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Traded my creased up prime day voltron for these two today. Really nice guy too. I asked him why he wouldn't just sell them. He said he only had $110 in both and just wanted the voltron to build. Good for both of us I think.

It is random..... .... ... ... for the chosen ones

Easily worth it for the baseplates alone

Ran out of steam. What y'all think so far?

Today's builds: Also found a few LEGO books, and a Technic figure with skis and poles. Few pieces missing. Fun times.

Staples still has some nice deals on boxes with an easy $20 off $100. Many popular sizes are 50% off.

Yesterday my family and I went to BrickFair at Chantilly, VA. What an awesome day! Our favorite family activity was definitely bingo and we were fortunate enough to win an exclusive towel, and two polybags, Slave I and a Kingdoms one. I went to see classic space, pirate and castle sets and got my fill and more. I talked to one of the space sets designers and asked him where he got his hard to find pieces. Some of the yellow trans-clear windows came from Batman movie sets, and I wonder why I did not think of that! The schooner is a dream of mine, but out of my budget and I drooled over the castle sets with their original boxes. The Guarded Inn is a fan favorite. I found out the castle sets are a combination from childhood, yard sales and estate sales.

Not today, but on Saturday I completed my first ever triathlon, an Olympic distance race completed in 2 hours, 56 minutes, and 6 seconds. Finished 51st out of 102 people, and 3rd in my age group of 40-44 year old men. Now, time to transition to marathon training for a race in October.

The crime rate has been going up in my city lately, so it is in dire need of a police station.

When you have never gotten an Ebay offer. You call and ask about it, they say it's random.

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Defining market price is easy...just look at the price you can sell as an item for in a given MARKET. Sent from my SM-G965U using Brickpicker Forum mobile app Defining market price is easy...just look at the price you can sell as an item for in a given MARKET. Sent from my SM-G965U using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

My purchase starts to showing up today ?

Your arguments make sense in the generic case - but since this was a one-off purchase (there aren't more of these "4 creator car set" listings for the same price available), and since the purchase was made by me, who has MISB versions of each car on the shelf, and who has access to FBA, the prices I quoted are accurate as a justification for my purchase of the listing in question. If I list my MISB 10248 F40 on FBA now, I will clear ~$200 minus my purchase price (~$80). Similarly, I will make money on selling the other sets, since I got all of them for significantly below RRP. I'm sure I will end up paying nothing for these 4 cars once the smoke clears, hopefully with some extra money to boot. That's where I was coming from. And ignoring that, $40 each for these cars in "Used but complete with stickers and instructions" state is IMHO a good price to pay regardless, hence why I posted my purchase in this thread.

Bought this lot on EBay recently: Finished inventorying and rebuilding them - very clean and no pieces missing. Manuals included. Paid $175 and used $10 in EBay Bucks to bring the price down to $165. I have all of these still MISB in my personal inventory (except the Mini which I already built). Given that the F40 is heading towards $300 territory on FBA, I figured it was worthwhile picking these up for ~$40 each used. The MISB sets will end up on FBA or EBay in the near future (though for the T1 I am not sure when that will be, and how long it will take for the millions of copies amassed by resellers since 2011 to disappear). I loved the builds - lots of interesting tricks used in putting these cars together. Previous owner was a collector and was meticulous about sticker placement, which is a plus.

All the innocent lives taken from us this weekend