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A day to celebrate (for me personally). My Lego youtube page reached over 1,000,000 views. Mostly due to the High Speed Passenger Train Video. https://www.youtube.com/user/allnewbricks

Stopped by a TRU Express near my house. They had the 9463 The Werewolf for $12.48. Took it to the register to pay and it rang up $0.03! My jaw dropped. The sales associate said it was probably because it was an older set. So I immediately started price checking other sets. Two other sets rang up at $0.03... the 9496 Desert Skiff and the 9498 Saesee Tiin's Jedi Fighter. I bought everyone they had. In total I got: (5) 9498 Saesee Tiin's Jedi Fighter (15) 9496 Desert Skiff (1) 9463 The Werewolf All for a grand total of $0.63!!!!!!! In other news... I did go to one of my local LEGO Stores and picked up my first 76023 Tumbler.

Velocity rate beyond "the norm" in algorithms does trigger at least a review. Beyond that, what exactly they look and and what they do with that info is a bigger mystery. No doubt that some good sellers get swept up in the big net, and eBay doesn't care, nor do they need to care - plenty more seller fish in the sea. Re: where to sell - this site in time once Brick Classifieds launches, Bricklink, Brick Owl, and by all means give Amazon a try but realize that they, too, have their algorithms that can trip you up, so make sure you understand the rules in every direction. Between your velocity and a pretty low feedback rating - 99.2% isn't good with 4000+ feedback - you probably had a lot of star dings and possibly a number of cases opened, etc. eBay (and Amazon) are not forgiving environments. You need to protect your selling account very carefully, and that means under-promising and over-delivering to customers, it means accepting the occasional scammer as a cost of doing business instead of trying to die on every hill, it means not being late in shipping pretty much no matter what (have emergency plans in place), etc. Good luck in the future - eBay's not the only place to sell, take the lessons from there and go succeed somewhere else - it's the best revenge.

@Mikeur86... I feel for you and this is typical of eBay's shortsightedness and diminishing regard for sellers. Even though 99.2% feedback looks good at first glance, it's a little low for a high volume seller which may have set off alarm bells initially. Sorry to be smug but, in my heyday, I've made over

I use that strategy a lot. And yet you're still here...

Sounds like your biggest problem is the difference between the pictures you show and the product the buyer receives. Buyers are not all smart they do not all read the description they do not all know what 1/4 pound or 100 piece lots look like. The type of item you are selling and showing the picture of huge lots of lego is probably why you had complaints and these complaints are probably your number one reason for being suspended. Some buyers may have contacted ebay and showed them how the ad was misleading...Did you ever consider taking pictures of the actual lots to be sold so the buyer could see what he/she would actually be receiving...

I don't care about launches. I only care about EOLs

10220 Volkswagen Camper is THE top seller on LEGO Shop at Home today (Sep 18). But Winter Village Market is also one of the top sellers. This set has been a drag for months for Lego. "Coincidentally" there have been more talks of EOL here for the last few days. IMO that means there are a lot of us brickulators out there, to the point that we make a significant impact to Lego's best seller list.

I hate having to get up in the morning...

A while ago i build the 10221 SSD and also posted it somewhere around here. In my mind i thought it would be a nice idea to decorate it with small Tie-Fighters and a micro Tantive, Tie Bomber. Every brick for this arrived today. I am dissapointed with the result myself but i decided to share it here anyway. It was dark outside, photos are kinda darkish. Sorry for that.

I love how people are buying these all up now when I all I heard over the past two months is super smack talk and hoping other sets don't go "Delorean". I've always thought that this was a bada$$ set that will do well no matter what. BTTF is classic and not some flash in the pan. I have three. One for me to build and two to sell later.

Very polite of them not to ban you...

Sorry to hear about this Mike....I have some good news though. We are going to launch the Brick Classifieds Beta in early October, so this might be an option for you. I don't know if better photos of the lots you were selling would have helped, but it seems to prevent a lot of issues. I know many members complain about adding real photos of the items they are selling, but I can see it is becoming more important to eBay and it will be an important requirement to our site as well.

Speaking of Batman and not being disappointed. Since I could not afford the SDCC Batmobile set, I found and bought 1 of these NIB for $5 the other day

Boss is out of the office so.....

