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Well here is a Happy Birthday salute to Mr Ed Mack. Today is his birthday and yes I think he will expect all of you to send him something. If you are reading this thread you are now responsible for sending him one LEGO set from your collection. He does not have enough and needs more. It's what keeps him alive. Do the right thing and help keep Ed going!!! He has so much more to share with all of you HAPPY BIRTHDAY ED MACK!!!!

emazers?!?! You changed your username and learned how to use a period. All in one day. Impressive.

Happy Birthday Ed!!! Thank you for all you do. Now go wait by the mailbox for your Chima Fire Bike

Don't get caught off guard by 10188 Death Star disappearing. I don't think it really matters when it goes. I know it's a running joke, but if you want a few, don't lose sight of it. I thought it might be important to bring up, since Double VIP is beginning this weekend. I really don't care how long it's been out there, how many are stockpiled, etc. etc. This thing will remain a winner even when it finally drifts off into the sunset.

The irony in this comment is impressive......

Just wanted to announce some updates and enhancements to Brick Classifieds. Been working hard at fixing and enhancing a ton of SEO issues on the site to help make Google and other crawlers like us more. Cleared up a ton of duplicate issues and other things Optimized a bunch of queries to help page speed on product pages and others Finally added a "View My Online Shop" link to take you directly to Front End part of your shop. As you are adding a new listing and move about the tabs, it will automatically save your progress. There is a new tab in the product menu to view "Drafts". Now you don't have to try to upload everything and fill everything out all at one time in order to save what you are doing. Finally added a good image editor suite for all your uploaded images. I think you can pretty much do anything with these. Have fun with it. Make your listings look "awesome" I also made the Shipping Rates Calculator live. Please feel free to send me PMs with feedback on how this works for you.

Happy Birthday Ed! Heres a good knockoff

My wife and I have two young kids and considered getting a cleaning service but just the thought of having a stranger in my house touching my stuff weirds me out.

Thanks everyone. I would really appreciate some Chinese knockoff sets and minfigures.

Breaking news.... All the tru employees who pack things have quit and taken jobs at target. One mid size lego set..... In this box.

Sold a Droid Escape new sealed for $49.95. Go figure. Maybe I should raise the price...

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Hello everyone. I have been lurking and learning here for some time and decided it

I understand the math for CAGR, very, very well. The ideal situation would be to buy your limit of a set at MSRP or better (e.***., heavily discounted) on the day it goes EOL. This shortens the time component in the denominator of a CAGR calculation, increasing the value. This strategy also increases the price differential in the numerator, and also does wonders for the CAGR. Also really, really good for your CAGR would be to sell those sets the next day or week when they experience there first, post-EOL bump. You'll find a CAGR of thousands of percent that way. The flaw in CAGR is that it is essentially a value over time metric (a derivative, in Calculus terms), not an absolute dollar metric. Derivatives can be tricky and can mislead. I'd rather triple a $200 set in 24 months for $400 profit (e.***. TH) than sell that same TH a week after EOL for $100 profit, even though CAGR is much, much higher in the later case than the former. Why? My time and effort. And the fact we don't have great EOL sets coming available every week, more like a few/year. I factor in my active time to manage my portfolio (buying, selling, etc). I'd rather obtain sets relatively easily and ban-free (e.***., off Amazon Prime at MSRP with free shipping/no tax) and then just hold long enough that exclusives experience a nice value increase. Clearly, there's point in the CAGR curve where you'd be better off selling and re-buying the next-to-retire exclusve. To cite a relevant, current example, mathematically, it may be the time to clear out your TH inventory and re-invest in PS. Or perhaps, wait until you think PS is going to retire, then sell-off all your TH and roll it over into PS. Other problems are 1) predicting future value; 2) finding ways to obtain your goal number of sets at MSRP or below, and 3) finding enough buyers quickly when you need to roll-over sets. None of these issues are trivial, even though such strategy maximizes CAGR. I'm happy with buy and hold, with relatively little hassle on the buy end, and with steady sales on the sell end, via eBay and Craigs list. YMMV.

You meant "touching my Lego stuff"? Find someone you know who uses cleaning service or person. Or ask for references in Nextdoor. That makes cleaning person to be less of a stranger. Also, if you occasionally hire babysitter,see if they offer cleaning as well

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Happy Birthday! May your mailbox be filled with Worriz Fire Bikes.

TRU, continuing its reputation as a bastion of fulfillment efficiency, just shipped a $52 order of 8 mixels, 5 polybags, and 1 small boxed set to me in 4 boxes and 1 padded envelope all via FedEx Home Delivery. I could understand if they were clearing out the dregs from multiple fulfillment centers, but these are all coming from the same location!

All local lego stores should have this set at 20% off starting today. For sure I know my local store is. Seems crazy for lego stores to be putting a new set on such a discount already.

