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There was a brief(ish) moment that some members were getting under my skin but I've done a lot of thinking and realized how awesome this entire community is and my attitude was not reflective of how I feel about this forum and it's members. I'm good now!

My buddy (AFOL, not an investor) wanted my help to prep and sell his Imperial Flagship (10210, with box and instructions). Spent about 2 hours taking pics, cleaning, and disassembling. Listed it as a BIN on eBay for $499. We're very good friends, he said to just give him $380 when it sold, I'd keep the rest for eBay fees, shipping, paypal, and my time and use of my account. Well, the kit is fabulous, as most folks know. He owed my $100 for a Rush ticket purchase last month, and I said, why don't I just give you $280 and we call it all even? He was thrilled. Can't wait to rebuild this, especially since I just carefully washed all the parts. Here's a few of the parts drying out before sorting.

I was as awesome then as I am now Check out this pearl of wisdom:

M:Tron Magnet Factory by Blake Foster

There is difference between growth and a good return. GDP can grow at 0.01% or 2.7%. Both are growth. You don't have to stick with the low return.

As others have noted, it greatly helps to know what you have. You can also create smaller bundles (20x super heroes sets, 20x City sets for Tabbyboy, 20x winter sets) and this can help keep your value higher and minimizing the number of transactions. Definitely use Brickclassified as if you got your sets significantly on sale as there may be members looking to buy some of your sets and it would be effortless.

My normal method of building is to sit down and build a set until it's finished, marathon building if you will. I've decided to take a different approach when I started the Parisian restaurant. I've been building a little bit at a time and I think I'm enjoying this style more. I've been at it for about a week and I just finished the bottom floor. I'm impressed so far.

Sold two mixel series 1 black sets for $35.49 on ebay. Sent from my XT1095 using Brickpicker mobile app

Hey man if the UCS DS Storage Box has gone EOL, the DS will follow for sure... That's the kind of inside information I've been waiting for.

Just to play devil's advocate.... Look at what the new 75020 Sail Barge has done to drive down prices of the original 6210 Sail Barge and most people agree that the old Sail Barge looks better, more true to the movie, etc but the new Sail Barge has far superior minifigs. Same thing might happen to the MF.

Can you imagine if in the final scene of the new movie, the camera slowely pans down, the ominous music increases, then BOOM! New Death Star!

Yep. Paypal noticed something fishy about the payment. It may or may not be something to worry about. Just hang on and let Paypal sort this out before mailing the item

Shouldn't you be happy ? People dumping now = less competition 1 year from now ?

Think of it this way, we all pick our long term winners. This is a good set and I could have waited it out, but it is no long term winner for me. My R2 and TH is. I decided to take funds from this as part of cash to buy up 50 Creative Tower's. I am clearing at least $25 per creative tower. Yes I could sit on them till Christmas and make a lot more but I want the quick flip. My buy in was about $31 each including tax. So I spent $1,550, and two weeks later I am down to single digits remaining on the creative tower, should sell out this week, maybe today, and have made at least $1,250 on the $1,550 investment. i wish I would have bought 200 of them looking back. Now I can take the $2,700 ish and go plow it into something else. Maybe more ToO or Red Five or something else. The helms deep was not generating the type of return I wanted and while I love LOTR I just don't see this commanding the $ of the other sets long term. There is no right or wrong. Each has our own style. But this was my reason to dump. At the time I dumped I did not know the towers would come along but I knew something would and they did along with many other great finds I have been either turbo flipping or stashing away for the long haul. Us dumping may make your long term hold even better for you I hope.

I had bought several of these at MSRP. I love LOTR and Helm's Deep but I recently moved out all but one for me made 10% and called it a day. The cash went into buying 50 Creative Tower's which I have almost finished turbo flipping and am very happy on the time return investment on it and will take the proceeds and plow into something else. Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you. (I am stocking up on ToO by the way) For me the Kenny Rogers song know when to fold them was playing on the set and glad I did but to each their own

The fan base for this theme isn't going away. These sets will bring good money, it will just be slower growth than other themes.

Comparing performance over the short term of retired sets doesn't really work because sets behave differently now. Good sets pop immediately and then seem to level off for a while followed by slow growth. Older sets would increase more steadily for a longer time. I would attribute that to the same thing that happened with 41999. Investors buy them up and push the price up. Your average buyer doesn't immediately know that they missed their chance for a Town Hall or R2 at retail so they don't have a lot of reason to buy as soon as something sells out.

I just visited the same meijer and the lone Lonely Mountain is now 3. The new ones have a seal code of 05R5 and they are on sale for $97.

The best is when their failure to use a signal almost causes a wreck and they get angry at you for what they caused. Like we are all psychic and know where you are going

Absolutely, more and more resellers have found the modular line. That said, and here's what interesting, each retired modular from GG on has done BETTER at each stage of its lifecycle. Here's where the modulars sat 5 months and 14 months after EOL: 5 mo. 14 mo. GG: $190, $280 FB: $250, $400 GE: $300, ******/a TH: $500, ******/a I agree 100% more folks are hoarding, yet we're seeing better results. I personally think this is from 2 causes: more buyers and AFOL in general (thank you, Lego Movie!), and sales to recent investors. I don't see any reason PS and PC won't follow the general trend of FB/GE. They won't be another TH, unless TLC pulls the plug on PC early.

I can't argue with your logic but with each modular more and more hoarding is taking place which I'm certain has some affect on secondary market prices.

Go for the pet shop. It's been out twice as long as the cinema. Better yet just buy both if you can.

