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    • Fcbarcelona101
      Welcome back to the November 2013 entry of best selling LEGO sets based on ebay data. As I mentioned last time, I will only be commenting on those sets that are completely new to the Top 10 listing, as it talking about the original Minecraft set or the Millenium Falcon gets a little repetitive after a couple times.
      Interesting about this list is that we can actually starting watching some trends regarding sets that may become very popular during the month of December, and in some way help us predict which have some "flipping" potential. This year's shopping season is almost over, but by comparing this November data against December's we should have a pretty good idea of how useful this may turn out to be in 2014.
      November 2013 Top Ten
      1-

      636 Sold (New)
      One of the many promotional mini sets released during the holiday season by LEGO, there is really no surprise this nice set made its way to the top of the November Top 10. As it happens with sets from the Winter Village theme, there is a really big demand for this kind of build during these months, as people really get into building Christmas displays while others take advantage of selling the set to effectively reduce the price of their "actual" purchases.
      2-

      611 Sold (New)
      3-

      579 Sold (New)
      One of the most unique and specialized sets ever released by TLG, in my opinion. This proved to be extremely popular during its very short run both with investors, flippers and LEGO fans in general (with some architect buffs thrown in the mix as well). It's really impressive that Architecture Studio managed to place third in the list surpassing other well known staples like the 7965 Millenium Falcon and the 2 new Minecraft sets. At this point, you'll be really lucky if you can find one at MSRP.
      4-

      339 Sold (New)
      As a very distant fourth position we find the 2010 version of the SW Advent Calendar. Personally, I find it kind of surprising that the older version managed to be on this month's Top 10 while the 2013 version didn't. I am really not a follower of this particular line of sets, but I assume that a big part is due to the fact that you could still find this version at deep discounts at some retailers, and it would ultimately serve the same purpose as 2013's. Another related factor could be that buyers found the new version's mini builds less appealing, but I defer to the calendar fans to confirm or dispute this.
      5-

      319 Sold (New)
      Riding on the success of the original model, LEGO decided to produce a couple more Minecraft models that proved to be an instant hit (as expected). Even though the original model continues to be a very distant "winner", The Village positioned itself as the 2nd best of the theme surpassing The Nether (#11). I actually prefer the latter, but it seems the I'm in the minority.
      6-

      284 Sold (New)
      7-

      256 Sold (New)
      This entry actually confirms that for some reason the older Advent Calendars seem to sell way better than current versions, at least based on what it happened during this season.
      8-

      228 Sold (New)
      9-

      249 Sold (New)
      One of the nice surprises of the year is the confirmation of the Friends theme as an extremely successful line of sets. If you have been shopping in B&M stores this season, you probably noticed that almost every single set from the line had completely disappeared from the shelves. The Dolphin Cruiser will definitely place somewhere in December's Top 10.
      10-

