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I think the issue here is this - Sorry dude but what you paid for a set is totally irrelevant. commenting on a post 3 months after it was posted and stating that what you paid is totally irrelevant seems provocational... hxc and I do not deal in theory of MSRP and ROI based upon base numbers that relate to statistics and not our lives. We live in the real world and are in this with individual ongoing business operations to make money. I also love Lego and am a fan. Jais revised post that states what ROI is by text book forum definition and what ROI is by individual is right on. I choose to live in the real world and not the statistical book. I do not consider his perspective narrow. If making money and putting food on the table is narrow, then sign me up.

Back in the early Fall, Ed and I were approached by Krause Publishing to develop a LEGO Collecting and Price Guide book. Not sure how many of you have ever been involved with putting a book together, but it is quite a task. For months Ed worked to the early morning hours putting the content together while I have taken thousands of photos and organized data. At this point, a lot of what we needed to submit has been handed over and the full production of the book is in progress. Now you all can understand why I have been running that other thread looking for some photos for some sets. If you have a little time, please look at that list and contact me if you have the boxes or even better have it built. I will be able to send you a photo release and of course you get credit in the book. I know a few of you have had eagle eyes and found the current Amazon preorder online. The book is slated to be released mid November, just in time for all of you to ask for one for the holidays. We really hope that those of you that do decide to pick up a copy enjoy what we have put together. As I have said, it has been a lot of work and there is still a bit more to accomplish, but it will be exciting to walk into a book store one day and see your work sitting there. It may also clear up a bunch of times that Ed and I have said, we were quite busy working on some things, well at least now you know and hopefully now we can get back to doing more content for the site itself and other things. If you would like to preorder the book, just click on the photos or Amazon widget. We look forward to the time that we can get feedback on whether you like the book or not. Maybe later Ed can chime in to give more details on the content itself.

Anybody willing to visit my business in NJ can get a tour of my LEGO office and a signature...

Most resellers help the brand and TLG. Through their actions they flush excess inventory fastcreate a healthy aftermarkt of used and new product which offers true credibility and value to the producthelp collectorsenable the return from the "Dark Age"offer insightful information about the quality and value of each product soldcreate a vast and liquid market in all corners of the worldpromote the brand strongly through their shopsSome resellers have bad habits. They Squeeze customers out of the market and force prices upClean out product before 'normal' customers have time to reactBuy huge quantities, therefore distort a normal life cycle of a productSee lego as a money-makers, therefore lacking respect for the product's mission statementUndermine the pricing policy of TLG on Exclusives, poduct lines: over / underpricing to the frustration of TLG and its customersOverinvest, creating excess Supply in the future and excerbate the risk of a bubble and boom-bust for TLGSo all in all, if resellers follow a good code of conduct, there shouldn't be a problem. Banning the "bad elements" is only normal. And with time, TLG will control better this indirect supply chain too, therefore flushing out that "tricky" behavious. For me, the net balance of resellers in very positive for TLG. It's only a minority that bothers them I think. regards

A ) Why would he tell you? B ) Why would you care?

3x 10225 R2D2 at Legoland Billund

Today a big update was pushed on Brick Classifieds. One major change was the way that the site handles currency. Before it was doing a bunch of conversions to try and handle the currency conversions. It worked, but was not ideal. A lot of pages have been reworked and it is the way it should have been done from the start. Make sure your store currency is set properly and whatever you enter as a value it will hold. No more conversions unless you are need to see it in different currency and at checkout. NOTE: If you are selling on Brick Classifieds and your store currency is not USD, please take a few minutes to visit your shop and make sure all your products are set at the price you want them to be at. WANT ADS We also added a few new features to help build business conversations with potential buyers. The first is Want Ads. This is a pretty straight forward feature for buyers and sellers. All registered users can post a Want Ad. You will fill out a title, description of what you are looking for, price range, quantity, condition as well as location that the item you would like it to come from. After you fill out your post, you will see listings like this: At this point, vendors will be allowed to come to your post and create a bid for your business. Vendors will need to have this item in their store inventory. They will then select it from their inventory and put a price. If it works for you, you can accept their offer. When the offer is accepted, the vendor can then go into the shop admin area and build an invoice in the new Manual Order feature. It is pretty simple to use. Once the invoice is created, the vendor can search for the interested user and they will be emailed the invoice. If the buyer clicks the button to confirm the order, they will be taken directly to the shopping cart on the site, all the items in the invoice will already be waiting in the cart and they will just need to checkout with the agreed upon price and shipping. TRADES Another feature we added was the ability to do trades with other vendors (Note: All trades must be done vendor to vendor and again, the items of trade must be in your shop inventory). Like the Want Ads, vendors can ad items to their listing from their inventory. They can add a title and description about what they are interested in trading for. Once the trade is posted, other vendors can come in and offer items from their inventory and submit to the original poster. You can go back and forth negotiating until you both agree on the items being offered. You will click a link to approve each offer which will then lock in the trade. The entire transaction including any cash offerings are done however you wish outside of Brick Classifieds. Once everyone receives their items, you will be able to click a button that says that you are received what you were promised and then provide feedback on the trade. Users will now be able to get feedback on regular shop purchases, want ad and trade transactions. Give it all a try, feel free to PM with feedback. I wanted to get the features out there and of course they can be improved. We need to start somewhere though.

