Hi.

[yakacm]

Just got back into Lego after being mad on it as a kid in the 70's. I bought an old Lego RCX 2.0 set from eBay and it started from there. I joined the forum to ask a specific question that had been baffling me for months. The question is, why does Lego power function stuff sell on the secondary market, IE eBay for 2-3 times more than it can be bought brand new from the Lego store? Anyone any ideas, if you look in the sold items part of eBay the XL motor is selling for upto £14 whereas its only £7.99 new, same for the remotes and the extension leads, I saw them selling for £9.99 on eBay, and they are £3.99 from Lego. Very strange.

[Graham Gidman]

Welcome to Eurobricks!

[yakacm]

Thanks

[BrickJagger]

Welcome!

[RPABLOM]

in my country (chile) its very hard to get PF in Lego Stores, they simply dont bring them here. and sets that have it, like 42009 cost like 400 USD, and my salary as senior engineer ir arround 1300 USD/month, so its very expensive for anyone (minimun wage here is like 300 USD/month and 70% of people earn less than 700 USD/month )

and buying them on ebay or amazon is more expensive but at least u can buy them, so paying 30USD for a PF L motor is a big deal compared to the 400USD to get one in a set

[yakacm]

Ah I thought it might be something like that, just looking at the countries that have an on-line Lego store and they all seem to be in Europe apart from the US and Korea not even one in Japan, which surprises me, I'd not notice before I'd assumed they had a presence world wide. I guess it's not possible to order from the US store, they are even cheaper than the UK store? Fingers crossed that they open more stores, there seems to be a lot of toy collectors in Chile, as I collect Hot Wheels too and there are a lot of guys from Chile involved in HW, so maybe TLG will consider Chile next.