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was reading amazon seller forum, and to be fair - posts started appearing about 3 months ago when sellers were reporting that they were unable to apply to sell Lego: Here And here So seems like those were early signs of Lego becoming hard gated. Then 2 months ago first reports started to come about sellers, who already were selling, having had their ASINs deactivated/gated So it is possible that Lego started to apply similar way of policing its brand - like Adidas or Hugo Boss - when you need to be on brand's "white list" to keep selling, rather than simply being ungated (for Adidas in UK for example, Adidas "ungates" you by sending your info to Amazon). Question is, how do you appear on their "white list"? I think it's similar in US - in UK there are almost no LEGO brand distributors. I only found two. One is toymasters - who is the biggest PITA on amazon, they always sell ALL retired sets and will undercut anyone on price. They have endless stock. They said they would only accept me as their customer if I have a b&m store. Thanks but no thanks. Another one was AIS - with my 6 figures annual turnover I was too small for them. And even these above guys, they may themselves have authorisation, but can they pass on that authorisation to their clients? Depending if Lego allows them to. Really hoping for some reversal of this stupid amazon action, but from reading forums seems unlikely...

I think I saw in this thread or on Amazon forum, email came from amazon.ca... This year I am actually liquidating all my LEGO position and already sent all stock to Amazon. Price isn't as high, too much competition, some fat whales here in UK who seem to have endless stock. Wonder if I shall just lower my prices and sell out. Or hold off for next 2 weeks and hope for the best

Really sorry to hear it's affecting many sellers! I wonder if this is on US amazon for now? Reading US forum, seems like similar happened to Funko few weeks ago...

Yes, it's only applicable to you if you have a cross-border setting enabled. That way Amazon can "buy" set from you and "sell" to someone based in EU or UK where this requirement is compulsory. If you do nothing and no one else provides country of origin for that ASIN, it will just get blocked from cross-border sales, without any other impact on your account.

Thanks for sharing Jim! I probably wouldn't be a lego reseller and certainly wouldn't be on Brickpicker if I didn't find your YT channel in 2020. As a total beginner at a time, I found your videos very helpful! 4 years later, still reselling and following your new channel!

How much feedback are you getting on Amazon? I get very few compared to eBay. Like, last 90 days I had 1314 orders, all FBA. Only got 3 feedbacks in that period. But when I compare myself to some big whales, they have like 50 feedbacks in last month, makes me feel so small😅😅

Really? I'd agree with previous post - mine are way faster compared to October. Pretty much next day after UPS collected they get checked-in Amazon warehouse. Not all, but most

Huge fan here! But Feb 24 is a long way!

Has it ever been on lists this year? I always assumed it would not retire this year. Not sure I saw it in any lists for 2023🤔

Some sets were probably overproduced, like 71748. But in general when it's 4-6 weeks or temporarily unavailable (75302 had been temporarily unavailable for 6 months), this is just a bug I believe - these sets will never be in stock. When you see Amazon EU selling stuff AND it's available, this can be Amazon's feature for FBA - there's a setting where you can allow Amazon to buy your stock and sell globally. Happens to my stock often, when I see Amazon as a buyer. So Amazon advertises listings and if someone buys, Amazon will pay some EU seller and use their stock to fulfil the order. Very occasionally though Amazon truly finds some old dusty stock and sell it themselves. I bought a few 21045 before Christmas and they were showing "Temporarily Out of Stock". Couple of days ago got email with estimated delivery in 2 weeks. Let's see... In UK pretty decent. Max 7-10 days to get it checked in, then further 5-10 days if stock being send to another warehouse. All my shipments (around 70) from beginning of August have been received in full

Hmmm may need to get more of the ones retiring this year on comparatively cheaper prices

Well done! I found that in Summer prices usually go down, so I list very few sets and have almost no sales. But I don't have old sets like yours, I usually hold for 18 months max and try to sell.

Same just happened to me couple of days ago. But in my case one warehouse received all 27 items I sent, then another random warehouse just records receipt as -1. Like how do they do it? A bit unsure what I would be required to do, as my shipment is still in "receiving" state.

I bought some from German seller, to be fair delivery was very quick. Just still don't get it about this set - is it somehow exclusive or what? I haven't seen in in SaH or in Lego store in London, or any other big retailer?

How are you going to display yours? I built mine when it was released, I love how it looks on my cupboard, but concerns grow about dust. And I just don't have that much spare cash to spend on display case😂😂