My son and I constructed the Age of Ultron Detective Agency.

Funny that, my magic 8 ball said "ah not that bloody question again".

First - awesome. Second - so many of us have asked how we can pay you for some of the features on this site - well, here's a great way. Support the Macks by buying this book. I'll be preordering.

​If you look in the screenshot right above yours, I added an option for money. So people can add 1 or 50 sets as well as money. The money part will be handled outside of Brick Classifieds.

​There's nothing arrogant about that. Very few here only sell lego. Lighten up a bit.

I´m fine with the general consensus to stay away from this set as a remake is coming soon. The more people that get that message, the better. Invest in Simpsons´ Houses and Exo Suits instead, people - they will never be remade.

There are no AFODS

1x PS 1x PC local b&m Lego store. They had zero for months.

​For what its worth I agree with you, people have discussed this to death. That being said their is statistics, college, education, professorships, residency, scholarships, awards and all kinds of other things. In the end, to me what matters is profit margin not any of the other stuff. If Target was dumping a semi load of anything and I mean anything Lego Star Wars of a $50-$250 set and they sold it for $25, I would be happy to know that I bought 1,000 of them at $25 a piece, MSRP was $150 and in retirement are selling them at $150. I would take that any day over statistics theory and performance. I'm in it for the business performance on it, and to me that is what matters not statistics. So in the case of a B Wing, I had a bunch at $100 and sold early and wish I didn't. Because I would buy a semi load of them at $100 in a heart beat today not caring one bit what MSRP was. Each person has their own methods and that is ok. Mine has nothing to do with the sets MSRP and for me that methodology works great. On this one I am with hxckid88.

​How many other price guides are out there for other products and yet there is still a market? Everyone said that because of this site, and the when we were featured in USA Today, then the BBC, but yet, the market still exists. LEGO is not an easy thing to invest it, it is not like collecting baseball cards where everyone has ample space and money to buy them.

Please, support this new LEGO Project! I am the author of this original set, it's the union of surf and LEGO! I need 10.000 support, one year is the limitation of time. Please, help me to support this project, help me to spread this, because now it's time to ride the (LEGO) tube!! It's time to #RideTheTube #objective10000 #surf #Lego https://ideas.lego.com/projects/101124 There is also a twitter account: https://twitter.com/Federico_Reds/status/590215379638714368 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SurfingWaveLegoIdeas Thanks Surfing Wave F&L ideas.lego.com

Any cryptic messages that need deciphering?

Ok nice, we have our first trade posted. I will be creating widgets to showcase these listings on Brickpicker for more exposure. Here you can see what another vendor will see. Now they can pick items from their inventory to offer as a trade. The posted will be notified that someone has submitted a trade offer. This poster did a great job by picking at least one item to trade for now. They will be able to change that later. They mentioned what they would be willing to offer and will need to select the right set later in order to make the deal be approved by both parties. Remember that both parties inventories will subtract the sets and quantities that are offered once the deal goes through.

That business faces an ever-expanding load

Heavily discounted TP is a good place to start.

​ ​I got this image the next guy says "Great, I'm outside your window, Ed <waves>"

I moved the bundling discussion here:

​Your right and the price will probably come crashing down, I have adjusted it by finding the lower priced ones (they were being filtered out because of the high value that was already there, I can't believe how many were sold at those high prices. http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/371250576915? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-Minifigure-Electro-Amazing-Spiderman-2-Polybag-5002125-/291376985649? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-Electro-Spiderman-2-Polybag-5002125-/291378831357?

《《《Shakes magic 8 ball》》》 Says maybe.

