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Another little thing to always check when you get a negative before leaving your response or calling ebay is the "feedback left for others" tab of the buyer. You would be surprised how many of these people have done this repeatedly. You will have a little more ammo in your call if the buyer has done it multiple times. I had one guy who had left 8 negatives out of his last 10 transactions. There was a trend and it helped the situation. You are allowed to leave that in the response as well if it happened. You can't leave it as there main feedback but as a response to yours is fine. If it was just a first time he did this a good response is below that fits in the allotted amount of characters. It shows how much you did for the buyer while showing you've never had issues with the product and they were still not happy which others will see as the person just being an a$$. Most of your buyers will actually leave overly positive comments when they see what someone did to you and reading a response like that. Sold over 50 w/o issue, sent 2 extras at no charge & $10 refund, still left neg.

Gavin's father reached out to me today. They are organizing a fund raiser to help pediatric patients at the local hospital. It will involve a LEGO build event with all sorts of activities for children and families, including Star Wars and Disney characters. Their foundation is called Gavin's Warriors and I am honored to be asked to volunteer. He also shared this picture of Gavin with his minifigure shelf. Helping Gavin was one of the highlights of the year for me in 2014. Thanks again to all my fellow Brickpickers who helped make it happen.

Two words: Parisian Restaurant

Seems a newish trend on ebay that the final agreed upon price is not actually the real final price for both auctions & fixed price listings... usually with a single email back to the seller you're gonna get at least a %20 partial refund almost automatically just to have you not post feedback (whether it's mentioned or not) it's the wild west there now so you just have to be prepared to deal with this as a seller - some low FB sellers or sellers with 100% +ve or TRS status will go so far as to give you a full refund & let you keep the item - so much FREE stuff on there available to anyone for the cost of a simple little non-threatening email... now it's actually to your advantage to have a few negatives (with professionally worded & passive rebuttals) as a seller so that the pilferers will know that you are not going to supply instant cashback or hushmoney at no risk/effort to them. just like "the club" from the 80's - it's no real security for your car but it's just enough to encourage the nasties to just try someone else.

At least he's tapping stuff rather than taping. ;)

Those butchered reindeer would sell well with the Hot Dog Stand and next year's Carousel.

I will be selling WV Butcher with the Raindeer from Santa's Workshop for 1 package deal

sauromosis posted an excellent pic of all the mod buildings. at least to me, it's pretty clear why many members think the pet shop is the boring one of the bench.

I dunno...when you're shipping boxes and stuff that's not exactly the best time to be tapping...could end up like these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrSYqiqvzc

Build two of these tie fighters to accompany the 10175 in pursuit of the 10240.

Could you leave him feedback that states "Buyer likes to remove the clothes from dolls and examine their breasts"? Seems accurate by your account and makes him seem a little creepy, if anyone were to ever read it.

"All The Bags!!!"

I'm with you. If any of you want to get out of your investment at the $20 buy-in, I'll help you unload them. I QFLL'd them for more than 3x RRP when they were TOOS. These will go for gold again. If you're impatient, then you are in the wrong game, because if you can't wait out a $20 set to double or triple it's value, there's no way you'll be patient enough for a Modular or SSD to double or triple it's value.

I'll give $379?? Lol

Ask and you shall receive. Available at Walmart. Mods please add aff link.

I'm surprised to see disappointment from those that hoarded these. Anyone in Southern California that want's to shed these like a bad exo-suit, give me a buzz. This set is absolute solid gold in my eyes. In the US, just the empty box can be sold for $12 shipped. Solid. Gold.

this time I didn't leave any for lil Tim

I bought quite a nice lot on my local craigslist

We just got "Rickrolled" in an Architecture topic. I didn't see that coming.

I didn't think 10179 needed any explanation. Or at least it shouldn't on this website;)

Thanks for the intel. You saved me a trip. Unfortunately I don't have any lego stores or discovery centers in my neck of the woods.

I am going to the Brickvention in Melbourne today, there are a small no. storeholders who are licenced lego dealers, they may have some information in who has what exclusive for 2015 as they may have enquired, I will keep everyone posted.

This is what I've been seeing:

Tip of the week. Thank you.

If anyone is seeing these at that price and doesn't want them, please let me know. I am looking to get as many of these as possible to expand my personal train lines in my house. We can arrange a trade in BT/purchase in BC.

Bought three sets of Mixels series four and the box!