Your concern is valid on paper, but I do not place much weight in it. You know 94.7%* of all buyers are too lazy or not interested in bricklinking a set. This set will continue to climb at a solid rate. I would not be shocked to see this hit $500 this year. * I like to make up numbers.

Set #7646 Alien Infiltrator http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=7646-1

I do buy a ton of makeup these days. and... My prior vehicle was a Jeep Grand Cherokee...... Which fun fact of the day is driven by more females then males by far. The gap puts it at the number one vehicle for gender difference. Crap. I'm going to the gym to listen to Pantera and lift heavy things.

I think the comment was intended that is anything that burns fossil fuels really "good for the environment." "Better than the alternatives" might be a little closer to reality. The TDIs are really nice engines. I could do without the Jetta around it though.

Yeah 30 til cancelled with make offer is what I use for anything over $50. Under $50 I dont add the make offer part. I normally add 10% to my price when I have the best offer available. Some people get a real kick out of saving a buck with the best offer but most of the time I get that extra 10%. One last thing if you have a lot of the same item dont list all of them at once. Keep the quantity low as people seem to pay more for an item when they think they might miss out on the deal.

I'll drink a cocktail made with their tears. They have been warned thousands of time. Let's have fun, enjoy our trip and forget about the ones who stayed on the quay.

Intergalactic Laundry Day by Wami Delthorn

What happened? This was mine but I traded it for Lego

Everything appears to be a dud when still available at retail. Amazing what a few months of retirement will do.

those were the days

I know I sell multiple items to the same buyers sometimes, as well as others. I'll wait until they sell and then package & ship, just for this reason.

Price @ Amazon is $385.. pretty nice performance so far

Walmart 3x 70816 Bennys Spaceship for $49ea 1x 76021 Milano for $35 1x 10569 Duplo Treasure Attack for $9 BN 1x 21005 Fallingwater $66.xx after 20% off coupon, 10% off member and a holiday $10 GC they sent me. The manager said no coupon on Lego. I said it says in the Toys and Games not the Hobbies section where the Architect sets are located. She put it through while grumbling under her breath. K-Mart Found two series 1 Mixels for $5ea.

Just wanted to share an update since you were all so helpful in getting me started. Here's how things stand since I posted this cry for help exactly one month ago: Total profit since I started in January - $714.89 QFFL inventory on hand - $737.28 Long terms holds - $647.87 (my plan is to use my profit to invest in these kinds of sets; rinse and repeat; trying to build a self sustaining business) My long term holds are at present are: ToO x 2 WVM x 2 I'm saving up to buy the EEE before it retires I think. Thanks for helping a newbie out. My next big challenge is navigating to EOL purchase and resale bit.

Yes, I've followed eBay auctions on these back to GG days, though I wasn't investing much then.

You have me confused with someone else. I only have a small handful of each modular. Star Wars sets on the other hand.......

Do not let anyone fool you. This set will do fine. TH is better but this set is wonderful. Joe Star Wars Fan and Janette Lego Mom do not go brick link sets. At least the vast majority of them. People (stereotype) in those classes want the real thing. Before I get the rush of replies saying oh yes I brick link. I am not talking about anyone who is a member of brick picker and brick links set ****** my target audience.

Think of online version of drawing graffiti on subway cars. People hire legitimate hackers to test their online security measures.

Here is another member's experience when they decided to liquidate their stock. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/10456-my-one-way-transition-from-investor-to-seller/?hl=investor

I had to make a few changes to the way this alert system works because it it actually too fast with the updates and too efficient. It was costing us a small fortune to send out SMS messages for items that people were not really interested in buying. You will need to go in an check your items to make sure you are receiving alerts on the sets that you want. You will now have the opportunity to select either email and/or SMS for each sets for each store that you are interested in. There is also logic in there tracking purchases (mostly Amazon since they have the most changes). That will disable SMS alerts after a while if no purchases are made. You will still always get email alerts, but there is no need to bombard people with 100 SMS alerts if you are not ready to purchase that set at this time. Hopefully this will keep your phones from going crazy as well as keep you up to date when stock is available. It is also keeps the system Free for people to use.

Gorilla Grodd Goes Bananas or Batman Spanks The Monkey

IMO, the bulls will be running on R2 for a very- VERY long time. Virtually no chance of a re-hash for a little bot that is one of the most iconic characters of one of the most iconic films of all-time... and who's presence and popularity will only increase with the slew of SW films to come (in which- worth noting- He will be featured). I would hypothesize this set goes well into the $1,000+ range, and faster than many would imagine. Again, just IMO. Hold. Store, forget about, and hold. Even with the hoarding, long product run, and opportunity to acquire, the exceptional popularity and demand for this set will override the volume acquired by "folks like us". ________________ Additionally: Both WVM and the SW AT-AT are virtually extinct at the retail level... both, as of this post, are currently available at MRSP @ amazon US. Well worth a look.

Sometimes I wonder if certain Walmarts just end up sending their unsold stock to the other ones like "well this isn't working, give it to the other guy to deal with". Ha. I haven't seen any of those in a while but I do recall the Karate Class set sticking around for a long time. Just the other day I did find a single Mia's Magic Tricks tossed in the clearance aisle a couple bucks shy from half off. Right on, sister.

...or utter despair

Lived Long, and Prospered. by Si-MOCs

Great ride but horrible for lego shopping

i cant speak for anyone else, but i started in 2011 and i just now started selling. about half of my items its going to be hard to make retail back (bought for 50% to 70% off) and the rest im making a killing. my advice is if you cant afford to sit on sets for a long time you wont make good/great profits. this hobby or whatever you want to call it is absolutely NOT for the impatient.