      216 Sold (New)
      Had this list been September's and this little polybag would have been just 6 sales away from taking the first position. The mini version of the Camper Van is probably one of the best designs for a promotional item ever released, and fits perfectly when displayed along its larger and equally impressive brother. This excellent design proved its popularity among LEGO fans, and made me wish more mini sets like this were released more often. I would personally enjoy a mini version of the soon to be released Maersk Triple-E.
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      This ends our Top 10 for November, until next time!
      Thanks for reading.
    • DoNotInsertIntoMouth
      I think at this point, we all know about all the scams that exist out there that we must tread as Lego buyers: Drop shippers, shipping scammers on Ebay, Craigslist scammers who want you to wire them money, and even companies that are somwhat deceitful in their practices.
      But there are more parts to being safe as a Lego Investor/Collector that we must be aware of: CyberSpace issues. It seems silly that this amazing thing called the internet has brought us all of this joy, made this site possible, and absolutely changed the way we do everything to do with our money, could also be the thing that ruins us completely. I am a member in this industry as a networking engineer. I have studied CyberSecurity quite a bit and it is something I want to eventually pursue as a higher level of education in my field. It is a fascinating field and we are in the golden age of CyberSpace growth.
      However, the unfortunate realization of living through this era in technology is how woefully behind the Cyber criminals we all are. For one, everyone has to react to the new things they do. We wont be able to just guess what they are going to do next: they are calling all the shots. On top of this, our economic systems, our credit systems, and most of our business industry is not built to cope with how fast people are coming up with ways to game the system.
      So do we just shut down and not buy on the internet? Of course not, but we can be smart before making certain decisions. And most importantly, we can be vigilant for the inevitable times that this happens and be ready to act to correct any issues we come across. Here are some thoughts in this direction:
      Don't use any service unless you know it is secure.
      This is a tough one; how will you ever know for sure? Well, you won't. But you can make a pretty good decision with a little bit of research. Paypal and Ebay both offer buyer and seller protection. They both have great track records in the field as well. Things like Western Union and other money wiring services have a history of being scam vehicles and the companies themselves have a track record for saying "its not our problem". Only use things you trust for your transactions.
      Do not put in purchasing and credit card information into a website on a Public WiFi connection
      This is one most people don't think about. You are sitting at StarBucks and you jump on WiFi. See a great deal on BP deals page and click the link. You put in all your credit card information and make the purchase.
      Unfortunately the guy next to you, with little effort at all, can see every little bit of information you type into your PC or phone with free programs downloaded on the internet. Its unbelievable how easy it is for someone to do this. Yes you are protected by your credit card company most likely, but is it worth the trouble thinking about it?
      In general just avoid it. If you are on your phone, it is worth switching to data for the purchase.
      Set up credit card alerts
      This is a extremely simple one with how many people have the ability to text on their phones. I don't know an actual statistic, but I would say the majority of people on this site who use credit cards a lot have had a fraudulent charge once or twice. My wife's card was stolen out of her supposed-to-be-locked classroom at school once, and before we knew it they had rattled off a grand in purchases. Most credit card companies now have pretty robust alert systems. Everytime I make a purchase, my credit card companies texts me and says my card was authorized for this amount of money at this location. I immediately know if something is not right and can actually reply and say "this isn't me!".
      I can also keep better track of what my Wife is buying
      Get a credit monitoring service
      These are annoying. The credit monitoring and reporting companies have about turned into insurance companies as far as commercials go - except no one can beat Geicos Hump Day. They do serve a great purpose though. Whenever I do anything that has an impact on my credit (or if someone else does) I immediately get an alert of exact what the inquiry was about. I pay 10$ a month for it and it is very much worth it.
      My wife did not have it and someone stole her identity and massacred her credit. It wasn't her, so no big deal right? Heh - I wish. It took more than a year to get her credit fixed back to where it was supposed to be. This being right before we were about to buy a house, we had to drop her from the loan because she was dragging my credit down!
      Think about the effect this could have on you if it happened. All of a sudden, your credit cards get frozen, you can't open any new ones, and you can't purchase those lego sets like you used to. Most monitoring services also offer services where they will help you fix credit problems much quicker than you could ever do on your own.
      Be smart with your passwords for all those sales sites
      So many people carrying legos now means more and more people have your personal information from all those sweet deals you have gotten. Unfortunately, we just have to trust them with it.
      However, we can put ourselves into position to keep ourselves as safe as possible. Passwords really come into this. Everyone has heard it - change your passwords every 90 days, make sure they have special characters, blah, blah, blah. I am not preaching that at all.
      Actually you should absolutely use a password that is easy to remember. And unfortunately, special characters and numbers really don't mean a lot at all to a password's security. Passwords are normally cracked when attackers steal the payload of a password exchange between a site and a user and run a password cracking program on it. So understanding how this works is important. In most programs, you give the application a list of common possible words or letters and then let it try all its possible combinations. For example, some may feel this is a good password:
      p@ssw0rd!
      By adding special characters into the application, a password like the above could be broken within less than a minute in most cases.
      Whats the answer? More complicated? Simple actually : longer. The more letters in a password, the more time (exponentially) it takes to crack it (which means people give up). So I use phrases for passwords - spaces included. Consider:
      I love to use brickpicker for lego prices
      A password like the above is insanely more secure, even without special characters, and most people don't insert spaces into password cracking applications by default. Plus they are really easy to remember!
      On top of this, do not use the same password for every site - or at least spread it around pretty well. If you do, one is hacked - they all could be. Now maybe the attacker wont know you are on entertainment earth and toysrus.com - but the first thing someone does when they hack a google password is take the same user and password and pop it into paypal, ebay, major bank sites, etc. Easier to just avoid these problems.
      Conclusion
      Its an unsafe world in general, and we have to live with it. There are many more ways things can go sour for people like us who spend a lot of money, and most likely have a lot of credit and spending habits that are harder to track. But by being vigilante, we put ourselves in a position to prevent issues from happening, and ultimately be able to react when they do. Though Cyber space has brought all these new worries upon us, we still have the Human intelligence to stay ahead if we consider and study the consequences of not doing so.
      Thanks for reading.
    • comicblast
      Welcome to the second installment of a series of articles I am putting together called “The Superior Market - eBay vs. BrickLink”. The purpose of this type of article is to compare the average sale prices of LEGO sets over the last 5 months. These numbers are the final sale prices, according to data acquired from BrickLink and BrickPicker.
      Some readers were a little confused on the purpose of the first article, which you can read at: http://www.brickpicker.com/forum/index.php/blog/15/entry-430-the-superior-market-ebay-vs-bricklink-msrp-001-999/. I analyze the market prices that each respective site sells at. It does not take into account how easy it is to list, whether or not it is a more “friendly” site, and quantity of sales. Perhaps in the future, an analysis is possible, but at this point, it is purely on sale prices.
      I am trying my hardest to keep the sets averaged as unbiased as possible, and if you have any concerns over this matter, by all means, post what sets you want analyzed in the next article! There will be 25 sets analyzed, to try to draw together a better picture of which market has higher sale prices. Fees are not taken into account in the table below.
      Ladies and gentlemen...Please enjoy the second installment of The Superior Market - eBay vs. BrickLink - MSRP $10.00-$24.99!
      If the table is a little small, please click on the image, and a zoomed in version will appear. * Values represent average sale prices from May 2013 to September 2013
      A Breif Analysis: On average, sets that were sold for a higher price on eBay sold for 17.02% more, and on BrickLink 13.03% more. In addition, 56% of sets sold for a higher price on eBay, signifying a very close tie between both markets.
      The Bigger Picture: When looking at these numbers of 17.02% and 13.03%, we are only just scraping the surface of what the numbers show. As a buyer, these two percentages are really the only thing that matter - what website has higher sale prices, not including any additional shipping costs. As a seller, on the other hand, we must take into account a variety of other costs: site, and PayPal fees. eBay charges 10% on all transactions, capping at $200 of fees. 99% of the time, PayPal is used to transfer money from the buyer to the seller, which costs $0.30 per transaction along with 2.9% on the total transaction. This brings the total fee percentage to 12.9% plus $0.30.
      Of course, if you are one of the “big boys” on eBay and have acheived Top Rated Seller, 20% of the final eBay fees are taken off, but you are bound to certain shipping and handling time restrictions. If so, eBay fees cost 8%, not including PayPal fees, which are constant. In this case, fees take a total of 10.9% of your final cost, plus an additional $0.30.
      BrickLink on the other hand, charges 3% on all orders costing $500 USD or less, and including 2.9% and $0.30 in fees, you pay a total of 5.9% + $0.30 in fees.
      Let’s take another look at the numbers and do a re-analysis…
      Average of 17.02% higher prices on sets sold on eBay, and 13.03% on BrickLink. 56% of sets analysed sold for more on eBay. Now let’s subtract each fee percentage to the percentages we already have (17.02% and 13.03%), to see whether or not eBay actually sells for more when fees are taken into account.
      eBay: 17.02% - (10% + 2.9% + $0.30) = 4.12% + $0.30
      BrickLink: 13.03% - (3% +2.9% + $0.30) = 7.13% + $0.30
      In Conclusion: Overall, BrickLink sales actually surpassed seller profitability of eBay sales by 3.01%, quite contrary to the sale prices.
      I hope you learned something by reading this installment, and you can definitely expect installment 3 to be released in the near future!!
      Sources:
      eBay Standard Selling Fees BrickLink Selling Fees Installment #1: $0.99-$9.99

       

