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Agreed! And that will bring to an end any comments that do not have to do with the T1 set. Anything not having to do with the set will be deleted.

Built the Winter Village Post Office which arrived in the mail today. The availability of the Toy Shop motivated me to complete my collection of this theme and I ordered this set, the Bakery, and the Cottage and I am thrilled about being able to display the complete collection this year.

Delorean $90 Town Hall $600 Margins were pretty good.

And here is my second contribution to this thread! I owned this one as well and it is probably one of the smallest castle sets ever created: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/6034_Black_Monarch's_Ghost The speeder bike obviously is the alternative version of the horse. As for the raven/bird I put a droid head on the floor The gates of the bunker are actually functional as well, so you can open and close them just like in the original black monarch's ghost set (even though it's a bit more tricky here haha). https://www.flickr.com/photos/136641789 ... 946744053/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/136641789 ... 946744053/

Its part of the New LEGO Program called RE-Program. Re-issues of old sets , Re-done boxes, unfortunately no RE sets which everyone wants. It replaces Re-tirement programs

This thread is "What did you sell today and for how much" not "I'm going to comment about the margins I don't know you're getting because I'm bored." I think he meant he bought them at retail and sold them for 50% more. Jeff_14 also sells a lot locally (Toronto is a big market) so how do we know that isn't true? Besides, London Drugs in Canada had all the JW sets for 15% off and after had a 15% + $10 off a while back so an IRex set could be had (and was had) for $132.76 out the door where I live. That's about $100 US which redghostx often buys in Canada and sells in the US so even with fees and shipping... $198 - $100 = $98 .. what's left after fees and shipping? Looks like a tad over 50% is possible. What's the point? Again, let's keep speculation in the proper place please .. and this is not that place.

IR was in stock at a few places online earlier today. So if you have any words you'd like to say about the availability of Cafe Corner, now would be a good time.

Stargate Puddle Jumper Redux by legomocs.

He's the greatest. He's fantastic. Wherever there is danger he'll be there! He's the ace. He's amazing. He's the strongest, he's the quickest, he's the best! Danger Mouse. He's terrific. He's magnific. He's the bravest secret agent in the world! Danger Mouse. Power House. He's the fastest, he's the greatest, he's the best! Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse! DANGER MOUSE!!!! Turns out my timing of this couldn't be more perfect seeing how the series has just been brought back this September a couple days ago to CBBC.

well that sucks, when will people learn that Lego and smoking don't mix

...or, you could go ahead and buy your winners now and then take your time getting all the other stuff with promos.

And I think we should all leave these posts about Hitler and WWII as history too. I understand the potential relevance to the VW brand, but it's not the appropriate place to discuss here in this thread. The VW scandal is an interesting development for sure (and disappointing for those that own them for sure) but the reality is that the T1 is iconic. I don't see why LEGO would change their plans for a set that is already long in the tooth due to a scandal involving modern day VWs. Most people don't look at "old cars" with the same appreciation or dislike as "new cars" (or vice versa) anyways.

Word is they have quite a few!

