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Sometimes, you have to sell for political reasons. Sold a SSD 10221 for $725. Long story: Managed to get a couple of SSDs last month, below RRP. I had to spend some political captial with the wife to make the transaction happen. Since these were taking me over my target number of SSDs, wife insisted that I try to flip one before the end of the year. I agreed to it, and it sold last night. Once she heard what we cleared, after taxes/fees, she was a little disappointed (which is a good thing). It reminded her why we're holding onto to some of these sets. So, I politically won the battle, cleared over $200 for holding onto an SSD for a month, and everyone's happy (more or less).

Winding mountain roads and a manual transmission.

So I guess everyone eBay is not a serious seller?

Still, sold out is more encouraging than 'temporarily out of stock' like other sets we're pretty sure are coming back (or already came back).

Yes its just dummy text for now, it will all be replaced with real content very soon. The word LEGO overall is fine, it will be good for Search Engines later. Whether people want to include it or not, it doesn't matter to me. I do have a shipping calculator in the works that will help with Domestic and International prices to help people build shipping profiles if they want. If you have used Etsy before it works just like that which we feel is a good fit for this type of marketplace.

My collection is very small at the moment and look very boring compared to most on here I also have the new Mini Cooper, research lab and Ecto 1 but they are currently sitting unbuilt at the mother in laws!

Someone needs to make sound brick(s?) that play the sounds of those birds. Package them with the set and make mucho

Welcome to the site. As a fellow relatively new member, I've learned from the wisdom of the group, and would definitely advise a lot of lurking before actual purchasing. Based on your intro, buying $50 a month worth of sets won't return the short term gains you would like unless you're extremely lucky. Definitely start saving that money, but don't deploy it unless a "sure thing" comes along. Quick flipping is tough business, and margins are often slim. Fees are high on eBay (13-20% depending whether you pay for shipping and have cheap shipping materials), and selling through other avenues may take longer or have fewer customers. You also missed the prime holiday sellling season, which is unfortunate. Make sure to do your research before buying sets; look up the all time lowest prices and try to make sure you won't be undercut on pricing. Look on Bricklink or other sites for the minifig values and see what a worst care scenario part out might return. Stalk Craigslist for bulk lots on the cheap and try to put together used sets. You can lick into short term success here, but as an admitted newbie like myself a few short months ago, I would definitely advise a "measure twice , cut once approach". Good luck!

Maybe our "target" seller is not all that serious. Maybe it's the small seller, with 5 or 10 sets that dabbles in this that we are looking to make happy. Maybe that's what most of our 37,000 members are. Maybe we are the Etsy of LEGO sites.

Anybody take notice of how much a Slave I looks like a right angle grinder?

Hey all, I joined the site Dec. 27, 2014. Glad to be here. I lurked around for a bit before deciding to introduce myself. I'm a 25 (26 in Jan) Y/O newlywed from a small town in KY. I've never been into Lego actually, my parents never got them for me as toys and i never thought about them. My new wife's best friend's husband (fathers brothers nephews cousins former roommate) is a big child, which is not bad. He has more toys than most grown adults, but the kicker is he gets them to play with. His Legos are all opened, and not assembled, but that's neither here nor there. Point is i started to wonder how much he had spent on them, and that led me to wondering how much they would be worth if he had never opened them. One thing led to another and after researching a bit i found that Lego could very well be a profitable endeavor, which leads me to this site. back story over. Now what i am doing here...I have no interest in collecting Lego but the value of them is something that interests me greatly. i have actually done a bit of resale in the past and it is a hobby i enjoyed. My basic plan for now is to set a budget of about $50.00 a month starting Jan 2015 for investing in these wonderful little blocks. Every quarter i will have an 80.00$+ any left over from the previous months to invest in a bigger (more expensive) set. I feel like doing this should definitely show me some profit in the coming years. It would help me greatly to get the opinions and insight of a pro, or at least someone more pro than me. As a beginner I am more than grateful to have found such a clean website and community. You all seem to support and look after each other and I look forward to all the advice i can get. That being said I would love to make some new friends interested in this, so feel free to talk to me. Thank you ALL for reading, and i guess to kick things off, what does everyone feel like a good investment set would be in Jan 2015??

This is just a little tid bit of info for how I will be trying to keep my inventory organized. A lot of you have a closet or tucked away place where you store your sets out of carboard boxes. While this is great to see it's not so great for little prying eyes. Of which I have two sets to contend with. The storage closet where I keep my sets is locked most of the time, but it also has bikes and other outdoor toys in it for my boys. Just about all of the sets in this closet are in carboard boxes of varies sizes. Enough of the back story. I have created a pdf Label template to put on the outside of my cardboard boxes to help me keep track of whats inside each box. There is a thumbnail of the theme (to aid me) for each label. I've also added a line item to let me know to hold or to sell the item. These labels were set up to use with 1/2 sheet labels (5.5x8.5) that I print my shipping lables on through eBay. Take a look and let me know what you think. This label can be filled out via acrobat. (pm me if you'd like a copy of the labels)

Not sure if this belongs in the complaint T thread or I live it thread.... But when u go out for a 30 min trip and it turns into a four hour trip cause u keep scoreing insane deals. Forced to eat some crappy food on the road. My life is so hard. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

Bought: 4 x 70014 Chima The Croc Swamp Hideout

Grand Emporium for one. On at least two or three occasions between June and October IIRC.

