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Interpretation: Employee: I am surprised you are not buying The Simpsons House. Me: Why Employee: We have a ton in the back and per my Manager who ever sells the most this month wins a Chima Polybag.

Stephen, I don't hate you. I appreciate your opinion. Only if you could express it in a more civil way more often. That "masters degree in psychology" you were broadcasting the other day - is it real? was it a joke aka sarcasm aka your "style"? who knows? - should not only enable you to (quote) "[throw around] any big smart words" if you wanted to (which you of course do not), but they should also make you capable of anticipating that some of your comments put members of this forum in discomfort for no reason. Other comments meanwhile appear like you were talking to a dog or something, not to a human being. I mean, reactions consisting of one or two words that are not far from "Down!", "Give!" or "Sit!", that's just not a great way of communicating. The more I think about it that PsyM must indeed have been a hoax. Or it is some kind of weird study exploring "The effects of permanent grumpiness on members of an internet community". However, I don't think you are a POS - and honestly I don't quite get why I should send you a message to tell you about it if I did. I just think you are a POG (Piece Of Grumpiness), that's it. You know what: Had you answered with what you wrote above right here the first time (instead of your original answer, being "SMDH") I would have had close to no problem at all. Mainly because I would have known what you mean right away. Above you said "if you and some other members would make it a little less obvious when begging for EOL info that would be great." My question is: why? Everyone here is keen on EOL info and everyone knows it - in fact even the site's title reads "Lego price and investing GUIDE". Are you seriously po'ed of people taking that literally seeking plain GUIDANCE? Why should one sugarcoat asking for EOL info? What is your problem with people "begging" (as you expressed it) without putting lipstick on their questions? Is it because they, ok, say "we", don't "give anything back"? Being a regular user of this site clicking through all the info posted here fits the definition of giving something back quite well, don't you think? So, I don't really get what you mean - if it is a religious thing or so then please enlighten me. To me your argument of "It's OK to make money, but it's not OK to make easy money" sounds a bit contradictory or should I say pointless? Maybe it's even sarcastic. I don't know, you are the expert.

I bought an Arctic Base Camp today... Out the door was $68.11 thanks to the 20% off, $10 of $40, and my $20 GC from Team Canada's kick ass performance in the trivia contest.

If you can get Super Heroes sets for 35-50% off which is not very hard to do over the course of the year they make great reasonably priced lots especially if you just put them at retail. The $10 savings on the little sets and $15-20 savings on the medium sized sets add up when you make a nice 2-4 set lot. So even if they don't go up a ton if you do it right you can make a nice profit on them and they are always popular.

Not only might Stephen not just have been referring to Ed's comments in the EEE thread - but who knows, since there is so much info to be interpreted into in his response consisting of an amazing four letters (wow!) - he also seems to have no hard time limiting his constant misanthropic undertone a bit. What is so hard in maintaining a minimum of respect even to people with questions he subjectively regards as stupid? I know he likes to refer to "sarcasm" in those cases. That's one way to see it and it wonderfully justifies rude behaviour all the time, how very comfortable. If he would just call it loudmouthed grumpiness I would have less of a problem with his way. In a nutshell: "Normal" members would long have been banned for manners like his, and of course I do not only mean this one comment to me but many of his comments to many users.

Crap! Wrong thread, I thought this would lead me to a good resource for all the types of grey bricks.

Payback for all those wonderful clearance deals you guys have been finding... heh. We also take team sports WAY too seriously when the name Team Canada is attached. Seriously though, the picture didn't seem that big when I snagged it from google.

Honestly, the information you seek is within these forums and the retailer's websites. Every single discussion on this site may have a valuable piece of info. Some people really do speak with LEGO workers that know what they are talking about. Some have no clue. It is like a puzzle. Some pieces fit. Some don't. I must be very careful as to what I say. There are enough BrickPicker members now that if I hint at a set, it can be cleaned out in days, thus fulfilling my own prophecy, at least temporarily. But if that set is not done, then I can look like an idiot.

Only response I got to validate my typo.

Fair enough.....I deal with scumbags on a daily basis and I do admit that at times my sarcasm and disdain for the human race that stems from my job probably shows here on the boards. Apologies if you were offended by shaking my head comment but it just grows old when members pander for info that usually be gathered by simply reading through the threads. Trust me I'm not the only one who feels this way but it appears that I'm the only one who wants to say it. Anyways I'm who I am and members just have to accept it and move on. Oh and unfortunately my undergraduate and graduate degrees are very real. I know this because of the 70,000 of student loans I'm stuck paying off and that's after over half has been forgiven because of the line of work I chose. Trust me I hear how over qualified I am for my job everyday considering only a GED is needed to pursue a career law enforcement. Also I wasn't broadcasting anything the other day, a member asked me to qualify one of my remarks and I stated my education as a reference, I'm hardly the one who boasts about my education since I'm not the only one here with a graduate degree.