​Although we had a little quarrel in the past... I cannot agree with and like this post enough. Respect!

If Lego cared about resellers they would have swapped the production life of the DS with Arctic Plane´s one. Come on, what they care about is maximising profit and maintaining the brand and 2 years without a DS does neither. Bet on a 4-8 month window between them to allow retailers to sell any unsold stock and creat hype for the new one.

I don't think that a new LEGO Death Star would make sense without at least 1-2 years break. Why? Because LEGO cares for us investors! Also LEGO knows that people would probably be upset if they just bought the old one only to find out that a new one is already coming out in 3 months. I DO NOT think that LEGO wants to upset people that way. Of course they could and probably it wouldn't even hurt that much, but I just don't see a reason not just to wait 1-2 years. The Star Wars line is doing better than ever (I'd say) and with Star Wars Rebels and the upcoming movies there is more than enough that can be added to the new line without adding a new Death Star. Remember Ewok Village? How great is that set? I mean it has everything the death star has only that it is even better looking! If they bring out a new battle of hoth or whatsoever it will be just as great. LEGO has the freedom to choose from so many different settings to build their playsets and to bring out newer versions of these big playsets a couple of years after retirement when people are actually craving for a new one. So why not just do that? Also: If you buy LEGO for yourself or your kids would you rather buy the new death star for 400-800 Dollar/Euro or rather something else that might be 300-400 Dollar/Euro? I tell you something: If you've already bought the Old Death Star you probably won't buy the new one (yes collectors maybe will but they are not the main target group of LEGO!). If you didn't buy the old one... then just maybe because it was too expensive... so chances are small that you will buy the new one (because of the very same reason). So what would you do? Bringing out a new DS or bringing out another new big set instead? I know I'd go for the second option. On the other hand if the data is correct the first DS from 2005 and the second one from 2008 have been overlapping at least int he US for about a year. Keeping in mind that the first one didn't perform as well as the second one (which also might be why it was retired so early compared to the second one) I would try to design the already mentioned idea of a combined play-set + collectors set. (I guess people would still feel cheated if LEGO were to bring it out too early ;-) ).

Yeah, this set and 7965 have been a blast to source and sell - like finding money on the street without needing to give it back.

Thank you for the Walgreens thing, gentlemen! Went by a few... found CMF s13 but no good ones. Lucked out at the third one. Found 13 of the Series 12 (bought them all, no "smooshing") - and snagged a Series 13 Unicorn Girl (good as the only other one I had previously located had been commandeered by the fiancee). Tally of Series 12: 2 x Piggies 3 x lifeguards 1x Power Miner 3 x Dino Hunter 1 x Wizard 1 x Egyptian Warrior 1 x Wizard 1 x Gamer Each at $3.99 + sales tax

What? I mean I thought brick picker was semi secret. You know Gandalf? Keep it secret. Keep it safe. Keep it member only. We wouldn't want anyone to find out about the last 20 pages of no new information we have posted.

FIGHT CLUB rules man. c, mon.

​but....then their would be no discussions on bper, or just silly ones like box dimension debates for hours.

A couple Palace Cinemas.

Anyone notice how the theme for Elecman sounds awfully close to Journey's "Faithfully" (at least around the start)?

I do hold that book, e copies are available for download on Amazon for 5.00.

Here is a similar idea that has been done with displaying CMFs

I lost you after your first sentence. What you are saying is like saying the sky is red. No it's not. What I paid for a set and what I sell it for is the only thing that matters to me. Analyzing every aspect of a set is not for me. Im not a lego guy. I'm a how fast can I make money guy. I cant disrespect a Lego set and call it a Turd if it made me a few grand. Goodluck in your investments and I hope you do well with them. But don't shoot someone down who makes a very nice income from doing this on the side and knows what he has been doing this longer then most. Back to the Batcave.

2016 at the earliest

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Any resale value on the book? Possible EOL??? congrats :)

Hilarious! Enjoy some british rock...

Are we back in the 80s ?

Let's be fair, I never actually had a bed. The intention was always to build the bed of LEGO.

I already posted a few days back that I would be doing a 2 for 1 this month. Just waiting on the last 2 days of April, then I can start.

Not a complete set of the series but here are 10x10 vignettes for The Simpsons family. (Where is Marge's dress?) Homer by Milan Sekiz Marge by Milan Sekiz Bart by Milan Sekiz Lisa by Milan Sekiz Maggie by Milan Sekiz

Series 13 Collector Minifigure Habitats by Melan-E