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One of the employees at my local Lego store needed some money and asked if I was interested in some employee Christmas sets....I said yes...of course.

Looking at used sets. Title says - 99% complete Description says - Over 700 of the 746 pieces I'm no math wiz, but I can't get to 99% and show my work.

It's why I throw shade on certain sets at times. I threw shade all over 10243 about it being out too long and being the next Pet Shop... all while cleaning them up from Walmart at $110. Each flipper that you convince a set is going to under perform... is one less competitor you need to deal with.

Let's keep this thread for discussing sales trend during lockdowns.

DON'T buy AT-APs... for god's sake just do not. Poor money...

So many are clueless on math. My favorites are craigslist and facebook sales for "tons of Lego". Tons plural? You have 4000+ pounds of Lego? That's worth your asking price of $300. But the photo you have looks like about two gallons of crappy parts and I cannot see even one minifigure.

10277 The Crocodile Locomotive - 1271 pieces Its been a LONG time since we had some Creator Expert train love!

honestly I am surprised how those thin crinkly bags stay sealed as much as they do...reminds me of the rice paper that warps white rabbit candy

Here’s the info I could find with a quick search. Not sure if the date has been determined for release yet. As a SC collector, lots of 6 wide builds between the ideas gwp, this and Cars in City 2020. Proving the demand for a 6 wide to cruise the modular Streets is there. Makes me even more curious why they would make that switch to 8wide? Anyways I digress. with all the out of stock and back order, the problem will be to find a set for the thresh hold.

The box didn't do this justice. The build pictures make it look much better imho.

Panic. That's why.

Amen... I thought I saw you in one of those Ozark lake pics...Only one person I know can do the Segel dance like that.

Or, it could be a mistake to bet against humans to succeed in doing what they do best. Current pent-up demand seems to be off the charts. From this point forward, we could see a steadily dropping unemployment rate - one weekly catalyst that will continue fueling optimism. Today's huge unemployment numbers could end up working to the market's advantage, as the weekly numbers improve. But I'll still be depressed for failing to be more aggressive in March at DOW 18,500.

I personally think it's near impossible for LEGO to be fully stocked by Christmas...especially large sets (>$79)...which I think is the target price for the well to do LEGO buyer for Christmas presents. I would (and have) go after any large sets that has 15% or more discount currently. I already have my boy's birthday and Christmas presents at about $25% off so I won't be caught off-guard or "desperate".

I did not mean to bore you, I just tried to be helpful.

Oh no, I'm not even putting DO in the shadow of a pretty good UCS set. And I have several turds in my inventory that won't move at all no matter what. So I know well enough that even time can't save every set.

I finally sold a Tower of Orthanc. Amazing times.

same here. but I told my wife that my Lego selling days are numbered, and blowing out this much inventory this quickly is super sexy to her

yes, came across one I actually picked up from Walmart, upon opening up one of the bags were torn open, good thing is there were no parts missing all seals looked intact, very much like in your case

Folks can keep mis-representing their products to their own self-detriment...as far as I care. In pretty much every incident I was able to recoup 20% refunds or more. ebay isn't amazon for better or worse...and I like to think I'm more well informed than most buyers and sellers of LEGO thanks to BP so I'm typically ahead.

Last year Rocket Ride GWP was for $99 purchase

$85 purchase. Is it just me or are the GWP thresholds consistently higher beginning about a year ago?

Had I known it (polybag)was going to put a couple dents in the back of my otherwise 100% Haunted House box I would have paid Lego to keep it. This GWP is ok, glad its a box and I like mechanic fig , I'm sure there is a few sets worth getting to flip. If they start doing Hot rods more you'd think they have to bring chrome back.

In the same vein, I'm getting a little tired of EBay sellers putting "RARE" and "EXTREMELY RARE" in their listings for items that are not at all that rare. I love the listings that say "Complete" in either the title or the description, because >75% of the time there are clearly pieces missing and I am happy to point that out post-purchase.

I like it, Would be nice if we could get chromed pieces back though

I consider it a win if people understand the difference between "sale" and "sell" on either of these two platforms. Let's leave math out of this.

