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Finished building this today. Very fast build since there aren't a lot of pieces. Still love the design and I think it displays very very well. Can't believe it's 15+ year old set.

(Disclaimer - the following is aimed at no one in particular, but simply offered as advice that could benefit us all a little.) I wish everyone complaining about getting screwed would realize that you have more of a say and impact than you think - and by accepting these bogus decisions and policies and simply venting here, you are only enabling it to continue. I've had final decisions reversed, had buyers made to pay for bogus "SNAD" return shipping, had negative feedback erased, and more. You simply have to be patient and persistent - and let eBay know that the situation is unacceptable. First make an honest effort to work it out with the customer. Have the evidence available showing that you tried to provide your own excellent customer service, without being cheated. Then escalate the case to managers. Insist on it when they say one is not available. Call back when they hang up. Put in the time. Explain your situation over and over. Document every call and conversation. Reiterate how long you've been a customer, and how terrible the customer service experience you are getting is - all without being a jackass. Simply make your problem their problem, and they will usually become more willing to help you get rid of it. It's rare, but you can even occasionally find a human that cares enough to see the situation the way it is, and do what is right. Yes, they have the power to do that. There is no "buyer always wins" policy. Certainly that is the eBay culture that has developed in the past few years, but each case is handled individually in the end - by humans. Do your part and make them act like it... or else don't complain. Maybe it's not worth the effort to you, and maybe it shouldn't be this way, but deal with things the way they are to the best of your ability and you'll find a lot more satisfaction.

I have quite a few sets that I have recently built and still in the queue. The most recent build is the new Snowspeeder and I was happy to get a refresh of this set for my collection. I built two-to-three bags every day for 5 days and I really enjoyed the build because there wasn't a lot of greebling. My favourite part is the ass end; it looks fantastic and the designer did a great job on both that and the sleek appearance. I put the stickers on but the only ones that add aesthetic value are the front orange one and the side window white stripes, the others are a complete waste. I would like to see a little more work on the underside (or how about a functioning tow cable) and two tiles on the back 45 degree 1x2 bricks instead of loose studs but it's an overall great piece and I don't really like the Snowspeeder to begin with!

We decided to open up an oldie. The box was rather shelf worn as it has been stored on various shelves since 2007.

Okay, I'm gonna have to disagree with you. That ain't no remake. That DB is a work of art. I do like the Fire Mech and the Sand Green Dragon. Those are awesome.

And I appreciate that... although it's difficult to find the coupons amongst the corn dog boxes. Can you separate your recycling next week, please?

I'll take them. My TRUTH haul from yesterday. Just one item, but it's my Father's Day present (which seems to be a tradition to get me a boat on Father's Day): Now comes the crazy math time: $199.99 on the floor. $117.07 out the door, after $20 in Rewards, 15% off coupon, 10% TRUTH, a throwing a couple of gift cards at it that were bought at either 15% or 20% off. 41% off. I'll take it!

Got bored tonight so I decided to make Gal Gadot Wonder Woman!

First attempt at using rebrickable and brick link. Should have really stuck to building 1 model at a time but complicated life by ordering for 4 different models to save on postage. Finding some parts of both brick link and rebrickable more hard work than they really need to be. Here is my first moc, Anio's ST19 Sith Infiltrator. Still waiting on a few final printed parts and the sticker but happy with the result. Roskolnikovs large AT-AT is next up then the upgrade pack for 42056 and thanks to @thoroakenfolder I'm busy collecting parts for a 10134

Newest limited edition Factory Tour set is now out there for the public to see: (Pictures from Promobricks)

It's funny that anyone thinks TLG would be releasing sets that they aren't making sufficient margins on. I'd go the other way and say that sets like this show you how much they overcharge for most everything else.

Fantastic...there goes my dream of cornering the FBA market for bulk bulgur wheat.

Still not what I am looking for but looks nice

Fake. This guy was talking bull to me around the time of the TLJ leaks. Also LEGO doesn't label upcoming sets, especially Star Wars, especially ones for a movie that has yet to come out at the time of the 2018 catalog release, like that.

Well, Yaddle Yaddle Yaddle!

