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Here it is folks...Green Lantern is finally getting his own set. Green Lantern vs. Sinestro (76025) (guest starring Batman)

I've made several of the cheese variety and they are delicious.

All is well. He got back to me saying never mind it was ok and the slice wasn't that bad. I sent a $5 refund anyway.

for the ******-th time in last few weeks.... wait a few hours - they dude on a moped got stuck in traffic

Guy on the moped came in. Ship date Aug 4

It's funny to think about though.. Target bigwig: "Johnson! What's the status on our inflated GEs?! We need the profits from those sales to keep our produce and bedsheets alive! Smith! You better be refreshing that Shop at Home page if you wanna keep feeding your family! We're not getting caught with our price at $249 when that product status hits Available Now!"

Finally!!! That Batman is sweet too. They should put Batman in a Friends set, casual weekend shopping Batman at the Heartlake Mall.

Yes, I do sell in sets. If I have multiples of a set, why not combine them with another set to create another listing. (...one listing for each item plus a combined set listing.) I do not mark then down one cent b/c I am selling them as a set. Those who buy sets are typically people buying gift sets. (What are the chances you have the exact two sets a collector needs?) It also helps to sell in sets when you have cheap sets but dont want to sell them one at a time to make a few bucks at a time. Combine sets to make a listing worth your time. This approach also helps to make the shipping costs more affordable...who wants to pay 5 bucks for shipping on a 20 dollar item....7 bucks on 50 is more palpable to me as a consumer. Admins can lock this thread...my answer is correct and there really is no need for anymore discussion...Pickleboy has spoken.

Built the mini mini

Woot!

Did you use any "Magic" because I havent got mine yet

Here you have R2 without acne.. Jajaja Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NASA-Mars-Science-Laboratory-Curiosity-Rover-21104-Rare-Autographed-Set-/201133616417 trekgate! You have an autographed set?! Really awesome haha, will be amazing if that sells for such a premium

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I thought it might be fun to have a place to share pictures of the terrible ways we receive our sets (sarcastic thread title), whether it's pancaked sets, oversized boxes, etc. I'll start with my SSDs that arrived a couple days ago: Enormous box: Three sets inside, with no packaging material. Third set is underneath the top two, and was crushed with all 4 seals popped: This box came to me today. What could be inside? A couple Death Stars? 60 Minecraft sets? Nope, just one HH and about a kilometer of air pouches: At least they actually padded this one, and I'll have enough pouches to last a while lol. But of course the set just had to have a hole on the back side...more returning to do. Curious to see others' photos

Ok, I think this mini-set deserves its own topic. I'm not sure that US members are all aware about its existence. Remember the classic LEGO Space

I worry so much about box condition, just open the set and build it. That's what Lego sets are made for in the first place.

I love this thread. I have a couple of these but haven't built one, this thread is not helping me keep this NISB. :-) Really surprised at the variety of colored pieces, looks weird during the build but I can see why they do it.

Yeah, I'm guessing you'd have to over pay for that in a trade. Plus, shipping Where have you been since 2011 ?

nothing left backordered for me ... all my Minis and GEs just shipped .... yay!!!

HA! Funny enough, I just got an email that my Mini shipped. If only I received such excellent service from the universe every time I ranted...

They didn't call, I checked out as guest so no staples account. I ordered it this morning.

Same here! Wow, things are looking up.

i get this stuff all the time. there is a reason why i order 10 at a time of the same set from amazon. use 8 for padding, keep the 2 good ones last time i got a petshop that fell of the truck, taped up all around inside a box that was missing the whole side. may be complete. building now, if not sending back... EDIT: had they only used extra tape all around, the boxes would stay together and wouldnt fold/crush as much

Update from Danny's Mom via Facebook: I posted a photo album of all the pictures from today! It took 12 of us to fill up 5 vehicles of cards and packages!!! Danny was so excited and was smiling the whole time. We got to the post office at 4:30 because today was a chemo day and we were in Boston so we got home right in time for the post office!! Danny did great at chemo today, Matthew and Nana came with us. He was full of energy all day and so happy! He played dress up, did music therapy, and played with the play food! We are so incredible blessed by all the love that everyone is showing us! We never thought one small article to the news paper was going to turn into a world wide story for our little hero! We truly cant believe all of the mail that we have received! Thank you everyone! We will be posting more pictures of Danny with all of his cards soon!! And sorry for this being such a late update! I am finally finding 5 minutes to sit and be on the computer! We have been running crazy all day! Love to you all! Goodnight! https://www.facebook.com/dannyswarriors/photos_stream I hope his mom will realize that with such a wonderful response to Danny, maybe Danny can spread the love and give to other children less fortunate. That is a ton (might even be literal) of stuff.

