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My first sale! Series 3 Gorilla Suit Guy $20 shipped. Found 16 Series 3 minifigures at my Target in Nov of last year for .06 each. Of those 16, two were this guy. Not a bad return in my opinion.

Am I addicted to LEGO? Ummm....no?

Don't know what this is, but don't think I should google it.

Gratitude is something I need to work on so I'll give it my best try here: Thanks to edgecrusher for the heads up on a Death Star. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/13718-daily-lego-deals-3252015/?p=443498 Thanks to 33Lego for the heads up on Ewok Village at TRU. I had some TRU rewards expiring and a gift card to burn. Timing was perfect. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/13718-daily-lego-deals-3252015/?p=443787 Thanks to Quacs for helping me sell a Mobile Heavy Cannon. Thanks to minicoopers11 for answering my questions on International Shipping. And a very special thank you to Legodog and Bold-Arrow for recent trades. I had the pleasure to meet both of these guys in person. They are friendly, knowledgeable, and just overall good guys. This should come as no surprise to everyone but I wanted to make sure they were recognized for their willingness to help others and to also work a trade that was a win-win for both parties. I'm starting to feel part of the community here and it's great to have resources like these fine gentlemen to help me get my small business rolling. I couldn't do any of this without Brickpicker. -BrickLegacy

If Mixels Series 2 prices stagnate, I'm blaming Canada.

Let me put it this way - if you have $500 to blow on a toy then an extra $1500 is not going to be worth alot to you. I don't think I am unique with my budget of $10k-$20k per year for my personal toy collection. If I needed a Town Hall I would not baulk at paying $2k for it if that was the cheapest available. I think we are long past the point of Town Hall being bought by those scraping by financially.

Those who cannot afford a high priced collectible were priced out many months ago so I don't see that as being an issue going forward. At least for me there is no difference spending $500 or $2000 on a collectible. I either have the money to be wasteful or I do not. I don't see a price stall until much higher. Just MO.

7 JOR El Polybags from the keychain deal for $63 shipped

Buy 7965 off the shelf now and go back with receipt tomorrow for price guarantee. Beat the wave this way.

I bought three 60057 Camper Vans that were on clearance at Target for $9.98 each, marked down from $19.99. I don't normally invest in City, but for 50% off I thought what the hell.

Heads up! Fred Meyer will have a 16-hour sale on April 4 where they will have Chima, Super Heroes, and Duplo 20% off plus there will be a 10% off Home in-ad coupon.

That's right - i just got my mail order tickets for this summer's top alien pop music festivals - jizzapalooza and jizzaroo. MRB will be headlining the dagobah stage - mudpit saturday night at both. The Grateful Bith are headlining friday night. so you don't have to google it yourself: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz

Classic Space 928 http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/set.cfm?set=928-1 Bought two Benny's with the proceeds

my next project is the market street. But I have to let the dust settle with my wife for at least a month. Since Christmas I've done the two brickbuilds, bought the entire pirates line, bricklinked the blue conversion for the brick bounty, bought my daughter the elves tree house and all the 2015 princess sets , the valentines and Easter set and detectives office. And that's all for personal build. My chequing acct is in shambles. Also the tax-man cometh soon.

Was it the one next to the washboard and banjo with the 3-legged dog in the background?

Man I wish I could find that picture of someone on here who was going after a Craigslist lot that had the Town Hall displayed on an ironing board.

With a budget of $10k-$20k a year, I think you're in the top 5% of this community. Mine is around $2k, if that. Don't get me wrong. I'm not hating on you, just jealous.

Buy! $40 off retail is a no brainer, this set is a winner in my opinion. Smaug goes for around $60 right now alone.

4th model (Macross) for the 31034 set

Citadel of the Loud Curse by mihaimariusmihu

I originally thought he was daft but now I think he was deft.

4 x 60057 Camper Van sets from Target... US$9.98 each. For once, the Target Inventory thingie worked for me!

I just got my Lego Fire Brigade from ebay paid $330 including shipping. Its for my sealed Modular collection.

Neither do I. I'm on the slow-accumulation plan. As an Ideas set, I'm expecting the normal 9 month +/- lifetime, EOL perhaps sometime this fall.

yup, and just moved into larger house because of it.

