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Picked this up a few weeks ago, finally pulled myself away from Zelda long enough to build it last night. I have built several HP sets but this is the first time doing one from the original run of sets. I really like the alternate build ideas at the back of the instruction book. They should still be doing that. The old flip box is solid too. The minifigs are a little primitive compared to the newer HP stuff but overall it's a nice set.

The biggest rule that I have stuck to is to only play with house money. My selling started with 5 sets I picked up at Walgreens for $5 a piece. I ended up flipping them for $50 a piece.(4x 75015, 1x 75002). I paid myself back that $25 investment and started buying used sets in bulk. Hit the jackpot that year right after Christmas with a large bulk of used sets for $400. Ended up selling them for $2500 after splitting. At this point that $25 investment has turned into 30k (MSRP price, not current value) of sets sitting in my basement that didn't affect my normal household budget. To this day I still don't break that rule (have a separate account for investing). I've taken money out of the Lego fund for home remodeling and various other things... but still not spending anything outside of profit money for Lego sets. Keeps everything grounded, has saved me from many bad investments because money wasn't available in that account, and it takes away the wife's ability to complain about the purchases I make. Taken me 3 years to get to this point, but I couldn't choose a safer route here.

Thanks for the replies and encouragement. Mhd747 has shared a lot of wisdom above. And brickvoyeur's idea of only playing with house money is a good one and the returns from that initial $25 are astounding, but don't overlook the time that goes into it! That's a precious resource too. Speaking of which ... I've been thinking more about this and am sure I could not have stopped myself from spending so much years ago, but I reckon I'm in a better place now with a little more self-control and not feeling so down that I need a thrill of bargain hunting and imagined profits as an addiction. It also helps to know how much work is involved in realising the profits. It kind of takes the shine off that bit, which then makes the bargains look less good. I'm also getting a bit disillusioned with Lego due to having no space for finished sets to go (whether built by instructions or our own creations) and no time to do anything with them. We have too many opened sets and any Lego time seems to be spent tidying up! I found it really hard to sell my only Town Hall, clinging onto the dream of having a row of modulars one day, but I decided to let it go because I knew deep down I would never open it and never find the space to put it. I've since sold both my Fire Brigades as well and not bought any of the newest modulars. So there's another aspect of the buying addiction shattered! Yay! So since there's no longer the same kind of addictive pull and I can think more clearly, I can now remember and try to stick to a golden rule I set for myself about 10 years ago which I guess I forgot: never do anything purely for money. The daft thing is that I had some spare money 4 years ago and I bought Lego mostly to try to make more money off it (with minor expectation to keep some of the Lego for myself). I didn't even need the money, yet I still did something just for money! Obviously, I have got other benefits from doing all the selling, as I outlined in my previous post yesterday, but I don't think doing any more buying to make money from it can be justified to myself. I have a strong belief that I should put time into things that deliver value first and foremost, with money flowing from that (hopefully). If I get really good at Lego investing, then what value have I given the world other than helping people find retired sets in very good condition sealed in box? When I consider each bought set to take at least one hour in the future to liquidate (more like three hours when you factor in buying/storing/logging/listing/packing/posting) then each purchase is a commitment to throw away that time in the future. Time I can't afford to throw away when there's value to be delivered in this world! I hope this post was useful or I wasted time trying to deliver value for you guys! Don't get me wrong, I think Lego investing can be a good source of extra income if you have the time available to put into it, but it needs to be down to your individual philosophy as to whether you want to give up that time. I don't want to any more, so buying any more sets is just going to make things worse in terms of time for me.

Grabbed 5x Speed Champion Raptor sets with TRUTH and 15% off GCs, bringing them to $20.71 each after tax.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Buy-a-150-Best-Buy-Gift-Code-get-a-15-Bonus-Code-165-Value-Emailed/262913800958?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D43254%26meid%3D4d138edc908248fd87813a006b6fb73f%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D8%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D192137455222

If I can squeak out 200% profit from the KRE-O version, I'm sure there's a possibility here too.

Certainly showing more promise on this side of the pond, of course that seems to be the case with most SW. even 75150 is priced just above RRP on amazon FBM. really ill take 125-150% RRP in a less than a year for any set that was Reasonably available at 50% RRP, close to retirement.

Hi [emoji112] new to Brickpicker I am a DC Comic lego collector and a lego parent. Enjoying building sets together with my son we love [emoji173]️ legos

First off never, ever do commingled for Lego. Secondly if the seller who made the listing used the wrong upc or ean then you will want to print your own label otherwise you will create a huge mess for yourself. Each listing should have a unique upc or ean. If there are two or more listings with the same upc or ean then amazon will make you print an amazon barcode. If the person who created the listing used a fake UPC then the correct UPC on your boxes will not match and you are going to have big receiving issues ranging from unfulfillable inventory to lost inventory to having your FBA privileges revoked. Thirdly when listing search on the amazon buyer platform, not the seller side. The listing with the best sales and most reviews will be the one you want in most cases. That should also have the correct UPC most of the time (but always do your due diligence). Copy that ASIN and list against it. Easiest method is simply print your own FNSKU an don't do commingled.

