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somehow that doesn't surprise me. Also assume you still have your first garage kept...

lego aisles in store are so empty right now mass returns might be a like a miraculous restocking.

Bought my dream car this summer - Tesla Model 3. Love every minute driving that car. A bit more expensive than $15k though ... but LEGO pays the bills

I have had friends tell me that what I do would make a great news story. I always remind them of the first rule of Fight Club and the first lesson that we got from Disco Stu:

Very nice Phil! We were in the market for our very first fun car last year, and I wanted a Tesla, but my wife hates them. They're everywhere here in the SF Bay Area. We've had practical cars our entire lives (Civic, Accord, Prius, Murano), so we felt we deserved a fun one. We bought a used M4 hard-top convertible and have been loving it since.

Knowing LEGO they'll hit us with this...

Plan late and disorganize, you still might do fine.

Okay, don't mean to brag, but... No wait, strike that, I'm definitely going to brag.

2009 Camry and 2006 Sienna on the driveway, now relegated to waiting for the kids to hit driving age (or Corona to end) in the next year. Great solid cars. But my Tesla (see above) gets all the current love

I drive a Nissan Pathfinder. It’s does what it need to, but I’ve not been *happy* with it since I bought it. It’s all plastic, and those plastic pieces break all the time. Earlier this year, my wife and I got our dream car - a Volkswagen Beetle Diesel Convertible. We used to both drive Beetles years ago, before kids. But she didn’t have a convertible and I didn’t have a diesel. So best of both.

Evidence once again why resellers are so hated by retailers.

Lol, i love kohl’s. They give no bleeps. “Send out the LEGO, we got sales to get in before Christmas.”

Kohl's has a restock on some bigger sets and new sets this am... NES, Cantina, Elf Club etc

I drive a truck, I've only had 3 vehicles and I'm approaching 50.

I've got a 2004 Camry that's still going strong. However, I work from home so its just an errand car. For everything bigger then a trip down the street we use my wifes 2012 Sienna.

Second round of retirements up on Poland lego site, some highlights below

There is always a corner set available. So far the sets have released in this order: Corner, Straight, Straight, Corner, Straight, Straight, Corner, Straight, Straight, Corner, Straight, Straight, Corner, Straight, Straight So a corner building next year. Garage is toast. They're overdue for a double retirement. But AS sells too well to kill it off... so Garage will likely go alone. The buy in on it isn't great, but it will have as long of a life as Brick Bank/Downtown Diner has. Which were only on the shelves ~3 months longer than the Town Hall.

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I won't say I haven't considered this on 1 or 2 items; but a plan to buy 11 and then return them is bad form.

Well that sucks. But hopefully they had plans for all four of those ideas, and were just using this to assign number 150.

Welcome... you are now officially hated by a large chunk of the Lego fanbase. I've found that Mos Eisley is pretty easy to move locally, at a higher profit margin. As after fees, shipping, and your buy in... you end up clearing about 15-20% over RRP. You can move these at $450 locally, which is a higher profit and no risk of returns.

Kohls is adding new sets to their inventory and doesn't care about street dates because they want to sell toys.

Selling small Speed Champions or Brickheadz for $50 - $60 and paying $5-$8 for shipping sounds good to me.

In that context, I meant "buy more than 2". I've found it's much easier to sell through 20 of one set than 2 each of 10 different sets. The challenge is to pick the 'right' set. Buying 2 each of ten is more likely to find a winner, but then you only have 2 of them.

That explains why you still have a link to yoyo in your signature ?

Scroll through the list of discounted sets at Best Buy, there are some decent deals. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/toys/building-blocks-sets/pcmcat250300050002.c?id=pcmcat250300050002&qp=brand_facet%3DBrand~LEGO^percentdiscount_facet%3DDiscount~All Discounted Items

It's not a job it's a hobby. If we had some warning, I would have backed it up for sure.

brickset says the whole minecraft theme is also retired including all the new sets if you go by the availability at shop at home. of course its not. anytime a set goes oos at shop at home it shows up lego.com availability with a "final" date which is bs.

