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​Because my photos are the actual items I am selling showing all the box damage and creases and everything it is NOT whatever the other d-bag is selling. This isn't a stock photo. This is a photo I took with my camera of my item with my watermark. It is MINE. Period. It confuses buyers when they see some jerk off with the exact same listing as me who has bad feedback and the associate it with me. It's annoying when I spend a good amount of time working on a listing and some toolbag comes and just ctrl-c the whole thing. It's against eBay rules for a reason. If people want to use the stock photos, ebay provides them! Why do you have to STEAL my photo?

TLG has a POS system all right...and I am not talking about Point Of Sale.

I can't believe the number of people who think it's no big deal. It's not just being lazy...it's copyright infringement, plain and simple. And as for it not affecting the seller...how so? If someone takes the time to set up a nice photo, it's to differentiate his/her listing from all the other stock photos or cellphone shots taken in a dark room. If everyone steals that photo (or worse, both the photo and description), then their listing is no longer unique. Auctions with good descriptions and photos tend to do better than others because they look more professional and give the impression that the sale will be handled professionally.

​It is worth my time to get lazy bums from using my own pictures and listing contents to compete against me. It is hard enough to get a sale without these lazy *** bums running around using other people's hard work for their own benefits

In the older ebay days where I hosted pictures in the description or linked to them, I changed a photo from the action figure to a rabbit and water marked it saying lazy ebayer stole this photo they messaged me quick but they linked to the URL which I swapped it burned them and I laugh about it to this day now all you can do is watermark

Sold another 7965 Falcon NISB this morning for $250 shipped, so I bumped the eBay listing up to $260 and sold another this evening. Keep pushing those prices up, folks!

With respect to all effort and civil discussion, I must say... The best advice my father ever gave me is that, most of the time, it doesn't help at all to be right.

​Nope. Not leaning towards anything, they are ENFORCING their own guidelines pertaining to images: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/image-text.html?afsrc=1&rmvSB=true

why not just take your OWN photos!? Couldn't agree more that this is NOT ok. I for one would never buy an item that does not have an actual picture of the item. I'm not buying anything that uses stock photos because doesn't prove to me they actually have the product in hand. As many scammers that are out there, why not be as careful as can be when choosing which buyers you trust more. I'd rather see a poorly lit photo of a set on someone's table than a stock photo of the item's box from a website. It takes 10 seconds to take a picture on your phone and email it to yourself to upload. On top of that, using the same photo and same title, well that's super confusing to a buyer and misrepresents people. Don't think you guys who are saying it's ok would like it too much if a bad seller with poor feedback did it to you and then all the sudden you wonder why your item isn't selling.

The first gen of Friends was dynamite. Once the cat got out of the bag everyone started buying. Second gen market seems to be flooded.

I negotiated a discount if I took it all. $1,800.

When printing postage with Paypal, the Expedited Parcel rate is actually cheaper than the Regular Parcel rate, thanks to an implied small business discount.

Damaged box Jabba's Palace, Rancor Pit, and Desert Skiff on EBay free ship $300.

As Jeff and I mentioned yesterday, the new IP Board forum software has a module which enables private subforums. Jeff and I purchased this module so that members can once again discuss NON LEGO investing topics in a forum that works in conjunction with the normal Brickpicker forum, yet is accessible to only members which would like to view it. It will not interfere with normal LEGO discussions or forum topics, yet for those who are members, you will see the forum activity pop up on your screen. This should satisfy the many requests we received from members about reinstating this type of discussion on a LEGO based site. You can have your cake and eat it too as they say. It will operate like any other forum and Jeff can add categories for different NON LEGO topics if you like. We have already invited all the members that were active in the old thread (which is now unlocked). Any new members need to go HERE and click on the join button. Either Jeff or I will receive the request and approve it. Long time member, Pickleboy, will also have the ability to approve members and he has volunteered to take an active role in leading this forum. Moderation will be limited and basically anything legal and legit can be discussed. Please no illegal or vulgar topics! There will be more leeway given on this forum, but please be considerate of others and keep the discussions mature in nature. Thanks for your patience and participation... Ed Mack

Hi all. I've made a Himitsu Bako which is a Secret Box (also known as a puzzle box) out of Lego. This box has two ways to get into the hidden compartments and is a fun build, especially for kids. I decided to make a video tutorial with a parts list if anyone fancies making one for themselves. Have fun! Rick. The video can be found here:

Let me tell you my story: I had put up a listing for a complete set of SW Microfighters series 1. I went through a lot of trouble and it was one of the longer and more tedious listings I created. It had two pics of each set and then a pic of all 6 together. The pics had my watermark. I typed out a long description including manufacturer's description for each set, along with including all the piece counts and UPC codes. I spent a lot of time on this listing. The next day some doofus from Chicago has copied my title, my listing text and all my pics. This wasn't another Lego reseller. This was actually some guy who sold some weird items related to a group for *** members of the USMC. Now I have no problem with *** people at all, or Marines for that matter, but I really don't want my listings matching this guy's 100%. Also he had a crap feedback score. I politely asked him to remove my info from his listing and he accused me of stealing HIS images and text and said to stop harassing him or he would report me. So I called ebay and had them remove the listing. Pretty easy to tell who's listing came first. If you think this kind of activity is OK, I wonder if you engage in it yourself? If so, please stop, you are being a giant douchenozzle.