       
    • DoNotInsertIntoMouth
      So I wanted to write up another article about drop-shipping scams, specifically on Ebay, that looked more at the problems it causes to everyone, not just the people directly involved. I will spare you the long explanations of drop-shipping scams and how they work as they are covered in great detail in two articles shown below:
      Drop Shipping Lego: How to Avoid Being Scammed – By Talon http://blog.brickpicker.com/drop-shipping-lego-how-to-avoid-being-scammed/
      Lego Larcency: Scams, Schemes, and Shady Practices – By Ed Mack http://blog.brickpicker.com/lego-larcency-scams-schemes-and-shady-sales-practices/
      A quick explanation of a drop-shipping scam: Someone sells a set on Ebay or another site, usually for less money than the retail or normal price of the set. Once the listing has sold, the seller purchases the set fraudulently from somewhere like Lego.com, Walmart, Target, etc. and has it shipped directly to the buyers residence. By fraudulently, I mean using a stolen credit card, a credit card opened in someone else's name, or through other types of identity theft. In this article, I wanted to discuss more about the effects after it happens and how it affects everyone.
      Before I start, I want to make it clear that these are my opinions that I fully believe in. You are absolutely welcome to disagree with them – and you may be right. Please, if you do, do not take offense to anything I said. Voice your opinion. It is only in debate and discussion that we become more intelligent. Read the addendum's as I would like to personally hear everyone's opinion.
      It may be human nature, but I think a lot of people (myself included) are like the 4 main characters of Seinfeld in certain situations. We are friendly, decent people, who are really only concerned with ourselves. This doesn't mean we don't care about other people, but more that we are generally unconcerned with things that happen unless we are directly involved. One of my favorite Seinfeld episodes, the series finale, depicted this in a perfect light. Jerry and the gang were walking down the road when they witness a person being robbed. They shrug it off and walk away. Eventually, they are arrested for breaking the “Good Samaritan” law that stated if a person witnessed a crime, they must intervene in some way.
      I know if I was walking down the street and saw someone being robbed, I would be very hesitant to run over and just immediately involve myself – and I am sure most of you would feel the same way. But, imagine if you recognize the person committing the crime. It happens to be someone you walk by every day on the way home. At any point in time, you could be involved. There is no guarantee you ever will be, but suddenly the situation has changed. It now directly matters to you this person is stopped and caught.
      This is a strong example, but can help illustrate the points some of us bring up about drop shipping scams and the issues that arise from them. If you use Ebay, if you use BrickPicker, and if you use a bank, all of these things affect you much more directly than you may understand. Hopefully after reading this, it will allow you to put in perspective some of the issues that arise from not being the "Good Samaritan". It is not only that I discourage you ever knowingly buying one of these listings, but avoiding the situation completely, and possibly taking action to help defend others. Here are the different people involved directly and indirectly by this epidemic and how they are affected:
      The Victims of the Fraud:
      This one is fairly obvious – if someone is using stolen credit cards to purchase items fraudulently, then the people who's credit card/identity is stolen will eventually have to deal with that. Yes, some people have credit cards that protect them from fraud or help them recover losses, but the victims are still affected by the fraud's occurrence. It means calling credit card companies, checking your credit report (which is not free though it is supposed to be) constantly for the next several months, calling the IRS to make sure nothing else has been stolen, and the flat out worry every time you put your hand on your wallet. If you have ever been the victim of identity theft, you know what I am talking about. Personally, my wife had her identity stolen and the person destroyed her credit. It took her 6 months to sort it out, and there were some things we were told would never be pulled from the report.
      How it affects you: It can happen to you. Most people think if a credit card is stolen, that person did something stupid like filled out a form online to win 20 free Ipads, 10 puppies, 3 enchiladas, and a van down by the river. It is flat out not true. You can have your credit card, identity, and much more stolen at any point in time.
      I work for a large Networking company as a network engineer in a customer/business facing position. Everyday, I work in business' networks that are flat out insecure. Yeah, they have some dinky virus protection and a few passwords, but anyone who had an inch of network security training could easily break into their network and steal data. Many of these companies have credit card information stored on servers in these unsecured networks! If these are broken, it doesn't matter how smart the people that shopped with this company are – they go down as the company goes down. Don't believe me? Read on friend!
      Anyone here heard of Sony? The Play Station Giant last year had their network broken into – and a good amount of the credit card information stolen because it was stored in PLAIN TEXT. Like the text you are reading. My card was there and was stolen with it. The fact is, as “safe” as anyone thinks they are, if you have ever typed your credit card information into a computer, you are at risk.
      Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Network_outage and its listed sources the internet.
      Note: This is not to discourage anyone from using credit. Don't turn into a hermit, this is just a reality people need to understand. If you shrug it off when others are defrauded because you would "never fall for that" or "are protected", you are unfortunately very mistaken. If you have more questions and are not convinced you are at risk, feel free to PM me. I have quite a bit of experience and training in CyberSecurity, and I know some things that can make you cringe every time you log on to anything that uses the internet.
      Why you should care: If you see this happening and say “who cares, it doesn't affect me”, wait until it does happen to you. Think about it in this way: Imagine you have something stolen from you. The person who stole it sells it to someone who knew it was stolen, but wanted it anyway because it was a great deal. The thief then returns to your house to steal more items, because he knows he has someone to sell to who could care less how he gets the items long as they get great prices. This is what you are doing if you don't care that you are purchasing an item on Ebay that is more than likely a scam.
      The buyer who purchases the merchandise:
      I will not cover this as in depth because the other two articles I mentioned gave specific examples. I don't want to reiterate those articles and those points because their articles deserve the traffic and they most likely stated it better than I did anyway. Basically though, if you purchase something that was originally bought fraudulently, it will most likely come in your name as if you made the purchase. For example, I recently received a purchase from Ebay that was shipped from the Lego store. The only thing on the invoice that was not a piece of my information was the credit card number. It looked like I just stole the credit card and purchased it!
      If the police, credit card company, etc. investigate, they can seize the merchandise and question you about it at any time. Yes you are protected by Ebay or Paypal, but that doesn't mean it isn't a headache. If you think it isn't a headache, wait until you experience it. I have twice, and in one instance I had the original person whose card was stolen calling me trying to find out why I stole his identity!
      How it affects you: If you shop on Ebay, you are susceptible to this. Are there sure fire ways to protect yourself? No. There are very good ways, covered in the two articles I mentioned, but there is no sure way to cover yourself. But the more these people are left to continue using the scam, the more scam items that are being listed. Eventually, there isn't a way to feel OK about buying anything anymore.
      Why you should care: If you buy an item that you are fairly sure is involved in some type of scam, you are perpetuating this scam. You are encouraging people to continue defrauding people. If you sell sets, this is just competition against you that you can't compete with, because you aren't purchasing your sets with seemingly Monopoly money!
      If you receive a set and notice it was drop-shipped, the seller paid more for the item than you did, and your name and information is on the invoice, act! Ask the seller about it! If you just say “Oh well, I got a good deal”, you are again encouraging the behavior. If you don't know what to do in this situation, I wrote an article on this very subject found here: http://blog.brickpicker.com/another-piece-of-information-about-lego-drop-ship-scams-what-to-do-if-you-have-already-fallen-for-it/
      Anyone that uses BrickPicker:
      Have you ever looked at the current market price for a set on BrickPicker? If you have, you have been affected by Ebay scams. BrickPicker pulls all of its market data from Ebay sales. If tons of people sell a set for less than it is worth because they are doing it fraudulently, this brings down the BrickPicker price to a level that is not actually a true representation of the market.
      How it affects you: This was covered above, but think about this situation: You find a large quantity of a set in store on clearance for $50. You quickly check the BrickPicker price and it shows $60. You figure that there is no way to make enough money for it to be worth your while to pick them up. If this data is brought down by the fact that 50 new sets were sold for $40 fraudulently, it could hide the the true market value for the set is $70. You just missed aryone else.n awesome deal because of it. This is a very extreme example, but it is important to note.
      Why you should care: This can easily be inferred from above. You want to have correct data to use when you search for sets. Think it will never get so bogged down that it will actually affect you? Take a look at 10225 R2D2 and the 10228 Haunted House recent sold listings for condition "new". You will see some pretty low prices, most likely drop shippers, bringing down the price for everyone else.
      Anyone that uses Ebay:
      If you use Ebay to sell or buy, you are negatively affected by this. This negatively affects all Ebay prices because these items are normally sold for less than the item's worth. Yes, there are times when someone sells a set for too cheap, or times when they just need the money, but the damaging ones are the brand new, MISB sets that are sold for used-like prices because they are not indicative of the "true" market.
      How it affects you: Have you ever used the “completed listings” checkbox on Ebay to figure out what something has sold for? Let's say you are looking at a bunch of listings for a set you are selling and you list it for cheaper than it is worth because so many people are fraudulently selling it for cheaper. Similarly, if you are selling an item for the real market price and someone else is selling 20 sets for much cheaper, who will someone buy from?
      On the other hand, you go to buy a set and you expect it for cheaper than you may actually get it. If you buy the cheapest listing, you are back to being directly in the line of the scam itself!
      Why you should care: You are on this site, so clearly you like Lego. This all negatively affects Lego sales and the people who buy and sell them. If you use Ebay, you should want information and prices there to be correct. You should want to be able to purchase something with minimal worry that you are going to be involved in a scam, or contacted by the police.
      Everyone who uses a Bank:
      I don't want to get too much into high finance – for one I don't know everything about it, and I am not sure there is anyone that does – but banks in general offers things like “fraud protection” and “fraud coverage”. Basically, if someone steals your information and does something illegal with it, you are covered. Man doesn't that make you feel good? No reason to worry anymore.
      That, unfortunately, is very short sited. It reminds me of another great Seinfeld episode where Kramer told Jerry that they could commit mg wrong.ail fraud because these big companies can just “write it off”. Jerry asked how, and Kramer said “I don't know, they just write it off”! IN the non TBS rerun world, that is not the case. Have you ever paid a credit card fee? Have you ever paid an ATM fee? Have you ever paid interest? Banks make money and are in the business to make money. They offer fraud protection as a way to help ease a customer's pain and get them to sign up for accounts and credit cards. And it is a good thing.
