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669 sets OOS @SAH & 177 avail

He can't handle all of the taxes on his end. You still owe tax on whatever income you receive from selling on Amazon. Maybe you're selling at a low enough level where that income can fly under the radar, but if there is money flowing into your accounts whether through Paypal F&F, Paypal goods & services, ACH, wire transfer, deposit, etc., the IRS considers that income and expects you to report it and pay tax on it. As to your original question, in addition to the question above about the value of your time, whether or not to get your own account depends on what your plans for the future are. If you're only wanting to sell a little bit of inventory here and there, your current arrangement may make sense. However, if you plan on growing your sales and trying to generate real money from selling on Amazon, I would definitely recommend getting your own account and handling things yourself. If you are selling through someone else, you have given up control over pretty important aspects of your business and placed your fate, to one degree or another, in the hands of someone else. If that person doesn't follow your directions and prices things too low, you lose money. If that person screws something important up, you lose money. If that person decides that something is more important than selling your inventory, you lose money. If that person decides not to pay you, what recourse would you have to get your money? Etc. Etc. If you are going to sell through someone else, I would make absolutely certain that you can trust that person to follow through on whatever arrangement you have with them.

Not sure what's worse.... Counterfeit sets or all the people buying these. Prices too good, 3rd party sellers. If the people on this site are buying them, grandmas and parents across the country have probably spent hundreds of thousands on these. China wins again.

Daughter made these guys 😃

Yep. Of course after I posted, I got notice that it's been dispatched, lol.

Did the holiday price match a couple of times and it was pretty easy. I did customer chat (or bot chat…really couldn’t be too sure) and they saw the price difference and sent me e-gift cards. Not sure if I could have gotten cash refund but they also rounded up a refund from $8 to $10 so I didn’t complain.

Lol. 'Must feel he/she/they are now **famous**

Back in stock https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Art-Andy-Warhol-s-Marilyn-Monroe-31197-Collectible-Canvas-Art-Set-Building-Toy-for-Adults-3-332-Pieces/292561597

So the designer of CITF who originally reported to BL that people were selling his model on eBay is now selling his signed copy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-bricklink-castle-castle-910001-box-signed-by-designer-/275052599075?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=709-127639-2357-0

Schlocky looking goods. Lord Business must be running things. There are people buying this crap that have probably never built anything without directions.

Price match them to their online prices. Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

They price match their own website. And advertised at 99.99 in tomorrow's ad.

You're welcome, maybe I'll sit down with my kids to watch it tomorrow. That show is actually older than me and made in 1965! In the last few years there have been multiple monkey King related movies from Asia, I'm not super thrilled with the cgi though. When the Flower and Fruit mountain set came out, I bought it when it first went on sale. The memories from the animated film was just too nostalgic for me not to buy the set. But you kind of have to watch the show to know why.

Thanks. Did 2 separate orders for store pickup to earn the $15 Circle Bonus and paid with today’s 10% off GC.

Got full refund for one of the 2 orders. $770 ish refunded. It's showing as pending in my bank account. Refund for second order should post soon. Great news!! I will be donating the counterfeit sets to local Children’s hospital (with full transparency about what it is).

Thank you! getting Target to adjust the price/refund for my previous order: Edit: Successfully had the rep process refund for the price difference

Words lose their power with over use. Remember when extreme was extreme, now deodorant is extreme. Use to be when someone was dropping the f-bomb, s—- was happening. Now, I don’t even look up.

Profanity is the linguistic crutch for the inarticulate motherf###er. -Unknown

Target gift card sale is on https://www.target.com/circle/o/target-circle/-/352520?clkid=85305a9bN52cb11ec92fb9f5d11fba94c&lnm=81938&afid=Hip Happenings LLC&ref=tgt_adv_xasd0002 Up to $500 for a $50 savings in one transaction.

Venetian houses looks to have reached sold out status.

My wife and I do not use foul language and consequently our kids don't either. I believe kids tend to follow what we do rather than what we tell them to do or not do.

It's one of those parental decisions of whether to allow your child to use profanity or not. In our house, we decided not to filter our choice of words and allow them to use them in the house, but we taught them that there is a time and place for everything. They understand when it's ok and when it's not appropriate. Example: I call stupid drivers jacka$$es when I see them. I was driving my 4yo son home from preschool one day, and I growled when a driver cut me off. My son appropriately responded by saying, "That guy was a jacka$$!" I laughed out loud. We've never had any problems with them cussing in public.

