10188 - UCS: Death Star

[Val-E]

Maybe reseller returns then. Same thing will happen in 3 months at SAH when the Maze comes back into stock after all the resellers return theirs.

[Voltron]

If it's the new death star it's lost its "exclusivity" status even shorter than assault on hoth ,  which at least passed the 2 month mark.

Death star only officially released to public 1st October, so less than 2 months exclusive at SAH.

[Val-E]

It´s a webmaster doodie. You can´t actually add it to the cart so just a mistake.

Edited November 15, 2016 by Val-E

[Ciglione]

3 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Maybe reseller returns then. Same thing will happen in 3 months at SAH when the Maze comes back into stock after all the resellers return theirs.

We better be right about this Maze. Or we might be banned indefinitely next year.

[Val-E]

1 minute ago, Ciglione said:

We better be right about this Maze. Or we might be banned indefinitely next year.

"Sometimes you have to be wrong to be right" D. Trump

[Legojona]

1 minute ago, Val-E said:

"Sometimes you have to be wrong to be right" D. Trump

Have to suppress the urge to post his "wrong" gif here

[Val-E]

5 minutes ago, Ciglione said:

We better be right about this Maze. Or we might be banned indefinitely next year.

Why do you think TLG didn´t put the retiring soon tag on in Europe? So as to allow it to go quietly and not be faced with a 90 day returns barrage that would look like one of @TabbyBoy ´s Tesco click and collect orders. 

[Ciglione]

7 minutes ago, Legojona said:

Have to suppress the urge to post his "wrong" gif here

I will take responsibility...

 

[Val-E]

So, almost a year after confirmation of 75159 remake, where doe everyone stand with this set? Who was able to sell for a proft, who sold at break even or loss and who is still holding and why?

[Guest xuesongc]

I sold 5 of them at break even and still own 5... because I can't find anyone to sell them to

[landphieran]

Sold the thirteen I had. Made about 40$ each. It prompted me to dump my tower bridges, palace cinemas and various high ticket items collecting dust with which I view don't have bright futures.

[Val-E]

I had 5 and sold them all at a profit. The worst one only turned 70 euros clean profit but I feel fortunate as I was able to sell 3 at a good price before the sky fell in.

Definitely lessons learned going forward.

[bigboy61]

I have one. I haven't sold it because I don't think I can break even if I sell it. I think it will eventually be worth something when the newer one goes.

[micbelt]

I only had 4, keeping 1, traded 1 for figures from cloud city including printed boba fett, sending the other 2 into fba. Buy in was roughly $275 each so will make money on the sold ones. Before 75159 it looked like they would already be over $600 and now they are $487 on fba.

[boliramirez]

I had 11 I sold 8 for a little over $800 , and last week  I sold another one for $650 locally... my buy in was on average $300.  No regrets as this set never was sold in Mexico... I will keep one for me and one for the long run...

[fantomas007]

I had 10 pieces and sold all for EUR 400-450 immediately after first leaked pictures of new sh.t came. Buy-in was around EUR 336. I was ready to sell them for almost any price, even for EUR 300 with some loss, because:

- it will take ages while new 75159 will retire - it can be again 8 years

- once the 75159 is retired, it will take ages while the prices go higher

- after 10-15 years of waiting, new customers will prefer the new 75159 to old 10188

- the market is flooded by 10188 and will be flooded by 75159, so the increase will be very slow

- there is still a risk of new remake of this set

- keeping such expensive sets for a long time is horrible investment policy - if i sell 10188 even for EUR 300, in 10-15 years i can turn this amount in better sets, which bring me much more than the market price of 10188 after 10-15 years.

So i think only fools will keep this set and only fools will buy it in future.

[justapilgrim]

Builders will buy it

[KShine]

I just purchased another one a couple days ago.

Selling them as well (when an offer is worth it) - but not in any rush.

There are still lots of ways to pull profit from this set.

Don't get me wrong - 10188 has been an overall disaster (when I get my time machine working, I won't be buying them again).

Edited March 30, 2017 by KShine

[justapilgrim]

I still have two. If anyone wants one for $399 and shipping send me a pM

[Val-E]

5 hours ago, KShine said:

I just purchased another one a couple days ago.

Selling them as well (when an offer is worth it) - but not in any rush.

There are still lots of ways to pull profit from this set.

Don't get me wrong - 10188 has been an overall disaster (when I get my time machine working, I won't be buying them again).

Post your buy-in price or it didn´t happen!

[KShine]

3 hours ago, Val-E said:

Post your buy-in price or it didn´t happen!

Overall avg is around 329, but the one I just got was a steal (200), so I couldn't resist. 

[Val-E]

Yes, indeed. At that price I´d be in for 3 too. Any clue as to why it was so cheap? NISB?

[KShine]

10 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Yes, indeed. At that price I´d be in for 3 too. Any clue as to why it was so cheap? NISB?

Yes, NISB - It had been a gift for someones kid (who never opened it), it eventually sat in a closet for a number of years before the sellers must have decided to clean out their closet.

This still does happen, but not nearly as often (or as absurdly) as it used to. It was once pretty common to find the early UCS, Modulars, Sculptures, etc. at around cost

Turning $100 into $800-$1,000 - Now that was like striking gold.

[Val-E]

Yeah, they are by no means worthless if bought at 30% off or better but anyone who paid RRP or over is in for a long and bumpy ride if they missed the selling window.

We´ll see how original UCS Snowspeeder and Falcon values also drop this year.

 

[exciter1]

24 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Yeah, they are by no means worthless if bought at 30% off or better but anyone who paid RRP or over is in for a long and bumpy ride if they missed the selling window.

We´ll see how original UCS Snowspeeder and Falcon values also drop this year.

 

I feel very fortunate the Amazon scammers were not as prevalent in the big LEGO set market as they are now.  I was able to get rid of my 10+ over a 2-3 week period and squeeked out a profit.