      However, every time it happens, the bank takes a hit. Every hit it takes, the larger the Bank's expenses get, the more fees that are levied on those who use the bank. Those that never were involved in the fraud. Those that did nothing wrong.
      How it affects you: Obviously, if you use a bank, you got my point in the original paragraph. But, let's say you don't. Have you ever purchased something from a store? Guess what they use: A bank . Which means they are charged all the fees from the fraud. This means they have to charge you more for their merchandise.
      Why you should care: If you have any way of participating in the economy at all, you should care. This is one of the reasons why things get more expensive. This is why more and more people everyday are committing these types of scams. No one cares anymore because, hey, they are protected! And everyone hates banks right?
      So what do we do? Buy nothing, never go out, and try not to ever interact with anything that takes voltage? No, just try to think before you purchase an item that is evident of a scam. Always ask questions. Always make sure pictures are there, the buyer has good feedback, the price is not “too good to be true”. Make sure the buyer isn't using a 5 day handling time. Ask for a picture of the item along with the listing Ebayer's ID on a piece of paper. Just use your brain – you are capable of telling the difference most of the time. If we work together, we can help put a stop to this. Don't use the fact that "it might not be a scam" to justify purchasing something at a good price. If it looks like a scam, even remotely, avoid it.
      I want to make sure people understand – not just one of the drop-ship scam pieces of evidence means it is a scam. It is a combination of many of them. We all have to morally decide at what point we see these in combination and decide not to buy. But if you ignore this moral duty, I urge you to consider what I have written above and try to justify how you are not part of the problem. I don't mean for you to go out and report everything that looks like it could be a scam. But we are reaching a day and age where we, as informed members of the BP community have a duty to use our knowledge to the benefit of everyone. Yes, some innocent people may have trouble selling their listings, but if these people are not fraudulent sellers, they will be able to meet our demands without issue.And if you purchased something that turns out to be a scam, you are not a bad person. But don't just ignore it and put the box on the shelf. Act. Make calls, ask for a refund. Report the seller and the listing.
      Let's be a part of the solution instead of part of the problem. Let's not be part of the crowd who just says “it's not our problem”. Because the fact is, if you live and breath in this world, it is your problem.se methods.
      Note: All of the information here are my own opinions and are pulled from my experiences. You may or may not have success with these methods.
    • DoNotInsertIntoMouth
      Alright, so most of you probably saw my first blog on becoming a power seller, Buyer Discussion (you may not have read it because of its length, ha!) but I needed to do the same for sellers, so this is it. I do want to let people know I am going to do quite a few Ebay blogs about being a power seller, owning an Ebay store, the toils of making this a business, and even more on it.
      On to the discussion though, this article is about how those of us who have become bigger sellers, selling several items a day, have to do and have a responsibility to do for our buyers. These are things that I have figured out benefit everyone involved and things that may be viewed as hard, but just really aren't.
      For reference, I send out about 8 items a day (although its mostly the weekends - about to wrap up a 40 item weekend after I am done writing this.), but I have only been doing this for about 3 months. On to the discussion!
      As a seller, you have a responsibility to describe your item to the best of your ability
      Most of the problems with this just straight come out of Laziness for me. I generally will use the same default listing for every item - which is fine. Honestly I think consistency is good - its recognizable for people when they see your listings and they know what to expect based on your first couple of sentences.
      However it is sometimes easy to get lazy, especially on used items. You figure it wont matter to mention the little tiny scratch or scuff, etc. This is important though - not just for the buyer and for your feedback, but for the principal of the matter. As a seller, my biggest complaint is that people don't read my listings. If that is really something you believe in, making your listings correct, descriptive, and generally worth reading is your responsibility to that principle.
      You have the responsibility to take good pictures
      I am ok with stock pictures on new items - I use them on stuff that's brand new (not sets) like minifigures, etc. because they do the same justice and my feedback and store lets people know I am legit. Used items and special items need this though. And they need a good, digital picture.
      Besides the fact that this helps your own listing and protects you from SNAD cases on Ebay, it's honesty that goes a long way with buyers and it is only right we show them exactly what they are getting. And really, how hard is it? You phone probably has a 746 Megapixel camera in it. Press a damn button and upload a picture.
      Leave feedback for your buyers
      This is really even easier as if you start to sell a lot you can spend 3$ or so and subscribe to an APP that will auto leave feedback for you. Either way, feedback is important to buyers - because a lot of them may become sellers and they need the feedback to get going. I don't necessarily think this concept is totally sound - just because you are a good buyer doesn't mean you are a good seller - but at the same time, don't we all remember when we had 0 feedback? Getting those positives for grabbing a couple items is awesome.
      It also helps if you get one of those buyers who decides to neg you because they are a d-bags.
      Warn and block people when they act inappropriately or unprofessionally and let them know
      Duh, right? Well besides the obvious, this is extremely important to the Ebay marketplace. Why? Because this teaches buyers they shouldn't act the way they do. I am generally nice about it, but if someone does something they shouldn't, I warn them and then block them. For example:
      1. Message me about buying stuff outside of Ebay
      2. Low ball offering repeatedly.
      3. Leaving negative feedback without contacting the seller.
      etc.
      In general I find a lot of these people are younger or immature people. Some of the ones I have warned have apologized and ended up buying stuff and being good buyers. Others may not, but if they know they have been banned (and i assume some of them test it because who wouldn't) it can help say something to them.
      Or at least I hope it does.
      It is not hard to be responsive
      This one may be controversial. I understand people are busy. But there is an Ebay app on every phone. Unless I am busy, I respond to messages within a few minutes every time. Same way with offers (unless the situation calls for otherwise). There is just no reason to not be able, with all of this technology, to simply and quickly respond to someone when they have a question or a problem. I hate doing it sometimes too, but it is a responsibility and something my buyers are happy about. I constantly get "thank you for the quick response" and as much in my feedback as well.
      Price your items appropriately
      This is no discussion on making deals, or where prices should be. Pricing something on the high side is fine with me - I have several items I do it for. And its totally an opinion
      This is more about doing market research. I know several sellers on Ebay who clog it up (because they get free listings) with stuff that is outrageously priced. It is somewhat infuriating to people like us and people who are just buying.
      I commonly get offer messages from people complaining about all the stuff jacked up on Ebay. They are mad. But I honestly don't think its at the people selling things for market value - its the people selling things for 5 times it.
      Look at the Dino Defense set on Ebay - an Auction listing will go from $150-$180, a smart BIN is around $180-$200.
      Unfortunately, we are looking at $250s, $300s and $350s. They don't sell and are worthless listings. To me, think if every listing has 15 that are priced high for no reason. Sure, a few may sell, but think about the 1000s of worthless listings on Ebay! Don't be a part of that.
      Conclusion
      These were just a few things I think sellers should know (and buyers should know about their sellers and what they should expect). In the coming week I will be putting more info out on the table, so stay tuned! Feel free to refute any of my points below as well. I would love to hear others experiences - this is solely based on mine and is definitely not final word.
    • rentabrick
      Central Europe Investors: protect your investment and satisfy your desire to build your LEGO sets.
      One of the easiest ways to burn the money you invested in LEGO is to open a MISB set, just because you always wanted to build that special model. You will decrease the value faster than you can change your brickfolio entry from “new” to “used.” Unless you have a good friend who lets you build his already opened 10179 Millenium Falcon, you have to sit in front of your MISB set and continue drooling.
      But there is a light at the end of the tunnel…
      When you manage to travel to southern Germany December 13th to 15th 2013 you can build almost every desirable LEGO set without opening any of your MISB sets. And in addition to preventing you from destroying hard earned and well invested money, by building my LEGO sets instead of yours, there will be discussions on various investment related themes like storage, insuring and protecting your sets and instructions,…
      I just booked all of the conference rooms in the Ottobeuren Youth hostel for the whole weekend, so there will be enough space to build and build and build…
      Amongst others the following sets presumably will be there to be build:
      StarWars™
      - 10179 Millenium Falcon™
      - 10019 Rebel Blockade Runner™
      - 10030 Star Destroyer ™
      - 10188 Death Star
      - 10212 Imperial Shuttle™
      - 10221 Super Star Destroyer™
      - 10225 R2-D2™
      - 10240 Red Five X-wing Starfighter™
      Modular Building
      - 10182 Café Corner
      - 10185 Green Grocer
      - 10190 Market Street
      - 10197 Fire Brigade
      - 10211 Grand Emporium
      - 10218 Pet Shop
      - 10224 Town Hall
      - 10232 Palace Cinema
      Large Scale Models/ Architecture
      - 3450 Statue of Liberty
      - 10181 Eiffel Tower
      - 10189 Taj Mahal
      - 10214 Tower Bridge
      - 10234 Sydney Opera House
      Cuusoo Sets
      - 21100 Shinkai 6500 Submarine
      - 21101 Hayabusa
      - 21102 Minecraft Microworld
      - 21103 DeLorean
      Lord of the Rings™
      All official Sets of the first 2 series, incl.:
      - 9474 Battle of Helm’s Deep™
      - 10237 Tower of Orthanc™
      and for the holiday mood:
      - 10199 Winter Toy Shop
      - 10216 Winter Village Bakery
      - 10222 Winter Village Post Office
      - 10229 Winter Village Cottage
      - 10235 Winter Village Market
      plus LEGO® Technic, Trains, LEGO® Sports, …
      Ottobeuren is a small town located between Munich, Ulm and Lindau in southern Germany. The next bigger city is Memmingen (10km) where you find a small international airport and the next train station. A pickup service for travellers can be arranged on demand. If you want to stay in reach of the LEGO sets, there are booked rooms in the youth hostel, otherwise there are some beautiful hotels in the town within walking range to the workshop. So you can leave your partner in the spa for a wellness weekend and go building.
      There are still some free places for the workshop (max. 25 participants) and Brickpickers will get 20% discount! Prices for the whole weekend (only for the workshop, food and hotel costs not included) are 100 EUR for adult participants (80 EUR for member of brickpicker.com) and 35 EUR for accompanying kids (28 EUR for member of brickpicker.com, I recommend this workshop for kids older than 14 years. Please contact me before you bring younger children). Prices for day tickets and groups available on request. The costs for the workshop will cover the fees for the booked conference rooms and my time for preparing the sets and counting the parts after the workshop. More information and the flyer (sorry, only in German at the moment) you will find below and at my homepage: rentabrick.de/workshop.
      I hope we will meet this December.
      Jens

