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“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…”

As for operating with a single account to stay within the vendor’s technically-enforced limits, I believe this is the current state of things. Cliff notes: you’ll be fine as long as you don’t go on a spending spree at Target.com, and try not to bring attention to your buying patterns by dealing with online customer service for small gripes that can be dealt with in store instead. Target - the easiest place to get banned based simply on purchase volume online and the most aggressive against resellers in store — employees trained to identify resellers loading up carts for example. Can still use red card in store after online ban, but using with a new email account will result in repeat ban — start receiving auto cancellations and email about possible issues including payment purchase method. Some people have bans lifted after a period in timeout. Others indefinitely. The amount of purchases that may identify you as a reseller and get a ban? One data point: I have been unable to purchase online going on 18 months now after two months of $5k purchases on the red card. Same red card still works fine in store. LEGO shop at home — with the purchase limits mechanics implemented a few years ago, it is much more difficult to get the SAH ban hammer. If you exceed a limit on any item based on past purchases of the same item, they will cancel your entire order. Be warned that if they cancel an order with a VIP Rewards purchase, the reward is not automatically credited back to your account. Also, if they cancel an item due to inventory issues, the system still tracks it as qty purchased. Qty purchased in brick and mortar stores that are purchased with VIP accounts are not counted towards SAH limits and and limits in store are done at the individual store’s discretion. If you do have to call customer service to resolve an issue, they do have easy visibility to all of your previous orders and will make comments about you “really liking LEGOs”. No indication that that is how the ban process starts, but unless you really have an issue that needs CS, might be best to just let the small things go. Amazon — shop away. Their limits are tracked to the second on a 168-hour FIFO. Limits apply and are tracked in that window only to items sold and shipped by Amazon.com. Buy as many third party items as you wish. Anecdotal stories of bans for excessive returns, but no clear information on the metrics used. Generally, probably best to save the returns for the really bad boxes. Creating multiple accounts will get noticed and is the quickest way to get the warning shot emails. Barnes and Noble — similar to LEGO, has a five qty per item lifetime limit online. Exceed that amount and just that item will be cancelled from the order. No reports of bans. In store purchases do not appear to be tied to online memberships as far as adding to your 5-count quantity. Walmart — most LEGO are limited to two per order, but they won’t say how often that limit is reset. Doing a couple of multiple limit orders in the same day has worked. Doing dozens has resulted in order cancellations of those specific items but no bans that I am aware of. Generally, I have found one limit order per day has never resulted in a cancellation. ShopDisney — some items have limits but they are selectively enforced. If you put in multiple limit orders at the same time, they might cancel those items. If you space them out, they will be fine. I ordered a dozen castles (limit one per customer) last year and they all went through. Sometimes two in two consecutive days. Costco — has item limits on some items, but I haven’t seen any on LEGOs. Even with items with limits, possible to space them out without issue. In store limits are usually “per day”. Best Buy — unsure on LEGO as I’ve never pushed the limits on them. In the past, I would make 50 purchases at a time of 2-dollar items that had limits and they would all go through. I have tried to make multiple purchases of Xbox consoles and those were cancelled. So YMMV. But no reports of bans. Anyways, those are my observations.

Assuming all goes well, we'll have a girl in 9 weeks. Yay LEGO!

The beautiful Diner was panned early on for not fitting the classic theme, and holds poor reviews today compared to older modulars. But it seems to have opened the door for sets that move away from the older, blander colored, sets. This would have been panned even harder than the diner had it been released first. My favorite line from the Brickset review: They can just go out to the sidewalk and pretend it's San Francisco Just drop some of these on the sidewalk

Here’s a look: https://www.brickfinder.net/2021/12/06/lego-boutique-hotel-10297-official-announcement/?fbclid=IwAR0AEh6U1SF54i9suVg1FrHfo2XXqZOjidPCsE0vOGAIdTQ5vDikrLV80Co

I remember when they had tons of these.

It would be too easy to offer suggestions if he provided all the details. It's more fun this way.

