10188 - UCS: Death Star

[Brenner]

17 hours ago, Follows Closely said:

Build it! It will be forever etched in her childhood memories.

Time to cut the seals haha.

Teacher: "What did you do this weekend?"

My daughter: "Build a Lego Star Wars Death Star with my dad.....tataaaa tatatataaata tatatata" (yes I hummed while writing this)

Teacher: "......wtf?"

[denosya]

I can do it.

[Legojona]

On 8-9-2016 at 2:12 AM, newbie77 said:

If one don't have tolerance and need to bail then it's better to cut losses and move. Otherwise hold.

eventually, when dust settles 10188 is not evaporating. It's appreciation won't be what we all expected but I personally believe that it would be worth $599 in us. I may be in the minority who believes in this valuation.

Slightly cheaper than this one  http://www.ebay.nl/itm/252497009668?clk_rvr_id=1091102612415&item=252497009668&lgeo=1&vectorid=229557

[dcdfan]

Currently lowest listing on eBay is $429.99

[asharerin]

1 minute ago, dcdfan said:

Currently lowest listing on eBay is $429.99

Approaching my buy price. Not long to go now.

Edited September 11, 2016 by asharerin

[dcdfan]

4 minutes ago, asharerin said:

Approaching my buy price. Not long to go now.

Maybe he'd be willing to trade outside of eBay. You could probably just ask him on here.

 

 

Edited September 11, 2016 by dcdfan

[asharerin]

2 minutes ago, dcdfan said:

I'm pretty sure he'd be willing to trade outside of eBay. You could probably just ask him on here.

Still $85 away from where I need to be. I can wait.

[denosya]

On 10/09/2016 at 1:02 PM, denosya said:

I can do it.

Done ! Alleluia.

[tractorboy]

19 minutes ago, denosya said:

Done ! Alleluia.

Is that your listing? How are you shipping Death Stars for €4.30?

[Guest TabbyBoy]

I can't wait until this thread is locked and forgotten. I really can't understand the appeal in this dreadful "Dolls House" and the huge £125(ish) mark-up that Disney have placed on the new one. I bet y'all wish you'd bought Exo-Suits instead.

[pete411]

2 hours ago, TabbyBoy said:

I can't wait until this thread is locked and forgotten. I really can't understand the appeal in this dreadful "Dolls House" and the huge £125(ish) mark-up that Disney have placed on the new one. I bet y'all wish you'd bought Exo-Suits instead.

I've sold 3 locally on Craigslist for $420. My average buy in was $340 and my hold was a year. That's 23.5% profit and I only needed to make three transactions for $240 profit. The Death Star will always sell unlike exo-suit, which has zero demand. I'll sell my last two for $450 during the holidays. I'm quite sure they'll sell since they're cheaper that the new one. If these hit $350, I'm a buyer.

Edited September 11, 2016 by pete411

[kris_1973]

$399.99+$15 shipping on Amazon.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002EEP3NO/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

Only 67% positive rating.

[jmdt]

I had someone offer me $275 on craigslist. No way! Although I wish it had gone differently, I have no problems waiting

[Val-E]

Still no takers on beating my 550 euro sale from last week?

[Chillreign]

Can't compete with the 550.

But sold my only one for 480 shipped via Ebay last week.
Buy-In at 320 so I got round about 100€ which is ok for a 1 year hold and the desaster around this set  I can live and move on with that.

Now I'm out of the the DS game and maybe it's time to crawl some sand  

[dcdfan]

$399.99+$15 shipping on Amazon.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002EEP3NO/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

Only 67% positive rating.

This is the same guy that's been doing this for two weeks on Amazon. "Racingforthebottom"

[denosya]

15 hours ago, tractorboy said:

Is that your listing? How are you shipping Death Stars for €4.30?

http://www.mondialrelay.fr/envoi-de-colis/envoyez-vos-commandes-ebay-en-toute-simplicité-/

(even if it is 7.5€ for a 10kg eBay item, but it works in Italy too)

 

Edited September 12, 2016 by denosya

[denosya]

13 hours ago, pete411 said:

If these hit $350, I'm a buyer.

So am I !

[Manse1001]

Just out interest, for those that have this model on display, is anyone considering bricklinking the extra few hundred pieces to bring it up to speed with 75159? Cheese slopes and obvious jokes aside, the turbo laser, occasional guide rail and redesigned Tie may be worth an upgrade as long as they don't use any new or rare parts? Thoughts?

[exciter1]

3 minutes ago, Manse1001 said:

Just out interest, for those that have this model on display, is anyone considering bricklinking the extra few hundred pieces to bring it up to speed with 75159? Cheese slopes and obvious jokes aside, the turbo laser, occasional guide rail and redesigned Tie may be worth an upgrade as long as they don't use any new or rare parts? Thoughts?

I'm just waiting for 50% off.

[Manse1001]

I'm just waiting for 50% off.

Well yeah there is that of course!! But for those of us that already own 10188 and have it on display and are therefore unlikely to buy into 75159 (even at half price) I was just wondering if anyone was considering an 'upgrade kit'.

[Val-E]

8 hours ago, Manse1001 said:

Well yeah there is that of course!! But for those of us that already own 10188 and have it on display and are therefore unlikely to buy into 75159 (even at half price) I was just wondering if anyone was considering an 'upgrade kit'.

I am sure that when the parts list comes out, some enterprising Ebayers will start selling upgrade packs - at 100 USD for 213 parts, there´s enough meat on the bone.

[citymorgue]

On ‎9‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 4:23 PM, Manse1001 said:

Just out interest, for those that have this model on display, is anyone considering bricklinking the extra few hundred pieces to bring it up to speed with 75159? Cheese slopes and obvious jokes aside, the turbo laser, occasional guide rail and redesigned Tie may be worth an upgrade as long as they don't use any new or rare parts? Thoughts?

As an owner and displayer of this set, I can say quite confidently that no, I will not bother 'upgrading' it to the newer version.  I just don't care that much for mostly cosmetic changes.  Even at 50% off, I still wouldn't touch it.  If you gave me the batcave or the Ass of Hoth for 50% off, I would consider biting on those because at least with that I don't own a variation of them.

[jerryherb]

has anyone been successful in submitting a sh*t review for this *new* garbage on SAH yet?

Edited September 15, 2016 by jerryherb

[Brickalicious]

23 hours ago, citymorgue said:

As an owner and displayer of this set, I can say quite confidently that no, I will not bother 'upgrading' it to the newer version.  I just don't care that much for mostly cosmetic changes.  Even at 50% off, I still wouldn't touch it.  If you gave me the batcave or the Ass of Hoth for 50% off, I would consider biting on those because at least with that I don't own a variation of them.

Is the Ass of Hoth the part of the planet we didn't see in the movie? You know: the place where the sun don't shine...