    • DoNotInsertIntoMouth
      So, anyone who has read the articles in my blog space here, listened to my comments on the forums, or seen my rantings about it in my created topics knows that I spend an insane amount of time on Ebay. Seriously the equivalent of a solid 2-3 hours a day. I love to shop (but not physically) and I really love to find deals. Most of the time I don't care if I actually want it - I like to find those "diamonds in the rough", etc. My views and opinions on Ebay have changed quite a bit in just a short period of time because of my vastly differing experiences on Ebay (which I will explain below) so I wanted to go through some things from the point of view of where I am now for any of those looking to get to that point or people who might take info from here and understand more about what goes on in the background for a bulk Ebay seller.
      So first off, I have never really given an introduction at all on the website - I feel like I am pretty predictable so you all know me by now (nothing special obviously, lol) - but I think understanding where I come from is important in understanding my viewpoints.
      I am 26 years old and I work as a network engineer for a large company in Alabama. I went through school for electrical engineering. This by no means indicates I am smart - I was actually overwhelmed for much of my college career. It more indicates my one talent : I am a hard worker with unlimited motivation. I am also a very analytically, statistical, and logical person when it comes to anything in my life, especially buying and selling Lego.
      Anyway, I got into Lego about a year ago after I saw some Star Wars sets and was amazed at the detail. I am a big Star Wars fan and the recreation was insane. Shortly after I found this site and got into everything I am into now (which is debt, lol),
      Fast forward: I got inspired to start selling on Ebay after finding some good clearance deals in July. I got several sets which I felt were not going to be great in the long run, but I could make a good amount of money parting out. I was already on Ebay and was fairly experienced at selling and running an "Ebay business" (I used to design and sell guitar equipment). Lego was definitely a different story - more on that below.
      So I started with selling those sets and it went really well. When the promo came out for September, along with all the new Star Wars sets, I saw a possibility to expand what I was doing. I had sold about 40 items over 2 months up until then. Over September, I ordered from S@H 12 times and as you can believe, my Ebay account really took off. This was on top of EE deals, Amazon gold box deals, etc. that I bought and either flipped or parted out. I also cruised Ebay and grabbed items that were under-priced to flip as well.
      I didn't really realize until the end of the month how crazy things has become: 150 transactions, close to 7K in sales (Although maybe $500 in profit and $500 in "free" lego sets, and a lot of missed sleep from packaging. Now most people who do as many different things as I do (I do all of them mediocre for that reason, Ha) would say "I should slow down". For some weird reason, this just fuels me. I thought "if I really work at this, I wonder what I could do".
      I sat down last week to look at my progress and was amazed. 488 Sales, 13K in sales, and I am thinking about hiring a shipping department. I now have an Ebay store, I am a power seller and top rated seller, and have established myself with a group of customers that order from me once a week or so.
      Now, this is in no way to tote myself up. I have said before, there are probably 100 people on this site who could do this better than me. I am not greedy, nor do I really care about money honestly. Its more of a motivation factor for me. However, since I have written many Ebay articles and have really discussed Ebay a lot, I wanted to offer more viewpoints from a seller with very high volume and an Ebay store (to get an idea of volume, 465 items in the last 62 days = 8 or so items selling per day).
      So first, I want to start with some Buying tips, advice, discussion - whatever you want to call it - to maybe give some buyers perspective on how a seller of this volume works and how we can all become better buyers. I want to say as well: this is absolutely an open discussion. I in no way think I am right about everything and I think only through discussion do we mold and change our views on things to where they need to be. So without further background:
      Reading a description is not just to the advantage of the buyer: It is a responsibility.
      Alright, I will go ahead and call out the hypocrisy police: we have all done this. I have publicly admitted to doing this. You should always do it because it protects you.
      There is a lot more to this though. A responsible seller (you will know who is and who isn't) has spent time to write the best description they can. It seriously can take a good deal of time. So reward their hard work by reading it. Why? Because it should be able to answer all the questions you have. As someone who receives somewhere near 20 offers a day, 4-5 questions, and with my selling capacity - it is really more disheartening to get a question from a buyer that is answered in the description. Time is money as we all know. Answering these questions takes more time on top of what has been spent creating the description for the item. Before you ask a question, you should make sure you understand the description.
      More importantly, don't only look at it from just your point of view. This is hard because you are obviously out for yourself, but try to think about things in the description from the point of the seller before you send an offer, before you ask a question, and before you buy an item in general. For example, I have gotten people complaining about first class being slow in certain cases (5 days). Now I would love to use priority, but are you going to purchase an item I have to price 3$ higher to make up for that? These things help a buyer understand where a seller is coming from, and helps the Ebay community.
      Read a seller's rules if they are in the description
      Again, I am really bad about this. But there is nothing more disheartening than selling an item and feeling that great feeling, and then getting a message saying "it says you don't ship internationally?", etc.
      These are actually important for a buyer themselves anyway. You can read a lot into the seriousness and integrity of a seller by reading their rules. This may make you feel better about "should be 100% complete" with a used set, or about how well they pack the item for shipping.
      Understand what constitutes a low offer
      Not everyone uses Best Offer. I love it, but it can be a drag sometimes. In general, I don't have a problem with low offers because they can be countered or declined. But I think it is a buyer's responsibility to think about what they offer before they offer.
      Let's look at a couple of situations:
      1. A seller is selling 30 sets they have had in their attic for 5 years for $500obo. They have a list and say "may be complete", but they are all thrown together.
      2. A buyer is selling a set currently on the retail market, at a 15% discount off retail already with Best Offer.
      To me, an offer of half the price or lower can easily be justified on the top one. But the bottom? very questionable. People are normally on Ebay to make money right? And we know there is no one on Ebay selling their current retail sets for half price or lower and making money.
      Now one low offer is really no big deal most of the time. I generally will decline if the offer is asinine (I have a gunship with no minifigures that someone offered 10$ on the other day. Not worth the time), but other times I will counter and be honest that I can't really discount it like that.
      However, when people repeatedly offer like this on items, counter back with another low ball offer, or send notes like " this is for my sons birthday" (yeah well I am not invited to the party?!?) with a low offer, this is not only frustrating, but again time consuming for a seller. And honestly, for me, it gets you on my banned bidders list.
      So whats the rule? Well there isn't any - its obviously a judgement call. What I have learned to do (and I didn't used to do this - I would definitely make unrealistic offers in the past) is to think before i press the offer button "can I justify WHY someone would sell this to me for this price without dreaming?". If I can't - its immediately amended.
      For me, when I get a good, well thought out and respectable offer, I generally will send the person a message and offer them discounts on other items because I am so happy to receive something that makes since. Offering 10$ for a $25 figure when it is already the cheapest on Ebay is not kosher. Adding to that, offering half the price on an item that already shows as "on sale" is in the same book.
      Responsibly open and close your cases
      So I will admit, when a customer opens a case for something I can easily resolve, it frustrates me. This is not on the buyer - Ebay pushes the buyer to do this. But, as a buyer I try to contact the seller first before opening a case.
      Furthermore, if the seller resolves the issue - close the case. Yes, they time out. But for a high volume seller, there could be several open at one time. I generally check through them to just make sure I don't have new ones I missed, or randomly have to respond. Having these promptly closed out lets a seller know everything has been taken care of.
      Understand mistakes in orders
