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  1. UCS Sandcrawler this weekend Looks great alongside other UCS Star Wars stuff Snowspeeder next weekend!
    8 points
  2. while i agree with your sentiment, i have since learned that sometimes it is better to sell at 10$ less and use the proceeds to make 50$ more on another item than to wait and recoup $20 on the original item . it is really a complicated scenario and no answer is totally right or wrong.
    4 points
  3. you forgot about additional storage fees which specifically increase around the holiday season. amazon doesn't let your park stuff in their warehouse for free. coming up with a selling price is multifactorial equation which includes buyin that you can never fully know what your competition buyin was , understanding that the sales volume is here now and that you could sell 10x your sales volume if you are able to compete on price, not when your price gets here and that after the holiday season, most overstocked sets on amazon take a price hit even further than what they are going for now when there is drop in sales volume/demand that won't recover until tax refund season and people need to move inventory so they don't lose profit to storage fees as well as have cash on hand for after holiday clearance. 86 sellers on raptor rampage - that equals too much price competition. still the price has risen 20-25% in the last 3 months because of great demand. 106 sellers on 75094 - too much competition to expect any price increase. seller count was in the low 90s back in september. look at juniors police helicopter chase - a set that was clearanced for $5 back in may at walmart.com 50% off msrp - i posted it in daily deals. now only 8 7 sellers (dropped as i wrote this) under the main listing on FBA. i can't keep them in stock - they sell instantly for buybox which is $29.99. 6x my buyin with so few sellers of a set that has a high sales rank, then you can set your price and sit back. not so much with more than 6 dozen or over a hundred sellers with a relatively lower sales rank set. there you have to compete on price to make a sale. the price on this set literally rose by $10 while i was editing this - now only fba seller is $39.88. time to send some more in.
    4 points
  4. IIRC u said they will go for $20, probably;y so after your post today
    3 points
  5. 2 points
  6. From the highlights: (Bolding is mine) Speed into action with the Sandspeeder! Iconic Snowspeeder for your LEGO® Star Wars collection Well, at least they are honest it's just a snowspeeder with a tan paint job :/
    2 points
  7. 2 points
  8. Sandspeeder on sale @ target : $23.9 https://www.target.com/p/lego-174-star-wars-153-sandspeeder-153-75204/-/A-52946583#lnk=sametab
    2 points
  9. I saw few sellers from Zgorzelec/Gorlitz (border City between Czech, Germany and Poland) with ridiculous large quantities available, highly likely they get their sets from Kladno as well as WH in Germany. I Know "Kladno capabilities" .. trust me, its virtually just next door. Its impossible that they would get it somehow "officially" (i mean truck loads). Each employee is awarded among other incentives a certain (limited) discount that entitles him to buy .. umm. let say 10-20 average sets (1000-2000 pcs) per year at half a price. You cant steal anything from the factory - not even a single brick that fell on a floor hardly an entire box.. so they have to have their source elsewhere.. I have come across truly disturbing facts that while the ppl in the Kladno factory itself are guarded like prisoners (more or less), the 3rd party Logistics partner with warehouse in other part of "greater Prague" obviously not.. and that might be where they could be getting their loot from.. I mean.. if an avg employee buys something at 50 % of local RRP, he certainly doesnt sell it to you at the same price - where would be the profit? now these Logistics ppl.. if they are willing to sell the same set for 35 % of the local RRP.. I think everybody comes to the specific and exact explanation how did they land their hands onto it..
    2 points
  10. Raise your hand if you knew buying up thousands of Lego dimensions was the buy of the year? ? Weeeeeeeeeeeee all the way to the bank.
    2 points
  11. "AAAAAAAH" by legojeff
    2 points
  12. Don't forget your 10% off gift cards
    1 point
  13. It is. I saw them in store yesterday at this price.
    1 point
  14. Supraboy was in a league all his own too.... oh how we miss those days of "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
    1 point
  15. I did my part and bought another 12. I'm almost to my goal of 40. Come on, fellow pickers! Let's pick up the pace!
    1 point
  16. Amazon Selling Accounts comes with price matching. (It sucks sometimes and doesn't do its job, but for the most part it is good.) Pricing > Automate Pricing
    1 point
  17. First Order Star Destroyer at TRU for £79. Tesco price match and £5 off voucher. Received a £20 voucher.
    1 point
  18. Darth Vader pod. It's the giveaway at LEGO Shop at Home just before Xmas.
    1 point
  19. I love Technic but the Saturn V rocket is in a completely different league to any Technic set ever released.
    1 point
  20. LEGO Tower Bridge 10214 - Amazon Warehouse Deals - $175.70 ( I believe only one available.) Condition: Used - Very Good Small cosmetic imperfection on top, front or sides of item. Item will come in original packaging. Packaging will be damaged. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B003Q6BQOY/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all
    1 point
  21. Let me clarify, I'm assuming the person purchased the 75192 set from SAH or Lego Store. What I'm saying is having the physcial card doesn't unlock anything that your VIP number wouldn't.
