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Got my box a couple days ago, gave all the minifigures out to a couple school classes, kids were thrilled. I know it's all about money and profit around here, but it's nice to see kids with genuine smiles and no strings attached.

Willy Wonka has moved the factory... not even a golden ticket will get you in.

April was a great month with similar sales total as october of last year. notable sales: 41063 Ariel Undersea Palace - $174.99 - buyin $30. down to 3. Wall-E - $165 and $169 - buyin $49. my precious still have a decent number of these. Raptor Escape $169 - buyin $40 - price has come down a little with the new sets. that was my last one. Raptor Rampage x3 - $129 buyin $35. - all out. Smashed box I rex x 2 - $299 each. buyin $95 during TRU sales + 20% gift cards in early 2017. elected not to return them when they were delivered damaged. got more for the smashed ones than any of the minty ones i sold. no mas i rex. 20x 41304 Friends Puppy Tricks and Treats for $12.70 each. buyin $2.50. still have another 2 dozen. woof woof. 1x Duplo Minnie Cafe for $60. buyin $11. First Order Tie Fighter for $84 and $94 the same day - one sale under each listing. wth. buyin $35.

Crazy thing happened to me on a lot I bought off ebay. I made a purchase of 18 unopened minifigures for $44.98 They sent me 19 and included the cop !!! I am giving them Excellent feedback !! A+ If it was one of you....I say " Thank you very much ! "

If you don't have spares, I would order the pieces from a Bricklink seller for the buyer. They may not be familiar with the process and doing it for them would be better service in my opinion. I had a seller do this for me when they sold me a complete set, but they had missed the mark by about a dozen pieces.

UPDATE! So I received a call from my insurance company the other day. The police arrested a guy for breaking & entering, and when they searched his property, they found "a lot of Lego sets". One detective was having lunch with my detective and casually mentioned the find, and he remembered my case from 2016 and they interrogated the suspect. He totally admitted meeting me on Craigslist, bought a few sets from me, and then came back to my warehouse to commit the robbery. He was able to back a cargo truck up to the loading door and spend several hours loading up. The replacement value at the time was $39k. I am so relieved they caught the guy, and now I'm waiting to hear from the police so I can go see what is left from the theft (they say there is A LOT). Next step will be to strike a deal with the insurance company to purchase everything back (at a salvage rate of course). They are willing to give me the right of refusal so I can recover all or some of it. I'll update once I see what is left and what we can work out. Just a reminder to everyone who can learn from my ignorance & innocence: never let anyone into the inner sanctum. Since the theft, we treat the warehouse like Willy Wonka's factory : no comes in, no one goes out. We even have a visual barrier separating the storeroom area from being seen by UPS and FedEx drivers. As far as Craigslist goes, I've only tried to sell a handful of larger items (new MF for example) with the stipulation that the transaction takes place at the local police department, and I haven't had a taker yet.

**UPDATE** It's been a long road, but here is my latest update. Unfortunately, the prosecutor decided to offer the thief a "proffer" which basically gives him amnesty from prosecution if he admits to the crime and returns the stolen property as restitution. This was definitely against my wishes as well as the detectives from both police departments involved. The thief admitted to the crime, returned 118 of the 390 sets that were stolen (and none of the thousands of individual minifigures). I just picked up the remaining inventory from the Police Property office today, and will start to look through everything and see what I can keep to build or sell off. I struck a deal with the insurance company to purchase the returned inventory for about 30% of the value of the sets (based on the original claim value). Obviously most of these sets have gone up in value since the theft, but the box conditions will probably knock some value off the high end. I've been doing some research into filing a civil suit against him to recover more of the lost value of the stolen and sold sets, but the cost of litigation might be too great. Plus, he is a career criminal and even when I am awarded a judgement (he already admitted to doing the crime) I don't think I want someone in debt to me for the next 10+ years making small payments. The ray of hope? The same thief is under investigation for a violent home invasion charge, which would get him 20 years in jail. The detectives hope to get him on that charge and make it stick. Side note: some of the returned sets were already boxed up to ship USPS Priority Mail with the sender information listed as Blooming Earlier Bricks. A quick check showed he had a Brick Link account, but the detectives said he was selling a lot of stuff on Ebay as well.

All found on the Kmart parking lot wedding registry? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-DC-Super-Heroes-Atlantis/dp/B0789TBXSK/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1525779831&sr=8-16&keywords=lego+aquaman+movie

From what I've heard about the size of this thing, I'm not sure I'm willing to pay that much money on it...

Reports of 10% +10%. Also reports of only 15%. Ymwv.

