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I thought that there was a display forum, but I can't find it on my phone so this one will do. Below is this year's Christmas setup except for the stockings on the wall. We have a larger, fuller tree which presented some problems and I grow tired of stringing lights through the town (Assembly Square is a terrible setup for this). Enjoy!

No threats of bags full of used dildos for me (where would you even get that?), but it has been a very profitable year. I almost doubled my sales from last year and blew way past what I had originally projected for the year. Got all of my debt paid off and will be starting 2019 with a big pile of inventory. This is why I laugh when I read so many of the gloom-and-doomers here talk about how the sky is falling, how we are in the end times of Lego reselling, blah, blah, blah.

As this year comes to a close, we have much profit to be thankful for. 12 months of buying, selling, and dealing with the wonderful customers. Was there anything special for you that stood out this year? A great deal on an item to flip? Flip something for an out of this world profit? A special customer who really made your year? A special buy was finding someone's hidden stash of First Order Star Destroyers. A special sale was flipping 50 x 75119 Jyn Erso Buildables for a $450 profit I also had a very "special" buy on eBay that offered me a bag of used marital aids. Thankfully he didn't deliver. Everyone else have a fun and profitable 2018?

This particular box has me puzzled and concerned. Did that box cave like an accordion, or is it two boxes put together as one, or is one box eating another one below it?

Guys, please stop posting links to obvious scam sites. These are plentiful, especially during the Holiday season. At best, you get your money back from their payment processor (e.g. Paypal), which over time causes fees to rise for all of us. But you could fare way worse - with CC and contact details stolen, some fishy stalling scheme to get you out of refunds, or shipping you bogus bricks. Please STOP.

Boba's Refrigerator

The game is on !! I was able to get 10 today and I have to pick up 15 more tomorrow....

150 units of Buckingham Palace @ $35 a piece.

A couple of highlights of 2018 for me... 1. Knowing that I am starting 2019 "Steam Roller free". 2. I continue to expand my local presence through Facebook market place, buy/sell groups, and vendor fairs. I've drummed up quite a few cash sales and repeat customers. I'm looking forward to building my local market share even more in 2019. Cash is king.

2018 is for me the year of my farewell to KMart. They will not survive long into 2019 (next court hearing is tomorrow, but unlikely Chapter 7 will be announced there and then, rather likely they will continue on with bids and wrap things up end January). Some KMart highlights of 2018: - I perfected my "Free LEGO" strategy, developed in 2017, and got an average discount of 85% across my LEGO purchases from them. - Even without using points, I found some great deals at KMart - $2 Constractibles, $5 Ninjago Vermillion Raider and Destiny's Shadows for example. - Most of what I picked up was already retired, or very advanced in "the dance", which meant I could flip my purchases almost instantly. - The points back went crazy for a while ($50 back on $50, $75 back on $75, $300 back on $300). - SYW Sweeps was a money-printing machine for a while - $2-$4 per day, $20-$40 per week including bonus winnings. Unfortunately, it's all drying up now. Sweeps pay out very little ($0.10-$0.25 per day), cashback offers have dried up, and store inventory is not being replenished. Adios KMart!

I took a break from selling this year. Didn't realize just how much of a break until I was checking records the other day. I sold a $20 item in January, and a $20 minifig in November. And that was it. I'll have to get off my butt and get back to selling. The inventory is there. But the break has been nice.

Just got back from the local Mall - lifesize Bugatti Chiron on display.. i mean THAT one and only Chiron built in Kladno factory.. beauty.. you can even control the lights and motor functions via bluetooth tablet..

Walmart didn't want my money so I gave to Target. I didn't even go crazy online this weekend.

I can share them on behalf of Boliramirez: - Move to the Mexican border, ideally on the Mexican side - Schmooze up to people at the LEGO factory there - Offer them money for sets - Pay this money - Make profit on Ebay or CL

as sales start to wind down, i can say from my experience that the safety certificate fiasco was 100% big nothing-burger. my strategy for the hassle was to recall all items, close all listings. ask to have my open case about the certificates closed. waited until the day after the deadline date for removing stuff passed. the next day created all new listings for all sets that i had that were on the list that i still had stock. sent them in. sold them all. done.

I suppose that's better than Vampire Hunter Abe Lincoln, which is what I've been calling him all morning.

Bravo to you for admitting an honest mistake on the internet. Further bravo to you for considering the impact of deal chasing and whether it was really 'fair'. Plus, you didn't demonize anyone for chasing a deal, as we know, only the hustlers truly thrive in this game. You just asked them to consider it. Level of thoughtfulness I haven't seen often in this joint. Cheers mate,

Bonanza is a peer to peer seller site. While there are legit sellers there it's not regulated well and rife with scammers. Your getting scammed on the DO. Look at their other items for sale. Seem too good to be true? Because it is. There are even comments there that it's a scam seller. Phil B is right, stop posting this crap.

A Frankenbox with two smaller sets. In good shape though, since they put in a copious amount of bubble pillows.

I agree. Joker Manor is a great set and is even better in person IMO. Box is friggin impressive.

The Wizard of Oz figures are going to be desirable! The entire series has a lot of good figures.

Joker Manor will do just fine, along with BB, DO, OFS, Ocean Explorer and a few others. Like Ed said a lot gets through the radar now with so many sets out there. Short runs, low amounts of sellers and good sales ranks will keep these moving along nicely.