Those were the ones that stood out to me as well.

I usually feel like I'll only buy Ninjago on clearance, not this year.

Having pretty much worked through the backlog of UCS sets, I'm now turning my focus to UCS MOCs as well. Already built Mort's Nebulon Medical Frigate and Cavegod's Tie Defender. Currently building a mini-figure scale AT-AT, based on Cavegod's AT-AT. Got the rest of Mort's rebel fleet planned (specifically rebel transports and the Tantive IV) as well as Docking Bay 27. Will probably also do the Rogue one, since that is amazing and reasonably cheap to source all bricks, given the number of pieces.

I, too, had a banner week on BL. I hope we aren't all getting scammed by the same three or four people. Lol

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sorry for offtopic, but it's extremely annoying that every time I switch the page of this thread warezz initial post is sticked and I have to spend literally few seconds scrolling throu to get to the right content on the page. Can I get rid of it somehow?

About time we see the Jedi Council. Interested to see which movie the council will come from. Anakin may be on the council.... but they will not grant him the rank of master.

Merry Christmas everyone! If the following list is accurate, clearance bins around the world are going to be bursting. Intrigued to know if the Imperial Corvette is a manual or automatic. 75194 CONFIDENTIAL_HERO SPEEDER NEW 75195 CONFIDENTIAL_VILLAIN SPEEDER NEW 75196 CONFIDENTIAL_HERO FIGHTER NEW 75197 CONFIDENTIAL_VILLAIN FIGHTER NEW 75533 CONFIDENTIAL_HERO FIGURE NEW 75534 CONFIDENTIAL_VILLAIN FIGURE NEW 75535 CONFIDENTIAL INFERNO FIGURE NEW 75198 CONFIDENTIAL_INFERNO PACK NEW 75199 CONFIDENTIAL_CLONE TROOPER PACK NEW 75200 CONFIDENTIAL_FIRST SPECIAL FORCES PACK NEW 75201 CONFIDENTIAL_JEDI COUNCIL PACK NEW 75206 CONFIDENTIAL_ACH-TO DUEL NEW 75207 CONFIDENTIAL_IMPERIAL CORVETTE NEW 75210 CONFIDENTIAL_TBC WAR ROOM NEW

I'm not that innocent... (From shereallycamethatway on Reddit)

I've always been curious when people mentioned NASA license. But your counter point made me finally look it up a little... https://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/Merchandising_Guidelines.html

dozen more on amazon right now

Point taken. If you read my posts in their entirety, you would have seen the part where I say " now they will have to deal with me". I fought tooth and nail as i do every time they or any one else attempts to screw me. And I have won almost every appeal, including this one. That's not the point. The point is that eBay always sides with the buyer, even when they know they are wrong, because they want them to come back and shop again. Rewarding these bad seeds creates a toxic environment for sellers, where we are constantly on the defensive. It's wrong. We are customer of eBay as well, as we use their site and have to pay up for it. By all means punish the bad sellers, but the good ones get punished too. That was my point. The chips are stacked heavily against eBay sellers, and people know it and abuse the system. Same situation with Amazon. I know how the system works, and that if you fight hard enough you can prevail. . I don't complain sitting on my hands - I fight. However, why does it have to be that way? This post was meant to vent, but also to inform other BP'ers of this kind of situation, because if you sell on eBay or Amazon, it's going to happen to you too.

SW Krennic's Shuttle now $79.97 on clearance which is 1/3 off RRP... 13 in stock at time of writing. https://www.costco.ca/Lego-Star-Wars-Krennic’s-Imperial-Shuttle--.product.100327049.html

Unexpected delivery from John Lewis. All of them reserved by my friends from Germany. Since it's impossible to get it anywhere in there.

Take total, divide by 5, and it may be getting close. Assuming you have directions for all.

3rd $1 bonus game is currently live on Win It App, ymmv

I've been thinking the same thing - certainly not 2k worth, but my small store hasn't had any orders for several weeks. Now I've gotten 3 separate BL orders in the past 24 hours. Keep it coming!