      Out of 488 items, I have made 4 mistakes in orders. It happens. We all wish we didn't, but it just happens. As a buyer, I definitely get irritated if I am excited about something and it comes incorrectly (see my rants about people sending lego sets without a box). But we have to understand that we are not buying from Robots. Ebay makes it seem that way sometimes, but there are humans who make human errors on the other side of the internet we are buying from. It is really easy to make a mistake.
      As a buyer, it is important to contact the seller respectfully and treat the seller with respect. They aren't the McDonalds worker that just put onions on your cheeseburger. If you treat them with respect, they will take care of you. I take care of all my customers, but I definitely go farther for the people who contact me respectfully and just say "no big deal, it happens".
      This is not to say that you shouldn't stick up for yourself when the situation calls for it. But it is important for all of us to put ourselves in the shoes of the other person before we write to them (except for TRU because they are pretty awful).
      Leaving feedback is a responsibility to a seller and to the Ebay community
      We have had discussions about this. There are tons of reasons that you should leave feedback. But there is one major one that should really stand out : you are directly affecting a seller's bue seller.siness with the feedback you leave or don't.
      A good example can be read through a few of my positives. I have had several people leave "got item, poor packaging" or "very slow shipping" as positives. Don't get me wrong, I like positives. But the first was packaged like the other 300 minifigures I have sold and the second was purchased on a Friday night. I sent Monday and it got there Wednesday. As someone who advertises fast shipping and good packaging, this affects my selling (and yes I know no one reads positives, but you do see the points).
      More importantly when you leave a negative think about what you are doing. Negatives are the most damaging piece of feedback you can leave. Can you justify your feedback fully? Has the seller not tried to help you in every way possible? Was the problem in the sellers control? I am actually a feedback reader - I like to just randomly read people's feedback. Negatives like "slow shipping" or "item damaged in shipping" just make me wonder if the user ever even contacted the seller.
      Obviously you need to leave it. Not many, but definitely some people feel more comfortable buying fro sellers with a higher feedback rating. It literally takes 5 seconds to leave feedback and can make a big difference for a seller.
      Make sure you understand Ebay policy before accusing a seller of anything
      I like helping people that have a problem (I don't like creating the problem). I work in a support role - I live for making things better for people. So it is very disheartening when someone comes to me with a problem and tells me how I should resolve it, or how Ebay feels about it when they are completely wrong. It happens where buyers feel they are entitled to something they aren't, or will speak for Ebay on a situation without actually researching the policy before hand. It takes a very short amount of time to confirm Ebay's policy on something so make sure you know it before you tell a seller what they should and shouldn't be doing.
      Conclusion
      This is in no way meant to be a rant or meant to vent at all. I actually am going to write a second piece to this on Selling and advice for sellers and will be putting more on them now that I understand what should and shouldn't be expected of a seller.
      The real point in all of this is to put yourself in the seller's shoes in any situation. You aren't a volume seller? Maybe not, but you can think like one when you find a mistake, or decide how to leave feedback, read a description, or ask a question. Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is the only way to understand someone else completely. And understanding them will have benefits for everyone involved.
    • Ed Mack
      I wanted to start a dialogue about what I think many people are missing when they discuss any myriad of topics on this and other sites and that is the view of our ‘business’ from a distance, the big picture if you will. I'm not talking about a bubble bursting or not bursting conversation, but instead the changes in the Lego culture that have manifested over the past few years. I will start out by stating that I don't have all the answers, none of us do; but I think we need to start talking about this so that as more things come into light we are cognizant of it and can adjust accordingly. As a long time (and in my own right very successful) Lego reseller I constantly read articles and forums from a number of sites that tackle various issues as they arise, and while those are all valid in their own right and even have inklings of this topic, I haven’t seen a high level discussion on it.
      I guess for me it all came to a head with Azog, that lesser character from the books that was given a new life in the movies. 100 of his minifigure were given out 'randomly' at Comic-Con 2013 and as most us know, the prices went through the roof even outselling Mr. Gold within weeks. As prices spiked north of $2,000 people were clearly wanting in on this figure and I have no doubt that there were investors out there feeling their purchases at $1,000 were a steal. After all, Lego has always had a reputation for creating very special and limited figures for events and they have traditionally been a solid long term investment or purchase for many collectors. When the news came out that this same exact minifig was being released in an upcoming set there were immediate laughs and comments relating to how fast the prices would be dropping and that it didn’t matter for the resellers because they already made their money so who cares.
      Here’s where the problem starts. While I agree in this instance that’s true, what people are failing to realize is this one singular event will now FOREVER tarnish in people’s minds that they can never be certain that a "special edition" piece whether from Comic-Con, Toy Fair, or anywhere else is sacred. They (Lego) have now cast a doubt in every buyers mind, whether collector or seller and that has the very real possibility of preventing extreme selling of anything like this again. While I'm not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing and certainly prevents surging spikes in the market, it DOES guarantee that the effects will be felt one way or another long term which affects everyone. While it’s a different situation, this can and has been felt in other ways regarding sets that appreciate only to a certain point before dropping as ‘new’ releases are projected to hit the market.
      If you step back and really look at the big picture it's just another piece of the puzzle that Lego has figured out on how to mess with the secondary market. First it was re-releasing sets causing older version to fluctuate in pricing, then it was creating sets that were minifig centric thus affecting how minifigs and sets could be broken up for resale, followed by tightening the 10% off coupon restrictions removing the ability to purchase select sets at any kind of a discount, and now it's casting doubt that a limited release may not be so limited. Dare I mention the elusive 41999 Crawler set that has magically appeared at nearly every store nationwide 2 months after selling out resulting in a sudden price drop of nearly $100 online? I'm sure there are other instances that exist but let's be real about this, LEGO doesn't like us whether you call yourself an investor or reseller and they are strategically working to close the holes that have allowed many of us do business the way we do. Some will survive better than others, and like other times of change that usually weeds out the weak and make those who remain that much stronger but either way more changes whether subtle or obvious are sure to be on the way.
      In the end just remember the old adage about mice. If you drop a mouse in boiling water it’ll scream, claw, and fight every way it can to get out, but if you put him in warm water and slowly raise the temperature he won’t fight, kick, or scream….he’ll just die. I’m just here to tell you that we are currently in that warm water and they’re only turning up the heat more.
      What if anything can we do in response? The most common answer is of course, nothing. I’m sure there are countless resellers out there that either don’t care about my view of things or figure there’s no sense discussing it since they can’t change it anyway and that’s exactly what Lego is counting on. After all you don’t become the largest privately owned toy business without knowing your competition and how to eliminate it, and as I’ve said before make no mistake that YOU ARE THEIR COMPETION. No matter how or what you sell their company policy is that every single person who isn’t an end user is their competition and they are actively working to eliminate you from the retail equation, period.
      So where does that leave us and what can we actually do? I have some ideas I’ll outline in my next installment of “The View from 20,000 feet”.
    • Fcbarcelona101
      Out of curiosity, I started taking a look at TLG's annual financial reports available since 1999, and thought it would be interesting to show some graphs with the evolution of the company since then. This is not meant to be an in depth analysis, but rather a very visual and quick way of examining how these little bricks that occupy so much of our time have performed over the past decade (more than 12 years actually).
      I might get into more detail in further posts of whatever I find and consider interesting, we'll see. For now, here are some of the financial highlights, enjoy!: (Figures are in Millions of DKK)

