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What you all need is a place to sell your sets that protects the sellers more than the buyers....hmmmmm. Interesting. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

The Silly Codes Believers club would like to extend their welcome to Ed Mack. Here is a tin foil hat for joining our club.

And now we wait for rockefeller make a joke out of your silly beliefs in silly codes...

I suspect we are now going to see repeat of GE daily availability cycle...

If some of you remember, I had a survey that many of you answered and I was happy to see that most that answered would be interested in posting videos. When we launch the update to the site there will be a new video feature that I will explain in time. I know some of you will find ways to benefit you. The reason for the large gap is because you never know what advertisers will pop up in the videos. It can be an ad that pays .25 or an ad that pays 2.25. There is no "exact" way to figure what people are making. Those ranges also do not include the people that use plugins like adblock which will take out another percentage of those figures.

Max is my son's name and he is mad. LOL Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Thank you. Speaking of selling, I noticed a couple sellers on eBay are already selling just the minifigures from the Juniors set but stating the listing as though they were from the exclusive set minus the Batmobile starting from $50 to $80. I really don't like how Lego's LDD gallery does not offer links for individual projects as you can't directly link to anything there. Here's a quick link to start from for everyone. Anyway, Tormentalous (The Brick Fan) usually gets a chance to review these exclusive Comic-Con items like last year so I may be able to see if he can take an image of the parts list for the set. I'm pretty good at building from that. Also I can post sequential images here just like an instruction booklet so that everyone can build this themselves if they want to.

I would highly encourage members to watch this when they have some free time:

BIN is free for first 150 on basic store. Past that its 20 cents each. Then you get some very nice reporting tools and listing stuff and you get markdown manager where you can make and have sales on products. Also you get 1% less in fees - its like 9% instead of 10% Final Value Fees. If you sign up for a year, its 19.99 a month which is pretty sweet. Depending on your gross sales per month, if you do 1000$ or so a month, even with low listing numbers, thats 10$ you save right there in the 1% fee drop.

Why does there needs to be some kind of explanation that explains everything in some kind of neat, all encompassing definitive way? With all the panic buying and stock chasing people with their page monitors hammering the LEGO website every 10 secs and then posting every single change, I'm not surprised the reports of status changes is flipping so often. The status on the LEGO website is probably automated and tied to some inventory control level. Things, plans, stock levels can change every day with today's need to know instantly technology and mindset. I doubt there is some person evilly cackling behind a keyboard changing stock statuses on a whim just to screw with consumers. And the average consumer isn't checking every 10 seconds and probably hasn't seen any of the wild swings that we are. It just is what it is. Remember the "old" days where store websites said inventory levels/status would be updated after midnight after the batch processing runs so you would have to wait until the morning for any updates.

We are not pissed, we are just reclaim in it "passively" jejejejje

I switched all of my listings to auction style with the opening bid price being my old buy it now price. I have been selling a decent amount the past few weeks, but nothing extraordinary. The thing that is a pain is that now I have to wait to get paid, when with buy it now they had to pay immediately. Once the holiday season gets here ill probably create a store account to get the buy it now listings for the busy season. There is no way I am paying 30cents a listing right now during the slow season, with no guarantee that it will sell. Side note...I made my first bricklink sale this past weekend. Was paid right away and shipped it out this morning. The best part? Wait for it.......only 3% fees! and only on the sale amount (not on sale + shipping charge). I could get used to that! All I sell is sets. Check out my store. It's named Everything is Awesome!!

Some are still pissed about something that happened two hundred years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington

According to "South Park", all life lessons are learned in Colorado.

Nothing like seeing middle aged men trying to get in touch with their inner street cred...Slap me some skin!

Completed build : Rear picture showing the battery packs and the pull mechanism handle that releases and catches the inner leg. Comparison of latest two R2 minifigs. Too bad the recent R2 from the latest Sandcrawler & Ewok Village wasn't included in recent produced 10225s. "Special features" Inner leg not used. Nice picture of entire build w/ minifigure and UCS display plaque. Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

I just finished the cargo plane and attached are a couple profile pics next to the Volvo and the mobile crane.

poof

Im pretty sure Target prices are linked to Amazon at this point.

Oh man that unikitty is gonna chap some completist hides.

Just waiting on a few subcontractors to finish a few mods. These people don't have the same sense of priority as Jeff does. As Jeff explained to me yesterday after he showed me the new Daily Deals, people haven't seen many changes going on...but when they come...there will be a bunch in a short time. I know everyone has been patient, but it takes time. Look at Bricklink for instance. They have 20 or so full time people working on the new site and it might not be ready for more than a year. Jeff is one man, plus a couple of people we can hire to help with small tasks. The Brick Classifieds has taken on several forms and codes over the past year or so, but we are almost there and ready to let some people play around. When you are dealing with money and transactions, all the Is have to be dotted and the Ts crossed before you launch it. We don't want to put out a poor product Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

Speak for yourself.....some do it to fund their expensive hobby.

I know you are getting out of eBay, but PLEASEEE do not share with the world our super secret ways for listing on eBay.

hope this is the beginning. still 'allowed' to order up to 5. "Out of stock, expected ship date 15 Sep 2014" http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Tower-Bridge-10214

The codes can never definitively show EOL, but in this particular case, it could help make sense of a complicated situation and help members figure out a gameplan for the Holiday shopping and selling season.

So, you're telling us the codes only tell us who believes in silly codes?

Ship Date September 15th

In for another. A large amount of sets retire in the Nov-Dec time frame. The codes will tell a lot in this case. Is it a new production run or the run from Europe? Maybe the sales of the SSDs in Europe were so weak they moved some of the inventory to the US. If it is the Europe stock, then the SSD is probably done, along with a large amount of other exclusive sets. If it is a new run, then LEGO will hurt many short term investors/filppers and their philosophy going forward. It is quite possible that LEGO has always shifted inventory around to meet demand and most people never paid attention. Personally, I look at it as another chance to buy a dynamite set that will appreciate very, very well.