I hoped for this thread to pick up steam a little bit faster but I'll try to keep it up posting my contribution to the castle goes to space contest in detail. After coming out of my dark ages I really wanted to build some MOCs, but due to time issues (you all might know these...) I just recently started to build MOCs. Thanks to the castle goes to space thread that Orkking shared with out I found the motivation to build my second and third MOC so I wanted to share them with you! As kid I always loved knights! Of course I also loved Space! So this topic is great for me. I always wanted to have Star Wars LEGO when I was a kid, but there was none. Only later the first SW sets came out and now they have plenty of them and they are all great! (These actually brought me out of my dark ages!). On the other hand I feel that the theme castle is being neglected but for the recently retired Lord of the Ring theme. (NEXO Knights might join castle and space... but I'm not really looking forward to what I have seen so far of it... but how fitting to find a castle goes to space thread here ). So what did I build? Here is my first contribution to this topic: It is based on one set I actually still own that goes by the name Royal Drawbridge. (LINK: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/6078_Royal_Drawbridge) After seeing Leopolds very impressive space version of Drawbridge Defense I didn't want to build anything too similar so I decided on another take (even though that might take out some of the "space"). In Star Wars the Rebels rely on camouflage and hit and run missions. A little bit like the protagonists in The Hobbit (you'll probably get the hint). So I built them an outpost on some forrest planet. The big green "walls" on the top are radar devices that can also be used as radar jammers in the closer area to keep the imperials in the dark. They represent the walls of the Royal Drawbridge. In a set like this I couln't find a satisfying solution to building the upper part of the royal drawbridge alternate version so I decided for a high reaching radar instead that is well fitted for space communication. (And also allows us to see that this is more than just a pile of dirt or a fallen tree there in the woods... even though it is well enough disguised so the imperials won't notice). The drawbridge itself is now a secret entrance that serves as entrance/exit for a speeder bike. With two more entrances at the sides that cover the openings where there are iron bars in the drawbridge set. The "falling" play feature of the bridge is translated into a hidden hatch (hope that's the correct word in english) with a ladder on it so the rebels can enter and exit their hidden outpost from above. Feel free to discover what became of the DRAGON knight and the royal knights (A skeleton or something similiar didn't fit into my vision of this MOC sorry... ) https://www.flickr.com/photos/136641789 ... 946744053/ And as you can see on the second picture (and if you are interested some other pictures on flickr) you can take it all rather easily apart and inside is an actual base hidden. This was important to me, since it should be a great set on it's own with nice play features https://www.flickr.com/photos/136641789 ... 946744053/

Boston Globe by Joel Baker

I would like this except it seems Re-petitive

Many sellers will use best offer so that they can give a discount for purchasing multiple items. But will not accept any discounts for single items.

Look who joined the T1 with a fancy new box. Couldn't find a 10242 thread but can't search very good anymore so put it in here. Feel free to move if there is one.

you can if it is Schrodinger Cake!

Lego Chima mammoth 0.65 cents Price error on clearance I assume

Just picked up a few more from my local Walmart. Seal codes are 36R5. This makes a total of 20 RE purchased in the last 5 days =D

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.

Especially for The Karate Kid MOC scene

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.

Car brand debates are 100% pointless. Everyone has an argument as to why their favorite is the best and nothing anyone says will change anyone's mind.

Hey fellow Brickpickers! I'm a huge fan of the "Building LEGO" part of this forum and topics I frequently visit and stay up to date to are the MOC Highlights, Rebuilding the Classics, etc. As for me I am still more of a humble builder but ever since I restarted this hobby I felt this urge to create something on my own or modify LEGO Sets. What this forum always lacked (for me at least) has been a thread where people share their own creations and modifications. Until now these things ended up in the topic "What did you build today" or in other random threads. I'd like to invite you all to share your humble, awesome, small, big, crazy, etc. creations and modifications :-) I'll start with something - rather humble if I compare it to all these madly awesome MOCs I've seen - that I have build recently. This is my take on "Toxikita's Toxic Meltdown" (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/70163_Toxikita's_Toxic_Meltdown). At first I wanted to build a lab for a zombie scene with some star wars minifigs, but I ended up with this ;-) (I guess I could still just put some star wars minifigs in there ^.^). Hope you like it and share your own creations soon! This is a general overview of the built. As you can see I tried to put some lab stuff into it and it is made up of two sections. One for regular research and another one for more dangerous research projects. Normally these two sections would be safely devided but somebody broke the glass and opend the door... Toxikita and her henchmen met some resistance when they forced their way into the facililty. Now they can do as they please while they keep the researchers and guards under control. Some detail of the lab equpiment:

I bought all my JW sets at retail. I did get Chapters points worth 15% but didn't factor this in when doing my post above. So I actually did better than advertised.

