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As for operating with a single account to stay within the vendor’s technically-enforced limits, I believe this is the current state of things. Cliff notes: you’ll be fine as long as you don’t go on a spending spree at Target.com, and try not to bring attention to your buying patterns by dealing with online customer service for small gripes that can be dealt with in store instead. Target - the easiest place to get banned based simply on purchase volume online and the most aggressive against resellers in store — employees trained to identify resellers loading up carts for example. Can still use red card in store after online ban, but using with a new email account will result in repeat ban — start receiving auto cancellations and email about possible issues including payment purchase method. Some people have bans lifted after a period in timeout. Others indefinitely. The amount of purchases that may identify you as a reseller and get a ban? One data point: I have been unable to purchase online going on 18 months now after two months of $5k purchases on the red card. Same red card still works fine in store. LEGO shop at home — with the purchase limits mechanics implemented a few years ago, it is much more difficult to get the SAH ban hammer. If you exceed a limit on any item based on past purchases of the same item, they will cancel your entire order. Be warned that if they cancel an order with a VIP Rewards purchase, the reward is not automatically credited back to your account. Also, if they cancel an item due to inventory issues, the system still tracks it as qty purchased. Qty purchased in brick and mortar stores that are purchased with VIP accounts are not counted towards SAH limits and and limits in store are done at the individual store’s discretion. If you do have to call customer service to resolve an issue, they do have easy visibility to all of your previous orders and will make comments about you “really liking LEGOs”. No indication that that is how the ban process starts, but unless you really have an issue that needs CS, might be best to just let the small things go. Amazon — shop away. Their limits are tracked to the second on a 168-hour FIFO. Limits apply and are tracked in that window only to items sold and shipped by Amazon.com. Buy as many third party items as you wish. Anecdotal stories of bans for excessive returns, but no clear information on the metrics used. Generally, probably best to save the returns for the really bad boxes. Creating multiple accounts will get noticed and is the quickest way to get the warning shot emails. Barnes and Noble — similar to LEGO, has a five qty per item lifetime limit online. Exceed that amount and just that item will be cancelled from the order. No reports of bans. In store purchases do not appear to be tied to online memberships as far as adding to your 5-count quantity. Walmart — most LEGO are limited to two per order, but they won’t say how often that limit is reset. Doing a couple of multiple limit orders in the same day has worked. Doing dozens has resulted in order cancellations of those specific items but no bans that I am aware of. Generally, I have found one limit order per day has never resulted in a cancellation. ShopDisney — some items have limits but they are selectively enforced. If you put in multiple limit orders at the same time, they might cancel those items. If you space them out, they will be fine. I ordered a dozen castles (limit one per customer) last year and they all went through. Sometimes two in two consecutive days. Costco — has item limits on some items, but I haven’t seen any on LEGOs. Even with items with limits, possible to space them out without issue. In store limits are usually “per day”. Best Buy — unsure on LEGO as I’ve never pushed the limits on them. In the past, I would make 50 purchases at a time of 2-dollar items that had limits and they would all go through. I have tried to make multiple purchases of Xbox consoles and those were cancelled. So YMMV. But no reports of bans. Anyways, those are my observations.

Got this in the mail today!

Thanks for posting about this as it prompted me to search for this set elsewhere. Found it at Target for $69.99 (30% RRP of $99.99). Placed two orders for the four that are in the two stores near me for local pickup. I also placed a couple for shipping but there is a note that says the set "may" ship in its original packaging. https://www.target.com/p/lego-super-mario-bowser--39-s-castle-boss-battle-expansion-set-unique-toy-for-creative-kids-71369/-/A-78929976

My most memorable K-Mart deal was in Florida where I found 12-15 bags of Mixels series 1. This was 1-2 years after those were retired. I had to pay full price (this was before the app and I had 0 coupon with me), but the profit paid for most of my plane ticket to/from FL.

I built mine form the Big Lots sell this morning.

reminds me of the time... so as parents we're always looking to get diaper deals (Costco, Target, etc) to maximize the cost per poop..ANYWAY, one time while traveling we were caught without a spare and had to purchase the Individually packaged for retail at a 7/11...I think it was like $7...(I know so what)....any way we had to get it because we had no spares or backups...during the rest of the day we were just banking on not needing it till we got to our regular stash...all the time thinking.."well we have some old t-shirts we could jerry rig instead". Well we ended up not needing it and still have the unopened package to this day...