Here is a Eurobricks review on 42039 - 24 Hours Race Car (includes both A & B models).

Bought this lil guy yesterday. Open box with sealed inner boxes. Super excited to have it in the collection.

After being limit 99 forever, PR is now limit 5 at LEGO Shop at Home. Retirement is surely imminent...

Not sure if this was new. There was a blurb on RI S @ H page to the effect of "This set is no longer for sale. Look forward for next Ideas set". I could not access the page atm to get screenshot though

Just a feeling. Been out for ever. When oos sells well above msrp . Easy to store. Easy to obtain at 30-40% off. I see 100 right away eol. And my avenge buy in has been 32 and change. I'm very high on any and all arch sets though.

A closer look at all the minifigures here.

Alright, went to three TRU. Found two ice breakers and a 4204 MIne at the first. Found two more ice breakers at the second. Neither of those at the third, but did finally see two 60052 cargo trains. The other two TRu's were out of this train. I went ahead and bought them as well.

Yea, I tried doing that - but the kids kept falling off & getting hurt.

Howdy. I still haven't done one of these intro posts. Maybe I should wait and use it for my 3000th post.

Teddy Team 6 by Siercon and Coral

I came across this today and had to share it here. It is a stunning model of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider which not only looks amazing, it has a lot of power functions. I have never seen this car before seeing the Lego model, and it is most beautiful technic race car that I have ever seen. I would love to buy this but I just don't have the time to get all the pieces required. At some point I will formulate a letter and send it off to Lego in hopes they will contact this person and make it for everyone. Alfa Romeo 4C Spider

Happy birthday, Ed! We really appreciate all that you (and Jeff, and the mods) do for this site. Thanks for creating this place, and to your parents for creating you,,,,and ok, now its weird.

Go go go! I punched in 15 orders. After taxes was about 70 each. Should still have some left.

We thought about it as well, but realized that out of shame, we would probably clean up before the cleaning person came.

Sorry, not picking on you, just laughing out loud at how it goes around here on a daily basis. This type of info has been posted before (Lego online-only exclusives) and I certainly think it is possible, but I didn't think it was news and especially didn't think it was good news. I think most people around here would consider "retired" tag or at least "sold out" good news but not eternal online availability at MSRP, no matter what the source.

3x 31012 family houses, $90+ shipped ($72 +$18 shipping). Wanted to generate funds for more exclusives, and move some sales. Buy in was around $45 each, will hit higher at some point but I have other priorities. I had about 7 people watching this listing (sold a few $100+ at xmas), so did a 25% off sale on ebay and 3 sold this week Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

BTW Mods, now that the Kwik-E-Mart is coming out, couldn't we start a bonafide Simpson's theme thread directory? I know there are only two sets in the theme, but I was looking for a Kwik-E-Mart thread today but didn't know where to look. Just an idea. Mike

The writing is on the wall for these as an investment. Lego will release them over, and over, and over again. Most of the Simpsons family is now available in two sets and two CMF series.

Tributron by Brother Steven

Technic sets are usually under the radar because not a lot of people invest in them. The larger Technic sets are amazing and usually do well after EOL.

Welcome, Mindbender. I waited until a few thousand posts later and finally wrote up this article back in late June of 2013. Yeah I can be slow sometimes.

When your family owns the entire company and you clear a couple of billion dollars per year net of taxes i don't think you need to worry about going public. Just my opinion

On the chase site click on redeem rewards. It will take you to a store where you can use the points on gift cards, ect. One of the options is credit toward your balance. 10,000 points = $100

I forgot to mention - While my boys enjoy their sets (ninjago, China, Star Wars), what they really enjoy the most is the huge bucket of extra bulk minifigures and accessories that I've accumulated over the years. They love mixing up and changing all the figures heads and torsos, giving them different weapons and then setting up their own terrains, buildings, and small vehicles from our bulk pieces. So really, they usually don't care that they can't play with dads sets anyways!

Welcome! No kids in my house.... so I have no comment ;)

Stopped briefly by the Target at Longueil near Montreal. Don't waste your time, there wasn't a single Lego set to be found.

I'm sure he meant comparable in basic similarity and not exact which to a degree they are. The newer shuttle is comprised of mainly large curved bricks whereas the former was more standard pieces with a select number of rounded wedges. Funny thing is the older Shuttle Expedition at retail contained twice as many parts as this new Spaceport while the new set is more expensive with half the pieces. What a cruel joke. I would maybe pay $80 for the Spaceport but $120? What are they smoking....

7965 Falcon for $230 + shipping Have 6 left, will hold out for higher numbers next time.

Why are people anxiously awaiting these retirement status updates? Do you need confirmation of what you've been able to see with your own eyes for months now?

His website is awesome: http://jkbrickworks.com/ Be sure to check pages 2, 3, and so on.