      Talk about a comeback! I am sure a lot of you already knew that TLG has gone through some really bad times financially, but I think that the graph makes this even more apparent. What's more important though, is that LEGO has been presenting a substantial profit increase year after year (Not accounting for inflation). We should all be really happy the company is doing so well, as it can only benefit us in the long run!

      Another thing I found interesting relates to licensing fees. We all know LEGO is pretty active in acquiring popular licenses like Star Wars, LOTR and others, but that has not always been the case. If you take a look at the graph below, you will see (in the 1st one) that based in sheer dollar (actually, DKK) amount the company's licensing fees have shot up since 2004, while growth has sort of stabilized since 2009.

      On the other hand, the second graph shows licensing fee expense as a percentage of each year's revenue or sales. It is with this graph we can see that, sometime between 2004 and 2005, licensing fees increased substantially relative to sales, and have remained around 6.5% since. In summary, I would say that the most significant turn towards licensed themes happened sometime before 2005.
      As you can see, there are a lot of small and interesting details buried in the annual reports the company publishes. I hope I can take some more time to find some other things that can be of general interest to the site.
      I will leave you with a simple question: Can you guess, without researching, which was the top selling theme in 2002 and 2003?
      Post your guess in the comments!
      Thanks for reading.
    • Fcbarcelona101
      After a 2 month hiatus, it's time to see the current trends as far as best selling LEGO sets is concerned, based on eBay licensed information. This time, I will only include comments on those sets that are new to the list or that have experimented an special "event", as I can't really add too much information to, say, the 7965 MF's every single month. Let's get to it!
      September 2013 Top Ten
      1

