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I never have understood why people post pictures like this on their listing and enter their max quantity that they have. It's telling the potential buyer " I got plenty of these. No rush. Wait to see if the price drops further".

https://www.poopsenders.com/

...and again, you’re the problem

You never see them in the same place at the same time!

31070 3-in-1 Turbo Track Racer with money to spare.

A once in a blue moon occurrence: A new to eBay Seller who wouldn't post this box of bulk and lives 15 mins up the road for me. For $30, I got: 5771 Hillside House, sound brick still working and mostly complete 4204 The Mine, missing a couple of common pieces 60001 Fire Chief car, complete 4431 Ambulance, probably missing minifigures 7957 Sith Nightspeeder, complete Also found 21003 Seattle Space Needle, complete but no instructions 2254 Mountain Shrine, complete no instructions 10701 XL Grey baseplate, and most awesomely an unbroken plastic tub

After much research & deliberation this morning, we went into the store thinking we would purchase the Ferrari. However, once he saw the Fishing Store he started thinking about how he could get that instead. It didn't take too much arm twisting, but he now owes me $25 and walked out with the Fishing Store in hand. 2.5 hours later he's still building, and I imagine will finish it before bedtime. He loves it. Again, many thanks. Looks like Ferrari will be on his Christmas list. And as FYI -- Our store no longer had the Caterham. They did have a few of the Women of NASA on the shelf. Saturn V is still only sold upon request.

Perhaps it's their way of attempting to make up for other shortcomings.

I'm not even going to think about selling anymore until after BF. Most people haven't even started thinking about Christmas yet.

Yep, they said I️ could take home 10 or so asbestos tile before they close.

Out at Pottery Barn with the wife, can’t escape it. My mind instantly goes to sorting basket.

It would be even more helpful if Lego provided realtime video of their production line including packaging so we are ensured mint boxes and sufficient supply to flip.

Eh, 99% of people don't care or know who the designer is. Plus, he's not under some contract to never sign another one of these.

It definitely devalues in many ways.

You can try to fight it but your pretty much boned. Amazon has become a place where the buyer is always right so its easy to scam. It's infuriating. Try asking on the amz seller forums, you will get a lot more feedback there. At least it's just a $25 set. Many of us have gone through this with $300+ sets.

Looks like Amazon may have gotten all those wholesale pharmacy licenses recently to keep Jeff well stocked with steroids.

Love the battle pack.

Yep, the stained ones from the old Slush Puppies machine are already claimed.

Awesome .. gonna go hit a baby now

Red creatures 31032 for $75. Yay!

EBay Full set of 8 Bricktober mini modulars for $155+ shipping

TMI

Meh ... you need the new and improved 20 version for the special minifigure collections. It even has handles.

Was totally hoping that last part was going to be something like... "Where's my order? Two weeks not enough time, Huh Huh, I see you have internet access, where's my bricks B***"

You would think that instant checkout would keep these types away from your particular store. I didn't get hit this time around but did a few weeks ago. Fortunately the process of cancelling and getting parts back in store is pretty easy. I have held off from instant checkout until the bugs are cleared. There has been a lot of complaining on the seller side in the forums about bug issues so I have stayed away. Thanks for the order, hope all went well. I'm 2 months in and really like selling on BL so far. I have sold on Ebay for about 15 years now, but this is new to me. What I do like is that for the most part, you are dealing with informed buyers/sellers so it generally runs very smoothly.

At least that person did a better job of "creating" an address. For a second I had to think if Delaware and New York actually shared a border. My brain was going crazy trying to think of how and where they would touch! Also, I didn't want to do it, but I've just activated the New Buyers must use Instant Checkout (until they have a rating of 5). I only have this for smaller 1st class items but maybe that would deter some from possibly wasting my time.

I bought a total of 19, sold 2 at 49.99 and trying to stay competitive with lowest price on eBay without driving down costs. Only listing 8 and waiting until BF boom to see if price goes back up. I’m not panicking as long as there is money to be made. I still profit about $5- $10 per set I sell at this price point. Maybe more if I can source really light boxes. I think this is my floor though for what I’m willing to sell at. No more reducing to offload, the holiday shopping isn’t in full swing yet. If i still have some sitting there, then they will sit in my inventory until EOL. I have other products selling to keep a good cash flow.

Or sell a bunch now, make a ton of money, and buy a bunch more once it's back in stock for an eol that's a year away. But then I may get a couple returns on the 100 sets I sold at double buy in? Oh dang, nevermind.

Nope, just $5 Freecash on $0.01 spend.

you best course of action is to send a prepaid label and tell them you will be happy to refund once the item is sent back per Amazon's policy. do not engage the buyer after that . If they open a claim , you have evidence that you did what you were supposed to do and waiting for the item to come back to you I wouldn't just refund, it empower them.

Easy to do. Lego made a crap ton of similar looking Harry Potter sets the first couple years.

