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Just picked up a used Taj Mahal with box, missing one of the instructions books. $200

I'm guessing it was me haha. The very nice lady I picked it up from said that someone else did message her after me, but she said she had already made an agreement with me despite them offering her more money.

2 today lol

Good thing I waited a day.

Quick build given that this isn't a classic UCS set when compared to others. I can see why this is not universally loved given it's size and also given that it is a prequel ship. Nonetheless another one ticked off.

I did my good deed (and pseudo-fruitcake) for the year on Friday, in honor of Saint Padraig... One of my favorite regular customers made me an offer of $15 for a 75099. I decided to counteroffer for less at $13.50. She was nice enough to message me and suggest I may have made a mistake, but I insisted my counteroffer was final and I wouldn't budge

Not eBay, local sales app. Funny, maybe a kid.

My MO on this promo... Depending on the item prices you'll need to play with the purchase amounts to try to get as close to $35 or $50 to use the coupons. By default the $30 requirement is met with the use of the $35 coupon ($35-5=30). So if you max out the coupon (purchases of exactly 35 or 50) the respective theo maximum discounts are $35-5-10-.35 = 44% and $50-10-10-.50 = 41% In reality it's best to use the coupon combination that works for any given situation. I didn't have any 10/50, but 5/35 worked better because most of the sets I bought were $25-30, then added a $5-10 set to get to $35. A little creativity goes a long way with SYW and the Kmart system.

This made my day.......... The asking price was $110 and they offered $90 so my counter offer was $102.50 plus shipping. My message that accompanied the counter offer was........... " Fair price.......=) Thanx " Below was the response........... New message to: celeste Heheheheheheee......... No worries. Thank you for the purchase. I hope he or she enjoys the LEGO and if you're ever looking for anything else just let me know. Happy building.......... =) Celeste Yes! Fair price! I'm teaching my 10 yr old how to bid LOL Thanks for the smiles ? Celeste New message from: Celeste I read your note to him... he was so happy! Will do! Thanks! ☺️

Something else - These sets used to be somewhat "rare", in that they were found in select locations - such as SAH, LEGO Stores, the bookstores, etc. Since TRU/Walmart and other places have carried them, they have been able to be found at decent discounts MUCH easier, which of course impacts the collecting/resale value as you don't need to abuse B&N coupons to get them at 30/40% off anymore. Like most things, I suspect the top value will be lower, the wait will be more, but there is still value to be had. These sets can be a hassle to get used, and in general, aren't going to get rehashed and remade every 2-3 years like the licensed sets. I personally think it's way way way too early to worry about prices of things like Villa Savoye and Trevi.

Those discounted Lincoln Memorials and Trevi Fountains that I picked up in November and December are looking good to me right now.

My reply. Dear Sir/Madam- I fully understand my options and I choose to not accept your offer and add you to my blocked list. Thanks for your understanding.

This ship has sailed... While, some of these are doing "ok".. This is not like how it used to be. I've been buying and "investing" in this line since the beginning, and the growth isn't what it used to be with many of these. A few years back, sets like Sungnyemun and Burj would net you 4x in little time. That just doesn't happen anymore. I don't consider a 69.99 set topping 90 a success, when you add in fees, etc. That's a set that you pretty much can only land at BAM or B&N, and so you aren't going to find those half off on a frequent basis. A few years back, you could use a 20 off 100 coupon with a 10% discount at BAM and stock up on these. Now, those type of discounts are gone. I was pretty much the only one at my BAM that bought them out, and I always used the coupons. Now, they exclude lego. It was a great ride while it happened...but the loopholes are closing, and too many people jumped in. The 25% off + 10% discount at B&N deal was decent recently, but I don't see any of the latest retirements hitting 4x, let alone 3x anytime soon. Now we cheer when a set barely goes to 1.5x.

Might go well with TRU's LEGO Super Heroes Spider-Man Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge 76057 @ $75.99 before code. http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Super-Heroes-Spider-Man-Web-Warriors-Ultimate-Bridge-76057-/172443306187

Code pickURcode This one worked for me !! Got the $ 3.00 doorbuster =) thank you for posting !

