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Friend and I knocked this up pretty easy and we are no professionals. Most expensive part is the toughened safety glass.

Awesome. If you could talk just 2 more people into doing the same and ask each of them to talk 2 people into doing the same, etc., that'd be great.

Got one at my store today. Can confirm no flag or anything with me having one on backorder from LEGO Shop at Home. First impressions....it fits in a Corvette . Had them keep the wheels and handle off so it would fit. Made it a pain to get it out of the store but a small price to pay

I have the table to put the Falcon in (and plan to build around it), but not the Falcon.... The table was custom made, incredibly heavy to move and not cheap, but will be worth it once complete.

Just called LS store in London. "we have received unexpected delivery today we didn't even know about" more to come next week. so stock shortage was just temporary but not permanent. snagging 2x vip october with VIP polybag makes more sense by now.

Posted 20 hours ago (edited by redghostx ) This also pairs nicely with either the Duplo train (add $2 filler) or the Heavy Haul Train 60098 - http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-City-Heavy-Haul-Train-60098-/172818718382?hash=item283ccc5eae:g:fIAAAOSwNw5Zie4- $125 (37.5% off with additional discount) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================================================================ Maybe the original post wasn't clear enough. The deal is that these are 30% off on the Toys R Us website PLUS with the promo code 20OFFLEGO adds up to a total of 44% off. This beats buying it using TRUTH in store or any deals used on Ebay. For example set 60098 Heavy Haul Train can be bought and delivered for $111.19. Mine have gone thru processing and now show shipped so there seems to be no worry of cancellation.

Another bubble thread? I have slowed down but I'll always buy & sell Lego unless it totally bottoms out. It's just a hobby for me though, nothing I really depend on. Was over 300 sets at one point but now have around 100. I can deal with the ups and downs of set values. The most disheartening thing for me have been scammers. Getting an A-Z claiming a $400 set is fake just enrages me. If anything makes me quit it's going to be a few more of those.

Why don’t you think knock-offs aren’t hurting sellers of the legitimate rare retired sets? The entire reason knock-offs even exist is to undercut these sellers by offering their over-priced items for much less. It would be irrational for us to pretend that consumers of knock-offs were truly never potential customers to the rare/retired market simply because they ultimately decided to save money and compromise with the substitute product. TLG isn’t hurt directly by the sale of knock-off rare & retired sets, as they aren’t competing to sell these retired sets. They’ve already made their money on these sets. The knock-offs truly hurt TLG by competing directly for the consumers available cash, as they are reducing the discretionary income of LEGO’s potential consumers. TLG faces this same threat from many unrelated markets though, namely video games, cell phones, travel industry, etc...

The writing is on the wall, I decided to get out now while market prices are still (marginally) profitable. Feels good, and the free’d space in the house is a plus. From here forward all LEGO sets will be those we actually want to build.

I meant to say exclusives.

Just a couple comments on this post and by no means am I trying to talk people into staying in the LEGO game. If anybody out there wants to divest just pick up the phone and give me a ring. I see that you paid full price for this set. Hmm. Not sure when you purchased these sets. Hopefully you weren't following the hoard at the tail end. I only have 2 of these sets and I think I paid around $145 each. Remember you make just as much money in the purchase as in the sale of an item. I may have mentioned this in the past but during the time the hoard was buying up Tumblers at MSRP during it's last month, I was buying up Imperial Hotels for about $86. Now, the IH hasn't performed as good as I would like, I'm still sitting on north of 75 of them BUT it's performing much better than The Tumbler. It is true that people aren't doubling their money like they used to but I still take comfort in the fact that when I total up all of my labor I still make over $100 an hour. Example: Yesterday I pulled the trigger on 50 units os a non-LEGO item. MSRP is 99.95 and I got them for about $77 which is a bit high for me. In a perfect world I could've got them for $66. Anyway, There was little work involved in getting this item and I didn't have to run all over town to do it. Each unit is individually boxed and will be delivered to my house by UPS next week. During December this Item should go for $150 easy. There's very little work involved and because they are already individually boxed all I will need to do is scrape off the shipping label and add a new one to it. In short: Never buy the cool shiny sets that everyone else wants and as always, buy low and sell high. Cheers!

Do you share a flat with Nigel Farage and Guardiola?

I decided to go down this path as well. I was tempted to try and QF, but as you said, only $200-300 profit after everything. Instead, first thing I did was dig out all of the mini figs and list on ebay for $50/ea. Classic Han & Leia went fast. This way I can get the profit but keep the ship for myself!

