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The "Great Loot of 2016" in all of it's glory!! We take this style picture of our Lego Loot every year. It gives us a bit of a reference at times. And...YES...my kids (and us) are a bit spoiled!!

Clearance at targed be like.

I went to Walmart this morning and found the 10697 on the top shelf, scanned at $19

Santa felt he needed to beef up security this year.

Jesus! ...and I say that with all due respect. At least I feel better about myself and how much I spoil my son.

If you guys aren't using the "Win it" app, you are losing out. I got around $12 in points over the past two weeks. These are my recent SYW purchases: x2 Super Heros 76053 $7.20 each. (Was: $19.99. 65% off) x3 Van and Caravan $8.50 each. (Was: $19.99. 57% off) x1 Carbon Freezing Chamber $12.00 each (Was: $24.99. 51% off) x1 Fun in the park $19.00 (Was: $39.99. 53% off) x2 Volcano truck $10.20 (Was: $24.99 59% off) Good stuff

Sold a 21005 Fallingwater on FBA for $324.99.

It's always a jolting hit when childhood heroes and icons leave us.....reminds us of the fragility of life and that nothing lasts forever. We grew up watching these characters and the silver screen lends a timeless quality to them. We see them that way, free from the reality and mortality of life. And then before you know it they are gone and it almost seems like a piece of ourselves is gone as well. Rest in peace Miss Fisher, you will be missed.

I got lucky and picked up 10 for $10.28 each over the last few months on Kmart.com. I was really wishing that I could get 20 of these but I'm happy for now. I did pass up one damaged one at Target for $19 however, next day it was gone.

Am I the only one that snipes the old-fashioned way? "Now get off my lawn!"

hard to see how a set with 9 month availability could have been massively overproduced and hoarded (in the US at least). i have 20 of these at a 30% discount buyin. this is a double your money investing layup with a discounted buyin within 18 months. my usual reservoir of retired sets, ghetto kmarts and out of the way bn, are picked clean of these - i don't think they ever had many to begin with. this set along with Droid Escape to me were about the easiest places to not be scared about putting money from the class of 2016. i have a few hoth escape but not expecting it do as well. carbon chamber - its going to be another year though at 50% off you can't say no.

10143 Death Star II

Reminds me of this...

Giving a new meaning to stay on Target .. all 50% off

We finally finished this bad boy today. A fun build to say the least. Nothing to repetitive and actually quite nice to look at

Sucks. A little piece of my childhood died with her and George Michael

RIP

This is a bunch of crap!

Got tearry eyed listening to the news. Sad, very sad news for us 1970-80s kids. [emoji30][emoji24]

Old 37 years lamenting one of his first crushes .. sad day indeed .. sigh

My most recent (and last. ever.) experience with TRU. Tried ordering two Droid Troop transports during the flash sale on the 9th, used a GC and the rest on my Paypal. When I tried to check out I got an error code and it booted me back to the cart, where I tried to check out again, only to find out my GC had been drained. I was pretty confused but then realized what must have happened. Sure enough, my PP had been charged as well. They charged me $60 without even creating a order. 3 weeks later. More than 10 phone calls, a dozen emails that got no response, and two people hanging up on me when I was on hold for 40 minutes, I finally get a supervisor. She quickly add fixes the giftcard and coldly tells me that Paypal will release my money when they feel like it, and then to have a nice day. That's after I told her my entire story, including the absolute incompetence of her underlings, the people hanging up on me, and the fact that they held my money for almost a month. She didn't care that I had spent SIX F***ING HOURS of my life talking to the idiots (except for one lady who was an angel) they employ on the phone, plus however many more it took to write emails that they never responded too. It's not that I was screaming and yelling at them either, I treated each representative with respect and was calm through these interactions. Maybe it was that I obviously sounded young, I don't know. All I know is that 9/10 of the people I talked to didn't treat me as a customer. The first lady (who was awesome) did give me a code for $20 off, but the sale savings would have saved me $40+ on its own ($20 was the max she could give me according to her). Her higher ups refused to locate me the sets I actually "paid" for. The final supervisor acted like she had resolved the issue (even though I'm still $10 out of pocket) and told me to have a nice day. I simply responded that they had lost a once loyal customer (my family has spent thousands over the past ten years at TRU) All she said after that was that she was sorry it had to be like that, and then goodbye. She then hung up. Worst. Business. ever.

You will get back the total amount of the purchase. So if you sold the item for 100 you get 100 back. So essentially you are already getting you shipping back.

I just found out that if you win by sniping an auction you do not get ebay bucks. I have been using goofbid and since it is UK based, ebay views bids coming from that country. Is there any sniping sites that I can use to get ebay bucks?

Ciglione, Not sure what words of encouragement I can properly convey, except... sorry to hear that unfortunate news and hoping and praying your family has a better new year.

I concur. Blue X Wing moves fast at the right price but those Simpsons sets are shelf warmers, same with ToA and most Ninjago. Let´s see if TLG adjusts some of their scandalous Euro prices downwards on 1st Jan, as well as the UK ones upwards.

Sorry to hear that mate, such wankers

I think that supply for this one might be more concentrated amongst the big investors, following Amazon practices but demand for Lego is definitely falling too. Assuming the big boys were in at 40% off or more, they´ll have margin to flip and the price won´t rise so quickly.

Sitting on those won't likely gain you anything. If you are wanting to keep two for personal use, my goal would be to flip the others to make my personal sets free.

Discounts this year were early and often.

Some people prefer to remain as "ghosts" on the internet using fake names / throwaway accounts so real details never found out. Some do it for genuine reason such as: -scared about details being found out due to previously being victims of identity fraud etc -dont want their buying history known as they buy 18+ / sexual items -famous people and dont want people finding out their accounts As person has 100+ feedback and confirmed address I wouldn't worry. If you want further piece of mind depending on value of item send it royal mail signed for or special delivery, so buyer can't claim item not received.

sorry to hear that. be "+". everything happens for a reason and always 2 doors opens up for a closed ones.