Maybe I am trying to justify the stock I have hoarded concerning 10235...The best counter argument may be 10229. Similar piece count, I don't recall 10229 being loved either because of the 99.99 price point. 10229 certainly isn't as interesting (to me). However the 1st christmas after EOL (less than 10 months from vaporizing from all retailers) this set was fetching a near double on ebay (without consideration of fees and shipping). So 65-80% take home in less than a year. Yes it can be done better in other sets closer to retirement however this one (10235) is a no brainer to me. The mini carousel can be paired in other builds (carnival type) and this set has 9 figs. Decent selection of parts, some HTF or exclusive to this set. I don't understand the argument behind not liking it (for financial purposes only). Just say'******...felt like throwing in my 2 cents.

It seemed like you could only get 2 full set per box in Series 3. Here is the write up and breakdown. Good luck http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50063

Here is a polybag possibly planned for the start of next year that has already been spotted at a Target here in the US. Source

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I agree with this... their food section was a joke. It's funny, in my local paper there was obviously a lot of coverage in it with a number of quotes from the first Target Canada CEO. He lamented that people in Canada weren't accustomed to the "do all your shopping in one place" like American shoppers were. No wonder they didn't succeed here. People wanted a "Super Target" with a real grocery section, not some half-baked grocery section that stocks half as much of the exact same products and the same price as other stores. Walmart and Superstore kicked their sorry asses plain and simple. He also lamented about higher distribution costs, taxes, etc. If Walmart and Home Depot (I know, not the same market but an American company first) can be so successful up here then I can only say that the people who were responsible for bringing Target to Canada were just incompetent and not qualified. Target should have succeeded here.

Go to My Shop. One the left bar click Display Products. It open a drop down for "In Stock Products". Click on it to open the list of your items on the right window. Click the orange "Edit" button (under Action) EDIT by *JEFF* Adding Photo

There may also be movement of inventory from minor stores to the larger more trafficked stores as well in an effort to consolidate services as the shutdown begins.

I just got an email from Amazon.es updating 42000 delivery date to Feb 22. I think that's a good sign the order will process.

Don't leave a negative for your buyer . You will only hurt your business in the process . Buyers are allowed to leave negatives even if you refunded in full and let them keep the item. That's the way it goes unfortunately . You can try to contact the buyer and ask for a removal or leave a professional but brief reply to his feedback .

http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/lego-bricks-more-lego-lego-creative-tower-10664/6000189477534 Creative Tower online again this morning.. not sure how many are left! There are 2 to a Lego box.

I would call them and let them know you settled the claim, but he still left negative feedback.

It doesn't sound removable. Someone can buy a LEGO set of a house, and leave a negative feedback stating that it was just a toy, and that there's no way that their family is gonna fit in the house.

Valenciaeric, if the "science adventures" set is released, and you resell your RI now, you'll kick yourself for a decade. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/83039 Just wait some more months before deciding to unload them. Very bad timing to unload them now IMHO, it's about now that they will raise again in value (internationally). About 30/35

Train value pack 66493 Blue freight train 60052

Having Hxckid use capitalization and punctuation. It's like an episode of the Twilight Zone. Do do do. Do do do.

Only in America....

How about when the entire line of Mixels is finally done they come out with the instructions for the super, duper, crazy, monster, mega, OMG mixel supreme! The mother of all mixels that eats tower bridges and rides the SSD like the silver surfer!

Everything is.

No, it's not sold out worldwide. But, it's not available worldwide either (in my country it seems to only be found on ebay and marketplaces). It's not retiring !

Grand Emporium had Green Grocer on the back... TLC did not feel obligated to continue to produce Green Grocer though

There's just really no way to talk about smooshing the Hot Dog Guy and not sounding completely immature, is there?

Another food cart?? Oh Olivia, just STOP already. Whatever happened to the old days when you were into robotics and stuff?

We asked everyone to submit their final pledge by Sunday evening so all further donations can be directed to the family. Details on where to send those donations are above. Here is a quick update on the donations for the sets: We received $839.01 via Paypal after transaction fees. I am covering the transaction fees so adding that back ($25.99) plus my original pledge of $40, brings us to $905.00 (one $20 pledge is still outstanding). We purchased 4 sets that totaled $746.35. The remaining balance of $158.65 will go towards the minifigure shelf, or if that plan doesn't work out, another larger set.