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Asking for a PM on a screenshot is no bueno to me. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

You're on a lego site and you're asking if you should see the movie??

Pretty excited about this. Got 10212 on Craigslist 100% complete but w/o box or instructions for 175$. It's definitely going in the personal collection, but would make for a good flip if I ever decided to sell.

You buy when the market is low. I remember about 15 years ago, catching a report on CNN (or somewhere similar), where they were talking about the 1987 Black Monday crash, and where some stock prices were at the end of that day, and comparing it to where they were at that time (around 1999). It was incredible how low some stocks were, compared to where they were 15 years later. The smart investor in the stock market will look at any crash, and buy things up. I don't know that any crash will happen. If it does, I think it stands to be mineralized, because people are so much smarter about things like that now. But, don't trust me. I'm no stock expert, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

So I've been sorting through me old Lego sets and pieces & I thought I'd try something. Anybody every try to build any classic sets and change the color to make your own custom variation? Here's a couple I came up with so far, from a couple of my earliest sets: The Classic Jeep 330-1 & Bi-Plane 430-1 Let me know what you think...unless this has been covered before. Thanks!

Crazy how people take advantage of people at the registers or managers who don't know any better. That is obviously not policy to price match sold out items. I'm assuming a manager had to override the transaction?

You're covered as long as tracking shows it delivered. All I generally do for buyers in these situations is provide them the phone number and address of their delivery post office (type "post office phone number" and their zip code into Google and it'll bring it up). I tell them exactly what the package looked like (dimensions, appearance, color, weight) and recommend they call or visit their post office and ask to speak with the carrier who scanned their package "delivered". I tell them that if the carrier and postmaster are unable to locate the package, they will assist the buyer with filing a lost/stolen mail claim. That's it. If the buyer's post office is incompetent and/or he's got mail thieves roaming the neighborhood, he has more problems than one Lego set he needs to work out. If he leaves you a neg or neutral based on non-delivery, eBay will remove it (you'll need to call). If he opens a case, provide the tracking info and you'll win. (For items over $250 to be covered you also need signature confirmation, I'm assuming this set didn't sell for that much.)

2x Camper vans are a minimum, because I think it will be reaaaaaally hard not to open one for yourself. =)

They are Building a Amazon Warehouse in Baltimore about 5 miles from where I live, suppose to be huge and hire 1000 or more people which is suppose to open end of 2014,I am going to do my best to get in there and talk to somebody to get a temp job on showing people how to box up Lego Sets. Ed

I love these sets. Very classy. Legos for adults. Do you think they will appreciate well?

Well if the market crashes you can hold your legos in your hands and build them while you wait for your worthless stocks to recover.

Congrats! Setting up systems for things makes it that much easier. I have a shipping area in my home and all shelves for what is listed and where they are located. Amazon is expensive but can be worthwhile. Things do sell there much faster.

I wonder. With the current disconnect of the stock market to the rest of the working world, I wonder if most people would give a crap or even notice if the stock market took a dump.

Well look at the bright side we are only $80,000,000,000,000.00 deeper in debt since 1929. How could it be worse! HAHAHAHAHa

If the market crashes that hard, I doubt many people are going to buy our LEGO sets on ebay. I would be investing in gold, firearms, and ammunition.

2 per lego box. Order these in even numbers.

I usually put them in as freebies for new customers.

TRS sales requirement is 100 transactions and $1000 in sales over latest 12-months period. You also need to follow their tracking and DSR requirements. To get the discount, you need TRS Plus which means having TRS status, plus following even more requirements. You get evaluated every 3 months. If any of the above requirement is no longer true for the evaluation period, you have a good chance for losing your TRS status. ETA: Where is frog when you need her

Sold two Simpson Houses on Amazon Marketplace for ~ 295

You wanna bet? Meanwhile at the Walmart Hiring Center.... (Warning: What you will see cannot be unseen.)

As a girl (though always a tomboy) I can understand the little girl's complaint. Sure, we can just put female minifigs in the castle and space sets and let them go on adventures. The hard part is keeping the "girly" aspects. I have a feeling this little girl wants girly adventures. For example, going to space in ships that are colorful pinks and purples. Some parts can easily be interchanged out, but some of the specialty curved pieces are only available in standard darker colors. I don't take think this letter should be taken as feminist or start a gender war, but merely to plant a few more ideas into the lego set designers to expand their audience. When I was little I think I had one "girl" lego set (the one with the horse transport and small stable) and I think I only got it because a family member noticed it was the only "girl" set on the shelf. It's great to see that lego has expanded to include girls more in the past 20 years, but it would be great if there were just as many girls into lego as boys. We'd probably see many more girls in engineering and other male dominated fields.

I grew up watching Adam West's Batman...Forgive my dramatics. LOL

Most of the characters are based off the Ultimate Spiderman cartoon, ie Green Goblin, Powerman, Electro. The comic Doc Ock gives me hope that we'll see variations, the first one released was also from Ultimate Spiderman.