This is what my favorite LEGO store manager told me they were planning. In NJ it will be weeks before they open the malls and allow foot traffic. When they do, LEGO will have "teams" of employees working together. So if one employee becomes sick, it doesn't wipe out their entire store, just one "team" of employees will have to go into quarantine. Re: not touching the merchandise; can you imagine someone who is sick coughing on the merchandise and then leaving the store so everyone else inside can get sick? Or the LEGO play area having one sick kid touching and coughing on the bricks and every kid that day touching those same bricks? The "new normal" is going to be a royal pain in the butt and not fun for anyone for the next several months. More than likely, the large sets are going to be the ones backlogged. My favorite store was sold out of all their larger sets within four days of doing curb-side pickup (I had called back that weekend because I forgot to ask about the Disney Castle. But I'm betting that is the Disney version of the Death Star so I'm not too worried). On the other hand, they have a glut of smaller sets because no one is doing curb-side pickup for $15 or $30 sets.

A flood of Need For Speed nostalgic vibes rushed over me with the music choices here. How they picked the build up with one hand around 1:25 is a great sign of how structurally sound this is. I can even see a face there. Not sure if a happy one or just surprised.

SW-wise, it was pretty much the last thing left available in the UK, which cannot be a good sign

But... you've revealed your top secret strategy. I'm so confused. 😨

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lamborghini-sian-fkp-37-42115 It's absolutely stunning. I love this set.

Maybe its just a genuine advice

I can never tell if you are being sarcastic or if you deliberately like to downplay sets that you actually like but don't want anyone else to buy.

It will be near impossible for anything to be stocked by Christmas. Supply chain is jacked in all retail.

https://www.promobricks.de/lego-42115-lamborghini-sian-kampagne/101632/

Do you mean that model never comes back, or this Set in particular? The other did not went that well: https://brickset.com/sets/75043-1/AT-AP https://brickset.com/sets/7671-1/AT-AP-Walker

I have long since moved on to quintuple-boxing all my shipments. Especially polybags.

IDK...I felt a general dis-satisfaction after the prequels but have recently found that they grew on me...decade or so later 🙂 (without the previous expectations). Maybe these films will be similar. I am a general fan of more content (even if its crap) rather than waiting 2-3 years before a major film.

Yes, agree with you as well about that. The sequel trilogy is, in my opinion, a botched up job. With different directors taking the story left, then right, then left again, annulling each other's set ups and coming up with ridiculous plots. Meant as a Star Wars fan service, it didn't service my inner Star Wars fan. As far as I'm concerned the Star Wars movies ended at Episode VI.

The only part I disagree with him about is the character in the last movie. Yes, it had a back story, but it's only purpose in the movie was to give the location of the thing the heroes were looking for. It served no other purpose... except merchandising. But then again, there was a lot of merchandising in that last movie. It is a shame Disney didn't spend more time on actual character and story development than merchandising. If they had, maybe they would have sold more merchandise.

Agree with JANG. I have no intention whatsoever to add this set to my Lego Star Wars collection.

lol - that was your VERY FIRST post on bp - you came in gunz a blazin' no doubt, i gave you you're first ' brickpicker LIKE on that post. don't let the haters win. you can't be surprised that doubters exist. you were on the money last year - thanks!

When someone leaks it should be around August/September usually. I did post it last year & got nothing but querky replies. Won't do that again.

I think the thing is that a lot of car enthusiasts who have no other Lego have been buying up these sets. They're overpriced, no doubt, but patience should be rewarded with this as it definitively was with the Porsche and has been to a lesser (so far) extent with the Bugatti. I won't be paying whatever the UK RRP is (presumably £340 or £350), but the RRP for the Bugatti is £329.99 and I got mine for £160. Give me the same sort of discount and it's much fairer.

I use my bathroom scales for large packages in 2 steps: 1. Weigh myself without the package 2. Weigh myself holding the package Subtract 1 from 2 and there is your package weight. Downside: A painful reminder of my own weight.....

Hurts so good...

1 down, 30 to go?

My 30-day sales are ahead of my December total. I'm selling stuff that I didn't think would ever sell. Benny's Spaceships for $200 T1's for $225 I even sold my Sopwith Camel, which I think is the longest hold in my inventory at close to 10 years - for $270.

I'm a bit concerned that I'm not going to have anything to sell come Christmas at this point.