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no, that's weird. This is what mine said... Dear ______ We canceled your 2nd order of 10273 Haunted House, because let's face it... you were only going to keep both orders in a box on a shelf while occasionally telling your wife, "I bought that for $250, and it's worth $2225 now!" If you were serious about making that extra $100 on a "quick flip" then you would have opened up your ebay account at least once in the last 3 months, or updated that one "Welcome to Apocolypseburg" listing you have on Facebook Marketplace. But... you didn't. so... yep. Really, you should thank us. Just build the first one, OK? Kind regards, LEGO® Customer Service

All these emails from the DD made me think I missed a deal on 50% SSD again

I bought one because LEGO will mess this up again and not have them available again before Halloween.

Wait till you actually go through each line and try to make sense of all the charges and credits

oh well... saves me from explaining how spending $750 on lego is a smart choice this morning.

$450 or bust. If this goes out of stock before it’s released to the general public it will get there. Especially in the current environment. If it doesn’t, then it goes into cold storage. Low risk gamble.

After I sell some Goblin Kings and TMNT Baxter ... maybe . I only have about 20 of them any ways .

5-6% state and local tax 10% self-employment tax 25% federal tax Wiping out an entire aisle of Lego when 50% hits - priceless... until the CC bill comes due

30% off 100+ at Gamestop. Orders in my state they deliver right to your car. Some notable items that may be available near you

I just had my Corner Garage delivered yesterday from Amazon...IDEAL SHIPPING...I checked off it was a gift so a minty fresh set box in original LEGO outer box in another larger Amazon box (the box was a hard stock with ample room and bubble cushions. I could not ask for a better ship. But judging from the other replies: YMMV

I grew up in Vallejo. Kind of funny to hear this. The house with that address is in an area that's a nicer part of Vallejo. With that said, a lot of shady stuff goes down in Vallejo.

I bought one because there is nothing else to buy. Just had to scratch the itch.

10273 Haunted House is now available for purchase in the US on Shop @ Home. Limit 1. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/haunted-house-10273

In for 1, the beach buggy really makes the deal...

Maybe it was just me, but I gotta believe this is some of us when we see the newest eBay invoice for the month.

Thanks for reminding me of this. I made a note to check prices the other day, but completely forgot, I need to dig mine out. I sold a Klingon Battle Cruiser for about $100, bought for $11, that was the winner set. Should have bought more. Need to dump the Transporter Room, that did not do nearly as well.

so, who is hoping for a Coronavirus Quick flip on this one? on sale in a few hours...

If you sold this for $73, how did you make $10 profit? Ebay and PayPal fees would take 13% of that leaving you with $63.51 (actually a little less than that because they also take 13% of your shipping charge). These are $60 before sales tax. So that would leave you with $3.51 without any sales tax. If you pay 6% or greater in your state for sales tax when you bought it then you actually lost money selling it (and since shipping is charged the 13% fees it is probably 5% for the sales tax before you lost money on the deal).

I thought all that didn't count since its during your "free" time. And maybe there was already gas in the car?

70840 Apocalypseburg for € 365. Local pick-up. Buy-in was € 220 after I sold the promo that I got with it.

True sellers will have obtained their merchandise from a distributor using Tax Exempt status, so the above is not an issue. The issue is that we are mostly on the "grey" market - we are normal consumers buying from retail channels who by-and-large don't accept our Tax Exempt paperwork (if you even have this). I don't see a way how the governments (local, state and federal) can make this fair - they can either tax nothing (but then buying from an official reseller who obtained merchandise under a tax exempt certification would not have any tax on throughout the full sale chain) or tax every transaction (which is what is happening now). Any intermediate solutions (stopping tax exempt even for official resellers, or having sellers declare cost to the buyer so they only pay tax on the value add) are clearly unacceptable.

Backorder June 26

the bigger issue is being forced to pay taxes on items that have already been taxed. If the seller procured merchandise pre-tax then I understand taxing the final sale; but for those of us who purchased retail and paid taxes...then what is owed to the government has been satisfied (IMO)...basically the government is double dipping and in many cases triple dipping or more.

Thanks for the info on frustration free packaging guys! I bought one and checked the Gift box. Crossing my fingers.

i don't care about the market value, that's easy enough to figure out in a couple clicks. I just need to know the prices i paid for items so i know if i'm making a viable profit or not

Haha same. Already on backorder in the US though.

Corner garage back in stock at amz. Maybe some more stuff will start coming in. Or maybe no one wants corner garage?

