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Rarely do I post haul pics, as I rarely have any hauls, but today I stopped at Walmart and perused the Toy Aisle and found these. I have never bought a friends set before and have no idea what they go for, but after searching amazon and ebays completed listings realized it was a pretty good buy. Also checked brickset and realized these have been retired quite a while. Heartlake high for 25 and Olivias house for 35. Not bad.

Most do. Lets take a look at some previous sets: 10221 SSD (2014) $1108 POV, $1030 Amazon 10197 FB (2013) $445 POV, $400 Amazon 10212 IS (2012) $776 POV, $780 Amazon 10186 GG (2010) $1255 POV, $1430 Amazon and for fun 10179 $5492 POV, $5500 Amazon Most of the time the set value always converges with the underlying parts value once the number of sellers thins out and the market reaches equilibrium. The time for this to occur is different depending on how hoarded the set is. Occasionally you have a few sets like 75054 and 10225 trading for above their part out values but it does not happen often and prices normally correct quite quickly back to POV. GE will certainly be interesting to watch.

Am I the only one who didn't have a grandparent that could swing $250 for a single toy for them growing up?

The person that you quoted and replied to was referring to a LEGO set, you referred to how many of the Avengers LEGO sets that you had purchased, we're on a LEGO related site. I guess it's possible that I inferred from that that we were talking about LEGO sets.

I'd recommend putting some effort into explaining what you believe in regards to best investments. People will be more willing to weigh in knowing you shared your insight.

Lego just updated their Guidelines / House Rules / Terms of Service for the Lego Ideas: Lego Ideas Blog In short some of the greatest changes are: - Max. 3000 pieces per set - When a third party property is produced, they will not accept any more submissions of that property in future - Some other changes as it's easier to collaborate on projects etc. which can be read in the linkes blog article What do you think about the changes?

Bonus eBay Bucks deal going on. http://mail.ebay.com/r/mail/bf28aII2c5aabII1b3145f4e3aII2

Sounds kinda familiar, had on old used set on BIN £7.99 or best offer. Someone offered £8. SOLD to the man with no sense!!!

Some dimension sets at 50% off at Microsoft store https://www.microsoftstore.com/store?keywords=Lego&SiteID=msusa&Locale=en_US&Action=DisplayProductSearchResultsPage&result=&sortby=score%20descending&filters=

My parents spent $250 for a single toy once growing up (NES) ... my grandparents couldn't swing $2.50 for a toy! I got mints from my grandmother's purse.

They no longer stack since January 2016. Look at the fine prints on that sign/flyers inviting people to open TRU CC. They specifically say the 2 promos do not stack

Paging @trekgate502

I know it's been posted before, but people who smoke and sell stuff that wreaks of cigarette smoke. I bought some stickers (UEFA Euro 2016) from a few eBay sellers... so far two have come smelling like smoke. I messaged both sellers informing them that I was disappointed. One replied (roughly translated) "I don't smoke so they couldn't smell." I replied I wasn't asking for money back, I was just trying to provide helpful feedback. Her reply "Sell them if you're not happy." The other seller (again, rough translation) "Damn, sorry about that. Would you like two new ones?" Guess who's getting positive feedback and who's getting neutral?

That's cute, you think Marvel's going to ok a new X-Men set.

this set is grinding on up at a decent clip. these move quickly on amazon FBM at $235 with shipping fees from amazon. i sold 3 in one day last week at this price. given the approximately $5 per month price increase we're probably looking at $260-270 FBM-$299 FBA this coming 2016 holiday season. 2017 will be the tricky year. there has been a 1000 piece AT-AT on a 3-4 year release schedule going back to the first release. the most recent was 2014. if we get confirmation of a new AT-AT in 2017 the price will probably take an initial hit. if the set isn't released until Fall 2018, $350 for holiday season 2017 would be reasonable. things may be continue to rise in 2017 but i will probably clear the rest of my position (7 left) by the end of this year and put the proceeds into UCS Slave I's.

It means LEGO negotiated the rights to make a LEGO set based on a specific license and now want to capitalize on that license in-house. It also prevents all those people with shoddy projects from trying to piggy back on an already produced license. These seem like good changes.

I'd rather stay in bed.

Found this today. On sale for $25.

I only found out later in life that my grandparents bought us the NES that we opened up Christmas morning. My grandparents helped to make that Christmas one to remember and wish I could have thanked them before they passed. That was one of my favorite gifts of all time, 2nd only to the SNES which I discovered before Christmas by hunting for Santa's hidden stash. That guilt has never left me and to this day I don't have the heart to tell my mom I faked the surprise.

