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Today I went to my parents house and got all of my old Legos. I had the foresight to organize very well before I stopped collecting. These sets are all from the late 80s and early 90s. Most of them are complete with instructions and boxes. There are also a bunch of old Lego Magazines in an envelope. I will be doing inventory, and some building as time permits. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

I am both on and off topic in adding a few thoughts for those people that are upset. Guess what? I got 30 RI's and 16 Exo's. Guess what else? I am not a big time reseller. It is a hobby. I have a lot of fun with it. Most times I don't get tons of deals. What do I do with my Lego finds and profits if I am lucky enough to get in on a wave? I use it to collect for myself, to flip, to long term invest & appreciate. Why? To help make money in order to be able to feed my families Lego habits, other toys and not accumulate debt in the process. For those people who think I acquired too much? Guess what? I offered one member on here that I'll sell them a RI at cost + shipping and in fact that I'd probably take a raw loss on it by a few $ to even help them out. It was for their daughter as a present. Another brick picker is setting me up most likely with the 3 SDCC Lego mini sets from this year at a very fair price. Guess what I did? Offer him two RI's at my cost + shipping and that I'd take a few $ raw loss on it to help him out. I also just got hit with finding out tomorrow I either have a replacement engine in my relatively new car under warranty or I get an $8,000 bill. I do not have $8,000 out of the blue to pay for that and it would take a lot more than 30 RI's to cover that after sales, expenses & taxes. Yes we want to make money. That is being American. Yes we take care of our own. I've already planned to lose real $ on 3 of the 30 RI's that I have gotten. I care about people. I do not know what defines a large reseller or someone who thinks 30 RI's of 16 Exo's is a lot. I have worked very hard constantly monitoring brick picker and many other sites and staying up in the middle of the night to order them. Yes it is hard work. But yes I think you'll find many people here have a heart. I care. Most do. Be kind too. Rewind. Relax.

While I do respect people's opinions, I would have personally kept this one to myself. If one suffers from degrees of mental illness like he did, there is no way you can comprehend what he did. You were not him and have no idea what he went through in his life dealing with it. I am not sticking up for or agreeing with his actions, but I am not going to judge him or anyone else. P.S. I will probably be locking this thread soon since I already have the gut feeling it will go downhill very soon.

That's like telling superman who Clark kent is

Since nobody else seems to want to... (we all know people are getting the email notifications). Supraboy888 is an ex-user from the Vancouver area who boasted time and again about all the good deals he was getting (mostly illegally by failing to declare what he was bringing back at the Can-US border). He then spoke grandiose tales of selling his goods for small fortunes on Kijiji and other local selling sites/markets. When he sold a $20 set for $40 it was $25 of pure profit. (math mistake intentional) But his most famous quote (paraphrased of course) was that he could sell his goods out of his trunk in the TRU parking lot anytime anyplace for more than MSRP like "hotcakes". He has been banned and I can't remember what thread famous brag that was in. I don't remember exactly why he was banned other than he was just a real d*** in the forums. He stills sells locally on Kijiji and from what I understand he sells for quite small margins. I can't speak if you're truly selling them for the markup you've said (only you know the truth) but people are just reminiscing at your expense about a fool of a member. I think the advice here is .. be humble, don't act like a Supraboy888 and we'll all just get along. PS Vancouver does seem like a very good resellers market. There is definitely the population to support some large scale reselling so I'm not doubting you've scored some good deals. Sounds like you're piggybacking your costs onto some business expenses (i.e. gas $) but it never goes over well when people claim it costs them nothing to score such good deals... At a minimum takes "time" which is something not every member has in boat loads, or trunks full.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, my friend...

Is it that trunk sale that runs at certain TRUs near the Canada/US border?

I'm just gonna relax and watch you guys duke it out. My hotcakes are almost done and I don't want a rat to eat them.

I try to be somewhat tactful when I discuss how many sets I buy. It is possible that some members could be less boastful, but the site is about investing and "reselling" so I guess it has its place. The Exo Suit has stirred up some pent up anger and jealousy from certain traditional LEGO fans and collectors. They direct their anger towards our site and members and many of these elitist hypocrites like to preach about resellers as being the antichrists of the LEGO world. Most of us here are bigger fans of LEGO sets than many who condemn us. It used to really bother me, but after watching the site grow over the past three years, I realize that most LEGO fans have an interest in how valuable their LEGO collection is, regardless if they are resellers or not. People care about their value and how to save a buck or two and that is who makes up our membership, not the vocal minority of heavy duty resellers that sometimes dominate the forums. The Exo Suit will be back in stock at some point and things will quiet down again...until the next hot set comes along, then all Hell will break loose once again. Hopefully more people will learn from this experience and realize it takes some effort at times to acquire a popular item and to prepare a gameplay to do so. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

I got everything in except the front center red wedge and the jet for the back. I couldn't wait anymore so I decided to put it together anyway. Sorry for the less than optimal lighting. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

OK got it down. Thanks for patience. Box, Open Box, Stack of 21 super, stack of 9 damaged, and 2 photos of the worst of the 9, only 2 were like this, the others much better. It will nose-dive a little I imagine, want to move them out but not crazy. Will sell the 9 damaged at a discount, have 3 for fellow BP'ers that asked and will sell 10-12 of the remaining 18 great shape ones and then hold the rest.

Tears are welling up in my eyes. Door to door, border to border, post to post, parking lot to parking lot, frying pan to drowned in butter & syrup, resellers cannot be stopped!