The buyer of that $100 knock-off was never ever going to buy my original set for $1,000 - so I didn't lose that sale. Regarding TLG, if their customer is someone who considers their purchase to be a disposable item (seeing it as a toy to be played with, lost and scattered around, only to be thrown away in a year or two), they might as well spend less for a bigger/better fake set (since they already consider the purchase to be without value). Also, since most of the current sets are available as fakes, many will prefer to spend less on the fake garbage now, than to spend much more for the actual LEGO (if they expect it to be worthless later). At this point though, the perceived threat of the fakes (warranted or not) does have an impact on values, since many investors have reacted with fear (selling too soon), forcing down prices, as many have looked to lock in their gains.

Got my Falcon yesterday, took a while to be shipped but arrived in the end. Then I had to watch in horror as the Yodel delivery guy stood in his van throwing boxes around to find the one he was delivering to me. Luckily LEGO had packed it in an outer box (this one got a bit beat up), then the thick box the sets get shipped to stores in (mine had a do not put on sale before Oct 1st sticker on it) so was fine. Usually when I order from Shop at Home, regardless of whether they have a promo offer on, they chuck some kind of polybag in with the order but got nothing this time. Wasn't expecting much but you'd think for £650 they'd throw us a bone. Think I'll keep this one for building as the prices are pretty low after you factor in fees, shipping, insurance etc plus the risk of being ripped off.

Here's3of the things I've done most recently, Mustafar Duel, Scarif Beach and Blue Squadron X-Wing. Mustafar came about because I had a bit of time on a Saturday morning and just started grabbing stuff from my LEGO bin. Scarif was me throwing every plant and tan plate I found into a bin and then trying to figure out what to do with it. The Blue X-Wing was because it wasn't terribly interesting to have 2 red X-Wings, so I wanted a bit of variety.

33R7 seals. Hope the last image isn’t blasphemy.

Technic 42030 leftovers on clearance for anyone interested: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/lego-technic-remote-controlled-volvo-l350f-wheel-load-42030/6000188130996

Finally got a hold of instructions for my little Record Store. Now just waiting for the stickers to come in. Cute little Modular.

Or $10 [emoji12]

Or $17.

ebay.com Flash Sale $15 off $75+ at eBay Pay for your item with PayPal by 6PM PST Pacific Time on September 21, 2017. Enter the Coupon code in the redemption code field: PSAVE15NOW Nice to use with TRU EBay items that are on sale this week or a Ninjago Movie Minifigure set along with other cheapies. I was able to get a set of minifigures down to $45 using the coupon, sure beats smooshing.

A lot of opportunity for those big sets if you’re willing to ship to Mid East and USSR land. Just make sure you insure and don’t do direct ship, make them use intermediary.

I have people in my family that use toilet paper, so I find this very offensive. Please refrain from jokes that can hurt people!

I told you guys a few years ago about how people Crack investing in Lego, and there are alot of guys from 3 years ago that are not on this site no more, there always be people who crack. "As For Emazers well he will start to crack in about 5 years, I said I would stop buying when I was 70, so thats a year and a half. I figure it will take me a good 5-8 years to sell all my stuff. so I will take my half million dollars that I made, if I am still living I guess I will still be doing what I do now, except no selling.

Here are a few more that code works on. And I was wrong, it does work on some high value sets. LEGO City Jungle Air Drop Helicopter (60162) LEGO City Volcano Heavy-lift Helicopter (60125) LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS (42056) LEGO Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) LEGO Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) LEGO City High-Speed Passenger Train (60051) LEGO Technic Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 (42043) LEGO Technic 6X6 All Terrain Tow Truck (42070) LEGO City Airport Vip Service (60102) LEGO City Volcano Exploration Truck (60121) LEGO City Volcano Crawler (60122) LEGO City Van and Caravan (60117) LEGO City Police High-speed Chase (60138) LEGO City Police Tow Truck Trouble (60137) LEGO City Great Vehicles Sweeper & Excavator (60152) LEGO City Great Vehicles 4x4 with Catamaran (60149) LEGO City Great Vehicles Pizza Van (60150) LEGO City Great Vehicles Race Plane (60144) LEGO City Service Station (60132) LEGO Technic Claas Xerion 5000 Trac Vc (42054) LEGO City Fire Boat (60109) LEGO Technic Ocean Explorer (42064) LEGO Technic Heavy Lift Helicopter (42052) This is not a complete or official list. Just those that I have been able to get the code to work on. They seem to be mostly Technic and City, but not all of them, as well as The Speed Champions. I was not able to find one Superheros or Star Wars that it works on. Check for yourself and you may find others that work too.

I'd probably will end up with ordering this display. http://allegro.pl/gablota-na-lego-ucs-millenium-falcon-10179-75192-i6963054383.html#thumb/3 Pure acrylic display with black bottom also acrylic. Price approx 96-97 GBP which is reasonable.

I haven't started mine yet, but those 2x brown plates look suspect to having been missed...

At this rate I won't finish mine by Christmas (and I started a few days ago)! With seemingly all of the stores getting regular shipments, has ANYONE had a backordered/waiting for stock order ship from SAH?