Win-it apply is paying today for me

I opened a store and had my first sale about a month ago. I've been slowly adding all my new and used parts. I still have plenty of stuff that's not sorted. I basically had to start over from the last time I tried to do this because my inventory and record keeping were a disaster. I've reinvested most of the sales from the past month into more bulk lots and some sale sets. This week I have about 30+ lbs of bulk coming. I know I need to pull all the basic bricks first because that is what I am overwhelmingly selling the most of. The best part of doing my sorting and inventorying is that I am finally finishing the 25 sets that I had started to piece together from bulk. It's so easy to just stop and put everything away in a box in a room. I am happy to overcome my inertia. The money I am getting is not really enough to be anywhere near close to worth my time, but I assume that once I have everything inventoried and stored properly, my time commitments will be less. Besides, it's giving me a chance to take care of some sets that I want to build for me and hopefully drop their prices to something close to modest.

can I get a PM too? haha

its not the same mini figure. now we will get into this argument "boba fett" is "boba" and "han solo" is "han" . look closely and you will see the difference between figures of 75137 and 75174. han [ has different head and hair-piece] while boba's torso and leg is light grey not sand green also hand is tan. finally the Pauldron Cloth is not printed and is sand green in 75174.

Free shipping at LEGO Shop at Home until 9th of April, so 6 days where it overlaps with the mini Volkswagen Beetle promo, which only needs a €40 buy in.

I can only guess that most of those points come from the Raise points-back promo.

60122 Volcano Crawler down to $20 on Amazon.(click Max Profit Link above). Great deal for a VERY good set.

That will be all the Technic sets that Asda had for 30% off, the influx of those sets over the last week on eBay UK has been ridiculous. so...

It would have better for everyone if he quit writing after the first paragraph.

I have said this many times before, but this is cut-and-dry: Any, I repeat ANY issue with an address in EBay -> as a seller just cancel the sale, using the "Issue with address" cancellation reason. Ideally you first write a nice message to the buyer explaining them that you are cancelling and why, and that you will relist the item for them to purchase once they made the necessary changes. All this without any headache, and it costs you just $0.30 (thanks Paypal!), though some have managed to get that reversed as well.

For used sets such as this, I will take the set apart (unless specified by buyer) and then put the figures and their accessories in separate baggies and then put those together in a baggie to house all of that. That will go inside the bag holding the pieces. If there are specialty parts I will also bag those separately. These would be rare parts or string/pulley type stuff that I don't want becoming a knot. Those bags will get protected from bouncing around in the box by either craft paper like from Amazon or bubble wrap. Last thing you want is a loose gallon Ziploc bag bursting open because it was loose in the box and pieces are everywhere. Box needs to be big enough for instructions (if included) to lay flat on the box and not tossed in or rolled up. If there are stickers included I will put those inside the instruction books to make sure they don't bend as well. You do those things and you should never get a complaint, though no guarantees as there are some particular folks out there. It may be to your benefit to state in your auction/BIN that you will send set taken apart/left together. I've had a couple misunderstandings that way though no negative feedback from it. Just something that may come up.

Offerup, 99% people contact you with questions/requests like that but that 1% is still normal people. I listed today ucs tumbler and it sold within hours for $270 cash so as you see it's not always this bad. I have couple repeat customers locally too little bit here, little there, few sales on eBay and it all ads up to decent traffic.

Looks like OfferUp to me....

You forgot a zero on that price right?

eBay flash sale $15 off $75+ through 8pm PST Use code CSAVE15OFFMARCH http://pages.ebay.com/promo/2017/0320/cancer.html?_trkparms=clkid%3D3375701108371942747

