What Lego set did you sell today and for how much?

[brickvoyeur]

Quote

I'll read the Nightmare Before Christmas story this year, kids. 

Twas the night before Clearance
And all through the aisle
Steamrollers were packed
Into my cart like a pile

Exo Suits were hung
In the storage with care
Knowing that in a decade
They still will be there

Sergeant Jyn Erso was nestled
Deep under my bed 
With terrible proportions
And a face that looks dead

Wonder woman in her armor
And cheetah in her cap
The lasso of truth will tell you
That this set is pure crap

When out on my doorstep
A noise shook me awake
ShopJustice still delivering Olaf
Flat as a pancake

Faster shipping than FedEx
The turds as they came
I cried and I pouted
As I called them by name

"Now, Dots! now, Mario! 
Now Lego Movie 1 and 2!
On, Raiders! on, Mighty Dinos! 
On, Takodana and constractables too!

To the depths of the dumpster! 
Stacked 50 feet tall
Now throw away! throw away! 
throw away all!"

Each year I make efforts
To donate a bit more
But Toys for tots sends a bill
For returning them to my door

Since I can't give them away
I'll dig a big pit
It's the final solution
To get rid of this sh!t

I shook as I laughed
At the thought of relieving this pain
It was nearly 3am
So I looked quite insane

As I poured the kerosene
I cheered with delight
"I'll light you on fire,
So you're out of my sight"
 

Edited December 7, 2022 by brickvoyeur

[cladner]

33 minutes ago, jaylay said:

My two cents. Anyone bailing on 10240 should at least wait to list during opening weekend of rogue one. Guaranteed many people will be looking for an original trilogy xwing!!

totally agree.  it's also not surprisng that 10240 hasn't shot up so soon. They were still available sporadically on amazon in late December 2015 and early January of this year for MSRP when I bought another one.  The set was out for 3 years.  The market is saturated.  It will do nothing  until the seller counts go down.  This is just how it plays out.  The only bright side is UCS X-wings are on a 13 year remake schedule so there should be a few years of decent profit once seller count gets into the 70s (instead of 136 like right now under the main listing).  hopefully all these lowballers in the mid200s will get their stock whacked by Rogue1.

Edited December 3, 2016 by cladner

[tjj1984]

20 minutes ago, cladner said:

They were still available sporadically on amazon in late December 2015 and early January of this year for MSRP when I bought another one.  The set was out for 3 years.  The market is saturated. 

My interest in LEGO was renewed last December. I was never able to get one at retail, so I've been keeping my eye on the secondary market prices. They're actually cheaper now than they were 10 months ago.

[cladner]

1 hour ago, tjj1984 said:

My interest in LEGO was renewed last December. I was never able to get one at retail, so I've been keeping my eye on the secondary market prices. They're actually cheaper now than they were 10 months ago.

weaker exclusives experience a seasonal slide which this one is certainly going through.  it's not going to get any better until stock and seller count is cut in half.  i have 24x 10240s hanging out listening to bob dylan.  lazy money hippies.  putting money in 10240 has certainly not been like "putting it to work".  more like sending it to club med.

on a plus note i sold a creative suitcase for $89 FBM.  buyin $35.  glad to be finally moving these.  need more space for the 10697s.

Edited December 3, 2016 by cladner

[Frank Brickowski]

15 hours ago, TabbyBoy said:

1x 10240 Red 5 X-Wing for £170 cash - 1p profit but, VERY glad to reclaim space!

67 to go ;-(

Why is this fantastic set so difficult to get rid of? Do most SW fans now have turds for brains or what?

Maybe it's because LEGO never sold a single SW set to any SW fan but only to resellers. Maybe the whole theme, maybe TLG's whole business is carried by investors.

[Frank Brickowski]

6 hours ago, Fenix_2k1 said:

Surely the whole point of brickvesting is finding people who are prepared to pay a premium for a set they want. I wouldn't class them as fools though. 

I'd say the percentage of fools amongst LEGO fans is at least as high as that of fools in the average population, which means there are indeed a lot of "blockheads" amongst people buying retired LEGO sets.

[Frank Brickowski]

7 hours ago, Deadfraggle said:

o Like others have said, lots of competition for your buyer's money in the SW UCS line alone. At the end of the day, the average consumer probably has a finite budget for LEGO purchases in a given month/quarter/year. A new investor/collector (I'll assume the more seasoned veterans picked up the Red-5 during it's retail lifespan) could drop something like $1700 U.S. dollars to purchase the six currently available sets. Throw in the other large exclusives for your buyer's consideration  and the choices are not only staggering, but likely financially overwhelming.

That is a wise assessment which TLG will hopefully consider regarding the size of their future (SW) portfolio.

[pete411]

Red 5 is a turd and will continue being a turd for years to come. I should have realized this back in April 2015 when I asked the Lego Store employee that I regularly shoot the **** with how R5 was selling. His reply was... "Not at all. I still have dozens of stock in the back room with early 2014 seals. I haven't sold one in over a month... I mean cmon, the price is ridiculous. It should be $150 at most."

Sigh. Should have listened to him but I walked out with a R5 and ToO instead.

[Scatterbug]

8 hours ago, Fenix_2k1 said:

Surely the whole point of brickvesting is finding people who are prepared to pay a premium for a set they want. I wouldn't class them as fools though. 

Of course and very happy for Manse. The buyers are fools for not getting the set one week ago for £30 less. But fools and their money.....

