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Well, Kenxxx, your encouragement saved me. Even though I lost the appeal, and could not see any way to appeal again, after I read your post, I opened a case yet again, stated the facts again, and just now got this reply: "We see that your account was debited for the claim on order 111-7018795-1985832 in error." The money they took is back in my account. The whole experience was maddening, but at least I got the money back. Thanks for encouraging me to keep trying!

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/97b9ee38-b28f-49ec-aaf1-19ed126319d4

Maybe should have Shewie ask Jamie next time he sees him??

Sold an Exo-suit and get this, made a profit.

Finally starting the set that I have been most looking forward to building for a while now: Tantive IV 10198. From back in the day when there weren't numbered bags, so I am starting to get organized. Should be fun!

1x Star Wars SSD 10221 NIB (very good condition) for €825,- cash at 'Marktplaats', pick up. Buy in was €309,-, just 2 weeks before these were sold out at LEGO. Now I have 2 left. Will wait a bit longer for these though.

Thats a bit harsh, it was an April fool wasnt it? Ok you might of raised a few hopes up but thats not worthy of deleting accounts or getting too upset about! IMO. If they consider your photoshop skills that good maybe you should offer them freelance design services for future releases Lego has obviously taken disneys advice on security of this product, rumour and source info is all we are getting. Hurry up and release some info will ya Lego! Oh and Yeh #freeCM4Sci

Over the past few days I have had a lot of luck buying on CL. After losing out on one Black Pearl, I found another used one for $130 that is complete with all of the minifigures (no instructions), for investment. The Joshamee Gibbs minifigure is missing his hair, another victim of male pattern baldness no doubt. I will get new hair for him. Last night I got a used 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer complete with all the minfigures and instructions for $55. I have always wanted this one for my personal collection! The Darth Vader minifigure has one white arm with a black hand for some reason. The pieces came separated into numbered bags according to the instructions. The emperor hologram is definitely in bag 3! In both cases the mother and her son were both very happy with the money they got. It was a win, win scenario for everybody. I will admit that I am envious of the awesome finds that many members post here, and now I get to post two of my own.

Local TRU drop-in today. Fun in the Park set 40% off (for my personal build collection) and 2x IR at full RRP...but at least I had some $10 off promo cards to get them down to $139.99 CDN each (about $108 USD).

I never use FBM but I have read the same story over and over again 100's of times. The issue is your customer is not choosing the correct reason when opening their case. If they choose item not received you won't even hear about it and amazon will pay off your customer themselves. If they choose any other reason then you will not be covered by their policy and you will lose the A-Z claim. So why do most customers choose the wrong reason to open the case? Because the customer has to wait 1 week after the item was supposedly delivered to be given the option to choose item not received. Since most people don't know they have to wait the week or just want to open the case immediately and get it over with they will choose something else and then type in the comments box item not received. When they do this the bots won't know how to handle it and you will auto lose. Simple answer is still use signature confirmation if you must do FBM. IMO FBA is the only way to sell on the Amazon platform without banging your head against a wall over and over and over again. Sell in volume to cover the unavoidable loss to fraud. Ebay is a great option, just not enough traffic for our model.

That sounds like one their robot just failed to read properly. If buyer claimed item not received, and you responded correctly, this should be reversed on appeal. We've all been screwed by Amz, and given up, but I'd appeal that one a third time, forth, or how many it takes... Open a case if you have to. Good luck!

I'm down to $0 gift cards and $3 in pts. Churned through quite a bit over the weekend but I'm playing it safe, for now.

Built the assembly square. What an amazing set, what a great job lego did.

I know some of you have been thinking about the launch tower for the Saturn V. Here it is on the Lego Ideas site. One of the same designers created it. You can't complain about a repetitious build when it this cool. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a88109ec-9970-4fe1-98b4-9bd535856ab4

You gotta straighten out those lightsabers @uaford, what ocd I have is kicking in big time. GG looks like he has NERF sabers there.

Finally got together the missing parts for my UCS General Grievous 10186 that I bought used a while back for $90, so I built it over the weekend. My primary observations are that 1- it is huge compared to what I expected and 2- it seems unstable compared to most of the other sets I have built. I could definitely see my son demolishing this things in no time. I usually build these with the kids, but they were out in Yellowstone camping so I took the opportunity to build this one while they were away since several of you guys had mentioned it is a more fragile build than most...good call! Look how big it is next to some of the other relatively large sets!

1, That part freaked me out. 2. I need to get those rolling shelves for my house 3. Who let those hippies in there to man-handle those beautiful boxes? Where was the respect? Where were the gloves? Did they even bother to wipe the cheeto dust off their fingers before defiling that temple? gasp.

