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I think this pretty much sums it up. A five year old boy (my son) watching Star Wars for the first time ever. The Death Star is... fascinating. When it is gone (whenever, if ever, that finally happens), just sit back and watch the prices skyrocket as this moment (pictured below) happens again and again all over the world.

Bricklink Bat-Pod! Total including tires and the Hero Facotry complete sets in order to get the pieces came to just over $115 and well worth it. Cannot wait to get this home and display next to Tumbler. The set is much bigger than I imagined too.

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I just made my first brick classified sale, a Death Star for $480. Ever since the no fees announcement I wanted to list a few things to support it. This sold within an hour of posting.

Been taking advantage of the Argos 3 for 2 deal lately. Last day tomorrow and have a couple kylo ren shuttles and falcons reserved.

My advice is to do the right thing and give your customer his money back since he returned the item. Obviously your buyer was new and did not understand the correct returns process but IMO that does not mean you get to screw them over regardless of what the hacks at ebay CS tell you. In these situations I like to spend no more than 5 mins thinking about what to do. All the time spent thinking about it, contacting ebay, trying to contact the seller, you are losing productivity, money, and also missing out on other opportunities. So many sellers on ebay make things personal and lose out on so much time and money because of it as well as adding to the perception that it is a bad marketplace. Treat it like a business and your results will improve exponentially. Sounds like you may be out $10 in shipping? I bet if you had thought it over for 5 mins and just refunded your customer you would have moved on to other deals or listed more items and be up a few hundred dollars overall by now. Nobody likes returns but they are a part of doing business online and finding a way to get past them emotionally as well as allowing the correct margin to deal with them financially will lead to big money down the road.

Walmart had pretty much all the $29.97 regular priced Friends, Princess, and Elves on clearance for $9. They were not marked or in the clearance section, so check your area if you're interested. 41052 - Ariel's Magical Kiss (x4) 41053 - Cinderella's Dream Carriage (x2) 41093 - Heartlake Hair Salon (x4) 41100 - Heartlake Private Jet 41036 - Jungle Bridge Rescue (x3) 41097 - Heartlake Hot Air Balloon (x2) 41073 - Naida's Epic Adventure Ship

Hmm, maybe I retired too soon from the CMF game. I need to find my custom 32 pockets bag (16 is for amateurs) and regain my 1/2 second per bag smooshing techniques

x * 0.8 * 0.9 = $75 x = $104.17 forgot to mention the required TRU disclaimer YMMV...

It took a while & I made a few substitutions but I bricklinked the freaking Imperial Flagship

A dark cloud has settled over Legoland, as war has erupted between two of its proudest themes! For over a year, Heartlake City and Fabuland have coexisted by maintaining a tenuous ceasefire. That all changed the day after the Communist Dictator of Fabuland passed away, leaving his only son to take his place. Eager to prove he is nobody's fool, and clearly trying to compensate for a plethora of shortcomings, Fabuland's new leader, Patrick Pig has declared war on the Friends of Heartlake City! As a result of this provocation, President Olivia and Secretary of Defense Mia, has called their Friends to arms. Inside sources tell us that they haven't seen the Friends this fired up since the SPARK Movement questioned little girls' love of puppies and the color pink! Fabuland Propaganda Poster Friends Propaganda Poster Hannah Hippo's Flak Scooter In defense of Heartlake City Sandy Seagull's Bread Delivery Viper Bunny's Recon Skimmer (aka Bad Hare Day) Olaf's Stampeder Turtle's Armored Digger Fabuland drone carrier Hedgehog's Listening Post Fabuland APC Coupe de Grace Ricky Raccoon's Rugged Roadster FVF Chopper Build FABU Landkreuzer A Friendly Tank Fabuland AEV Friends Airforce SWARM UP-01 Raging Rabbit Roadster Mia's Attack Copter Fabuland Multi-purpose Dozer Turtle's Workshop Крекер-7 Soviet Starfighter HLMC Exoskeleton

i'm doing a build review for this set and will post before / after pics of the power functions mod.

Nasa plans to announce major scientific finding about Mars: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved If the rover has discovered water or even signs of life... we Earthlings would have so many questions, like how would it impact the Lego Mars Rover? It's already orbiting at around $100, but could it skyrocket to $1,000? If the rover found life, it could become the most famous exploration vehicle in history.

One of the best parts of this hobby... coming home and seeing a pile of boxes sitting at the front door and totally forgetting what's inside most of em. Its like christmas! Before: I'm sure most Canadians recognize the infamous black-wrapped item :\ luckily they don't have much damage. After: Some JW to flip this holiday, Scooby-Doo for Halloween decor, bunch of pieces for the Bat-Pod (incl hero factory stuff), and i don't own Dimensions (nor do i really plan on getting it), but i really love Portal, and this little set is great even if it were just for the minifig.

But not phonics, ironically

I enjoy this! I just say, "Ya'll come back now, ya hear!"

I remember this guy who owns a B&M toy store and sold online, too, noticed something similar. He started dropping a business card into the order to get the business direct lol

I'm jealous that he has the ISD to swoosh around while he's watching. That's awesome!