[Ciglione]

2 hours ago, pete411 said:

Red 5 is a turd and will continue being a turd for years to come. I should have realized this back in April 2015 when I asked the Lego Store employee that I regularly shoot the **** with how R5 was selling. His reply was... "Not at all. I still have dozens of stock in the back room with early 2014 seals. I haven't sold one in over a month... I mean cmon, the price is ridiculous. It should be $150 at most."

Sigh. Should have listened to him but I walked out with a R5 and ToO instead.

So there are not only fools amongst Lego fans or overall population. There are also fools amongst lego resellers. And we are even worse. Cause we seem to follow eachother's foolness blindly without thinking. 

I guess the latter is slowly changing for the better. Especially when seeing the retiring soon sets still being available.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

2 hours ago, pete411 said:

Red 5 is a turd and will continue being a turd for years to come. I should have realized this back in April 2015 when I asked the Lego Store employee that I regularly shoot the **** with how R5 was selling. His reply was... "Not at all. I still have dozens of stock in the back room with early 2014 seals. I haven't sold one in over a month... I mean cmon, the price is ridiculous. It should be $150 at most."

Sigh. Should have listened to him but I walked out with a R5 and ToO instead.

It's not a turd, it's a work of art. The turds are LEGO for producing 10,000,000 too many and resellers not charging enough! Even the "cheap" non-UCS one sells for more - what's wrong with people?

Again, the selling window was missed!

[Furious_george]

15 minutes ago, TabbyBoy said:

It's not a turd, it's a work of art. The turds are LEGO for producing 10,000,000 too many and resellers not charging enough! Even the "cheap" non-UCS one sells for more - what's wrong with people?

Again, the selling window was missed!

I'm sure LEGO are gutted they sold 10,000,000 too many.

[roxio]

First 3 Spaceports 60080 -   £35 each cash local sales (£11 buy in)

 

[Manse1001]

Yeah I'm not sure you can class Red5 as a turd, I sold one a few months ago for £300, that was a over 100% profit. Granted I didn't go too deep on them but if purchased back in the good old days when Argos were knocking these out for £99 that is a tidy profit!! As mentioned, wait until rogue one and I'm sure it will spike.

[Martae54]

10 hours ago, sunkenbrick said:

I hope you are right because there is plenty of stock at Amazon warehouses.

 

If 1 out of 10,000 people that see Rogue One want a UCS x-wing to display, that supply won't last long. I think she is about to take off personally.  

[zskid00]

Red 5 standing by...

[mudcatsfan]

10 hours ago, sunkenbrick said:

I hope you are right because there is plenty of stock at Amazon warehouses.

 

How do you search that info??? 

 

I've always wondered if that was possible and was told it's not.

Thanks if you can share.

[California92563]

5 hours ago, pete411 said:

Red 5 is a turd and will continue being a turd for years to come. I should have realized this back in April 2015 when I asked the Lego Store employee that I regularly shoot the **** with how R5 was selling. His reply was... "Not at all. I still have dozens of stock in the back room with early 2014 seals. I haven't sold one in over a month... I mean cmon, the price is ridiculous. It should be $150 at most."

Sigh. Should have listened to him but I walked out with a R5 and ToO instead.

Do you know why it's a turd? One word, stickers. Lol

[BrickLegacy]

2 minutes ago, mudcatsfan said:

How do you search that info??? 

 

I've always wondered if that was possible and was told it's not.

Thanks if you can share.

Add to cart, change quantity.

[biking_tiger]

18 minutes ago, Martae54 said:

If 1 out of 10,000 people that see Rogue One want a UCS x-wing to display, that supply won't last long. I think she is about to take off personally.  

Didn't we have a similar discussion about R2 last year? 

[asharerin]

5 minutes ago, biking_tiger said:

Didn't we have a similar discussion about R2 last year? 

I have never seen a movie cause a spike in a retired Lego set's price. All the new movie will do is cause more clueless resellers to list in expectation of a spike and drive the price further down. A spike will happen once excess stocks are cleared. Going to be a few more years for Red 5, possibly longer if TLG keeps making mistakes and damaging the brand and its collectability.

[exciter1]

21 minutes ago, biking_tiger said:

Didn't we have a similar discussion about R2 last year? 

$600, book it!

[biking_tiger]

8 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

$600, book it!

I thought it was closer to $1200, but half off. 

[Ciglione]

12 minutes ago, asharerin said:

I have never seen a movie cause a spike in a retired Lego set's price. All the new movie will do is cause more clueless resellers to list in expectation of a spike and drive the price further down. A spike will happen once excess stocks are cleared. Going to be a few more years for Red 5, possibly longer if TLG keeps making mistakes and damaging the brand and its collectability.

Post of the day!

And we already had a new movie last year. 

How many new Star Wars movies need to come out? 4 each year?

A good set is a winner even without a movie. 

Hence, I believe Lego City is the best selling theme ever. I cannot recall any movie about that theme.

Edited December 3, 2016 by Ciglione

[Val-E]

9 minutes ago, biking_tiger said:

I thought it was closer to $1200, but half off. 

That was Seacow based on first two weeks of Jan 2016 growth being sustained through the whole year!

[asharerin]

48 minutes ago, mudcatsfan said:

How do you search that info??? 

 

I've always wondered if that was possible and was told it's not.

Thanks if you can share.

Checkout the "How Many" app extension on the google chrome extension store. Free version only gives 5 free daily uses but it will give you an idea of its usefulness (you can uninstall and reinstall as many times as you want to keep trying it out). Paid extension is well worth it for the time it saves us.