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Dump them as fast as possible and move on. You are losing money everyday you hold onto a set that appreciates as poorly as Rey's Speeder. One of the worst mistakes you can make reselling is hoping that set that hasn't performed well will rebound. Thanks for that, I think that's the kick up the rear end I need to just unload all of the sets that haven't shown potential. I knew it was the logical thing to do, but just kept on hoping some sets might break out. Even after all of these years, I'm still glad there's a community here who you can throw ideas / get tips off, every day a school day.

Dump them as fast as possible and move on. You are losing money everyday you hold onto a set that appreciates as poorly as Rey's Speeder. One of the worst mistakes you can make reselling is hoping that set that hasn't performed well will rebound.

And you responded saying you are a one-eyed deaf-mute war veteran with an opioid addiction who needs to support 15 kids in a dilapidated van on an impound lot after his wife left him with maxed out credit cards and alimony, so if she could be so kind and pay double the price thank you very much?

7019 Vikings Fafnir Dragon Fortress This set had been on my list for eons, and I finally found a decently priced one a few weeks ago. Missing a few pieces, nearly complete. Build was pretty basic, tons of stacking, but the overall product looks great, especially on the castle shelf. Overall, I really like it. I generally like bigger sets that don't use tons of tiny pieces, and this one has a certain classic feel to it. Can't believe this thing was a cool 70 bucks at retail, considering the size, features, and dragon. Oh yeah, and the box flips

In all seriousness: You gain nothing by replying to this person. Add their user name to your block list and move on. My response was purely for comic relief.

Sold one last week for $450. No regerts!

Well, got four Diner's today from Amazon. All bare shipped covered in stickers -- with the coronastickers as well so it looks like a kids sticker book. All shipped from Arizona to California via UPS. Beat to heck and pancaked. One even looks like someone used shipping tape to seal the end back up. I guess that's why Amazon and Target doesn't sell cars. They'd put them in a gigantic bubble mailer and stack them three high in a semitruck and deliver them upside down on your driveway. Then you'd open it up and find the odometer had 15000 miles on it, an amazon warehouse deal sticker on the license plate, and a strong smell of air freshener even though you bought it as "new". And when you call up customer service to complain, they offer you 20% off because that model is now out of stock.

Yes, the fact that I am running low on Death Stars and Tower Bridges (after all this time collecting dust) truly brings a euphoric sense of being reborn.

I can put two and two together. Terry is banned from Target. Terry bought a pallet of steamrollers. It's so obvious, how did we ever miss this?

that and the top panel of the box still says boba fett 😃

If that's true, Target should of given him a medal...

Haha .... this is why:

If I were in your shoes, I would sell it right away...mainly because you won't be building it anytime soon. You can buy it back later when it's readily in stock and pocket the profits.

Zavvi.com has the LEGO Technic: Land Rover Defender (42110) for $179.99 - $31= $148.99 and free shipping! Use code: DEFENDER for the discount.

According to my conversations with FedEx on this, you need to report actual weight when you pack and ship. So the (complicated!) procedure is: 1. Buy on Ebay based on actual weight 2. Calculate the Ebay rate for Dimensional Weight 3. In your cost administration, record the Dimensional Weight price 4. When the monthly EBay invoice comes, check if what rate you were charged, and adjust where necessary. All this could be soooo much easier if EBay just calculated Dim Weight in their shipping tool

My bro said "That's a lot of problems that Jessica Rabbit will not solve any of em" it was for a funko jessica rabbit.

I have case data. Do people actually need it?

That's a boring story, so you have to jazz it up or nobody will believe it. As an aside, I'm pretty sure that's how your president got elected.

