 so let's see if i looked out here or if i've just wasted my money i don't know we shall see hey guys so today has been a pretty busy crazy day as i'm filming this i'm also working on reorganizing my room but anyways not only do i have that whole situation going on i also received in the mail today my most recent win from ebay hit that like button if you like shopping for puzzle lots on ebay and if so let me know what was the best deal that you snagged and i have been trolling through ebay for the longest now trying to find some really good deals on some puzzle lots for the most part and for some reason they haven't been that great at least to me in terms of budget but i was so glad that i just so happened to come across this particular lot when i did because i couldn't believe how cheap the starting bid was so i haven't actually opened it yet we're gonna open it together but let me just give you a little background as to what this is now the listing title was hometown collection harrow name seaside themed puzzle lot of four so we got four puzzles in here today and they are used and the seller noted that this was in as found condition and that it was from a puzzle collector estate sale and the seller also stated that he assumed that all the pieces were present now with that and judging from the pictures that he provided on the listing it looked like it was probably gonna be a good lot and what was fantastic about this one was the starting bid was at one dollar now towards the end of the listing i went into a little bit of a bidding war and i ended up winning the auction for six dollars and of course you know i was too excited about it because six dollars for four puzzles i mean that's a great buy shipping was eight dollars and sixty four cents so with my winning bid of six dollars plus shipping and tax my total for four used puzzles was fifteen dollars and fifty three cents but hey to me fifteen dollars you can't go wrong and these sets are from a brand that i don't currently own so that was even more exciting to me but anyways enough talk i gave you all the background let's open this up together and let's see how these actually look in terms of whether they look the same as they did in the pictures and whatnot so let's see if i looked out of here or if i've just wasted my money i don't know we shall see i really need to use scissors properly i'm gonna end the party myself they have an interesting smell to them i don't know what that smell is you know you realize when you buy used puzzle lots on ebay you you know you're kind of taking a risk because for one you don't know if you're getting all the pieces but i mean i know again that's the case with even brand new puzzle sets but you don't know exactly what condition they're gonna be in if it's gonna be you know what you actually see in the pictures or you know if it's gonna be a total shambles so far these have an interesting smell to them which is something that i didn't consider when you know placed a bit on this auction i mean these look fine so far but who knows i might open the box up and a bunch of moths will fly out i don't know i i hope not he packed it really well so that's good so air out a bit outside i don't know but anyways let's see what we have here so all these sets are from the brand mega and they are from the hometown collection series by the artist heronym and our first one is after the rain it is 1000 pieces and it is 18 by 26 and three quarter inches when it's completed so the box doesn't look too bad it's it looks pretty solid it's holding up well it's not bent all we have is just some you know tears here from when the owner opens it obviously because you know he wants to do his puzzles too so let's open this up real quick and hope that no moths fly out of this oh the inside box has some damage oh shutting a little bit okay so it looks like this got cut at some point when he opened the box and all the pieces inside are loose as you can see so you know i guess the only way we'll know if everything is in here is obviously when we start putting it together right so let's hope for the best it doesn't really strike me as a very strong puzzle probably wasn't very expensive when they were brand new but i don't know you guys let me know if you have any of these puzzle sets from mega and how much did you pay for them did i actually get a good deal on this i don't know oh i'm already dropping pieces so yeah so um yeah so far i'm getting a little bit nervous about this one because you know these pieces are kind of falling out of it pretty easily i just dropped another one now aside from the fact that the box is really not in excellent condition i'm probably gonna have to transfer these pieces into a plastic bag just to make sure you know they don't fly out every time i touch it but i mean look at this image here this is absolutely adorable i love this artwork this kind of looks like a school building to be honest and the kids are outside playing with their kites these these kids look like they're having a blast it obviously stopped raining and the rainbow is out it's a beautiful day now why not take advantage with your kites it's a very cute image so our next one here and hopefully it's in better condition is called morning in main and this one is also 1000 pieces and it is 18 by 26 and three quarter inches when it's completed now this is interesting because i just noticed something on this box this says rosa on the side our first one after the rain said mega on it so i'm not really sure if these were the same company at one point or the series kind of transferred to rosa i'm not sure but i mean again we have another beautiful image here and what do you know there i am with a random dog next to me just waiting for the milkman to deliver my milk i must say the view from my house is absolutely beautiful you got the lovely seaside you got the boats in the background you got a nice lighthouse as well it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day this looks so peaceful let's open this one up and see what the condition of this box is at least this one doesn't have a gaping hole on the side it does have a very weird smell though maybe it's just like an old musty smell i don't know i'm just hoping i don't wake up tomorrow and my room is infested with some random strange bugs or something i'm probably gonna leave a window open but you know that's really something to consider when you're shopping through listings on ebay you know you don't really know when you're gonna get you know you do get pictures of the image but you know unfortunately you can't smell the image it smells kind of sour