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SSD on amazon $999.99 + 12.99 shipping fee. buyer is only 3 states away. Raptor Escape + Gallimumus Trap combo for $104.49 on amazon. BTTF Delorean $95.48 also on amazon. sales have really accelerated out of nowhere. i was not the lowest price for these and they still sold. building up capital for some holiday promo splurge spending at shop at home. especially that gingerbread house. along with the candy and sweets, they might as well stick some of those green 1x2 flat tiles with the $100 printed on the side for good measure. ho ho ho - i love this time of year.

I just made my first brick classified sale, a Death Star for $480. Ever since the no fees announcement I wanted to list a few things to support it. This sold within an hour of posting.

City: Mining Truck 4202 - $78 ($17 buy-in) @ Amazon

preorders are for FBA items that are already in Amazon's possession and are being moved to other distribution center ( redistribution)

What a load. Built it just to take pictures? Uh... there are plenty of professional pictures of it on the internet... we all know what it looks like. Oh... and you are "keeping the box and instructions"? Could it be that you bought it with no box or instructions? And that's why you felt the need to build it and get photos? That is not "new". That set is "used", and anyone with 200 minifigs for sale in his store should know that.

related but different - a pet peeve of mine is Ebay sellers that include best offer on their listing and then refuse to negotiate within reason. I understand if you don't want to accept 10%-20% off - I tested the waters and couldnt match your floor. I'll move on and wish you luck. But if you're not willing to knock off 5% or even 2% of your asking price, maybe you shouldn't be using that feature. Maybe there's some secret psychology game going on here, but it seems to me like you're just cluttering up the landscape.

Yesterday, I tried to give a child a pirate - and he threw it at me.

I think this pretty much sums it up. A five year old boy (my son) watching Star Wars for the first time ever. The Death Star is... fascinating. When it is gone (whenever, if ever, that finally happens), just sit back and watch the prices skyrocket as this moment (pictured below) happens again and again all over the world.

Just sold a Dynamic Duo Funhouse on Amazon for $100 CDN. Netted $80 after fees and shipping on a $55 purchase. Think I'll raise the price on my last one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIXByCAIzos

Found ten pristine 21001 John Hancock last year at TRU on clearance for $6.49ea. Sold them all to a guy in Germany through EBAY GSP for $890.

Especially for The Karate Kid MOC scene

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-Black-Pearl-4184-W-32x32-Blue-Baseplate-Free-Shipp-/201439014980? "My Wife and I bought this a while back and it sat in the box brand new, finally one night we decided to build it and then sell it. So this set is brand new we built it once basically for picturing for this listing then we took it apart and its been in its box ever since."

Just had somebody offer me $185 on a 7965 MF open box listed at $215, with the note "you'll never sell an open box MF at this price, $185 is a fair offer." If you're on here, good luck selling your $1,500 UCS Slave-1

yeap got 4 x 76021 @ 50$ and 4 x 76022 x 35$ .. south shore Mtl. cleared them all

Return of an Old Friend by Chris McVeigh

Tires are back in stock.

I saw tons of these at Targets. I am going to wait for discounts/clearance before buying

Need a light? Light 'em up by Tim Schwalfenberg

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

Bricklink Bat-Pod! Total including tires and the Hero Facotry complete sets in order to get the pieces came to just over $115 and well worth it. Cannot wait to get this home and display next to Tumbler. The set is much bigger than I imagined too.

But not phonics, ironically

Got a 10030 for $100 on CL earlier this year. Seller was a Marine, who had bought it from a other Marine. The guy I bought it from had never build it - he was into Technic. He had tons of Technic he was selling too. He just wanted to get his $100 back. It was all there except for maybe 100 pieces. It was clear that one small section didn't make it into the tub. But otherwise it's fantastic.

42006 £100. Nice buy-in at £27 from Asda very soon after release. Still got a couple left. Technic tends to sit a while but returns are usually good.

This thing has danced so much over the last 2 months that I don't know what to think anymore. I need to see a new production code to believe that they are actually making more of these and even then I am not worried unless new shipments go out to Walmart stores.

Judging by 2014 sets, they will be available in abundance 2-4 weeks after the promo ends

Not for nothing but as a collector as well Id be pissed if you wrote marker on a set you sent me. I get the point of it but a sticker with the same thing especially if they dont know its there would work and is removable.

