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All the winning prizes have shipped...Finally. A lot of work. I would appreciate that winners would post photos of their prizes in this thread. I would like to thank everyone once again for your support. Principal Robbins received and deposited the $62,000 check yesterday. Instead of planning for next year, the school would have been planning to close its doors without the support of all of you. I salute you...

My mouth waters every time someone mentions Chipotle......why you ask? 20-30 seconds before you vomit your mouth produces saliva which forms a protective layer in your mouth to protect against the acidity of the puke.........google it, it's true.

21006 - Architecture White House - $39.99 (20% off). http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_16?k=lego+white+house&sprefix=lego+white+house

I bought a few cool and fairly rare sets: 4002014: lego Hub Birds, MISB $200 4002015: lego Borkum Riffgruns MISB $185 10195: Star Justice. MISB $115 3723: complete with instructions and stickers $425 3724: complete with instructions and original box: $500

My 11 year old opened her own BL store with my help, mostly selling minifigures. She is making probably $10 a week or more profit per week. She can inventory them, invoice, pack and ship. Not bad for 11 year old, on pace for $500 this year. I threw a bunch of polybags that have languished forever on ebay listings and have been moving rocket racoons, hulks, mini tumblers, and a slew of others above ebay prices. Almost 100% international sales: poland, slovakia, S Korea and Spain just this week

The real story!

I thought I looked good in that pic...

Well if there was one set I would love to see resurrected from the dead it would be this one... Just for some more PEE jokes! Lucky with LEGO retired doesn't mean retired anymore so I got my wish. Painting Easter Eggs Item: 40121 Ages:7+ VIP Points: 0 Pieces:153 Retired product

I am pretty sure that is not the case.

Had a customer return a RE I dumped just before Christmas. One of the few times I'm not mad about having a return.

Let the games begin

How the heck did this happen?

Yes. Which was FREAKING amazing.

You know it's the slow season when the last three "deals" were a t-shirt, a burrito and something from a tractor supply store. Someone wake me up when double VIP starts. Also, I definitely jumped on that burrito deal. Thanks BA!

Bought the following over the last week: 42029 at tru for $89.99 on truth 4x 75105 for $74 each at wm 4x final duel for $40 each at wm 5x anakin custom Jedi fighter for $19 each at wm 3x imperial shuttle tydirium for $49 each at wm 3x attack of the morro dragon for $35 each at wm 1x imperial assault carrier for $64 at wm 2x republic av7 cannon for $19 each at wm 2x master wu dragon for $19 each at wm 2x titanium dragon for $19 each at wm 1x tie advanced prototype for $19 each at wm 2x naboo star fighter for $25 each at wm 2x first order snow speeder at $19 at wm 2x Cupid puppy for $9.99 each at Lego store 2x Kylo ren shuttle for $59 each at wm 1x architecture Eiffel Tower at $35 at shop at home (for daughter) 1x butterfly organizer for $16.99 at Lego store (for daughter) 1x king's mech for $29.99 at shop at home 1x hail fire droid for $19.99 at shop at home 2x 42043 Aroc Benz from Amazon.de for roughly $163 each 1x piggy bank at $14.99 at Lego store Used $10 in VIP points and Got 2 free robin's mini fortrex and 1 fire car free from Lego and tru as well. Also forgot 2x blue power jet at $35 each at wm

LEGO Architecture New York City 21028 $50.48 (16% off/save $9.51) http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Architecture-York-City-21028/dp/B017B19DOY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455145404

Lego gift cards are interchangeable and use Lego's exchange rate. You can see your value in both Canadian and US funds by entering your gift card number at the following links: US - http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Gift-Cards-Balance CA - http://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Gift-Cards-Balance

Just as an FYI warning, apparently its possible to get completely banned from PayPal. I had a customer that was getting a weird "card cannot be used" error when trying to pay me. I helped them do some research and they wrote back with this... -Okay so I went back, and I found out what it was. I used paypal to pay for a private torrent service (to paypal it's illegal). -anything I use that is associated to my bank cards, my email, my phone number, pretty much anything used to identify me is permanently locked out. I could survive a Lego ban (knock on wood), but a PayPal ban would cripple my business.

I'll be irritated if it's movie Ra's. I really want cape and collar.

eBay Bucks thread. Please use that for your questions / discussion

Today was a good day I sold my one and only Arctic supply plane for $140 shipped on eBay buy in was about $35

I actually like the UCS Imperial Shuttle just a little better..but both are amazing builds

In other words: if you haven't build a Slave I yet, go buy and build one.

I´d try another theme! 7938 is not yet selling above RRP almost 2 years after retirement and station are too cheap to be able to offer any interesting return - train investment is no longer what it was 5 years ago.

Some good news: A-Z claims will no longer affect a seller's metrics if Amazon rules in their favor or customer withdraws claim

I'm getting dizzy just looking at those pictures. Is he showing them that way to show how well the glue holds?