Now that I've had some time to wash/sort/identify, here are the sets I have compiled. All are in the 95% complete range (no manuals with the lot) w/ a few pieces missing here and there with the exception of #3368 Space Center is only 75% complete. Batman I: 7785 Arkham Asylum (w/ minis) 7779 Batman Dragster: Catwoman Pursuit (w/ minis) Monster Fighters: 9468 Vampyre Castle (w/ minis) 9461 The Swamp Creature (w/ minis) 9463 The Werewolf (w/ minis) Alien Conquest: 7050 Alien Defender (w/ minis) 7052 UFO Abduction (w/ minis) 7049 Alien Striker (w/ minis) Galaxy Squad: 70707 CLS-89 Eradicator Mech (w/ minis) Lone Ranger: 79107 Comanche Camp (w/ minis) 79108 Stagecoach Escape (w/ minis) 79110 Silver Mine Shootout (w/ minis) 79111 Missing over half of the set and 1 mini 30261 Tonto's Campfire poly City: Space Port 3368 Space Center (w/ minis) 3367 Space Shuttle (missing one mini) Ninjago: 9448 Samurai Mech (w/ minis) Star Wars: 7930 Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship (w/ minis) Marvel Super Heroes: 6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle (w/ minis) 6873 Spider-Mans Doc Ock Ambush (w/ minis) There were a few other Chima/Ninjago/Minecraft sets that I could not identify or were not worth bothering to complete the set. I will just absorb those as parts and sell the minis. I feel this was a pretty good buy for my first "used" lot from CL for $100. The lot was 18lbs of bricks and had 60 minis separated.

check your pm

They're reserving at $250 right now.

Something to do with Trump or Brexit or bubble?

This buyer sounds a bit confused, and nervous about having made an offer on an item without reading the details about the set. The buyer is trying to debate/lecture to get it all to go away (and yes, they do sound rude doing so). It sounds like they are a bit tortured about it already (and obviously have no agenda, since nothing is actually happening). I would just respond with a thanks for getting in touch,letting me know - no problem at all.

Good posts @fossilrock I stockpiled UN, something about those trans blue elements got me. Almost all were purchased from BN for $36 or less with a few from lego store during clearance and promo. I was planning to sell at 3x MSRP but over a year after retirement this set still hasn't hit 1.5 MSRP and you see a few BPers posting they are still finding them on the shelves at BN. Interesting thing this set and this line has not been affected by counterfeiting.

I went back and cleaned out anything that looked decent on the $10 points on $30 purchase promo... Coupled with $5/35 coupon its basically 40% cross the board & GC pays for sales tax. $16 (2) Iron Skull Submarine $3 (2) Creator smalls $17 (2) Elves Lava Cave (On sale at every KMart for $29.94 right now... couples well with any SYW/coupons you have available) $6 (2) Mighty Micros: Wonder Woman vs. Doomsday I'll pop in once a week... If any kind of real sale happens in the next few months I'll be smiling.

I'm lol'ing because someone on Reddit tonight was bummed they missed out on a $200 Taj Mahal. So I'm assuming you're the guy that got it. Good job! Congrats and enjoy.

Yeah the incomplete address with just the street number and nothing else has been big of late. Had 2 in 4 days last week. Just cancel. Send an email stating you had to cancel for incomplete address and they are more than welcome to repurchase. I'll put money on it they don't respond. Last 2 or 3 haven't

Personally I think you'll be fine, but you should always believe us brickpickers over PayPal. Seriously, I've purchased hundreds of items from the US over the years and have never been called. I've even imported large and uncommon items like pinball machines, car tires, etc without any contact from customs.

FREE LEGO!

I'm glad I made an impact. On a side note these could have been had for $8.97 for about 5 minutes Friday on Amazon. I adjusted my price to 80.97 and forgot the zero. Had 25 available for a couple minutes. Very tense situation.

Where have you been the last 4 weeks? I think searching this forum for the word "epic" would be a good start to get to your answer

One of my FBM trip wire listings sold over the weekend. For those keeping track, we have a 3x RRP Speed Champion: 75899 LaFerrari - $45 (Buy-in $11) Note: A couple FBA sellers took notice and it's back down to $42

Over the course of my Hardy Boys witch hunt, I've been able to gather the last four digits of her bank account number, her current bank, two email addresses, her phone number, and (like I mentioned) a potential lead on her previous (or current) address. I'm livid. And humiliated. I have no idea how cyber crime investigations work so I'm terrified that, even after all of this sleuthing, my money is a goner. At this point it's not even about the money. I just want this sack of **** caught.

Lego The Flintstones https://ideas.lego.com/projects/168661 Larger / more images here https://www.flickr.com/photos/127122511@N05/sets/72157677262635374 Once it gets 10,000 votes (it's over 1100 so far )LEGO reviews it, and it could be an official set.

It has been like that for at least 5 years already. EBay did it because they wanted to be like Amazon

If you get a payment with that many scribbles I would be concerned...