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Perhaps dump all lego and money should be going here:? I spoke to a lady at Bed Bath and Beyond yesterday and SHE TOLD ME "CHILLOW IS DONE, WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY MORE IN!" Get your cases of Chillows NOW GENTLEMEN!

I'm about two seconds away from taking ten grand from stock/bond I have and use it for more lego.

its a lot more work to flip a town hall into something else, hope it retires, flip that, hope it retires, and hope that those appreciate rather than just sitting on a set you know is going to be a top performer over the next 5 years. sometimes making a lot of money is really as boring as doing nothing but waiting. doesn't feed that addictive buzz of hunting chima on clearance, or the unbridled childhood lust of dozens of new boxes of LEGO being delivered or that new box smell. my overall investing/business goal is to do as few transactions for as much money as possible. TH fits in nicely with that plan. there's too big potential for seller's regret with this one when you have to sit back and come up with justifications to yourself why you sold a TH at 500 when they break through the $600, $700, $800 level much quicker than you thought it would. what other set or combo of sets is going to give you this type of return this quickly? TH is the dream investor scenario - a modular retiring with little warning out of order. the party is just getting started.

Alright everyone so here's my $400 ucs millennium falcon... I finally finished cleaning all of the pieces so it's ready for me to build and I'm sure it's gonna be a ***** to find certain pieces as I go along but luckily I don't have as short a temper as hxc

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Come on Nick 10 Grand,that chicken Feed $20 Grand and you can get Red 5, Sea Cows, Tower of Orthanic, Pet Shops, Cinema Palaces,Ewok Villages and a few others. I will be going to the Lego Store Friday to load up on most of these. Ed

Part 3 of the story. I don

I always say: A perfect box is no advantage... but a beat-up box is a disadvantage. It is like when you sell your car. When you clean it thoroughly it is a common thing. But when you do not clean it people will complain and have a legit reason to haggle.

False. You want highest expected rate of return among other investments with the same variance and liquidity. If you find a better one you have to consider transaction costs. On the stock market they are 0. With LEGO they are substantial. Also you can't trade with too high volumes of LEGO, both because of handling costs and supply constraints. Finance and investments is not that simple.

I think a lot of people are riding the edge of their ever expanding "budgets" and need things like double VIP to justify expanding it a little further.

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-DUPLO-Early-Math-Numbers/dp/B00HI3K5LQ now I gotta get one of these

My son likes them and has all of series 1-3. He has opened most of them but not all. The other day I told him that he could get $100 if he sold just the red, yellow and black guys. He said "Really? Put them on ebay!" It warmed my QFLL heart. I won't though (until I sell through all of my others first probably) heh heh.

So, today

We are in the 3rd week of 2015 and the last labels seen have week 50 for 2014. Not seeing the logic here since we are basically talking about 5 weeks since no new seals. Not saying it isn't going, just doesn't seem like a good indictor in this case.

Seperate... you will get two promo's and two free shipping boxes instead of one. Maybe also some free plastic filling materials.

This weeks haul. On the way. 20 Family Houses 2 Birds 2 BTTF 4 Kings Castles 3 Grand Prix Racers

I flipped some TH to buy more TH

I agree. No need to second guess this purchase. Pull the trigger.

LOL, I feel bad for Ed. He can't say anything around these message boards without someone thinking it's a hint. Guy never gets a break.

This is not related to the Birds set, but thank you to all above that expressed concern about our cat. I haven't been back on here since then to post. Unfortunately, we had to put her to sleep last Saturday, so it's been a rough week and a half. Again, I appreciate it, and please give all of your cats, or pets of whatever furry kind, a hug and appreciate them while they're still here.

And the only reason they gave Luke a green lightsaber in ROTJ is because the blue one got lost in the sky backdrop during the battle on Jabba's Sail Barge. If it wasn't for that, it would still be good guys get blue, bad guys get red.

Sleeping easy is the best possible use of investment dollars.

Agreed, but there's a difference between a "dirty" box (excessive wear, punctures/holes, pancaked) and a less than perfect one. I have five THs NIB--I don't usually discuss #s of sets because A ) Someone will always talk about how many more he/she has and B ) I'm not the guy who talks about how many more I have. Ego should have no place in investing, IMHO, but that's a topic for another thread. I'm happy to have landed those THs as I came in late (started investing in September, 2014) and just happened to take Mr. Mack's advice. A few have some minor box dents and creases, but do I care? Heck no. Are the boxes "damaged"? Not really--it's several pounds of bagged plastic bits sliding around in a cardboard box; hard not to have a few minor creases. I'll fully disclose box condition with several pictures when I sell. The one TH, my sixth, that Walmart sent with a sticker on the side and the flaps popped open? That's the one I built for me because I could give two s**ts about box condition. "Mint" means less in LEGO than it does in other collectibles. "NIB" or "factory sealed" means more to me--personally. I think "MISB" is a brass ring you can chase and chase, but someone picky enough will find a reason to nitpick the tiny scratch or rounded corner. I will never use the word "mint" to describe any LEGO box when selling, no matter how pristine. It's just not as useful as "new in box" and sets a seller up for all kinds of OCD buyer trouble down the road. This is just how I do business. YMMV--and your opinion.

If finances allow, I like to buy 2 copies of each new exclusive early on in the production run and then move on to the other sets that are nearing retirement. At least I have the sets and can sleep easy. Is it the most effective use of investment dollars? Maybe not, but it has worked for me.