Got shipping confirmation for the R2D2 orders! Can't wait to receive them!

So, built this one last night. Box was in good condition considering the age, if a bit musty. Instructions were also in good. In the box also had two Expert Builder (Technic) posters/catalogues (in perfect shape), missing piece/feedback card and a 1982 (I think) Lego catalogue, also in great shape. The model itself? The pieces look almost new. The minifigs are immaculate- no "Bennied" broken helmet straps, no faded Classic Space logos. Baseplate is also immaculate. However, missing one white minifig and 4-5 other pieces, even though it was advertised as complete. But, it is a beauty. I'll have to take a comparison photo with Benny's Spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP to show both the scale and just how bloody good an hommage the latter set is to these lovely old sets.

​I think he was probably talking about when he's around your mother though.

I don't really see why it matters. You're on there to sell a product, and that's all the photo is for. If they have the same product, the photo isn't changing what the customer gets. I would say eBay should have *more* photo sharing. There's no point in 500 people spending the time, energy, electricity to duplicate photos of the same thing. Everybody on Amazon uses the same photos. I feel like this idea of it being lazy is more coming from people trying to find every way to have an edge on the competition. People want to think they put more time or effort into it, so they deserve more money. But spending the time to take photos manually just so you can get a sale instead of the other guy, when the customer would be receiving the same thing, how does that make sense? eBay listings *don't* make coherent sense, and that's what a lot of people like about it. You can pull off a $200 sale when the other guy was offering it for $150. Be glad for it, but I think I have better things to worry about than if the $200 guy saved a few minutes by using my photos.

​dont view it like that man, they are out there. just find one that believes in you, not your obsession p.s. dont tell them

I am redirecting the traffic of Investorsell.com to the new groups app here. I have a few changes that will need to be made on the overall forum but this should work fine once all the proper permissions are setup. You will need to request to join the group and I will try my best to approve as soon as I can.

​Bundling?!? That'll never work.

Yesterday I built the 21004 Solomon Guggenheim Museum that I picked up for $25us. It's a very pretty build but it suffers the same fate as sets like Rockefeller Center, Sydney Opera House, and Brandenburg Gate and that is that the smaller horizontal builds LOOK small. Sungnyemun only suffers from this a little but Sydney Opera House is just ugly to look at. I really liked the method to "weight" the large radar dishes. Today, I built the 21020 Trevi Fountain. What I said above for horizontal builds doesn't apply to larger ones as 'Trevi' is beautiful! It reminded me of when I visited Rome and it was a LOT of fun to build, even the usually tedious parts, and you see it nicely build itself up starting with the fountain. The techniques used for the columns and facade are pretty clever and look brilliant. My only quibble is that I don't really like the rocks as they look clumsy and the sculptures are too large but it is my personal favourite of the architecture line to date. It just looks sharp.

Thanks for the advice everybody. I did decide to post it. I do keep a few sets on display but the house is slowly becoming a Lego museum. When I bought this set it was intended as a display for awhile , then flip, so I am sticking to it. It's out there if you want to take a look!

​Yeah, great buy! These come up from time to time, I just don't get why they give up and sell at such a deep discount. It seems that with minimal effort, they could sell the GE, TH, and TB for $1K on eBay. If they don't know the worth of them, that's one thing. But when people know the value and do a fire sale, I just don't get it. That said, congrats on the score!

​Pretty sure that only works for EBAY using your photos, not other sellers. So if EBAY suddenly went into the lego reselling business, and was selling legos through EBAY, then this would hold water and they could use any picture ever uploaded to their servers. I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

​That's not correct at all, and photos are copyrighted, not trademarked. If that were true, then eBay wouldn't have to do anything if you submitted a complaint. ​It was worth my time when someone stole my photo and exact description to sell multiples of the same item I was selling last Christmas. They were making sales off my work/time, and I was losing sales to them.

updated to better emphasize the whole dogs and cats living together methodology of retail.

This flip-flopping of labels and statuses has been discussed ad nauseam multiple times. Nobody ever follows through on the promise to track statuses or nobody has ever found a pattern worth more than pure speculation. Basically what I'm saying is that the rampant speculation of different statuses has yielded a giant zero of information except a handful of posts in these threads so us old-timers get tired of it really quickly when it escalates beyond "I am speculating" into the "This is how it works" realm. If you go back and read your own posts, you'll see that you claim as fact much speculation and that just doesn't fly around here. Speculate, don't claim to know the truth of how all these systems work, how Target bans resellers, and how Online statuses and In-Store statuses are related ... is all I ask. ** Edit... I'm not just crapping on you either, FWIW. You're just the latest victim. **

So what? I wouldn't care less, really. It's not as if it would do you any harm. If it really bugs you that much, put a sign with your store name in the picture next time. I've seen others do that, and as long as it's not too distracting I don't see it as a problem for buyers.