That is what the GE will be doing for the next two to three months. Then Lego will have a lot of them available for purchase during Black Friday, and then it will be officially retired.

Receiving damaged items from retailers is one of the most frustrating aspects of reselling. I receive damaged items way too often. Most retailers will send you a free label to return damaged items.

Not too shabby. Someone here on my local area has been trying to sell a sealed set on Craigslist for $230 for some time now. I just picked up Lord Business Evil Lair and Super Cycle Chase via a trade for two Umbaran MHC's (which I got 50% off at Target) plus a couple of CMF's. They're going into my collection.

He sells on Ebay Germany. So i think, that

It warms my heart to read about all the support for this one child. I couldn't avoid thinking about my own son and I cried a little from it. We worked so hard to find him. He has only been in our lives since Feb. Imagining what his mom and others are feeling bring sadness and terror into my soul. I would like to find an already established non-profit and share my passion for Lego with them. Thru donations and proper investing techniques there would enough Lego for all kids like Danny.

Target is a very big company that sells lots of stuff. However, they do not actually earn a lot of money. Their profit margin, last time I checked, was about 4%. I don't know what Target pays for a GE, but let's say it's half MSRP, or $75. So, before expenses, free shipping, etc., they make $75 if you buy one at $150. In reality, because they have lots of fixed and marginal costs, their profit is probably more like $10 or $20. But instead, let's say you buy a GE at $250 because you can't get them at MSRP anywhere. Target surely does track competitor's prices, and it may also track an item's wholesale availability (or lack thereof) from Lego. In any case, if you buy the GE for $250 (and since they go in and out of stock at Target.com, some people surely do), Target gets that additional $100. They get all of it (minus a low single digits percentage lost to VISA or MasterCard) as profit, because there are no additional expenses -- they still have just the one set to pack and ship, etc. So Target has made as much from selling one GE at $250 as they made selling 10 or 20 at $150. In the case of some other items mentioned, such as clothing or (especially) food, the difference is even greater. What I'm saying is that extra $100 of revenue from sale of a marked-up $250 GE contains as much profit as perhaps $1000 worth of MSRP-priced lego sets, or literally $10,000 worth of food (where Target's margin is more like 1%). I used to own Target stock and pore over their earnings reports, but anyone interested can confirm all of this by requesting a prospectus from the company (ok, anyone REALLY interested). The point being that this extra revenue from Target's "lego investing" has an outsized impact on the company's profits, and I would expect to see more of it in the future, and even Wal-Mart and Amazon joining in under similar circumstances (I would also expect the same to become standard practice in dealing with any other toy that appreciates in value post-EOL). I think we'll increasingly find that when only one online retailer stocks an item, unless that retailer is LEGO Shop at Home, we won't be able to rely on still obtaining sets at MSRP.

You do keep your potato peel, right?

I check every 37 seconds on the off chance that someone lists a Rover at msrp. Unfortunately it hasn't worked out yet. Glad to hear you have another for yourself, having that is pretty special and definitely something to keep

A Billion dollar company that makes their money from clothing, food, and furniture doesn't care about Lego sets. It's not even .001% of their sales. They sell more of their other toys than Lego day in and day. What they have is millions in proprietary software similar to what Amazon/ToysRus/Walmart use that automatically adjusts prices, stock, and inventory on their website and Ebay site. These online venues have little to do with in store pricing.

I'm not a big fan of coupon stacking either, but once again, if a store allows it, how can you argue the point? I think what bothers me is my own psychotic internal dilemma on similar matters. It really has nothing to do with others, it is a battle within my psyche as to whether I should open my mouth to save money or possibly waste time and/or embarrass myself. It is not illegal, so what's the big deal you say? In my distorted view of the world, I find such methods tacky. This coming from a man who wants a new pair of orange Jordan XX9 sneakers come September 6th for $225. That is tacky. :-) Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

It's pretty incredible anything thinks that Target adds anything of note to their bottom line from selling a few Lego items... In fact they probably don't even know their Lego sales exist other than algorithm's automatically changing the price to correspond with apps pre-set weeks in advance. They probably have one MBA guy running their Ebay page and that's about it. A few thousand in retired toys means nothing to them, they care about their billion dollar clothing lines and produce sections, not about making an extra hundred dollars..

