Someone recommended their new favorite LEGO youtube channel (Emmasaurus) on another thread. Thought why not start a place so that others can share their faves with others, discover new ones, and/or chat about it all? 

Please consider that eventually that the faces behind these channels and websites are people with feelings. AND they may eventually stumble upon this thread AND we all have varying opinions and expectations of such channels and websites. Some search for reviews, others for investment discussions, for moc ideas, etc. 

I'll kick it off by saying that Emmasaurus is NOT my fave BUT her videos are positive and better than most I've seen.

I'll admit I've "listened" to a few while sorting LEGO. She's upbeat and positive which can benefit us all (promoting others to buy and collect). 

My two new faves are:

HighTeaToys (mostly Harry Potter and LOTR)

And Hachiroku24 (great small moc builds)

 

Edited August 28, 20214 yr by ponderingzissou

8 minutes ago, Sozial said:

 

Dont mock him, hes trying to make some bucks. It hurts our business in some way, but that is the risk of having a business at all. We are all here for the money.

Mock I will. I don't begrudge him his business model - I always thought he was smart for doing so even tho it hurts existing sellers. My issue with him is he oversells and misleads uneducated newcomers who are unaware of the collapsing market- he does not adequately speak out the risks involved. His hype to cautioning ratio is unethical. His old partner Jim Rome was better in this regard and Jim also does not pretend that the 1% of sets that get 400% returns are anywhere close to the norm.

Shane's language and pitch are predatory and inversely the promises have increased as the Lego investing market has been on the decline.

13 minutes ago, Sozial said:

 

Dont mock him, hes trying to make some bucks. It hurts our business in some way, but that is the risk of having a business at all. We are all here for the money.

maybe mocking is a strong word but when you give "secrets" you are no longer giving secrets and you are by default harming the very audience (customers) you are pretending to care about and charge money, just by diluting the pool even further. 

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxuOpPszL7Ahuvw7BJz5qSdVZliuQEtCMX?si=CMYSnXmNC4mDVT9f

26 minutes ago, Sozial said:

 

Dont mock him, hes trying to make some bucks. It hurts our business in some way, but that is the risk of having a business at all. We are all here for the money.

We knew he was here somewhere all along....

 

Around these parts we mock each other because we love each other. We give each other bad advice because we love our business. 

Eureka! That's it! He gives bad advice on youtube because he loves his business as well. Of course, any publicity regarding reselling being "gold" is bad publicity...... 

So in the interest of everyone involved, he is welcome to penetrate himself with all of the used dongs an eBay member threatened to send me.

Edited October 24, 20232 yr by brickvoyeur

8 minutes ago, Pseudoty said:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxuOpPszL7Ahuvw7BJz5qSdVZliuQEtCMX?si=CMYSnXmNC4mDVT9f

800 /40hrs - $20 hour - more realistic - hey better than $5

Live in 10 minutes

 

18 minutes ago, Bricklectic said:

Live in 10 minutes

 

Let’s go 🍿 

watching...oh man hes showcasing the tie fighter helmet 🤣

24 minutes ago, Bricklectic said:

watching...oh man hes showcasing the tie fighter helmet 🤣

Why? Hey suckers, look what I did. No soup for you!

He reminds me more and more of Don Lapre as time goes on

And it is going to be a sad day when he learns why the first rule of Fight Club is a first principle of reselling.

Edited October 25, 20232 yr by Phantom Toys

Predatory...

I wouldn't even bother opening his videos. It's just like selling you a Midas touch for $100 bucks.

6 minutes ago, freakchem said:

I wouldn't even bother opening his videos. It's just like selling you a Midas touch for $100 bucks.

It's probably safe to say that few people here are opening his videos in a search for actual knowledge.

12 hours ago, Bricklectic said:

Y'all have been using outdated strategies and obsolete sourcing techniques. Cutting edge algorithmic buying plugins powered by AI are the future. Can't give away more, ya gotta sign up to IGNITE to get access to MUCH DEEPER strategies,  the BLUEPRINT, and THE LEGO INCOME MACHINE

 

Sh*t, those Bold, Italicized and Capitalized letters make me attempt to join his class!

