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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.

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Confirmed, phoned my nearest Lego store. 20% off. Got a few hours on my timetable tomorrow so may stop by. $120 with $12 back plus 5%, delicious.

Or buy early and avoid the line altogether

Sacramento. They were putting out the tags when I came in. Maybe your store is out?

I haven't been here long but from what I gather information misinformation ect on availability to save a lot headache just grab the sets you want to invest in in enough time that availability isn't a problem. Pet shop may or may not be on its way out but When I purchased mine I figured rather be safe than sorry since this is a set I really want to set aside. Sometimes I think we get caught up in things that really have a simple solution. Your probably not going time every EOL set perfectly or get every winner. Make your choices and work on your plan to get your end amount you want

ebay. Sold within a hour of listing. New are suddenly selling around upper 160's, so probably a good time to get it listed.

75021 republic Gunship $124.95 used. More ammo for VIP tonight

I finally updated the main list of Series 13 with proper links, fixed Series 1 of The Simpsons links, added basic naming system for Series 2 of The Simpsons (links are placeholders and don't work now), and although unknown I tried adding in Series 14 based off the image shown a couple months ago (links are also placeholders for now). This should get the whole thing up-to-date until proper names for The Simpsons Series 2 are known and Series 14 is officially revealed.

Great work on the site guys, it has started me on the path to owning way to many sets lol. Just bought some vw T1 camper vans and some ghost buster cars. Love the investing forum, read hours already, great information and hope to learn and contribute anything i can!

Welcome to BP! Now that kids are discussed lets talk about how you keep sets from girlfriends. Last year she got pissed off at her workplace and I went home to see a newly built Imperial Flagship. Three months later an Emerald Night followed. The latter is my fault because -1. did not tell her how expensive IF is so she assumed EN is cheap -2. that time I was the one who pissed her off.

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I don't do much quick flipping either... 20% yields better than a final 5% off since you don't pay tax on the savings.. Many American buyers also pay tax - not quite as high, but I think a few pay 8%-9% which is high enough. The one that kills me is all those extra stacking credit cards savings and rewards points they have in the US. We have the Air Miles cash now, but I really do use those for flying!! I just don't expect to compete with the US sellers. I managed to flip a few RIs and even a couple Mars Rovers to the US but generally, I expect slower sales to cheap-o Canadian buyers. Toys R US and Walmart have had a virtual monopoly on the toy market in many parts of Canada (and even more so TRU). That's one reason Target was so nice... TRU had some much better deals when Target started moving in. When the writing was on the wall, the sales and clearance deals also disappeared. I've come to learn the Canadian eBay market is fickle.. certain things they'll gladly pay extra for, others not so much. Where I've been doing OK up here is dealing in the more expensive sets. As small time businesses or whatever you operate as, people who buy from you on eBay are going to look at two things: 1) Shipping Costs - Small parcels are cheaper to send from the US to Canada than Canada to Canada. The larger parcels can become just as expensive. - Canada Post charges dimensional pricing very quickly so having the right size box can easily save you good money on shipping. - By using PayPal and Expedited shipping, you can cut about 10% off the shipping costs in Canada (and have a great service) - don't believe what Canada Post says are their posted Venture One rates. That is a 5% savings but going through PayPal is another 5% or so which also helps with the fees. 2) Import Costs - Of course the crappy exchange rate is helpful to any old stock you may have lying around... many of us got a 10-15% bump in value on some sets just by the change in exchange rate. - GSP (as much as I hate it for buying) is great for selling within Canada. The brokerage fee charged on top of the taxes are ridiculous and the average buyer doesn't realize you pay taxes on anything being imported over $25 so when they're so front and center, it encourages them to buy in Canada. ** Edit - why this matters.. as a business that doesn't do $30k in annual sales, you don't have to charge tax. Canada Post could care less about that and they very rarely forget to collect the tax on delivery. ** We also buy a lot (too much) Lego for our own consumption... 20% is acceptable for a lot of them especially since we didn't know any better when we started buying Lego again for our kids. Reselling in Canada isn't for the faint of heart... long term holds is my main play and I sometimes hope for just a little luck.

A little bit of disciplining goes a long way ;)

I still remember sitting in the movie theater watching the Lego movie for the first time. Will Ferrel comes on screen in the basement with his son. Lord Business and a Creative Boy. It was a moment of reckoning I will never forget. My son and I stopped watching the movie looked at each other and said that's you. I am the dad Lord Business who must build by the book everything and keep it neat and organized. He was the boy who tears sets up and builds beautiful creations from them far more imaginative then I could. We both went back to watching the movie after a minute of epic foundation shaking of our worlds and it is one of our favorite movies. How do you deal with it? Embrace it. Realize to truly build beautiful things they need more than a Creative Tower box of bricks. They need mini figures and unique set pieces that only come in sets or brick linked. More than the pick a brick wall. Realize you are who you are and set up boundaries on which sets can be demolished and mixed and which can't. Build your sets your way. Let them totally destroy and mix mini figures, really unique pieces in sets and come up with wonderful creations. Everyone is happy. Life is good. Carry on.

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Putting 91octane in my '94 Suzuki swift beater. D'oh!

Welcome!

Touche my friend, touche

A 10179 Falcon recently sold on ebay Canada (Shipped only to Canada) BNIB for $1300. I reported the auction to ebay the first day as it screamed "scam". Below reasons led me to believe so: - Seller listed in description only remittance payment accepted - yet paypal was listed officially (remittance payment is only accepted on like Cars/Motors), this alone was reason to report. - Seller's account was located in Canada, but item shipping from Hong Kong. - Seller's account had 51 feedback, but that feedback was only as a buyer and over a year ago. - Offered free shipping (this size of an item from overseas? yeah right). - Only item listed. - The description of the item was all in different sizes/fonts meaning they must have copy pasted from other places and not decided to match the format. - Only 1 picture (wasn't able to find the same picture via google images, but with an item like this you usually get a couple more pictures). The auction did get to end before ebay did anything (surprise surprise), i just hope the poor sucker who won doesn't actually pay... Obviously most buyers knew something was up for a BNIB 10179 to go for so little. Even IF the auction were legitimate, and the seller did actually ship a 10179 after receiving the bank transfer; shipping from overseas with no buyer protection on a $1300 item isn't worth it imo.

when people are consistently putting sets on brick classifieds above eBay and Amazon value.

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