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My ‘Original UCS Falcon, escaping from Docking Bay 327’ enshrined in a coffee table now complete.

Personal Set Winner: Jestro's Headquarters: Buy in $20, sell $80+ (7 of them) and probably being able to flip some Rockets within a week of getting them for about $50 profit each. Worst Decision: Not sure yet, I have some inside thoughts but am overly pleased with my 1st near full year of doing this via starting with bulk buys only and moving into sets and deciding which one's to break out into the BL store while buying bulk around town. Best Decision: Shutting the BL store down in August to organize everything so that when an order comes in I can pull it very quickly and know exactly where an item is vs knowing "about" where the items may be. I even built a 9 dresser drawer (about 4 feet wide, 5 feet tall) specifically for all my New pieces and absolutely love it. I sometimes wish I would have built 2 at the same time though as the lots/part numbers continue to increase. I originally thought that 10,000 pieces was a solid store size, then I thought 15,000 was good. Now I'm at 50,000 and still looking to continue to add more and more as time allows me with family/other job. Every order, no matter what size or sale amount puts a smile on my face. Other Best Decision: Starting to do this. I think I was hitting a mid-life crisis while going through some health issues, lyme disease like, never confirmed but treated as if it was in the end (after nearly 3 years of searching for an answer) and needed to find an escape at home and just from everything else. I believe I found that new spark in my life. Looking forward to a fun 2018.

Toys R Us $50 gift card for $40 at Ebay LIMIT 5

And I had a nice relaxed breakfast with wife and kids.

So, I'm visiting my folks and decided to pop into the nearest Books-A-Million. After using their coupons, gift card, membership discount, and BOGO 50%, it was a decent haul, especially for that old UN Set. 70906 Joker Lowrider - $34.99 21016 UN Headquarters - $22.49 Captain America - $7.33 Iron Man - $3.65 Belle - $7.33 Beast - $3.65 Hulk - $7.33 Plus, TLJ soundtrack for $10.33. That helped with one of the coupons plus also I loved the soundtrack.

In for 3

Per Max's update......https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Creator-Lakeside-31048-Building/dp/B017B1BEBE/ref=sr_1_21?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1514385528&sr=1-21&keywords=lego+creator 31048 - Lakeside Lodge at 50% off

When I am 64.

My amazing grandma bought me the new ucs millennium falcon (75192) from the store in Liverpool yesterday

I want the boardwalk

You could probably get someone to build a loft for what you got for your falcon! :-) In the falcon. Will add some stormtroopers, as well as Vader and obi-wan duelling

Any one looking for 4,283 Dimension packs for $17,500? https://santabarbara.craigslist.org/tag/d/4283-new-lego-dimension-sets/6435852840.html

Yawn. Where are the topless Kylo and the thing with four boobs, you know, for completeness?

Oh, almost as many as he does Rey's Speeder. Another winner... (50'ish)

I was at the mall for an other reason anyways. I’ve done well on Boxing Day at the Lego store before, so it was worth the quick check. Thank you for your valuable contribution to this thread.

Inception is dangerous...

Wins - deciding to go deep on Scooby Mystery Planes at the last minute when I could get them for £9 each. Backing TBBT when everyone else was deep in Dr Who. Hailfire Droids, Star Wars set that flew under radar but is double RRP now. Titanium dragons £17 buy in, in fact most Ninjago i bought did well. All Series 1 speed champions, don't expect this year's retirees to do aswell though. Losers 75150 same reason as everyone else. Cheap buy in and short shelf life looked good but it still won't die and there's a better a-wing now 75087 Anakins Custom Jedi Starfighter. These still keep popping up discounted on Argos eBay site. Thought Argos exclusive plus being Jedi ship gave this one potential. Small sets - Microfighters, mighty micros, city sub £8, battle packs etc. Boxes too easily damaged and take a long time to get into the £20+ range that would make them worthwhile.

I bought 2, one for me, one for my imaginary friend.

The problem is though, it's not what people will pay. It's what the horde will charge. Dr Who could have quite easily fetched £80 during Christmas, but the horde had so many at such deep discounts they were happy to sell at £45. I see the same happening with this. Every time there's any discount on this set HUKD lot are all over it. It's had 17 posts dedicated to it on there since it came out. People will make money because of the discount buy in. At best it may rise a little above RRP during the quiet months before dropping again come September.

It´s done now anyway. Sure took time to sell those last nine.

Cladner points out some valid information, I am going to be a little more direct and less eloquent. After not logging on to this site for a long time it really is sad to see that you talk as much BS about Crypto as I suspected you did about lego. I would sit down and stop trying to brag how good you are for once because it is so poor on so many levels! I suggest rather than trying to brag on here about your Crypto gains, you sit down and do some reasearch so you can actually pick coins that are gonna do much better in a much shorter space of time than Iconomi (technically you are at a loss on that) and then maybe consider spouting off about ya gains. Btw I would drink and be merry save wasting your time waiting for eth to hit 200 because since you got out at "the right time" it has gone up $100 +, btc also up around 15% , ooopppssss error! If you dont know the reason (why?) alts move with btc I suggest you give up or do some research! Oh and if you dont like what I am saying I dont want to PM you and I am sure you could try and bribe someone $50 to get me banned like you did with that Ozzy lad! To all you decent folk on this site, hope you had a great Christmas and have a fantastic new year, I have a lot of respect for this site and the folk on it, sorry for this post. As for you Tabby maybe stop with your egotistical s*** for 2018

