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Speaking of dinosaurs; bought 4 IRex and a Skyra's tonight at TRU. Been eyeing them for a couple of weeks and finally had the time to ask the wife if she'd open a CC account. My awesome wife dragged 3 kids under 7 yo for a 20 min drive to sign up. Disregard the Technique set. Bought it for my dad so the kids can put it together Christmas day. He's always wanted a yellow Corvette. All in perfect shape. *Sorry, I know, wrong thread. I've requested a move.

you forgot about additional storage fees which specifically increase around the holiday season. amazon doesn't let your park stuff in their warehouse for free. coming up with a selling price is multifactorial equation which includes buyin that you can never fully know what your competition buyin was , understanding that the sales volume is here now and that you could sell 10x your sales volume if you are able to compete on price, not when your price gets here and that after the holiday season, most overstocked sets on amazon take a price hit even further than what they are going for now when there is drop in sales volume/demand that won't recover until tax refund season and people need to move inventory so they don't lose profit to storage fees as well as have cash on hand for after holiday clearance. 86 sellers on raptor rampage - that equals too much price competition. still the price has risen 20-25% in the last 3 months because of great demand. 106 sellers on 75094 - too much competition to expect any price increase. seller count was in the low 90s back in september. look at juniors police helicopter chase - a set that was clearanced for $5 back in may at walmart.com 50% off msrp - i posted it in daily deals. now only 8 7 sellers (dropped as i wrote this) under the main listing on FBA. i can't keep them in stock - they sell instantly for buybox which is $29.99. 6x my buyin with so few sellers of a set that has a high sales rank, then you can set your price and sit back. not so much with more than 6 dozen or over a hundred sellers with a relatively lower sales rank set. there you have to compete on price to make a sale. the price on this set literally rose by $10 while i was editing this - now only fba seller is $39.88. time to send some more in.

Yes sorry for the confusion the 20% off coupon excludes lego but if you are buying something else it works with the discounted GC.

55% off: 2 Lighthouse Sieges 1 Stealth Raider About 12 Ugly Vampires About 6 Mighty Micros 2 Hot Dog Vans 3 Supermarkets 2 Super Hero High Schools 1 Snow Resort Off-Roader 55% off before points and coupons: 1 Carbon-Freezing Chamber 1 Spider-Man Hideout Plus: 1 Saturn V for $100 10 Snow Resort Off-Roaders for $12 before points and coupons

In case you didn’t know, you can part out -2 and it will reduce all of the counts appropriately.

I think this went on Friday in the UK and not yet posted. Neither did it appear on that German list of upcoming retirements.

What, this book?

Good shout, and it should be noted that buildable figures get free shipping from Toys R Us regardless of price right now. I didn't realize that at first and was debating in store pickup.

LEGO Star Wars K-2SO(TM) (75120) $8.99 https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=87042106

Raise your hand if you knew buying up thousands of Lego dimensions was the buy of the year? ? Weeeeeeeeeeeee all the way to the bank.

A bathtub full of 10704 ....

Performance School is 47 at Tru.com : https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=85312396

FBM $50 Sealed.

Hello all: I’ve been a lurkin’ noob for sometime now and only recently begun to post. I’m a 35 year old Midwestern transplant living in the south. I’m a father of two and my children helped me rediscover my love of Lego from when I was a child. I only recently became interested in collecting and selling Lego, oddly as a means to stop smoking. My previous collecting obsession was cigars. I learned a lot from the hobby—shipping, storage, buy-in vs resale. I even became a novice woodworker and built two cabinet humidors. But since my children came along I decided a more healthy hobby should replace my love of cigars, so I replaced one obsession with another. I buy most of my Lego on clearance and if it doesn’t resell it usually turns into a present for one of the infinite birthday parties my children get invited to. My main goal with this hobby is to learn, and make a little bit of money.

I saw few sellers from Zgorzelec/Gorlitz (border City between Czech, Germany and Poland) with ridiculous large quantities available, highly likely they get their sets from Kladno as well as WH in Germany. I Know "Kladno capabilities" .. trust me, its virtually just next door. Its impossible that they would get it somehow "officially" (i mean truck loads). Each employee is awarded among other incentives a certain (limited) discount that entitles him to buy .. umm. let say 10-20 average sets (1000-2000 pcs) per year at half a price. You cant steal anything from the factory - not even a single brick that fell on a floor hardly an entire box.. so they have to have their source elsewhere.. I have come across truly disturbing facts that while the ppl in the Kladno factory itself are guarded like prisoners (more or less), the 3rd party Logistics partner with warehouse in other part of "greater Prague" obviously not.. and that might be where they could be getting their loot from.. I mean.. if an avg employee buys something at 50 % of local RRP, he certainly doesnt sell it to you at the same price - where would be the profit? now these Logistics ppl.. if they are willing to sell the same set for 35 % of the local RRP.. I think everybody comes to the specific and exact explanation how did they land their hands onto it..