Palacio Nacional de la Cultura, Ciudad de Guatemala by diegoboy

Lady and the Tramp by LEGO 7

Some early fireworks on CL over here. All three for $450. Still can't believe it.

Turned out to be a pretty good day. Got my first CL sale in months. Guy came by to get the July 2016 Knights Retrospective for $20 and asked if I had anything else, said his kid likes minifigs. Sold him a Tupperware dish of about 20 Chima, Ninjago, and SW Ep1-3 battle pack guys for $50. Told him I was just starting to sort through a lot of about 20 pounds of incomplete POTC, City, and MF sets with very few minifigs that are VERY dusty, I had already pulled the one complete set, a ghost train out for myself. Told him $100 for the tub, he was stoked, a little low, but saved me hours of sorting through partial sets and cleaning them. Then I got a BL order for an Epic Dragon Battle (used) for $75.

Getting way off-topic, but most things that have to do with college and can be funded by student loans are a racket these days. Education is a wonderful and powerful thing, but the fact that the federal government subsidizes student loans and has made student loan debt non dischargeable in bankruptcy has allowed many college-related industries to inflate prices in ways that are objectively harmful to those that the underlying policies are meant to help.

I would have to wonder what tlg is doing but then again I remember that there is no understanding tlg.

So I'm trying to follow here. Someone at LEGO took your April Fools joke Photoshop. Then showed it to someone at TLG. That person was so shocked to see it they they felt it was an internal leak and not fan made. Then identified it was you (a non-LEGO employee), and felt that your Ideas account needed to be deleted?

I thought it's been confirmed knowledge a falcon has been coming since like... They just don't like pics.

Victorian Dream Home by buggyirk

Then turn around and head to Vegas there you will find the sets you are looking for.

With the new Saturn V Ideas Set this one is gold. The price in Europe for MR has immediately rised after Saturn V release. (Both sets are unique ones that are NASA branded) I have only 10 left (from my former 100) and I won't sell them under 200 Euro...

That big turbine in the front and the paddle wheel in the back have me a little confused. Is this an air ship? I feel like epic sails would make this more... epic.

Make that into an airship and I'm in.

Rebel Combat Frigate for MOC parts (mini figures I will flip) for 30% off and a Saturn V. If this does really sell out and isn't replenished in stores, in the short term, I will look to flip if this gets close to £200 otherwise will keep for personal build. Also got 2 pig money banks and 2 R3 polybags as well as double VIP points.

Make your own deal time!

I know where the first 10179 is and it's not in the vault.

The consensus is it's a larger risk for big sets right now.

Esprit Del Mar by DR.Church

built the cafe corner

bought the classic batcave

UCS Sandcrawler. I both love and hate it!

I sent a NASA rocket to my pops for a belated Father's Day gift. Thanks Target!

Taj Mahal used with box and Instructions. $500

Tell that to buyers. My Lego Movie Cukoo Palace still ain't selling even though reasonably priced! I don't think the cartoon news will have any effect on sales until it actually airs...

Having now built this, it's no wonder why Lego haven't released a UCS AT-AT. Despite his being well designed and structurally very stable it was a bit of nightmare putting everything together. I spent almost a day attaching the head onto the body. Biggest build to date coming in at just over 6700 pieces. Hopefully that will be topped by the new Falcon and then my UCS collection is complete with respect of in my opinion all of the iconic ships in Star Wars universe.

Pleasant surprise of the week. Sold a Unikitty Fun pack for $9

The problem with textbooks on Amazon was the very fast growing number of fakes. We always got some fakes when we bought from 3P sellers on the off season but the past year the numbers of fakes was ridiculous to the point where we didn't even bother with 3P. Sucks that that textbook market is now off limits to re-sellers but very happy Amazon is preserving their image. Plenty more money to be made in other categories. The day Amazon is known for fakes is the day the whole ship goes down. Expect more brands and categories to go without grandfathering over the next 6 months.

Return of Jafar by cid hsiao

Hotwheels Poison Pinto by Nathan Proudlove

The Sideways Building by Tobias T.

Well put and I agree with your sentiment. The UCS theme used to be on another level of difficulty and design in comparison to the standard STAR WARS sets. While the standard sets have improved dramatically from the early 2000s, the UCS sets have not made the same progress in my opinion. For every Slave I, there is an Assault on Hoth. I can make a case that the UCS sets from over a decade ago were much more complex and interesting builds than many of today's releases.