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GREAT news everyone, Cheapest price seller on Amazon only has 189 left.

Day one , so many small parts in the first bag !!! Enough for a day !

'Twas a glorious day at Target 4x Vader tie + A-wing - $26.98 ea 3x Gorilla Grodds - $14.98 ea 1 Training jet transporter - 14.98 Plus these bad boys @ $2.68 a piece

good lord how deep does this bucket go.... i am stunned at the continued depth of stock. what day of the sale is it now - day 5 or 6?

And special thanks @Kevink24 for helping me out as my dropshipper... he doesn't know me, and just offered up in a PM (and offered to do it at cost) . And thanks also to @redcell for offering.

Add me to the list of victims of these fake claim scams. I will no longer be listing expensive items on Amazon. But special thanks to BA for helping me get my money back on an expensive set. His advice in this thread was spot on.

Still have some points left to, so I'm happy with this Thanks everyone for your feedback in the SYW thread.

Stock getting bigger...or not??? cause limit of 9... Manager of this store told me will be no more JW and BTTF for all stores...one time delivery...can anybody confirm that? Ok guys i just done talking with nice guy from 99 cents ..he said no more dimensions in distribution center in commerce,CA...thats means whatever in stores now thats it, can anybody confirm that info?

I been doing Ebay for 18 years, never signed up for the Ebay Shipping Program, I ship Worldwide except to Russia anything over $100 it has to be mailed Express Mail only, no Exceptions. I always get repeat buyers from alot of countries, as they no it will get there faster, in a well packed box, and get there for sure, When you use Global Shipping, Ebay will open your box and put $500 worth of lego in a smaller not packed box, sure its easier to do Global Shipping, but I want my stuff to get to somebody in Japan, etc in Mint Condition. Plus sometimes the box does not get there on the Guaranteed Date, and you file a claim and you get the shipping money back. Ed

Our manager isn't worried about the ban she spoke about today so we're unloading the pallet.

Why'd they have to make it an odd number? For some reason, OCD or whatever, I have to buy them in pairs so I can Yin/Yang stack them. That reminds me, the toy section has fake mustaches so we can go back in for an even 18.

Thanks for the help, guys! Invoices sent, this is exciting. I'll study the Store Settings pages, thanks for the tip, DadsAFOL.

My hometown Kmart lowered their Toys to 40% off (going out of business) and I stopped in again today. Was surprised to see new 2017 Nexo Knights sets and even a Clayface Batman Movie set (would have been $21.00) but I passed. At 60% I would have had a harder time passing them up. Hopefully at 60% off there will still be some good LEGO sets on the shelves. The recent Meijer's haul spoiled me (on top of spending too much during the holidays). I passed up a lot of items that I wouldn't have filled my cart with 2 years ago. 1x Ideas Birds (21301) $26.99 (last one and almost didn't see it lying on the very top shelf on its back) Not sure if I'll keep it for myself or flip it eventually. Couldn't pass it up at that price. 1x Mighty Micros Iron Man vs Thanos $5.99 4x Ninjago Vermillion Attack $5.99 each (plan to part them out somewhat... I have a soft spot for various types of armor and should be an easy way to get it a few without losing money) 1x Elves poly Sira's Airglider $2.39 6x Captain America motorcycle $2.39 each (sell later or give away as prizes or gift bag items)

For some reason I could not upload straight from my phone. But here are some pics. I will finish it off this weekend and load more pics.

Hulkbusters were marked down to $7.54 at my local Target today.

They know what their turds are, it's part of their code: var limit = 2; if (set == turd){ limit = 9999; } if (purchases > limit){ account = banned; }

The clerks in the two stores I went this morning did not even mention it. I bought 11 at one store, then 16 at another store and both clerks didn't say anything. However, most places don't have much left only Sensei Wu, Bart, bad Cop, Cragger with some leftover Benny, Jay and Nya which were the ones I bought.

I bought my first .99 sets on Saturday, January 21 and I believe that was first day they were available.

It's going to be an interesting few months/years to watch these. Kudos to the West Coasters who are QFing these and to the ones holding tight. Everyone who is paying more than a buck and keeping them in the US might be in for a long fight over a couple pennies...

Grab your friends and GO!

I would wait till u have received my invoice before offering thanks

BA's help was invaluable. Amazon has to be taking notice of these scams, right? Please tell me it's starting to ding their bottom line enough to notice.

I hope we get this one in minifigure form:

Another 10030 update Grebbling. Omg the grebbling. Step 29 I hate you.

It's been awhile since I've had to dig up this pic. Can I borrow your time machine to go back and tell myself to put those 6862's back on the shelf?

