or was it part of your master plan to keep building the collection until a certain point / timeframe. Just curious. To accumulate the mass amount of sets you have without selling a set is pretty amazing. Have you not sold anything at all across the board or just LEGO (I think I remember saying you collected the old Jordan sneakers as well) I personally have just always liked to buy and sell things. I do save stuff as well but for me its full time so income is a priority. back in 1999 was 24 and about to be promoted to a district manager for a retail company and was kind of doing ebay on the side and said screw it I'm going to try to make it work on my own. Everyone thought I was crazy but corporate retail was not for me. 15 years later still doing it.

Did a search on just my LEGO sales for the past 30 Days 59% of transactions were from 11/12-11/30 41% of transactions were from 12/1-12/12 Last 7 days 22% of transactions Pretty even % week by week considering the Nov part was 18 days of the 30. So if you factor in those 3 days as 3.2% makes it close to 50/50 so 25% per week. Couldn't ask for a more even ratio for packing weekly and not getting overly bombarded.

Yup there are a bunch more popping up on ebay. I think people just don't know about this set, otherwise they would be selling instantly. I just have one more to sell and one is going to my 7 year old niece. The only thing she loves more than legos is frozen and she has no idea this set exists. Can't wait to see the look on her face.

Preorder your Elsa's Castle through Amazon: http://www.amazon.co...=brickpicker-20

More Santa's Workshop just shipped from Toys R Us. Just in time to flip.

Woke up to an alert for RI at LEGO Shop at Home. This is what the page says: The Research Institute is available now online with limited quantities, so be sure to order as soon as possible. It is coming soon to LEGO

Fsu is a 8.5 pts underdog. (that's money in the bank) Osu is 9.5 pts underdog. (also money in the bank) Urban Meyers is a great coach. Used a 2nd String QB and demolished Wisconsin. (Wisconsin shouldn't be ranked period) FSU should be ranked ahead of Oregon, (imo, Oregon's only true victory was against MSU) FSU will most likely fired the Defensive Coordinator and maybe pickup Muschamp. They should rearranged the SEC. (the west is stacked) Ohio State over Baylor/Tcu was also a regional influence. (FSU, Bama, and Baylor or Tcu) All southern teams. Having said that, I think OSU was still the right choice especially after Wisconsin. Whichever team wins this year will by no ands, ifs or buts be the Champion of College Football, Hands down.

FWIW I'm completely willing to pick these up and ship to anyone at cost interested in them. I'll get the TRU rewards so it's a possible win-win.

Glad everyone is self justifying why to dump these. I'll self justify keeping and getting more. This is the best and LAST non UCS OT version of this with young OT characters. That has value. The next version will have Grandpa Solo in it and be for the new movie.

Nice listing and good luck! One of your watchers is me, because I want to see if anyone bites. One suggestion, possibly a minor one. I'd remove the part about it soon to be available on January 1. If potential buyers know they can get one at retail in a few short weeks it may limit your potential candidates.

I added a few sets that you requested I also added a new status for LEGO that will now show certain items as BACKORDERED which is the status where you can still add the items to cart, even if they won't ship for a few weeks. A few sets have that status now.

6x lego Elsas from Atlanta

he meant "couple thousands sets"

Honestly. I'm just too busy with real job, the site and my family to start selling. Do I have any regrets about not selling? I used to until the new STAR WARS movies were announced and all my old LEGO sets started appreciating again. All my old Bionicle sets will follow suit as well with the rerelease of the theme. I'm sure there are some sets that have plateaued, but nothing major. As I often say, my way is not the most efficient or productive method of LEGO investing.

We unloaded all of our 401k and spent it on 7569, and 7569 only. My daughter's wedding, sons college, and my retirement all hinge on 7569's future success. It's day is coming.

because: 1. its retiring. brickset has its end date as 12/1/14. 2. its a sw original trilogy set with msrp over $100. it don't get more OT than the MF. it has OT minifigures. 3. its the second largest MF. no guarantee the next one is going to be bigger. maybe if i knew with 100% certainty and insider knowledge that there was going to be a 3000 piece MF in 2015, it might temper my enthusiasm. since I don't, i'm treating 7965 like its a cheap modular. 4. 3 and a half years after its release, it was the most "wish listed" SW lego set on amazon. that demand isn't going to just go away now that its not available for msrp from major retailers. i'm looking for 7965 to make the jump to 2.5x MSRP light space around this time next year barring bouncing too close to a supernova. don't forget - it made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.

What I heard from a TRU employee today: Customer - "do you have a section for stocking stuffers?" Employee - "do you mean socks?"

Found 4 Creative Buckets 10662 at Walmart yesterday at $30 each. Sold them all for $56 each + shipping today.

Today has been slower but I have had a very good season on my sales. It could be better but I am very happy. Dropped 45 packages off today last 2-3 days orders. Hope things work out for everyone.

that is hilarious. At least you're being up front that there may be cat dander on the product. It's RIGHT there in the photo Also, OT, but thanks so much for the heads up on the R2 at the Raleigh Lego store a day or so ago! I was stoked to find it.

