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My 60+ dad (being an absolute Solar / Wind / Alternate Energy Enthusiast) got from us a new LEGO Education (Energy) set and he couldnt resist and built this wind turbine within less than an hour.. I wouldnt expect that (so soon) .. so I think that besides he is really skilled it was an amazing xmas gift.. now he is waiting for some serious wind on the balcony to get some reading from the propellers on the attached energy meter (which was included in the set).. ?

Finished this off while the kids were napping. It’s -40 with the windchill today so cant do much else...

Winter Holiday Train. After the fact I wish I would have gotten the power functions beforehand. Glad the same will be reusable for our (still under the tree) Hogwarts Express.

The farm theme needs to be re-visited, along with a city zoo theme.

My son and I have been building the Hoth rebel base. I have to admit I don’t understand the hate for this one. We did add two large base plates and a lot of white plates to flush it out and we will probably add a tunnel and baca tank area.

$200 eBay GC for just [email protected] Sent from my SM-N900T using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

One word FREE Shipping! Well that is two words and @AirborneAFOL also has some good points. Earlier in the year I tried using calculated shipping on some of my listings and lowering the item price and I did not sell one set. In this day of Amazon people not only want but they expect free shipping. I tried promoted listings and raised my prices to offset the additional fee to eBay and I killed it (for me I am a STP) this holiday season. Also on sets I have multiples of I will start off low in order to get Best Match and then raise my prices after every 5 units. The default search is Best Match not lowest price and IMO that is what gets you sales. There is a current FP thread on SD now for candles and even though they are 70% off and there is a coupon code for $10 off $30 many people are not buying or are complaining because they are being charged $5.99 shipping even though with the coupon you could look at it as free shipping and an additional $4 off. Another thing I am not sure of is how you grade your sets, Good, Fair, Very Good, etc in the listing title. I understand why you would do this and see how it works for collectors but it may be confusing or a turn off for the impulse holiday shoppers you are after. This may be reflected in your conversion rate in your seller analytics page.

Your item description has active content. That’s an eBay no-no for about the past 6 months (maybe longer, don’t recall). Your Country of Manufacture is “Unknown”. Try “Denmark” or null. Use the Analyze Listing feature and compare your listing title schema against other sellers. Ditto for item specifics, return policy, shipping options, and Guaranteed Delivery. The market as a whole is down year over year, you could be losing some to that trend. Your sales conversion rate could be below market. Your listing quantities and/or total listings could be below market. The list goes on and on. If you’re serious about “saving your business”, you’ve gotta do the homework to hunt down every avenue that plays into search results, analyze your metrics, and make proactive tweaks.

Built the docking bay 327 which will be the new home of my recently purchased 10179.

They may not like what is buried beneath the ice....

I’m not a Technic fan, but I really dig that set. It’s probably the boat lover in me.

More info: Age 12 and over Box Size: 58x48x12cm (Town Hall sized box, bigger than DB but smaller than city) Release in June so could well be a D2C.

So anyways, since I’ve sent you payment, when are you shipping’em? I took a day off from work on the 3rd of January so I wouldn’t miss the delivery. [emoji12]

My daughter loves the winter village sets but is too young, so we built our own with a few new sets from Santa!

Town Hall, Grand Emporium, Fire Brigade and Pet Shop in 1 set. All NIB, for € 1.150,- in total. Local pick up from 'Marktplaats', so no fees. Buy in was €450,-.

so a quick update, after a couple more appeals and one of the nastiest emails I've sent to anyone ( not that I'm proud of it ), they finally admitted that they received my items but credited the items to the wrong seller ( no idea how since they are all stickered ).. anyways, they said they will fix it but it will take a while since they are pretty busy and they closed the case. smh.