A little of topic, and it was over ten years ago so the relevance now is non existent, but the UCS sets, they used to go on sale for 50 percent off at times. I had massive orders of UCS items back then. I bought 30 snowspeeders in orders of 5 during this sale. The good ole days....

"46" = Week of Production "S" = Production Plant "5" = Year of Production H = Nyíregyháza, Hungary R = Ciénega de Flores, Mexico S = Kladno, Czech Republic Q = Purkersdorf, Austria

Both Winter sets are 100%. The unpopular 10235 was actually a decent set to build. Starting the Palace Cinema tonight. GE will be last.

And I'll build, the head! $11 - Ript Appeal LEGO Voltron t-shirt for February 9, 2016

Palace Cinema...with some personal modifications. I have always admired the aesthetic style of this theatre and was happy to finally have a used one cross my path to build. The build was overall an enjoyable experience. The interior is not the most detailed of the modulars, but the exterior makes up for it in spades. Book 3 was very enjoyable to see how the roof, marque, and most impressively, the Palace sign come together. I enjoyed adding my little touches although I funged up the Shawshank poster. It adds charm though! I still may create stadium-style seating in the theatre, but for now I have a bank to build!

Pretty sure we tell all the noobs who've never sold or shipped anything to start out small... Not our fault you didn't listen.

Any answer other than "YMMV" would be just personal experience. Some have had luck when the item is OOS, some have had no luck. Bottom line is just give it a try both online and in store and see what happens. I think technically the item has to be in stock (at least in the fine print from what i recall).

I've never been invited to the pool party.

Must have been before I started being active in the buying game .... darn, missed those

Everyone has there own strategy and maybe they are all just plain silly. I have qfll 4 for modest profit and have 4 as mid/long term hold. I could not easily have kept all 8 for mid/long term hold and certainly not 20+. Most importantly I am comfortable with my approach.

Nice! I got one for my son when it had just retired and it's the best LEGO Technic set he has .... mighty machine, awesome to play with.

Ah yes, but there's levels of dudinessnessnessness, this info for me puts it up there as King Dud of Duderlands, all hail the king

Suggest something better in the Mid-Ohio Chemical Valley and I'm game. We do have Hillbilly Hot Dogs! http://www.yelp.com/biz/hillbilly-hot-dogs-lesage

20 mins? I live in a metro area of metro area of 6.5 million people and have never waited longer than 2 mins to show my receipt. Are you embellishing a bit? How would you know how long it would take anyway if you just walk out?

Damn, just when you think people have complained about everything possible. I'll go back to avoiding this topic.

Glad to be back! And yes my DS and Tumbler are still boxed up in storage. The one thing that I would suggest would be to find a way that each team plays the other teams the same number of times. Not sure if that is possible, but seems more equitable.

I got a misb first order tie fighter (75101) for $43 shipped on eBay

Even though maybe this explanation could sound too "romantic" on one side, I completely agree. I believe this is the reason why they limit purchase quantity. Lifecycle and thus retirement of products it's something that always will generate the rush for a set when it gets discontinued but, at least, putting a cap on the purchases will put a patch on the "greedy" behaviour when the set is still available. It's not obviously the ultimate solution to this issue, but I kinda see it like LEGO with this regard. Resellers are also important in some way because they contribute quite heavily to LEGO's fortune and sometimes they can play a key role in why certain LEGO sets are not discontinued in the "expected" deadlines (they just keep hoarding them according to their expectations), but it is more "fair" to the non-resellers audience that just pick one set to build and enjoy it.

Yesterday I began building again. I started off small with some CMF series 15 followed by 75900 Mummy Museum Mystery. In the meantime some more sets followed: 41078 Skyra's Mysterious Sky Castle 75904 Mystery Mansion 41119 Cupcake Cafe 41101 Heartlake Grand Hotel (which I haven't finished building yet) All builds were enjoyable so far. Some stickers I left off as they would limit a later re-use too much. Especially all those run-down and broken window effects from 75904 probably wouldn't fit into any of my future projects. And even in a toned down 75904 the janitor hired by Skyra doesn't look too happy with the prospect of cleaning up that place. 41078 is surprisingly small. The Mystery Mansion at the same RRP is a lot more impressive in size. The construction of the portal between Elvendale and the world of Emily Jones is cool nonetheless. As I still had a Council of Elrond in the cupboard I added it to 41078 for a fun effect.

Finally getting around to putting some stuff in my display case. This shelf is western theme.

At this point, I shouldn't be surprised that there's an EOL discussion for Slave I. I just think it's really silly. Carry on...

Amazing find! You should be able to purchase some nice exclusives with the profit you make from that treasure. The dog appears to be the common police dog. I've never seen a cat like that though. They are usually quite smaller from my experience. I'd be curious as to what sets(s) they are from as well. They may be rare.