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Placed a $35.64 order free shipping with Target. They offered a $1 discount to combine shipments, then proceeded to charge me $5.99 shipping as my total was now less that $35. :facepalm: Sent from my SM-A326U1 using Tapatalk

10 left gogogogogog $23.30 https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/234700819

This isn't a gangbuster set but, according to Amazon, it sells steadily for about $45-60 since retirement. I'll be putting them in my BrickLink store where, about 3x a year, a Chinese buyer will clear out all of my Duplo and have me send it to a pallet shipper. I assume, to go to China. For some reason, 65-70% of my Duplo sales are to shippers like this or to US based buyers with Chinese names.

Triceracop by Dan Rubin

yea the mocs and original design are safe but many (most?) of the myriad of KO Flego companies crank out both. I'd wager most of the $$$ amount of flego bought is going towards illegal replicas... Lego legal probably doesnt feel its worth their time but with the economy plateauing and lego income post peak, they may well start to crack down. In fact, I'm extremely surprised they haven't already given the blatant and widespread availability of the clones. Begun, the clone wars have...

After more than 3 months, I was able to get all of my stock returned. It took more than a month to get any response at all, after pinging through every contact I had there multiple times. It then took more than 2 months to have them set up a return. And even at that point I had no idea things were going to come back. Eventually I had a ****-ton of stuff delivered randomly. I had couple dozen smaller items missing, but I assume they sold and got credited to someone else.... as it wasn't uncommon for me to have random items I never sent in credited to me, so I'll call it a wash. I also had one item returned that I never sent them. I didn't overdo it there like some people, but still tens of thousands of inventory over the years. 53% was the total lost to fees through them. This includes platform fees, vendor fees, storage, and shipping. Gross profit after fees was 99.4%, which is nothing to complain about at face value. But while not having control of your stock, many items missed prime selling windows. Looking at my spreadsheets, profit would have been at least 2.5x higher selling on my own, and much higher on a lot of items that missed their big bumps. I think they had a fine idea that grew too fast because they accepted too many people in before having the logistics figured out. Then moving all the inventory to another state just compounded things and it all collapsed from there.

I received two Coruscant Guard Gunships today from Macy's. For those wondering how they ship, they shipped these two large sets together in a large poly mailer, ala Kohls. Luckily there was only a few marks on the boxes. I won't be ordering from Macy's again.

We really do nothing to stop it, We even let them trade on the stock market