Yes, it's listed as sold-out. Not official until we see the "retired product" text :(

Hey hey hey

As the name states, I'll be rooting for the "washed up, dead armed, Peyton Manning" lead Broncos

Since Christmas day, a lot of LotR / Hobbit. Perhaps the faithful will be rewarded.

Exactly. It's much cheaper to just buy the Mr Freeze minifig. I have 10 of these and don't plan on getting more unless under $15

well I have some of that set as well.?35-40 Euro as target area is too low, the set sold here about that range this christmas. I guess it will be at least 50 Euro after retirement and 60 Euro Xmas 2015. My target area is between 60-70 Euro for that little gem.

Welcome to the forum Duckyluck! No additional advice from me. Except that in my opinion getting close with your product will help you make better business decisions. So maybe you can borrow some legosets from your wife's friend's husband just to build? I would recommend it. Good luck Duck!

I don't think so. Not that much I mean. Mr Freeze is equal to Magneto IMHO, but Aquaman is not Deadpool, and an other Batman suit is not Wolverine. Success of the 6866 was because it contained 3 exclusives minifigs (not just suits) of popular characters (especially wolverine). Aquaman, kids don't care about him (if they ever know him), Batman is ok but only collectors would be interested in this 287th version of Batman, and Mr Freeze is great, no doubt, but this character was available in a 10

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BricksBen - LEGO Floppy Disk - 3.5-Inch and 5.25-Inch by BricksBen LEGO

doing the John Manziel money fingers Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

Welcome to the site and good introduction. Now you have 7 days to contribute a deal or be hulk smashed. We earn our keep around here. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

Confirmed, Dolphin Cruisers 2 X shipped on multiple orders from YoYo.com.

Taken off of Groovebricks....is the entirety of this list common knowledge already? January: 75069 Slave 1, 10246 Detective

Ok, right. I stand corrected.

Not a good new: available from january 5th on amazon italy at 142,98

C'mon, you can't keep all the fun to yourself all the time!

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Welcome to the site!

Shake that tail, but watch yourself.Shake that tail, show me what ya workin' with! :bling:

A little project I've been working on. I have a second Viper almost complete. I have a couple minor tweaks to make to this one, but I'll get all the parts to complete both when I start ordering the parts for my classic Cylon Raider I'm building to go with them.

75083 - AT-DP 75085 - Hailfire Droid

Welcome to the forums duck. You'll enjoy the investment bug no doubt, especially with the all the resources on here.

Welcome to the site. Lots of great information and deals to be found on here.

Star Wars Summer 2015 Set List? How's that for something on a slow day? Especially of note: 75093 Death Star Final Duel and 75094 Imperial Shuttle Tydirium

Read this to the kids and put them to bed. Sipping a Bourbon and Coke and wrapping presents. Life is good. http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/christmas/twas.html

75078 - Imperial Troop Transport 75079 - Shadow Troopers 75081 - T-16 Skyhopper 75082 - TIE Advanced Prototype 75090 - Erza's Speeder Bike

I take everything Tabby says with a boulder of salt.

Cops and 42

You know what they aren't going to do? Come on here and tell everyone how to do it.

I really love all those nice displays! (And storage room photos of well though I thought there was a thread especially for that). There are quite some great pictures and I especially love the fact that there are other nutcases who love LEGO like I do Don't really have any big displays right now since I lack the space and the time to do so. But I got my minifigs displayed and maybe some here enjoy the pictures so I'll post some of them ^.^

Isn't it going to be confusing for sellers with hundreds of items for sale? I believe some people, like Bold Arrow for example, like to list stuff when they buy them setting the price to be whatever their target is, and then just let the sets appreciate. For me, it would be fine if "deactivate" still keeps the listing up (visible to me), but just requires me to hit "reactivate"

will listings expire after a set period of time or will it be a set it and forget it type of structure? I usually set my prices and wait for the market to catch up for the most part, especially if I am listing a fair amount of sets.

I am glad you like the Brick Trader feature. Brick Classifieds will be a whole new site and not even be attached to Brickpicker or the forums at all. Over time elements of both sites will cross paths with information, but they will be their own platforms.

War Machine was my only reason for getting the set for collection as well. If someone is realy into getting Iron Man and all the suits, they have to get this set. Otherwise, I think the set is kind of useless. I'd grab at least a few. They seem to be cheaper at the moment. The price can only go up,especially if there aren't any other sets released with him when this goes EOL.