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Accepting loses is part of the business. Having the company you are working with essentially steal your inventory and not follow through on there own business policies is a whole other issue. I hate that I am saying this, but similar with the government, Amazon holds an extremely large amount of power regarding our inventory and they need to be held accountable. When people start rolling over and accepting 2K of inventory vanishing we are essentially working for the mafia...

Found a lonely Friends Roller Coaster at Costco for $40, may want to check your local stores, I'm not sure if this has been mentioned in the daily deals or clearance threads

Yellow Submarine 47.97 on Amazon right now. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

Yep, I think standing up for your rights as a seller shouldn't be something that is questioned, no matter the size of business.

I don’t really get the hate tbh. Sure there were unlikeable elements (Leia’s space swim, the whole casino section) but on the whole it was a rip roaring space adventure in the tradition of the series. It felt fresh and unpredictable. I liked Luke as a grumpy old man who’d lost his confidence and faith. I liked Kylo killing his master to replace him (it certainly didn’t go the way I thought). I liked the tension between Hux and Kylo and how they both kept making bad decisions. The Force Awakens was criticised for being a tired rehash of A New Hope and The Last Jedi is criticised for being too different so maybe it is impossible to please everyone.

Prepare yourself, another EBay code for New Years Day. This will stack nicely with the Target EBay gift card from last week.

Season´s greetings to you too Trump has made a second career out of doing the same so no harm no foul. To give a proper explanationfor the prediction rather than just making a snide remark, both previous waves of Elves have had sets that have done well and other that haven´t (jut like most themes). The smallest sets have always done well so far and the biggest ones have struggled (unless you got a great buy-in). It´s not possible that all of these will be winners now the cat is out of the bag. Sets like 84 and 85 seem to be the weakest due to content and that has been borne out by their sales rank on Amazon. As I also mentioned, there are going to be difference between US and Euro markets and my prediction is based on Euro demand and supply. Let´s check back in a year and see how I did.

This thread has helped me come up with my 2018 business resolution. Find out which one of my liquidators has the bwi2 facility and buy those loads.

as much as i respect you and your posts my friend, this is a very weak one.

Sweet, in for some more TRU eBay cancellations.

It's pretty appropriate that your favorite classification for sets is "turd" since you're basically pulling all of your opinions out of your a**. ...and yet you don't let that stop you from concluding that a set will crash and burn.

No Offense Val, but violent posts like this help my profits tremendously. Thank you! Carry on.....

– 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback (75884) – 14,99 Euro – Ford Fiesta M-Sporr WRC (75885) – 14,99 Euro – Ferrari 488 GT3 Scuderia Corsa (75886) – 14,99 Euro – Porsche 919 Hyrid (75887) – 14,99 Euro – Porsche 911 RSR und Porsche 911 Turbo (75888) – 39,99 Euro – Ferrari Garage, Ferrari 250 GTO und Ferrari 488 GT (75889) – 99,99 Euro

New molds for the large turtle parts. The small turtle looks to be a recolored model from the Friends sets. Not sure it will have as much drawing power as the dragons, but should be solid if you get it at a good price.

Here´s a list to build on in order to sum up the most important events in the market and on the forum this year. Feel free to add any I missed. It´s in no particular order. UCS Falcon and Saturn V release and supply drama. Lego Group poorer financial results and change of CEO / laying off of staff. @TabbyBoy returning to the game (and leaving and returning). New themes such as Brickheadz, Pirates of the Caribbean (return), Super Hero Girls. Continued trend to wards bigger and more expensive D2C sets. Amazon gating and increase in scams. Facebook Marketplace consolidation. Chinese clone consolidation with paid MOC designs, Lego re-release of Taj Mahal. Gingerbread House and the power of professional influencers to create demand. Assemby Square anniversary modular. Death of Dimensions. Deep discounts and oversupply. TRU slow death.

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Build one of these Saturn V things. Very enjoyable and satisfying build.

Based on comparisons between TLG and TFA just going to leave this here.

There could be some playing around with stock to drum up business, but some of it is just poor inventory management and second rate technology. LEGO is no Amazon.

Yay, made my first ever sale through Bricklink! A RRP €30 Lego Elves set, bought for €20, sold for €75 including shipping (to Denmark).