My daughter and I built 41593 Captain Jack Sparrow Brickhead on a daddy daughter date night last week, which she followed up with 41586 Batgirl Brickhead earlier this week after it went on sale at TRU while we were spending $30 to get a free battlepod. I am not a Brickheadz guy, but my daughter loves them!

It was mainly on BrickLink - although eBay picked up as well

They'll be back...and in greater numbers.

Something must be in the water today - didn't sell anything for two weeks and then sold almost 2k worth today

Click on order, click on Report Problem (if you want to NPB the buyer, you need to hold the item and sell to them if they end up paying) or Request to Cancel (you can proceed with cancelling right away). I only do the NPB process and leave negative feedback if the buyer says they will pay and then doesn't (makes me suspicious of competitor tying up the stock of others). Otherwise I cancel by selecting the option that buyer did not pay and move on. I wait one week from invoice before cancelling unless there's communication from buyer.

?! You don't like this?

Salivating at that high disposable income clientele that will now be heavily incentivized to purchase a Prime membership and get locked into the Amazon ecosystem. That is all we use when we shop at Fred Meyer now. Well worth the $5 to just pull in and have them bring everything to the car. Costco are you listening? Of course in a few months Amazon will be delivering to my house from Whole Foods so I won't even have to set foot in the car. Don't think we will be setting foot outside at all in 10 years except for dinner and a movie lol. Wonder if we will even own a car then or just have an Amazon smart car as part of Prime whenever we need to be driven around.

I've been using Clicklist for the last half year. It's ok - about 50% of the time they screw something up though, and often I have to complain. For example: substituting items when my order has a "no substitutions" checkmark (and them saying "Our manager told us to substitute as a favor to our customers" - *facepalm* I have to actually set that checkmark (it's not a default), so if I do, I am sure I want no substitutions); giving me the wrong product; or my personal favorite: no receipt and the guy coming out telling me "just pay $x". I did not pay, went inside and got a proper receipt to pay. On the flipside: whenever I complained, they were quick in giving me extra kroger points for my hassle, and I have frequently gotten items for free as compensation.

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ahh miss the old days. Last vacation I took more than a weekend was back in 2005. Went to Poconos for about 5 days. Came back to about 300 orders to ship. Back then didn't matter. No one cared. Now I'm tied to my metrics.

Let's just say that a majority of the sets u see for sale at retail are being bought up by resellers. Average Joe's and Timmy's have no chance at all right now. They automatically become your buyers of the $200+ price tags.

Yeah, for #2, but not for #1. Should see it for each line item. So apparently, yeah, you found a 10% exclusion.

Bittersweet sale last week. Sold my used 10179 for two bills. After fees, profit is $400. So basically, I was paid $400 to build and display the set for a nice amount of time. It Probably would have fetched closer to $2,800 if sold near the release of The Force Awakens. Some pics...

I built the UCS B-Wing 10227 over the weekend as the kids and I continue to work our way through our Star Wars want list whenever we have enough profits from Legos sales to finance our next buy. I enjoyed the build as it had some different pieces that I have never used before...plus I am always a sucker for a large OT set. I haven't built the 75050 B-Wing for comparison, but have been busy selling them to pay for sets like these ?. (Sorry for the low quality pics...we had bad lighting and just snapped them quickly.) Next up for us will be the Tantive IV 10198, which we are excited to finally build.

I wouldn´t say it was theme specific. There are sets such as 70010 CHI Lion temple from the turdiest theme in recent times that WERE in demand and got to 4 x RRP, but now no one is buying them. There are some forgotten unremade themes like Jack Stone, Prince of Persia, Spongebob etc but most of them didn´t perform well at any time. Minority interest themes such as Bionicle, Hobbit, Monster Fighters, Nexo are also risky investments due to lack of buyers - we can see how even Haunted House plateaued. Those Elves dragons sets may also take a tumble when kids have moved on to the next thing and no longer want to have a full set of baby dragons. Others such as Lone Ranger are now starting to tick up, or maybe it´s just the other themes that aren´t doing as well. This site has a CAGR per theme section where you can see more.

Minifigure wall continues to blossom, hung today - Star Wars: Good Vs Evil.