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Dump them as fast as possible and move on. You are losing money everyday you hold onto a set that appreciates as poorly as Rey's Speeder. One of the worst mistakes you can make reselling is hoping that set that hasn't performed well will rebound. Thanks for that, I think that's the kick up the rear end I need to just unload all of the sets that haven't shown potential. I knew it was the logical thing to do, but just kept on hoping some sets might break out. Even after all of these years, I'm still glad there's a community here who you can throw ideas / get tips off, every day a school day.

Dump them as fast as possible and move on. You are losing money everyday you hold onto a set that appreciates as poorly as Rey's Speeder. One of the worst mistakes you can make reselling is hoping that set that hasn't performed well will rebound.

And you responded saying you are a one-eyed deaf-mute war veteran with an opioid addiction who needs to support 15 kids in a dilapidated van on an impound lot after his wife left him with maxed out credit cards and alimony, so if she could be so kind and pay double the price thank you very much?

7019 Vikings Fafnir Dragon Fortress This set had been on my list for eons, and I finally found a decently priced one a few weeks ago. Missing a few pieces, nearly complete. Build was pretty basic, tons of stacking, but the overall product looks great, especially on the castle shelf. Overall, I really like it. I generally like bigger sets that don't use tons of tiny pieces, and this one has a certain classic feel to it. Can't believe this thing was a cool 70 bucks at retail, considering the size, features, and dragon. Oh yeah, and the box flips

In all seriousness: You gain nothing by replying to this person. Add their user name to your block list and move on. My response was purely for comic relief.

Sold one last week for $450. No regerts!

Well, got four Diner's today from Amazon. All bare shipped covered in stickers -- with the coronastickers as well so it looks like a kids sticker book. All shipped from Arizona to California via UPS. Beat to heck and pancaked. One even looks like someone used shipping tape to seal the end back up. I guess that's why Amazon and Target doesn't sell cars. They'd put them in a gigantic bubble mailer and stack them three high in a semitruck and deliver them upside down on your driveway. Then you'd open it up and find the odometer had 15000 miles on it, an amazon warehouse deal sticker on the license plate, and a strong smell of air freshener even though you bought it as "new". And when you call up customer service to complain, they offer you 20% off because that model is now out of stock.

Yes, the fact that I am running low on Death Stars and Tower Bridges (after all this time collecting dust) truly brings a euphoric sense of being reborn.

I can put two and two together. Terry is banned from Target. Terry bought a pallet of steamrollers. It's so obvious, how did we ever miss this?

that and the top panel of the box still says boba fett 😃

If that's true, Target should of given him a medal...

Haha .... this is why:

If I were in your shoes, I would sell it right away...mainly because you won't be building it anytime soon. You can buy it back later when it's readily in stock and pocket the profits.

Zavvi.com has the LEGO Technic: Land Rover Defender (42110) for $179.99 - $31= $148.99 and free shipping! Use code: DEFENDER for the discount.

According to my conversations with FedEx on this, you need to report actual weight when you pack and ship. So the (complicated!) procedure is: 1. Buy on Ebay based on actual weight 2. Calculate the Ebay rate for Dimensional Weight 3. In your cost administration, record the Dimensional Weight price 4. When the monthly EBay invoice comes, check if what rate you were charged, and adjust where necessary. All this could be soooo much easier if EBay just calculated Dim Weight in their shipping tool

My bro said "That's a lot of problems that Jessica Rabbit will not solve any of em" it was for a funko jessica rabbit.

I have case data. Do people actually need it?

That's a boring story, so you have to jazz it up or nobody will believe it. As an aside, I'm pretty sure that's how your president got elected.

So I just got this message.... this is for a funko pop. Hello, My name is %^%$%^ and I LOVE this so much and been wanting it really bad! Would you please please please kindly be willing to donate one to me please? I have a TBI & brain injury and am often in a wheelchair because my legs are really messed up. I also have PTSD, Panic Attacks, Major Depression, Night Terrors, Lymphedema, Lung and rib cage trauma from broken ribs that punctured my left lung. I died and even left my body when I was 5 years old. I don't have any money and I live on disability income. After rent, utilities, gas, petcare, and necessities, I am broke. In Fact my Mom has to pay my cable and phone because I can't even afford that with my disability. We have a few cats that have special needs. One was hit by a car before we adopted her. We noticed her tail wasn't working when we got her home. She just dragged it and she had a limp. They didn't expect her to live this long. She is 14 and still kicking. I would appreciate it greatly and would really mean the world to me. Thank you for your time. Please keep safe. Kindest Regards,

Production is picking back up. I got a bunch of case packs today that were manufactured in Mexico last month so they're filling the pipeline back up.