I was about to post what @fuzzy_bricks posted. If you don't have that stuff as spares, I'd just tell them that you will replace the parts for them. Just order them from Bricklink for the buyer, and have them sent to him direct.

I've sold plenty, no issues.

Since I started my new job, I have access to a KMart again, so I have been slowly buying up their entire stock of 41302, 41303 and 41304 over time. Coincidentally bought their very last one yesterday using my $5 on $5 FC from this week's Weekly Sweeps email. Gimme mo money, uncle Eddie!

I think $1.48 is the better deal - I really don't get the rush on clearancing these out.

In case you find $1.48 on clearance at every Target everywhere not enticing enough, LEGO allows you to spend $50 with them to get one for free ....

Lol Aquaman needs Green Lentern, Red Lentern, Batman, AND Superman to make his movie interesting...

Erasers, eyeliner, ruler, screws.

Haha glad I sold mine for $23

Walmart has the Ship in a Bottle on rollback for $59.88. Not a crazy deal, but it might be worth picking one up for a personal build.

mine arrived today from minifigs plus

I suppose it's easy for my point to get lost among all the words... I've been in the buyer's shoes many times receiving a set damaged in shipment. If it's packaged properly, I let the seller know but do not pressure them to handle the situation. They did their part, end of story. I think it's debatable what the "proper" course of action is, and have been helped tremendously as well as told to get stuffed, and everything in between, from my own sellers. If the packaging was crap, however, I give them a chance to respond in almost ANY reasonable way, else it's a SNAD case. This has only happened three times over hundreds of purchases. By the way, USPS policy states NOT to return a damaged package. They want it to be handled as I suggested to the buyer originally, i.e. insurance claim on the receiver's end. Yet I offered to get involved on this buyer's behalf. They ignored all of that and simply demanded a refund. But the whole point of the story was eBay's horrible lack of customer service. One fork of the tongue continuously reads "I understand and apologize that this happened to you..." while the other continuously speaks "There is nothing I can do, because..." I'll reiterate the "fruitcake" element quickly: I attempted to use the online escalation system to get eBay involved after essentially being ignored by the buyer. I selected the "disagree with buyer's reason for return" option. The system immediately and automatically issued a return label for the buyer and set it to be charged to my account upon usage. No human (according to what passes for one employed at eBay CS) is able to intervene, nor even acknowledge the ridiculousness of this occurrence. It's straight up BUSTED.

All my orders with you guys in the past have been great. I don’t always order but when I do, it’s been fantastic (sometimes I like to smoosh instead of having it served up to me). To anyone waiting - be patient. You are ordering these at a great cost considering all you have to do is be patient and they show up. No smooshing. No being concerned about missing anything. I ordered Batman Series 2 from them and anything was fine. I smooshed Ninjago because I only wanted a few. And I smooshed series 18 because I wanted to. I wouldn’t hesitate to order from these guys in the future tho.

We will be processing the rest of the box orders today and will be working on sets and classic policeman. For reference on the next series, our supplier will not have the same delay after release date. We are looking forward to serving our wonderful Brickpicker customers and processing all orders!!!!!

I believe it is In Store only...

Admittedly Craigslist has a lower bar, but that reminds me of a post I responded to there. “LEGOS FOR SALE CHEAP ONE BIN $50” No pictures. I respond to the listing, asking for photos. Response: “Oh my GOD, they’re LEGOS. I need to get some DINNER. Bye”

Hold up, lesbian is fine but gay gets censored? It's a funny thing when Dick does but come on.

C3PO about a million times.

Coming to a clearance bin near you in June.

March 30, 2018. This is a date that will forever be remembered. I can get a little emotional at times. As an adult, there are a few instances when I've shed a tear. I cried when my son was born. I cried again a year later when my daughter was born. I cried tears of joy when my beloved Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl 31 after three decades of mediocrity, and again when they won Super Bowl 45. The last time I cried was two years ago this April when my Mom passed away. March 30, 2018. Today is another day that I've sobbed like a baby. Upon waking up for work, I checked my phone like I always do. Waiting for me was a PayPal notification. A large one. I checked my Bricklink account, and it appears that some blessed soul has decided that they needed some Steam Rollers in their life. Yes, some Steam Rollers. All of them. 27 to be exact. Gone. Purchased by an unknown person. A risk taker. A gambler. A guardian angel, perhaps? I began this saga with over 50 of those Steam Rollers. I'd sell one here, one there through multiple platforms, slowly chipping away at that number. I whittled it down to 27. Now I have 0. They are gone. The purchase price was just a shade over $1k. I'll make a few bucks on each one after the usual fees and shipping, but that's not the point in this circumstance. The nightmare is finally over. March 30, 2018 is my Independance Day.