Yeah, you only get four doses of that as a child... 🥴 I don't understand people's inability to weigh the options here. I'll get as many shots as it takes. I was sore and achy for like 30 hours after my Pfizer booster (had J&J in the spring), but whatever, I'm not on a ventilator or sick for an entire week like my unvaccinated brother. Conservatives seem to want to have their cake and eat it too. Whine about literally every effect of the pandemic from inflation to shipping delays but also won't accept that the only way out of this is vaccination. Seems very 'cake or death' to me. Maybe I don't spend enough time on conspiracy forums.

These new sets are not outstanding to me...

Regarding the postcards - I’m down with those, if they are going to stick with them. Don’t just do a couple, commit. The train - did they design it to work on roller coaster track?

It would be nice for Architecture to go back to focusing on buildings/structures and, dare I say, architectures. Skylines (now Postcards?) should have their own line.

75937 - Jurassic World Triceratops is on the top of my list of underperforming sets this year

Advent calendars are way over produced by Lego and way over hoarded by 3PS on Amazon. I could make money on them FBA up until 2018. TRU was still around. But after that Lego flooded the market with these or perhaps people started buying them less. Don’t know. Not touching them anymore even with a 20 ft long pole. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you keeping churning your inventory and maintain a good IPI they will increase your allocation every Monday. Keep in mind they can always cut it down as well . Amazon doesnt want to act as third parties’ storage unit

F 'em! What gets me is they whine about me sweeping the shelf in the clearance section when the LEGO set has been available for 6 months. They are upset at me for trying to make a buck when they hesitated, trying to save a buck?!? Even with new releases. I don't get any early access, being a reseller. They can drag their lazy ass off the couch and buy when the product is available, the same as me. But no, they want their sleep AND still be able to whine about not getting the item. And let's look at what they are whining about. Is it needed medical supplies? Is it food needed for subsistence? No, it's a luxury item. So their little Johnny or Jane won't have it under the tree this year. Boo hoo. So what? Maybe it's time to teach the little heathen that: 1. They don't get everything that they want. 2. Life is about disappointments. 3. Your parents are lazy pricks that would rather blame me for their woes than to inconvenience themselves to buy the items when they are released. I'm 60 years old and I find that, as I grow older, I hate people more and more. F 'em! Oh, and karma is a made-up concept that some sad-sack invented to try to make a more motivated person feel bad. If karma was real then how would you explain all the wealthy politicians in Washington?

Ladies and gents... gates on some listings have been lifted. Not all for me, but the ones I needed are open. Might want to check on any listings you've been blocked on the past year.

I sent in 5 Great Halls just in case Amazon ran out and it made a run. Saw that it ran out, just to see Toy Burg list 900+ at $159.99. Guess it's capped for a minute.

Unfortunately get used to it. So many crappy/new sellers got ungated in lego this year too Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I guess I'm doing the poorer man's version by still entering into excel. It's been easier since covid since all the purchases have been online.

They dumbed it down a little too much...sad! The original submission was fantastic...

Damn it.

The competition is getting fierce for these non-exclusive sets...LOL

Chin up! We'll get through another round! Slow-moving parents of young children despise faster-moving parents of small children who get there first. Fast-moving parents of small children despise adult collectors who buy the last box on the shelf when they SHOULD leave it "for the children!" Collectors despise the collector/casual investor who buys TWO of a set (shocking! Just shocking! Even if they are the LAST TWO!!) and don't leave any for the purist collector. Collector/Casual Investors despise the Mid-Level Investor/Collector who don't leave any for them. Mid-Level Investor/Collectors despise the High-Level Investor/Reseller (often those counting on Lego for a significant amount or all of their income) who don't leave any for them. It's not "sick" for someone to buy more Lego than another person, or for them not to leave Lego on the shelf for the children, the parents, the purist collectors, the casual investors, the lazy, the stupid, or the weak. We're not talking bottled water in a hurricane here, we're talking a luxury toy. I won't call you whiny if you don't call me sick. Or, better yet, keep calling me sick all you want instead of taking steps to make sure you can compete with me on the fair and level playing field called "Open Hours" at the store selling Lego.

Wow. Thanks Amazon for the Monkie Kid set. (Came boxed…and apparently used)

Thanks! Target is continuously adjusting the prices for me in chat, so this deal just keeps getting better.

this is absolutely obvious: they just (again) "stole" the original IDEAS submission for the Van Gogh Starry Night.. just look up LEGO designers astonishing comments how that piece made them think totally different about how the paintings could be done (in 3D) .. brick sketches are total revenue garbage so they have to come up with something else.