I posted this a few times before, but when Toys R US sells Lego sets ahead of the official release date they pay a fine to Lego, as does Walmart,etc. But Toys R Us might make alot of money fast, so if they can make a million Dollars paying lego a $50,000 fine is no big deal, just like when the Star Wars stuff was coming out from hasbro, the boxes usually said don't display until say June 1st, but Walmart,etc would put them out early and all stars who put it out early were fined by hasbro. Ed

HH already jumped to 300$ FBA

Olivia's speedboat $20 Heartlake Flying Club $40 Shipping included

10 Spidey Gliders for $70...for the second time recently. These were b1g1 free + 10% off + discounted gc's from TRU. Now have just 1 left which I'll keep for a collection. Sure wish Id stumble upon a garage sale with a bin full of more at $2.50 each...

So, Lego Movie leaked part of the plot then? Batman will hitch a ride in the Falcon? :-)

Despite the controversy on its category, this set is another large, impressive "play set" priced as a UCS set. Regardless, it's an impressive display with a load of figures and a wide footprint AND also a fun and sturdy play set. Here's the bags and books: 3 large instruction manuals and thankfully only a couple stickers. 15 numbered bags, 2 unnumbered bags, and 1 loose baseplate.

R2D2 is available everywhere, I doubt its retiring in the coming weeks. VW T1 Camper van is available at LEGO Shop at Home, ship immediately, high limit (5), but is not available anywhere else even at raised prices.. (correct if I'm wrong, too lazy to check). Given the current 3 promos for each van, I'd say buy them up now.

Town Hall is limit 2 at LEGO Shop at Home, but it is Pet Shop that has been disappearing everywhere else. I could believe two modulars might retire in the same year, but going out of order is just not cool. When I see something that's just not cool, I ignore it. That usually makes it go away.

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Yeah they both seem to have there ups and downs. Amazon just has to many restrictions like you said. We get in all sorts of product and its just a pain to be only able to sell certain products. Just try earlier if you can and hopefully you can get through quicker.

Trying to find the amazon ban discussion. Amazon will ban you for trying to circumvent their buying limit or for excessive returns . They send u a warning letter in most cases.

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On ebay pay attention to your "trending" data. If it is trending in the wrong direction for 2 consectuive months your account will be enrolled into ebay's internal "guardrail" program. If the trend continues south you will be suspended. Not many make it out of guardrail so for all intents and purposes you are suspended if you have 2 months of negative trending data, you just don't know it yet. To see your trending data go to your seller dashboard and then click on "view trending data". The trend is your friend (or enemy). Best to jettison an account if you are trending south and move on to a new seller account. OP can still use ebay he will just have to go stealth (google is your friend).

That's what he wants, with the elevator going all the way up to the mansion.

Add the Batcave underneath the Wayne Mansion for completeness Or build the Mansion on top of a hill and the Batcave at the base of the hill ;)

Ahh. Just like when the SEC fines say Chase for bringing the world economy to it's knees and the fine is about .00001% of the money they made by being scumbags.

LEGO Shop at Home taking orders...ship october

I am sorry to read that. Hope building the SSD will help you bring your thoughts on something else.

Yeah, it's really sad that they suspend accounts like yours but let Chinese counterfeit sellers run rampant.

Please note the Lego Milano ship and possibly some others still work with the 20% online coupon which someone may have an extra they can PM you.

You can come over anytime.

I like! Played that long time ago[emoji7]

Great song of a great movie:

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At least it did not got to Oregon and became a lumberjack... (cf Dexter) :D

You can't delete stuffs from internets...http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NdJRr5IJKDMJ:imgur.com/a/zTsqH+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I definitely think everyone else who does this should quit. I will take one for the team and handle the world's reselling after you all leave. That's the kind of stand up guy I am.

I did some similar small scale tests like that and it would be interesting to see on a larger scale. Just for the most part it seems so random. I know if I list an identical product once a day for a week straight the last one will always go for the most as people think you are out and its there last chance. That one seems to always be consistent. Some products I get a lot of quantity and just list 2 a week and one will go for double or triple the other one. Its just so random I don't know if you could get a consistent answer. I've terapeaked stuff over the years and you could find certain consistencies with selling times, day of week etc but then would try the same item on the "best selling time and day" vs the so called worst and the worst day would go for more than the best. In the end I think it comes down to who happens to be looking for that particular item when it is active at that time. The product also matters. You could list an Ipod and it will sell for pretty much the same every time throughout the day any day of the week. Now if you have that one rare item that only comes along once in awhile it needs that buyer to be looking for it at that time. Thats why those type items are usually best with fixed price and / or best offer.