    1 point
  22. Above 30 quid is too damn high.
    1 point
  23. Not until it gets to£25 like the police station did
    1 point
  24. You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch by Tyler
    1 point
  25. I learned that lesson with the gingerbread house. It was at around $200 when I mentioned it, then it dropped to 150 within the week and now it's down to 70-80 on eBay.
    1 point
  26. Yellow submarine : $45.49 at walmart.com https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-LEGO-Ideas-Yellow-Submarine-21306/53720903
    1 point
  27. Amazon sales rank first week of December 2017, = 161,280. Am I reading that right? To be expected? Is that a daily sales rank? or average
    1 point
  28. True. But the cost of getting that giant robot is high. He'll need to have 1000 sets of these to recoup the cost and maintenance fees of his robot. " Not joking at all. Let me clarify... By "buy-in" I mean costs associated with acquiring the sets including car/van costs along with parking and even the large 390g bar of Galaxy that always seems to fall into the basket at Tesco! Of course, I combine most pick-ups with another trip for a different purpose. " You need to factor in your own labor cost too. If you are not making more than $20/hr on this, I suggest you better go to McDonald's and flip some patties. This isn't surprising, my TRU and lego store have tonnes of these. This set is ready to collect some dust.
    1 point
  29. Marvel Heroes Iron Skull Attack Sub for £20 cash. Buy in £10. Good riddance!!!
    1 point
  30. Anyone that hasn’t already hit up Barnes and Noble. On top of the 50% plus 10% for members. Today only they are doing buy $100 gift card get a free $20 gift card to use after Xmas. No Limit!
    1 point
  31. Use the customer service chat. They're usually helpful. For the "20% off" is it a catalina coupon that printed off during an in-store purchase? The chat agents might be less helpful with that. Call the KMart store hotline or go to the customer service desk at a store.
    1 point
  32. I think Lego's plan was to retire these earlier but reasonable sales has kept them going as stocking fillers. Some have been tagged as retiring since mid-summer. The cheapest I've ever seen these is 3 for 2 at RRP. Some models (e.g. Sparrow) have not been as widely available. Also they have thinned out in supermarkets near me, which is promising. Ebay sold prices are around RRP but Hulk, Robin, Joker and Sparrow are above RRP. We don't know how much stock Lego has and whether they will flush it away to one of the big retailers in January. If we avoid £5 clearance sales, they will do very well.
    1 point
  33. Is anyone still waiting for their special VIP card? Still haven't received mine.
    1 point
  34. That's because you never put a motor in them.
    1 point
  35. Well they are hardly likely to say they have 20.000 in the warehouse, are they? Working hard for their Xmas bonuses.
    1 point
  36. Option 2 would be highly unlikely given the 100% perfection that is the SAH website. Only the best is good enough - and if not, it´s also good enough.
    1 point
  37. All European countries share the same shop/inventory, only the pricing is different per shipping destination. A set retired in the UK will be retired in Hungary as well.
    1 point
  38. Not that many would care but... Whoever will put "retired" and a picture for one EU or NA LEGO Shop at Home that I do not remember seeing before will get a "Thanks" medal from me
    1 point
  39. Folks, calm down. You are getting your statuses all wrong: - Normal product, "Sold Out" -> means there is no confirmed backorder date (yet) - Normal product, "Backordered" -> means a new shipment has been planned, the reported date is when it's supposed to arrive - "Retiring soon", "Call to Check" -> part of the dance - "Retiring soon", "Sold Out" -> Almost done dancing - "Retiring soon", "Retired Product" (EU version) -> Likely retired, unless we find some more in the back or Tabby sends back a shipload, in which case it goes back to "Available" - "Retiring soon", "Retired Product" (US version) -> Done.
    1 point
  40. Haha. I think they got their boxer eras wrong. He looks like a boxer from the 1920s but with modern trunks.
    1 point
  41. That boxer is one weird looking dude. Pretty sure he's getting in shape to go do some low budget porn. The set is a cool change to the series, though. I do like it.
    1 point
  42. With super hero high school doing the oos dance that's the whole DC Super Hero Girls line retired in less than a year.
    1 point
  43. Jack Torrence - The Shining by JerdFigs
    1 point
  44. BrickHeadz Boushh by Nigel Hill
    1 point
  45. https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Creator-Expert-Fairground-Mixer/36246211
    1 point
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