In for one more! Expected Ship date changed from 9/22 on the product page to 9/29 upon checkout. I had $130 in VIP to cash in, and I was this close to getting another Death Star or Haunted House in August.

Interesting.... The boards are about to light up. Grab the popcorn. Never a dull day.

Ssd is back at LEGO Shop at Home. Sep 14 ship date

I have changed my tune on Chima. They cleared out quick, nothing had dust on it unlike other themes. I think these were good sellers. Stick to the biggest. The sets are neat builds and the playability is huge. My kids love them. The new biggest 3 sets are awesome and i will be buying them for the kids as soon as i can get them 20% off. Group think is alive and well on this site. No guarantees in this game but a high percentage of these sets are being opened, which is good for the long term investor. I am not going all in since they are not exclusives, but i do think we will be pleasantly surprised at the price appreciation.

Why do people get upset at target raising their prices? Retail is always suggested retail. They and tru do exactly what we do when we sell. What is the big feal. They seem to price match amazon. Don't buy from them if you don't like the price. They are not obligated to sell anything at any price to the end consumer other than no discounts on certain products. Interesting though that at the higher prices they still sold out of the big exclusives. Since this is the T1 thread I will say that we don't know how long they will sell it in conjunction with the mini cooper. I figure we have at least 6 months of it , being available since the cooper is not sold everywhere yet. Once that happens stock will probably whittle down and then gone. TB is still around and sydney has been out for a while, little over a year now I think. I buy mostly from Amazon so i went ahead and wrapped up my allocation on this one. I would love to have 30-40 but i just do not have the room. I still want my kids to be able to build and play in the Lego room

Yes - he is in Dol Goldur Battle.

On a curious whim, I looked up the inventory for this year's regular B-Wing set (75050) and found something of interest with the minifigures. For those of you who were bummed about Series 4 from the Planets line not making its way over here stateside may be happy to know that you can still acquire the suit which was exclusive to the Endor/B-Wing Starfighter set previously as now the character Ten Numb in the 75050 B-Wing set is sporting the same outfit. Heck, a couple part swaps of the head, visor, and helmet will give you the exact same B-Wing Pilot from the Planets set if you wanted to. B-Wing Pilot (75010) / Ten Numb (75050)

I....WANT....THIS....SET!!!!

Mission Impossible! Booyah!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAYhNHhxN0A

cmon already what the heck is taking so long. there would be a huge supportive response.

Even if you open sealed sets, take photos, x-rays, have videos made of you packing the box, and bringing it to the post office - a scammer would still be able to claim that it was not what was sent. Unless the buyer has a clear history of abusing the system - all the proof in the world means nothing.

Recent experience of mine. Sold a sealed Series 10 box. Buyer lets it sit at their post office waiting for signature for ~20 days. Files eBay claim. eBay denies their claim, since when tracked, the package is clearly waiting at the post office for them. After their eBay claim is denied, they go pickup the package from post office. Buyer now has their box of Series 10. 3 months pass, they now file a chargeback with their credit card company. Claiming "not as described". Paypal removes the funds from my account. Paypal takes my full account of what is happening, it's clearly a chargeback scam, but all Paypal does is file a counter dispute on my behalf. It's been about 2 months since and I haven't heard a thing. At this point I assume I'll have to eat the loss. For those who want to block this buyer, their account name is "igotwired". It's a company named Pacific Pillows LLC. Just sharing my experience.

Opening the set before sellling will help - to a point. It will tell us as sellers that we are sending out what we advertised and were not duped ourselves when we purchased the set for resale. However, it only goes so far in preventing actual scammers. No matter how many photos you take of the set, or of yourself packing the set, or of you personally handing the package to the mailman, it doesn't help eBay in a he-said/she-said situation (because you could take all those photos and still not actually be sending that to the buyer, if you - generic you - are a scammer yourself). What matters at that point is your reputation on eBay versus the buyer's reputation on eBay. Also, I understand the desire to not fuss over $40 and not require the return, but understand that that encourages this buyer to try the same thing with the next seller (and every other seller who caves in because $40 isn't worth the hassle encourages the buyer to try the same thing with you) and that eBay has a better record of a buyer's scamming tendencies if you actually go through the process so they can see a pattern of "not as described" "returned" "good seller disputed the return".

Only made a little bit of progress today. Final assembly of the first escalator. Preliminary fire inspection. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

British racing green is standard issue for the MINI. Anything else would be blasphemy!

I am sure many of you have had the pleasure of building this set so I won't go in to a full review. I am taking this build slow, partly because I want to make it last, and also because a large amount of my time (outside of work) is spent with my wife and five month old son. This is my first big set, and modular, since I came out of my dark age. It has been really cool to see some new parts and pieces as well as some new techniques that have been developed in my absence. Enough of my "talking", here are some pictures. Part 1 bags Cool sidewalk pattern. A special visitor stopped by to help Starting the walls. Interior details. Awnings and columns. Revolving door. Almost done with Book 1 Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

They remind me of the CITY Coast Guard sets and will probably perform the same way...above average.

I'm surprised this hasn't been link'd to yet: http://www.starwars.com/news/lego-star-wars-15th-anniversary-minifigure-case-special-preview

You must realize that the "Retiring Soon" label is a marketing ploy, plain and simple. It is used on the sets that need a boost in sales and cleared out of inventory. You probably won't see a big seller with this label as much as you will see it on your regular sets. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

Only thing that seems odd is the mudguards and two panels are not in dark green to match the rest of the vehicle. Otherwise it looks great.