Bought the 10247 Ferris Wheel today on CL for $70 complete with instructions.  Will add the power functions to it!

Edited December 31, 20177 yr by LegoWalker4

.. that girl with a red balloon... I cant say why but it always got me thinking of some lollypop ..

 

4 hours ago, Val-E said:

It´s a good idea to pull up an average discount of what you have  bought as that helps when setting sales prices.

Some sets will be turds but can be offset by the gems and you can see overall your average profit, which is the bottom line.

I rely on columns RRP (local) and Purchase (local) price next to each other.. so I can judge at the blink of the eye what was the approx. discount.. you can always tell by seeing 799 RRP .. purchased at 429 .. that its like 50 % off.. 

11 minutes ago, crayxlp said:

.. that girl with a red balloon... I cant say why but it always got me thinking of some lollypop ..

 

I rely on columns RRP (local) and Purchase (local) price next to each other.. so I can judge at the blink of the eye what was the approx. discount.. you can always tell by seeing 799 RRP .. purchased at 429 .. that its like 50 % off.. 

Yes, but how do you keep track of your profit (or loss) on sales?

54 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Yes, but how do you keep track of your profit (or loss) on sales?

pretty easy - havent sold a single set yet   (Renault formula not counting - that was .. how you call it "flipping"? )

there is of course "a third column" called "selling price" .. for my purposes its totally sufficient. I can judge both by the USD RRP and local RRP against local purchase price and current development on BP US, EU and UK market

oh.. now I maybe got your point: I list each set on a single row in Excel sheet. so If I have 10 same sets, they are on 10 rows and the "sum functions" below the columns give me precise count of the total purchase price, total piece count.. even a total weight! 

Edited December 31, 20177 yr by crayxlp
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19 minutes ago, crayxlp said:

pretty easy - havent sold a single set yet   (Renault formula not counting - that was .. how you call it "flipping"? )

there is of course "a third column" called "selling price" .. for my purposes its totally sufficient. I can judge both by the USD RRP and local RRP against local purchase price and current development on BP US, EU and UK market

oh.. now I maybe got your point: I list each set on a single row in Excel sheet. so If I have 10 same sets, they are on 10 rows and the "sum functions" below the columns give me precise count of the total purchase price, total piece count.. even a total weight! 

Somebody might move this to a different thread in advice, but I would insert a row at the top for your "sum function" or totals, or averages. This way you won't have to keep shifting it down or moving it. 

1 minute ago, MJO24 said:

Somebody might move this to a different thread in advice, but I would insert a row at the top for your "sum function" or totals, or averages. This way you won't have to keep shifting it down or moving it. 

I dont have to shift it .. i use "dividers" in Excel sheet and also whenever I need to put in extra set - I just add a couple of new rows between the last set and "sums line". its pretty neat actually 

Was supposed to leave for Florida on Saturday but had to postpone by two days due to part of the family being down with a heavy cold/light flu, so compensated with a hunt for $25 75153 AT-STs at WalMart. Most stores around me are sold out, but a few have inventory showing on inventory trackers. Somehow Walmart itself doesn’t even have a listing for this set anymore (anyone know why?). The two stores showing 7 and 4 in stock have nothing to be found (even had an associate at one scan the back for me to no avail), but finally found 2 on the shelf at a WM which showed 2 in stock.... weird but happy.

 

Other noteworthy clearance finds:

10704 Black Friday Brick Box for $15 (WM)

60117 Van & Caravan for $9 (Target)

 

 

I bought a couple heavy assault walkers on Ebay for 99.99 shipped. When I took into account Tax, the clearance ones I saw at Walmart were going to wind up being $18 more each.

Got a used 7662 Trade Federation MTT, a 7675 AT-TE, and about 40 lbs of semi completed sets and bulk to sort through for $100 today.  Was a pretty good score, and I'm seeing some promising parts in the bulk so I'm excited to see what else I've got in there.

14 hours ago, exciter1 said:

Not always

This is true. Should I tell my "I returned 10 black pearls story" again? Bought 10 on target.com at $90 or something. Found many more at Walmart for $60. Returned those 10 from target. Next visit there were 10 black pearls on an end cap for $99 titled "manager's special."

Just sitting on shelves in my local Lego shop. They had three more in back so took them as well.

Sand Baseplates for $5.58 at Target. 30% off. I’ll take ‘em.

4 hours ago, Cheese said:

Just sitting on shelves in my local Lego shop. They had three more in back so took them as well.

Which is your local store?

1 hour ago, Alpinemaps said:

Sand Baseplates for $5.58 at Target. 30% off. I’ll take ‘em.

these are also being cleared at virtually every walmart i have been to in the last week for $5.  often unmarked.  arm sweeping at either price.

i have way too many of these but who can say no to a $5 retiring baseplate?

Edited January 1, 20187 yr by cladner

Which is your local store?

Shepherds Bush Westfield

Also cleared out their remaining Phantoms and Minecraft sets. All at 30% off. Got a bunch of Scarriff Trooper and Admiral Yuralen Polys. Always pays to always provide good and constructive feedback whenever you buy from Lego, since they typically always follow up with a call back and from then get to know you and because of that they occasionally keep things in mind for you or give you freebies. Happy New Year!

 

 

I bought two Bee Brickheadz and two Flower Displays from LEGO Shop at Home for the dragster polybag

21103 BTTF Delorean, used £40 Facebook Market place pickup.

The guy had so many nice sets for sale but this was the only one I felt was low enough to turn around a profit, after I've built and displayed it for a while of course.

Stopover on the way to Orlando at a Target in Southern Tennessee landed me 1x70601 Ninjago Sky Shark. Wasn't giving a price on any of the scanners (wall-mount, employee, register). Guys at electronics said it was scrapped merchandise and I wouldn't be able to buy it, but the lady at CS found an online price and managed to print an "Online Item" 30% off sticker to make my purchase price $11 (website price was $16.49, RRP $19.99). Set is down to last 5 sellers on Amazon, with only 1 FBA for $60 so score!

50% promo time ! ?

Auchan supermarket, France.

 

On ‎01‎/‎01‎/‎2018 at 11:21 AM, Cheese said:

Just sitting on shelves in my local Lego shop. They had three more in back so took them as well.

Good discount. though a quick look on ebay "sold" and there are no sales above £50? Are those ones listed for sale at c. £150 being realistic?

(not knocking your choice! just wondering if the ebay pries are realistic and whether this really is a £150 set).

Good discount. though a quick look on ebay "sold" and there are no sales above £50? Are those ones listed for sale at c. £150 being realistic?
(not knocking your choice! just wondering if the ebay pries are realistic and whether this really is a £150 set).

There are a few genuine ones at £120 over past two days, with non stock photos. Any sold listings with stock listings I disregard. Will keep mine till next Xmas.

Just got three 10252 VW Beetles at TRU for 50%!!!


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You're right. I filtered the sold listings incorrectly.

you'll do well on those

On 01/01/2018 at 11:21 AM, Cheese said:

Just sitting on shelves in my local Lego shop. They had three more in back so took them as well.

None in Manchester store but found another 4 in the deepest darkest corners of the internet.  Ninjago dragons forge 70627 has a similar trajectory so buying up every one of those I can find too.