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

[TANV]

Pardon the non-Star Wars interjection, I just sold a 31052 Vacation Getaway off Craiglist for $60.  Buy in was about 42. Plenty of grandmothers out needing gifts for their grandchildren.

[MarleyMoose]

Ebay:  HALO 97115 UNSC Mantis for $70 shipped. Paid under $17 for it.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

20x 10240 R5 X-Wings for £169.99 each to a local toy dealer - VERY glad to get rid of them!

50x 75105 MF for £55 each to the same guy that just this minute called me - £25 profit on each.

Call me stupid but, I think job-lots without having to worry about packing/fees/tax is the way forward. The deals above just netted me £1,250 in cash.

My recent Tesco haul will go the same way once the QFLLs (like me) have buggered off.

I am no longer a holder of sets as it's now all about the timing than the holding. We're now in an era of depreciation if you're not on the ball ;-)

EDIT: He's also taking all 12 of my Tower Bridges at £140 each (break-even), I will NOT buy again as I stated a few days ago. I've had enough, bail time!

Edited December 3, 2016 by TabbyBoy

[roxio]

£18 x 3 Supergirl polys ebay

£25 x 3 PS4 Dimension start kits local FB groups

Total buy in £60 (argos 3for2)

[Ciglione]

Sold my last 6860 Batcave.

Until we meet again in January!

[NanaToyDr]

I lately purchased the Monsters Fighters Haunted House in a bulk sale.  I ended up making the Vampire
Castle and several other Monsters Fighters smaller sets.  I paid &299.00.  I think I am making out like a bandit LOL

We Ladies are here in the sidelines.  We only talk when we have something great to say!!!

[Jeffrey_Dollars]

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.

Wasn't Emmet a Lego City construction worker?

[Ciglione]

10 minutes ago, Jeffrey_Dollars said:

Wasn't Emmet a Lego City construction worker?

Sigh... yeah... you are right. Emmet is the reason of Lego City's succes.

[Val-E]

39 minutes ago, Ciglione said:

Sigh... yeah... you are right. Emmet is the reason of Lego City's succes.

Telll Benny to stay well away AWAY AWAAAY from City then.

[Ciglione]

3 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Telll Benny to stay well away AWAY AWAAAY from City then.

Well... maybe that caused the recent downfall of Star Wars sets.

Cause people associate Star Wars to spaceships and spaceships to Benny.

Edited December 3, 2016 by Ciglione

[doon73]

6 hours ago, asharerin said:

All the new movie will do is cause more clueless resellers to list in expectation of a spike and drive the price further down.

With almost 70,00 members on this website and another 400 added this week alone (circa 20,000 a year at that rate) I'm not sure how clueless these resellers actually are. Anyone can buy anything and think they can sell it on, yes, but I'd hazard a guess that at least 50% of resellers are not as clueless as you make out.

[Voltron]

17 minutes ago, doon73 said:

With almost 70,00 members on this website and another 400 added this week alone (circa 20,000 a year at that rate) I'm not sure how clueless these resellers actually are. Anyone can buy anything and think they can sell it on, yes, but I'd hazard a guess that at least 50% of resellers are not as clueless as you make out.

The majority of new people that get into lego investing haven't sold on ebay / amazon before. Buying is easy, selling is when most realise they aren't cut out for lego investing. Most people can't be bothered with the hassle of selling and aren't use to the realities of a sellers life i.e. packaging and posting sets/ waiting at posy office / dealing with fussy buyers / lost items / chargeback etc.

 

[donbee]

£18 x 3 Supergirl polys ebay
£25 x 3 PS4 Dimension start kits local FB groups
Total buy in £60 (argos 3for2)

£18! I hope it doesn't get that low here. I was sad to see them at $33 shipped. I guess no hold for me. Gotta sell through them. She'll have her own fun pack this time next year.

[doon73]

6 minutes ago, Mhd747 said:

The majority of new people that get into lego investing haven't sold on ebay / amazon before. Buying is easy, selling is when most realise they aren't cut out for lego investing. Most people can't be bothered with the hassle of selling and aren't use to the realities of a sellers life i.e. packaging and posting sets/ waiting at posy office / dealing with fussy buyers / lost items / chargeback etc.

 

And how do you know that? Not picking an argument btw - if I look on eBay for example, most resellers on there have more than a few feedback so I'm surmising that they have 'some' experience in what they're doing. 

[Ciglione]

Just now, doon73 said:

And how do you know that? Not picking an argument btw - if I look on eBay for example, most resellers on there have more than a few feedback so I'm surmising that they have 'some' experience in what they're doing. 

Feedback from buying or selling?

If one has experience buying something like shoes from Amazon and sending it back cause the size is not correct it is all you need to know about packing and posting. Listing something on ebay is not easy at the start. But many copy others descriptions and titles. Not so difficult either. 

The difficulty is that you have to be a trader by blood to pull through. And also the opposite to recognise when to quit.

[doon73]

Both but with more selling than buying in this instance. There's resellers and there's RESELLERS, it's the latter I refer to, I should have made this clear, apologies. I'd suggest it's the latter that are in the 70,000. The former are the 3-4-2 crew, buy 3, one for the kids and 2 to resell.

[Voltron]

24 minutes ago, doon73 said:

And how do you know that? Not picking an argument btw - if I look on eBay for example, most resellers on there have more than a few feedback so I'm surmising that they have 'some' experience in what they're doing. 

