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FBM is completely different beast than FBA. If selling is a video game, FBA is like fighting mid level bosses. They are kind of tough but you can predict when they come. On the other hand, FBM is like fighting little peons. They are not that hard but they come in groups, wave after wave after wave. After about 100 of those, you start questioning your choices in life.

Rumors are that the along with their change in packaging from plastic to paper, Lego is taking an ecologically sensitive approach to the diner as well. The revamped Diner will feature more vegan options including Impossible burgers. That's all I can say at the moment. Stay tuned.

LEGO HP Book of Monsters available as a GWP at Barnes & Noble (you read that right) with a $75+ requirement in HP sets: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/free-lego-harry-potter-book-of-monsters Edit: Online only - 1 per Billing Address

i have been prepacking since the beginning of October. I have over 700 sets prepacked, taped, all they need is the rollo to spit out the label and slap it on. should have 1000 packed by Friday with the last big push coming up. going to have my first five figure sales day.

You definitely need too ask before you put your Dickens in the back...

it was $79.99 at target morning of March 27, 2018. i got in a few orders. was able to unload during the stay at home in April for $400-440 fbm. back to speculating -

There goes the neighborhood List of eligible items: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/lego-harry-potter/building-lego/_/N-2r1qZ1hmc?Nrpp=40&page=1

thats when you know you made it... got that call before . it is worse when she only sends a pic with no comment.

my biggest fear is all my Target orders arrive at the same time from individual Target stores building a wall of packages and bags on the porch...w/ a very, very angry wife on the other side unable to get thru.

Everytime I dip my toes back into FBM, it takes about 5 orders before I remember why I hate it.

Ordered the express train... once the train retires (who knows when) it will sell for massive $$$... i have been stocking up on them whenever i’m in a bind for a GWP

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Sith Art backordered but Fiat and 3 freebies arrived...

i am 100% fbm this year and many listings, the lowest price FBA shows the item arriving in early January - whether or not this is accurate this is what the buyer is seeing. starting to hit some out of the money prices on sets just because my shipping time is favorable. so if you are selling FBM, you aren't competing on price alone, you're really starting to compete on "will my item arrive in time for holidays or not" with some of the lower priced fba sellers. something to think about when you contemplating undercutting lowest fba to make a sale - its not necessary .

Whatever you guys. I totally have $65 Classic Batcaves.

The address ban was from earlier this year, July, when i was flipping sets on Amazon. The volume was 7-8 orders on 3 accounts a day. With orders under 300-400$. Relatively minimal, considering two years ago I placed orders for 600 Iron Golems, 120 B Wings, 600 Sh*tter Robots, etc. I suspect my accounts were flagged from high volume last Christmas. Target has a fraud team according to customer service rep's i spoke to on the phone, who research and determine reseller activity. It's pretty hard to avoid being spotted if you are a mid sized reseller. Imagine the number of people who buy over 5000$ of Lego from Target, 10K from Target, 20k? Run a query and you can see the top 100 people who ordered Lego from Target. Target has more aggressively filtered "fraudulent addresses" as well. I'd open multiple accounts with variant addresses. Sometime in the summer Target data corrected all my variants to the USPS standard address (probably another reason I was flagged). This spring I'm going to setup a more robust method for buyer account protection to maintain longevity in this business. Companies are going to continue to become more and more strict. They will begin to get smarter as well. With the improvements in capturing data and data processing, fraud or unwanted buyers are very easy to spot.

When you see it going for upwards of $90 on Ebay though, it's all relative Dr. Muscle

Let the games begin

That's definitely a perk with Kohl's cancellations.

Get to buy some LEGO with that cash! May not be a terrible deal in the end. Last time Walmart stocked I was able to get 1 pretty easy (relatively), so I would definitely try that on the 25th. Yesterday at Best Buy it was similar but not sure if they will restock for BF. The queuing system they implemented worked pretty well I think.