This is a HOT one!

One thing must be clear to all who take up residence in this gun-shaped state. You must Engrave it upon the tablet of your heart. When ever the siren wails, we all take up arms against the pirates of the north. No matter what disputes we have amongst each other, we all have a common enemy in the vicious Spring Breaker or the Christmas deal/clearance poaching snow bird. Be very careful of those sly Europeans. A Treacherous lot they are. They know no bounds.

I have laid claim to the northern territories of St. Jacksonvillia, but you can hunt on my lands for a small tithe. @donbee is the Earl of the Empire of the Mouse and @legotemplar is the Duke of the Glades of Jersey Transplants also known as Southernmost Floridashire

If your buying in FL, I'm selling. =) I also offer protection from @Legotemplar and his goons, at a reasonable price of course.

I don't mind answering. These are good things to be thinking about for me anyway. 1. I'd say the most important thing is to know where your sets are and what condition they are in. I've spent a while reorganising and double-accounting all my stock and checking the condition over the last few months. If I list as very good condition then it needs to be that way and I need to be able to find it at short notice to have it packed and sent the next day. I don't often put photos on unless people ask or there is some visible issue, but I'm trying more to have sets that are for sale in easy reach to get more photos if there's a lull in selling. I'd say about 90% of my sets have sold with stock photos, just listed as very good condition (which they are) and I've never had complaints about the condition. 2. The biggest challenge has been to stick to my one working day dispatch time. If I know I'm going away somewhere, but have listed sets due to an eBay promo (e.g. a £1 max final-value fee), I bump up the prices to unreasonable levels and dispatch time to try to discourage people from buying, since you can't stop a listing temporarily and then restart with the promo. Only one person has ever bought when I've done this, and thankfully it was before I went away and I got extra money for the set! Another big challenge is to not worry about unreasonable complaints or things going missing. 3. I've not noticed any changes in the reselling market over the past two years really. There's certainly more knock-off mini figures which is likely pulling down the value of Superhero sets (I really thought these were winners when I stocked up but I have barely sold any in two years, mostly due to them not hitting heights that make it worth my time to sell them), but I have so many other themes that it's not impacted me. I think there probably are more resellers now and there was one month where the lowest price for most sets was much lower than before due to one seller seemingly trying to clear a lot in a short while, so I just took a break that month and I guess he cleared all his stock. 4. Knowing what I know today, I would have kept shares in Apple and Facebook and Amazon instead of buying Lego. But hindsight is a wonderful thing. I feared a stockmarket crash that should have happened but never did and I had spare money and liked Lego and got a thrill from chasing Lego bargains and spending money. I was not enjoying my job which took up most of my time and needed some addiction to keep the dopamine up and the Lego investing was it for a while. There are certainly worse things to get a thrill from and the returns from this have been great (as opposed to blowing money that you can't get back). 5. My strategy from here will depend on whether I end up with an office job again. While I work from home, I can keep going like this. I wait for eBay to offer me a promo and then I list about 40-70 sets (any unsold from last time and an extra copy of any I sold recently). If I go back to work away from home, I will have to put slower dispatch times and offload sets more slowly, but then I won't really need the money so desperately because I will only do that to get back to my decent salary I had three years ago. Side-note: It's worth trying being self-employed or having no income at all for a while, living off savings (or Lego reselling) for a while. Even if you have a wife and three kids! Once you've done that, the fear of losing your job security and income is not as big in future. I would have quit my office job much sooner if I had known I would not keel over and die without it. Almost all the biggest "success" stories I hear seem to come from people who hit rock bottom or just started with almost nothing. The effort to get back to parity (or just survive) drives you forward and then you don't lose that momentum when you hit "normal" - you keep going up. If you've only ever been at normal, then you can get stuck and don't have the momentum. Two of my biggest idols are Tony Robbins and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - both started with so little, but they had good attitudes and determination and commitment. I think I've generally had a good attitude but have never been particularly self-disciplined to be able to stick to specific goals/projects. This Lego selling has helped a lot with that kind of thing, as I'm more of an Ideas Man who starts lots of projects and never takes them anywhere.

I received mine yesterday. Sturdy, solid, heavy, (insert complimentary adjective) box. I already told the kiddo to get outta my way when I boldly go to where these Lego hands have never gone before. For your viewing pleasure.

