Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | BrickBuy  | | Posted: | Feb 1, 2023 14:07 | | Subject: | Re: Sealed SAMSONITE Castle...holy crow!!! | | Viewed: | 92 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, 1974 writes:
| | In Off Topic, rikitikitaviguy writes:
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Unbelievable...I wonder if there will be a bid retraction. Can't stand those
people. Otherwise, this is the most I've seen for this set. Crazy!
LM
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For that price I'm expecting this ..
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Or for a few extra $$, maybe this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1KNS6wR4k
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2023 08:17 | | Subject: | Re: Any Value to 252 glued Blacktron 1 sp001 | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, MikeysMom2 writes:
| | In Help, BrickBuy writes:
| | In Help, MikeysMom2 writes:
| | I now have a bag of 252 Blacktron sp001 minifigs which do not have their tanks
but do have the helmet, visor, correct head, torso, hands and legs. Unfortunately,
their heads and hips have been glued so that I can't take the head off nor
turn the head. I also cannot take the leg/hips off.
Tried just simple warm water soaking but that did not work.
I do not know what kind of glue. I am guessing super-glue.
I did break one while trying really hard to get the hip/legs off. So I can see
where it was glued and that the body has the right torso.
Any brilliant thoughts on what to do with them or how to tackle the mysterious
glue?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
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You may have a production version of these (see picture). I have a bag of these
(~30 or so). I was told there were attached to clothing, for a promo event, somewhere
in Europe (UK I think). These are fully glued, and have a clip on the back which
they used for attachment (so no air tanks). Maybe you have a bunch without the
white clip, or with clip removed.
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YES - out of that entire bag, I do have one that has that same clip (as your
photo) on the back. The other 250 don't. Maybe someone took the time to
take off the clips on the others? No visible marks however. What are you going
to do with yours?
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They most likely will just stay in a bag in one of the "don't know what
to do with this" drawer. This drawer is full of interesting stuff, misprints,
short-shots, sew-on patches, items still on sprues, test bricks, even have a
red and a black ghost in there somewhere.
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2023 12:16 | | Subject: | Re: Any Value to 252 glued Blacktron 1 sp001 | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, MikeysMom2 writes:
| | I now have a bag of 252 Blacktron sp001 minifigs which do not have their tanks
but do have the helmet, visor, correct head, torso, hands and legs. Unfortunately,
their heads and hips have been glued so that I can't take the head off nor
turn the head. I also cannot take the leg/hips off.
Tried just simple warm water soaking but that did not work.
I do not know what kind of glue. I am guessing super-glue.
I did break one while trying really hard to get the hip/legs off. So I can see
where it was glued and that the body has the right torso.
Any brilliant thoughts on what to do with them or how to tackle the mysterious
glue?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
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You may have a production version of these (see picture). I have a bag of these
(~30 or so). I was told there were attached to clothing, for a promo event, somewhere
in Europe (UK I think). These are fully glued, and have a clip on the back which
they used for attachment (so no air tanks). Maybe you have a bunch without the
white clip, or with clip removed.
Paul
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2023 15:21 | | Subject: | Re: Inside Tour sets | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Price Guide | |
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| In Price Guide, jagoop writes:
| | I am about to list a few LEGO Inside Tour sets.
My challenge is that these are so rare that no useful price guides are available.
Even other channels for sale are so limited as to offer no real guidelines.
What would you do?
How would you price 4000001-1?
(yes, they are genuine, misb, real sets)
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I have great memories from this tour, I went on the it a long time ago, forgot
if it was 2005 or 2006.
I got the red racecar, I still have it somewhere, I never opened it.
Sets like these are hard to price, as others said, start high, and come down
on price if it does not sell, but be patient if you can afford it.
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2023 18:58 | | Subject: | Re: Order to visit ratio | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, GillsBricks writes:
| | Just curious what your stores order to visit ratios are? I have one order for
about every 60 visits which is great for my smaller store  ! What are your numbers?
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1 in 26, over ~20 years on Bricklink. Likely 1 in 15-20 earlier on, now closer
to 1 in 35 or so.
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 16:58 | | Subject: | Re: Writing system pen, ID? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, ryanaitch writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, BrickBuy writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, ryanaitch writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, BrickBuy writes:
| | I have many copies (a few cases) of a writing system pen I am not able to find
in the catalog.
