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UPDATE EBAY RETURNED ALL MY FUNDS AND SIDED WITH ME THE SELLER.

Am I allowed to toot my own horn here? Pretty proud of this one ... Updated pic with full background surround:

I promised I would build the giant crane and I did! After callibrating(!!!) it with a bag of rocks my daughter crafted a little paper basket to carry around some little squishmallows. The app works really well and I was impressed by the sensor features it has, like real time loading calculation and balance, still though, kind of a pain to take pictures of when you have to use your phone to control it! Also it's HUGE. I've got it sitting atop a 3x3 IKEA Kallax unit here and it's hanging off both ends, dwarfing the Medieval Blacksmith shop.

these should be the links, fellas: The Art of Chocolate: https://www.lego.com/cart?product=910039 Harbormaster's Office: https://www.lego.com/cart?product=910040 Camping Adventure: https://www.lego.com/cart?product=910041 Lost City: https://www.lego.com/cart?product=910042 Forest Stronghold: https://www.lego.com/cart?product=910043

Added a level.

UCS AT-AT will be 20% off @ Lego 2X VIP and 2 GWP limit 1 so probably a zero point reward. 75313AT-AT 21338A-Frame Cabin 71741 Ninjago City Gardens 10283NASA Space Shuttle Discovery 71374Nintendo Entertainment System

Target has some sets at 50% off after RC: https://www.target.com/p/lego-friends-botanical-garden-greenhouse-building-toy-41757--no-aasa/-/A-87830575 https://www.target.com/pl/718078581?

Hey Brick Pickers! We are at it again with Dungeons and Dragons. 12% off code is "D&DPicker" Set (after discount) = $58.95 Box (after discount) = $156.64 We always offer FREE Shipping on orders over $75. If you have subscribed to our emails, you should have received this update, but I want to reiterate here for anyone else. We are now working more directly with The LEGO Group as an authorized reseller. That means that unfortunately we are no longer able to offer international shipping. We really hate to lose all our international community, but this was a necessary change. There are so many fake and knockoff LEGO products circulating these days and this should ultimately aid in reducing the flow of these products. As for lead times, now that we are sourcing in the US, all orders will ship to you on the official release date. That means you should have them within days of release (early September) rather than the usual weeks later (late September). We are really excited to be able to offer that as well as more official backing from US LEGO. Please feel free to reach out with any further questions. As always, happy building! Jon

You're 10 years too late.

Finally got around to building the Endurance. Picked away at it for a week in the evening. Great set.

Now this one has some potential

One more finished today.

The new Tudor Corner is a great set. I wouldn't say the build experience was particularly revolutionary or special, but the final outcome is quite impressive!

Sourced these through a local FB bulk lot purchase. 3 of about 30 80’s 90’s sets.

Finally cut the seals on one of my BL Designer sets. Had a great time building Brick Cross station, but I would have gladly spent extra for printed pieces and instructions. Oddly enough, as I was on the last steps, my Tudor Corner ordered on 1 Jan arrived at the door.

Set of the Year for me by far! The only set that was even close in comparison, but still a very distant second, was Snow Whites Cottage and then Batman Skyline coming in third. I have a lot of 2024 sets yet to build, the Endurance will be next then D&D, Medieval Town Square and Milky Way eventually. This is the set stock but I have 2 BL orders and a PAB arriving next week to enhance it some. The build was fast and fun and I couldn’t wait to work on it. It just looks so beautiful in person. Use gloves when handling the window elements. The 5 stickers are all on the inside and not front facing so you don’t really see them in the finished build. 12 minifigures and 5 animals. At this price or even at 20% off not an “investment” set at all. Build: 9.5 Play: 7 Display: 9 Value: 6

Completed the Disney Castle. One of those sets that I waited too long to purchase but was able to acquire with some help from a new friend. Enjoyed the build with the subtle touches to movies, characters from long ago.

