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Let me restate and correct this question:
Is anyone else noticing that Amazon (US) is starting to look like Walmart with constant price changes in the 5 to 50 cent range instead of seeing any substantial price drops?
The last significant discounts I remember were in the run up to Christmas 2013.
^ Pirate chess set too #40158, ony available for about a day and now listed as sold out (AU, UK & EU). http://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Chess-Set-40158?_requestid=1727853
I can see the appeal though, 857 pieces including 20 minifigures looks like a pretty good parts/army building set and at a great price. I hope they make some more.
http://cleveland.craigslist.org/tag/4912673105.html
Yeah I think I mentioned it actually :smile:. Surprising that it is gone already, wonder if it was an exclusive to Target or something. LEGO has done this before in the Mine theme with the dump truck. Gone fairly quickly, but the rest of the line stuck around for another 2 years.
It does stink for those who want to complete the collection of a theme though. IMO It is one thing if a theme line ends, but another if one set from the theme goes out so fast while the rest of the theme is available for sale.
I've given up trying to earn any income, and am happy if I make enough to buy stuff for the kids. Ungrateful brats, they are!
Thanks for the input.
Looks like there is enough teasers of resale value (HH, some of the SW) that someone might be optimistic. 900 sets for $75,000 = $83 on average. Spending about 15 seconds on the pictures, I don't see it coming close to adding up.
I mean....thats a lot of money. HAHA.
Ah the morning-after realization of reselling: "Holy crap, how the hell am I going to actually sell these things?"
;)
- A person had money to burn and invested in LEGOS. Nothing wrong with that, necessarily.
- Looks like they just bought random sets without much clue on what may rise in value the most. Like picking stocks by throwing darts at a dartboard.
- I didn't see any of the hot items. Modulars, trains, shuttle expedition, etc. Oops!
- If you have the money the buying is the easy, and fun, part.
- Then comes the storage. Looks like they have that covered. Nice shelving.
- Then comes the reselling. A lot of listings on eBay, and a lot of time spent on arriving at a price that buyers will purchase at, but make a decent return.
- Finally, the boxing and shipping. Probably the least fun of all of it. Buying boxes, packing, mailing, trips to UPS.
I think the person simply got in over their head. The honeymoon is over. It has clicked in their head - "Now that I have all of these LEGO sets what am I going to do with them? !!!"