maybe the milkman delivered me spoiled milk i don't know let's see what the third one is like oh this one's pretty we have another beautiful day here and this one is called seattle it is also 1000 pieces and once again 18 by 26 and three quarter inches when it's completed and this one does say that it's from mega as well so so far we got two megas and a rose art i don't know if they were once the same company but it doesn't really matter at this point what a fun image though obviously we have the town here this is probably like the main street or something this looks like a street i would be hanging out on well look there i am on my horse and carriage and everyone else here is just going about their day we got a lot going on here but let's open this one up and let's see what the condition of these pieces and this box is in general well we seem to have another casualty here oh look and obviously the puzzle collector did complete this puzzle and he didn't fully take it apart so we'll make sure that when we start this when we take those pieces apart because i don't like to feel like i'm cheating but with this one i'm also going to put them all in a plastic bag because uh this little box here is making me a little nervous in terms of its condition but so far what i'm seeing with these three boxes is that the pieces themselves are in pretty good condition from you know from what i can see offhand but i definitely feel like this one is going to be a fun one to do i'm really loving these images this series is really my kind of style and for our last one we have oh wow this one's really busy looking this one is called castle country and once again it is 1000 pieces and 18 by 26 and three-quarter inches when it's completed and this one also says that it is from rosa that's two for two now and check out the top of this box here it does have its original price tag this collector bought this set from kb toys and i actually remember shopping at kb toys back when i was a kid i grew up in new york city and i only ever remembered there being only one location of kb toys and it was like on broadway on the upper west side i don't even think kb toys exist anymore i mean does any toy store exist anymore but anyways the collector got this at three sets for ten dollars i mean i don't really think you see deals like this nowadays for puzzle sets i wish i could find deals like that for brand new sets now but once again we have another great image here the day is passing by and everybody is going about their business i'm pretty sure i'm somewhere in this farmer's market looking for bargains i love good deals on food too the one thing that's very confusing to me in this image is the fact that there seems to be a group of zebras just walking along the hill here towards the castle zebras are probably the last animals that i would expect to have in this kind of environment but i mean you know heronym is the artist he can do whatever he wants maybe he likes zebras i don't know let's open this up and let's see what this box is looking like all right thankfully this box is in good condition so i feel a little bit more confident that we probably have all of our pieces here and again you know these pieces i'm not spotting anything that looks questionable or bent or broken the images seem to be still intact on everything and really the boxes are not that bad and i mean that in regards to like the front of it the sides the only thing that's a bit iffy to me on on a couple of these is the bottom part because some of them are broken on the side and you know the pieces keep falling out so i'm crossing my fingers that for the most part well not for the most part i i hope all the pieces are there it would kind of suck to kind of be in the middle of completing a puzzle and realizing you're missing pieces that's yet to happen to me and i i hope it never does i'm i'm sure it will one day but oh my goodness that's gonna be so crushing for me so i mean overall i kind of feel like i got a pretty good deal here aside from the fact that i'm probably gonna need to air these outside for a bit to kind of get the stench out again i'm not too sure what the actual value is of this brand or how much they would typically go for if you were to buy them brand new but i mean i feel like for $15 you're getting each puzzle for less than five bucks and that was including shipping too so again i kind of feel like this is a pretty good deal that i got here i just kind of need to do something about the smell because it's kind of giving me a headache but other than that i think these sets are going to be really fun to put together because they're absolutely beautiful and here's to hoping that all the pieces are still there but judging from the condition of these boxes for the most part i feel like the puzzle collector really cared about his collection because really the the outside main top part of this box of all the boxes they they look really good nothing is like healing nothing's bent the boxes are all in good shape you know aside from a couple of the bottom ones but you know for the most part you know they're pretty good let me know down below if you have any of these sets or any of the sets from this collection or this series and if so let me know how much you paid for them did i actually get a good deal here with this puzzle lot on ebay or you know or did the seller pull a fast one on me oh my god the smell is on my hands so i suggest if you haven't already you should take a look on ebay and see what kind of options they have and sometimes you just might get lucky on a really good listing because i wasn't too familiar with this brand this collection i think i set myself a cap of like seven dollars so i was glad it wasn't more than that in the end but always make sure you set yourself a cap when you're doing an auction just to kind of keep you from going haywire on how much you're going to spend in the end and that goes especially in my opinion for used puzzle lots because again you might end up with a really good win or get something totally you didn't expect in the end i would say the worst thing about my win here is the smell but i'm sure with some time outside they can air out a bit and it'll be fine in the end so now that i have four more puzzle sets to add to my humongous collection that i'm staring at right now right in the middle of my room now i need to go about organizing my room and putting everything back where it belongs so anyways i'm gonna get back to organizing my disaster of a room and here's to hoping that i get it all done tonight but i hope you're all doing well and i will see you in the next one