So I just got this message.... this is for a funko pop. Hello, My name is %^%$%^ and I LOVE this so much and been wanting it really bad! Would you please please please kindly be willing to donate one to me please? I have a TBI & brain injury and am often in a wheelchair because my legs are really messed up. I also have PTSD, Panic Attacks, Major Depression, Night Terrors, Lymphedema, Lung and rib cage trauma from broken ribs that punctured my left lung. I died and even left my body when I was 5 years old. I don't have any money and I live on disability income. After rent, utilities, gas, petcare, and necessities, I am broke. In Fact my Mom has to pay my cable and phone because I can't even afford that with my disability. We have a few cats that have special needs. One was hit by a car before we adopted her. We noticed her tail wasn't working when we got her home. She just dragged it and she had a limp. They didn't expect her to live this long. She is 14 and still kicking. I would appreciate it greatly and would really mean the world to me. Thank you for your time. Please keep safe. Kindest Regards,

Production is picking back up. I got a bunch of case packs today that were manufactured in Mexico last month so they're filling the pipeline back up.

A service to monitor the ups and downs of prices for amazon products? Reminds me of the humps in a camel.

Sorry that its dead to you, but hopefully you will come back one day. I am sorry that it is taking time, but that is what it is, time. I am busy in my work world and don't really have the time or energy to work on the site during the week, so most of my work is during my weekend evenings. Is that really a crime, I sure hope not. There is life, work, family and BrickPicker. I am doing what I can, when I can and sorry that it may not be good enough for you. I do hope you can understand.

Self-Employed (Sch C). If you do grow your LEGO business, you'll have more flexibility down the road. Make sure to keep a careful inventory of everything. When it comes time to sell, you'll have a hard time finding those Toys-R-Us purchases in your online transaction history... Every box, polybag, promo, cloth tote bag, that you will ever think of selling should be a line in a spreadsheet. Note how much it cost to acquire -- including sales tax and shipping costs. Put a sticky note or label on that set to match an inventory number in the spreadsheet. When you sell it, note how much it sold for, and how much your shipping expenses were. Also note any paypal fees, etc... for the transaction that reduced your profits. I expense my ebay fees since they are a little trickier to assign especially when you have a renewing buy-it-now that's been on a set for 24 months. If you build one for yourself, make sure you build the "one" you spent the least on! Save those low-profit sets for the ebay buyers. If that means some sticky notes fall to the ground due to the humidity and have to be randomly reassigned, that's a shame

Since the movie got pushed back almost a full year I am guessing that the sets will get pushed back as well.

Even more shocking: the Vikings theme sat at shop-at-home for weeks at 50% when EOL came (except for the ship, that went quick). QFLL wasn't yet a thing back then. One of my big regerts is not picking up any at the time, having just come out of my dark ages.

I sold a hayabusa box once. Got it in a bulk deal. Never could piece together the set but that box went for $50 iirc. I see the empty boxes sell on ebay. Someone is buying them.

I've never sold a empty lego box, but I did once sell a empty Nintendo64 box with original booklets, all the way to Australia lol. I just sent it built inside another box. However, this only made sense as I got something ridiculous for it (I think it was like £30 or £40). Unless set is a big rare set or vintage, I dont think the average box will go for much, but then again I never expected someone would buy a N64 box, I just searched for ebay prices before I almost chucked it in the bin.

Yep -- discovered this first-hand a few days ago. Catch-all for "not supplying to resellers" or something like that. Which makes me wonder. Anyone who has every tried to become a seller of products these days will find that going through standard distributors is usually more expensive that going through Amazon, Target, and Walmart. The little guy just doesn't have the buying power. If these companies start taking a hard stance that they won't sell to resellers, then I expect they will be opening themselves up to some anti-competitive lawsuits. Amazon has their business accounts, but I don't think Target or Walmart has anything similar. Of course, they'll just say we are always welcome to come to their store, but they don't carry every big set in store.

Target has unwritten Ban Hammer...

and it's not Rey in LEGO.... it's rey in everything from action figures to statues and posters.... Luckily they didn't make Rose Tico sets

So, anyone here regret selling their Haunted House already? I still got mine, unopened and sealed. I got no room to build it right now and I'm moving soon so it'll probably be produced in the next year. I was going to put it online yesterday but it's so pretty and shiny and I can't bring myself to. It just screams "NOOOOO! DON'T LET ME GO!!!!" Also, I need stop going to bed at 1 AM.

The Boba Fett has been the home run in the series. I wish I would have put the money I spent in the others just picking up him.