As most of our wives call that Tuesday

And unfortunately, most everything is out of stock....but it pairs well with the Astronomy Tower.....

here's the new piece of information...LEGO realizes that they don't actually need to hold to some archaic standard of "production capabilities"..."Perceived Scarcity is good for business; the new players are "Preorder Peter": Great forecaster of a popularity and killer of early scarcity...the hero of fans who detest waiting in lines and spending money they haven't earned yet "TOOS Timmy": the great cry baby who allows LEGO to to keep 3x the "production capabilities" than past years...TOOS to perpetuity: TOOS Tim is the maker and breaker of Perceived Scarcity. LEGO Shop at Home's best friend.

makes no sense...on any level if re-releasing modulars was ever a plan...why Diner out of so many better possibilities? if it's laziness (logistical efficiency)...ie re-releasing a set that they can readily produce...but then why even retire it? it's not like LEGO made any kind of binding "promise"..and ofcourse plenty of examples of reneging on "hard to find" retiring soon" labels. This is not like the Saturn V which was brought back due to "popularity"...I don;t think that was ever "the plan" prior to Saturn's retirement. The ONLY reason I can think of is a strategic offensive against resellers

That's right! I ordered six I think and sold all locally for $150 in two days. Most asked if they were stolen.

That's because they're fulfilling from stores. Same thing happened during this same sale last year which ended up with lots of damaged sets.

Wonder if I can get a Dickens with that AS

nothing official released yet but from what it looks like would just be 20 off sets this year. Think the daily thing is a no go to avoid big crowds lining up daily with the rona. Stores got hit super hard this year on the early weekend. Like harder than BF hard. That's a hard dickens. Should know something mid week hopefully. Each year it gets closer and closer think last year was just a few days before.

Better than expected. And cute.

My mail carrier gives me a bunch of their "potato sack" style canvas bags and I fill those up and leave them at the door. Just print out the scan sheet from Amazon and it makes it much easier. It only took a few trips to the post office with 100 boxes for me to figure out a better system with pickups. Also only took my mail carrier a few days of picking up 100 boxes during peak COVID before she started leaving me bags to have ready for her.

From a Star wars fan perspective it was Painful to watch. From a LEGO resellers angle it was great product placement. The last of my Nebbies should arrive today. wish I had gone huge on the first secret listing but I did go big for an unconfirmed listing.

Sweaters be canon.

https://www.target.com/p/lego-star-wars-501st-legion-clone-troopers-building-kit-cool-action-set-for-creative-play-75280/-/A-78929993#lnk=sametab 20% target

I think a got a few of those $15 42009

Walgreens fulfilled the rest of my Advent Calendars (SW). No idea on their shipping habits.

I've only gotten cancellations when I exceed the limit of a set. My BN account is still set up for resale/tax exempt purchases so they clearly don't have a clear, firm policy against resellers.

I got banned from Target during their online clearance sale in October 2019. I placed one order for $16k and another for $5k. Both went through, but nothing after that until about a month ago when orders started flowing through again without issue.

Online only .

barnes and noble is one of the easiest places to get banned. does anyone know if the gwp is instore?

Online only though.

that explains your username

Bags!!

Cider?

Even if it sticks around another year will there be a better promo than this? Sure probably/maybe equalivant promo but what are chances for a BETTER deal? Slim. For those reading keep in eliminator is inquiring for personal build. I was lucky with low sale price for Pet Shop but with Covid I'm not sure I would risk it. Maybe I'm wrong... edit: Also noticing that in US the Teal Brick is sold out... so only promo available would be the Dicken's promo but still selling that lowers the price plus double VIP points.

The House of Chocolate by Lepralego

SAH is certain to have shortages for the month of December at this rate. I'm doing mostly FBM on Amazon.

I hate when I smash my dickens.

Got two new fosters from spca on Friday. They are just off the bottle, about six weeks old, two boys. Really friendly & outgoing. I'll have them until they are heavy enough for surgery (2lbs). Black cats always take longer to get adopted. These guys are so nice though, I think they will go quick.

Just sold a Lord of the Rings set to a buyer named Rohan. You can’t make this stuff up.

A least three set options from today's Mando episode alone. Without giving spoilers, the three I'm thinking of would all fall in the "ship or vehicle" categories. On a side note. I must compliment the writers / creators of the Mando series. I have seen more creativity in ship and vehicle design in the Mando series than the entire sequel trilogy added together.