A lot of this for me on multiples. I start low and sacrifice some profit at first and raise my price moderately above most listing after the 2nd to 3rd sale and gradually move up from there. My listings will appear top 2 or 3 for the remainder of my units 90 percent of the time. It seems shoppers want to buy from where others have bought before and trust the multiple sales history. I personaly don't use stock photos and have had very good success on multiples. I take one really good photo showcasing my product and I'll make sure i have a lot of units that are close to the same condition OR I write in the description all sets show some shelfware and imperfections. That seems to do it for me.

As are naive resellers. It´s been a while since we had a CITY steamroller too so be careful what you wish for.

$299 zoo $29-$119 different enclosures Even easy to do hot dog stands, different animals in polybags, other vendors Zoo would do amazing. Every city would have a zoo area waiting for every new set. Collectors would demand to have EVERY animal/set

Really like the end product , pretty sturdy , well designed and a lot of playability . The trigger to release the “bombs” is in the perfect place and well hidden . Figures are cool too

It's live in Germany. Expected to be the same for UK shortly

Every year has a different packaging theme. They don't alter the banner based on what's in the set. You'll see the same banner on hasbro, and most other products released the fiscal year.

What you’re really doing here is establishing a strong sales conversion rate right out of the gate. And that’s the single-most critical metric for driving “best match” results.

Seems like it disappeared right after my order.

Yep on SD, said the gc part is dead.

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Only see the 5% even with red card.. not the extra 20%!

Here is the link (can be changed if not allowed like this). Needs Red Card to get 20% off then the extra 5%.

Merry Christmas to you too "I cracked open the bible today and I couldn't find the verse about the true meaning of Christmas being the arrival of toys before 12/25. Can you point me to it? Thanks in advance! " I'm not religious but I wouldn't hesitate to respond to anyone who accused me of ruining Christmas with something like that, especially if they've already left feedback I would call Ebay and ask about the feedback and if any of the "colorful" language he used violates Ebay's policies, definitely mention that, but I wouldn't sweat it if it can't be removed. There are too many unreasonable people to dodge negative feedback forever. Respond politely to the negative feedback they left so that others checking out your feedback can see your side of the story. In the future, when you notice orders like this, probably wise to contact the buyer and warn them that the item may not arrive by Christmas. There are too many people who buy without actually looking at the estimated delivery date, and as Jackson notes, Ebay is often very optimistic about delivery dates for some forms of shipping. That said, if this guy is in HI, he should be accustomed to delivery taking a lot longer. I mean, with Amazon prime, free shipping to HI is 3-7 days, instead of 2 days. Maybe it's his first foray into online shopping.

What estimated delivery date did the buyer see when he ordered? I’ve noticed that eBay provides incorrect estimated delivery dates for economy shipping.

Merry Xmas everyone! An Ebay buyer is furious with me because his package is not going to arrive by xmas. He placed the order on 12/14 and I had it shipped USPS Parcel select on 12/15 with an estimated delivery between 12/21 and 12/30. At no point did he tell me he needed the item by xmas. Tracking still shows the item in transit (he lives in HI). He's already left me some colorful negative feedback, calling me a liar and saying that I've destroyed his xmas. I've been patient and professional and only responded via messenger. I also opened up a case with USPS to inquire if their have been any delays with his package. Now he wants to cancel the order! I know I have to wait to open a case on Ebay until after the item is delivered. Will the negative feedback be removed since he left it before the package arrived in the estimated delivery window?

That's quite the Christmas present from Lego...

i am sure you are aware its usually 3-business days for PRIORITY MAIL [while 2 business day is touted in map it totally depends on where you are. if you are near the distribution center then it might work otherwise it won't] and while its not published making it at 5pm doesn't allow one to meet that within 3 days. what i mean to say is there is usually a cut-off time and if i remember correctly for me [it varies by location] its 245pm. if i make that time and drop off Priority mail before that then its usually make it within 3 business days. say if its dropped and the receipt says 247pm then i have noticed that the package takes 3+1=4 business days. for the scheduled pickups, unless they pickup exclusively at one's location its "+1" scenario. so, in my case if carrier picks up on Monday and/or i drop off on monday after 245pm then delivery date is most likely Friday [ during normal times]. trust me that i am not trying to defend USPS. but in this business its mostly learn on the job and protect oneself which means to understand what happens rather than what's in the paper :).

