Holy crap, this set boomed 23% :-| Funny that not many people believed in its potential

I'm a B-liever!

That's great news! The price stalled for quite some time on the B-Wing, however things started to move slowly. Slowly but surely!

 

Other thing I notice is... there isn't many of them either. I know its a rare set and it had a short life span bla bla bla, but it's pre-Christmas season already and I expected to see more of them available on ebay. Is it because people might be keeping the B-Wings for 2015 when the new movies come out or this set finally started to perform well?

Finally some nice bump in price. Whatever the reason is... it is good news. I will keep mine for some more years anyway. I am really curious where it will end up (value wise).

As soon as it hits

I don't see a bump in price for this set , you can still find it for 190-200

I don't see a bump in price for this set , you can still find it for 190-200

The price bump people are referring to is from its fire sale price of 99.00 last year.

Exactly. 10227

I thought the price bump he referred to was from this link in Europe price : http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/set.cfm?set=10227-1

Now i can see why in Usa price is still low , but in Europe the min price was like 140-150

B-wing never got a real heavy reduction of price here (in Belgium). I bought them around 159.99

Edited November 13, 201411 yr by Neosphinx

That's great news! The price stalled for quite some time on the B-Wing, however things started to move slowly. Slowly but surely!

 

Other thing I notice is... there isn't many of them either. I know its a rare set and it had a short life span bla bla bla, but it's pre-Christmas season already and I expected to see more of them available on ebay. Is it because people might be keeping the B-Wings for 2015 when the new movies come out or this set finally started to perform well?

 

I have no idea how many B-wings are sold... but I saw it did not sell well in collishop. Remained almost stagnant stockwise (20+ something) for months and months. Then there was a good promo and they flew out. I do believe it is scarce (and cool) enough to make up for its impopularity.

B-wing never got a real heavy reduction of price here (in Belgium). I bought them around 159.99

Be careful, sometimes Brickpicker price guide isn't as accurate as one might assume. EU price guide figures are based on German eBay sales (as mentioned for example in Grolim's blog article).

 

Now if you manually check B-Wing sales on eBay Germany you see that real sales were between 177 and 300

It all depends. From my perspective as a UK investor/collector, this set was quite disappointing for the first 10 months, barely touching

I don't wanna be Buzz Killington and I see that cheapest BIN on ebay.co.uk is ~ 

I don't wanna be Buzz Killington and I see that cheapest BIN on ebay.co.uk is ~ 

I have 2 B-Wings in perfect condition (155 euro/set) and 1 in very bad condition. I still have the oppurtunity to refund my money but it's a hard call. What do you guys recommend? And when I say "in really bad shape" I mean really bad :-).

Keep 1 and trade the other 2 for more attractive models....

Is this set officially a failure now? Think I will just put mine up for auction and see what happens just to get rid of them.

Is this set officially a failure now? Think I will just put mine up for auction and see what happens just to get rid of them.

 

You need to let it run the 5 year cycle.  Check back then.

Is this set officially a failure now? Think I will just put mine up for auction and see what happens just to get rid of them.

My 99 dollar ones aren't.

Is this set officially a failure now? Think I will just put mine up for auction and see what happens just to get rid of them.

pm me with store link or info. please

So I will take all that as a yes, it is a massive failure and I should definitely dump mine. Thanks.

So I will take all that as a yes, it is a massive failure and I should definitely dump mine. Thanks.

 

If you bought in at MSRP then yes it was a bad investment decision.  Those of us that got in at $99 plus minifigure and Chima promos are sitting just fine.  It hasn't even been 2 years since it retired and the Star Wars hype will be in full swing later this year.  Stay on target.

Edited January 20, 201510 yr by zskid00

So I will take all that as a yes, it is a massive failure and I should definitely dump mine. Thanks.

 

Dump them if you want, but I think you'll regret that decision in the future.  This set is a slow climber because of the $99 buy in, but it is climbing.  Hold onto them for another couple of years and you'll make good money.

 

I missed out on the $99 deal, but still bought in at $150.  I don't regret that at all.

Got 3 of them, but don't think they will perform very good :P