I imagined a scenario where the SGE monster stomped the ice castle & Olaf vs Olaf showdown --> #winning

I would like to remind everyone that two mediocre Big12 teams seem to be doing just fine in the SEC.... And yes, Choklahoma had a TERRIBLE year....

It looks the same every time I see it.

If you thought it was really going to retire after less than one year that's your problem

With the degree and quality of sarcastic posts around here these days, I think a "sarcastic poster" award would be fun. Can't think of a fun graphic for it, but will give it some thought.

Awesome video as always! No numbered bags and all those stickers great builder you are.

Probably worth a whole thread sometime, or a blog post, but do you consider it a mistake to have not sold anything at all in your time investing? Clearly there are tons of examples where you probably could have sold and reinvested profits of sets which have either plateaued or even decreased from their peak.

You MF'ers made me buy another MF'ing MF. My 10% coupon didn't take, but the 15% coupon + CC 10% worked.

Yes it is. Arctic Ice Breakers have been very good to me.

You may want to pickup one of these electronic scales, they're on sale right now and they will save alot of time. It will save hours of time for your to prepare your boxes ahead of time with pre-printed labels rather than standing in line at the post office or any other shipping office. http://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-Scales-Table-Postal/dp/B004W7IOV4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418321477&sr=8-1&keywords=shipping+electronic+scale On sale for about $20 and it works great.

I would love the idea if using brickpicker cost say 20 bucks a year. More then worth it for the knowledge and use of brickfolio.

Crazy speculation here... are the first wave of SW Microfighters on the way out? WIth "Series 2" coming in 2015, I could see it. Would Microfighters see the increases Mixels have? Like I said, crazy speculation, but complete "sets" of these small money items tend to grow well for the first in a series. Compare prices of CMF series 1 and 2 or look at the growth in Mixels series 1. Thoughts?

I wasn't lucky enough to have many of those systems at the time they were available but I did get to play with different buddies who did which probably was more fun that way in playing the games together anyhow. Plus later on various chances arose to buy up a lot of it for cheap way before the sudden surge of people scouring over to collect them nowadays. Moving along, I already posted quite a few soundtracks back in the topic here like The Terminator and both versions for Sonic CD (there were two entirely different soundtracks depending on region both are awesome in my opinion) on the Sega CD, some SNES, PlayStation, and even a few arcade music track lists. Offhand, the soundtrack for the indie game Hydorah is f'ing brilliant. Ah, that is a great tune followed by another good one from the same album of "Welcome to the Machine". Minimal lyrics but trippy visuals of a story.

To be honest, I wouldn't expect a seller who is trying to make a living out of this, share all his secrets if it's going to cut into his profits. This game seems to be getting more crowded by the day and some people have kids to support. I think a lot of it is just common sense and being aware of how much time you're spending and thinking of ways you can make your workflow more efficient. As well as just doing the research. It's like anything else, you've got to put the time and effort in. There's no free money. Everyone wants something for nothing these days without putting the effort in and being prepared to learn from their own mistakes as they go along. There's plenty of info here for anyone to be able to make money. I'm always grateful for any scraps of advice or info I can get, and I wouldn't hold it against someone if they wanted to keep that to themselves. It's a competitive market. I can't see myself getting to the stage where I'm packing 30-40 boxes a day, or this becoming my main source of income. But I still need to be careful about what I spend and how I'm going to turn a profit on it. That's down to me, and if people are buying 1000s of dollars/euros worth of Lego and are struggling to make their money back, then that's on them. There's plenty of warning and info on here about how to avoid that.

Day 8: Meijer Haul

Thanks a ton everybody for all the great suggestions. I decided to go with BIN with make offer to keep some control over who I sell this to. Great idea marcandre http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-LEGO-Star-Wars-75060-UCS-Slave-1-IN-HAND-AND-READY-TO-SHIP-/131375946984?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

While many Lego products are purchased as Christmas presents for children, the items i have are mostly for collectors, and likely purchased BY collectors for themselves. I'm actually anticipating a large influx of business AFTER christmas once everyone has received their gift cards, cash, etc. Anyone else hoping / planning for that angle? (fill in expensive set name here) isn't going under the tree for Timmy, it's going to be a gift from 37 year old Fred to Fred for surviving the holidays, and maybe funded by his Christmas bonus (or a month or two later funded by his tax refund).

I am nearly sold out of my investments this year, and while I can't brag and boast about rificulous through the roof profits, I'd say my profits were decent. Havent tallied them up yet, but not bad for a working mom. Probably would have made a lot more if I could devote more time to it, but between work and the rest of my life, time is a premium right now.

My holiday sales are through the roof. Leading the charge is a non-lego sku that I bought 667 of from walmart .com, with an average COGS of $12.96 and so far an average sell price of $75.04. I've already sold 425 units. I'll likely sell through before xmas.

I disagree. That'd like letting them win. Keep reporting them to eBay keep sending hate mail. Keep telling lego. Or for most of you.... Start.