​Funny thing with Target out of the picture everyone seems to have been bracing for a significant reduction in sale events everywhere else due to the declining competition - seems, at least in our local retail marketplace, just the opposite is actually happening - sales are everywhere even beyond the summer product dumps of previous years. maybe it's the dollar, maybe 'cause no one is travelling south or the south is visiting the north for a change, maybe they are making room for the newer sets at the newer standard higher price points but it's been difficult to stay "just slightly over" the inventory budget these days.

​And about 10 minutes after it was OOS, it shot up about 60.00, so looks like the tower has finally been depleted at retail online, and along with it goes the Lord of the Rings line. Now, we can finally watch those sets appreciate.

I'd just sell it and invest in more sets. You'll make more money that way than any appreciation on the GG.

2 boxes series 5 mixels, turbo flip!! Anyone notice the buying thread is 3 times longer than the selling thread. Hoarders

​right... I think even by saying "he can't give any statements to this, but he has no relationship with LEGO when it comes to the early sets" it would have been better. I mean personally I'm happy to see these reviews and of course I'd like to have the sets right now as well! But on the other hand I can wait 2 more month without getting all crazy ;-) ​I don't know if you can already speak of a flop or no but: I don't think you can compare these two. Palpatines Arrest might be one of the key scenes but at least for me it never had the same importance as the final duel scene. When Palpatines Arrest came out I was thinking: Yeah... meh... got all these cool jedi minifigs but I'm not spending that much money only for the minifigs With the new final duel I immediately loved this set! I mean it's probably my favorite of this new wave (second place would be the shuttle). You just "FEEL" the atmosphere... don't know how to express it better ;-)

Nice find man! That box is in gorgeous shape!

My last 7065 Alien Conquest Alien Mothership for $37+ shipping.

​All I'm going to say is "karma".

I think it was a spot for people with common lego interests to also voice other things that they found promise in. All the stuff stayed in one thread. I can see how some stuff got out of hand. I guess if someone thats on it frequently wanted to moderate just that thread, keep it clean or whatnot I think it could be a positive (not it). It was just a lot more convenient to have the thread here.

​No, raven is innocent. I am the one with a predilection for serial killers....

​1. Pre-measure and weigh your box. and then use ebays "Calculate - Varies by buyer location" shipping option. This option checks Canada Posts site for you and give the buyer a quote based on the ir postal code and the dimensions you input. I solely use this method so i do not get screwed over somehow. I've never had it calculate incorrectly. It also saves you work from getting quotes for buyers. 2. To my knowledge regular parcel includes tracking already, but i use expedited as it is much faster and the cost difference is minimal. Actually i believe it is the ame price if shipping through paypal? Or that may only be top rated sellers i can't remember. All i know is i pay the regular parcel price on expedited packages. If possible send anything to the US with "Canada Post - Tracked Package" much cheaper than expedited cross border. 3. Insurance is purely based on how you feel about what you are shipping. If you feel that sending that $800 SSD across the country is too risky - insure it. Lessons: Redghost got it right Aside from that; don't do flat rate shipping, it will cost you if you make a miscalculation.

​Sometimes we just need to bear a little insult to see the good reviews

Used 7965 MF (w box and instructions) for 196 shipped on ebay.

​The Landing Craft is a Sentinal-Class shuttle and the UCS Imperial Shuttle is a Lambda-Class shuttle. The sentinal class was designed to carry much more cargo (180 tons vs 80 tons) and was more heavily armored/weaponized. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sentinel-class_landing_craft http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lambda-class_T-4a_shuttle

I'm having trouble deflating some weight. Any pointers?

​Kind of breaking the spell, is not it? I like SW, but I like it for as it is. I don't think more into it than what I said above. I can understand you, but to do what I do I had to learn how to overcome personal biases. For an evening flick it is the best you can get. However I never had a great introduction to this universe, I just watched them on TV when they were aired on Sunday evenings. I even saw EPV first, so it was not in order. Without the hype it was on the same level for me as the Lion King or Back to the Future. However I like certain elements of this universe, but to match my taste the movies had to be more gritty, run-down and apocalyptic. No stupid characters. Mix in some amorality. For example I don't know if you played KoToR II, but what Obsidian did there was the closest to what I want to see. Nothing was perfect, the Jedi order was flawed and eccentric, the Sith were nihilistic and all of the characters were unique and twisted. No clear line between good and evil. Nar-Shaddaa was the asshole of the Galaxy with drugs, prostitution, slavery, crime bosses and smuggling, my favorite setting. Would be great for a Boba Fett movie.

Tell me about it! I'll harvest them all....this thing will have a huge potential. Not to mention it is a car that every Ferrari collector and petrol head wants to have! Same here...so many UCS and Exclusive sets...it's difficult, almost impossible to resist. And if you're in this game for real, you must have them all. Let alone from the perspective as a lego fan! Ferrari easily sells

Saving money???? What is that??? Since I started this "hobby" last year I haven't saved a penny anymore.

Here are my two - 2013 Audi S5 and my 2009 Lotus Elise