A service to monitor the ups and downs of prices for amazon products? Reminds me of the humps in a camel.

Sorry that its dead to you, but hopefully you will come back one day. I am sorry that it is taking time, but that is what it is, time. I am busy in my work world and don't really have the time or energy to work on the site during the week, so most of my work is during my weekend evenings. Is that really a crime, I sure hope not. There is life, work, family and BrickPicker. I am doing what I can, when I can and sorry that it may not be good enough for you. I do hope you can understand.

Self-Employed (Sch C). If you do grow your LEGO business, you'll have more flexibility down the road. Make sure to keep a careful inventory of everything. When it comes time to sell, you'll have a hard time finding those Toys-R-Us purchases in your online transaction history... Every box, polybag, promo, cloth tote bag, that you will ever think of selling should be a line in a spreadsheet. Note how much it cost to acquire -- including sales tax and shipping costs. Put a sticky note or label on that set to match an inventory number in the spreadsheet. When you sell it, note how much it sold for, and how much your shipping expenses were. Also note any paypal fees, etc... for the transaction that reduced your profits. I expense my ebay fees since they are a little trickier to assign especially when you have a renewing buy-it-now that's been on a set for 24 months. If you build one for yourself, make sure you build the "one" you spent the least on! Save those low-profit sets for the ebay buyers. If that means some sticky notes fall to the ground due to the humidity and have to be randomly reassigned, that's a shame

This happened about 5 years ago. You used to be able to buy in store at Target as a tax exempt reseller, etc - Then the Lilly Pullitzer thing happened, and they reversed course. "LIMITATIONS ON QUANTITY Target does not offer additional discounts on large orders of a single item or on large orders of many individual items. In addition, we reserve the right to limit quantities on orders placed by the same account, on orders placed by the same credit card, and on orders that use the same billing or shipping address. We will notify you if such limits are applied. Target reserves the right to prohibit purchases of any merchandise to resellers. Resellers are defined as a company or an individual that purchases goods with the intention of selling them rather than using them." Personally I try to keep a low profile wherever I am shopping. I don't bring up multiple carts of stuff. If I go for a 2nd wave, I go to a different cashier, or use self checkout, etc. I like to avoid attention not just from stores, but from other customers as well. Why inspire or motivate people. "Are those on sale?!" I also don't make this 10k online orders like some of you guys do. Other than Target, the only store I've ever had an issue with was K-mart. But that um, has become less of a concern as the years have rolled by, :chuckle:.

Nice, that looks good, its been one that I've thought about starting a hunt for but haven't, may need to now! I was starting to enter my brief dark age around the time Vikings came out and only had a couple of the smallest sets. I pieced together the ship from two bulk lots last year, but now I may need to secure a home for Crew! I'd love to see a new Viking line using the parts from the new Viking CMF, that's a great looking mini figure!

Even more shocking: the Vikings theme sat at shop-at-home for weeks at 50% when EOL came (except for the ship, that went quick). QFLL wasn't yet a thing back then. One of my big regerts is not picking up any at the time, having just come out of my dark ages.

I sold a hayabusa box once. Got it in a bulk deal. Never could piece together the set but that box went for $50 iirc. I see the empty boxes sell on ebay. Someone is buying them.

Yep -- discovered this first-hand a few days ago. Catch-all for "not supplying to resellers" or something like that. Which makes me wonder. Anyone who has every tried to become a seller of products these days will find that going through standard distributors is usually more expensive that going through Amazon, Target, and Walmart. The little guy just doesn't have the buying power. If these companies start taking a hard stance that they won't sell to resellers, then I expect they will be opening themselves up to some anti-competitive lawsuits. Amazon has their business accounts, but I don't think Target or Walmart has anything similar. Of course, they'll just say we are always welcome to come to their store, but they don't carry every big set in store.

Target has unwritten Ban Hammer...

So, anyone here regret selling their Haunted House already? I still got mine, unopened and sealed. I got no room to build it right now and I'm moving soon so it'll probably be produced in the next year. I was going to put it online yesterday but it's so pretty and shiny and I can't bring myself to. It just screams "NOOOOO! DON'T LET ME GO!!!!" Also, I need stop going to bed at 1 AM.

