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Sorry I just got done watching the bachelor, what were you saying? Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

Most stockpiled sets: Grand Emporium Volkswagen T1 Camper Van Fire Brigade Superman Vs Power Armor Lex R2-D2 Tower Bridge The Dynamic Duo Funhouse Escape Pet Shop Haunted House

So I had a great weekend building all these pirate ships: Black Pearl, Sea Cow, Queen Anne, Imperial Flagship and Brickbeard's Bounty. I tremendously enjoyde building both POTC vessels, great builds!!

Nope. Arctic Batman vs. Mr. Freeze...Helms Deep...Vampyre Castle.

Built the taller version of the beach hut. Lots of extra pieces, enough to add a second story roof but not to finish the third floor I'm going to put these two together tonight and see what I can come up with.

8039 Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser The joy of sorting loose LEGO, it took me about an hour. A very cool build. I really really like this ship.

You know a lot of smart Americans. Most are asleep and uninformed. They are too busy looking at Facebook and Snapchat.

As most everyone predicted ebay ruled that they cannot remove the feedback since you can apparently say any crap you want in a feedback if it is your opinion you don't like the item. I decided I'm not going to bother emailing this jerk to try to get him to remove the feedback. I replied to his neg: Buyer sent 2 additional items as well as given a refund - still left neg feedbck Wish I could burn him further. PM if you want his name for your blocked list. He doesn't seem to buy legos though but if you have anything with boobs that he might stain you should keep your eyes out for him. Hide your american girls.

Trust me, it isn't the only seller - there are lots of them (some don't even use paper - they just slap a label on the box.).

very nice, a lot of work ( could of got hcx to do that for you in a good year or so) but still nice lol so close to the 10k we could figure out an equation to when the time will be or you could just answer 1 response to 15 different threads and be done with the suspense. For good measure seeing its right before 11 and based on your daily amount of posts we will go with 1/17/2015 as the trivia question for when Exciter hit 10k Bold Arrow I hope you are taking notes and watching this post. Just making them up for you lol

It's one of those maddening situations, but they won't remove the feedback for a buyer's opinion on the transaction. Partial refunds are dicey -- they're perfectly appropriate in some cases and in some cases I offer them. At other times, they're nothing more than extortion. I recently got a neutral for refusing one (buyer was told to return for full refund, including shipping back to me, because I could tell she was one of those pros who always asks for money back) and I would have worn a negative from her with pride. Sorry it happened to you, it never does get to where it feels okay or right.

I had someone send me an email outside of eBay for a refund. I keep a 14 return policy really for fluff on my listings as I know most won't follow through I'm that time. She wanted to return something because she "thought" she was spending $100 but she was charged $130 (the listing was for $130 so idk where she got the number from) She said she'd return my item unopened but I opted not to accept the return. The item was delivered 12/11 so we're over a month out. I refused to receive it for the cases that have come through the past few days. I'm holding strong on this and don't want buyers to think they can take advantage of me for some bs reason. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

Got a new phone...better picture:

Did not realize you can now download an exact report of the exact item number of any defect you receive. It gives you the item number, and reason or reasons. This is very useful information especially if you focus on the ones that left 1,2,3 stars as that is not one you can normally figure out on your own. The case ones and feedback ones are obvious and I always blocked those before as well. Was disturbed to see that over the 3 months 3 were for LEGO polybags seeing we box every single one of them unlike most that use bubble mailers. Good to know though as you can block any of the users to prevent them from doing it to you again. With that info you can also track to make sure there was not sabotage done by the same person. Very surprised they wound up doing this as it was always anonymous. I would not recommend contacting anyone as that is against policy and might take the feature away but at least now you can prevent yourself from future dealing with that person.

2 Grand Prix from Spain, through France, to the midwest USA:

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.

Something like this; it was taken before I wrapped the modulars around my Christmas Tree.

I shared my Printable LEGO Label collection with many of you in the past, but I wanted to let you know that I just completed a large update which includes many common Technic parts. I got a *lot* of comments and emails indicating that you want more labels, so I hope you enjoy. A sample of the new Technic labels. The labels look great on any organization system. LINK: Learn more and download at http://tomalphin.com Sincerely, ---tom

That is part of the Toy Story train.

It's pretty obvious now everyone is dying for the top 20-50 list. It should be it's own thread at this point as this has barely been about tower bridge all day. Which is fine, but maybe we can get that list Ed? Cause I'm also intrigued to know. Otherwise people will just go in a round about way naming more sets and asking if it's close to top 10. haha

Very nice.

I like that stud shooter. I can see someone losing an eye though. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

I count 2 sets under $119.99 on that list of top 10 from Ed.

Doubtful....they are too many people here scouring world for deals rather than pay full price for amazing sets.

This is an excellent point. It all boils down to supply and demand. As more and more people discover Lego (again, in the case of AFOL), I personally think the modulars will be the focal point of many collectors. Even highly-hoarded sets like FB and PS will eventually see nice appreciation and low stocks. Give each modular a few years from EOL, and I think many will follow the path of GC.