Store in Colorado (Park Meadows) had 6 this morning, getting 10 more Tuesday.

Little update on my delivery, I actually got it today. As it turns out it was delivered on time last Friday, but the barcode got damaged in the transport so they couldn't scan it and update the status... I just went to the post-office to check on it today and they pushed it right in front of me ( actually went there by bicycle, so had to return a few minutes later ). Outer box ist quite battered, but inner box it completely fine, so everything's fine

The building is part of the Fire Brigade (10197).

8% eBay bucks on $50+ purchase

I'm still amazed that Lego committed their whole stock to the VIP release rather than allocating set amounts.

shhhhhh, don't tell anyone else about the VIP program and early release, we dont' want more competition!

What if all three were? Claas and Volvo out, Porsche and BWE stay.

Are people really losing money here? I think you guys mistake small profits for losing money.

thought I would share my star wars collection

Your 0.02 is now worth only 0.01 if you invested in Lego.

We are divesting as well. Have only purchased a few hundred dollars in Lego sets in 2017 and not planning on anymore. Too small profits for too large a risk for us. Lego is losing relevancy (kids simply don't play with toys these days like they used to) and the brand is not collectible like it was 5 years ago for adults. Slowly selling off our 2013 - 2016 stash over the next 3-4 years. Actually thinking of going back to ebay, bricklink and brickowl to sell some of the stash as alot of our sets are now suppressed in search on the Amazon platform which is killing the sales rank (guessing the keywords are over the 250 character limit and good luck getting the retail team to change that within the next decade lol). Really enjoyed selling Lego and it did enable us to get where we are today selling online (it initially opened the door to Amazon and that has been life changing) but nothing lasts forever and we know when to fold them. It will be interesting to see where this brand lands in 10 years.

No, but I did order some plexiglass and glue some time ago and built a box for the slave I. Worked out pretty well. I was surprised how sturdy it turned out. I figure that it should be possible to create a completely transparent table with some thicker sheets and some short plexiglass pipes for the feet. Well, if you do not mind spending some time on that. You can order all this stuff at the right sizes so you do not have to worry about making clean straight cuts.

All - if you are reading this, I worked out a deal with [mention=40902]clintonjoseph[/mention] about a month ago on a few sets. He was very reasonable and the transaction was very smooth. He threw in a bonus with the package and I'd like to believe this Savers deal was karma returning the favor back to him. This kind of deal couldn't happen to a better guy. Congrats! I'm so happy for you!

Wow. This might be one of the craziest deals I ever found. I just left Savers (a goodwill type store). Found a big bag of Legos marked $9.99. I had a 30% off coupon, so I paid $7. I wasn't sure what was in the bag, but it was big enough to be worth it to me. Looked like a lot of white and blue so I was assuming some kind of city police stuff. Didn't see any minifigures so I was a little disappointed, but I saw a some numbered bags so that's cool. I got in the truck and open it up. Start pulling out all sealed bags. Lots of white and blue. Oh look, an instruction manual. Woah. It's a freaking UCS R2D2! All bags present and sealed. Instructions never opened.

I think it also really depends on what your intention was when you got into this 'game'. People who climbed on the "Lego Investing" wagon desiring > 100% profit (ROI) at the very least are now getting disappointed and turning away to other possibly more profitable endeavours. On the other hand for people who see Lego more as a hobby (for building and collecting), and selling some extra sets on the side to partly finance purchases for their own collections, have no reason to 'jump ship'. Sure, the days of "easy money" with Lego sets that automatically rose sharply in value over time are over. But it's still possible to find good discounted sets and sell them again at a 50% or better profit after a while.

Got in the door from the airport tonight and this was waiting for me... I officially have the best wife ever. I can't believe she went to the store for opening and then dragged this beast through the mall!

Only goes to show that the market has shifted from selling big exclusives bought at minimal discount to selling small-to-medium sized sets bought at at least 50% off. I'm still averaging over 100% ROI, and I am very small potatoes.

I sold 600 sets to one buyer in last month and a half. I have another 100-150 sets to go. After that I will have maybe 50 sets left. It feels great, but I'm not out. As a "non-Amazonian" I will just rethink my whole investing strategy. Hopefully pick up more buyers like that one (Amazon seller) and continue with wholesale operation.

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Recent FBA Sales: $56 - 75080 AAT ($11) $40 - 41131 Friends 2016 Advent ($8) $42 - 60078 Utility Shuttle ($5) $50 - 60118 Garbage Truck ($12) I also sold a 2013 dented Friends advent on Ebay for $50. Who said the advent market is dead I wish I had bought tons of these garbage trucks from Target last Christmas, but there was so much else to buy I only grabbed a handful.

Picked up a 310 Esso Station recently and got round to building it. It's in really nice condition for it's age, probably around 55 years old.