      421 Sold (New)
      I don't really think anyone will be surprised to see this set in the top spot of the list. The hype and sales activity this Limited Edition set generated in the LEGO community reminded me of the craziness we saw when the first Minecraft set was released last year, but at a much larger scale given its substantially higher price.
      2

      168 Sold (New)
      3

      150 Sold (New)
      4

      147 Sold (New)
      This set has been dropping sharply as far as units sold is concerned. It will be interesting to see if the new versions released under the theme can help it pick up a little in the coming months.
      5

      128 Sold (New)
      This is an exclusive polybag to TRU, given out with qualifying purchases. These kind of products usually have a lot of activity immediately following their release, as the owners probably try to recoup some costs from the sets they purchased to earn it.
      6

      114 Sold (New)
      7

      8

      107 Sold (New)
      Another new member of the Best Sellers list, this particular set includes the always popular Two-Face, Batman and a couple other side characters. The set had a substantial jump in units sold, going from 50 to over 100 copies.
      9

      105 Sold (New)
      This little set was recently retired over the past couple months, and as such experimented a jump in sales numbers as collectors and investors rushed to avoid missing out on it.
      10

      105 Sold (New)
      One of the most talked about set in the forums, the Vampyre Castle's sales numbers are currently experiencing an upward trend, as October and Halloween season give a boost to demand. Definitely interesting to keep a watch and see how it does in October itself.
      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      And with that we close this month's list. A couple of new members in the list, but the majority of sets we have seen consistently over the past few months.
      Thanks for reading.


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