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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

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.

Happy Birthday Ed Mack! Another year gone with another to pass. Nah, I know what Ed wants. I'm sending him some puppies!

That's the trouble with a widely discounted set. The QFLL's don't know what to do!!!!!! Part it out, or hold on for the long run. Flipping this one right now doesn't make any sense.

Happy birthday! I'll talk to Ghostdad about the best knockoffs to buy today.

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

If it expired and they didn't renew, it's as if they lost it. Semantics

Happy Birthday! (To me, too - 41 for me today) Thanks for all you do!

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

Having zero energy to do anything. Allthough I have so many things to do in and around the house.

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.

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

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

Welcome to Brickpicker!!

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

Says the guy with no kids. ;)

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

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

That's awesome! Might produce one DS per day. No wonder the damn thing isn't retiring they are still trying to fill a shipping container!

It`s a fantastic display, I`ve always loved birds, so perhaps there is a bit more connection with this set for me than some, but I love it. Got all 3 on display, naturally, and they`re just excellent. That said, I agree with being very careful with this one for Investment. As others have said, there is obviously no license backing, nor is it a set that appeals to the masses. Much more of a niche filling, which I think is a shame, but it is what it is. Bottom line, probably not a good idea to buy 50 of these My copy is also seal code 44S4. I think I`d agree with you that there is probably just the 1 run in the wild right now.