I have to like any reference to "The Jerk". Most of my life decisions are based on this movie.

...I know how to make money, and people keep bothering me! What's up wid tat?

Fallingwater has just gone back to Call to Check at Lego. Maybe it will stay dead this time.

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Can you guys set up a donation link where we can contribute to the costs of Brickpicker? You might be surprised at how many people would donate. This could be a good test to see if making any parts of the site into a paid service would be possible.

So this has been changed to a priority setup. The more watched sets get the higher priority and it has increased the quickness in which those Priority #1 sets get checked. A few not so great things I have noticed so far since this has been live. Just like I thought, the Non-USA user base doesn't really seem to care to use the feature at all. I think the ratio is like 100:1 of USA to Non USA for alerts. I know the site is still heavily USA favored here, but I thought there might be a little more interest. Maybe I need to make those areas more known and of course give it more time, again. I just thought more would at least view those pages. Over 4,000 individual SMS alerts (not including email) have gone out for the Palace Cinema since Feb 1. From my records, only 2 have been purchased. So this starts making me come up with other ideas on when should a set start getting SMS alerts and base it on how scarce/hot/needed the item is to control costs. This is just one set, there are others that are not that far behind. Do we really need SMS alerts? How many of you just see them come in an just ignore them? Should SMS alerts be a pay for feature to make sure you actually use them? Just ideas/just questions.... We will continue to tweak and work on ways to make sure members know it exists.

What did I just say about the Dead Five...I mean Red Live?

I went on my monthly pilgrimage to Legoland Discovery Centre yesterday and picked up an X5 and ToO. Whilst there i had a lengthy chat with one of the employees. Whilst paying we had the following conversation. Employee: I am surprised you are not buying The Simpsons House. Me: Why Employee: It is a special simpsons anniversary edition. This is on its way out. When the new set ( i assume this is the kwik e mart) comes out this is gone. I had to persuade my wife to let me buy one before we run out of stock. I am guessing this is even less reliable than info from a lego store employee as the Discovery Centre is not an actual lego store, but i thought i would share.

come on man.... He is a ghost.... He disappears from time to time.

I fixed that for you, since I choose not to recognize the validity of your claim.

4 Trains have received confirmed ready for pickup emails. Stoked. Wow. Thanks about this new mobile access and buying local discounted pickup for store pickup. Someone said earlier this is a game changer. It is! Word. Go Team BP Go!

sorry, yeah Rocket Racoon

http://www.myljm.com/blog/news.php?id=101 Parcel Select 8% Parcel Select Lightweight 9.8% First Class Package 5.1% Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express Unchanged Global Express Guaranteed 7.2% Priority Mail Express International 6.7% Priority Mail International 5.5% First Class Package International Service 7.2%

I've built the Ghost and the Phantom. They go great together. I'm making sure to stock up on even numbers of both.

Here's another suggestion - don't base your investment strategy on when something is going EOL, and you won't care when it's gone.

My LEGO Shop at Home PS just arrived. Minty fresh 03 R5 seals. I'm just starting my stash of these so I'm ok if it doesn't retire right away Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

Not enough?

Well that was quick. it already switched to "Sold Out" on LEGO Shop at Home.

Lego removes sets from the list w/o notice. Every country seems to be different with what is listed.

Fellow Brickpickers, Gavin's family is organizing a "2nd Annual Brick Build" event. If you would like to continue the tradition of giving LEGO to support a good cause, here is some information I received from his Dad: We are looking for toys and prizes to place in our Chinese raffle for the kids, these do not need to be building bricks, can be any type of item. The main activities we have planned right now are a station where kids can build their own car and race them against other kids (we will have a race track, and I am trying to decide if I want to use a gravity track, where the kids just let go of the cars, or a pull back motor track), either way we will need loose bricks and lots of wheels. We will have a speed build area where about 4-6 kids will race against each other building the same set (I was thinking of those small bagged sets or a very small box set, need all to be the same set, relatively quick to build). If I can gather enough 1x1 and somehow get my hands on a lot of 16x16 base plates, I wanted to try and have a station where kids can create a mosaic tile, we will then keep those tiles and create pieces of artwork that we will donate to the Children's Hospitals. The tiles could perhaps serve as a border/frame to a Lego mosaic gold ribbon?. I also wanted to display some larger built sets, like the Death Star, Sea Cow, Simpsons House, etc.. I would love to get a in contact with someone like a master builder to display some of their work, I think that would be really cool. I plan to speak with him today to get more specifics on what they still need. I know they have already received some very generous donations of new and used LEGO but I'm sure they need much more to really make this event fantastic. If you are interested in donating new or used pieces, base plates, or prizes (new sets), please follow this thread and post what you are can donate that way we can keep track of what is being sent. Monetary donations could also help to pool money together for something big. Please PM me so I can send you the address to ship your donation. Last year was an amazing outpouring of support from across the Brickpicker community. We received donations from across the globe and the family was very grateful for that. They are very excited about the opportunity to do this again for children at the local hospitals. The family put together a Facebook page to help gather support: https://www.facebook.com/brickbuildevent?fref=nf. Additional information about the event can be found here: http://www.gavinwarriorfoundation.org/brick-build.html Thank you for supporting this cause!

