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This is a follow up to the £100 haul I showed in the 'what set did you buy today' thread (picture below). I've sold most of it, including all the sets with a value of £50 or above. Overall, this has done extremely well. I've made over £1500 in sales. Taking into account the initial cost, shipping, Bricklink costs and fuel, I've made over £1200 profit. I even still have probably at least £200 worth of sets I haven't sold yet (e.g., 4181, 4182, 7965, 4737). This has been a great project, and I can only hope to be so lucky as to get another find half as good as this in the future! EDIT: Whoops, just realised I forgot about Paypal fees. That's probably about £60. I'll make more than that back with the rest!

Well this was fun. Went to local B&N tonight and asked if they would stack HP 4-pack with the BOGO, and they agreed. But warned they wouldn’t accept a return without the 4-pack haha. So I grab (2) London’s, (1) Arc De Triomphe, and (1) Vegas ... all at $39.99 Rep rings the 4 up and sure enough once he scans HP figure it replaced one the sets, but he noticed and called a manager over to fix it. Idk what this manager did, but price dropped back down and I paid and headed home. Checked my receipt later and they messed up and gave me 3 of the 4 at 50% off [emoji51] Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

I'm already over bhz. Every toddler will need these down the road...

I beg to differ! I’ve sold some sets in person to timmy’s Mom. You’d be surprised how many parents don’t think twice about dropping hundreds on what Timmy wants! Silly but true and sorry I’m sure this discussion doesn’t belong In daily deals ?

gotta be a good daily summary about today's events coming up...

Hmmm, still 10220?

Brick Bank back at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A85FXBC/

Probably best to lead with "You will never guess how much I saved!"

This is reminding me of Orthanc from a few years ago. Kept popping in & out of stock near the end, seemingly enough to increase the hoard to the point that it never substantially appreciated. Maybe this will be different, other than the price point they are completely different sets, but I ain't biting.

My $600 MF from Walmart has just arrived ... !! They cancelled all my previous orders and this got shipped .. I forgive you Walmart....

for any people in reach of one of the 6 LEGO Pop Up stores , 20% off a large amount of sets. They didn't get restocks on most retiring but most do have Porsche, Joker Manor, GBHQ all at 20 off. Worth checking out. Lot of Bhz sales and seaonsal stuff. Pretty much all non current Exclusives are 20 off and most regular sets as well. Cheaper for them to sell at 20 off then ship back or to other stores like they originally intended. Still get your points and some lingering promotional stuff around. Technically no limits on sets in those either so probably find some more motivation to move sets if you are in the market.

Best: 21125 Jungle Tree House - 18 sold @ $140 eBay avg buy-in was $34 Worst: 41182 Capture of Sophie Jones - 0 sold and took down listing 2x top line sales compared to 2017. Net margin after fees/shipping/supplies was 170.12% - a 28% increase compared to previous year. Some fun data: averaged 3 min 39 seconds per package. This was printing/cutting shipping slip, retrieving set from stash, identifying right size box, and packing everything up.. Last year I used proceeds towards new master closet buildout, conversion to salt water pool, wife's $1800 gym membership, and all Xmas gifts. This year proceeds will pay for 4 RT tix & beachfront house in Turks & Caicos, kids play room makeover with big screen TV, Nintendo Switch, couches/gaming chairs, 7' air hockey table & other toys. Hoping 2019 will be enough for 1 bed/1 bath home addition. Really not up to me. It's all in the hands of the Farm Cottages now.

All that message meant is that they don't have supply of the Minnie BHz. It would be nice to see some LM2 BHz released along with rounding out some of the Disney Princesses for my girls. I think as a theme in general, it will be one that just sticks around and randomly produces short run licensed sets...like a sub-theme. As long as Lego as a license that is available, I can see them using it for a BHz model to increase the main theme portfolio. They really are just XXL Minifigures

Geez Minnie, lay off the cheese.

go ahead and buy it losers - this thing will make it to 50% off easily on12/26. its comical how many of these are still at like every store. i'm also expecting to harvest greatly all the poorly placed elves technic and architecture stock that is tucked in the back corner of the books and collectibles sections at target where nobody goes to find lego.

I can’t move on....bunch of black widows and Salazars still in my inventory

I dont think so ... TH just poofed out of no where, and so many folks were hating on it that it was relatively less hoarded than the others .

This may be a somewhat simplistic view on things, but I think GE was the first modular people started buying after the last big wave of "LEGO is better than gold" articles and such. I think it was a bit overhoarded - and since then, modulars and the big sets have performed weaker than the ones prior. Brick Bank, if nothing else - seems to at least be less hoarded. Also, GE was out for apx 4.5 years as opposed to 2.5 for the BB. This all may mean absolutely nothing, but if you're looking for reasons to be optimistic. :shrug:

My hesitation on this set stems from the mountains of them still sitting on shelves. The Targets around me are using these sets as shelf fillers to fill in the gaps....

Star Wars Sandspeeder 75204 44% off at Target after $20.99 sale price, 20% cartwheel offer, and red card. Target exclusive. Modeled after a toy that Kenner designed but never made back in the day. Desirable mini fig helmets as well.