Set a profit margin you are comfortable with and see if anyone bites. I would keep back a couple but this set is likely to be overshadowed by the UCS versi

Bought yesterday: 3 x 42000 Grand Prix Racer 1 x 70404 Kings Castle 1 x 75020 Jabba's Sail Barge 1 x 60020 Cargo Truck and... 3 x 41063 Ariel's Undersea Palace for 10 euro each!

Having no kids must be nice! I'd have like $600-$700 extra a month to spend on lego if it weren't for daycare.

Fun read http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/making-lego-movie-7-years-762327?utm_source=twitter

I'll flip my middle finger to anyone who rationalizes selling theirs now

Well... it's the price he pays for the life he choose.

Ah.. So now the clue points to Simpson house retiring.. Sneaky!

I just want to say BC has already been a godsend to me. Just my experience: I've listed a dozen or so items, ranging from $10 - $400. No action yet on the low dollar items, but the highest priced items have sold almost instantly. And with no fees, those are the items I'm happiest to sell. I've pocketed significantly more than I would have on ebay or Amzn, and sold for less than the going rates on those sites, giving the buyers real value. Any BPer who truly wants to move a higher priced item right now is a fool not to list it on BC. Buyers who know the value of your product are there, ready to buy.

Bought one today for 50 euro. Will go back tomorrow to pick up the remaining two. Hopefully they will be still there.

Just purchased an SSD on the site for a very fair price (lower than the eBay normal), which made me happy as I missed out on it and really wanted one for my collection. The whole experience was great (pending only the arrival of the item, of course!). I was able to contact the seller, get additional pictures and even negotiate a bit. Thank you for the site and I will definitely use it again. Once my own stock has valued to set goals I'll probably list there as well.

Yeah LEGO just went nuts to throw out the trash nobody wanted. Seeing a DUPLO set on the first exclusive page is depressive though. At least I know that awesome stuff is coming this year. What I like is that modulars seem to be constantly out of stock now. It signals a high demand for these sets. I don't think people are hoarding PR, it should be true demand. And this means our stashed retired stuff will rise nicely.

This is the only time I wish some things to finally die. Actually no. There was Joffrey.

Not on Brickowl or eBay, but I understand your point. I don't remember ever getting a paypal invoice for any of my 100+ purchases on Bricklink, but it's not like it's hard either way. Takes about ten more seconds to copy and paste the e-mail address, put in the amount, the order number and hit send, as opposed to all that information being pre-loaded for you.

I agree, I don't think S2 will hit $100/set until next holiday with S1 maybe peaking around $140-150 at most. Don't see them going much higher if at all. Way too many S3 bought at high discounts like AlpineMaps said so I see them peaking around $75. I only have 3 sets of them and will probably be happy to move on from them at $60 per set. Series 4 are awesome. The Glowkies are gonna be huge but everyone knows about Mixels now so from here on out, it's gonna be hard to see huge returns. S5...I'm gonna guess July/August?

I noticed that sale when looking at the sold listings for the HH, congratulations! That's a nice profit right there. There only appears to be 4 sellers left in Australia now. I'm holding out selling mine until the price hits $500 (inc. shipping), which shouldn't be too far away hopefully.

At this point? ;)

Pretty easy fix to that.. Just write your seller ID on a small piece of paper, and toss it in the picture. Prevents 99.9% of other sellers snagging the picture. No lazy ass is going to use Photoshop to adjust it.

I don't understand the new core mathematics...

In Italy is 01:00 a.m. Do I've to go to sleep...or I've to wait your hint? Sent from my XT1052 using Brickpicker mobile app

I am one-time exception just like you!

Jeff, you need to add if there are more stuff at the end of the Amazon link, use '&' instead of '?'. Only one ? after the '/' after the product link. Other references should follow by &. I saw even exciter1 could make mistake like this (no offense, exciter1), just afraid that BP not getting credit for potential purchases.

Danish sense of humour; TH . HE and HH are now half price on EU shop! All still sold out of course.

No, it's not sold out worldwide. But, it's not available worldwide either (in my country it seems to only be found on ebay and marketplaces). It's not retiring !

the only technical sign missing pointing towards PS retirement is limit 2 purchase at shop at home. otherwise its showing the same pattern as previous 3 modular retirements both expected and unexpected. even with target's elevated price it has been out of stock most of the time though in stock now. i also haven't seen a palace cinema in a store and that is also out of stock everywhere at the moment except shop at home - don't think that's retiring yet so its hard to know what's going on with any certainty. eitherway, PS's eventual disappearance from purchasability can only be hastened by the unexpected retirement of the TH with the resulting change in hoarding/investing behavior and its the next on the docket by chronology. also what other EOL-worthy sets are there to pour your money into? at this point DS-believers have there money locked up - i don't hear about anyone doubling down there even though that will blow the doors off almost anything else you could buy now. ToO prospects are looking better given the performance of UG. but there is no SSD. no HH. maybe the money is going into Red 5's but don't hear much enthusiasm there. Tumblers - sure but that's not retiring anytime soon either apparently. i think there probably is a lot more modular hoarding going on now because of the TH. i am purchasing PS's 1 at a time on a regular basis every 14-16 days or so from shop at home though since its the next modular that would be slated for the ax.