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This is my recommendation to every new investor rushing to the scene: Imagine a world without BrickPicker. One where people make simple decisions on their own. In this world, one would choose which sets to buy and when to sell them, without help. Are you going to make the right decision every time? No, but you aren't going to anyway. But what you will have every time is more experience. The people who have been the most successful at this had nobody to ask for help. Nobody to tell them how to do everything. You'll be far better off in the long run if you don't let the majority make your decisions for you.

Alright, I'm selling likes! I've already bought some raffle tickets, but just for fun, for every "like" this post gets from members who joined before the time of this posting, I'll spend an equal amount on more tickets, up to $250. If it gets beyond that, I'll figure out how much more I'll spend. Let's set a like record!

Spousal derision is par for the course for a lot of us here.

I hate to pat us on the back but the tone of this website is thanks to the MODs and ADMINs. We don't put up with the typical internet BS garbage that pollutes todays interwebs. Trust me there have been schmucks who have tried that crap and they are gone just as soon as they signed up. This is a great community with great MODs and the only people who complain about us are the people who come in here and think they are gonna do and say want. Not gonna happen sorry not sorry.

Best advice is to sell something (for a profit) and buy her something with the proceeds.

10227 B-Wing : 350 FBA . Glad I bought some of this "loser" . Smh

The "good ole' days" are still here if you pick the right sets...

I would get a job at a local LEGO store or Toys R' Us and use that to your advantage.

Everything will be fine until one day she starts screaming through the house because she can't find her hair dryer. You shamefully admit that you left it in the garage as you were unpacking sets from your latest haul. Not like this has happened to me, just sharing because it could happen to anyone and you should be prepared when your wife flips out.

What part of Minecraft sets is a sleeper? Everyone is well aware of them at this point.

yep from 100 cost basis to 350 in 24 to 36 months stock market much better

Funny enough, I don't have to buy too many modulars this year. Thank you 2015 hype!

This talk of PR early retirement is what filled so many stockrooms with PCs last year.

I think most of those guys are still having the DS/R5/Tumbler tunnel vision.

Sorry to hear about your situation. The first thing you need to do is let your contacts know you are available. I am assuming that you have LinkedIn account. Networking is key in this darn age. Secondly if your resume and LinkedIn are not up to date, do it now. Make sure you put in looking for opportunities. Ask for Recommendations and Endorsements from contacts that you already know or have a good relation with (Assuming they have LinkedIn account). In my past experience your contacts are less likely to write you a recommendation than click to endorse your skills, but ask them anyway as you don't have anything to loose. I would also file for unemployment as it is a benefit you have earned, use it. Its 100% online so you can do it from home. The paperwork should show up in the mail 2-3 days later with your PIN and then you do the rest online every week until the benefit expires or you have found work. Certainly the amount is very minimal, but it is additional income you never had. Now comes the hard part.. If money is going to be tight, start identifying Lego sets to sell. Start with the ones that you think you can make a good return on. Don’t sell the ones that you recently acquired. Also, return any that you think are within the 30/90 day return policy as it will give you some needed cash or free up some debt on the credit card. Definitely cut off your unnecessary expenses, like HBO, superfast internet, and eating out. Call your cable companies and ask for a lower rate or speak to cancellations dept. I have had better luck in the past by threatening to cancel due to unemployment as they gave me a much discounted rate to keep me than loose me. I would take time to pursue a certification or any other training relevant to your as you might have a lot of free time. Reading books on professional development. I read “Knock em Dead” interview questions book. Wish you best of Luck!

Maybe we should change this thread to New UCS Millennium Falcon Rumors and Wishlists

Taj Mahal instruction manuals, $350 Craigslist.

Welcome to Brickpicker.

From a week ago, but found this at Target for $17.98...

There are only 34 listings on ebay. 9 sold on Jan 11th. The last three all went $350, $375, $398. Rarity is going to help this quite a bit. Big thanks to the pessimists that scared everyone off this one.

Publishing this is going to make people go bananas and go out and buy it

You've got a better chance of winning Powerball tonight then finding a reliable shipper that will deliver your sets in mint condition. It's all a crap shoot. Buying local at the Lego B&M is the only way to assure minty boxes.

It should probably be noted that both R5 and Tumbler are outselling Sea Cow on ebay EU by around 5 to 1 since Jan 1st. I'm glad to see Sea Cow off to a good start, though I didn't buy any. I'm quite happy to have my money in R5 and Tumblers instead. The demand will stay high for those sets in the coming months and years. And probably more hoarded 10 to 1

The only advice I could offer is don't buy any more Lego until you've found new employment, which hopefully will be soon. Good luck!

The extra pieces were not on the front end, they were on the roof. Two 2x4 while tiles to hold the roof together properly when it was lifted off. The change in piece count never affected the numbers on the S@H website.... Plenty of boxes have had minor changes or corrections and it never correlated to a new set number or a revision number or whatever. It appears that a change in box size did that.

Forget the Tumbler bring on the UCS 1960's Bat-mobile!

I enjoy it when all of you give reasons not to buy this set. Reaffirms my reasons to buy. The less of you that want to buy now, the less resellers there will be when it retires.

I'm a thousandaire... And I still managed to donate. Y'all are brick rich compared to me...

For flapping in the breeze!