Too many people tend to compare everything to exclusives where they tend to get 2x value right after it's EOL. Well, this is the only true exclusive in the LOTR/Hobbit line. But not everything is a HH, or SSD. Ive beaten this horse a few times now, but I really think the ToO, The LM, HD, & UG are going to be the "premiere sets" where you will get about 3x above retail a couple years from now. I also think Shelobs attacks, Council of Elrond, Wizard Battle, Black Gate, Mines of Moria, and Lake Town Chase have potential to go in the 2x to 3x range. Shelob is already in the 2x range. The pirate ship ambush is a weird one... i'm not sure how that one will go, but lately it seems to be popping at retail rates on ebay, and I just scarfed a few of those below retail last month when I stumbled onto them at clearance in a walmart. So, that set has yet to truly go dry yet (you can still get them in various TRU's), but it might also have potential, and it's one of the last LOTR sets you can still find at retail, other than the ToO, and perhaps the Black Gate. But have no fear with the tower. I really do think it's going to do very well. Now, if they will only take that one "Ideas" concept of the Minas Tirith that's currently under review and make it into an exclusive, before they retire this line, i'd be absolutely jazzed about what this series produced. I personally, don't hate on the Mines of Moria, and some of the other sets. I think they did a good job, considering they presented a range of price points for sets, and a variety of sets. Not everything was a castle, but there are a few good castle type sets in this series. I think it's a good line.

About the only hobby I enjoy more than Lego Investing is sports cars. And I only recently realized that my Lego collection would trade for a very nice Corvette. That thought has had me awake at nights.

Yes! I made the last of my BL orders this afternoon, for both The Ghost and Voltron. As soon as I get the parts, I'll do the builds and post pics up.

Thanks for the suggestions! I think my husband thinks I'm a little too into Lego. It didn't help that when we were out, I mentioned that I thought a woman we saw had minifig hair

Alright everyone so I finally finished my $400 ucs millennium falcon (10179) and boy it was by far one of the most stressful builds that I've ever done, But the end result was worth it lol and it was only missing a handful of pieces, the Han solo and Chewie minifgs as well as the stickers so I definitely lucked out! Now All I have to do is inventory and build the ucs Batmobile (7784) that the seller threw in for free with the falcon

That's Canadian dollars so it's like $1.50 US. ;)

From days of long ago by Fleebnork

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Hello BrickPickers... Over the past several weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about NON-LEGO reselling methods and products. At times, the NON-LEGO discussion would take priority over LEGO topics on a LEGO based website. Now, Jeff and I appreciate the forum activity and posts, but it was becoming quite difficult on the Moderators and Jeff and I to monitor all the activity. These NON-LEGO discussions sometimes took on a more mature nature, far more difficult to manage on a website designed around a "toy." The Moderators and Admins had to reign in and limit discussions to protect the integrity and PG rating of this site. So Jeff and I came up with a possible solution... www.INVESTorSELL.com The INVESTorSELL.com website is a site designed for the NON-LEGO reseller, investor and collector. While there is a section for LEGO discussions, we would like to keep that discussion here for obvious reasons. We would like to see the main NON-LEGO reselling and investing topics migrate to the INVESTorSELL.com site. Right now, it is a basic forum, but as you all know, Jeff likes to add new features and tinker with things, so depending on your interest in the site, many new features and tools can be added. The INVESTorSELL.com site will welcome all sorts of discussions on reselling and investment products, techniques, and especially...deals. As you all know, the BrickPicker.com site is known for it's deals and community cooperation in locating these deals. It will be no different there. Topics can be cover almost anything that is not obscene, vulgar or illegal. The rules of the INVESTorSELL.com site will be very similar to this forum. But I will tell you, we will be a little more lenient for obvious reasons, the NON-LEGO discussions. Being the INVESTorSELL.com site really has very little to do with LEGO or its products, I can let members discuss more adult oriented products and topics. Jeff and I hope those of you who are active in other types of reselling and secondary markets will give this site a try. Registration is simple and you can use your BrickPicker names if you choose. There can be more categories added, just PM Jeff or I here or on the INVESTorSELL.com site. Feel free to share your ideas or comments. This is a work in progress and we are willing to work with members to make it another quality resource for reselling, collecting and investing information. Thanks and Good Luck!!!

It's not going anywhere this year.

Surface shipping takes way to long to do satisfactory business, particularly off eBay. Just leads to problems. I did an offline sale on another site where a guy in Singapore was desperate for a Tumbler. I sent him 3 Tumblers via surface at his request (BIG box), he was OK with waiting. It took almost 3 bloody months before he got them! But he was very happy.

he's my favorite jizz-wailer.

Furthering our discussion. Video Game character on random card = $17 Same exact Video Game character, on Original Trilogy packaging = $40 The gap used to be even crazier. like 9 bucks to 60 I suspect sand from the set of the film would sell for 49.99 if packaged on a vintage card.

