Brickset.com has a description of the next Star Wars Advent Calendar.  They seem to think it will be the best yet.

 

75097 Star Wars Advent Calendar (

At LEGO B&M today store associates were literally carrying out 4-5 at a time and weren't making it to the shelves. People pillaged them as they walked by.

17 minutes ago, 2x4 said:

At LEGO B&M today store associates were literally carrying out 4-5 at a time and weren't making it to the shelves. People pillaged them as they walked by.

yeah but why is that?

because this exact calendar is so great or because of the Star Wars hype right now? I'd say it's because of the second.

Hype is good

9 minutes ago, trekgate502 said:

Hype is good

yeah of course. But I just doubt that it's worth the hazzle. Hype for Star Wars in general is not the same as hype for a specific set.

At LEGO B&M today store associates were literally carrying out 4-5 at a time and weren't making it to the shelves. People pillaged them as they walked by.

These were everywhere around me a week ago (FM, WM, Target), and are completely wiped out now

Just like last year so far (also last year people were freaking out and calling it a dud in early nov).

450 sellers on Amazon. Off to the bubble thread I go 

Hehe.

6 minutes ago, Bold-Arrow said:

450 sellers on Amazon. Off to the bubble thread I go 

They can chase butterflies in a bubble all they want.

I only bought 6 this year, all at a discount--and I sold them all for a ~60% mark up. Happy I'm done because with that many sellers, the price isn't going anywhere for a while. 

25 minutes ago, biking_tiger said:

I only bought 6 this year, all at a discount--and I sold them all for a ~60% mark up. Happy I'm done because with that many sellers, the price isn't going anywhere for a while. 

At this rate , it will go somewhere ... South .. Lol . 

FIRE SALE !!!! 

10 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

FIRE SALE !!!! 

Early still . I do find the comparison between last year and this year interesting though . Good case study . 

5 minutes ago, Bold-Arrow said:

Early still . I do find the comparison between last year and this year interesting though . Good case study . 

Sit back and watch closely...

Update 11/14

Amazon: $67.44 in the BB. 450 offers. 6 offers lower than the BB. Sales rank #23 in toys and games, #4 in Building Toys.

Ebay: Sold listings for last night in the low to mid $60's including shipping. approximately 425 unique listings in domestic US with the lowest currently at $$59.99 including shipping.

Has this made it on the eBay hot toy list yet? If not, they're not doing it right.

I put a couple up for $68 fulfilled by me to see what happens, sold within an hour, a ton of the listings will drop off next week when holiday rules go into effect

Still seeing these at retail? Should I grab more? I see this now selling at up to $70 or more soon. That's $10 profit after fees and shipping. 25% quick flip profit ain't that bad.

There were none at my tru on sat. 3 city left.

I'm puzzled by the sellers (including some of our fellow BPers) who do multiple listings of the set with $1 or even $.01 increments on eBay, rather than doing a single listing with multiple quantities.  I'm not aware of any current free listing promotion, but even with that, I'm curious about the logic.  When the profit margin is good, I can see where the $.30 listing fee isn't much of a bother, but it adds up and I still don't see why you'd go through the effort.  I've questioned whether listing with "more than 10 available" effects the velocity of sales and price through the combination of potential buyers thinking that they have plenty of time to buy and sellers feeling the pressure to undercut, but the strategy of one seller doing $55 + $5 S&H for one listing, and $56 + $4.50 S&H for the next listing looks weird to me (or listings of $17.95, $17.97, and $17.98 from the same seller; or what appears to be the same seller with two slightly different usernames, such as ebaysellerinarizona/arizonaebayseller, with listings that pop up right next to each other). For $39+ BIN listings on eBay, I've moved from 84th on the list, to somewhere on Page 3, but I'm having a lot of deja vu as I scroll through the list of sellers.  Maybe I'm the only one who would care to be enlightened about this.

I think I might know the reason: Ebay has the $5 max final fee until Nov 24th. The offer only valid for lists with single quantity. 

Those are some great questions. You may want to post that to a new thread or some other existing selling thread, because it applies to all selling.

I'd love to hear some answers to this.

I don't do that myself, but in general, I tend to only have a quantity of one up in my auctions. After that first auction, when you reset the quantity back to one, you get that "Last One Available" tag, which, to me, puts on a sense of urgency to a buyer. Better get it now because this could be it.

The flip side, as someone who offers free shipping - you can incur more costs and miss out on some sales. The other day I sold a minifig and sent it out. Then I updated my listing to show my last two minis. Same buyer bought those last two. I could have saved on shopping and sold all three at once had I been a little smarter.

7 minutes ago, GUMGLEGEE said:

I think I might know the reason: Ebay has the $5 max final fee until Nov 24th. The offer only valid for lists with single quantity. 

That makes some sense for $60-$70 Advent Calendars, but it's not making sense for $18-$20 Thanksgiving Feasts.

The way I see it the Advent Calendars might be a good investment for the U.S.A. but here in Europe they are poor performers.

Even the 2014 Calendar with Darth Christmas Vader didn't really increase to a value where I think it's profitable.