Statue of Liberty complete with box for $700

It has to be my 125x Mars Rovers even though I sold them a little early at an average of £80 each. They were bought at RRP too!

I know a guy who recently bought a used but incomplete 10181 Eiffel Tower for around a $100 at an estate sale plus another $100 or so for the missing pieces. 

(20) 9496 and (10) 9498 for $0.03 each at TRU in 2014.

We've had about 25 of these threads over the years.  I merged this one with the consolidated thread.

I once bought a used 10030 ISD for $200.

Got you beat. $100 for a used 10030. (I want to say someone else here got one for $75 tho)

41999  pay retail, guaranteed  $400 the same day all day (for a while)

£25 Hogwarts Castle, new from Tesco + loads of other 75% off lego sets at the same time.

Left loads of good lego on the shelf for Alien Quest at the same time. :(

Although I am not talking "big bucks" here, when Collectible Minifigure Series 14 "Monsters" was first released, I happened to come across them at the local Walgreen's.  While the shelf price was listed at $3.99, they rang up at $.99 each.  Needless to say, I bought out all the stock they had, completing two sets for my own collection and sold or gave away any triplicates.  So, I suppose getting a complete set of 16 for $15.84 which represented a 75% savings!  Total fluke... and again, not big bucks.

More recent was my load of 60080 Spaceports (RRP 69.99) for £11.33 each from Tesco. It was a pricing error during their 3-for-2 but, who was I to complain? I've now flipped the lot for £35 each!

In 2014 found ten pristine 21001 John Hancock at TRU on clearance for $6.49 ea. They found a case out back I guess because they weregone from the wild at that time. Or at least that was my understanding. I seem to remember someone else here found dozens of them at their TRU.

I sold them in one lot GSP which was a great flip but now they are about double of what I sold for.

6 x 6913 & 4 x 6912 for 2p each

Sold them all within a week for £25 each

But others to note from the past which i bought but left dozens of were

Harry Potter

4842 - £39.99

4866 - £12.99

4865 - £3.99

10217 - £99.99 Buy 2 get 1 free

Pirates of Carribean

Black Pearl - 34.99

QAR - 49.99 

Hard to believe but they could not give them sets away, they were everywhere for 50% off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7166 imperial shuttle at TRU for about $2 shortly after it retired

7181 UCS tie for $50 years ago when local Kmart was closing 

hundreds of 7201 final duel II for $0.35 when when kbtoys were closing around me.

 

 

Local deal Corner cafe 10182 NISB for $ 300, sold for $1900 three months later...

I purchased a train lot last year for $500 on eBay.  Seller noted that items were new and used.  His pictures were lackluster and a little confusing; however, he was very responsive to my messages.  I wasn't entirely sure how much I was going to receive, but I knew based on what he provided that I could part it out to gross at least $1000.

Well, the box shows up and weighed over 40 lbs.  Half was still sealed with unused sticker sheets and manuals (no boxes).  The other half was built but bagged according to set.  The 3 BNSF trains alone pretty much paid for the entire lot.  (And I thought I was only getting 1.)

Recently tallied my net profit (minus purchase price, fees, shipping) -- $1950.

I don't expect to find a lot like that again...

I won a mixed ebay toy lot 2 years ago for $45 that was a haul... it was advertised as a hot wheels and games lot but came as an afterthought with 8 retired MISB lego sets, including MISB Sears Tower, John Hancock, Rockafeller, Sydney Opera House (small set), Hydraxon (from 5 yrs ago) and 3 other old bionicle sets.

Sold off the Bionicle sets for over $600, kept the Architecture, gave my kids the hot wheels and board games.

 

I got three of these in 2002. Tried seven but they reduced to three. 

Tesco 2012 

 8078 Atlantis Portals £3.50 

9395 Technic Trucks £7

4842 HP Castles £25