No replacement, have them return it

Spring Lantern Festival back in stock at LEGO Shop at Home. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/spring-lantern-festival-80107

40412 Hagrid / Buckbeak is being sold in LEGO stores for $19.99 if anyone missed.

The Facebook Marketplace local selling techniques mentioned here by terrymc4677 and others do work and thanks so much for sharing with us. I was able to sell three big City sets (very large sets to ship) this past weekend alone, two Rocket Assembly & Transport sets and one Downtown Fire Brigade along with multiple Harvester Transport sets (those in particular sold within hours after I posted them). I think I may keep my last one of those! It does take patience to get your asking/target price and as I was told, it does help to create multiple listings to generate interest and to let buyers know you are selling many sets. One buyer bought three sets from me with no negotiations needed. My tips are to include in a link in your listing to the Lego site (this helps to either let potential buyers know they are getting a good price or the set is retired) and to include/bundle a free item such as a polybag (we all seem to get them as GWPs). May I have success selling my Batcave Clayface Invasion sets this way too! This is a great community and I appreciate the selling advice! It does work!

I was thinking… if Bob Ross and the Joker had a love child… Sent from my iPhone

Therein lies the problem. I've basically committed to buying every future modular building until either I die or The LEGO Group stops making them. My opinion, therefore, doesn't matter. All LEGO has to do is put some technic pins at the side of any building they produce and I start twitching.

so you shipped it wrapped in brown paper?

The modular line jumped the shark with this one. Terrible design.

I think that this design really looks like the "conceptual" version of a larger build. I like Lego's recent focus on designing sets for the AFOL community. However, often times, I find Lego's desire to keep the MSRP manageable somewhat constraining. 10297 looks good but could be a lot more if expanded. I think that there's a meaningful revenue opportunity here for Lego. In addition to selling 10297 as is, Lego should also offer the instructions for an expanded version requiring 2 sets of the standard 10297. Doing so will most likely prompt me to double my standard modular holding for this set. This concept of offering "expansion instructions" could be extended to other AFOL-themes as well.

I really like the overall look of the hotel, but I can't help feel that the art gallery has compromised the ground floor. Without it, they could have had the receptionist by / under the stairs, and a café on the ground floor with an awning out to a patio area (with chairs, etc.) where the gallery sits. It might also have allowed for some bathroom facilities for the middle-floor plebeians. LEGO modular designers just seem to have ADHD recently, where they can't design just one building, and instead have to cram something else in even if it doesn't quite make sense (see Brick Bank for the worst example).

Yes, even (American) football fans agree:

LEGO Creator Expert Gingerbread House Building Kit 10267 - back in stock - in for 3 :0

Yup. I've talked to other parents saying they can't bear to hear their kids cry. I always reply by saying, you'll be better parents for it. You can't be a good parent when you're exhausted.

Currently started sleep training my daughter using the graduated extinction method. This is kinda traumatic... Sent from my Pixel 3a XL using Tapatalk

i'll take the contrarian view. bought at 30-50% discount, you can expect reasonable returns. i have sold both of the last iterations of the fire station and police station for 2.5 x msrp ($250) in early 2020. currently 60110 is going for $400+. 60005 $369. 60141 $260. some of the weird police stations like prisoner island or swamp police station do even better. the retiring fire builds downtown brigade and fire station are going to do very well. duplo fire station will also be seriously easy money. retiring police station is weaker than previous iterations more like a juniors 4+ set but will still break $200 within a year. i wouldn't have believed that people would spend 2.5x msrp for a retired fire or police station until i sold a couple dozen. i had over 80x Duplo Mickey Minnie Birthday parade trains last year - then they released the exact set + a pluto figure. i thought i was doomed but they are moving over 3x my buyin over the msrp of the new set. same with 10812 excavator duplo - it retired i had over 120x. they re-released the same thing 10931. i sold my last 3 10812 for $69 today - buyin $15. i would never have guessed these 2 positions would work out profitably given the remake. unless you are talking about an exact remake like creator expert taj mahal i don't think these newer city variants do much damage to prior version price performance.

As far as my parents knew, i never cursed either, but around my friends, to quote a Christmas Story, I "worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay."

A few days ago, but I took my daughter to the Illinois Railway Museum in northern IL- the largest railroad museum in the US. Highly recommended! Awesome opportunities for photographing upcoming MOCs. Sent from my moto g power (2021) using Tapatalk

Every year during Target's buy 2 video games get a $50 gc deal week, Amazon and Walmart drop the price of the latest Just Dance video game for the switch. This year they are $29.83 from Walmart... Target price match and still get the $50 gc. So 2x new switch games that sell for about $30 each on Ebay for about $10. Every year this happens. Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

Shark was jumped a long time ago with the Downtown Diner.