Hoth Bricks are saying this is going to be a 2017 D2C exclusive and the largest Minecraft set so far. Probably a 2H release. http://www.hothbricks.com/lego-minecraft-teasing-plus-gros-set-de-gamme/ Bricksets have put up the box details and it is a big boy. 58x48x17 cm 5kg ie Death Star size!

I remembered playing with lego a lot till way into my adult life, not to mention the time i played with together with my daughter with her Lego Friends. As kid, ive lived in the tropical zone of Indonesie. The local area was quite a primiteve area with no shops or infrastructure. I remember my dutch grandparents to send lego with the dutch news papers by mail, once in a while. The papers were wrapped and included some small lego elements. And a few donald ducks, of course :-) I knew some other kid, a close friend, we played with lego together. I was envious, he owed a lot more. Once, i stole some of his stuff, naughty me. I felt quitly so a lot years after it, i returned some new lego by mail, after we moved back to netherlands, to cleanse my quilt, haha. I remember creating new things. Often, planes. Till we returned to the netherlands,i had no serious official models anyway. In the netherlands, i got 2 plane models for my birthday, that was something. Still, i had the tendency to build my own kind of creations. I remember constructing only a plane wing with a wheel that could be withdrawn inside it. As adult, when i left the parents house, i still had one box with me with my lego stuff. On occassion, i played with it, creating some things. Alas, i had some issues with a very nasty land lord. In short, ive lost the box and with it some memories of my lego past. As said, during my marriage time i played a few years with my daughter. She had quite a collection. I admit my sin : we also bought some fake stuff like Sluban. Oh man, that stuff was really crap. Yes, they had some cool stuff but we never bought a lot of it. After my divorce, ive lost my interest in lego for some years. So now, im back to invest in it, instead of savings. To be honest, my saving skills are crap. It takes too much self-control to leave the money in the bank, haha. So i decided Lego is a good idea : its much harder to kapitalize it that easy, so its less tempting and fun, and a interesting investment. CZ

Local FaceBook Virtual Yardsale Tower Bridge used complete with box and instructions for $75.

My last Quinjet 6869 is gone!

Logic says that as this set was included in the 6 or so sets that got the "retiring soon" status in Canada first, it will retire first in north America then europe. So there should still be a delay of 1 / 2 months for it to retire in europe. I previously thought this set would do well due to very good build + exclusive figs + performing well at cinema. However, due to the set being highlighted of impending retirement for a few months + the set being on the radar of the qf (reached 200 selling items on eBay at one point by QF and parter outers...), I'm questioning whether to buy any for investment. One key point I've learnt is that once a set has been targeted by the quick flippers, it won't reach that high post retirment. This set could buck the trend, but in Europe even if this sets does do well, I personally see the ceiling at 1.5/2 x RRP, and that woil be possibly 1 year after the quick flippers have exhausted their stash.

I couldn't find the 5 X MSRP by Xmas thread https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00NHQHK3O/ref=olp_f_primeEligible?ie=UTF8&f_primeEligible=true

I'm still gun-shy with this one.They don't move off of Target shelves, and every Target near me has a shelf full. I was waiting for more discounts or clearance...but I'm not sure that's going to happen. May be a sleeper...but no one gives two sh*t's about it right now...

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I stopped commingling anything period. Commingling was the worse decision that I've ever made selling on Amazon . From receiving issues to wrong product to damaged junk , it was a nightmare .

BA and I have been bannedMine was multiple orders, different stuff. The same week of the Sandcrawler and Fairground Mixer frenzy.

I have no fears about this set and ordered another. I might as well convert to all MB Anything with Shatner is a winner!!!

That picture looks terrible, they couldn't even line up the front row so that each block was straight for the stock photo. It was probably a computer generated one too and even the computer knew that Mega can't do straight lines.

Ebay (Best Buy) still has the USS Enterprise set for $79.99 with free shipping. http://www.ebay.com/itm/192137455222 @Ed Mack also saw this set is no longer available on MB's website and is listed as discontinued.

Dutch is an obscure language.

Apparently the Dutch don't realize their importance.

You just wait, keep ordering.

Surprisingly, this one has already hit this level out the gate.

$15 off $75 can be generated ad infinitum from the mobile coupon site, by entering as "guest". Should be no problem for @Lordoflego to get his hands on one.

KMart gets a lot of hate when it comes to packaging, especially small sets. Just to show the beauty of having sets delivered to Sears, here is one of my latest orders: Pristine .... and delivered by UPS to the store, within 48hrs of ordering (ready for pickup within 72hrs).

I for one love mechs and love this one.

