This arrived today:
I thought it's some eBay items that I had forgotten is coming. It turns out it's from Walmart.com. What happened to their shipping standard???
Miraculously, the two HP carriages and Shrimp Shack were all safe.
Sign of the coming apocalypse.....actually managed to sell off my one VW camper van I got 5+ years ago when I didn't know what I was doing. Not a whole ton of profit but profit none the less.....and feels really good to unload that one.....
If anyone has 41133 Friends Amusement Park Bumper cars, ASIN B01AC1D35K, could you please submit for approval. My last sets are at the Amazon warehouse so I'm unable to take pictures.
FYI, I just submitted the following sets for approval
41176 Elves Secret Market Place
10732 Guido and Luigi's Pit Stop
10742 Willy's Butte Speed Training
75053 The Ghost
79003 Unexpected Gathering
If you need any help submitting I would be glad to help. Here's my template:
Hello,
Thank you for ensuring that products sold on Amazon are safe for children.
I was notified in April concerning several ASIN’s requiring safety documentation. It seems that I did not receive notice of several additional ASIN’s in my inventory that required documentation.
I request approval to sell the following children’s toy:
1. Company name:
2. Seller ID/Vendor ID:
3. Email address:
4. Phone number:
5. ASIN:
6. Children’s Product Certificate (CPC), see attached along with item packaging images and conformity statement.
Thank You,
They have been running Friday sales for a few weeks now. They ran this one previously and I bought one at that price. It's shipped from the UK via DHL and I received it in about a week. No tax (depends on your state apparently), no shipping and no customs fees. Really good deal. I was hoping for something different this week but maybe I'll order a second one just for grins.
All of my Zavvi orders for Technic sets have arrived almost mint. It's crazy to see DHL getting orders from the UK to the US Midwest in faster time than domestic UPS and FedEx shipments. I know it has to be COVID-19 related staffing issues and increased package volume from online ordering. The USPS tracking system is a dumpster fire right now - packages hardly being scanned at any point along the way.
I got my Carriage and Shrimp Shack form Walmart in a giant 24x24 box for flowers. They went overboard on the wrapping but man, it was a pain to unwrap and unbox.
It comes down to buy-in, overall investment strategy, storage capacity, cash flow needs, capital availability, experience, remake potential, personal affinity to the set/theme, spousal temperament, median child age, household income, selling platform and hoarding tendencies.
Is this the article you are referring to? (I took out all personal info)
Okay, so the latest update for us is that I responded to 4 cases requesting the CPC stuff. All 4 cases they responded asking for pictures and the actual testing report. All 4 I sent pictures and the LEGO CPC for each. All 4 they declined and said I still need the actual report. I reached out to LEGO and they said they only give the report to retail sellers. I reached out to EE to see if they could get he report and I have not heard back from them.
However, I decided to try sending the pictures and the CPC up front on a LEGO Minecraft set, since they had asked for pictures on the other 4 after I submitted the CPC. Oddly enough, this set came back approved. Which doesn’t make sense, since I have sent Amazon the exact same information for the other 4 sets, but I sent them in two different messages.
If anyone else is trying this, maybe try sending the pictures and the CPC in your first contact back. Here is what my message said (and of course, it could just depend on who is helping me).
I then attached 2 pictures of the product- 1 picture that shows the address of the manufacturer and 1 picture showing the safety labels.
i'd be most bummed if i was one of the folks who originally bought that droid commander set to get the polybag. the polybag has tumbled from over $100 and is now averaging $60. And i saw a few get sold for high $30's. although the smart ones probably sold theirs quick once they realized the value.
i could be wrong, but i have a sneaky suspicion that the same thing is going to happen on the mini batmobile that came from the UCS purchase. people called foul on that one too. very few truly exclusive sets out there if they just bring them back via other channels at a later date.
Going back to the VISITORS code from Walmart, it wasn’t just LEGO getting cancelled. A video game I ordered using that code also got cancelled. I’m guessing mass cancellations for everything.