I saw a single, lonely looking set at my local toy shop. Now it has a new home for the next few months! 

I guess there's no real point in trying to discuss if a set is a good or bad investment anymore. If you say its a bad investment people just say "I bought this for 50% off so I'll still make money", if you say it's a good investment people say "it won't be anywhere like set xxxx".

Everyone has their own interpretation of what is a good profit margin. £10 profit is nothing for Mr A while for Mr B it is an amazing ROI. 

I don't think anymore constructive info will come out of retired set threads, apart from periodic updates on how the set is performing.

 

 

 

31 minutes ago, Mhd747 said:

Everyone has their own interpretation of what is a good profit margin. £10 profit is nothing for Mr A while for Mr B it is an amazing ROI. 

 

 

What does Mr T think, though?

12 hours ago, Furious_george said:

Ok

51 listings.

Yikes.

 

If 51 listings scares you away, check this sites membership numbers and just quit.

22 hours ago, Val-E said:

Just to put some context into things, Ecto 1 has 190 sellers with 700 units whereas Delorean has 58 and 109 and is selling for 120-130 euros (3 times RRP) 2 years after retirement.

RI, which retired around the same time as BTTF, has 93 sellers with 330 units and is selling for 35-40 euros (1.8x RRP).

Neither can be considered rare with those numbers of units still available and single figure monthly sales.

Wall-E is on 108 sellers with 230 units and is going for 65 euros with 20 sales so far this month. I like those numbers a lot but we´ll see if Ecto can do better.

Ecto is already 1.6 retail on amazon usa right out of the gate and was easily attainable for .8 retail throughout its life.

The quality of this set and the IP it comes from will give it legs for a long time.  Easy winner, even the horde couldn't kill it.

 

9 hours ago, mauro23 said:

This won't be enough - you should check every hour...

Rubbish!  F5 every second! 

I'm a bit computer dumb. What does f5 do?

I'm a bit computer dumb. What does f5 do?

Refresh browser page [emoji12]

I got excited for a moment...

34S6 from lego.com

Only opened one of the boxes.  I'm assuming the other boxes will have similar seals

Edited February 13, 20178 yr by MoHu

Just had a phone call with TLC.  They told me it wont come back and there are no more sets left...i missed the 25Euro offer about one hour

Theres no hope i guess ... except for 49.99 at a local store...

1 hour ago, AlMa2017 said:

Just had a phone call with TLC.  They told me it wont come back and there are no more sets left...i missed the 25Euro offer about one hour

Theres no hope i guess ... except for 49.99 at a local store...

And I am betting, they will come back for an hour, as returns of people who have bought this set jut before it has been discounted. If they were able to order them afterwards at the discounted price it would make only sense to return the undiscounted ones...

2 hours ago, AlMa2017 said:

Just had a phone call with TLC.  They told me it wont come back and there are no more sets left...i missed the 25Euro offer about one hour

Theres no hope i guess ... except for 49.99 at a local store...

That means it WILL come back and there WILL be more sets left. Give it a week or two.

That means it WILL come back and there WILL be more sets left. Give it a week or two.

Okay so i will trust in your words [emoji123] Was on my was to buy couple of Ectos at my local store for about 39.99 with cashback..

Just now, AlMa2017 said:

 

Okay so i will trust in your words Was on my was to buy couple of Ectos at my local store for about 39.99 with cashback..

Don´t trust anyone except yourself and your own judgement in this game.

Don´t trust anyone except yourself and your own judgement in this game.

I just thought about another call where a nice Lady told me it wont be discounted..because there wont be more discounts at the Lego Shop... so [emoji854][emoji854]

13 sold on BL so far this month with avg price 55 euros so, at worst, you would be breaking even if bought at full RRP.

$88 FBA and climbing...this one is rising quickly in the US.  eBay listings aren't too far behind FBM.

4 minutes ago, BrickLegacy said:

$88 FBA and climbing...this one is rising quickly in the US.  eBay listings aren't too far behind FBM.

Probably due to all the Melissa McCarthy hype after she impersonated Spicer.

17 minutes ago, BrickLegacy said:

$88 FBA and climbing...this one is rising quickly in the US.  eBay listings aren't too far behind FBM.

Some big names on the FBA list coming up... it will probably take a while to clear the log jam. I hope I'm wrong. 

6 minutes ago, biking_tiger said:

Some big names on the FBA list coming up... it will probably take a while to clear the log jam. I hope I'm wrong. 

Selling 10 units a day at the current sales rank. Looks like the usual names currently have 50 units each. That won't last long, but they could always restock. The combination of the gate and allowing the buy box even for the inflated prices has made Lego very easy money again on Amazon. The last 2 years they disabled the buy box on items where the price bumped too quickly but it seems they have tweaked the code to allow for increases in discontinued items now. That is huge for all the mobile sales. Everything we bought in 2016 is already 100% ROI after all fees under the Lego brand. Golden Age 2.0.

13 minutes ago, asharerin said:

Everything we bought in 2016 is already 100% ROI after all fees under the Lego brand. Golden Age 2.0.

 

This is how a Tabby sees Ecto1:

 

21 minutes ago, gregpj said:

 

Well everything except sandcrawler which will be double my buy a month after Amazons sells out lol.

Just now, asharerin said:

Well everything except sandcrawler which will be double my buy a month after Amazons sells out lol.

4 hours ago, gregpj said:

Your a mod? LMAO.

So now we know who was chosen to fill the a$$hat void after Stephen Rockerfeller left.