Most people that start off on this website are just normal people who love lego, some might be seasoned resellers who have bought and sold various items and don't care about lego, but they are the exception. 

Just look at some of the most popular threads on this site like how to store sets / post and package sets / dealings on amazon etc. Most people have never done anything like this before, and even if they did they were probably selling the odd spare clothes for a couple of quid, not reselling huge lego sets for hundreds of pounds that require storing correctly / expert packaging to ensure sets reach buyer in pristine condition / keeping detailed excel document to ensure you track profits etc.

There's lots of people reselling on ebay, but most are just Average Joe taking a dip into it, and they won't be doing for a long time, it's easy to get lucky on one or two sets that everyone's talks about.

Like in all investing, the people that manage to make real money when most can't are the people who have learned valuable lessons themselves without brickpicker. If you are using brickpicker as a lifeline and can't pick a winning set from a loser without it then it might be time for those people to try something else, the real investors know a winner when they see it and don't need Joe bloggs on BP to tell it to them, they figured it out by themselves.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't listen to others on here, but they shouldn't let people sway them into doing something they wouldn't have done if BP wasn't there.

I'm just ranting on now.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

The cull has commenced...

50x 75105 MF for £2750 (banker's draft) - £1250 profit

1x 42000 Techninc GPR for £100 cash - £60 profit.

1x 10240 R5 for £150 cash - £20 loss (No surprise there then!)

1x 10221 SSD for £650 cash - £381 profit

1x 10225 R2-D2 for £225 cash - £125 profit

10x 75920 Raptor Escape for £700 cash - £500 profit (I have a lot more!)

1x 10237 Tower of Orthanc for £250 cash - £80 profit

1x 21304 Doctor Who for £50 cash - £28 profit (who wants to eat their words now?)

Even with my negative thoughts and buyer's remorse on Star Wars sets, today turned out to be a very good day after all. It's lucky strikes like the Raptor Escapes which help and I honestly didn't know the potential when I bought them as I just fell for the 50% off and I know kids like dinosaurs ;-)

[Bold-Arrow]

FBA

Vulture Droid : $65

AA: $290

Holiday Winter Train : $158 ( i used to see the free to offset the exclusive, no i sell the exclusive to keep the freebie )

Batman Adventure : $80

 

[Fenix_2k1]

On 30/11/2016 at 2:27 AM, donbee said:

Is it a new Director? I heard The Milano wasn't in the comic books, it's a pure creation of the director. Named after his childhood crush.

Remake alert Milano is in the new film. 

Sell sell sell

[BarryZola]

Got rid of my only 2 Santa's Workshops in the last few days and made about £8 on each one after fees, postage etc. Figured it was a decent time to sell as they're now sold out and in a few weeks no-one will want to buy them. Would rather have the money to play with than have them in storage for another year when Lego/John Lewis may bust them out again next year. Sod that.

[jaylay]

10937 Arkham Asylum $230

[Furious_george]

10 hours ago, Mhd747 said:

Most people that start off on this website are just normal people who love lego, some might be seasoned resellers who have bought and sold various items and don't care about lego, but they are the exception. 

Just look at some of the most popular threads on this site like how to store sets / post and package sets / dealings on amazon etc. Most people have never done anything like this before, and even if they did they were probably selling the odd spare clothes for a couple of quid, not reselling huge lego sets for hundreds of pounds that require storing correctly / expert packaging to ensure sets reach buyer in pristine condition / keeping detailed excel document to ensure you track profits etc.

There's lots of people reselling on ebay, but most are just Average Joe taking a dip into it, and they won't be doing for a long time, it's easy to get lucky on one or two sets that everyone's talks about.

Like in all investing, the people that manage to make real money when most can't are the people who have learned valuable lessons themselves without brickpicker. If you are using brickpicker as a lifeline and can't pick a winning set from a loser without it then it might be time for those people to try something else, the real investors know a winner when they see it and don't need Joe bloggs on BP to tell it to them, they figured it out by themselves.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't listen to others on here, but they shouldn't let people sway them into doing something they wouldn't have done if BP wasn't there.

I'm just ranting on now.

I'm just ranting on now.

no ****.

[Frank Brickowski]

10 hours ago, TabbyBoy said:

1x 21304 Doctor Who for £50 cash - £28 profit (who wants to eat their words now?)

By selling a set for £50 that retails at £49.99 you are not necessarily proving doubters wrong. The discussion about "turd or not" can only work if everybody relates to RRP. Otherwise EVERY set can be a winner if you buy low. In my view there is a big difference between "LEGO investing" in the proper meaning of the word and simple "making profit on a bargain buy" which can be seen independently from the product you buy/sell.

Edited December 4, 2016 by Frank Brickowski

[Val-E]

6 minutes ago, Frank Brickowski said:

By selling a set for £50 that retails at £49.99 you are not necessarily proving doubters wrong. The discussion about "turd or not" can only work if everybody relates to RRP. Otherwise EVERY set can be a winner if you buy low. In my view there is a big difference between "LEGO investing" in the proper meaning of the word and simple "making profit on a bargain buy" which can be seen independently from the product you buy/sell.

I agree, all he has proved is that there are a limited number of "valued customers" out there who apparently don´t know that Amazon Uk / Asda or Tesco exist and are happy to contribute to the @TabbyBoy pension scheme instead.

By the way, if you want to participate in a little investment prediction game based on RRP, send me a PM and I´ll give you details. Only 4 places left. Free-to-play and no prizes as it is a beta test.