What's in your wallet?

Yes but the shipping kills the deal, and my LEGO BAM store no longer stocks Bionicle. Ended up buying one from Amazon for $7 after a bit of GC money and with free Prime shipping. Did complete the collection as I took the kids on a KMart liquidation sale run and bought the following after 40% off and a $7 SYWR coupon: Bionicle Uniter of Fire - $10.24 Bionicle Kodak and Melum Unity pack - $10.24 (pricing mistake at Kmart, should have been $13.24 but they stickered this larger set with the Uniter set prices) And for my daughter: Friends Popstar show stage - $21.50 On the way back we hit a Meijer and I got 3 more Pegasus Sleighs for $16.33 each after a $5 off $50 coupon, plus a Friends Hot Air Balloon for $7.99 after a $4 reward coming from the Sleighs purchase as it triggered a $4 reward on $35 spent promotion. All 4 sets were already marked 40% off.

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I think 1500 would have been a more realistic number. These people submitting the huge MOCs are just wasting their time in my opinion. Sure they are really cool but I just don't see Lego ever making an Ideas set more than 1500 max and it's really more like 1000. The price point just gets too high.

I am expecting GE to do very well going forward as well. I see a few of the larger sellers are at $400 FBA. May take 4th quarter to clear them out. I am expecting $450+ FBA by June 2017.

I think you can still submit a set under a licensed theme, as long as that license is not from the IDEAS line: This just prevents follow-up submissions like EVE after Wall-E or GBHQ after Ecto-1. EDIT: I just checked and it's excactly that.

GE price is on a definite upswing. strong price support at the $305 level on amazon and also getting to $300 on ebay. amazon prices have been surging in the last few weeks. i have sold 2 in the last week for $329+amazon fees FBM and i think the prices quoted on camel3 represent prices that units are selling for. They sold within hours of listing. ebay hasn't caught up yet. GE was once upon a time the most hoarded set in the brickfolio. hopefully this hits $399 by the end of the year. seems like we are getting into the phase of price appreciation where people have sell target prices and not undercutting as much.

A few years ago, I had several stores near me that went out of business - they may have changed their procedure, but if memory serves, if you have multiple stores going out of business near by, I think as they get to the close date instead of marking stuff down an insane amount (I am not sure if Toys made it past 50 or 60%) they moved everything to OTHER stores that were going out of business. I imagine they have deals with liquidators where they may just move the inventory in bulk to one buyer instead of mark stuff down to crazy levels. I don't recall toys ever getting to something like 90%, though honestly casual buyers would ****** that stuff up at 60, 70% off pretty quickly anyway if you were hoping for somehow things to last to 90% This was a few years ago, so they may have changed and lord knows my memory isn't great. I do remember going into a couple stores and everything being gone and they said they shipped it over to store X which was a few weeks behind Store Y in the markdown schedule.

My advice: Make a list of the LEGO prices and compare what these sets are sold for on Marktplaats and on eBay. If they're sold there way below RRP then you know it's not a good investment, but if they're already sold for close to or even above RRP then it's safe to bet they will only go up in price after they're officially retired. But your buy-in is also important because you'll have to deal with fees and additional costs for selling. And you'll have to compete with other resellers who did get those sets at lower buy-in. Also, and it's rather unlikely, but there is a chance that the 10242 Mini Cooper gets retired before the 10220 Volkswagen T1. LEGO might want to keep the 10220 around a while longer as a companion to the new 10252 Volkswagen Beetle... All speculation of course, but that's what this topic is all about.

Unfortunately It's Been like that a few times the past few weeks

I can sum it up really quickly: 1. See sets on CL listed for retail price but are now 4+ years retired and worth 6-10x original price 2. Move on to next listings end tutorial

I would approach it the logic way. Are you thinking of buying them all ? If you are, then buy the oldest set first, so you don't have it retire on you while you buy others. If you don't want all of them, then buy the ones you like, starting with the oldest...

I think you guys are underestimating the value of gifts the lucky children get now a days. If grand/parents are spending $100-150 on sets like Raptor's Escape or Hasbro's version of BB-8 remote control toy, whats $250 for a LARGE set of Lego be it AOH or AT-AT etc.

Some sets have been "dancing" for years...