I bought 2 SSDs from Target two weeks ago for $499 each. I took them back to Target today to see if they would price match Walmart.com and they said yes. They allowed me to return both and then allowed me to repurchase for $399 each. Woohoo. Also Target at Tanforan San Bruno CA had two more 70404 Castles for $15.04 each, bought both.

TO ME, this looked like poor coding on Target part. I doubt their current floating price practice was done intentionally. They most likely lose the based price point once LEGO put the set to retirement or on long OOS status and ran whatever price comparison algorithm they had. They should have added some kind of ceiling logic to that floating price (so it would not go higher than 1.5x Target's average price from the past 90 days for example).

TIME OUT I already cop-ed to the offense in this thread and PMed Jeff and Ed an apology, but since this is spiraling out of control I want to address it head on. In the past when someone has asked for numbers Jeff has jumped and provided them. Since someone asked this morning I figured Jeff would run a report. So I thought it would be cute to leave an inside joke easter egg for him to find. I added 800+ GE to my portfolio with a note "Totally not fake". I expected he would see it, giggle, exclude the amount and that would be the end. After seeing the firestorm this has created I completely understand why Ed threw down the warning. I am truly sorry for the out of control discussion this has caused. It was supposed to be a little inside joke and it's spun way out of control. I messed up, I take responsibility, so if anyone is upset about this topic you can direct it at me. I appreciate that Jeff and Ed are protective of the data and try to at least bring sanity to what can sometimes be an insane forum. Please, for the love of god, let the bad data topic die. TIME IN

Please..not data from Ed or Jeff.. ..Random, chaotic speculation is better

There are 32 bags (30 numbered) inside the three boxes. [emoji1]

Is there a badge available for reading through this entire thread? If so I would like mine now. Please and thank you. Carry on.

With the extra 2x4s and 1x4 flat tiles Lego sent me, I made my model's roof extra sturdy. Even the fragile roof is t too bad anymore. Four 2x4s in the front and one 1x4 at the very rear. Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

Are you sure that that is chocolate?

The Xmas sets giveaways have 2011 on them, don't know if that is what you meant, the logo is similar but I do not think it is the same.

........Walmart

Here's what I use for my stuff. Any column in red needs the information added manually. Any column header in black has a formula that does the calculation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7k5czfn704cuu8/LEGO%20Template.xlsx Couple things...far to the right hand side is where I keep track of individual sales (I have mine broken up 2012, 2013 and 2014). It's very important to enter each sale individually because every time you add a sale to a set's row, the "count" function is used to deduct exactly 1 from remaining inventory. So if you sell 2 same sets in one transaction and try to enter it that way, your final numbers will be off because the spreadsheet thinks you only sold 1 item, not 2. Hope that makes sense. After you've entered in sales data, the profit, etc will also be updated automatically in the middle columns. The tabs near the bottom are used for: ROI keeping track of $ amount spent to purchase sets on a specific date (I used to just update the Main tab's cost column, but it's easier to track this way) quantity of sets purchased on a specific date (again, same as above...Main tab's columns will adjust based on info entered here) supply and operating costs storage unit info (my way of knowing what I have on hand when selling) and finally Brickpicker data which can be manually copied and pasted into that tab from the export of your brickfolio. The only thing you have to do is take out the "-1" after each set number to allow the brickpicker columns on the Main tab to find the info under the Brickpicker tab and calculate them correctly (unrealized gain, etc)....or if you don't want to do that each time, you can add a -1 (or -2, etc...whatever the number is for the brickfolio export) to set #'s in the rest of the spreadsheet...that way would make more sense since it results in no extra work like I currently have to do everytime I update the brickpicker tab to the newest month's numbers Again, LEGO Set # is the ID that connects all the information across the different tabs, so they all need to be exactly identical (whether that's with a -1 or without) for the formulas to work correctly.

some updates since i last posted. Wonder-woman is confirmed for Man of Unsteel 2 along with 'Mark Zuckerberg' and Ben-Bat. http://variety.com/2013/film/news/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-batman-vs-superman-1200918310/ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20782047,00.html all 3 minifigs in this set will be in the film With the recent wave of lego retirements, i think retailers who restocked this set are on their last batch. i do anticipate it to be retired very soon. i think this set is also still around due to Supes and W-Woman playing a role in The Lego movie. My April 2015 price targets are now different as the movie appears to have been pushed back to May 2016. I now plan to hold onto this set for nearly 2 years after retirement. Hopefully, that means a 1Q 2016 sale (Jan to March). At least a $100 isn't far-fetched- the key is to unload the set before the MOS 2 sets appear.