My $.02... We bought 50+ lots from shopgoodwill.com up until a year ago, now just occasionally buy for my collection. Pros: * Variety is huge and nearly all sets and figs you'll find are retired. * It was a great introduction in to brick picking. You will definitely learn your parts, your sets, your Lego eras. If you're starting out with more time than money, and you LOVE sorting, inventorying and assembling Lego, the returns can be decent on a % basis. A typical buy was $125-150 for a 30# box, buy another $25 of parts and manuals and sell on eBay for $6-800. It worked out to a decent stay-at-home hobby/gig for about $15/hour. Open a beer, turn on the TV and have fun. * If you're a collector and want to build cool sets that you would never otherwise buy, you can. I've had old castles, pirate ships and a ton of large SW sets go through my hands. Now I'm only collecting vintage late 70s and early 80s. Latest addition from the site is a very nice 956 auto chassis with a great original box & a 375 yellow castle. * If you're running a parts store this is an awesome way to get a huge number of unique parts. Cons: * It is very difficult to buy sealed sets as they often go for above retail. Some people justify their purchase prices because "Hey, the money's going to a good cause.", making it hard to win some auctions. Of our 50+ buys only 2 of them were for sealed boxes to flip. The rest of the cons are based on buying partial sets and parting them back into complete sets... * You HAVE to study to be able to identify parts, figs & sets to bid properly. Or you will overpay or lose to bidders that did their homework. You may get lucky, but that's gambling. * Scalability is zero. It is time-consuming from one end to the other. Once I got into selling new sets it became sooooo painful sort, inventory, place and wait for BL orders, photography... yada. And it's really nice to list 10 or 20 of an item rather than 1 at a time. * You have to start your own private parts store. I amassed 100,000+ parts, 80% of which are part-sorted (not color-sorted), but I don't have the time, space or desire to start a (real) parts store. If you don't have a decent (sorted) parts supply of your own, buying individual parts will cost a LOT of money. * Unscrupulous listers, i.e. photograph a 15# box of garbage and show a few HP figs and sand green slopes sprinkled in to make you think the box has some value, just to see that you paid $80 for 1# of HP Lego and 14# of bricks. * Ignorant listers, i.e. someone donates a beautiful 30# SW collection and the lister pulls all minifigs into another lot, and then dumps the parts randomly into 3 lots... You'd better buy all 3 lots, and now it's time to buy figs. BTW, the lots often all end within 30 seconds of each other : P (PS - some listers are AWESOME and you will quickly see what locations to avoid) It was a good education, but you really have to enjoy the tedious process. Ultimately my desire to ramp up the business pushed me out of buying from them. But it is pretty cool to pay $65 for a pile of bricks and an empty 4842 box (confirmed by the lister that it's empty), to get it home and find complete a 4842 & 4867 inside the box : )

After visiting my climbing partners house, who is also an AFOL, and seeing his original UCS x-wing 7191, I decided to build 10240. Loved the build, although the back was a bit weak during the first few stages. Can't say I love stickers much but did get the canopy on straight. Think my biggest trouble is that I can't stop until I finish a build. Was in bed at 3am, back up for work at 7...

Sucky! I won 2000 points on a spin and so did my lady. The Epic Weekly Play Again sweeps was hot for me today, I won 3 times in a row. Maybe you can catch some points there. https://goo.gl/xtUS1o Extra codes are gr8newyr & epicplay

TLG order cancelling protocol. 4 sets or less = valued customer 5 sets or more = reseller scum

Do we dare argue that it specifically says "Fun Packs" when we're buying Team & Level packs?

First store I hit had it marked in fine print on the signs "Limit 9 per customer". Should have photographed it. I will at the next store. Don't know if it's enforced. Selection was small and what I already had.

EVERY $100 IN TICKETS GETS YOU ANOTHER TICKET FOR THE SECONDARY RAFFLE! FOR EXAMPLE...$500 WILL GET YOU 5 TICKETS...

Prob ninjago level pack, yep limit of 9...and limit is always good, you need tochoose wisely

Can't wait to see which 9 you arm sweep!

Staples just had a 20% off coupon, but you're about a week late. I recently opted for these instead. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Plain-Brown-Box-20-in-x-20-in-x-4-in-10-Box-Bundle-PRA0118/203596634

FYI - I had a water dragon order cancelled on me a few days ago. Hope it goes through for you. And in continued KMT packaging excellence...I groaned as I saw the KMT bag on the front steps. But lo and behold, the store packed it full of peanuts. Packaging win - sets remained unscathed.

I want that polybag. I'm bummed it's a keychain. I think someone on Reddit has it and has performed surgery to remove the keychain portions.

Joker shoots first

I am thinking suppose to be limit of 99 not 9...cmon its 99 cents store.

$0.99 stores have probably never seen anything like that lol

No time travel allowed. You are as stuck as the rest of us. Lol I'm not too worried about it. It changes the strategy a little but not much. I stocked up for myself already. Now I'm helping people fill out their collections. I'm lucky I have 9 within 30 minutes of my locations (work or home). I've got a network of people that are helping one another out. Plus I have kids and a wife. It'll be nice to not see pallet loads going out at a time. I will say every single manager and stock person has been very generous with their time and very friendly. Luckily I don't have many more to pick up. But looks like I'll be making multiple trips and pulling out the fake mustache.

You have to click the little white paper next to the order on the orders receive page to send an invoice. If you hover over it, it will say "invoice". You can customize the text in the invoice. You may want to spend some time and just go through every screen on the Store --> Settings page to get familiar with the options. Edit: wow, double ninja'd!

60083 snowplow truck for $15.98 at TRU

Movie maker set.

Conclusion of my Simpsons House saga: Returned the set, got my money back, lost my EBay Bucks (but hey, keeping them would have been a bonus). Seller has now relisted the set at his original asking price of $150: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-The-Simpsons-House-71006-For-Parts-/201803167055#viTabs_0 Check the Seller Notes: I wish him good luck with that ..... Does sound like he just didn't think glued parts were a big deal in LEGO (he sells all sorts of collectibles, very little LEGO) due to inexperience. And that ziploc bag with glued parts is how I sent it back to him.

Good enough to buy 32 of them so he can make a little money now and I can still make money later. Win Win.