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A few pics of my TWDLE. It arrived right before Thanksgiving. Big hit with the family, it got played non stop all weekend.

I'm more intrigued by the pinball machine you have there...

that is with the global shipping program. Based in Kentucky. I would ship it to him. I get people with 0 feedback all the time, no problems. Sent from my XT1049 using Brickpicker mobile app

Having the Christmas spirit in me today, I thought I would start a thread where people could share stories or incidents affecting people other than themselves pertaining to Lego in a positive way. ie. Making a kids day because you didn't want that shredder polybag that you randomly gave him. I know this forum is about investing, making money, knowing what our plastic is worth etc. etc. but it feels like we forget how the end result can really affect people who whole heartedly love Lego. I will start with a link a coworker sent me today. http://globalnews.ca/news/1722843/how-kevin-bieksa-buying-a-star-wars-lego-set-changed-a-young-mans-life/

15 Mixels series 2. Completed a full set and some coloured trios. Used a $15 off coupon and received the $20 off next purchase coupon. Then I went "cannonball run" to the next TrU since the coupon offer was only good from 9am-12pm. I picked up 6 arctic batmans @ 25% off and received another $20 off next purchase coupon. Originally I grabbed 5 76000s, milled around a bit and went back. I suggested to a mom "You should grab one of these because I don't think you'll find another "white knight", and it's on sale". Needless to say she picked one up. Does this make me less of an a**hole for emptying the shelf by grabbing the last one?

Hot UK Dudes

I do not get ebay buyers. I put creative tower at 85 and no bite. I bumped the price to 90 and boom, I sold 1

Erlanger, Kentucky how I love thee...$5.90 for 2lbs 6 ounces 12x10x6. I was also adding up profit v cost on my latest bulk lot and figured out that I've sent 12,340 used Lego pieces plus a couple dozen loose minifigures to happy new homes, less than 1/5 of this total lot. Sigh. I think I may be getting a little tired of bulk. It's awesome when you are building out sets you're interested in, a tedious grind with sets you couldn't care less about.

Buy at $40, sell at $95-ish same or next day. You hate money?

Creator Family House, Finally. 4($42.00*.8*.95).

Ha I bought it. Gotta spend all these lego profits on something. I'll post some pics on the pinball news thread before walkers derail this thread.

It looks the same every time I see it.

We are all weirdos.

I think what some people may not realize is that sets could be retiring faster and stock running lower simply because more people are on this site and hoping to make money. In a round about way that helps those who already buy an sell because the stock is lower for the regular retail customer and more quickly drives the aftermarket and retirement prices higher. A couple of tips for sellers The most important tip I could give anyone would be to sell on Craigslist and maybe Bricklink if possible before any other site, especially Craigslist. Simply bypassing all the ridiculous fees and shipping and even possibly boxing up the set will save you a ton of time and effort. Ebay also isn't very seller friendly in general, this will probably change in the future though. There are some other offshoot Ebay like sites but I haven't used them yet(eCrater). I've only sold 1 or 2 very large sets on Amazon and I'm always wary because their A-Z guarantee can really hurt the seller if the buyer claims anything. The buyer literally can provide no evidence and get a refund. 1. Unless you're at PowerSeller status, you usually won't be able to charge as much as those who are, nor will you get some of the benefits. 2. If you are planning to sell thousands of dollars worth of sets, you probably want to start an Ebay Store rather than just be a regular seller. I believe this runs anywhere from $30-50 more per month but it lowers the fees and gives you other benefits. You are usually held to a higher selling standard though which may be difficult to meet. 3. You probably want to open a Fedex/UPS account on each website and when shipping items compare all the rates. If you know someone who will let you ship out items from their business at their business rate you can save a good amount of money, but that's not possible for most people. 4. Use gift cards and coupons and promos to purchase boxes through Staples/Uline. Or like some people have said, if possible find a local store that throws lots of boxes and paper away such as a Vitamin Supplement store (GNC, Vitamin Shop) and see if you can get some of their throwaway boxes. Even if it's just for padding, it could be useful. 5. Package up your sets more securely than you think you need. Add extra padding because even when you pay for "premium" type shipping such as priority those FEDEX and UPS drivers will still may toss the boxes around or place heavier boxes on top of them when they shouldn't. 6. I've found that the insurance in some cases isn't worth buying. Unless your buyer agrees to file the insurance claim if you go through FEDEX you won't have an easy time filing the claim. 7. Never use FEDEX smartpost for anything valuable.. ever and Ebay will give you a shipping discount if you purchase through their website which uses either FEDEX or USPS. If you have a business account with a deal you will save more all the time but the EBAY discount is still better than nothing. 8. Reuse padding envelopes from stuff you buy and just reseal them with tape and put the label on top of the old one etc. 9. Use an excel spreadsheet to track differen't costs so you know how much money you're really making. You may also want to track how much time your spending to see if doing this investing and selling is even worth it because in many cases it won't be worth the stress and time for a couple hundred or even a few thousand extra dollars for anyone with a regular job or family.