As I mentioned in the past, Shane likes to troll YouTube and Instagram so he can copy business. Before my YT channel was rebranded to Brick Bucks, it was called FBAA Millionaire. I purposely made the channel hard to find and I would have people occasionally reach out to me and ask me questions about reselling. When I moved from Ohio to Kentucky I stopped making videos but I was still encouraged to continue making more. Around 2018 Shane reached out to me and we chatted and exchanged information from time to time. I had open heart surgery on March 16, 2020, the day when everything shut down because of Covid. I had a lot of complications from my surgery so I couldn’t work for a year. Because I had a lot of time on my hands, I was diving deep into LEGO ROI spreedsheets and sent a few to Shane. He asked if we could be business partners and relaunch my YT channel. He was not the first one who asked me to be partners but because he worked at Microsoft and he said that he knew how to do everything, I thought it would be a good fit. Not long after he would say things like. “I was researching how to do X” or “We need to purchase something from Income School to do Y.” I thought to myself, you had told me that you already knew how to do this. SMH. It’s interesting when I hear you say, “It's been quite a show watching the market fall apart and a few choice people really working hard to prop it up.” At this moment I’m quite happy with what is going on with LEGO reselling. Many fly by night resellers are exiting the space and I couldn’t be happier! I think the future is very bright for LEGO reselling but that doesn’t mean that you can just keep doing what you’ve been doing for the last ten years. When it comes to getting top dollar reselling LEGO sets, I believe Q3 is the new Q4. The problem is Q3 doesn’t have as much sales velocity as Q4 so you need to adjust for that. The name of the game now is exclusive sets. There are some top picks that don’t involve exclusive sets but excuse the expression, you have to know what you’re doing. The zombie sets are one of the biggest threats to LEGO resellers and I’m certain LEGO knows that now. You need to account for that as well. The days of buying a bunch of Batcave 6860 and hoping for the best 18 months after it retires just doesn’t cut it anymore. As for the second part of your post, again, he had only recorded three videos himself. There were well over 100 videos of me, and I knew I could start a new channel relatively easily. My main goal out of all of this was to just get away from him as quickly as possible and I wasn’t too concerned with receiving my fair share of the company. You think he’s annoying from a distance, try dealing with him on a daily basis. LOL. The choice was either to buy him out or dissolve the company, and then both of us restart from scratch. After we couldn't reach a deal during a video chat, we agreed to dissolve the company and talk more in detail about the next day because it was getting pretty late. The next morning, I woke up to a very lengthy message from him explaining why I should buy the company. I laughed because he was clearly more interested in selling Brick Bucks than I was in buying it. If I recall, I may have offered him $20k, and he said no. Again, he's no business genius. That email I attached makes him sound like he knows what he’s talking about, but when you google ‘How to sell a business,’ he pretty much paraphrased the content in the first search result. I told him that everything he contributed to the ‘business’ I could have easily received from UpWork or Fiverr at the time. There was nothing special about what he was doing. Yes, he worked for Microsoft, but he only worked in ad sales placement at the time. Nothing more. Anybody could do what he did on YouTube, and plenty of people are now. I’d be surprised if he was still buying LEGO in somewhat large quantities. He had that warehouse for his book business, but I think that might be gone now. He hated dealing with his book business, by the way. In the past, he presented it as some great thing on his YouTube channel, but he would always ***** to me about it. Lol. I saw on one video a while back that he mentioned he was sending Speed Champions to FBA. That’s a big pivot from his original business model if that’s the case. He would often reference the California gold rush business model, why spend time mining for gold when you can just sell the picks and other equipment. Also, if Shane is some LEGO investing genius, why isn’t he buying LEGO at a significant discount from that place overseas that everybody with $100k is now doing? Again, I’d be surprised if he was still buying much LEGO. In the past, his wife commented on a YouTube short saying that they would never show Shane’s inventory after a bunch of commenters kept pressing them to do so. I would’ve shared that screenshot in this post, but they must’ve taken that video down. Personal note: I’m certain this thread has caused some attention and there are a few onlookers. I’m very aware that many of you have personal scorn for me. Some will talk **** about me on here but when I talk to them on the phone, they act friendly as can be and that’s ok. I understand that I am not ‘one of the boys’ on here and I’m fine with that. I hope I at least get a little bit of credit for the times I have made it a point to tell people on YouTube that I would not be here if it were not for Brickpicker. I have said that numerous times and it is true. I have not acted like I am the one who discovered reselling LEGO reselling.

I don’t collect the helmets and the AT-AT driver was my first and will be my only. I think it looks cool. Stickers suck. Mainly got it to go with my UCS AT-AT.

Star Wars: 75249 AT-AT Driver Helmet

40% off select sets at Target

I've been doing it for 12 years, full time for the last 6. You can't make any money at it and I wouldn't try. But tell you what, let me know what parts you have and I'll give you a decent price for them, especially minifigs. Seriously, it's just like running a car or motorcycle parts house. As stated above, you need good organization skills as well as familiarity with the parts. If you can look at a pair of legs and know that they belong to the Zeb minifig, it'll save you a ton of time over trying to look it up to discover what they are. I also determined early on that I don't want some customers. I don't want the customers that order 240 different parts, 1 of each. So I set a modest lot average minimum of $.90. I also have an $8 minimum order. True, I lose some small orders but, those are not my customers and I do not want them. I value my time more. You just have to decide what type of store you want to run. One other word of advice. Don't contribute to the race-to-the-bottom on items. If 20 people have a part and the cheapest is $.20, don't automatically go to $.19. It makes us all poor. Some store owners never seem to realize that, you can sell that same part for $.28 IF you have the other 40 parts that the buyer needs in stock. I'll gladly pay a higher price for a part NOT to have to place yet another order, with shipping. Good luck to you and don't hesitate to ask questions here.

City Gardens on back order at SAH

Im on vacation this week and actually had an evening alone in the Lego building and thought the Wednesday Adams set needed a building. I still have alot of work to do but its coming along pretty well.