Thank you for the great suggestions! @Phil B - Great minds... SaturnV was already purchased and will be under the Christmas tree for him. I've already spotted him an extra $20 to add onto his birthday money. I'll resell the holiday giveaway is the arrangement if price hits $99. I'll have him check out the 31070 3-in1, Ninjago Temple and 42065 RC Racer. Might also throw the 75883 Mercedes Speed Champions or larger Porsche sets into the mix. Thank you again for the help. If we don't go in with a plan, we will be there for hours deliberating. Plus, I don't want him to strong arm me for the 21310 Fishing Store which oddly he is dying to build. I might cave...

these three also look like RETIRED. when the same thing happened to the 70588 Ninja Tumbler, it was like "over a carbon copy / paper".. on the first day it went out of stock.. on the second day it totally disappeared from the dbase... and two days afterwards listed as retired.. 70595 Ninjago - Ultra Stealth Rider 70594 Ninjago - The Lighthouse Siege 70627 Ninjago - Dragon's Forge

Apparently by 2020, the Lego catalogue will purely consist of Millennium Falcons and City helicopters.

Found these today in store.

Gone, as is the SYWEverywhere site (is now just a redirect to the normal SYW site). Also, Fount is dead (no more promos there).

I reply directly through BrickLink’s messenger. If you reply through email, i believe it goes straight to their email (email to email) and is not relayed through BrickLink. So there is a good possibility that it ends up in a junk folder categorized as spam. If your email is different from your store name, they may have no idea who you are. Also, their BrickLink email address may not be an address they use on a regular basis, thus they may not be expecting you to reply there and miss it.

Hockey/ringette teams and their new "pre-game warm up routines." I was sitting watching my kids skate and all of sudden I'm like what the hell is that noise and it's about 20 13 year old girls jumping and shouting next to the boards on the far opposite side of the rink... Apparently the signs all over the rink that say "No Dryland Training Within The Facility" aren't clear enough. When I told the coach that their girls weren't allowed to go into the rink area for their pre-game routine she says "Oh, I didn't know that." Da phuq you didn't. They proceeded to do it in the canteen area where there are also numerous signs. And when I was walking back to the stands the other team went rushing by to go do their warm up in the rink area. I kicked them out too.

I had to look that up....LOL

So I'm gonna weigh in here. I know there was talk pages ago about 'destroying the brand', 'not collectible', etc. I collect lego because of its quality. The rareness of the sets has nothing to do with it. Megablocks suck to me...in fact any knock offs suck as far as I'm concerned. As far as building toys go, it's Lego or gtfo. I do feel bad for the investors, but collectors like myself aren't going to care how many sets they rerelease. I realize some will, but remember there's a quality to consider there. As for 'where were we when the original was there'.......we were younger and had less money, so we couldn't get it.

Temple of Airjitsu at BRL 1500 (USD 464), bought a few months ago with 20% off. Again I owe it to the BP forum members and admins! :-)

I apologize for being a bit over the top. But the thing is, Lego isn't here to cater to the secondary market. That's the thing with stuff like this, it's only worth that on paper, and someone who thinks that they have thousands in profit without actually selling it and putting it to hard cash, is playing with fire. That's the same with any investment. As with all things, something has a ceiling, and this set on top of many others, eventually top out. I still don't fully begrudge you guys making money, I've said that many times here, but I just don't feel bad because you've had plenty of opportunity to make a **** ton of money on these sets. I agree that if all they do from here on out is re-release sets, then yes, it will leave a sour note. But doing this to the ridiculous amount of new AFOLS that come to buy Lego over the last few years is not a big deal. Lego is a toy company first and foremost. It being a collectable is a natural outcome to it being such a desirable and well made toy. Don't lose site of that. It's only in the last few years, that the collectors market really exploded, but for decades, it was just a Toy like any other company. I buy expensive Lego because I love building the big sets and displaying them and showing them off to friends. I buy it because I find the value to be worth it in my eyes. I had no problem dropping $800 on the MF because I love Lego, I love building Lego, and it's what I enjoy. I don't drop even $5 on those Funko Pop things because I don't like them, nor do they hold any value in my eyes. (Again not just monetarily.) Everyone has different motivations on what's valuable/collectable to themselves.

How about you just like the way it looks or how it makes you feel? This seems like a hard concept for some here.

That is right, but there is a clear pattern for which sets will be likely remade, anything else is low probability (only precedent is Toy Shop, which bombed). If you want to invest, just do not buy those. The era of skyrocketing CAGR of any half-decent set is over, and was over way before the re-releases. This happens to every market, it is called competition, and would have still happened if there were no re-releases ever. Still, people who choose wisely are making money everywhere, on every market. If you look at the stock market, there are lots of stinkers, and lots of good opportunities. The stinkers do not make the good value stocks go away. The challenge is to find a new fresh market untouched by competition, or adapt.

And that one new piece is so difficult to use, it increases the target age by 2 years

Lol yes of course. I'm not one to read the fine print... hell I can barely read after a beer or 2.