1. Take apart 2. Wash & dry 3. Rebuild (bricklink any missing pieces) 4. Photograph 5. Disassemble and place in zip locks by floor (photograph in zip locks too so your buyer knows what to expect) 6. List on ebay for $1,000,000 (or going BIN) 7. Ship once it sells 8. Have a cold one 9. No one ever said this would be easy.

When you go to your post office to drop off a ton of packages and the line is a mile long. Manager comes out gives me the keys to the side Door and says let me know when your done. Everyone in line looked at me like why does he get this privilege. Even through me off. They know me but they legit gave me full access. Walked all my boxes in put them in the back. I was around the money etc etc. They really trust me. Very appreciated.

Yes, I got the 'item sold ship now' email. Once I printed the postage the money moved into my balance. Did it this morning.

Picked up a tub of Classic Space Lego from CL for $25. Has instructions for 462, 483, 6927, 6842, 6970, 6861, and 6929. Not sure if all will be complete, but pieces are in pretty nice shape for being around 35 years old. Got them cleaned up, now need to do some inventory and see what all we have. Unfortunately a couple of the space helmets look like Benny.

It's sold out, not retired. But yes I think you can consider it's done. There were some discounts on LEGO Shop at Home, meaning you-know-what. The 2012 City - Mining sets will be (sort of) replaced by the 2015 City - Demolition sets (# 60072, 60073, 60074, 60075, 60076). When reaching EOL, recent seals are from the last production run to fulfill retailers backorders. It's "sold out" on LEGO Shop at Home, so this 42S4 run is dedicated to retailers.

Well done! Especially on the 42000 F1.

4204 the mine 55 euros 42000 f1 55 euros

Highly probable. Never say never.

I think you're the official first West Coast sighting of that, until now it's all been South East.

It's 3am. I wake up, and I hear my sprinklers going off. They're only supposed to run a few minutes around 10pm. And, oh, it's been raining, and I forgot to turn them off all together. So, I trek outside and take a look - somehow, the timer got switch from 5 minutes to 5.9 hours. I only water M, W, and F. Last meter read was on December 1 (and all was normal). Worst case scenario, this has been happening for 6 waterings. Better case is that the gardener fused with it last weekend, and it's been happening since Monday. Either way though, I'm hoping I'm not going to be out a bunch of money with the next water bill.

http://www.ebay.fr/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=lego+4204&rt=nc&LH_PrefLoc=3 This set is selling 99

Not fully LEGO related but this year we are donating a pallet of baby gear, toys, clothes to a family one of my partners is sponsoring. We are sending a pallet from Atlanta, one of the companies we buy from in nashville is sending one and another friend in the salvage business in west Palm is also donating a pallet. Another friend who does our freight offered to pay half the freight rates as well. The family has 4 kids ranging from newborn to 7 so figured I'd put in some LEGO sets as well and some duplo for the younger ones. Now just have to get it all ready tomorrow for pickup on Monday.

Day 10 Tower of Orthanc

I found a few of these at my local stores, but pondering if I should pick them up now for $40 ea. Why you all hate X-Wings so much!

Got 4 family houses for 33 a piece with target 20% off. Picked up 2 burj kalifa and 3 Empire State buildings at b&******

Please crack and use it, your family will appreciate it.

Wisconsin D was #4 because they played High School teams ie..Bowling Green, Rutgers, Western Ill, South Fla, Maryland.