Seems kinda derivative. How about "Starkiller Base?"

Gonna have a new iteration of the death star!

Saw that too. Is $276.99 but they put $176.99 in their email. I wonder how many pickers tried to rush to place their order like I did.

Typically 3-4 modulars available at any given time..

I appreciated hearing this earlier this year, even though it stung at the time. Now I only buy what I plan to keep unless the set is just trashed. I've had really good luck with that recently, surprisingly so. After putting myself in other shoes I saw how it really does put you in a questionable spot to return multiple sets. It actually helps me quite a bit. Meaning that if I'm ever tempted to buy a dozen of a single set, but I have that feeling or false comfort that "oh I can just return em if it doesn't pan out" then that means it's probably not a good buy in to begin with. I was either hoping for a better price or an unrealistic future value. Worst case is not that you can return it, but rather, most Lego sets will rise in value eventually so you just have to hold it until after it retires.

This is what I was referring to in the Target is on to us thread. Seconding the mass return is not cool.

Weird. Last week I sold 2 for $89.99 and 1 for $94.49. They need more transparency in this price rule stuff.

I believe there is also a velocity component to the metric. I was blocked on one item when I tried to double the price. I set the quantity to zero (MF / FBM), and then slowly raised the price by ~$5 increments every few days. After a week or so, I hit my price target and then set the quantity to non-zero.

Can't see a Canadian flag on his profile pic in Tapatalk. Just shows the default pic.

Hi all, Don't know if this is the right place to post this. But I just made my very first sale! Flipped a Mos Eisley for $501 on eBay. I started out with an investment of $2,000 to get my feet wet and explore this as a hobby. I'll report back with all my noobie mistakes and ROI when I've sold them all!

Not sure who Len is; clearly that reads Will. Will’s motto: you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you have to pick the most trashed LEGO box first...

down to 514, thats a nice bunch of reseller scum stocking up. Can we pull a razor crest guys?

Darndest thing..every time I sell a Razor Crest a few hours later a new one arrives at my door

I know Len...well I knew Len... ...no one really talks about Len anymore...you know...since the accident

Hmm, hasn't LEGO been looking for a reason to introduce Trans-Brown? This could have been it.

I have been having problems with Ohio, too (I live in Northern Illinois, so not exactly a coast-to-coast affair). And the number of people who have mentioned how concerned they are because what they bought from me is their kids' only Christmas present makes me think I must be rivaling Santa at this point for the number of children relying on me for a good Christmas. "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care In hopes a scumbag reseller's items would show up there." Luckily, I think the items should make it fine as the ones that are still held up are from November. During the first week of December, I started warning people who wanted to ship with USPS, so hopefully they remember those conversations come December 24th.

Unikitty Dr Fox Laboratory 41454 for $40. It truly is a magical time of year.

Instead of the slave 1 from target that I ordered, I got a box of baby wipes...😠

Hello Brick Pickers, We are happy to announce our pre-order of the next collectible minifigures series! As always, here is a special price just for Brick Picker and Brickset members. Box of 36 = $146 Complete Set of 12= $54 Shipping is FREE within the US. ($25 for box and $10 for sets internationally.) Pre-order ships late January. Please PM with your PayPal email address and we will invoice you promptly. Happy building, Jon

I haven’t seen anything with those numbers. I remember when the second series came out, there was a big gap in numbers that was eventually back filled. My list goes up to 114. Given the recent contest to pick Brickheadz #150, it looks like we will be getting quite a few more.

I started with this pile of used bulk. Bathed in it for a few years, and to this day, still haven’t sorted it all out. I did get a table for sorting though, so I have that going for me now.

Applying the Mario Bros cartridge sticker is going to give me major anxiety.