Edited October 25, 20232 yr by freakchem

I watched small part of it out of boredom. Basically a nice basic summary (cashback, cc points, coupons, membership, PM, and bunch of other saving techniques) but the main part of it was his pitch to become a member where he would offer tens of thousands in value through his various offerings - his excel inventory, amazon ungating exclusive facebook group etc....

so it was an infomercial

1 minute ago, Bricklectic said:

I watched small part of it out of boredom. Basically a nice basic summary (cashback, cc points, coupons, membership, PM, and bunch of other saving techniques) but the main part of it was his pitch to become a member where he would offer tens of thousands in value through his various offerings - his excel inventory, amazon ungating exclusive facebook group etc....

so it was an infomercial

Let me know when I should act surprised... better yet join my exclusive expression REVEAL feed for $5.99 today!!! Dont delay 

10 minutes ago, Bricklectic said:

I watched small part of it out of boredom. Basically a nice basic summary (cashback, cc points, coupons, membership, PM, and bunch of other saving techniques) but the main part of it was his pitch to become a member where he would offer tens of thousands in value through his various offerings - his excel inventory, amazon ungating exclusive facebook group etc....

so it was an infomercial

His pitch is so sharp... but can it still slice a tomato?

Spoiler

 

Edited October 25, 20232 yr by brickvoyeur

It may be weighed down by all of that fecal matter hanging around in his colon...time for some Dual Action Cleanse.

44 minutes ago, Bricklectic said:

I watched small part of it out of boredom. Basically a nice basic summary (cashback, cc points, coupons, membership, PM, and bunch of other saving techniques) but the main part of it was his pitch to become a member where he would offer tens of thousands in value through his various offerings - his excel inventory, amazon ungating exclusive facebook group etc....

so it was an infomercial

I caught a little bit of it and almost spit my drink out when I heard him say that managing inventory is not hard right after saying that scaling a LEGO reselling business isn't hard.  For me, after bookkeeping, managing inventory has been hands down the biggest PIA over the years particularly as I've grown scale.   

3 hours ago, Phantom Toys said:

I caught a little bit of it and almost spit my drink out when I heard him say that managing inventory is not hard right after saying that scaling a LEGO reselling business isn't hard.  For me, after bookkeeping, managing inventory has been hands down the biggest PIA over the years particularly as I've grown scale.   

Inventory is also a giant pain in the rear to liquidate if you pick a loser.

8 minutes ago, spener90 said:

Inventory is also a giant pain in the rear to liquidate if you pick a loser.

Are you telling me that even buying at a high discount, and selling at a loss, it can be hard to dump some sets? I simply don't believe it.

A throwback:

On 11/5/2022 at 5:02 PM, brickvoyeur said:

 

Edited October 25, 20232 yr by brickvoyeur

4 hours ago, brickvoyeur said:

Are you telling me that even buying at a high discount, and selling at a loss, it can be hard to dump some sets? I simply don't believe it.

A throwback:

 

There really is no high discount with lego, on average it's 30% plus you still have to factor in shipping, LTL is not that cheap

On 10/24/2023 at 7:53 AM, exciter1 said:

800 /40hrs - $20 hour - more realistic - hey better than $5

he sat on that for 1 1/2 years, you could of flipped it when AZ went oos, then took that profit and did it again, He actually loses money waiting that long.

On 10/25/2023 at 9:17 AM, Bold-Arrow said:

Let me know when I should act surprised... better yet join my exclusive expression REVEAL feed for $5.99 today!!! Dont delay 

Crap, I missed your $5.99 special yesterday. Hopefully I'll get another chance to bite soon

On 10/25/2023 at 9:13 AM, Bricklectic said:

I watched small part of it out of boredom. Basically a nice basic summary (cashback, cc points, coupons, membership, PM, and bunch of other saving techniques) but the main part of it was his pitch to become a member where he would offer tens of thousands in value through his various offerings - his excel inventory, amazon ungating exclusive facebook group etc....

so it was an infomercial

This is some next level hucksterism.  He's clearly been doing his research on how to structure a pitch like this.  "Get all this value for the low low price of $1182."  It's a shame that he doesn't seem to understand that he's undermining the future viability of this great opportunity he's pitching...or maybe he does and just doesn't care.