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

Bought this beauty on Dec 16, 2017 and this afternoon it got sold on ebay for 1250 EUR

Items coming in and out of stock on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Star-Millennium-Falcon-75105/dp/B00WI0PJE2/ref=pd_lutyp_cxhsh_1_6?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00WI0PJE2&pd_rd_r=S47NGWJSYZP26AB8987A&pd_rd_w=FK8x5&pd_rd_wg=2NkDq&psc=1&refRID=S47NGWJSYZP26AB8987A https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Minecraft-The-Village-21128/dp/B01CVGV68K/ref=pd_lutyp_cxhsh_1_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01CVGV68K&pd_rd_r=S47NGWJSYZP26AB8987A&pd_rd_w=FK8x5&pd_rd_wg=2NkDq&psc=1&refRID=S47NGWJSYZP26AB8987A https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Creator-Expert-Holiday-Construction/dp/B01KOPHVDO/ref=pd_sim_21_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01KOPHVDO&pd_rd_r=8KC3CHPD8GG6G9TS6TBV&pd_rd_w=kioUu&pd_rd_wg=FPA1P&psc=1&refRID=8KC3CHPD8GG6G9TS6TBV https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Minecraft-Jungle-House-21125/dp/B01AW1R0OU/ref=pd_sim_21_7?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01AW1R0OU&pd_rd_r=8KC3CHPD8GG6G9TS6TBV&pd_rd_w=kioUu&pd_rd_wg=FPA1P&psc=1&refRID=8KC3CHPD8GG6G9TS6TBV

Tipicol poor gramer and speling from a dodgy cellar.

Good: Buying my last two sets on 18 January 2017. Bad: Both were doctor Who's.

I´m waiting for the next person to reply to this thread saying they regret buying too many 75111´s off Bricklink.

Started with 52. I'm down to 30. Local Facebook sales have been a decent platform to move these on, granted I'm only making $5-$10 on each one.

Original Ideas submission:

$5 cheap enough for you? https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=107531876

I sure hope you did all this right there and then before paying the guy ....

This could be the worst cycle we have seen they won't pick the tower or the SW one as they are against the rules and the shuttle is a lazy remake. Out of the other three the NF 15B is the only intresting one.

You´ll make more profit on that Mixel than on any Angry Birds set!

4 x 20p at the local charity shop.

Just got an Email from ebay UK, 20% off all purchases, maximum saving £75, minimum spend £20. Must be used before 6pm tonight. Code is PNY2018. Enjoy. Sent from my SM-G950F using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

The ship in the original design was better and looks a lot more detailed but with that likely more brittle and harder to build

Hmm seeing the trend i may just have to go hard on Starwars in 2018. Everyone else maybe to scared to come in ;P

I got Twelve Dr. Strange 76060 for $14.98. Eight at one target were at that price and in the other store they had them at regular price.... showed the receipt from previous store.... they matched the price.... so another 4 at $14.98

If only the sets were of similar size (right hand side is 2008 model)

I was actually on my way to offering him a partial refund when I logged into my account and saw the feedback had been left. I'm most annoyed that he didn't even allow for me to respond to the item's condition and try to work something out. I was going to offer the refund as thanks for his gracious understanding that the USPS was the culprit and for keeping it instead of going through the hassle of sending it back.

Did the whole transaction at the Sheriff station. No money charged hands.

Today, I received a copy of 75098 from German department store chain Galeria Kaufhof. Seal code is from eight weeks ago: 44S7, so pretty recent. Maybe the set was more popular than commonly thought? Or the production run was scheduled way in advance and couldn't be stopped anymore (it's LEGO after all).

Another tip is to put all items into the basket and use the coupon to pay for all of them in one go if they are BIN.

My suggestions: 1) He is clearly screwing you. He likely orders from Ebay hoping to get sellers unaccustomed to shipping to HI in hopes of getting the items free. Follow him so that if he ever decides to sell on ebay, you can screw him back Alternatively, let it go. It's far healthier for you, but I am somewhat childish and vindictive 2) Don't refund him. Don't communicate with him at all. He's already left you bad feedback so there's nothing to be gained. If you respond in the case, keep in mind that what you are doing is creating a record for the ebay rep when they review it. Ebay will probably make you refund him, but by waiting for Ebay to decide the case, you give it a bit of extra time for the package to arrive. Sorry! These things happen on Ebay from time to time, but the vast majority of Ebayers are good eggs.

Lego investing rule 101: Invest in all things dragon and dinosaur related. Avoid all things cat, dog and bird related.