The case is the pencase01, listed as form the year 2000. Form pen to pen, the
beads are the same for each pen, but not all applied in the same order.
Any info would be appreciated.
Paul
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I haven't seen it before, but with that helicopter I'd assume it's
from LegoLand California or LegoLand Billund. Hopefully someone can find the
set number so you can add it to the catalog
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Thanks!! I checked ~10 more of these, and it turns out not all have the same
beads. Although there are a large number of beads that are the same for each
pen, some are different; Each pen seems to have 1 of the square bead with the
helicopter (and on other sides the Legoland logo, and other pictures). I bought
these in ~2002 from a wholesale website, I may have 3-4 cases, each with ~60
pens or so. I'll probably will have to start giving them away soon, pens
in general do not sell well. Maybe I'll have a birthday sale/promo soon....
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I would love more photos of the other variants — and maybe there's a label
on the cases that could give info?
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I've checked ~20 of them just now, seems like all have the bead with the
Legoland logo and helicopter. Also all have the oval football player bead in
red. Pretty much all are single-colored beads, oval, square, and technic gear
type, in a wide variety of colors.
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 14:01 | | Subject: | Re: Writing system pen, ID? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, ryanaitch writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, BrickBuy writes:
| | I have many copies (a few cases) of a writing system pen I am not able to find
in the catalog.
The case is the pencase01, listed as form the year 2000. Form pen to pen, the
beads are the same for each pen, but not all applied in the same order.
Any info would be appreciated.
Paul
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I haven't seen it before, but with that helicopter I'd assume it's
from LegoLand California or LegoLand Billund. Hopefully someone can find the
set number so you can add it to the catalog
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Thanks!! I checked ~10 more of these, and it turns out not all have the same
beads. Although there are a large number of beads that are the same for each
pen, some are different; Each pen seems to have 1 of the square bead with the
helicopter (and on other sides the Legoland logo, and other pictures). I bought
these in ~2002 from a wholesale website, I may have 3-4 cases, each with ~60
pens or so. I'll probably will have to start giving them away soon, pens
in general do not sell well. Maybe I'll have a birthday sale/promo soon....
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 12:53 | | Subject: | Writing system pen, ID? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| I have many copies (a few cases) of a writing system pen I am not able to find
in the catalog.
The case is the pencase01, listed as form the year 2000. Form pen to pen, the
beads are the same for each pen, but not all applied in the same order.
Any info would be appreciated.
Paul
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2023 18:19 | | Subject: | Re: Does anyone read their messages | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, BrickBuy writes:
| | In General, jaybinx73 writes:
| | I've sent questions to 3 different sellers and none have answered me ?
its about a minifigure that has a "crack". I'm requesting an image
from them. since they don't reply, I'm guessing they're hiding something
? guarantees I'm not buying from them. How hard is it to simply reply,
damn. end rant
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Note, some stores state in their policies that they do not provide pictures of
times in their store. Decades of selling has learned (at least me but others
seem to have similar experiences), that photographs provided still only rarely
provide a sale. It takes time and effort to provide photos, and it the item is
already discounted, or cheap, replying to 10's of photo request before resulting
in a sale is poor time management for a store owner.
For instance, I have in my terms I do not provide pictures, and state I will
simply not reply to such requests (although I mostly still do reply and alert
them to me policies). Did you read the policies of the store you requested photo's
from?
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Oops, posted too quick, forgot to spell-check for typos.
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| Author: | BrickBuy | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2023 18:15 | | Subject: | Re: Does anyone read their messages | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, jaybinx73 writes:
| | I've sent questions to 3 different sellers and none have answered me ?
its about a minifigure that has a "crack". I'm requesting an image
from them. since they don't reply, I'm guessing they're hiding something
? guarantees I'm not buying from them. How hard is it to simply reply,
damn. end rant
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Note, some stores state in their policies that they do not provide pictures of
times in their store. Decades of selling has learned (at least me but others
seem to have similar experiences), that photographs provided still only rarely
provide a sale. It takes time and effort to provide photos, and it the item is
already discounted, or cheap, replying to 10's of photo request before resulting
in a sale is poor time management for a store owner.
For instance, I have in my terms I do not provide pictures, and state I will
simply not reply to such requests (although I mostly still do reply and alert
them to me policies). Did you read the policies of the store you requested photo's
from?
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