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1. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

   

   Comment by rocao · January 2014 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   @Basta: Regarding your criticism that the analogy is poor because the candy is being given away whereas 41999 is sold by TLG for profit: In both instances, (1) there is a distributor and they've mandated that their product be distributed a certain way, and (2) the consumer knows of this mandate. Why is the distributor's…

2. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

   

   Comment by Basta · January 2014 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   Don't want to really get into the debate as most things have already been said, but I just wanted to say that I don't like the Halloween analogy as one (#41999) is been sold, and sold at a price where money would be made. The other (Candy) is been given away. So to me these are a bad examples to make any kind of comparison…

3. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

   

   Comment by dougts · January 2014 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   True, but really only for limited sets like the 41999. Concert tickets are only good for 1 specific date, and are limited to the number of seats in the venue. LEGO sets can be sold for months or years on end, and nothing stops LEGO from producing enough of any set to meet the demand in the market.

4. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

   

   Comment by rocao · January 2014 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   @chesirecat is probably crafting a response as I type this, but your estimate of 1-2% of 41999 stock going to resellers is WAY off. 2% would be 400. 2500 sales are documented in historical data for eBay and Bricklink so far. That doesn't include Amazon, Craigslist, etc. And people are obviously still sitting on inventory.

5. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

   

   Comment by cheshirecat · August 2013 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   1. No it's not hypothetical, some of us, no many of us left 41999s on the shelves, stuck to buying limits etc, others have said that they were incapable of that. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions people were very aware at the start that 41999 would be immensely popular and easy money. Anyone who didnt take…

6. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

   

   Comment by BoiseState · August 2013 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   I bought 1 41999, and I will sell it later down the road. I could have bought 2, and in hindsight I should have bought 2 but no biggie. I have a total of 2 sets to sell later, the aforementioned and Joker's Funhouse. I'm trying to possibly pick up a Death Star and Arkhum Asylum when I sell the two this Xmas. If that makes…

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   Comment by cheshirecat · January 2014 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   @monkeyhanger You make a lot of assumptions about LBR, their motivations and profitability. If you think they 'made a canny profit on all of those' 41999s then I'd probably have to disagree and hate to think how much profit they make on all those 9398s. More pieces, more standard pieces, 1 less motor, no lights, bigger…

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   Comment by pillpod · August 2013 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   I think we can all agree that 41999 is an extreme case, but it's also what brought up this topic. So we can't just toss it out the window and chalk it up to being the exception. I think parting out sets is reselling, no doubt. But it does provide a different service. It opens a new market that didn't exist before. It may…

9. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

   

   Comment by dougts · January 2014 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   1) they also allow the practice of buying more than the limit 2) we have no idea what the majority of the community thinks about skirting the limits, nor about package groping 3) same for pretty much every LEGO product, sans the 41999 totally, but I would also like to see the community move away from attempts to apply…

10. Re: The Community Perspective on Reselling

    

    Comment by vitreolum · August 2013 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

    I'm pretty sure Lego enjoys the secondary market for EOL sets as it is, they actually take pride in the fact that their product sells for an xxxx amount, especially since it doesn't affect their sales for current products they have for sale. Same goes for limited sets, they are not made for profit. It doesn't matter to…

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