B&N Saturn V & Old Fishing Store only got 10% member discount on saturn but got an extra 10% off the fishing store do to box damage.

UCS Sandcrawler this weekend Looks great alongside other UCS Star Wars stuff Snowspeeder next weekend!

Both

Amazon PM Target on UCS tie : $160 https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Star-Wars-Fighter-75095/dp/B00X3301HI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512327954&sr=8-1&keywords=lego+ucs+tie+fighter

Considering that their free shipping on a Constraction figure is likely to be a bubble mailer with no structural support, if I were loading up on them I'd do pickup rather than free shipping that'll mangle 60-80% of my order.

ahh sorry I should have mentioned that my listing there wasn't really empik.com only based. CLASS was from other website. best deals in Poland are happening right after Christmas, a week between 24.12 - 01.01 when retailers are cleaning their stock. You can get those even cheaper, that's my sweet spot to fill my shopping cart to the limits. No way! I need sometimes help with my pathetic German skills, we can work it out "Mr. Lucas Podolski" Brexit deal is finally on the table. Heard the news. 50BLN EUR to pay. Anyway if you gonna find good source in PL you can only be beneficial of that deal, especially if you buy large quantities (like you usually do)

50GBP empik.com - Polish local retailer. anyway in Poland there are plenty of sweet deals, just discovered few more. CLASS XERION - 75GBP NINJAGO MECH QUAKE -50GBP (not even released yet in UK for good for RPP 79.99GBP) WOMAN OF NASA - 16.50GBP BB 8 - 60GBP etc...

UCS Tie fighter is $160 target.. use them GC

You cant buy a gift card with the 20% off coupon BUT you can stack the 20% the coupon with your 10% off gift card...

Yes, you are correct. Anyone willing to take 20% less profit for a set is a dummy. I would use any number of other nouns to describe such a person, but they all get censored. I don't care if you have 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000, if your plan involves selling stuff for 20% less than what you could sell it for, you're an idiot. As for using automated repricing tools, I can't think of anything better for my business than racing someone to our lowest limit to sell something that would sell just fine at its current price. That's genius.

http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/5917360/type/dlg/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/gift-cards/_/N-8rg And here's the fine print...............

I am guessing everyone except you are dummies who don't have a plan and don't know what set to buy and sell at what price. Also they are so dumb that they have a pricer with 0,30 difference and don't ask how deep and tall these stacks are after probably getting similar sized stacks out of the way. if i have these stacks remember there are people with seven figures inventory imagine how many they have left to marinate

It's very streaky. This week I won 2 of the $5 bonus games. It'd been a couple months since that happened. I'll usually spend less time on the app when it's not paying out regularly. The hourly return is bad enough when it is paying out.

I won $2 today on a Bonus game, but won zilch from the game above.

Easily. I just meant it would sell for $100+. Luckily I only sent 25 in. The rest will marinate here.

B&N sale... perfect timing a week after their $60 for $50 GC deal. The icing on the cake was the Ender Dragon (only 30%). Avg 59% off RRP. Shout out to landphieran for breaking the story. I'd have missed it without that 2am post.

Don't be lazy....

The forums are so repetitive these days. A handful of people who just regurgitate the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.....

That's why you order another 5

I had to pass on em. credit card is walking funny after the treatment it got on the weekend!!

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Black Pearl and Queen Anne's Revenge. Paid a total of about £240, including Bricklink costs for completing them.

GIGANTOR! by Paddy Bricksplitter

Maybe the only consolation we can take from all these re-releases is that they can't re- release them all right?????? It's safe to say that all the big ticket Lego sets are probably going to be re-released at some point though.

So I'm gonna weigh in here. I know there was talk pages ago about 'destroying the brand', 'not collectible', etc. I collect lego because of its quality. The rareness of the sets has nothing to do with it. Megablocks suck to me...in fact any knock offs suck as far as I'm concerned. As far as building toys go, it's Lego or gtfo. I do feel bad for the investors, but collectors like myself aren't going to care how many sets they rerelease. I realize some will, but remember there's a quality to consider there. As for 'where were we when the original was there'.......we were younger and had less money, so we couldn't get it.

This remake is different from previous remakes in that they aren't even pretending to have upgraded it. They are advertising it as the relaunched 2008 model. I bought a Taj used for $1000 a little over a year ago. Am I bitter - no I don't sell the sets I build. Would I ever sink big dollars into a retired UCS or large retired set ever again - HELL NO. Many many many afol brickpickers who have come into the fold since Taj was released would never have shelled out $1000+ for a used taj are quietly doing fist pumps that they will now get build a new mint genuine LEGO version of one of the great sets of all time for a pittance of what the outlay would have been just a few days ago. So many other things they could have created in lego form but they chose to "relaunch" the set that's selling for $3K+ in the aftermarket . what a surprise.