Yeah LEGO just went nuts to throw out the trash nobody wanted. Seeing a DUPLO set on the first exclusive page is depressive though. At least I know that awesome stuff is coming this year. What I like is that modulars seem to be constantly out of stock now. It signals a high demand for these sets. I don't think people are hoarding PR, it should be true demand. And this means our stashed retired stuff will rise nicely.

Just got 2 Benny's spaceships at

Plus people like me who are holding a bunch but haven't done inventory lately. Whoops! Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

Couple more thoughts, we lose another competitor, a fairly major one, though I suppose Targets` impact is now debatable. Walmart does extremely well here in Canada, how they thought they could just move up and compete with poor infrastructure like this is beyond. What`s worse is Target actually has some very good real estate locations, and I mean that. They have several spots that I`ve visited or know of that are really quite good. They would have done in all likelihood very well up here, but a series of extreme changes needed to be made, and they needed to have done that before opening 133 stores which they could not properly manage or supply. Anyone up here who bought clearance deals from Target, and I have as well on my travels (have visisted 15+ stores personally across the country) knows that feeling of getting a great "American type" deal here in Canada. Like 50% or more, which happens so rare to us up here. Agreed very much you guys. Just serves to show that they tried to offer what they do in the States but completely failed at how they should go about doing that. Anyway, we can now do what we did a few years ago. At least Amazon.ca has come into play as well in the last couple years will Lego, they`ve had some serious clearance deals already (50, 60, 75%) though some of those sets were useless investments.

Halfway done on 10213 ... Awesome build so far.

I thought it was a bit of a running joke on the forum, but now I've seen it first hand. I ordered TLM Benny's Spaceship for a reasonable price ($75 shipped). I arrive at home this afternoon to find a delivery from the post office. The seller wrapped the set in CHRISTMAS WRAPPING PAPER, slapped a shipping label on it, and sent it to my house. Of course the wrapping paper is ripped, the box is still sealed, but mangled. UGH! I'm frustrated to say the least. Last month it was stollen/lost packages that I took a loss on, now it's s seller who can't even be troubled to use an outer shipping container. The seller has not responded to my message. I can't seem to catch a break. I'm thankful Brick Classifieds is starting to take off.

It's been said a hundred times. Forget auctions, many just lead to headaches with deadbeat bidders. Now, I almost exclusively use BIN with immediate paypal required. eBay is so stacked against sellers, it's completely out of control.

LOL , I summarized 3 things out of the first 2 pages of the 18 page thread summary ( to much for me to read at this time of the night and the state of mind I am in) 1. Most of the posts made were not people posting 1.5 years later 2. The shortest Emazers post in a very long time and not signed "Ed" (6 words and possibly 1.5 years later) 3. An Ice Cube reference which in my very strange world is priceless as I graduated that year (yes 1993 seems a very long time ago but is still younger then most of the senior posters on this site which in a weird way makes me feel good lol) Maybe tomorrow when I feel a little more motivated while in Nashville I will read the rest. Oh and don't think for a moment if I can get my Niko Papa... however you spell its names new business address I will take a photo of the legends place of work and post it here for all the world too see!!!

Well, for that big post, I would really like to post something like this classic. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/3667-may-30th-amazon-sale-happening-now/?p=116441 I bunch of threads were merged to make this summary.

Absolutely. Took my boy there a week ago and he had a blast. Need to stop back by there this weekend.

Congratulations and a little envy.....

it says shipping date is feb 25

EOL date and investment potential are still in flux. If only we had a time machine...

Funny that, a warning sign indeed, now, thou at the time it appeared to be an honest effort to herd the masses back in the door to claim ownership of their position in the marketplace & maybe to correct the unbalanced optics vs the American version of Target we expected.

been down this road before man. Don't Call eBay. It will only add to your aggravation. As you will tell and explain your situation to dome dude in some far off country who won't comprehend. They will go by the book and off script and tell u it csnt be removed as your buyer had an unpleasant experience. Send the dude a special gift. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

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'm, sorry my neighbors to the north. We just recently lost the two Kmarts that I went to around here - I have other options but losing a store sucks. Seeing empty buildings sucks, losing jobs sucks. There is just no other way around it. - It sucks.

Well here's a real kick in the bricks. Earlier it was reported the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has stated that The Lego Movie is not considered one of the five best animated films for 2014. Instead the film gets nominated for an Oscar in Best Original Song with of course "Everything Is Awesome". The five animated films which did make the list are The Boxtrolls, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Big Hero 6, Song of the Sea, and The Tale of Princess Kaguya. I will admit those are all good although I haven't seen the last three yet. Actually I didn't even know Song of the Sea and Princess Kaguya were out yet. Still by comparison, I don't quite see how The Lego Movie wasn't up to snuff with the likes of Big Hero 6 for example. Ah well, not like I need some institution to tell me how awesome The Lego Movie is. And for those who didn't 'get' The Lego Movie, well, sucks to be you.

We define "destroyed" differently.

You aren't a serious investor unless you have 100 rovers....sorry buddy ;)

40109 Mini MINI Cooper 10-in-1 by dark_syntax

You guys sure? Looks legit to me.

Working on the Technic Helicopter finally getting around to building.