I was able to print off a few earlier... now it's back to unable to refresh. Like others, I too can see inventory dwindling but no recorded pending sales. Fear of no sales these last few hours has caused me a great deal of pain and suffering. I'm another 30 min from calling Jackie Chiles.

Mine was the $10 off $10 coupon and using them on $10.99 battle packs 75034, 75035, 75036. Used about $0.60 points on each. I stopped ordering at about 300 and none were canceled. I received like 6% back 3Bates on the $10.99 for each. I had one garage stall pretty full of boxes and envelopes. The post office even just brought the envelopes in those big USPS totes and just left them on the porch. They did mix in a few Battle on Saleucami and Battle on Geonosis with the shipments accidentally when they were picking stuff off the shelves.

Every Christmas I'm reminded on eBay thru strange messages that I am the scum of the earth. I'm not able to go back to my messages last year, but here's the summary: "I work for a local charity and I was hoping you could donate the 60266 745pc Ocean Exploration Ship that costs $150 retail" Ya, sorry. Charlie's (Wonka) uncle would pawn that thing in a second or Charlie's life would be in serious danger in the neighborhood The guy who asked had feedback showing several items purchased over $1k and $1k+ items for sale Let's be real dude, this ain't going to Charlie, more like your son Jimmy " This has been a really bad year for us and Jimmy, I was hoping you would understand, and sell me the 60266 745 pc Ocean Exploration Ship for 50% off retail" Again, this other dude's feedback showed several high priced items recently purchased "I can't believe you're selling the 60266 745 pc Ocean Exploration Ship at 150% of retail. You are a rip off and causing Jimmy to miss out on his present" I'm sorry, did you wait all year for this to launch, did you wait in front of the mall for hours to guarantee you would get one only to find out that they had plenty in stock and I wasted a Saturday morning? Did you see the sale a couple of months ago when this thing was 30% off? Maybe you should have taken advantage Karen So, I'm giving in this year and doing auctions starting at a penny. I haven't gotten a message yet. Probably because they realize the market will determine the price based on supply & demand, and it's your peers that are driving the price up. I know I'll miss out on the "emotional" buy it now high margin selling price, but at least I can guarantee that they'll get it by Christmas because the auction ends within the delivery window plus extra room for delivery delays. Sorry for the rant. I know you all will understand this.

Nice find. Mine were the $4 K-2SO and Death Trooper constractibles that they suddenly had in stock in large amounts (I believe I picked up 30 of each from one store alone). That was the price before coupons, my actual buy-in was closer to $2.50. Not to mention that I got $15k in RRP LEGO from them for $2.5k out of pocket. Yes, I am a small-timer.

Hunting through bins of Hot Wheels to find a Tesla Model Y to "buy" with the monthly "get a free Hot Wheels car" coupon. Then selling it on Amazon for >$10.

Kind of miss having K-Mart around with their spin-the-wheel games to earn reward points. I miss their coupons that may or may not work depending on whatever their website decided on that day. Their website also had some wonky math calculations that forced me to try different combination of sets to get the coupons to work. Also miss their end of the year coupons that stacked with bogo offers. Best thing was their birthday discount/coupon that was good for the whole birthday month, automatically added to cart, and also stacked with whatever offer they had that month 🤑 ETA: Their stores smelled weird but nothing beat their 40% off clearance prices - whatever coupons / rewards you had in your account

Done. Good suggestion! I was looking for a simple and easy way to make myself look useful around here

Therein lies the problem. I've basically committed to buying every future modular building until either I die or The LEGO Group stops making them. My opinion, therefore, doesn't matter. All LEGO has to do is put some technic pins at the side of any building they produce and I start twitching.

The beautiful Diner was panned early on for not fitting the classic theme, and holds poor reviews today compared to older modulars. But it seems to have opened the door for sets that move away from the older, blander colored, sets. This would have been panned even harder than the diner had it been released first. My favorite line from the Brickset review: They can just go out to the sidewalk and pretend it's San Francisco Just drop some of these on the sidewalk

Didn't know BP was down

PM me your eBay info. I’ll through a few bids your way, especially if you have Ocean Explorer ships. Great set. Target exclusive. Out of stock everywhere. Short life. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

my Empire State Building from ZAVVI BF sales came yesterday; just got one and it was minty fresh

Yes, the member discount still applies to Lego. Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk

Did they change that? It did not work last year (as in they scanned the LEGO set and their system did not take 10% off). So I let my membership expire

75120 SW K-2SO Constractible 25 $59.74 $24.99 $2.39 91% 75121 SW Death Trooper Constractible 21 $45.94 $24.99 $2.19 92% (set no - description - qty - buyin price after tax - RRP before tax - average cost per item - %-off)

OOS Stock already!

noticing that amazon has the bold green Arrives before Christmas now under each seller (or not) for each listing. If you are selling FBM and not sure why ur not having many sales, might want to see if you show up under your listings as having your item arrive in time for christmas or not. if not, you should spend some time tweaking your shipping settings. beginning by making sure you have set the default handling time from 5 days to 1 day. 5 day handling time lol.