Quite a few more modulars this week. 2x PS and 1x PC and PR off Amazon, 2x PS and PC from LEGO Shop at Home. 4x 4204 (The Mine) and 4203 (Excavator) from TRU w/stacked discounts. 5x Birds (3x TRU; 2x Amazon). So, a question for the old-timers? My goal amount on Birds is high (I'd like at least 50 of these sets, would prefer to have 100 stocked away). I'm doing the slow-and-steady, with my preferred route via TRU (especially, in-store on Thursdays w/10%). Next would be Amazon, 2x at a time so not to violate limits. I'm really, really reluctant to order any more off LEGO Shop at Home, since I've already gotten 5 from them. Any other suggestions for socking away a large inventory of the same set? I had a bit of a lengthy discussion with a Lego CS rep from LEGO Shop at Home. I had a EEE with a big hole that sent to me. I called up for a replacement, and asked about limits. Came right-out and said I didn't want to risk a ban. She asked why I wanted so many of the same set, I said I liked the brick color for my various MOCs. Anyway, the general view she said was to stay under the limits for multiple sets. For example, I had already ordered 3 PC off LEGO Shop at Home. I asked, how many more can I order without any issues, and she said up to a total of 5. Who knows what this means, it's just FYI, but interesting, none-the-less.

Drop SMS completely. Keep only email. Most cell providers have email to sms forwarders. If service is useful and provider does not have email to sms, people can switch carriers

Yes, we are nuts, we have always known that. We have no idea how this will work or what it will turn into. In business, you take changes and see what happens. The goal is to make it work the best it can and hope that it covers the costs. So far not so much

SMS alerts are Da Bomb for me. Everyone loves free (coming from a person that supports a premium membership fee) but I'd be happy to pay for the alert feature...

Maybe Ed can post future riddles that involve using the forum search tool. Jeff enhanced it last year. It works great.

Just visit the death star thread instead. Its a great resource and will likely outlive this one

No point in breaking even.....build it or stash it.

Geez, that's not rubbing it in anyone's face LOL

Found another 2 in a local toy store for around US$250, sometimes its good lo live in a pissant town.

18 RI 20 Friends Smoothie Carts 20 RR (these are drying up fast and getting hard to find again)

I think this is Amazon just price matching TRU.ca 20% off sale going on right now. Toysrus has a 1 up on them with the extra $10 off coupon: CineplexHoliday

I have some SSD's, FB's, GE's, R2's, R5's, etc. (or you can insert whatever for your library) I have TH's. I find it interesting that personally I find the TH the least interesting of all of these sets and don't really care to have or build one. Financially? If I could only keep inventory of one thing and had to sell the rest today it would be keep the TH's. Lesson learned about how once I hit my goal quantity I kept flipping any extra TH's I got for a few quick bucks. Sure it helped out and I am happy I am at my goal quantity but if I would have only kept the extras. What set you desire personally and what set makes the most money for you can be two very different things.

Aside note: When a hedgehog is sick or wounded, he comes near to your house so you can help him, so do not hesitate to do it. It happened twice to me ! (I've found two of these little guys just in front of my entrance door !) When a hedgehog is sick, put him in a warmer place (your garage for example) in a card box with some dry stuff (straw, newspaper...) and safely from other animals (cats and dogs) so he can rest. You can feed him with some water and some cat/dog dry food but most of the time he will not be hungry. Do NOT give him some milk, nor bread, it could kill him (his stomach can't handle this food). And be careful about the Lyme disease: catch him with a newspaper to avoid to be hurt by his spikes. In my country the hedgehog is a protected species.

this guy is up to the challenge!

Its not like I am going to delete them, I will just disable the tracking of them (i can active them at anytime quickly if needed). For every set that we remove, its a boat load of cycles that go back to the other sets to get even faster alerts on those.

Truly a great build. The dragon is like no other. Smug really towers over the whole set perfectly. I know you won't get as much joy out of watching the build as you would actually building the set, but hopefully it will provide of glimpse. Enjoy.

walmart isnt so bad .. try walking into a kmart

90's Alternative was my decade and while I listen to music further back I never really moved beyond it. I suppose someday they will be my 'oldies'. Set me up with: Pearl Jam Smashing Pumpkins Alice in Chains Soundgarden Nirvana Foo Fighters Great subject choice OP! We can't talk Lego all day long. Well, I suppose most of us probably could.