I think the point was that at some price points you begin to enter the realm where a scammer will intentionally target your item because it becomes 'worth their time'. Over the course of selling 1000 items, you might have 5 deals go wrong, but if those 5 deals are the most expensive items you sell (like $1000 SSD's) then it's not something you can just shrug off like a Raptor Escape being lost or returned SNAD. I think it's worth bringing up the points you did to help our community protect themselves when dealing with the much higher end items. Thanks for sharing it. If anyone has other ideas, we should collect them in a topic "Selling High Price Lego - Protecting yourself" or something like that.

Yes, last year was no problem.

Sell it locally in person for cash is your best bet. Some folks have bought stickers with unique serial numbers and added their own seals but that still isn't enough since the buyer can claim you sent him a diff serial number or that they were already missing after they opened it - and who's to say they weren't? The reality is that getting scammed by a buyer makes up a very, very small percentage of buyers on eBay. People tend to worry about something they can't control.... ship good products that are packaged properly with proper insurance and tracking (don't be afraid of signature confirmation for those really expensive items). That's about as good as it gets and the reality is the chance of getting scammed is so low is it worth worrying about every time you sell something? Not to me... but I admit, it does suck when it happens.

Yeah the local listings of this for me are like $60, yuck. Most of my sales recently have been to the US. I think it might be a bit more scarce down there right now than in Canada. Also the exchange rate helps!

Starting to see sales approach $1k+ on eBay. This should be a fun ride the next couple of months.

Mad Max – The Road Warrior: Snake Truck

$35 76021 is nice..

FAO Wall •E 49.99 limit two..

One of the best parts of this hobby... coming home and seeing a pile of boxes sitting at the front door and totally forgetting what's inside most of em. Its like christmas! Before: I'm sure most Canadians recognize the infamous black-wrapped item :\ luckily they don't have much damage. After: Some JW to flip this holiday, Scooby-Doo for Halloween decor, bunch of pieces for the Bat-Pod (incl hero factory stuff), and i don't own Dimensions (nor do i really plan on getting it), but i really love Portal, and this little set is great even if it were just for the minifig.

I agree with your point, but one thing to remember is that a lot of people like to decorate their homes, inside and out, for Halloween. Next to Christmas, Halloween has to be one of the biggest holidays for decorating. Some people set up a Christmas village every year. We put together our Haunted House the first weekend of October and proudly display it on our kitchen table for the entire month.

Hi, My name is Ikonhero. I'm new, just discovered this site. I'm looking to get back into Lego, but this time by collecting some sealed sets from the 1980's (when it all started for me really). I was wondering if it is ok to post links to Ebay auctions on this forum to get some advice on prices. I noticed the prices tend to get funky on Ebay as it comes to old and sealed sets. thank you!

Hmm, maybe I retired too soon from the CMF game. I need to find my custom 32 pockets bag (16 is for amateurs) and regain my 1/2 second per bag smooshing techniques

My advice is to do the right thing and give your customer his money back since he returned the item. Obviously your buyer was new and did not understand the correct returns process but IMO that does not mean you get to screw them over regardless of what the hacks at ebay CS tell you. In these situations I like to spend no more than 5 mins thinking about what to do. All the time spent thinking about it, contacting ebay, trying to contact the seller, you are losing productivity, money, and also missing out on other opportunities. So many sellers on ebay make things personal and lose out on so much time and money because of it as well as adding to the perception that it is a bad marketplace. Treat it like a business and your results will improve exponentially. Sounds like you may be out $10 in shipping? I bet if you had thought it over for 5 mins and just refunded your customer you would have moved on to other deals or listed more items and be up a few hundred dollars overall by now. Nobody likes returns but they are a part of doing business online and finding a way to get past them emotionally as well as allowing the correct margin to deal with them financially will lead to big money down the road.

I also saw it as more of a moral issue. It did seem as though ebay was telling me to keep both the money and the set and not say a word to the buyer. They have zero feedback, so maybe they just dont know how it works. Bottom line is I have my set back, and once I check that all the pieces are there, I dont see how any scamming could be involved. I dont want to keep someone's money. Seems like a good way for karma to catch up with me next time I buy something. I sent buyer a message with option to either send me additional shipping cost and I will send it back along with information about how to get the instructions from Lego (again), or give me a week to verify parts and then refund of the item price minus $15.

Googiesque by Jordan Schwartz

Lucky you are, hate you I do. ;)

Now this is a truck. Although, I do figure some of you just back-up the box truck and say "Fill it!"

Zombie Sales Meeting

Well it was a Longshot that you'd get one anyway. (couldn't resist)

That is what we have followsclosely for.

Lego SAH Germany does have this listed as a retired product. Sold out on US SAH. Maybe its finally time.