My order came in a box. You can return it if it doesn't. Don't worry about it. http://www.r-word.org/r-word-not-acceptable-psa.aspx

I agree with so many above. The Golden Gate Bridge, The St. Louis Arch, The Hollywood Sign, Notre Dame, The Pompidou Centre in Paris would be really cool too. I know! the Wales Millennium Centre (The Torchwood Headquarters). Also Baker Street... I love these sets... I do also like Mount Rushmore and Niagara Falls but don't really see them as architecture.

Should be a red translucent piece with a printed Death Star on it.

back at ya!

Neat idea. I like how you've stuck to one colour for each as a substitute and not just all over the place, makes them look like proper Lego designs.

Terry, Shakespeare is one of the super rare (only 2 per 60 ct box) and imho the hardest of super rare to find. Keep looking for ruffled collar and bald cap. Abe and WW Wildstyle are rare (4 per 60ct box). Look for tophat for Abe and skirt+fan for wildstyle.

Yeah, keep them. Right! They've billed me once, a temp hold for the 2nd, and now if a 3rd, which I'm not doing at this point. I'd keep them if I was given a worthy discount, but can't imagine them doing that. Even when they get them back, I cannot see how they would be sold as new.

They are different worlds and very different circumstances. I was extremely blessed to pay $2.99 for my Mr. Gold at a Southern California Kmart. I'd never be able to afford one otherwise.

I don't about winners but I personally like the Captain America set, the Hulk lab smash (neat assortment of minifigures there) and the Batman/Penguin set. I was writing this the same time as zskid00--great minds!

I don't know if any of these have actually trickled into stores yet. They have been listed on the TRU website for the last couple weeks but haven't been put up for sale yet. I'm hoping they drop during one of these promos like the $15 off $50 going on this week. Here's the ones I really like: 76017 - Captain America carried the Avengers cycle set even though it had 2 of the lame movie aliens in it and his more classic costume here should be a big winner. Red Skull is his arch-nemesis and it also includes a pretty nifty vehicle and an army builder (Hydra soldier). I expect this one to be a solid investment set. 76018 - Hulk in purple pants is the main draw, but a classic Thor and 3 minifigures guaranteed to never be released again (Falcon, Taskmaster, and MODOK) put this one far over the top. The set is pretty bland, but 5 excellent minifigures will carry this one for a long, long time. 76010 - Scuba Batman and an alternate costume Penguin. 'Nuff said. The build looks pretty neat and the penguins are a plus. I'll keep an eye on the Catcycle Chase set since that one is now done and would expect this one to perform similarly.

What kind of cut does Brickpicker get for helping with the acquisitions? 70% sounds good to me.

As it does us when you get B-Wings for $100 amongst many, many others. Your benefits far outweigh what few bones Lego decides to throw the rest of the world. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

I'm a bat and I'm offended with the batcave. It looks too much like my place of worship (even though I cant see). I think LEGO should stop production right now, send me a bunch for free, and offer me an apology letter.

also, if you're looking for a good search engine, I recommend Google

Yeah, if you read the Blogs here it would seem after the costs of listing, Bricklink may be best but Ebay has its positives.

Such a great time for him and I.

It's Lego... Must see regardless. Surely it can be tax deductible somehow! Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

I came across that letter on The Brick Fan a couple of days ago. Honestly, I wonder how much of it was written by the child instead of the child's parent. I'm trying to think of a kid around that age wanting to do the same thing of writing an 'angry letter' to a company and with a pen. At seven years old, all I wanted to do was play video games, watch cartoons, and build Lego. I don't want to be dismissive but when you have people always trying to come up with new ways of getting attention in the media, you have to look from all angles.

He-Man.../drops the mic and walks offstage.

I also think most people won't even know about it in the first place. So if the van continues to play a big role in the new season of the cartoon, it does seem like a winner to me. I passed on a bunch at 50% off because of the build quality, but I am regretting not picking up more. It is a great gift for a kid you want to make cry though. The build is really structurally terrible, my son was so frustrated by it after he built it.

I don't understand selfishness, so I guess I just hope most folks are good people and carry that over to how they conduct business on the Internet as well. I deal with all types every day in and outside of work, but it doesn't mean I'll ever understand it. I have to provide feedback to folks at work all the time to help them better their careers, be team players, and have enough vision to know how their work/attitude can impact others. Everyone is not open to this type of feedback, or they just accept it and choose not to act on it. Either way, it's their choice.

+1. As an eBayer who uses the site as a business platform, it is your job to leave feedback. It literally takes 10 seconds per transaction. Frankly, if a seller didn't leave feedback after I purchased from him/her, I would never deal with them again.

not leaving feedback is terrible. now lets move on. it is common courtesy

I had a mess of a problem with a killer croc I won. Kid couldn't get his email right or something on paypal so my payment went unclaimed. Finally after a week we were able to complete the transaction. Ended up paying $8.30 for a mint Killer Croc

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/10367

I am almost sure they won't release this, but I would love a Twin Towers "tribute" set release only during the month of September. As "simple" as their design seemed to be, they were two of my favorite buildings.