Anyone know what's going to happen to my points this coming Sunday?

That will be under the 2018 thread. Stay tuned.

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

Normal. The worst thing is when they start doing the dbag moves of claiming they are getting stuff in stock again in a month and not fulfilling whilst accepting orders and keeping prices down.

Woolworths are running out their Lego sets at the moment Picked up the following at $14 a piece: 2 x 60150 Pizza Vans 1 x 41310 Heartlake Gift Delivery 2 x 41315 Heartlake Surf Shop 3 x 60151 Dragster Transporter

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)

By far my worst decision was those damn fingerlings. That was more work than it was worth. Also, Joker Steam Roller was mentioned three times and @terrymc4677 hasn't materialized. I hope he's ok.

Inception is dangerous...

No

The only way I've won on Superheroes has been by accident. Buy at 60%+ off and then get lucky when something materializes.

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

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.

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

I had somehow cleared $115 in sweeps winnings over the last two weeks, I won $50 in one go, but also many bonus games and wild wins. Topped it with the $10 freecash on $50 and ordered a Destiny's Bounty for $35 oops. My wife is going to flip a bit when it arrives at her parents house where we're staying this week.

I liked Padme Amidala.. !

Exactly! It's like saying people won't buy a UCS X-Wing because they could buy Poe's X-Wing or the Resistance X-Wing. Or people won't buy the UCS TIE Fighter because they could buy the FO Tie Fighter. The system-scale sets are play sets, and they aim at their own markets. If anything, collector's want to have the best version of a vehicle. Nobody will trade in their 10174 Imperial AT-ST UCS set for the newer system-scaled 75183 AT-ST Walker. Or the 10212 Imperial Shuttle UCS set for the Imperial Shuttle Tydirium. Knowing there's a bigger and better version out there while make real collectors want it!

We can discuss the many reasons why the UCS Sandcrawler underperforms, but I am wondering why an inferior set would hurt the UCS Sandcrawler's value. I would think it would help it.

Not really as a percentage of the 60 investors might change their mind and decide to keep and build if there is no demand. What would 1 investor do with 60 tumblers - sell at a much lower price?

If folks are really targeting the 4-5 year post-EOL timeframe as their ideal selling window, one thing to realize is that demand for most retired sets falls off a cliff once you hit the 3-year post-EOL mark. By that time, most buyers have moved on to other products and are focused on buying other sets. Prices may continue to climb, but it becomes increasingly difficult to move inventory. If we end up in a scenario where there are a lot of resellers targeting that same window, that supply combined with low demand will keep prices from rising and make it difficult to unload inventory.

One part of the problem is the insanely low interest rates offered by the banks. When people could get 3-4% interest on their savings, many were happy to just leave it there. But now that banks offer less than 1% interest, more and more people are looking at other ways to get a bit more out of their money. And investing in Lego suddenly becomes interesting for a lot of people. If you only get 0.7% interest offered by the bank, making just 5% profit (after costs) on Lego investment sounds already great. And because these new investors are already happy to take 5-10% of net profit after a few months of waiting, the prices will stagnate for a long time after a set retires. Until (hopefully) a new fad comes around causing many of these new Lego investors to jump ship and join the next opportunity that the media claims to offer mountains of gold.

The people with no game plan who bought Tumblers are probably the ones already selling and most didn't get in until it was already retired at LEGO Shop at Home. Yes 60 investors buying 1 is same as 1 buying 60 but if 1 in 10 of the new investors to the market is of the type that buys in bulk then that does change the market. There had always been a steady flow of extra lego investors but I think the main issue is the articles have brought in more heavy investors now making the Exclusives not very exclusive at all. After all, the reason 10179 was so successful was the low production number, scarcity and lack of real interest at the time. As an example, look at the star performers in the Star Wars range for recent retirements. Red 5 UCS is doing OK but not spectacular, just starting to make a little bit of profit if you bought at rrp, yet underrated sets like The Phantom and The Ghost have rocketed because they weren't heavily bought into. Then there's the millennium falcon that did make insane profits quickly. The microfighters version, that has tripled in value post retirement again because it was overlooked at the time as a novelty.

The biggest problem with lower growth rates, is the percentage of profits that Ebay/Amazon, PayPal and shipping soak up. For a cost basis of 100GBP, you have to sell somewhere about 120GBP just to break even. at a 20% growth rate, you therefore are lucky to wash your face after holding for year 1. So either you hold longer, hope for a better growth rate, or focus on your buy-in point.