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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".

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...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

Is that because you have one of the 150? :-)

For the sake of this argument , you technically can . I make sure that I report the buyer for abuse and even though amazon doesn’t tell you if any action has been taken , i would like to think that if enough sellers do it then the buyer(s) is/are banned from the platform . There are many many videos and articles out there on how to scam amazon sellers and it is sickening .

@Shewie, if someone doesn’t get to it before I do, I’m suspending your account until you change your avatar. No joke!

My most recent few have been at IND2 and AVP1, thought I also have a case sitting at SAT1 which has been "DELIVERED" for 3 days. Though it should be noted the vast majority of my stuff goes to AVP1.

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 agree. They have lost items in 3 different orders for me. Of course they tell me the items weren't in the box but I am certain they were. The few items they are losing is costing me a lot of money. It's maddening... I think Amazon has a lot of theft going on and they do not even know it.

Nope, just $5 Freecash on $0.01 spend.

just to give those holding stock some hope for loftier returns, for the first time this week the seller count has dropped a decent amount 186->166. low baller stock getting burned through - keep it up. i need to flip a WoN into a F40.

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

Actually these are all Wave 1 (2001) outside of Chamber of Secrets(2002). While I prefer the latter waves from Harry Potter, this is a good buy at $200.

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...

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

I got lucky and bought a #75053 The Ghost locally for $75. It seems to be original seals.

Found these today in store.

I sold 10 Poe X-wing Fighter polybags for $60 via eBay. Glad to have gotten rid of these. Much I have learned when it comes to investing in polys.......

Don't get too caught up in something retiring. There are plenty of duds that retire, too. But, if you can get 75% off anything, it's best to grab it. It will retire some day, and even duds at 75% are winners.

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.

They had an end table set up right at the front door at a local Walmart. Sadly only one Clayface but they had a bunch of the four Dimension sets shown. I most likely bought too many.

Funnily enough I think vintage space sets (and some misc other vintage themes) are some of the safest bets to not be remade (other than, say, one iconic set to cash in on nostalgia). What I think is more likely are sets designed to hit our nostalgia cores, like benny's spaceship (didn't fall for it, I got my originals!). Nexo Knights also notably had some nostalgic looking vehicles (wow this looks like sets from when I was a kid! *buys for kids but builds himself*) All this isn't aimed at you vincevaughn! It just got me on a rambling topic. Many old lego sets go directly against their current mantra; nowadays sets part boost with many small pieces (the cheese slope and 1x1 tile era) and have minimal large parts since those are the most expensive (ugly rock pieces, large or raised baseplates, 8 stud + dimension bricks, huge transparent panels and what have you) Old lego sets (compared to current) have very low parts counts for their price and would compare horribly ($80 for 350? $100 for 450? ehhhh...) Some older molds are also retired/destroyed and are incredibly expensive to create, especially when the part is very large. Larger parts = larger mold = more tolerances to check, and more plastic to use. I remember reading designer blogs about new lego hires being surprised at the cost of some parts when they tried to include them in sets - you can get a bit more of an idea for this if you shop at bricks and pieces as well. One mold I presume destroyed is the M-Tron Mega Core Magnetizer's wheels, which are already expensive anyway. It was produced in 3 sets, the Magnetizer, ISD, and a Mars Mission rover. These are the biggest plastic space rover wheels made by lego - haven't been in a set for some time. Fun fact: a knockoff's ISD uses a SMALLER wheel mold on their ISD! Probably means that mold is gone for good, like many other large, old parts. We could also talk about how technic's wheel and tire assemblies have changed in quality / size over time, but I'm a bit less versed in that. Monorail molds are destroyed. People have been wanting them for years, but the parts are huge and intricate. Large intricate part means not cheap to remake mold, not to mention an isolated motor variant that doesn't fit into their (expensive to produce) power functions. *shoves monorail collection under desk* nevermind that. If monorail was reintroduced, I'd expect (and hope) it to be updated. The switches are honestly terrible anyway. (Side note: secondary market isn't even that expensive for monorails compared to MSRP. You can get either of the two space monorails for $275-$350 ea, complete, fully functioning, instructions included). That's really not bad, for how many people say they want the monorail, then buy a mass produced SW set for a comparable price. This honestly goes for most classic sets - many are not astronomically high to collect or buy, especially when you compare to the prices of non-iconic, new release lego sets. To re-engineer monorail tracks, molds, motor, and produce, there is probably such little margin at ~$300 pricepoint they'd rather just be pumping out jokerlands instead. The newest track system is a roller coaster as seen on the joker manor thing, which honestly is long overdue anyway (especially after the hilarious letdown of the friends coaster). Notice how it's mostly thin plastic? Cheaper than a thick, solid beam like a monorail track. I'd expect more part variants for tracks on this later - this first set introduces them and includes minimal track length (cash in on that new part appeal), once normalized, they will develop and release more based around it (gimmie lift hills, banked turns, and loops! Flexy track!) Knex roller coasters were their cash cow for a long time, might still be for all I know, and it's about time lego found a working model for it, even if we need some more track parts to really make anything cool. I'd love to see a cataloged list of new parts within the past decade (is there a good comprehensive list somewhere?). I'm betting most of them are very small (cheese slopes, pie tiles, tile variants, little plates / clips). Again, very cheap to produce in mass. Bloats part counts. Technic may be a bit of an outlier with large specialized molds (which are still not cheap however). Just to add: remakes are not new! They are tried and true, but will probably become more common. I am not saying every set ever, it's really a convenience and case by case basis thing. More sets in the history catalog, more to choose from. Iconic sets with basic brick inventories (no new molds) are most likely candidates. They rereleased the iconic lego Metroliner Train (and dining cars), and Main Street 6390 from 1980. I sure was happy to get some dining cars.

As soon as I saw the news I knew there would be a thread like this. And without reading I knew how many of the comments would go....... " it's the end of the world, how dare Lego do this to us and so on..... " Investment is a risk and you can't blame someone else if you've lost out on a set. I've made profits, and losses <cough> exo suit, is this Lego's fault? No! I've stopped buying Modulars since the Palace Cinema as the market appears to be flooded and switched to smaller sets and different themes. It is getting harder, but is still possible. In the past ten or so years, Lego has experienced unprecedented, and frankly, unsustainable growth. So they need to change their strategy to one of consolidation rather than the 'takeover the world' one they have had. Given the apparent continuing popularity of a set like the Tower Bridge, why not re-release a set that was only available for a short time and has been talked about by collectors and builders (not investors) for years. Now is their chance to get one. And if it does not sell, like the SoH it'll just be retired again.

Come on kids, just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a troll. Let's act grown-up a bit here.

I realize we're focused on value here, but how many AFOLs view Lego like @citymorgue. I'm not a collector and I honestly don't fully understand that mindset so sets that I buy for personal consumption are sets that I want to build and keep for their current market price. If I think the price is too high, I'm able to pass on them. If others can justify paying the high price, that's their business, but sinking a ton of money into anything that has collectible value doesn't seem that sound to me. As others have said, sellers had 10 years to offload the sets, seems generous compared to the Death Star situation. I understand the argument that this may hurt Lego long term and think that is totally valid.

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.

Lego puts out hundreds of sets a year, you can’t make that statement based off of one line of sets. There have been plenty of great new sets this year so far. I think the hyperbole in this thread is a little crazy.