71012 - Minifigures - Disney: Series 1

[hockeypunk05]

Full price... I'm just dreading the time to smoosh them all.

[donbee]

Full price... I'm just dreading the time to smoosh them all.

Yeah. I QFed Disney and 16, I passed on Batman though because of all the smooshing. Don't have the time for it. I have a couple dozen I still have t smoothed yet.

[AirborneAFOL]

Full price... I'm just dreading the time to smoosh them all.

I've gone with the ~1/2 inch incision, just enough to peer inside to confirm contents, on about 250 total CMF's. Always include a (stock) pic of the "sliced bag", and explicit about it in the listing description. I've gotten about 95% the going "NISB" rate on them, and never had a buyer complain (2-3 even said they prefer that over a heavy smooshed foil pack).

Well worth it in my opinion. The extra time and headache of smooshing, plus eliminating the risk of a mistake, more than makes up for the 1-4 nickles of profit you miss out on.

[cladner]

21 minutes ago, AirborneAFOL said:

I've gone with the ~1/2 inch incision, just enough to peer inside to confirm contents, on about 250 total CMF's. Always include a (stock) pic of the "sliced bag", and explicit about it in the listing description. I've gotten about 95% the going "NISB" rate on them, and never had a buyer complain (2-3 even said they prefer that over a heavy smooshed foil pack).

Well worth it in my opinion. The extra time and headache of smooshing, plus eliminating the risk of a mistake, more than makes up for the 1-4 nickles of profit you miss out on.

depends how fast you smoosh and where you sell.  these are hands down the easiest minifigures to smoosh.  amazon is taking away the condition notes where you can describe your product in detail - this is where you mention that the foils have been snipped a little to confirm the identifty .  once that happens, and someone orders a set from you expecting sealed minifigures and they get the slit opened one, A-Z comes knocking because the item is opened and your metrics take a hit.  if not selling on amazon, then yes it probably is worth it to do the slit id method because otherwise you could get scammed by someone saying they didn't get an Ariel and got 2 Mr. Incredibles.  the price differential on amazon between sealed and slit is currently $10 - less than 10% of the sale price.

Edited March 5, 2017 by cladner

[AirborneAFOL]

depends how fast you smoosh and where you sell.

Fair point. The sliced pack approach is definitely eBay-centric.

[Loghamel]

21 hours ago, cladner said:

amazon is taking away the condition notes where you can describe your product in detail - this is where you mention that the foils have been snipped a little to confirm the identifty .  

Are you sure?  The ones I've sold are in the product description, not in the condition notes for each seller.

Description:

• Complete set of LEGO Disney Series Minifigures (18 total)
• Packages opened to verify character's identity, then resealed in poly-bags.
• Comes with ALL original accessories and paper inserts.
• LEGO Minifigures are SMALL 2" in size

vs. 

Condtion notes

Opened to verify and placed into new ziplocks with all accessories and paper inserts

[exciter1]

Are you sure?  The ones I've sold are in the product description, not in the condition notes for each seller.
Description:

• Complete set of LEGO Disney Series Minifigures (18 total)
• Packages opened to verify character's identity, then resealed in poly-bags.
• Comes with ALL original accessories and paper inserts.
• LEGO Minifigures are SMALL 2" in size

vs. 
Condtion notes
Opened to verify and placed into new ziplocks with all accessories and paper inserts

Yep, that'll be going away.

[Loghamel]

2 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

Yep, that'll be going away.

Right, but not this, correct?

Description:

• Complete set of LEGO Disney Series Minifigures (18 total)
• Packages opened to verify character's identity, then resealed in poly-bags.
• Comes with ALL original accessories and paper inserts.
• LEGO Minifigures are SMALL 2" in size

[cladner]

1 minute ago, Loghamel said:

Are you sure?  The ones I've sold are in the product description, not in the condition notes for each seller.

Description:

• Complete set of LEGO Disney Series Minifigures (18 total)
• Packages opened to verify character's identity, then resealed in poly-bags.
• Comes with ALL original accessories and paper inserts.
• LEGO Minifigures are SMALL 2" in size

vs. 

Condtion notes

Opened to verify and placed into new ziplocks with all accessories and paper inserts

Condition notes are going away.  Many sellers on amazon put notes here because when you pull up the list of different buyers the comments under condition notes are easy to find.

 

The description notes are much further down on the page and from what i can see, specific description notes only show up on the page if you have the box.