Actually, now that I've listed it I'm looking at some shipping costs to different destinations and it's coming up with the eBay Rate as the customer rate, so I guess I'm wrong about this. Then I'd be posting in the wrong thread for sure.

I read this quickly and thought you were referring to issues with "dimwit" buyers.

One from Target and one from Amazon. Kept the Target one to do with the kids. Amazon let me keep the detergent but wanted the LEGO set back! I wish I had taken a picture of another set from Amazon. It came with a huge ripped off rectangle on the front of the box. Clearly a returned set that had a previous shipping label on the front that was traced with a razor blade and then peeled the artwork off the box with it -- leaving some thin bare cardboard. When I opened it, I thought I must have ordered it from Amazon Warehouse by mistake. Nope! "Back you go to waits for a woman of less-descriminatin' tastes"

Or that's what you say when people ask you why you have Hello Kitty Island Adventure...

use your redcard to place an order, you will see

fake... 75277 is boba fett

I've been working on a strategy similar to this but found the amount of IP and VPN switching to be quite cumbersome. I went a different route and started putting together an application to track sales and pricing data on Amazon. It should be able to pull multiple data points on every Lego set a day. I plan on using it track set popularity over time and understand how frequently sets go out of stock, use it to monitor prices and available quantities (from other sellers) of sets i'm interested in selling. I don't have a lot of experience with web crawlers but once I finish up the Amazon application I was going to work on something like you mentioned above. I have a partially working email scrapper that grabs all my receipts and puts them in a database to make inventory intake much easier. I have a lot to finish up but I plan on automating some of the tedious portions of the job by the end of the year.

Picked up a Creator Roller Coaster on Amazon for $290 using built up rewards points. Glad I didn't fall for the FOMO on this one. Fairground construction begins in 1 week as Carousel and Ferris Wheel get moved from their storage and this and Mixer get built. Also have the little Rocket Ride set to add to it. Light kits will need to be purchased as well if anyone has recommendations on those.

2020 is truly an effed up year

Sweet! I can get rid of those now!!

What is not to love about this year’s Advent Calendar?! Lego hits a home run with this one. Best in years!

I have a series of Selenium scripts that are running that will check for inventory, and they run constantly over a VPN connection that I shuffle the IP on pretty regularly. There is some other op sec that goes into it to avoid detection. I can tell you down to the minute last night when the Assembly Squares came up, because they would be gone almost instantly --- and so I know I can't be the only one. I've set some of them to auto-purchase and watch them the most for obvious reasons, but they are all set with a variable in the script that will not let them buy over a certain number so its a bit of a safeguard.

Take my Lego blinders off??? Never. If I did that, next thing you know, I'd probably running all over the damn place hunting crap with that kid Ryan on it.

Over ~8 years of selling, having a micropayments account probably saved me several thousand dollars in fees. It's a bit of a pain to set up with PayPal (you have to open a second account then call them to switch it to micro), but both BL and BO platforms support the alternate payment account for totals <~$12 so once its done you never have to think about it.

I tried that my first year and ended up abandoning a no limit selling structure on BL. It isn’t worth my time to complete so many small orders. I found Putting in a reasonable minimum order threshold of $5 and specifying a shipping fee of something reasonable like $1 for packaging worked well for me though I am only small time completing about $1200 in sales last year.

Lots of small orders. Paypal's $0.40 minimum is 10% of a $4 total shipped order. PayPal micropayments works ok. $.05 plus 5% of total order.

Are you including FBA shipping costs, Inventory storage fees (only short-term in my case) and the like? That's where it goes from ~30% to 40% in my case (actually, the real number is 39%, not 40.2% as I had a doublecount in the numbers somewhere).

I am running at approximately 31%....4 year average also

40.20% on Amazon seems too high if most of your sales are through FBA. My number on Amazon FBA is around 25%.

when I think of it.. it might be quite a nice new feature of this portal.. as bricklink records sets dimensions, weight etc.. why not have here a dbase of factory packagings? It would require just a very simply form and everyone from his / her territory could contribute with the values.. given that there are less than 30 different box sizes, even if that particular set packaging is still not in the dbase, the system could suggest that this set has the same dimensions as XX and that was previously distribued by 4 /6 per box.