Not to be a kill-joy, but paypal charges you 2.9% on the tax received as well (tax is charged against sale price + shipping). Also, what are your shipping supply cost? Used box vs a new box? I track what I actually receive into paypal vs what the sale in ebay says and I couldn't figure out why it was off - sometimes by mere pennies, other times it was over a $1 and yet other times, it was dead on correct. What I discovered is Paypal takes their 2.9% off everything received (sale price, shipping, and the taxes paid on your sale). Paypal then automatically returns the taxes paid back to ebay. If you look at the detail paypal transaction you'll see it all. On a side note, I wonder if paypal is collecting another 2.9% of the tax returned to ebay for each sale. If they are, that is quite a racket. So your sale of 73.50+14.99=88.49 * 6% tax (middle of the road example) = 5.31 taxes. Paypal 2.9% + $.30 of total (93.8) = 2.72+.3 = $3.02 Ebay 10% of total ebay sale (88.49) = $8.85 So your sale minus fees plus shipping difference is actually: 73.50+14.99-7.60-8.85-3.02=$69.02 - 63.58 = Profit of $5.44. Now subtract any new shipping supply cost. Of course, this estimate doesn't include gas if your taking it to the USPS or the cost of gas to buy the product or get it home, but that's just anal retentive... If you used a Red Card to purchase it, that would add roughly $3 to your bottom line. So your buy-in would actually be around $60.58 for a Profit of $8.44. I have a spreadsheet that does all of this for me. The tracking of the tax amount pd (and paypal percentage on that) is what I'm currently adding into my spreadsheet right now.

No. First off the haunted house is an adult set unlike Barracuda which appeals to adults and kids alike. HH is also $50 more. State covid Restrictions are loosening so more people will be putting money towards vacations and not LEGO. And finally I personally don’t think HH is that great of a set. It’s neat but the play feature isn’t that interesting and it adds considerable cost.

Still good 16 years 😲 later

If you sold this for $73, how did you make $10 profit? Ebay and PayPal fees would take 13% of that leaving you with $63.51 (actually a little less than that because they also take 13% of your shipping charge). These are $60 before sales tax. So that would leave you with $3.51 without any sales tax. If you pay 6% or greater in your state for sales tax when you bought it then you actually lost money selling it (and since shipping is charged the 13% fees it is probably 5% for the sales tax before you lost money on the deal). If you bought using a Red Card, you saved about $3 (basically the cost of tax). I saw one in my local Target yesterday and left it (pristine box too). They keep going in and out of stock and they're brand new so they'll be around for another year or two.

a little bummed to see there wasn't a decent GWP directly related to the haunted house. small people pack or something.

Promo dead....

looks like it might be limit 1....

IWOOT are selling 42097 Technic Cranes for £52.50 each (RRP £79.99) if you enter LEGO20 in your basket, plus TCB are giving 5% back for new customer toy purchases (3% if existing). Presuming that tracks, that knocks them below £50 each. These are now marked as retiring soon on LEGO Shop at Home, which may not mean too much given that those tags can come with duplicitous intent, but may mean it's going this summer rather than waiting until Christmas.

Don't do it! My biggest regret was cashing out points for a free bill and then literally seeing the Batpod come up the next week. I swore to never do it again and it paid off last month when I picked up 2 Mini Droid Commanders as loyalty rewards.

Since when did the COVID thread open back up?? Why cant these just be looked at as cool LEGO sets? If these were still region locked, the conversation would be a lot different.

9am EST according to customer service

Has not unlocked for ordering yet

Odd shaped box to ship in my opinion. Like the size of a tennis shoe box.

I'm small time, and I've sold about $2700 in the last three weeks. I started selling late instead of the onset of SIP and I think it's worked out for me. Mostly local sales (some eBay), so I don't have to deal too much with shipping. A couple of sales from today: Grand Emporium $280 Brick Bank $350 10240 X-Wing $275 (dinged up box) My local sales have been at about average eBay sold price minus fees and shipping. Save my buyers money, and I net about the same as if I sold on eBay but without the hassle of packaging sets up. I'm running out of boxes.

Jet.com was a backup for folks like me who are banned from Walmart.com but their lego selections really went scarce this year and their discount no longer matched those from Walmart.com. Something was cooking. Oh well.

I do like the fact that Lego is releasing sets at the same time the game comes out instead of waiting until the game has been out for a couple of years already.

80012 - Monkey King Warrior Mech is the winner for me Just wish it wasn't $150 RRP

Took advantage of FBM price surge to unload some dead weight sets that turned out to be not so dead weight now. Have not gone hard with listing stuff with work still being busy but still nice profits on these: 10240 red five for $394 x4 10218 Pet Shop for $342 x3 10232 Palace Cinema for $350 x5 Also sold: Last 75919 Indominus Rex Breakout for $457 75105 Millennium Falcon for $330 42030 Volvo L350F for $421 x2 42043 Mercedes Aroc for $430 42047 CRawler Crane for $450 75155 U Wing for $190 x2

Finally decided on an entrance style to my space- themed rollercoaster. Luckily I was able to model a few of the letters after the creator expert rollercoaster letters but had to improvise on the S and also on how to connect the A over the junction between the two curved track pieces. I like the use of the 1990s red posts from my original space shuttle set. I'm not an expert builder, this amusement park takes lots of experimenting and dinking around.

Tour 2025 by Ralf Langer

I bought about 20 Old Fishing Stores 20% off, it was a good call

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