Bought within the last week: 1x NK Fortrex $28 (They had 5 at 50% off. Only one left after further discount). Personal build. Kroger Marketplace 2x SW Darth Vader buildable figure $17 Kroger Marketplace 1x Technic Porsche 911 42056 $180 (slightly damaged box) Bargain Hunt store 1x SW Poe's x-Wing $35 (damaged box) Plan to sell minifigures and keep the X-wing for personal build. Bargain Hunt store

https://legoideas.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/356076-license-conflicts-and-resolutions It's about time Lego drew a line in the sand about licensed property submissions. Far too many people have wasted their time just to get rejected. Additionally, those rejected licensed properties took up votes that other sets could have received. note: Why don't I see Jurassic Park / World listed? License Conflicts and Resolutions ← Project Guidelines Sometimes we have to turn down project submissions that refer to specific brands or licensed properties. We do this to avoid getting your hopes up for something we know we aren't able to make. In some cases, we already know that the LEGO Group can't secure licensing rights to produce construction toys based on a particular brand or property, due to a conflicting interest with a third party. More recently, we have also changed our guidelines to no longer accept projects based on third party licenses, which are currently produced or announced as official LEGO sets such as Star Wars, Super Heroes, Volkswagen and many more. For a full list of currently active licenses that we no longer accept please refer to the list below titled “Active Licenses.” This list will be updated on a rolling basis. If a known conflict goes away or a particular third party license is retired from the LEGO Group’s product portfolio, we'll then be able to accept projects based on a particular brand or license. In addition to the above, we no longer accept projects based on licenses that have been commercialized as official LEGO Ideas sets, even if the license is retired from the LEGO Group’s product portfolio. Please refer to the list “Restricted IP from LEGO Ideas” below. The Fine Print: If your project was previously turned down, archived, or deleted due to a licensing conflict that is now resolved or third party license that has been retired, you may re-submit it as a new project. Supporters from past projects cannot be applied to a future project. Active Licenses: Entertainment Star Wars, MARVEL Super Heroes, DC Super Heroes & Super Hero Girls, The LEGO Batman Movie, The LEGO NINJAGO Movie, The LEGO Movie, Disney characters (Mickey Mouse, Minnie, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy & Tinker Bell), Moana, Rapunzel, Aladdin, Cars, Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets , Angry Birds, Pirates of the Caribbean, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Miles From Tomorrowland, Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First, The Simpsons, Knight Rider, Mission Impossible, Midway Arcade, Lord of the Rings, Gremlins, A-Team, Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Sonic the Hedgehog, Portal 2, E.T. & The Wizard of Oz. Automotive brands Volkswagen, Ferrari, MINI, Porsche, BMW, CLAAS, Volvo, Mercedes, Ford, Audi, Bugatti, Chevrolet & McLaren. Architecture Stand alone buildings (Big Ben, London Tower Bridge, US Capitol Building, Louvre, Buckingham Palace, Burj Khalifa, Eiffel Tower & Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Buildings contained in the skylines (London, Sydney, Chicago, Venice, Berlin & New York). Restricted IP from LEGO Ideas: Shinkai 6500 Hayabusa Minecraft Back to the Future Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Ghostbusters The Big Bang Theory WALL•E Doctor Who The Beatles Caterham Adventure Time Apollo program Women of NASA concept Last updated April 5, 2017

It's called a Cartel and you know what Cartels do to perceived intruders on their territory .......

one CMF Series 17 set from @MinifiguresPlus

@gnextdoor the two members in question travel all over the state (except maybe the panhandle) and are, very jokingly, territorial. It's all in good fun. Good luck!

Built 75092 Naboo Starfighter (my first Naboo ship) tonight. I know everyone hates this set because its the 30th one and its basically identical to previous but for 50% off ($25), I thought it was one of the cooler cheap builds I've done when you figure in all of the minifigs + destroyer droids, fuel station, etc.

From my human perspective, laser sword wielding monks fighting a fascist tyranny while flying hunks of metal garbage in space and shooting lights at each other is also far from realistic.

Greatest Lego set ever? Just sold one of my last few of these today, and I gotta say, no matter what the price, I feel like I'm going to regret selling them. I've only been in this game for about 3 years now, but still... I don't think any other set produced in the past 4 years compares to this one. It is nearly perfect in every way. It has great minifigs. It is an impressive, sturdy build. It looks great from all sides. It opens up for great play features, or alternate display. It is in and of itself complete. Sure it's part of a larger collection, but even standing alone, it doesn't really need anything else. Even at the current $375 - $390, it is a great value for the collector. If you don't have one yet, you really should get one. It is really one of the greatest Lego sets - maybe the greatest ever?

Will definitely be one of the 40% off sets.

Hello stamp collection. $30 total in postage