I actually tested it using mine and my wife's accounts and there was no difference in the selling price at auction and my wife's non TRS BIN actually sold before my TRS BIN. For my BIN test I used the Martian Manhunter promo with free shipping and both sold at $18 or $19 (it's been a while). For the auction test I used a lot of 10 battle droids and both auctions closed within $0.50 of each other. Very small sample sizes, but a good illustration non the less. It might be fun to get a group of us together and all list som identical, small item and test this in a more controlled way. With a full statistical work up of the results. Could even be a project for some of the young upstarts around here that are still in school.

This is harder to classify than you might expect. The first reason is regional access. In Germany, BL stores have access to one or more gray sources (or at least sources they play close to the vest), and you have multiple stores competing with 1+ million parts. ChromeBricks has about 5.8m parts right now. Outside of Germany, there is no parts source available to sellers, so a large store is probably 500k+. The critical mass to sustain regular orders seems to be about 50-60k, so I'd say that 50k-500k are "medium" sized stores. 5k-50k are "small, but serious stores". Less than 5k are usually hobby sellers trying to unload excess parts from their collections or make a quick buck. The second issue is lot quality and lot diversity. Because there is no easy source (excluding Germany), medium and large stores build their inventories up in different ways. Some stores are aggressive parters, buying 20+ copies of a set at a time and parting them in. The best example of this is PBD which was "going out of business" for a year and liquidating but changed their mind recently. The challenge with this model is that the demand for specific parts such as basic 1x4 bricks does not match the distribution of those parts in sets. So your store ends up holding 20x lime wedges for years while the 20x blue 1x4's will sell within a week. Over time, this leads to huge inventories (PBD is 2.3m) but little of it is liquid. Other stores have old recycler stock that is lingering. An example of this is Lonely Brick which has 1.1m parts, but 20% of that number is in 4 lots. Anyone need 70,000 reddish brown 1x1 cones? Another band of sellers are PaB wall miners. The majority of their store inventory comes from buying PaB cases from LBR stores (although Lego is really trying to weed this out with changes to the policy this year). This allows them to build up decent inventory quantities, but the variety of lots available is the same across many stores, so the price competition on those lots can be fierce (read: no margin). Every store finds their niche, which makes it such a fascinating marketplace. We try to use a balance of methods that keeps our inventory diversified and attractive to buyers. We've found that its really hard for us to keep more than 1m parts in inventory because they turn over faster than we can restock. An alternate way of looking at BL store sizes is to analyze selling feedback volumes for the past month. You can see the sellers ranked by feedback here. "Large" stores are getting 200+ feedback per month, which equates to roughly about 300 orders per month. "Medium" would be 100-200. "Small" would be 20-100. "Hobby" would be less than 20. When you put the inventory number side by side with the order volume number, it sheds more light. For example, Sir Troy has 1m parts but only 50 feedbacks posted in the last month, meaning that his store is not very active despite the parts count. If you end up publishing data on this, I'd be very interested in reading the findings. -Jason

Right. In the "old days" of LEGO investing, the price you bought an item for was that key factor because every set was discounted at some point. Now, with fewer deals on the top sets, just buy the damn sets. LOL. Too many people wait for sales that will never come, then can't buy them with EOL knocking on the door because they are scarce or sold out.

Over the past 6 months it has increased just under 5% in value. I think nearing Christmas we will see a good bump in value and that will be the time to sell.

"Temporarily out of stock" at LEGO Shop at Home Europe and not able to add to shopping basket!!

I actually like craigslist. You can check out what you are buying and the discount can be fairly extensive. I bought a MISB Super Star Destroyer for $320 2 weeks ago. The nice gentleman I bought it from had 2, sold 1 already and was looking to unload the 2nd one for cheap. Last week, I answered an ad for a MISB haunted house and based on our email exchanges, I assumed the seller was a mother. When we met up for the exchange, the seller ended up being a 11 year old boy. I asked him why he was selling the HH and he told me that he received it as a gift from his aunt but he was to old for lego now and would rather have the $120 to buy other stuff. I should have just lowballed him from the beginning, but since his asking price was already so low, I felt that I already got a good deal out of it.