I visited today two stores to get Architecture Studio, by miracle I found the last one in stratford. the current status in brand stores might give you better indication about current state of EOL status and potential resurection (if) Palace Cinemas gone everywhere Winter Toy Shops gone everywhere Caterham hoarded everywhere 10+ boxes Elves series almost gone everywhere Batman Classic surprisingly was almost done. Assault on Hoth isn't going anywhere even discounted Simpsons with 1cm of dust surface on top of it Louvre gone everywhere Burj Khalifa gone everywhere Tie UCS still available Winter Train still available Winter station still available Yellow Submarine overhoarded Nexo - it depends on set and location Xerion Gone everywhere AROCS still available Minecraft the Village still available hassle free Friends Escort Girls mainly gone Escort Superheroes girls still available.

Winner decisions: my decision at the beginning of the year to no longer put real money into my LEGO purchases (or only very little). Stuck to it by-and-large until October when the FBA earnings started rolling in. Especially KMart/SYW .... $4k in MSRP bought, $500 in cash spent. Total of 181 sets. Also winner: My early on decision to go mainly small and medium sized sets (sub $50). Final winner: Not listening to what others say here . Bad decisions: Kylo Ren Shuttle polybags. Even though I got them for free, they just don't move.

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

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

Pffft...You guys all suck. *I* like it! Cool that it's a 3-in-1. It doesn't have to be freaking huge. Just gotta be able to motorize the thing.

Wouldn’t surprise me if they have endless supply of Vip cards that will last until 31 Dec 2018. Would be another way to create more demand from those that didn’t get it before end of 2017. Also wouldn’t surprise me if early in the new year there’s also an announcement to say that due to the great success of the programme they’ll be extending the offers beyond 2018! A very cheap but effective marketing tool.

"Solo: The Movie that no one asked for" that should be the title.

Best move: Catching the window to sell the GBH at 100 (x5) a piece was probably the best call. I even sent back to the US (from France) for this. Thanks to all the BPers out there for pointing this out. I don't think I would have seen this otherwise. Worst move: Stubbornly, I keep thinking Poe's X-wing is going to retire and keep buying them anytime I see them around 40 euros. I tried to offload a couple for the holidays and couldn't even move them at 50. Egh.

That was a fast poof!! (or a late post!)

Not true, last year I made a big haul of some big CITY and Star Wars sets at 50% off and some other Ideas and Creator sets at 40% and 30% off. It was weird this year that no effort was made to do anything to entice boxing day shoppers...

The climb is already starting on this guy. Current Prime price of $35 is already 5x my buy in. How high will this dragon fly?

You are the horde on this one

Winners - 30 - Fire Planes for 140$+ bought these on a whim when someone on BP said they'd be a quick flip around the holidays.. 45 - Livi Pop Star Houses for 165$+ bought at slightly higher then MSRP 15 - Technic Cranes 210-265??? Bought during TRU ban day Losers- Buying large stuffed animals to sell. What a flipping waste of space and time. Got cold feet going in on some large orders this year when i had the opportunity Jungle Treehouse, Airport, pink duplo TRU Cancelling my orders without telling me, causing me to miss sets I had expected to receive

The good - signed UCS MF with VIP card The bad - dr strange super hero’s sets. Still hanging around at TRU and a remake incoming! The ugly - credit card bill!!

Alright, couldn't refuse your request and ordered a couple.

Winners: Jokerland at 65 Losers: Kylo Ren 75104 at 65 when will this set die

My winner is 41171 - Emily Jones & the Baby Wind Dragon. My average buy was under $3 from KMart with points and coupons, clearing them out over $40. Had over 100, down to 27 My loser was 75096 - Sith Infiltrator. Was expecting more because it was a TRU exclusive, and the Watto figure. Got my money back plus a little holding fee, but the ship just has no holding power. I don't predict much for 75099 - Rey's Speeder. have a bunch from Walmart at 70% off. We shall see what comes of it though.

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

Found someone local on Facebook marketplace with a new sealed 9526 Palpatines Arrest listed for $150. I messaged and offered $125 and she got back to me half hour later saying she made a mistake and meant to only list it for $100. So I asked if $100 was ok and she said yes. A few hours later I met her at a nail salon and I had my desired set. Not the deal of the century but I definitely saved a few bucks on an awesome retired set. I told her to let me know if she has any other sets she’s looking to get rid of so hopefully there are more deals to be had.

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.

Lack of reading and comprehension is clearly a requirement for eBay customers. I sold a used 75105 MF that I picked up in a bulk lot. Listed as used and described as such, with a picture of a built set on my table. Guy emails me some threats the day it arrived. I explain to him step by step how to request a return on eBay. He lacks reading comprehension so he files a paypal case instead. After a few days I call paypal to ask them what to do, and they escalate it and give the guy 10 days to provide a tracking number. On the 9th day of him receiving reminders from Paypal he finally submits a tracking number. He assumed I would have to reimburse him for shipping so he sent it the most costly way he could, USPS express 1 day. Paypal already ruled he was an idiot who couldn't read, so I only had to refund the purchase price. They changed his return case from SNAD to a normal return. I can only imagine the hell he's given them about how he was misled and now he's out shipping for an item that he believed to be new. I wonder if his verbal communication is as poor as his written? +1 to paypal for their handling of the case.

The answer is Dragons

Just wait for the re release.

So I can buy a 10179.