So i was on Ebay and I was looking at an indiana jones the temple of doom set 7199 (99% complete no minifigs). it the auction was ending soon and had about a minute left. the current price was $19 so i figured i'll throw in something and see what happens. So on my phone i put in $21.09. But thanks to my LG phone or the ebay ap or maybe only slightly user error the "." did not take so my highest bid was $2109. I had to do a double take and I was like how can i stop this please NO ONE bid! Can i cancel? Oh man my wife is going to freak out that i bought a $2k lego set. as the seconds were counting down no bids but the last 10 seconds always have snipers. 5 seconds left boom bid for $50 but thanks to my $2k bid, i upped it to $51. finally it ended at $51 no one else bid thankfully. All in All not too bad, but that was pretty scary. so total with shipping was $60, now i need to find some minifigs to complete it.

 

Moral of the story check your final price before bidding, or learn to press the "." on a mobile phone.

Too many to list but, basically everything at or close to RRP as they've all been heavily discounted since or hanging on too long.

The worst:

71006 Simpsons House - Bought at RRP and is expected to perform badly. I hated the new show so I sold 2 at a £20 loss.

41007 Friends Pet Salon (and most other Friends sets) - Bought 20x at 50% off and sold 17x 2 years later at break even and 3x at a small loss.

21109 Exo Suit - Bought 10x at RRP and sold 8x for 40p total profit. Gave 1 away as a present and will soon give the last 1 away as no longer collectinh IDEAS.

10245 Santa's Workshop - Bought 1x at RRP and keeps coming back like a dose of a nasty disease.

21102 Minecraft Forest - Bought 5x at RRP and tanked soon after EOL and never recovered - I missed the window!

79008 LOTR Ships - Bought 10x at 40% off and still not able to shift for enough to cover fees, my contacts DON'T want them!

On 28/11/2016 at 1:42 PM, TabbyBoy said:

 

79008 LOTR Ships - Bought 10x at 40% off and still not able to shift for enough to cover fees, my contacts DON'T want them!

These are above RRP on eBay now. Sold a few that I had at half price from TRU 

23 minutes ago, Tom J said:

These are above RRP on eBay now. Sold a few that I had at half price from TRU 

I've sold 10 , for £70 cash, £100 total profit.

10240 Red 5 X-Wing is my biggest disappointment to date. I've just sold a pallet's worth for RRP to get rid, no more Star Wars for me unless >66% off but, I'm taking a long break and offloading everything first!

Tower of Orthanc, easily. More like BOREthanc amirite?

10218 Pet Shop now that it's just been resurrected. I'm therefore returning 5 of mine to John Lewis tomorrow while the returns window is still open.

"Temporarily out of stock" at LEGO UK ;-(