Actually the 55K/year is after taxes.  168K/2=84K per year.

 

Now that is a decent job (at least here in the mid-west it is). Sure it is not top of the line but it is loads better than fastfood or home depot.  Taxes would not be the full 35%.  At this point there would be no reason not to convert everything to a business and start chipping away the tax rate with better business related deductions.

You might want to seek some advice.  I do this for a living.  You are a business anyway you slice it, buy definition you are a sole proprietor (worst possible tax situation).

I would also assume there would be import fee? And the free shipping is to the port of entry, not to final destination

You might want to seek some advice.  I do this for a living.  You are a business anyway you slice it, buy definition you are a sole proprietor (worst possible tax situation).

PM'd

spending $300k in a single set.

that's in line with walmart; amazon and target.

(surprised that your highness is a visitor of forum. i thought you would have great many followers doing these chores for you }

spending $300k in a single set.

that's in line with walmart; amazon and target.

(surprised that your highness is a visitor of forum. i thought you would have great many followers doing these chores for you }

 

hahahaha!

I called lego... Ssd's are completely sold out and not coming back! Let the panicking begin. Lol

Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

I called lego... Ssd's are completely sold out and not coming back! Let the panicking begin. Lol

Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

 

#Journalism

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

 

This is what I got back from shop at home.

 

You might think they don't have good people working for their IT infrastructures.

I called lego... Ssd's are completely sold out and not coming back! Let the panicking begin. Lol

Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

You did not hear them right... They said "Ssd's are completely sold out today and not coming back today". 

You did not hear them right... They said "Ssd's are completely sold out today and not coming back today". 

And yeah, wrong thread... Mods will move your posts to "what I heard from lego employee today" :-)

You sure it is not:

"Ssd's are completely sold out right now and not coming back in the next 30 mins or so".

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

 

This is what I got back from shop at home.

 

You might think they don't have good people working for their IT infrastructures.

Maybe they are updating their site with all the new sets that are coming out on August 1st? 

I have the same feeling.

Maybe they are updating their site with all the new sets that are coming out on August 1st? 

They were already on the site. Just "Add to cart" button was disabled. I highly doubt they need to bring entire shopping site down to flip the switch

They were already on the site. Just "Add to cart" button was disabled. I highly doubt they need to bring entire shopping site down to flip the switch

 

That's probably why they add those items earlier... so the switch flip can be quick and painless.

 

This outage seems pretty serious - the "Shop @ Home Canada" site is offline too. Outages during the business day are pretty uncommon nowadays.

Down time for e-commerce site is hell.

 

Every minute = xxx k dollars.

 

And for major site, hour = million.

Down time for e-commerce site is hell.

Every minute = xxx k dollars.

And for major site, hour = million.

Day = Billion

Month = Trillion

Year = Gogleplex

Down time for e-commerce site is hell.

 

Every minute = xxx k dollars.

 

And for major site, hour = million.

Phht... some creative "retiring soon" tagging, and all losses are recouped, with extra money to pay bonuses to their infrastructure team

Maybe they are updating their site with all the new sets that are coming out on August 1st? 

 

Doubtful, they would do this in the middle of the night if that was the case.  No ecommerce site would take themselves down in the middle of the business day on purpose.  I'm guessing an intern accidentally unplugged something in the Lego server farm.

Doubtful, they would do this in the middle of the night if that was the case.  No ecommerce site would take themselves down in the middle of the business day on purpose.  I'm guessing an intern accidentally unplugged something in the Lego server farm.

lego.com itself is functioning. just shop.lego.com part went up in flames. Hope it's not our scripts that killed it...  LOL

lego.com itself is functioning. just shop.lego.com part went up in flames. Hope it's not our scripts that killed it...  LOL

shouldn't be.

 

at least it should not be all of us.

Seems to be their web server, everything else associated with shop.lego.com seems to be up and responding.

 

They didn't take it down for an update, in fact now days most updates are hot swaps with no discernible downtime to the customers.

Hacked by Anonymous.

Hacked by Anonymous.

 

Or Iketart placed dozens of orders for 99 sets again.

Or Iketart placed dozens of orders for 99 sets again.

the half off SSD !