Im not sure if anyone posted this yet, but amazon has 76052 the classic Batcave for $164.87 Check this out: LEGO Super Heroes Batman Classic TV Series Batcave 76052 LEGO https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BZQUJT4/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_t1_5WchCb74WYRSB

Got 2 Voltrons and 3 Harry Potter minifigure packs not a bad haul from B&N.

I envy your tax rate

My UCS MF shipped from Wal-Mart & should be arriving today. Meaning I've got a matter of hours to figure out what I'm going to say to my wife.

Sorry if reposting, from a 2019 catalog scheduled for May I believe: i know you want those OZ figs

Seems we are getting another DB, 70678 2HY.

Lalalalalala. I can’t hear you! My wallet can’t hear you.

I wouldn't worry about that. If you want, you could try and get some credit from Amazon. After receiving various box conditions from Amazon I don't even worry about it anymore. Just note it when you sell, you may need to knock $5 off the going rate, but you shouldn't have an issue moving it. You could sell it without the box to save on some shipping cost, but if it's still sealed, I'd leave it that way.

Can confirm the bogo 50@ Barnes and noble works with voltron. Also Bought the item then pointed out the Harry Potter set after the fact to get it without the bogo hp set shenanigans.

Thanks for posting this! I decided to start a chat with TLG and ended up finding out that a little over $80 of my VIP points are expiring this month! I never received an email either. That would've sucked.

instore only

The new character is basically supposed to be meta Chris Pratt playing lego roles CP has played in real life movies. I mean, Watermelon man wasn't random enough?

I believe this is for the February release

Gotta be Exo Suit.

It was a good year overall. I managed to remodel my selling strategy beyond simply eBay and developed a small presence on BL selling bulk sealed sets. My BL orders alone accounted for $1000 this past year. I've moved most of my inventory and done so quickly, though I wonder if I am selling too fast on a few items. I've been lucky enough to have only spent $15 on packing supplies this past year, reusing Amazon, Walmart, and B&N boxes and used padded envelops. I also have managed to maintain buyer's paying for shipping, which has really helped. After taxes and fees, I'm at an average 3x my buy in cost. It's good, but local WM clearance is coming harder to procure, and the nearest Target, B&N, Khols, Micheals, etc. is an hour away.

I agree about the quantity hoarded being a major factor on what a set resells for later and I think that is directly related to how many of a set is made and how long it is active. https://retiringsets.com/lego-modular-buildings-list/

She will and does.

Moved a Temple of Airjitzu (70751...?) today for $375 + shipping. Bought for $191.xx... after all the fees and math was done, oddly, it came out to a clean $125.00 profit. CAD of course.

Sorry, OFS? Your lucky, our Target never has anything on Clearance for more then 20-30%.

F5! F5! F5! F5!

Never been burned on one picking up. If you want to protect yourself and payment has already been made just mail them the receipt and upload the tracking (if it's substantial enough that you are worried about it). Also will protect your on time score.

ive made a killing on City, Castle, Ninjago, Jurassic World and Lone Ranger this Christmas. SW is really bad, I concur, however I have sold 6-7 year old sets pretty easily this year like Bounty Hunter 7930, General Grevious 8095, T60 Shuttle, and SW Rebels minus the Tie Advanced Awing set.

Re Target Sandspeeder: The completely non-canon origin of these (concept art from the original trilogy) doesn't make them too attractive to any age, IMHO. For a personal build plus two spare, sure, but clearing out shelves probably not the way to go...

Wait BOGO 50% works w/ Voltron at store?? I was told that was excluded...

I took a break from selling this year. Didn't realize just how much of a break until I was checking records the other day. I sold a $20 item in January, and a $20 minifig in November. And that was it. I'll have to get off my butt and get back to selling. The inventory is there. But the break has been nice.

No threats of bags full of used dildos for me (where would you even get that?), but it has been a very profitable year. I almost doubled my sales from last year and blew way past what I had originally projected for the year. Got all of my debt paid off and will be starting 2019 with a big pile of inventory. This is why I laugh when I read so many of the gloom-and-doomers here talk about how the sky is falling, how we are in the end times of Lego reselling, blah, blah, blah.

I can share them on behalf of Boliramirez: - Move to the Mexican border, ideally on the Mexican side - Schmooze up to people at the LEGO factory there - Offer them money for sets - Pay this money - Make profit on Ebay or CL

Boba's Refrigerator

Stopped by Target tonight and found a Scout Trooper and Speeder Bike set (75532). Went to self-checkout and had the person working there adjust the price to $30.99 (Cartwheel price match) and then used the 30% off Lego Star Wars constraction Cartwheel coupon. $21 and change. I have one already but couldn’t pass it up at that price.

sales are crazy but one made me laugh out loud when crazy price got hit without me noticing as i was reviewing sales from this week. lego palace pets royal castle 41142 for $65 fba - ridiculous - msrp was $19.99. i paid $9 at walmart last year. either way a total winner. this thing is headed to $99.