Maybe I'm easily impressed...lol. I think this new modular is great. I love the angles, colors, the stairs, the terrace...best modular in years in my opinion.

Daughter just wouldn’t stop while I was changing her. I’d put one on, and it would be instantly soaked. Over and over.

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Great post. These have been my experiences as well. At BestBuy I remember placing multiple orders within minutes of each other when they were blowing out the Chicken Coops for $11. All were for in store pick up, and all went through with no issue. I ended up with around 60 Chicken Coops. I think as long as they have stock they will ship it. Since Lego isn’t their main focus, I’m assuming they don’t care. They just want to move it. Other popular items like game consoles are a different matter, I imagine. Mods…the OP should be stickied. Good info in there to refer back to without having to search for it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah. We really DONT need to hear the whole story

Idk. My wife loves to tell the story of “the night of six diapers” with my daughter. Six diapers in one diaper change.

We have some of the first sightings of series 22 out now! @blairaltland on 9to5toys posted the following images The names of minifigures have been given as follows: Moon Warrior Raccoon Girl Forest Spirit Man with Racing Wheelchair Insect Alien Chili Costume Woman Girl with Foal Snow Warrior Figure Skater Bard Robot Researcher The series contains 12 minifigures as with recent series', and it is set to release January 1st at $4.99 per packet.

Ebay: I've sold a few of the Ideas' 21306 Beatles sets the past week. Between $160-$170 + shipping. Buy in was @ $39 I think.

Sales have started again.

Just saw this review on Tips n Bricks: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXG2tGioS1I/?utm_medium=copy_link Seems like some of these possibly have a production issue with bad plastic formulation. Definitely appears to be more than poor design. It will be interesting to find out if this is the case and if so if it can be traced to certain seal numbers.

working again...just printed a label. Not sure how to fix the order that did not have a label though.

I just got that a strange message from Amazon customer support asking me to contact a buyer to address her concerns with regard to shipment with her FBA order. Looks like the Amazon customer support agent she spoke to could not figure out this was an FBA order ? Seems like something was really going wrong earlier today with Amazon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

33 sellers and 8k rank makes me a believer

It does as far as I know.

Yeah those K-2SO and Death Trooper were my final in-store purchases before they closed their stores permanently in my area. IIRC I got them for $6-ish each but they only had 5-6 on shelves

Yeah it’s not that exciting. I think it’s more of the quaint “first kid, three months old, clumsy dad, in the dark, middle of the night” type of story. My wife thinks it’s hilarious tho.

Kind of anticlimatic, TBH. My story involves ninja-like reflexes and wiping the wall to the side of the changing station

not great (I have certainly done that also but for only medium sized sets...ie.,Razercrest) but not terrible either.

I can't say why I've had good service and am getting results. 2 possible reasons.... Just guessing here. 1: I've been very polite to the CS people (not implying that others aren't also being polite, I'm just stating that I have been). 2: I informed them that I filed reports with USPS fraud, filed police report, and filed Cyber Crime report with FBI. Maybe that holds some weight. Or maybe I've just gotten lucky with the CS people that have handled my calls.

Every year during Target's buy 2 video games get a $50 gc deal week, Amazon and Walmart drop the price of the latest Just Dance video game for the switch. This year they are $29.83 from Walmart... Target price match and still get the $50 gc. So 2x new switch games that sell for about $30 each on Ebay for about $10. Every year this happens. Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

Kind of hard to check once you have more than 30 listings

Shark was jumped a long time ago with the Downtown Diner.

Ordered a Walmart exclusive vinyl for my son and same thing...random car pulls up and someone with no uniform drops it on the porch, no packaging.

As far as my parents knew, i never cursed either, but around my friends, to quote a Christmas Story, I "worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay."

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.

All of my Kevlar is currently in a cargo ship off the coast of California. Any of you fine pickers willing to send me some ASAP?