Some good points. I see the distant "availability notice" from LEGO as a means to halt production on EV (and other sets) so that they can divert production runs to other newer sets like TFA and seasonal sets. Additionally as Waddamon pointed out there is no guarantee that EV will go back into production for a Jan release. Chalk it up to yet another fine example to support the argument that it is futile to try and predict TLG's actions.

21110 Ri x3 for $43 each ...

I scored a decent craigslist lot this morning. All sets are used/complete with instructions. No boxes. 10216 Winter Village Bakery 10199 Winter Village Toy Shop 4996 Creator Beach House 3833 Krusty Krab Adventures 3827 Adventures in Bikini Bottom All five sets for $125.

Tonight a picked up a used complete w/ boxes lot with 10225 - UCS R2-D2, 9493 - X-Wing, & 9492 - Tie Fighter for $380 shipped on EBay. Looks like a real nice lot and well kept by a collector. This way I won't be torn about opening my personal copies and I can offload them and cover most of the cost with profit.

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

maybe your filling orders for Jet.com

The Pet Shop is on its ninth life. If you want any I would move now. It is the just months away from being the longest running modular.

You basically need to buy an item that's $98+ if using TRUTH + 20%. I also think that it's pretax amount, but the expert BoldTRUTHArrow can confirm.

I think that 500 after fees next X-mas is very very very optimistic...fingers crossed for you.

If I had a nickel for every time a set flip to "Sold Out" status on S@H.....

Yes. Although that map is a bit dated.

You're right. LEGO Shop at Home wouldn't mark HH as "Retired" before Halloween b/c it retired after Halloween. It did however get marked as "Sold Out" before Halloween.

Yup. They would never retire the Haunted House right before Halloween either. And no way they retire Town hall before Pet Shop.

I am not ashamed to say I'd actually fork over money for a couple of those.

Googiesque by Jordan Schwartz

You can buy from me--always a shipping box, 90% of the time a brand new box, appropriate packing, and a handwritten "thank you." We don't all suck, but the one's who do make the rest of us look really good.

They may have. I went to a store format a few months ago because I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany

I agree with your point, but one thing to remember is that a lot of people like to decorate their homes, inside and out, for Halloween. Next to Christmas, Halloween has to be one of the biggest holidays for decorating. Some people set up a Christmas village every year. We put together our Haunted House the first weekend of October and proudly display it on our kitchen table for the entire month.

Here's an Ideas set that I came across today: UCS Landspeeder. It's up to about 3,000 supporters already. I really like the look of this set. It looks pretty close to what I'd imagine a set ready to go would appear.

Why would Disney have any input whatsoever on TLG retirement timelines?

New 15/20 coupon starts 10/1. That makes it 1 x 20% 1x 15/20 1x 5 off 25

Marauder by CB

You know how it is... you build that set and then another one and after a while there are just too many spareparts so that you decide to do something with them... After I figured that I have way too many of these nasty very small blue and white bricks where you just never know what to do with them I decided to build something. So it took me quite a while (I guess it must have been about an hour or so...) but here it is!

Ahhh, my previous road to Lego banishment, 1 order at a time. The good old days.

Just finished my third modular and second via bricklink. Spent a hair over $400 on it. Could have been cheaper but I stayed pretty true to the original except for the third floor windows. The front door, dark blue posts next to the doors, blue shirt minifig, and skis over the door were the priciest. I did end up with some extra doors so I can sell them to get it under $400... or do another one...

I shipped out two smaller items in the past week that had slight issues. One person was great to deal with, one is a potential fruitcake - see if you can guess which buyer is which. 1 - A new in sealed box arrived and was missing a piece. The buyer asked about the missing piece and I explained that I would ship one if I had it and it turns out that I did. 2 - A used set was missing a piece, probably due to a packing error. The buyer asked about the missing piece and explained that if I didn't resolve it then I would receive neutral feedback. Sigh, at least give me a chance to correct it before you threaten to hold my feedback hostage.

the f@ck!?!?

I win today. On a background, if you don't know: These little goats are only in one retired set and highly sought after. Check sold listings and the routinely go for $30-$40 each. No one will pay this much for these. Everyone whose listed them more than $15 hasn't sold a single one. I've watched them for over a year and i get that you want to profit from the goats but it isn't going to happen. Im sorry that im ranting about this but frankly im sick of the price fixing on the lego goats. No one wants to pay more than $10 for one of these. Good luck. I hope you find a rich/sucker/fool who will buy them from you. Again I apologize for this email. Ive been drinking and am frustrated that people will only sell these stupid goats for stupid prices. Sure ive got $55 but on principal i wont pay that much for a tiny bit of plastic. Please block me so i wont bother you again. Have a good day. Reply Reply with off

Shantae by Anton Sundström

Just as a follow up, I finished the cloth sails. I still haven't figured out how to get as deep of a color onto the fabric yet as paper. The Imperial flagships escort. Maybe we should name her the "Brick Picker" because she can run a pick on an attacking pirate vessel.