Some good comments...A couple of points... Yes, St.Paul is a Catholic school. Jeff and I were raised Roman Catholic and by no means are we some religious quacks or pushing that on people. I am respectful of all religions and don't want that to affect this discussion and raffle. We are products of public schools and they were great. St. Paul is a great school. Period. It has kids from all religions and races in it. They teach respect and morals and if that is part of the religious aspect of it, then more schools should include it in my opinion. I am really the last person to preach about religion, so please don't let this deter you from giving. The chances of winning are pretty good, especially for a few of the sets. When I go to a charity event and a person asks me to buy a 50/50, I don't ask the odds, I just buy some tickets. That's how I roll. As for the "elite" section, I am going to be completely honest here. For years, we have discussed charging people to use this site. Many members have requested "elite" forums. I have always been the advocate to keep the site FREE. I have always wanted to give people MORE, for nothing. This site is not Brickset or Eurobricks. This site discusses LEGO bricks, but it has deep ties to MONEY. People MAKE MONEY from this site, yet we have kept it free. We ask for a few links to be clicked on to help support the site at no real cost to members. Nothing more. Go try to discuss these topics on the other sites and you will be banned from the site in time. They don't want to focus on such tacky topics. It's just the way that it is and I respect their views on the subject. Countless times I have defended the community here, saying that is was more than a bunch of hack resellers who took LEGO sets from Little Timmy, only to sell them for double the MSRP. I might be a sap for not making the site a pay site, but I am a giver. That being said, Jeff and I don't support ourselves with this site in any way, shape or form. We have real jobs. This site is a passion of ours and the thousands of hour we put into each year is not about money, because if it was, we would have shut it down years ago. The book we wrote was hundreds of hours of work for little return amounting to less than minimum wage returns. So what keeps the site going, growing and improving? Our loyalty and responsibility to YOU and the people that do support us, silly as it seems. I believe in Karma and Kismet (my two dead dogs) and believe that if I help people, it will come back to me. So far, I have been blessed by good fortune. So I ask the community of thousands to dig a little deeper to help some kids and teachers. I will add some more sets from our personal collections. I will also add some sets from generous members. I really appreciate those who have given so far and I look forward to thanking more people in the future....

It's no different from what makes people want Cafe Corner or CMF Series 1. While these large DC sets aren't a series and they come from different eras, people will still want to have other similar sets if they like a current set.

I'm going to have to stop reading these.

36 more tickets, good luck guys. I appreciate all that you both do for this place.

My daughter (who is 7 1/2) found a torso in the minifig build area at the Southcenter store and she really wanted it, but I didn't want to spend $10 on other parts just so she could get that torso. She went and asked a clerk if she could buy just that torso and he told her she could just keep it. She was so excited. I like the Southcenter store the best too.

I wouldn't recommend shipping something when you don't even know for sure what's in the box, or what condition it's in.

Since I said beforehand I would get one ticket for every prize-lot that I like, I'll just have to pull out my credit-card again tonight when I'm back home again to buy additional tickets. In the mean time, my post about the raffle in the Lego Community on Google+ has already gotten 20 +1s and I hope at least a few of those 'likes' have also taken action and bought at least one ticket.

If Lego made a huge set of a perfect choice (like an 8k-10k piece UCS Falcon, limited to 10k sets at 1k each), they would de facto sell out within a day or two, with a tiny bit of straggler inventory showing up thereafter because one store had a shipment delayed. It'd be a collector perfect storm. The collectibles traffickers, the all-purpose QFLLs, the Nike campers, diehard SW fans, diehard AFOLs... Even at limit 1 per biometric scan and DNA sample, the deep-pocket collectibles guys would be handing out prepaid Visa cards by the dozens. It would probably end up being a PR disaster for Lego, and they're probably smart enough to see that; any set that large and in-demand would have to have an open-ended production run. But unless you're planning to die soon, it IS eminently possible that a $1k Lego set gets released in your lifetime. There's inflation and production costs and maybe Lego decides to cut the legs out from under the secondary market by releasing a modular "street-in-a-box".

Yall need to come back to planet Earth.

Sort of. You'll be better off if you gain experience by making mistakes on your own and if you listen to those who came before. It's not an either/or situation. Imagine if you said "The best way to learn to be an engineer is to go out and make mistakes over and over until you're good at it. Pay no attention to what other engineers say." You'd sound like an idiot. Integral to the learning process is watching and listening to others so that you can build on their experience and hopefully avoid making their mistakes yourself. Yes, lessons learned on your own are more powerful, but that doesn't mean we should only learn on our own. Should we always go with the majority opinion? Of course not, but it's a place to start. What if the majority opinion is "Lone Ranger sets suck. You should avoid them." You'd be pretty sorry if you ignored the majority opinion just because you wanted to make the mistakes on your own. Ultimately it's every individual's job to sift through the noise and find the information that is actually useful, but ignoring it altogether is folly.

"You need to build it yourself this toys"

As promised - for every $100 in sales I would buy at least one ticket.....just bought another. I hope everyone considers helping out with at least one ticket.

I am wanting to love the set I am still trying to figure out how I can slap three of these together with three aa plus two helms deep and a creative tower and come up with a complete Wayne manor with bat cave

The more I think about this set, the more I gotta go back & stare at it. The more I stare at it, the more I want it. I think that price sticker will mean absolutely nothing the more time goes on...

That's a good point I didn't notice that! That's kind of a big deal so I'm sure someone will moc it

Despite their illiquidity, one advantage Lego has going for it is your ability to get your money back. In my experience, there are few sets that cannot be resold at MSRP after EOL, and if you bought them cheaper than MSRP than even this is a gain. So if your set doesn't do well you can most likely get your money back. Good luck getting rid of your poor performing stock for what you paid for it. Wall Street doesn't do returns. To me, the negligible downside risk is a huge plus vs other investments.

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