70657 The Docks of Ninjago City... Wow, I guess Ninjago City wasn't a one-off. Across the AFOL realm, thousands of wallets just cried out in anguish. I look forward to pictures.

@exciter1's patience on some of those exceeded mine, but I feel like I'm getting better since I sold many at similar or higher prices. Recent highlights: $45 Flash v Capt Cold Mighty Micro $70 Supermarket Suitcase $80 41085 Vet Clinic $58 60118 Garbage Truck $80 76041 Hydra Fortress Smash

I was looking at my 9493s and their big, clunky cockpit canopies and wishing that they had the nice, new canopies from the Resistance X-wings and U-Wing. Seeing this new release makes me happy, even though I have several X-Wings already, I always like a new one.

This great article was published on brickset a couple of weeks ago. https://brickset.com/article/31089/review-pure-display-case-for-the-millennium-falcon

Agreed - It is pretty inexcusable to allow the first two movies of a supposed trilogy to go from one extreme of respecting the traditions of Star Wars to the total disregard of them. If you want to make crap, make crap - but at least make it consistent crap.

Greetings all, So in 2011 I started hoarding Lego... not bulk sets, but I had an obsession with buying one of each. This year I realized how much I had been spending and had to cut it off and start cleaning it out. I had no idea how much the stuff was going to rise in value and I started with the most valuable sets and cleared out my 50 per month on eBay without having to pay any listing fees. I got tired of being that chick who had two full rooms in her house loaded with bags of Lego sets. I've never hoarded anything else, but for some reason I started buying Lego sets. I was able to go cold turkey thankfully starting January 1, 2017, and just want to clear them out. I have a few tax questions that I posted in another thread that is awaiting approval. Nice to meet everyone

Non-fruitcake story: Sometimes buyers aren't scamming us and being difficult. And sometimes we're providing a valuable service not just creating false scarcity and driving up prices. I've been sending confirmation texts because I've had had a lot of buyers with new accounts and people with mismatched PayPal/eBay info ordering gifts for other people. They've mostly been happy to confirm their orders. One of them wrote also just wrote back to say they received their order and to thank me for the quick turnaround on their order. After exchanging thank yous, the buyer also let me know that I'd made their holiday easier because they were going through chemo and had a tough time getting out to shop.

market is slowing down by alot... years before, when an exclusif got a 20%-25% off... it's sold out very quick in mins our max hours.... not weeks like now. I do think a lot of people are not investing in those anymore.. I do think alot of them were going to resellers and not consumers.

Yes and learned my lesson, never ship with that 2-3 month "surface" option Canada Post offers I believe that 2-3 months is a generous estimate by Canada post, I've heard of packages taking 4 months with that option. You can contact the seller and ask them to wait the extra month, but really nothing you can do... they can just ask ebay to step in and you're toast. Funny my only instance of this was to Australia as well, and after that i stopped shipping outside Canada/USA altogether. So sweet talk the buyer, be as kind and reassuring as you can be, and buy yourself some time. Of course if they intended to scam you from the get go then that's all moot. Pretty sure that was the intention of my buyer from Australia, but i still tried.

It’s only the 75105 MF, no way on earth I would sell a UCS MF on eBay (posted) with the way things are on eBay lately. What amazes me is that eBay have told me to just to send it and not to worry as I’m protected. Im going to do them a favour (yet again) and sit on it for a few days until the account owner tells me their account has been hacked.

Been up for a while, but the kids had finally left it in a state that worked for pictures (after a few adjustments). Still don’t know where the train and station will fit. Currently built with no home.

Santa Claus is comin' to town! by Guy Smiley :-)

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels the need to put the Tardis into a Winter Village.

Nutcracker by Robert Heim

Despicable Santa by vir-a-cocha

It's early for this topic but still, wow. Festive hand by Tim Goddard