And about 20 of these to re-enact the "flash mob"

Are you FBM?

Idk. My wife loves to tell the story of “the night of six diapers” with my daughter. Six diapers in one diaper change.

LEGO could have delivered another boring corner...this is not that. I think they did a great job keeping it fresh.

Supposed to be done. Along with TIE fighter. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

for whatever reason, amazon does not seem to be enforcing weekly limits on $40.49 stormtrooper helmet. i have been able to order 3x a day now for the last 3 days. the first 2 orders have shipped. ymmv.

Based on my experience, make the 2nd child a daughter.

OMG, i sold mine for $75... unbelievable

Not sure if I'm a fan of the color variations separating each level. Each individual level looks appealing but together seem to make it look busy and lose the "flow". Could be that it's just a different concept than we're used to from previous modulars. The scale of the outdoor area and stairs compared to the rest of the modular does look a little "weird" as well.

If you have one account order as much as Amazon allows. Purchase limits change if pricing changes -- hence you are sometimes allowed to order more sooner.

I had a bunch of those freebie Palps. Was considered a turd at the time, no one wanted it. FAO was great while it lasted.

those ppl most likely have multiple accounts.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/clone-trooper-command-station-40558 Another "coming soon" battle pack sized set listed on the official store website. This set only has three unnamed clones though.

Palpatine's Arrest at TRU? They had some crazy deals back in the day

We did the same for both our kids (now 13 and 9) and my big advice to you is to stick with it. It's real tough, but no matter how much she cries, you can't pick her up. The first night we tried it with our oldest, she cried for 90 mins straight, and we broke down and picked her up. Fast forward a couple of months of sleepness nights where she woke up every couple of hours, our exhausted selves decided to try again. This time, no matter what, we decided to stick to the plan and not pick her up at all. It was excruciating but we supported each other through it. After four nights, it was done. She fell asleep on her own every night since then. Good luck!

Godspeed. My youngest daughter is 21 months old, and she didn't consistently sleep through the night until she was 14 months. She would scream herself to the point where she was hyperventilating, so sleep training was on her terms. The plus side of only a few hours of sleep a night mixed with numerous bottle feedings was that I was able to make time for TV shows, which is not something that normally fits in my schedule. Watched a lot of Narcos and hoped my daughter's first words wouldn't be Spanish curse words.

Not sure what's worse.... Counterfeit sets or all the people buying these. Prices too good, 3rd party sellers. If the people on this site are buying them, grandmas and parents across the country have probably spent hundreds of thousands on these. China wins again.

So the designer of CITF who originally reported to BL that people were selling his model on eBay is now selling his signed copy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-bricklink-castle-castle-910001-box-signed-by-designer-/275052599075?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=709-127639-2357-0

He can't handle all of the taxes on his end. You still owe tax on whatever income you receive from selling on Amazon. Maybe you're selling at a low enough level where that income can fly under the radar, but if there is money flowing into your accounts whether through Paypal F&F, Paypal goods & services, ACH, wire transfer, deposit, etc., the IRS considers that income and expects you to report it and pay tax on it. As to your original question, in addition to the question above about the value of your time, whether or not to get your own account depends on what your plans for the future are. If you're only wanting to sell a little bit of inventory here and there, your current arrangement may make sense. However, if you plan on growing your sales and trying to generate real money from selling on Amazon, I would definitely recommend getting your own account and handling things yourself. If you are selling through someone else, you have given up control over pretty important aspects of your business and placed your fate, to one degree or another, in the hands of someone else. If that person doesn't follow your directions and prices things too low, you lose money. If that person screws something important up, you lose money. If that person decides that something is more important than selling your inventory, you lose money. If that person decides not to pay you, what recourse would you have to get your money? Etc. Etc. If you are going to sell through someone else, I would make absolutely certain that you can trust that person to follow through on whatever arrangement you have with them.

Price match them to their online prices. Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

Words lose their power with over use. Remember when extreme was extreme, now deodorant is extreme. Use to be when someone was dropping the f-bomb, s—- was happening. Now, I don’t even look up.

Profanity is the linguistic crutch for the inarticulate motherf###er. -Unknown

They priced it for rich AFOLs who need to fill up their $800 AT-AT with troops.