Some leaked images today show the CMF collection for this movie. I'm excited to see Dorothy w/Toto, Scarecrow, Tinman, and the Cowardly Lion!

Gingerbread House by Livin' TheBrickLife

Looks like i finally got a lot of the missing data and can start to process again. I will have the price guide updated over the next few days. Sorry for the long delay.

Just got shipping confirmation on my WM Falcon!

Stopped by Target tonight and found a Scout Trooper and Speeder Bike set (75532). Went to self-checkout and had the person working there adjust the price to $30.99 (Cartwheel price match) and then used the 30% off Lego Star Wars constraction Cartwheel coupon. $21 and change. I have one already but couldn’t pass it up at that price.

Well dang, was wondering where my 7 mini coppers at 84 were? Well I log in and cancelled. Also used my coupon on them. So I guess I'll call tomorrow amd guilt them into another coupon of some kind. This is annoying. No email or anything. That is bad business.

Walmart is such a genius to make your competitor loss money.

The University by Łukasz Libuszewski

This year for me has seen a huge change in my AMZ resale business model. In 2016 and 2017 I bought my Lego sets almost exclusively from Toys R Us using discounted gift cards I would buy from eBay (a lot of them) and shenanigans to cumulate to a 30-40% percent discount in store between gift cards, Toys R Us sales and Toys R Us credit cards reward points. These 2 years I sold 200 k$ annually. I exhausted myself, literally. The profit wasn’t great around 15% but I had cash flow meaning that I sold consistently throughout the year and paid the credit cards debt monthly. Then we all know what happened to Toys R Us. So I had to join the bandwagons of those buying at discount from Walmart, Target, jet, etc. throughout the year stocking up on a huge inventory for Christmas. I filled up my basement, had to buy $800 in shelves and no $ back until November in that most of what I bought did not really jump in price on AMZ til then. So, I had to spend 50 k$ upfront or basically all the profit I made in 2016 and 2017 before I saw some $ back. Stressful to say the least. Overall, 2018 was less busy than 2016 or 2017 but more stressful due to the unknown territory. The best news is that for what I sold this year with this new model I doubled my percent profit to nearly 35% compared to the paltry 15% from 2016 and 2017. So, yeah. Other than that I loved the legendary Target sales from that one day in April. That was like living in a parallel universe for a couple of hours. On the negative side I am worried about Walmart now cancelling orders. The toys safety paperwork scare front Amazon was also not fun at all. Also, during this Christmas season I noticed a lot more non-Lego or should I say non- brick centric 3P sellers trying to sell Legos for a profit. In several cases they had hundreds of sets to sell and they depressed pricing all to way til now for some items. What else? Oh yeah, the city’s and friends advent calendars stinked up big time for me this year. It looked like everybody had some for sale. Crazy....nearly 200 offers consistently for the city advent calendar 6020 til now. Yuck. Also 10254 was bad. I did not get much discount when I bought these this year and I was hoping for the price to take off by now like it did in 2017. Oh well....not really. But I did great with other sets like 10251, 75102, 60167 etc. so overall I survived the Toys R Us debacle and hopefully I can increase my revenues in 2019.

So happy the giraffe is happening. I just hope he fits in most display cases.

Mind sharing your tactics?

Maybe the Falcon deal was just to bait all the resellers...then again I'm sure google has an algorythm that can pretty much identify all resellers and place them into categories...kinda like Cerebro identifying mutants ...wondering who here is a Level 5 like Phoenix (reseller that can actually move the market by their actions)

Poof! Old Fishing Store in stock at Amazon at 149.99 (20 left as of this post)...

Jeff had his cancelled and he doesn't even buy from Walmart.

Hello...I think you need to start reading some blogs and posts. There is plenty of information out there.

Amazon Prime Day, but only for Prime members. Personally I'm holding out for Lego Store 20% off plus VIP points and a free gift.

All of my Target orders were just cancelled.

Spotted at Modern Times The Dankness Dojo in downtown LA. Duck Hunt tribute built out of LEGO. About 6' by 6'.

I built the 6212 X-Wing Fighter today that I bought on EBay recently, 100% complete with box and instructions (~ $35 shipped). First off, I like the box art that has a pseudo 3-D effect and makes the X-Wing Fighter pop. It was a fun build with normal repetitiveness of building the wings. Two features that I really like – 1) how the fuselage connects to the x-wings structure and 2) the gear system that gradually opens and closes the wings into and out of the X-wing formation. For 2) this system is better IMO than the 9493 X-Wing Fighter system that snaps out of the X-wing formation, which I also own. The 6212 seems slightly longer than the 9493 (6212 set is on the left in the picture below). The engines on both are very comparable, with the 9493 being better because of the detail on the guns. The engine intake, even with the stickers, is better on the 9493 along with the white 1 x 4 tiles on the top of the engines that give them a more finished appearance. I am glad I bought the 6212 to add to my X-Wing collection that also includes 75102 Poe’s X-Fighter and the 75149 Resistance X-Wing Fighter.

"Everyone knows you never go full pirate"

I was wrong. Found 2 more locked away in the videogames section at one of my Meijers. Marked $69.99 on the shelf, but rang up as $13.99. Supergirl still sells about once every two days on AMZ for $60. Happy Thanksgiving!

Winter Village Brewery by Eero Okkonen

New Century City Block I by Eero Okkonen

Sun & Surf by Andrew Tate

Here’s my Winter Village Display this year - enjoy!