Sounds more like 15-20$ profit, which is more like 15% margin approximately - not trying to burst your bubble, sorry [emoji16]

I was lucky and was able to snag the Hero Factory parts from S@H before they disappeared. I think they cost me around $2.10. I just looked at the parts list and picked anything out that was uncommon and tried to add it to my cart. I was lucky on those. I had no idea they were that hard to find. I was early and thankfully LIFO didn't hurt me this time.

Using no existing parts. 2x Hero Factory Breez Flea Machine set# 44027 = $17.99 * 2 * 1.13(tax) = $40.66 CDN 2x Tires via Shop @ home (bought many to spread shipping cost) = $11.77 * 2 = $23.54 CDN Bricklink orders including shipping cost: ~$85 CDN Total: ~ $150 CDN Will have the extra parts from Hero Factory set and bought extra tires which should resell for some profit.

Mega Cargo Magnetizer by Joel Baker 02 ps by Shannon Young Blacktron Personnel Carrier by LouiseDade MFCS 2500 by Erikjeperikje

Rite of passage... I guess old dogs can learn new tricks or it's never too late to get hazed or something like that. Thanks, BPers. I feel less stupid now.

PayPal should cover you because of the tracking information you provided. Amazon FBA has plenty of buyers who pull scams too.

OMG, very sorry for hearing that. My guess is you'll be okay and covered by Paypal's seller protection as long as you shipped to his Paypal address. Though I think whatever eBay and Paypal regarding to seller protection is a joke, I think they should at least do this part for us. Otherwise, why should sellers stay?

I guess if the theme from Game Of Thrones was part of the soundtrack for The Neverending Story, this is what it would sound like. Nice.

and you are not the highest either

Another thing to consider is that a lot of emails coming through Craigslist end up in your junk mail. I know I've had a number of emails do that and I'm sure a lot of my inquires about certain items end up in that sellers junk mail that they don't check.

vvv This guy!

Oy vey. Let me summarize what I have read: TRU Rewards can be used online Rewards used online will negate any other coupon (rewards are viewed as a coupon by the system) Rewards used online can only be reissued if the item it returned for damage and it may become a long arduous phonecall Rewards may be used on multiple different items ie Set A and Set B If the subtotal is less than the value of rewards then the amount exceeding the subtotal is lost - so don't use $200 rewards to get a $20 set - make sure you spend at least $200 in one go Rewards used in-store cannot be reissued If your (subtotal less rewards) is less than $19 required for free shipping you will be charged for shipping - the goal should be to spend at least $19 over the rewards value Reading through past threads I have read that it was not a good idea to use Rewards on a set that may no ship (ie questionable stock/EOL) because it may never ship and your rewards will not be reissued or it may be very difficult to have them reissued. I assume this is still the case. Thanks Pseudoty on the historical info (that's what I was looking for). If I recall I guess in the past there was a BOGO 50% - I guess that's how a lot of you got DS "cheap". Since currently Lego seems to fly off the shelves without those promos I doubt that promo will be coming back so I'll probably grab a S1 and something else. I have 4 of the UA Ocean HQ I got instore for decent prices. In July I ordered (4) S1 and (2) Sandcrawlers with my 15% CC discount (that was the largest order of exclusives I could find) - all the boxes had either large creases or some small holes. TRU used crappy outer boxes that had crush ratings of 50 lbs and all the boxes smashed on each other. I didn't bother with return/exchange because of what I read and the fact TRU needs a DL even for receipted returns - I'm going to save my return options for when I get screwed (ie missing minifigs or something). I would assume to expect whatever you get from TRU shipped to arrive in less than MISB (for those considering ordering exclusives).

that spice girl doll is gonna be mine

Welcome!

Turns out that I got the price wrong. There was a 30% discount on all the sets, so each FW was selling for about $74 usd. Thats 26% off US rrp! There were abt 20 sets in total, so i wiped all of them

Vagyr Battlecruiser by Tim Schwalfenberg

THE BATCAVE

Nice MOC of the downed Star Destroyer from "The Force Awakens" trailer. http://nerdist.com/the-force-awakens-get-the-lego-treatment-with-this-amazing-model/

31034 Stargazer by Ezra Wibowo

Love this!