Seems some one in Montreal Quebec got really pissed off by "you guys" who flipping a $40 set from Walmart to $80 or more, see here: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-jouets-jeux/ouest-de-lile-qc/lego-10664/1038872785?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true. Roughly translated, he/she says: ----------------------------------- It seems that this is the way it is temp-one, you buy that box of lego ($ 40) at Wallmart you can resells triple the price, then here I sell my box $ 125 hurry to leave it like hot bread ptits! ----------------------------------- This warrior advise people they could get 10664 from Walmart and do not fall in hands of those evil-minded greedy lego fippers, but the problem is: now can people find this 10664 on Walmart's website or any Walmart store in Canada?

Found 4 Creative Buckets 10662 at Walmart yesterday at $30 each. Sold them all for $56 each + shipping today.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-41062-FROZEN-Elsas-Ice-Castle-IN-HAND-SAME-DAY-SHIPPING-/291324279012?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item43d447b8e4 My only question is.... Does this come from a pet free home??

If you thought it was really going to retire after less than one year that's your problem

Surprisingly, all 15 of my RI (21110) orders from Kmart on 11/21 shipped today. I know the kmart horror stories but I have had pretty good luck with them on RI the past few months.

friends city park cafe 3061 for $53 bin free shipping ebay. paid $20.78 at bn, back in the day when they used to take coupons from me and there were raise cards in the 12-15% off range... also sold another 2 lil' pink buckets 4625 for $39 each bin free shipping. paid 7.50. still have 12 left to get rid including some in sealed lego cartons. that'll get top dollar from the pink bucket brigade. i still come across these at local walmarts - its almost like a where is waldo lego version in the toy aisle since there is usually just one and its stuck randomly some place in the toy section and that second when your brain register what the eye's be seeing, i imagine someone walking next to me hears a cash register going DING. or maybe i'm that weird guy in the toy section muttering DING to himself.

I got lucky and found a lone family house at my target and got it for $34 plus tax after the 20% off coupon.

When people talk about sleeper sets they should have this one in mind. Great build, huge scale and detailing plus many power functions and panels that can be used for MOCing. Late release in USA means it will also have a short shelf life so it could easily be the next Crawler Exclusive edition. Every time I get one of these, it sells before I can get around to building it for myself!

Profiling is more accurate. You may or may not have kids one day. Enjoy your free time and energy for the gym, diet, etc. because once kids entire the picture ALL that time and energy are completely gone. Completely. They will be replaced by the overwhelming desire for sleep, and the need to be left the F alone on occasion. Thank me later for this free lesson and accurate advice.

Stop spying on me that's creepy.... I have no kids, I'm 26. I care about investing, lifting heavy things, pro wrestling and enjoying pooping more as I just got the marvel encyclopedia. :)

I can imagine the conversation over this set. "Hey buddy, whatca building?" "Yo momma."

The past is prologue...what I think will happen next year is that there will be a hoard of people who watched last year's SW advent or have been watching this year's SW advent skyrocket and, as a result, will conclude that next year's advent will be a sure-fire winner that couldn't possibly lose, which will lead them to buy heavily into next year's edition. Meanwhile, having watched how inventory levels for this year's edition fared, the smart folks at TLG will conclude that they distributed too few advents this year and will adjust their distribution numbers upwards, which will leave the sets in the stores longer and squeeze the window of time in which resellers could take advantage of inventory shortfalls. Then, when all of the resellers go to sell, they will find that it's more difficult to sell all of the extra sets that they have put back and prices won't climb as high or as fast as they assumed they would. All just speculation, but, in my experience, assuming that a seasonal set will perform simply because an earlier one did is much more of a gamble than it seems. The SW advents have performed well each of the last two years, but go back and look at how the two editions before those performed...it's a very different picture.

Finally Finished building This monster. This is Designer Han low lowloader. Full remote and PF + pneumatics. This is probably the most expensive set in my collection to date.

Sooooo I had the idea to list my Creative Towers on Craigslist. Had probably 5 replies of "Since these were $30 at Walmart I think $35-$40 is a steal for you." Man come on. Who calls and tells someone what is fair based off of what they were at a store. I went out on Thanksgiving and almost got mauled by the hoards of people then had to wait to checkout and you think I held this for you at $5 extra. Insane.

Thought TRU shipped me a basketball hoop...nope, just 4 lil HLHs...could fit 30 sets in this box. No complaints though, all in decent enough condition:

Oh great oracle, if you were never really feeling them, then why did you order these 'turkeys'? I'm pretty sure I know why.

Whoa Nellie! This is an interesting turn of events.

Toysrus,.com - A lone Unimog with zero padding in a HUGE box.