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I sold a BTTF Delorean for $100. Stoked!!

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Ex1, i see your Chima and raise you a City

​Have you seen the custom sticker sets on ebay. Theres a few but the these two look excellent. When I finally get round to opening and building one, ill get these and keep the originals in the box. Got to add some value to a used set I think

I let my personal feelings about how I thought the Delorean build looked awful get in the way of investing in that set. I guess nostalgia wins over how a sets look in this case. Dang.

​Dude, cool down! You are making us all look bad. Now spill it....was this another CL deal?

I'm going to beat that dead horse again... Every investment needs an exit strategy. The profit is good now and the gains for the next 12 months might be minimal to negative depending on what comes next. Every investment has risk. The profit is good--I'd say go for it.

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I have 20 of these. I don't know any ice cream trucks other than the batman Joker one and that one did super good. Everybody loves ice cream trucks right? If I'm right I win, if I'm wrong I break even.

​If you never sell any sets are they really worth anything?

​ ​Why? The Walmarts in his area still have sets from 2010

I'm going to have to go to Wal-Mart and hunt some of these down.

There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?

Buy box is $947 @ Amazon !! $$$

​It probably will be the PS first, but it's hard to get decent numbers of a modular set 6 months before it's due to retire. I've been hustling to get 4 PS but I want 8. I have more PC at this point. I'm a member of the buy early and hold strategy.

I only have one. I hope to acquire three before it goes eol. Hopefully in time I can raise those numbers but I can't financially afford to buy a ton. Preschool is freaking expensive. I think 10 is a great number. It's also good not to put all of your eggs in one basket......although the modulars seem to be a safe and consistent bet.

Ya know, it does make sense that CT would be carrying Lego... everything else you buy there comes apart after you use it a couple of times...

I just wish LEGO would give some of the larger sets a chance. Enough of these $50 sets. How about a kick butt $400 set?

Ideas is such a disappointment that I've completely tuned it out at this point. I get that many of these submissions are just not feasible but big sets and interesting licensed IPs are cool; birds and labyrinths not so much. The Exo Suit was probably the best Ideas set but I didn't even get that one since I'm not really into classic space or mechs. Most submissions can now basically be sorted into 3 categories: Small vignettes derivative of the Research Institute, niche licensed sets (sorry but Golden Girls and the Goonies are about as irrelevant as you can get), and completely infeasible monstrosities.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed:

I only have two but I'm holding til 2300

​Use the mobile app to do a price check first.

​I've pretty much given up on Craigslist. I've had a bit of success on there, but now all I get are lowball offers. Interestingly, I've had some people local to me ask to pick up their bricklink orders themselves and pay cash, so I've saved on shipping and paypal fees that way.

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Woah...that's heavy.

​Those are very cool. It's easy to use those, too, because they get stuck onto a very common piece. So you can easily switch things up and out. I may pick up a few sets of those and see if that doesn't help sell my PCs for a little higher price down the road.

It's hard sometimes not to let your personal feelings get it in the way of a set, but I try not to let it. I try to think of the overall appeal to buyers, not if I really like it or not. I bought a ToO and I don't like it at all. I think it's a good investment though.

​I am way light on PC. I've got six PS, and seven GE, etc. PC is the modular I have the least of but I will be acquiring some soon hopefully. Gotta figure out which exclusives to buy during the Winter Soldier promo.

​$100 before fees is pretty darn good! Congrats on the sale. I only have a few of these so I'll be waiting until Oct-Dec to consider selling any.

sealed poly of the SW 2853835 Boba Fett (white armor) for $61.

​Hence why I said "AFOLs".. I didn't use the term KFOLs. Newly emerged AFOL's will see these sets and buy them mostly for themselves. So, i'm not really as confused as you think. I realize who the target market is. Most kids are going to be into the new episode 7 sets and that will be their generation of toys, not these retired OT sets, although there maybe a few here and there they will want. I'm sure anything with Jabba, or ewoks could be wanted by little critters. But for the most part, AFOLs are going to be the ones that will be buying the retired OT sets. Personally, my little boy prefers the prequel film sets over the OT sets, to my distain. Anything with battle droids he's into, and they get more play than any of the OT sets. The OT sets tend to be more for my nostalgic tastes. We built the snowspeeder a few months back, and i whoosh it around the room more than he does.