Any smart reseller, like ex-member Supraboy, would have carried in 10 Exo-Suits to show them what's up.

In all it's glory. You can see where the gap is missing in the back of the red wedges. Can be solved with a red 2x1 if you don't want exact. Swapped out Robin's arms to light flesh ones with green gloves to better match the 60's outfit. There are no light flesh legs though. Get on that Juniors set people, cause it's gonna be gone before you know it! Thank you again TOK for putting all of this together~!

If you mean take up tons of space, give you a hernia as you carry it into the post office, and leave you lying awake at night after it ships praying that the buyer doesn't open an "item not received" claim against you...don't worry, it will!

I always sort by type using the bricklink categories as a guide. It's very easy to find a black 2x2 corner plate in a sea of similar type/size plates. It's hard to find the same piece in a sea of black.

Some time ago I would have said, start by sorting by color. Now I think it might be better to start sorting by type of brick. It is later easier to find a red brick in a pile of some-color bricks, than finding that red brick in a pile of other red stuff.

KEEP CALM AND BUILD LEGO

It's a french tradition.

Picked this up yesterday locally. Didn't have instructions, but had the box (strange) and is missing a few pieces. They were asking $65, but took $50 right away when I offered. Would have liked to have gotten it for a little cheaper, but seems like a decent buy.

We need a thread to reminisce in at least. I really miss those threads where a certain member would buy every piece of clearance he could then the next day post regretful pictures of his way too full house and wonder what happened. Or the boastful tales of returning mountains of product to the LEGO just to "stick it to the man" because ponytail wouldn't help him out. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Brickpicker mobile app

Thanks for the explanation. That saves a lot of inquiries. Your answer will go over like 5 birds in the hand, hotcakes and syrup and a trunk full of Lego sales.

It's a shame members like Supraboy and TheHobbyRat, etc are no longer around. I am not sure if any one can replace them

TRU parking lot, B-Wing pilots are wearing Exo-Suits, it's craaaaazy!

Nice. Used Hogwarts sets are one of the easiest sellers on Ebay too. You can get 250$ easy for a complete one.

Here is another time lapse build for your viewing pleasure.....

maybe he meant continuous, never ending cough

Funny you mention that because I came across something where a guy goes around to various fast food chains to see if they can make the food look like what is shown on the menu or commercials. Plenty of the comments on YouTube left below it are humorous too. There is a point where we can't really expect something to look precisely as good as it does in the ad but you should end up with something that actually does resemble in some way what you paid for.

I got one research institute in from LEGO Shop at Home! Take that people!

Fianlly finished last weekend. Boy, time sure gets away from you in the summertime. Final bag#7's finish the model.

Please keep the posts about the Exo Suit set. ..and no, you are not allowed to post about jacking Exo sets even from the Balt area.

GhostDad: How dare you make it impossible for investors to predict your next move! LEGO rep: Here's your ban

If the PS retires before the GE, I will personally call Lego and complain about how they are making it impossible for investors to predict their next move!

The newest Dodge Viper SRT. Make it a huge $500 Technic set with power functions and remote. The UCS of Technic.

Who said anything about parting them out? Build them and display them! (or play with them) Isn't that what we are all here for? The joy of "building" Lego?

Nah, don't go anywhere. I'm a little jealous you sold them for $100, but reality is good for you. It's just the way it goes and I don't begrudge you for it at all. I'm in a much smaller market (700k vs 2.6 million) so it's harder to unload sets for a good price locally. There aren't as meaning people buying them from the stores or resellers in my city. I know for a fact my local TRU had 8 exos sitting on the shelves yesterday (saw them with mine own eyes) but I only picked up one. I just can't justify the risk at the moment.

There will be people that try hard

Hopefully we'll get a Krampus minifigure.

I have had my most expensive week in my Lego collecting history and brought the following 1x 10221 SSD (finally after months of debating) 2x 21110 Research Institute 1x 21020 Trevi Fountain 1x 79010 The Hobbit Goblin King Battle 1x 79101 Lone Ranger Colby City Showdown 3x 10229 Winter Village Cottage (Found on shelf in UK store, could not believe my luck) 1x 9471 Uruk-Hai Army (Found last one on shelf in HMV of all places for

<cough> 41999 <cough> :)

Does anyone really know? I am just gonna sit tight for a little while longer.

This thread and the outrage kind of makes me smile because honestly all I am hearing is demand demand demand and well that's the business we are all in. Honestly outrage should be reserved for the seller who is only getting 50 for his set when he could potentially get 70. Everyone was always mad at bill gates and constantly creating demand, but at the end of the day he made money doing something he loved. I think everyone here loves Legos whether it's building them or finding that rare set otherwise we would all be trading boring pieces of paper we never look at or go on treasure hunts for. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Perhaps the last SSD at Legoland California. With my discount. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

This is why i am in favor for a paid subscription to the site. Much of the talk on here is not investment oriented. Let that be free and the real investment focused content onlt accessible for the annual fee. It will manage that potential negative reputation and still attract new.members for growth. Oh amd the exo suit is awesome. Should do quite well, who cares if they produce one more run.

1x 71006 Simpson Lege house for 159.20

It looks more like the F-Zero Blue Falcon to me.

Can everyone start also including what their item sold for. I speak for many when I say that I really don't care what you sold as much as how much it sold for. Thanks!

The competition is getting fierce for these non-exclusive sets...LOL