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Woohoo! Just won a 75192 UCS Millennium Falcon buying 10x $1 spots on the reddit raffle. Time to quit while I am ahead haha.

We getting some lego house exclusives? https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-house-exclusives-to-be-available-on-shophome/

My local Kroger did their semi-annual toy markdown to 70% off and I hit it pretty hard.

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isn't all of this a gamble on LEGO?

I've ordered two sets from them and both arrived just fine. No other costs (specifically no tax) so in this case the total is exactly $274.99 I ordered the 42099 Crawler and the 42110 Land rover with no issues at a significant discount.

Just be sure to save some raffle money for Ed's St Paul raffle!

another great episode connecting all the pieces..

21x30365 and 22x30410 for $0.40 each at Kroger. Full proper sets were on close out but only 20% off.

You're going to make it very difficult for my visitors from Boston

What the what did Lego do this time? Likely for the Chinese/ Asian market?

I wanted to create a new thread in order to give progress on my site updates. I want explain a bit on what happened and what I am doing. What happened with the site? Honestly nothing really exciting or dramatic, overall in the end, I did not want to support the host I was with for the past four years after not really offering too much help with managed servers. They would spend 30 seconds looking, say they can ping the server so its up and then just say, "hey not my problem". I was on aging hardware, paying the same amount of money, so I took the opportunity to move to a new host with better/faster hardware and a staff that does help to support you when run into an issue that you can't handle on your own. I have been doing this a long time and pretty good monitoring and handling 99% of what comes my way, but there are issues that you need the next level up to help figure out what to do. I wasn't getting anything like that, but paying for it. Not anymore. What my goal is... I know more than anyone that the site needed some TLC. It's been a while since I have done any drastic updates, the site looked tired and I know the site can be so much better than what it's current state was. LEGO investing has changed since Ed and I launched the site and it's time to remove the dead content and bring more of what people are looking for. Below is the short term list of items planned for updating. I have been working on the nightly, just like the early days and enjoying seeing parts of it coming to life. Fix the login. This has been messed up and quirky for a while. This has been resolved and working well. It's a simple thing overall, but nice that it actually works how it's supposed to Overall price guide site design update. The site was tired and disjointed. I hated it and pained me to look at it. Time to start over. Brickfolio update. All the Brickfolio data is safe. I have close to three million rows of data for Brickfolio entries. Time to bring this thing to 2020. I will probably create another thread at some point to solicit some feedback on some new requests for the brickfolio Fix the data syncing with Brickset. A lot of people used this feature, but it's time to make it work the way it should. Later I will work on the content portions. The news and blogs. I have some good ideas for this, but want to get the price guide and brickfolio to you sooner than later. What I am asking for if possible... If you can, please stop asking where the brickfolio is. Again, the data is safe and I am working as fast as I can to bring it all back to you. It won't be a few days, but more like a few weeks, but it will be worth it. I setup my dev environment to push releases quick and easy. I want to create a true changelog so that you can follow updates to see what was done/fixed/new/removed, you know like what real software companies do. I really do appreciate your patience with this. It wasn't planned, but if there was going to be a time to do it, it was going to be now.

Figured I would add some info here. Started my store in 2015 and it has grown and hovers around 260k parts. Last year I had 35k in sales between BL and BO. I had a little over 1500 orders and have a $5 minimum buy with a fairly low shipping rate and no fees. I sell mostly new parts but also have used minifigures and minifig parts/accessories/weapons etc. Personally I try not to buy in a store that has fees, but sometimes still do if they have exactly what I need. I spend anywhere from 15-40 hours a week working in my store depending on how busy times are or if I have a lot of sets to part out. The store is fun and allows me to buy the Sets I want and also pays for my truck lease, but at times it can get to you when you get home from work and realize you have a few hours of orders ahead of you. Hope some of this information is helpful!

Do clearance prices reflect on their website? if so - no krogers near me are clearancing

Code is 9800

SW Droid Boost Commander is 43% off on Zavvi. But the code "LEGO25" didn't apply for free shipping and it charged tax for me as well. Still 43% off is hard to beat.

I had a similar experience too and messaged the seller through eBay… “Hello thank you for the message. I have not received the payment on my Paypal. It says you have paid but the money will not show up. I’m sorry for the inconvenience and I am trying to get it sorted out.” I contacted PayPal and sent the information to the seller It was all resolved and shipped shortly thereafter: “My name is xxxxxx and I will be assisting you further as previous agent is not available. I can see that the reason why is it that the funds is still unclaimed or unavailable from the seller's end is that their email address is not yet registered to a PayPal account or the email address on their PayPal account is not yet confirmed. You may as well relay this information to the seller. You can also advise them to contact us so we can assist.”