I don't even really care if a submission is a great investment or not, I want a great set, and this maze thing is not it. Amazing creation, I couldn't do it, but what are you supposed to do with it? You can't admire it. You supposed to play with the little ball? While I knew it wouldn't be passed the Minas Tirith desperately needed to get made. It's a main setting of the LotR franchise and Lego didn't make it, really disappointing. It's like having Indiana Jones franchise and not making the Holy Grail scene, oh wait.

wow. 3 down. last one sold in less than 15 minutes. i might give it another week or two before listing another.

​That's true.. But, id still recommend at least holding onto a few. You might be able to blow the final ones out for over 350 to 400, if you hold onto them another year. At 60.00 you aren't losing money, and you're basically playing with great profit money at that point. Then next year, use that 700 from the final 2 to scoop up 10 AT-ATs and rinse and repeat.

Here's a vid on how to make the piano if anyone is interested seeing it got denied.

er......nor sure what happened to the emoticons...using the app now so maybe it is not working properly yet. Trying to put a smiley face.....

I agree. I enjoy the process of picking orders and slapping a shipping labels. It's fun knowing someone will be excited opening your package you shipped.

1. Oh Em Geee !!!! 2. The Duplo giraffes and elephants do not look out of place thanks to the size of the mini-dolls 3. I like how the exhibits are not on the same level. The steps blend so seamlessly too 4. So that's where Ariel ended up after the big break up with her prince

​Oh no worries, I realize it won't be easy to keep it. I'll be taking a 7+ month hiatus from selling anything this coming Christmas. I have a good number of ripened Star Wars sets I hope to sell this fall so even a 20% savings on fees will be worth it. This is the first time I've ever found a worthwhile stash of polys at my local TRUs so I'm just having a little fun too. ​I averaged it to $5 profit per, $240 = 48 polybags. I think I ended up with 51 but I'm keeping 2 for myself and I gave one away. It's not a ton of money for the effort but what the hell, it's more fun than my day job right now.

Welcome to the site, cyjleung.

Just reloaded on JW polybags from my usual TRU hangout. I'm guessing these things aren't very available in the US as 4 out of 5 sales are going to the US. The poor exchange rate must be helping too. I hope I sell out before they show up down south.

​Sticky made it .5 past light speed on his way to federal ..... me in the ... prison as i turned over all i had including his name to the police today.... or rehab depending on how well he can play the world's smallest "im addicted to meth" violin when he appears in front of a judge for the nth time. cops were very specific asking regarding whether this was a private courier or USPS package

For many of us fortunate owners of a 10179, it's all house money at this stage. ​At this point in the EOL afterlife of the 10179, the people currently buying this set at $4000 are anal completists that have the wherewithal to do so. These are not your regular LEGO STAR WARS fans and many of these collectors (like myself), want all the UCS sets. The 10179 will plateau at some point, but even a possible remake could be similar to the 10240/7191 situation in which the 7191 has leveled off in price, but has remained at a pretty constant $900 level for a year or more. I just don't see a crash and burn for the 10179. With the manner in which Disney is releasing these new movies (a sequel, then a prequel, then an off shoot movie), it is always possible the older Millennium Falcon version (round radar) can see the big screen again, so a new UCS version is always possible, but it could also make the 10179 even more valuable if one is never produced.

Please share said list! Please? :)

​Why? Did you sell a Chima Fire Bike?

​I salute you sir the wisest of decisions. Big money this Christmas. Take it to the bank.

Walked into the lego store today...."do you have any palace cinemas in stock?" Employee.."oh no. Sorry, palace cinema is retired." Me..."oh really, cause i called yesterday and someone told me you will be getting some in." long story short. I asked him to check in the back low and behold guess what he walks out with. So yeah lego store employees really know very little about what is "retired" and what is not lol

To cut a long story short, some of us investors are wishfully thinking that PS and PC will go this year because we like the idea of short production runs (PC) as that makes us more money, whereas the more prudent suggest that PC is premature. The most pessimistic even feel that PS is not done yet. Truth is we have no real idea but as with Lego sales it is always more fun to speculate about what might happen than wait for the actual event. If you are building a portfolio, it is a good idea to get some of all 3 to cover base as you never know. Later, extras can always be added when there are promos.