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Stopped by Mom and Pop’s Pharmacy for some 20% off goodness.

It's sad to see you go. We will all certainly miss everything that you have contributed with your two posts. 😐

turns out when i'm not slangin' brick, i'm essential. wtf. got round 1 of Pfizer covid 19 vaccine today. i feel very lucky. otherwise the same.

I would scoop up all that I could find a retail...no question

Some new Brickhead$ Brickheadz sets popping up on shop at home. new "Pets" subtheme - lots of possibilities there. and Chinese New Year Pandas

Probably not. Unrelated, can you send me address of this Walmart? TIA.

Picked up a complete no instructions or box 10262 Aston Martin DB5 for $105 shipped from EBay the other day. Was still looking for one to build and they were out of stock everywhere, I guess I happened to come across the listing just at the right time. Officially it would have been $120 shipped but I used my $15 coupon from switching to Managed Payments to bring the price down further. $5 for a manual from Bricklink, and just missing 1 LBG plate 1x1 (I've got plenty of those). While inventorying the set, I tried this for the first time. Probably also the last time

That fox was an easy lock based on previous elves performance. Easily the best animal of the last run in the series. I see it in the $250 range easy on eBay by next year. IMO Elves are some of the best sets Lego ever produced. I’ve built many of the sets to sell used and they are fantastic, technical, “girls” sets. Nothing compares. Trolls is a half hearted attempt to recreate which doesn’t cut it.

Time to break out the train. No big Xmas dinner this year or dinner parties so the wife granted the kids the use of the dining room table.

Hi everyone, I resell mostly SW sets (because it's the area I know most about) as a hobby. I use the income to fund my own lego purchases. I also design mocs for fun. Been checking out Brickpicker for a long time and while I'm not at the level of volume or dedication as many of you I do my best to make the most level headed decisions about my purchases - for resale that is - for personal use all logic is out the window! Glad to be here and to continue to learn the best methods to increase my margins!

Cantina back in stock at Kohls https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-4826663/email.jsp?om_mid=Partial_Shipment_Responsive&om_etid=f337e18636216d76199301cbf50a44077df22bd1077e6e5d97377ab5d5f6e7d9 2 left

To be fair to people saying goodbye - the forum is nice and all, but it was the Brickfolio that made Brickpicker the go-to site for LEGO investing. Lots of tangible data rather than just another forum where people share opinions. I'm still holding out hope, but even as an ardent supporter of this website - you've got to agree that it's missing a vital piece for much longer than anyone ever thought possible. I'm not going anywhere, but I see why people are frustrated and looking to other sites to support their investing habit.

it has in some parts of EU

retired in oz. still TOOS in US. this is reassuring. triceratops still hasn't retired anywhere - SOLD OUT in north america - TOOS in rest of world. triceratops retired in poland and a few other countries in eu. with the delay in the new JW motion picture i have been worried these could stick around longer if they ended up delaying the new sets based on the motion picture which isn't coming out until next year. the "Newman" minifigure from this set will be in demand after the Seinfeld ideas set gets released.

Honestly, how deep can you go on these knowing they are still cranking them out? And most likely some sort of remake is probably coming next year? Slap discolored and rust stickers on it a la Ecto-1.

Fixed that for you.

That was just your common sense. You are saving yourself from future headache. USPS is a dud no matter which service you use. Now, if you told them "are you sure?" on UPS 1 day airmail shipping...

I had one on a Harry Potter set a few days ago, but it was fixed and dropped off my dashboard. Then I got one of those emails today. I think it's just a delayed notification.

My Christmas conscience must be getting to me - I just sent an "are you sure" letter to a would be buyer who wants to not only pay a lot (for a small set), but also pay extra for Priority Express shipping.

I need a Razor Crest Microfighter

I better start selling!

I assume this thread will get locked or deleted, maybe brickfolio is back and I just can't find it but the last posted update was in August. Thanks

Treehouse at Walmart for 170 https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Ideas-Tree-House-21318/835634790?comm-msg-vehicle=EMAIL&comm-msg-id=88589e12-5a35-44e6-87a4-f4bc6fbcc957

Obi-Wan show set 10 years... after ... ROTJ? Only if he's force ghost Obi-Wan. How about 8 years after RotS and 11 years before ANH. https://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-disney-plus-obi-wan-kenobi-show-release-date-plot-cast-ewan-mcgregor-qui-gon-jinn/

Not really fussed either way tbh, but I don't think it's too much to ask that one of the Mackdaddies provide a brief Christmas update just to put the speculative chatter to bed.

All you people and your "War in the Stars" I don't get it.

Maybe just me, but I don't care for them. The Brickheadz line has zero playability. The draw of it is for collectors who want to collect their favorite licensed characters, yet is seems like the pets are aimed at kids. I think these will be about as good for resellers as the seasonal Brickheadz are, which isn't saying much. Of course, as a Brickheadz collector who has them all, except the rare SDCC ones, I will be buying 1 of each.

I was gated on some sets like Downtown Diner, Slave 1, Tantive IV, porsche 911. Sold a bunch of Lego last week and I just checked today and I'm now ungated in all these sets. Not sure if you have to hit a sales amount for the brand but like other say just keep going and you get ungated.

As we learned with the many non-UCS Millennium Falcons, AT-ATs, & ISDs since 2010, some fans don’t care & want to make up for missing out. I believe this Slave 1 will appreciate like crazy leading up to the reissue. Back in the day when I was big into selling, space would have been created to store 30 of these given the Disney+ circumstances. I only need to hold for 6-12 months after becoming permanent OOS. Granted, I wouldn’t have needed much space since my for sale sets were listed as “New/ No Box”.