I'm a newbie to this too, but what's been working for me most consistently in the past month is to go to shopyourway.com and search for a Kmart gift card, then click on the first one, even though the dollar amount is not what you want. Click on "Buy from Seller" and you'll be redirected to Raise. Choose from several cards. Today's top is 7% off. 7% off + 8% in SYW points = 14.4% off. I bought all my Christmas gift cards this way and most of these points showed up within a few hours, but I've heard sometimes it takes 6-8 weeks. Thanks MinifigW for the headsup on this one.

75054 AT-AT and 75055 ISD are performing ok in UK, but nowhere near as good when compared with US performance. AT-AT lowest price on ebay is £190 shipped (RRP £110), however there has been lots of sold listings recently of sets selling between £150 - 165. ISD lowest price on ebay is £200 shipped (RRP £120), however this set has also sold for £150-165. Key message I take from this and which I think every UK person should note is that you cannot compare UK growth levels with IS. Only very very few sets achieve "exponential" growth of above 2xRRP and keep on rising, the US is a completely different market so don't expect sets like IST to perform as good just becuase it may do great in USA. It is dissapointing as these 2 were obviously key winners,l from the 2015 retirees. Obviously if you bought at discount you may get 2x profits, but based off RRP they are hardly a success in UK when compared to USA. I'm abit hesitant on buying anymore IST. I wish this set will do well, but if ISD and AT-AT can't go above 2 x RRP one year after retirement (ebay selling price that is), what hope is there for this set? I don't think IST will perform any better personally as it is nowhere near as iconic as the AT-AT or ISD.

Maybe this might help in giving you some inspirations : Not mine though, :(.

do u have it on a thumb drive ?

Along with another BPer, cleared out that stack of T-Rex's from a local Target @ $35 per. Nothing else interesting at Target. I'm waiting until we get above 40% off at WM.

I picked up a couple of these from Asda today, only set with Leia minifigure from TFA.

I use JBidWatcher - runs on your local computer, so through your own account. Haven't used it recently (as in, have used it, but haven't won anything) but I'm pretty sure it qualifies for Bucks as it is just using your account.

Newbies holding back the price ..

Was it overproduced, I thought it was a fairly short run, and I haven’t seen it all that often – or at least often discounted like 75136, 75137 or 75138. I only have 3 which makes me wonder if others haven't picked it up as well.

Rare minifigs are also a factor in lower priced sets and this one doesn´t have any. At 70% off, it´s a no brainer but money is better spent on other things.

Sorry, but with Employee discounts, discount giftcards, cashback/points, price matching, stacking discounts, promos and everything else, you should be hitting at least 40% on mainstream sets. Only time you should really be going much higher, is for things like JW and Scooby now we know there is a good uptick to them. For Exclusives it’s a bit different, but still you should be looking at 30%, because that’s what you’ll be competing against when it’s time to sell.

I went and had a look at some seals while they were repairing my windshield this morning. Airjitzu: 25S6 UCS TIE: 37S6 Kwik-E: 26S5 F40: 35S6 Slave: 39S6 T1: 39S6 Mini: 39S6 General observations: There was a whole stack of Airjitzu Temples in the middle of the Lego section. Another stack was on shelves. I think there were about twenty left in total. Absolutely no one seems to buy this set. Though this set is 230€ over here, it doesn't seem to have hurt the UCS TIE of which there was only one left. About five Kwik-E's left as well. One Slave and one F40, about five each of Mini and T1. I didn't check the seals on the Batcave, but they had a ton left of those as well. You can guess which of the Star Wars sets was sold out: Resistance X-Wing was nowhere to be seen.

Huge score at my local Myer (brookside, qld). 40% off all Lego. Offer valid until all stock gone, or January 9 when store shuts its doors. Passed on the brick banks and detective offices. And took a couple of speed champions Ferrari trucks ($65 each), a creator Ferrari @$62. Captain plasma figure for $12, and 4 of the new at-st at $38 each.

There are only 65 offers on it on amazon currently. To compare last year, the AT-AT had over 100.. So, while I agree to some extent, I think a lot of the casual investors that swung into the game for a brief period to try it out have left the game altogether. While this set hasn't doubled out of the gate like the AT-AT did last year, I do think the signs are there that it should easily double the 74.00 buy-in price within a few months.

Caterham and gbhq for me, daughter got the friends roller coaster and Disney Princess aladin set. 6 hours building the first floor so far

I didn't buy myself the Yellow Submarine because I figured that I would allow someone to buy me a set for Christmas, and someone did. As bad as Lego's creativity was this year, the adaptation of the Ideas set is phenomenal and this is by far the most brilliant 2016 set that I personally built this year. I don't know how close this is to the original submission, but both Lego and the designer deserve all profits made from sales. The colors are fantastic, the minifigs are brilliant, and the build is very well executed. This set may also be good for parter-outers with all of the bright colors and rare pieces, including a lot of unique color/piece combinations and printed tiles (no stickers!). I surmise that this set will be around for a long time, by Ideas standards, or produced in high volume runs because it wouldn't make sense to create so many parts runs for some many of the unique pieces in the set. A+ from me.

Sorry, I thought that this was known as a top site for Lego investing. Unless people specify that they're talking about personal builds I'll usually assume that they're talking about investing. I do apologize if I've offended you though Sir. This is the 'Retiring Soon' thread also? Shock, horror, that I would comment on the speculation of how this set would perform after retirement.....

Whatever you choose to feel up and whatever special techniques you use is your business. Let's keep it private though...