The Fire Lion looks very well done with a lot of detail. These elves sure seem to spend a lot of time capturing and rescuing critters.

3 configurations? Obligatory "In for 3"...

Don't forget that the baby dragon in 41173 Elvendale School of Dragons was a repeat from 41077 Aira's Pegasus Sleigh (which isn't doing great either). So if demand would primarily originate from the inlusion of baby dragons the repeat would split the demand between two sets.

now that is pretty cool

not much of a deal but walmart has new shanghai architecture skyline up for sale a couple of days before release for $47.99 (MSRP $59.99). not bad price for building. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Shanghai/628772294

Delivery from Lego today. All boxes in A1 condition.

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Be quick. 21127 in stock at Amazon at 30% off (£69). Good money on the table. One per customer.

And Finn

There were a whole bunch still in stores here last summer but now the well is dry. As mentioned, it´s a bit like Gingerbreadhouse where there has a theoretically high value but it is hard to sell for that without any hype. Buyers are likely to be expecting a bigger set and that could cause problems after reception. A lot of people are bundling them with the other baby dragon sets as a workaround.

If there's anything we all have learned now, it's this....

Maybe I can use the time machine to change your order to a day when it's in-stock.

Today, I purchased a copy of 41074 (Azari and the Magical Bakery) for RRP, found the set in a local toyshop. Also, I got a free 70615 Fire Mech for buying two copies of 21133 (The Witch Hut) for 59.99€ each.

It's a jab, but without ill-intent. You mention that you like Grievous and Maul but found no characters here to like. That makes me think you were probably "prime star wars age" around Ep 1 and Ep 2 which would make you around 22-26 years old now. I say that because I had the same issues when I hated Ep 1- Ep 3 in my twenties. So now the question is, was I right? Or are you also a 40-ish nerd like me, but you hated it?

The fleet showing up on Scarif and the use of the hammerhead was worth the price of admission for me in "Rogue One".

local Tesco is going through some reconstruction in January so they are fire selling everything inc Lego for 50% off, someone posted a photo in our Lego FB group so I rushed in but every exclusive was gone (they had Porsche, TB, BigBen, Par. Restaurant, Detect Office or Bucketwheel of what I remember), so I grabbed last VW Beetle and some friends Grand Hotels, minecraft Fortresses, ninjago Dragon's Forges and bunch of Louvres and Buckinghams

There was no porpoise to that joke.

I like it - looks like a hit to me rather than a turtle disaster. Apologies, couldn't resist.

The baby wind dragon seems to have grown up. The demand on this one will be interesting. I'm not sure if the lightning wings will be a draw, or a deterrent. But this is also the only dragon revealed thus far, so that may give it the largest draw out in the current line. Hoping the lack of real wings on this one helps my stacks and stacks of Water and Fire dragons. Also thinking, even with the big purple dragon, the Dragon Sanctuary won't take a big hit on this one due to the lack of wings.

This is the only "bad guy" set in the current reveal. That should help its sales, along with another great looking brick model. The tower itself doesn't have a ton of depth, but looks to be quite detailed.

I'll probably get down votes for this one.

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

Another one ! 1 x 21020 Trevi Fountain for 100 euros (65 euros profit, after 1 year hold) Got a few left and raised the price as they are going fast, perfect little investment as the set is easy to shipp, low buy in and great ROI.

Why didn’t they use the big box?

While the Last Jedi was disappointing, to be fair, I think this movie was so much better than Force Awakens. However, it just seems like Disney is turning Star Wars into big merchandising opportunities without any concern for the content.

It's funny you mention "the phantom menace" episode 1... i too had Flashbacks to that horrible time I walked out of the theater and flat out lied to the channel 6 news crew interviewing peeps and said, "...it was a good Flick..." total lie then, and now it's repeated itself...I think the whole deal that this film to us 'Star Wars die hards' is that we don't want it to fail, we want it to be great, but what we got was an editing nightmare with mediolcre clone war lore integrated into a moshpit of half baked storylines that basically killed a near perfect setup from episode 7, destroyed iconic Long time characters(Luke), and sold out to Cash in on "porG" sales.... i did think the the movie was well directed as far as the cinematic shots and scenes go...but whatever happened in the editing after that I'm sure they were all smoking Bantha Fodder and green Intant Muffins...

He's a wizard.