Best price on Lego EV3?

[auralia]

This is the only thing my daughter wants for christmas and I have scowered the internet for 2 months looking for any kind of sale on it. The best i have found is to order from target with the red card discount. Every coupon for every website and store seems to exclude legos now and I can't find any military discount. Is the target red card 5% as good as it gets?

I know it's not Disney, but I have utilized my deal seeking skills endlessly and come up empty handed.... and we do have a secret trip planned for April this year so a dollar saved is a dollar to spend in April!

Thanks for any insight!

 

[Anthony1971]

You can buy direct from the Lego store and get a good deal in a round about way.
Join the VIP club which will earn you rewards I believe what you are looking at is over 200 that should give you 10 back to spend at the Lego store they sometimes have double VIP rewards which may give you more. I believe right now they are giving away a present Lego set with a 99.00 purchase which you can sell on EBay for in the 20-30 range minus fees and shipping.
If you have a Lego store near you..... if they have left overs from the previous giveaways they will throw them in as well.. up to November 21 they were giving away a small Harry potter set which is selling for 40-50 on EBay as above minus fees and shipping... I bought a Lego they had on special last Saturday at my local Lego store that was on special for 30% off it was on sale for 105 (regular 150) used my VIP rewards which we got double on for two other gift sets -- we had 10.00 so that brought it down to 95 the had the Harry Potter set (my son really wanted this), VIP set and Present all free... would I sell them no but if I did I would end up paying little for the set I bought...
And this is the reason you see so many people selling newer sets on EBay at lower than full price or full price...

 

[1GoldenSun]

Would you consider getting the Lepin version instead? They're usually a fraction of the price of the Lego brand and you can't tell the difference. Well, probably an expert could (plus the blocks don't say "lego").

I ordered my son the largest version of the Lepin brand Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle from Alibaba and after a good experience with that, I got him the Millennium Falcon for Christmas. It looks exactly the same with the same number of pieces, and it was $188 on Alibaba compared to $800 for the Lego version. I found Alibaba very easy to do business with.

At first I was a little reluctant to buy a knock-off brand, both due to concern about the quality and feeling bad about Lepin "ripping off" Lego's intellectual property. But the quality is excellent, and I read an article about Lego and their policies to keep prices up that made me not feel bad about buying from the competitor. Also, it turns out that Lego did not invent the "lego," they stole the idea from another toy manufacturer.

So anyway, Lepin is great. The only downside is you don't get pretty box with the picture of the creation on it. I do find that looking at the box before and as you build is a big part of the anticipatory fun, but for a difference of hundreds of dollars I just printed a picture for my son. he didn't seem to miss the box at all.

 

[auralia]

Would you consider getting the Lepin version instead? They're usually a fraction of the price of the Lego brand and you can't tell the difference. Well, probably an expert could (plus the blocks don't say "lego").

I ordered my son the largest version of the Lepin brand Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle from Alibaba and after a good experience with that, I got him the Millennium Falcon for Christmas. It looks exactly the same with the same number of pieces, and it was $188 on Alibaba compared to $800 for the Lego version. I found Alibaba very easy to do business with.

At first I was a little reluctant to buy a knock-off brand, both due to concern about the quality and feeling bad about Lepin "ripping off" Lego's intellectual property. But the quality is excellent, and I read an article about Lego and their policies to keep prices up that made me not feel bad about buying from the competitor. Also, it turns out that Lego did not invent the "lego," they stole the idea from another toy manufacturer.

So anyway, Lepin is great. The only downside is you don't get pretty box with the picture of the creation on it. I do find that looking at the box before and as you build is a big part of the anticipatory fun, but for a difference of hundreds of dollars I just printed a picture for my son. he didn't seem to miss the box at all.

I have looked at that brand before, but I don’t think it would work for this. This is their robot programming set like they use in colleges and robotics camps. It has a special computer brick for programming the robots you design. DD is gifted in the top 2% of the state and the top of her class at a magnet school of excellence..... she wants to be an imagineer when she grows up working in robotics.... a mom can dream lol!

 

[cassiopia419]

Try your local Craigslist if you haven't yet. We bought DS an EV3 on there last year for $250 that was basically brand new and only a few of the parts bags had even been opened. I've seen other ones in our local area on there too (now that I'm trying to sell ours since he didn't really get into it). You might get lucky and find one that is in good enough condition to give as a gift.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

No suggestions on price, but I googled that because I'd never heard of it. Now I want one.

Guess I'll have to wait until my youngest gets a little older.

 

[ateam79828592]

I just saw this deal come up.

https://slickdeals.net/f/12382744-6...122701429&src=da_si_v2_16879333#post122701429

 

[auralia]

I just saw this deal come up.

https://slickdeals.net/f/12382744-601-piece-lego-mindstorms-programmable-ev3-customizable-robot-set-297-46-free-shipping-via-newegg?sdxt01=2018-11-30+15:14:36&sdxt07=0&utm_source=dealalerts&utm_medium=em-i&utm_term=188&utm_content=1126051&utm_campaign=tu4&p=122701429&src=da_si_v2_16879333#post122701429

Thanks so much, ordering this one, some deal is better than none and Christmas is coming fast!