 

[Loghamel]

I'm not sure how much more obvious to a buyer it could be?  It says right there in the product description what it is.  And this is on the product page, regardless of who has the buy-box.  To get to the list of sellers with their various condition notes, you'd have to go through this page.

 

[Bold-Arrow]

from a technical point of view, that listing is in violation.

Condition guidlines for "new" per amazon policies :

New:

Just like it sounds. A brand-new, unused, unopened item in its original packaging, with all original packaging materials included. Original protective wrapping, if any, is intact. Original manufacturer's warranty, if any, still applies, with warranty details included in the listing comments.

[fossilrock]

21 hours ago, cladner said:

depends how fast you smoosh and where you sell.  these are hands down the easiest minifigures to smoosh.  amazon is taking away the condition notes where you can describe your product in detail - this is where you mention that the foils have been snipped a little to confirm the identifty .  once that happens, and someone orders a set from you expecting sealed minifigures and they get the slit opened one, A-Z comes knocking because the item is opened and your metrics take a hit.  if not selling on amazon, then yes it probably is worth it to do the slit id method because otherwise you could get scammed by someone saying they didn't get an Ariel and got 2 Mr. Incredibles.  the price differential on amazon between sealed and slit is currently $10 - less than 10% of the sale price.

I've sold many complete sets in the bag on amazon, and never had a request for a return, nor any scams..

[cladner]

22 minutes ago, Loghamel said:

I'm not sure how much more obvious to a buyer it could be?  It says right there in the product description what it is.  And this is on the product page, regardless of who has the buy-box.  To get to the list of sellers with their various condition notes, you'd have to go through this page.

 

 

I'm imagining this page where you can see which seller has the best rating for the lowest price - brickvago.,,,

 

it appears you are selling on a different listing then the one I am selling on.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 6, 2017 by cladner

[exciter1]

11 minutes ago, Bold-Arrow said:

from a technical point of view, that listing is in violation.

Condition guidlines for "new" per amazon policies :

New:

Just like it sounds. A brand-new, unused, unopened item in its original packaging, with all original packaging materials included. Original protective wrapping, if any, is intact. Original manufacturer's warranty, if any, still applies, with warranty details included in the listing comments.

Yep, I assume this listing is a goner at some point.

[Loghamel]

15 minutes ago, Bold-Arrow said:

from a technical point of view, that listing is in violation.

Condition guidlines for "new" per amazon policies :

New:

Just like it sounds. A brand-new, unused, unopened item in its original packaging, with all original packaging materials included. Original protective wrapping, if any, is intact. Original manufacturer's warranty, if any, still applies, with warranty details included in the listing comments.

 

3 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

Yep, I assume this listing is a goner at some point.

I'll get worried when I don't see 17 listings for every LEGO set.  If I lose access to selling minifigs cut to verify, but also lose multi-listings for every other LEGO set, I'll be giddy.  I'll take that trade-off any day.

Edited March 6, 2017 by Loghamel

[jaylay]

Anyone still seeing these in the wild? Came across a box today and just picked what I needed. Depending on buy in, you can double your money right now on certain figs.

[Phil B]

6 minutes ago, jaylay said:

Anyone still seeing these in the wild? Came across a box today and just picked what I needed. Depending on buy in, you can double your money right now on certain figs.

My Target still has 50+ cases

 

[jaylay]

My Target still has 50+ cases
 

Dang! Where u at again?!

[Phil B]

5 minutes ago, jaylay said:

Dang! Where u at again?!

Exciter's backyard.....

[Alpinemaps]

20 minutes ago, jaylay said:

Dang! Where u at again?!

I've got TRUs here in SoCal with tons of them as well.

Edit:  These same TRUs have Series 16, 17, and 18 out at the same time, too.

[oneknightr]

I haven't been to TRU in a while but my two local Targets have been cleared out of them for a while now.

[ravenb99]

The lack of interest in sealed cases is not encouraging.  

[hockeypunk05]

I'm thinking Disney fans have their favorites either from the classics or new and that's all they want. I've been winning with Maleficent and Buzz.

[feed]

Sealed cases are moving at around £250+ each here already.  CMF’s usually stick at retail for a long time based on discounted eol sales.  I moved a case of 13, for example, at £150 a couple of weeks ago, my buy in was £80, but still.  Disney were much harder to track down discounted at EOL.  

Shame there is no way to teleport those target cases over here.  Shipping and import duty would kill the margin.   
 

[JDLego324]

In the US market, the lowballers, mostly from Canada, have kept prices below retail. 

A 2nd series, no matter what the supply of the 1st series out there, would be very good for aftermarket prices.