This is more like Martin O'Neill before the final whistle had gone lol

of cos .. but why bother to set the count to 3000 if they are extremely unlikely to produce it? This number is clearly not arbitrary because it is so much bigger than the average set size from the IDEAS line. It's better for both the company and fans to know the hard limit so that more realistic ideas will be created and voted for. I think it shows that they are willing to embrace the ideas like the Modular line as long as they are not crazily huge.

Here's some other telling graphs. First one is Millennium Falcon. In my opinion, what's interesting about it is right around the point that it was announced that there would be a "new lego MF" for Rogue One is the point where it plateaued, and then slowly plateaued in price and went south a bit. So, I think the At-AT will continue rising until that new announcement, whenever that maybe. Until then ride the wave. The second is the trajectory of the OT x-wing, which is still having an upwards swing. It's tough to say if a new x-wing is coming for Rogue One, but it's in the film, so I suspect we might see one, and that will probably plateau that set too. Interesting that Poe's X-wing had no effect on this older version, compared to say the new MF having an effect on the OT MF. Finally, growth of the Republic Gunship, AT-TE, and AT-TP. All these sets are showing upwards trajectories. So, i'm going to go out on that limb again and say AT-AT's are going to continue to rise. Also, sets that aren't currently retired but getting closer like the Imperial Shuttle Tydirium, Jedi Duel, and all of those first wave Force Awakens sets will probably see those EOL spikes. Granted, not all sets spike like they do as the MF did, as some like the RG, AT-TE, etc slowly but steadily rise in price through the months. But I think we will definitely see good spikes this year with other sets.. Now we just play the "when will the announcment be with a new At-At?" In my opinion, you have to sell right before that announcement to hit the peak. Because then it will more than likely plateau and start a slow but not too steep decline in price, similar to the OT falcon.

@sauromosis I didn't open one. I'm waiting until I can spend 3k on Lego before I do. Good to know it stacks with Thursday.

Righto, that makes more sense

I don't know, I'm not sure all those Mr. Incredible's left behind will be worth all that much

I wonder if they are going to just automatically reject submissions that don't meet the criteria so that people aren't wasting their time voting on projects that have 0% chance of getting anywhere. That would help prevent the clog we sometimes see in reviews where you know that nothing is going to get approved. I think with regards to the piece count, I kind of like that they have a threshold like that. One it allows more fluid detailed sets that are really good original sets to get through, and allow lego the flexibility to improve modify build techniques and stuff. That doesn't mean they would necessarily approve such a set, as it would cost around $300, but it would be nice one day to see a ridiculously expensive Ideas set.

600 pieces would have been a more coherent limit based on past approved projects.

Good ol' times also my IST for 57E was great back then

I signed up for a TRU cc yesterday and instead of 15% off my first purchase with the card it was only 10% off

I have a spare 20% code I won't be using. If anyone wants it send me a PM. Happy to send the code or a pic or if you are in the Portland, Oregon area I can mail it out to you tomorrow and you should have it by the 23rd. Taken. On its way Joseph!

Yeah if you look at page 3+ it's all sellers from Japan at around 85$/90

It is.

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Can I switch things up and share a positive experience? True story. I sold a complete set of Disney minifigs on eBay. I listed that they were still in the original bags, but I put a small cut in them to verify contents. Shortly after I received the money on PayPal, The buyer contacts me. The lady apologizes, but she claims I gave her two stitches. She's missing buzz light year. Which made sense to me, because I had recently went over my inventory of loose minifigs and was short a stitch. I go into customer-service panic-mode because of all the stories I've read here about buyers filing a complaint and getting their money back over the smallest inconsistency in their order. I'm a new seller and my feed back was only like 24, and more than half were from buying. So I immediately apologize for giving her stitches. But then she sends me a request: if she mails me one stitch back, will I please mail her the missing buzz light year. ?? She's asking ME to trade a stitch for a buzz? The buzz I rightfully owe her. She even says she's willing to wait until I get my stitch, before I give her a buzz. Now I'm getting paranoid, she's too nice. I am of course going to give her a buzz. And I'm certainly not going to wait until I receive a stitch. But What if she never sends a stitch and just wants a buzz for free? Who doesn't want a free buzz? What can I do?!? So I tell her I'm going to give her a buzz for free, gonna send it right away. I offer to send her $2 to pay for shipping my stitch back. She refuses. Doesn't want it. She compliments my package. Kids love the set. She just wants a buzz. Long story short, I roll her buzz with a pair of Washingtons. 'Cause I know she likes the way I pack it. And I got my stitch back and a great review on eBay. Disaster obverted. There are kind, generous people in the world.

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