Yes, Zavvi and iwoot are pretty much the same company and they are legit. No extra cost involved, in fact I have never been charged sales tax when purchasing from them... so less cost actually.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego_raffles/new If you like gambling and Lego, it's your new addiction.

Also, PayPal puts holds on money coming in to new seller accounts. They should have released just enough for him to ship it then they hold the rest for like 5 business days

i don't know about your specific case but paypal can require some information from people before they let him accept money so even though he may been selling for years and paid a lot of money from paypal when it comes to accepting money there is some things ie ss # or bank account information that the system may require him to put in before he receives the money and it will not show in his balance before the information is placed

Brought back memories of old Space theme with the alternate builds on the back of the box 👍

Is this based on a cartoon series? This is clearly a retelling of Journey to the West story with Sun Wukong / Monkey King. I like the overall design but I am a fan of the story and most of its incarnations This line clearly took a lot of inspirations from Chima and Nexo Knights

will this replace ninjago? it feels a little ninjago'y to me

I was also surprised to find a couple at my local Walmart (of course, I went there for groceries...but had to swing by the LEGO aisle for old time sake). No street date in sight, so I checked them out up front.

You're welcome.

Research time. Figure out what his interests are, cold call his office, and make that same statement. Someone here could easily sell him a set at 5x current value.

I found three at my Walmart and when I scanned to check the price on the app, they said there were none in stock. I was able to buy them though at the register with no problems.

I actually don't have a problem with. I think it's pretty cool. Just an odd (unique? innovative?) way of doing sails.

I've had a Bricklink store for a while and in the last 2-3 years averaged around 55,000 parts and 400 minifigures (all new); giving me around 225 orders per year. As others have mentioned, if you're parting out sets look for a minimum of 3x buy-in, otherwise you'll be doing a lot of work for a minimal return. I work full-time so I'm quite happy with that level of orders; it's enough to keep me occupied in the winter months, but not too much. You'll find that some parts will be in regular demand, whilst others will remain in your inventory for years unless you sell them very cheaply! I'd strongly recommend avoiding the 'Friends' colour spectrum; the 'Classic' type sets look attractive on paper but they include a lot of odd colours and parts that aren't in demand.... If you're buying new, purchase multiples of a set - it makes parting-out a lot easier and you'll attract more buyers, as you'll have greater quantities available. If you're buying licensed sets, either buy early in their lifecycle with as much of a discount as possible (as the minifigures will still be in demand and have a 'premium') or alternatively buy as cheap as possible and be prepared to hold them for a while. For example, I did very well with parting-out the 2018 Harry Potter sets when they were first released (and found them at 30-40% off) but in the last 12 months they've flatlined - as the market is awash with them, combined with lower demand. In all honesty, I've enjoyed it most of the time but unless you've got access to a lot of high-demand stock, there's easier and greater profits from selling sealed sets. Some stores seem to do incredibly well, but from what I've seen you'd need a large inventory (250,000 parts+) for a viable return, and also make a lot of good decisions. I hope this helps.

Nice to finally see the other two builds for the Pirate Ship. Still weird that the sails are brick built but I guess it was easier than trying to incorporate sails into the other two builds? The RV / Camper Van has returned after a year or two, to 3-in-1. I like them both (the last one and this one). But campers are becoming the new helicopters. And speaking of repetitiveness, what is with all the lighthouses lately?

I guess we needed a bigger boat.

It’s alway a pleasure building the 10175 UCS Vader Tie from 2006. It is starting to look dated but still a nice looking set. It’s been nearly 7 years since I built my first 10175. The 1st pic is from 2013. It was a nice pickup then at $85 w/ the manual. Only needed some elements that were bricklinked for less than $8 with postage. This pic is from today. This set came with the box & manual. Picked it up 2 years ago at a nice price. forgot the exact price and will need to look it up. Much better quality of bricks (far less yellowish ones including the rare round cockpit cover) than my original.

Nice. Sold mine off a while ago but if you don't count "time use of money", I didn't loose anything on them because of discounts throughout the years. The price was just enough to cover fees and actually some profit on some of them.

I would love to use AWS, we just did a major migration there for my job and love using it. It is just costly. To set it up there the way I would want to do it would easily be 2-3x the cost. There is no temporary link to give at the moment, all of the work is on my local development setup. I honestly can't give a date at the moment. I am working on it as much as I can. This global issue we are having has my normal job in overdrive. There just hasn't been much time during the week to do extensive work. Most of my time on the development has been on the weekends.