Treehouse at Walmart 15% off https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Ideas-Tree-House-21318/835634790

you won't get the total 214.8 back . they will take out an administrative fee, which is a certain % capped at $5 .

Are you sure the email is legit ? Do you have any stranded units ? The violation itself , if true , won’t show for a day or two .

I put my money on Pre-Vizla Microfighter

My advice: send one more email expressing your sympathy with his situation but that there is nothing you can do. He can pay the import fees or refuse delivery, and you will refund once the package is back to you (with all the deductions yada yada). Then stop responding. The more you engage, the more he will try to make this your problem.

Some sets will fail to hit 100% ROI for sure, but others could blast past that many times over, helping the average. Example: I bought some 41194s (Elves) for £20 in clearance from Argos. Just sold the first of them for £160. After fees (£1 FVF thanks) and shipping, that's more like 600% ROI. Makes up for some of the turds one tends to be lumbered with. I also think that the absolute value of a set plays an important part. If I buy a set for £100 and end up making £150 back after fees, sure that's not great ROI but it's still £50 profit for one single set (that I only need to ship once). In contrast, if I buy some battle pack for £7.50 and get £12 after shipping and fees, that's a higher ROI but feels like a much bigger waste of my time.

Ok, you just sent me down a rabbit hole of the differences between PAB and BAP...I had wondered how city builders find enough BURPs to build mountains... Now I know.. I just feel so... ALIVE!!

How we all felt in that moment https://v.redd.it/g04g7wc7a3661

Yes. Christmas 2021

I check the prices a couple times a year. If a set is flat, I dump it after a year. Maybe it'll go up, but maybe it will be the next Birds, Exosuit, Women of NASA, etc... just taking up shelf space. If it climbed, but has since leveled off, also a good time to sell. Super Star Destroyer, Grand Emporium, etc... would be a good examples (ignoring what they did this past year). If it took off like a rocket with irrational exuberance, might want to pull the trigger quick -- I'm looking at you, Seacow. Everything else, is up to your cash flow needs. In my spreadsheet where I track all my sets, I have the sale price column and the date sold right next together. Most of my sales are on ebay and I list one set at a time, and I'll price the next set based on the trend that I'm seeing. It's depressing when I see sets selling for $350 two weeks before Christmas that were selling for $250 two weeks earlier. Ya, you'd wish you had held onto those sets and sold them later, but that's how the dice rolls sometimes. My solution is to "simply" stock enough sets that I can get some quick returns early, but also have the reserves to participate in the long game. For me, that means where I might have considered 10 of a set to be a good reserve with large diversification, now I'm looking at 30 to 50 in a smaller variety. Similarly, if it is going up, consider why. Is it FOMO driven -- if so, sell quick. Is it part of a long-term collectible series (winter holiday sets, architecture cityscapes) where new incoming participants want to catch up -- then it'll probably only continue to increase and you might want to hold longer. If it is part of a series that has been cancelled -- such as sets based on a particular movie -- then the demand might wane and you'll wish you had sold earlier. And then there are the classics -- look at the price history of 10223 or any of the 7040X castle sets. When you think of LEGO, how can you not think about Space and Castles? As long as LEGO doesn't introduce a new castle series, nostalgia will continue to drive these up and you should probably hold onto a couple of them. And then there is the exit plan. How much can a set go up after all? If it's already 5x its original MSRP like some of the castle sets, then do you cash out or keep betting? I don't know of many people who will say, "Oh, why did I sell for 400% profit when I could have made 900% profit?" You're more likely to hear, "Why didn't I take my 400% profit before LEGO decided to reissue the same set this year and now I only doubled my money?" It's a lot safer to take that 400% gain and reinvest it in the next set that might go up only 50%, but is not very likely to drop 50% after retirement. Also, at some point, folks will Bricklink a set if they are willing to spend 5x MSRP. I picked 5x just because that's a fairly extreme gain that not many sets will hit. Personally, if I have a set that has hit 3x MSRP on ebay, I'm more than happy to sell and never look back.

This is a picture of my city during a scenery switch back when adding service station modular. I don't yet have any city pics I'm super proud of just yet but may as well share anyway.

In the mean time I am working through some problems/opportunities. We will have trains, and I would prefer that they aren’t just on the first level. But... lego trains and inclines... so, my son and I were testing some solutions for adding a drive motor that would constantly run, but only engage when on the inclines... sort of like a cog railway. Video is too big... you can se it here: https://oneoriginalthing.com/2020/12/16/lego-cog-railway-and-mold-destruction/

Finished a 40289 last night. Nice little Harry Potter site. Already lost the light purple hat and had to use one from the 1960s Batcave set. D’oh. That hat is only in 3 sets.

The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances.

dammit! was going to get some brats and burgers going today.

Oh wow. I know what you mean. The same three folks work the front desk at my post office (which only has room for 3 people to stand in line with social distancing). All three are really pleasant. There’s one that also interacts with my 12 year old daughter when she does the drop off for me and then asks me about her when I do drop offs. I’d be pretty punched too.

I am in the same boat. I would have backed it up if I knew it was going to be down for this long.

just tell her to open AZ claim with INR as the reason, as long as you bought shipping from amazon you are good

hmmm... walking by display in store when i noticed one of these is not like the other.... $16 permasale price in tax free NH. later, the next morning...