60404 - City Burger Truck $9.99 (50% off) - for pickup 15% off $35 or more and 8% RAK https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/lego-city-great-vehicles-burger-truck-60404-194-piece-building-set/ID=300449353-product

While Lego continues to screw over their loyal customers our friends over at FunWhole are making the following set available for FREE! You don’t even have to pay shipping and handling Just fill out this basic form: https://forms.gle/JtJdTEFc5f9EZ5PbA Then go here: https://bit.ly/3Y5zNmP Then enter promo code “FWNEW2024” at checkout You can try skipping the form step and just enter the code but not sure if they will validate the entries.

Bought this from the recent Kohl's sale last week, arrived the other day in it's factory shipper. I'm going to ACTUALLY BUILD THIS.

Holy Insider Reward Points Batman I thought this would be a GWP. Super Cool : )

9/1 $200 2193 Pieces

I've been picking away at this over the past couple of weeks. No rush, just enjoying the build. Now I have to find a place to display/store it! Overall a great build,highly recommended.

Wishing you many happy sales and fewer returns !!!

the joys of selling on Amazon, Amazon will pay me for the lego and I get a free dinner

Disney Tribute at my store was $33.91, so couldn’t pass up those. Stitch and Poinsetta were $28 and $31.

Ahh, they put them at the bottom of the LEGO Offers and Sale page: LEGO® Deals & Promo Codes | Official LEGO® Shop US or using this direct link to list them Member Offer | Official LEGO® Shop US.

https://home.woot.com/offers/lego-star-wars-venator-class-republic-attack-cruiser-5-374-pcs-2 Venerator 75367. 19% off. Max 3. Buy 4 unique items (just grab 3 funkos) for another 21% off at checkout. Honey offering $50 off of one, as well. Won't last long.

Built this with one of my kids. Overall a fun build and more interesting than expected. We only paid $75, so it was worth giving it a shot, despite the lackluster reviews. Might get a light kit...

Been working on my Botanical Garden upgrades.

Last set of the year, The Endurance, and yes you are going to need endurance to build this ship. This build is not for the faint of heart. 28 bags including my first ever paper bag containing the sails, no stickers, 3 different prints (2 exclusive to this set) and NO minifigures. You begin by building a temporary stand, not the display stand, at a glib attempt to add stability to the set that isn’t really obtained until you reach bag 19. At this point you will want to clean all of the black elements that will be covered with fingerprints because the entire set is sideways SNOT built, no eating Chic-fil-A during this build. The hull is comprised of large curved panels, not bricks, making for a flimsy hollow build. The deck and stairs, also sideways SNOT built, look great as does the engine and captains quarters, which are all removable, and finally the build becomes fun. Only to be followed by the supply boats, not “lifeboats”, which are designed poorly and are tedious to get just right. By the time I got to the sails and rigging I needed a day off and just wanted to finally be done with this thing. The finished set looks amazing and it is one of the few sets that deserves one of those Limited Edition Wicked Brick display cases. Not sure if I will open up one of my Shackleton’s Lifeboat GWPs to display with it. This set is a ship of two tales, the build, only major ships worse: Maersk EEE, the stickers, and The Silent Mary the build. Display, only major ships better than the Endurance are the Sea Cow still #1 in my book and then the Titanic. Endurance is even better than the Imperial Flagship so don’t think I hate it just wasn’t much fun especially following the Botanical Garden that I look forward to getting back to. Build: 6 Play: 7 Display: 9 Value: 7

Not a deal, so apologies, but for honey users, an interesting expo that aligns with my own experience. Glad someone finally put something out like this about this company. Wouldn’t be surprised if the other similar companies operate the same way:

bet they put it on the wrong truck

I can simply remove the Kroger logo build and replace it with a KMart logo, add some different color masonry bricks to show crumbling plaster, remove all the outside displays and all the customers, leave one car, and voila, a KMart.

Brick Artisan 2X LEGO Friends Botanical Garden MOC. I highly doubt I will take this apart to do the 3X MOC and just wait for a deal on the new Botanical Garden set.

Messed with it some more yesterday. I think its about finished.

That explains Ed Macks absence...

Finished up the Black Panther bust that I got from Kohl's with the extra 50% off. Not my favorite build, but it wasn't boring either. It looks really impressive when finished.

I will miss selling legos on Amazon. I will miss this chat. But it is time to turn the page. It has been fun. Started selling legos on an Amazon in 2016, got grand fathered. Made a ton of profit during Covid. But since then it has not been the same. Too many sellers, fees skyrocketed, more and more restrictions on sets for the holidays. So this year I stopped buying inventory and paid off all my business debts. I sold 25 k$ up until April and then stopped. Far cry from the 200 k$ + I sold during Covid. Frankly I am just tired of it. I still have tons of inventory but it is all profit from there. Anyhow, like many of you guys Amazon just removed my ability to list legos within a day (ridiculous) and there is no option to get it back. It is ok. I am not going to fight it. I will take my time to sell what I have left. My eBay account has good feedback and I am not looking for profit anymore. I have made my money with Amazon. Good luck for all you guys who still continue with these guys. My respect. It is not peach and cream. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Putting this one away so Minty.

i'm glad you made it through your surgery. live to sell another day is what i always say! excelsior!