Actually, now that I've listed it I'm looking at some shipping costs to different destinations and it's coming up with the eBay Rate as the customer rate, so I guess I'm wrong about this. Then I'd be posting in the wrong thread for sure.

use your redcard to place an order, you will see

Bought 7x 21125 Minecraft Jungle Treehouse @ MSRP We'll see if these turn up as the correct set and how damaged they are.

Sweet! I can get rid of those now!!

What is not to love about this year’s Advent Calendar?! Lego hits a home run with this one. Best in years!

Have you ever been a reseller of Star Wars Starfighters before? Look at the past trends.

I just found a $20/100 coupon yesterday...try 13240 or 52439

I have a series of Selenium scripts that are running that will check for inventory, and they run constantly over a VPN connection that I shuffle the IP on pretty regularly. There is some other op sec that goes into it to avoid detection. I can tell you down to the minute last night when the Assembly Squares came up, because they would be gone almost instantly --- and so I know I can't be the only one. I've set some of them to auto-purchase and watch them the most for obvious reasons, but they are all set with a variable in the script that will not let them buy over a certain number so its a bit of a safeguard.

I don’t think there are bots so much as there are other issues at play. Namely, Amazon has no limits on LEGO as far as I can tell. Folks are buying everything they can we something goes in stock. Target has relaxed limits as well. Many restocks are only one or two at a time. So you are racing against others for the sole item. And by the time you know about it, it could have been available to others for awhile. Years ago I had an auto-purchase script that I built myself to purchase — quite unfortunately — pet shops at RRP when they were retiring. It worked fine, but eventually Amazon found a way to break it. I haven’t bothered with it since. I’ve also dabbled with scripts that would alert you to web page changes. If set up to just poll a handful of pages fairly often (every minute for example) you can catch most items but you have to be ready when the alert goes off. The big in stock tracker sites are monitoring about once every ten minutes. When you get an alert from them, it’s a rat race! Lastly, I have been up working late more often the past few weeks. You can definitely get sets a lot easier at 3AM than 3PM. Which tells me the auto buy bots are not running since they don’t sleep. So, set up some page monitors, have your credit card info pre-programmed and amazon buy it now set up, Fire up your favorite game or queue up some movies, and see what you can score over night!

Take my Lego blinders off??? Never. If I did that, next thing you know, I'd probably running all over the damn place hunting crap with that kid Ryan on it.

Over ~8 years of selling, having a micropayments account probably saved me several thousand dollars in fees. It's a bit of a pain to set up with PayPal (you have to open a second account then call them to switch it to micro), but both BL and BO platforms support the alternate payment account for totals <~$12 so once its done you never have to think about it.

Lots of small orders. Paypal's $0.40 minimum is 10% of a $4 total shipped order. FYIW. For the last 7 years I’ve had $10 minimum order no lot limits and charge commercial base rate + $0.60 first class +$0.30 priority. ive had no complaints about price of shipping nor, other than once or twice per year, the minimum order. The small extra charge covers packaging materials, labels etc and the PayPal per transaction fee. most often that price is lower than counter price.

I tried that my first year and ended up abandoning a no limit selling structure on BL. It isn’t worth my time to complete so many small orders. I found Putting in a reasonable minimum order threshold of $5 and specifying a shipping fee of something reasonable like $1 for packaging worked well for me though I am only small time completing about $1200 in sales last year.

Lots of small orders. Paypal's $0.40 minimum is 10% of a $4 total shipped order. PayPal micropayments works ok. $.05 plus 5% of total order.

Are you including FBA shipping costs, Inventory storage fees (only short-term in my case) and the like? That's where it goes from ~30% to 40% in my case (actually, the real number is 39%, not 40.2% as I had a doublecount in the numbers somewhere).

I am running at approximately 31%....4 year average also

40.20% on Amazon seems too high if most of your sales are through FBA. My number on Amazon FBA is around 25%.

FBM return from a nice old grandma. Her grandson already had the set...U Wing returned in 2 Trader Joe's bags taped together. Surprisingly mostly ok. Just a little ding on one end.