Would like to add my thoughts: Owning a Taj Mahal that I purchased used one with manuals for $700 was I upset, Yes. But at the end of the day The new one would have cost about $400 ($370+tax immediate out of pocket). So I see it as a net loss of $300. Yes there are many other ways to justify this, but this one make me happy and less miserable about it. What this has changed for me : I am no longer scouting ebay for deals on retired Modulars (GG, CC) or Legacy Star Wars sets. Basically not pulling out the money that I thought I would. How does the Taj affect my purchasing decisions: Cautious approach, as I feel that there might be a remake in the near future of other legacy iconic sets plus the number of large sets being popped out by LEGO, doesn't match my purchasing capacity. Going forward in the future I am going to limit one large exclusive set rather than the multiples. I logged on today to hit the $100 mark for the freebie and for the first time closed the browser with items in my cart... with a meh.. There was no sense of urgency. I feel the excitement is not there any more. Maybe it is a short term feeling.. who knows.

I don't really buy into the theory of "Lego is re-releasing collector sets to discourage/anger re-sellers", I think it is more along the lines of the fact that Lego is not doing as well at the moment (layoffs and decline etc.) and is looking for popular sets that they know will be bought by many people. What better way to find a sure fire seller than to look at the most valuable sets in the past? A very easy way to find some of the sets with the highest demand. However, I think they are missing the point completely. It may help with short term sales, but sooner or later the value and collect-ability of both the past and present sets will go down the drain. The overcompensation of tons of sets with 5,000+ pieces won't fix their problems. What they need to do is go back and design NEW and INTERESTING sets that the fans want. Releasing 20 City Helicopters, the same Star Wars, and adding 200 studs and 1x1's to every set to increase the price by $40 won't work.

quit making to many themes, to many BS sets, way to much overproduction to where the stuff gets liquidated heavily at retail and in bulk through other avenues. Quit extending retirement dates because of a sales spike. Quit holding products who knows where then releasing 75,000 of a poly on a retailer months after it has no interest. Quit releasing the holiday sets that you retire on your website one year after with new print / batch codes. Quit giving out the same promos years later. Make some new concepts instead of just retiring the previous smaller set then releasing another. Those are all things that would help right the ship over re releasing the same set you've already offered before. People want new stuff when it comes to big sets. There are plenty of ways to get the retired sets that go to high for a cheaper price whether it be used or bricklinking if you are a collector and really wanted something you missed out on. The sales decline has everything to do with a glut of average or subpar / rehashed products and product that has been out way to long and should of been retired years ago. People only have so much money and 600 active sets just overwhelms customers and causes disinterest in the brand as well as retailers having to do drastic sales to move it.

I drastically reduced my investments in Lego a few years ago because I had a bad feeling about the increase in the number of investors. It's like they say, when the uber driver is giving you Lego investing tips, its way past time to sell. And now this? Even if the driving purpose is to combat counterfits, with the re-releases of the DS, MF, and TAJ, it gives an impression that Lego is just tired, out of ideas, and just for the cash grab. I always wanted the TAJ, but couldn't convince myself to pay the high price. Now that it is being re-released, I find that I have lost interest in it too even if it will be available at a cheaper price. Why would I want to build or display something so common and available, and will probably stay common and available at msrp or cheaper forever? These large collectibles will never be able to shake off the stigma that they are in fact not at all collectible, and are subject to re-release the longer they are temporarily unavailable at retail. Set rarity was a strength for Lego, and the knock-off counterfeits reinforced the desire for the authentic thing. But when supply is never ending... demand usually plummets as well.

No doubt, that this is a short-term solution but it buys them some time to plan their next move. I would not be surprised if the remakes continue. In fact, I would not be totally surprised to see a remake of CC, GG, and the Eiffel Tower in the next year or two. Again, I think this is a plan that was designed to be a life raft for Lego, while they figure out a long-term solution to their declining sales.

While I agree that this does hurt the future of Lego collectibility, you have to try and look at it from Lego's perspective. This is a company that saw a significant enough decline in sales revenue that they had to layoff 1400 employees. They have to "right the ship" somehow, part of this process could be releasing retired sets. I know that a remake was probably in the works long before the earnings report came out but I would not be surprised if a bunch of these remakes is part of a contingency strategy that TLG created a few years ago in the event of declining sales.

Eric Druon's "Robby" build photographed and slightly modified by Daniel M. Forbidden Robot Robby by Eric DRUON