Barrel Escape for $50 shipped hahah! plus Canadian shipping. That's my last one, all achieved 95-100% net profit. 60064 Supply Plane for ~$110 1789 Star Hawk II- $47 Few other things. All prices in US and include embedded shipping. Ex astris, scientia.

Had a tempting offer of $400 CAN cash (that's approx. $30.98 US ) for my used TH. But I turned it down...can't have a missing building, either sell my entire little modular collection or none at all. Don't think I can pick up a new one for $500 now even if I wanted to. Shouldn't have passed up on those few TH's I saw at retail in the fall

These large scale clearance sales are bad news. If it was small scale at smaller retailers it would be good to pick them up. Look what happened to the value of the Museum Break-in! Takes a long time before it has recovered from this. Before this big ToyrUs sale I projected it would be 120 euro at Xmas. But now I am not so sure.

I didn't want to jinx this before it shipped, but I think somebody at AWD messed this one up. I got a sweet deal on a Harry Potter set. Arriving Monday by 8pm On the way LEGO

Well I believe I have figured out this stand and am nearly complete with rebuilding it in LDD. It really does use a lot of large Technic bricks a couple of which have not been made in black for a few years so that could be a problem. It is always strange trying to build something going by another person's thought process. I mean I think one way in regards to functionality, aesthetics, and dexterity as compared to someone else might. Anyway I am finishing up with the actual 'bottom' of the base and looking over some areas internally that could use a little extra reinforcement. So far the thing uses about 140 pieces.

It looks very nice. I just built the new ISD and while I do see some differences, not sure they are enough to warrant the trouble of the swap. I haven't built the old one yet (although I have taken 3 apart from bulk lots, it sucks ).

Good Morning, This same issue has happened to a few member here and has nothing to do with BrickPicker. You visited a site (aliexpress) that installed a type of browser hijacker on your computer. Now when it detects certain sites being visited, it redirects you to aliexpress without your permission. Please google "aliexpress browser hijack" and follow the directions from one of the many sites that have documented this. If you have more trouble, please feel free to let us know but the reality is that there isn't much we can do for you other than provide guidance from a distance.

Some folks seem to know exactly how eBay, Lego, and the rest of the world works, despite the contrary experiences of others. My ex-wife was like this. Anyway, it doesn't hurt to keep in mind that for the most part, you are dealing with other PEOPLE in this business. Like eBay CS reps. Case in point: I spoke with one weeks ago, very distinctive voice (difficult to understand) and personality. Despite being somewhat formal, this person helped in removing a shipping defect from my selling account and told me, at the time, that another could be removed (low "item as described" rating) if I could get confirmation from the buyer that it was entered by mistake - which I suggested, considering that the buyer had left enthusiastic positive feedback. A while after I got the (friendly and helpful) buyer to reply that it had indeed been an error they weren't aware of, and the item was "perfect in every way", I called back. A different CS rep looked at it and told me the defect would be removed. After two weeks, it wasn't. So I called again and talked to the original eBay CS rep (in this story) again. Guess what? I was told, quite firmly, that there was no possible way to remove that low rating, because it was tied to the buyer's feedback, blah blah blah... I could tell I was simply being stonewalled. I didn't bother pointing out the conversation from weeks prior, I simply asked for a manager because I did not feel like I was being assisted as a customer. This person attempted to argue with me, quite strongly, for several minutes, professionally, but very stubbornly. I had to ask about four times for a supervisor, was put on hold, then quite a while later, told they were too busy and I could expect a call back. They refused to give me a time frame. I shrugged it off for the time being. The NEXT morning, I get a call from a supervisor. I was busy at work and told them I didn't have time to talk but could try to call back in about 15 minutes. Paraphrasing, I was told, "I just wanted to quickly let you know that the defect you called about has been removed from your account, and please let us know if there is anything else you need. Thank you for using eBay." I also told a story earlier in this thread where I dealt with negative feedback left because the buyer decided AFTER their son opened a polybag that it was too small for the price. Despite being told over and over that honest feedback can not be removed, you certainly won't find it on my profile. Be persistent when you know you are right. Be as polite and professional as possible. Don't assume you know everything, or that everything you are told is correct. That said, I do agree that eBay is set up to hose the seller when buyers behave poorly in general. But it certainly is not the 100% all or nothing dead to rights swear on my grandmother's grave scenario that some here make it out to be.

I'd love to see a multi coloured tumbler when you get round to doing it. Personally I think i'd like it to at least look similar to the original.

You mean other than 5 exclusive mini figs, arkenstone, lots of sand green bricks, gold, and most of the hobbit story wrapped into it?

Sand green equals green. LOL

Personal opinion only. Cleanup on Aisle 11. Points have been made. Move along Is anyone with me?