A new way to earn Brickpoints and increase the quality and quantity of the site's content has been born: Article Suggestions.

Here is how the process will work:

1- Members who don't have the time or simply don't feel like writing an article, but have a great idea for one, will post the idea in this thread. One of the mods will then add the idea to this first post, including who originally posted it.

2- Anyone who is seriously interested in writing an article based on any of the ideas posted in this thread will have the chance to "claim" the one they would like to write about. Basically, it is a way for those that don't have the time to add articles to the site to still add some content, while it gives writers with a fresh pool of new ideas.

3- Once an idea is "claimed", one of the mods will update the thread and mark it as such. For example:

Top Sets of 2013 (Idea by: FCB101) - Claimed by: Quacs
Top Sets of 2014 (Idea by Jeff) - Available

This way we can make sure no one writes about the same idea twice.

4- If a member decides to use an idea from this thread, crediting the member who suggested it is required. The author has to include something like this either at the beginning or the end of the article: "Original idea by: Ed"

5- If an article based on an idea from this thread is submitted AND is published in the Brickvesting Blog or Evaluation Corner, the member who came up with the idea will receive 20% of the total amount of Brickpoints awarded to the author.

For example, if a member writes an article based on an idea from another member and is awarded 500 Brickpoints, the member who suggested the article will receive 100 Brickpoints!

This is a great way to help the site and earn some Brickpoints on the way (you want to have as many as possible to post on the soon to arrive Classifieds, or to purchase a set on the BP Store), so start suggesting anytime!
 

Article Ideas

- 2013 Investment potential of 2013's Holiday promos (Idea by: MartinP) - Claimed by: Veegs

- Impact of feedback on ebay listing price (Idea by Bold-Arrow)

- Polybag investing 101 (By lobo1969)

- TLG efforts to "mislead" investors/resellers (by brickcrazyhouse)
 
-LEGO employee gifts (By darksam007)
 
- Rumors, Investment Advice and Speculation - Should you take action or stick to your strategy? (By exciter1)
 
- Brickmaster Kits (not the Ultimate Stickerbooks): Worth A Flip or Certifiable Flop? (idea by pigdragon)
 
- TMNT theme analysis and relating S@H sold out periods to any secondary market price jumps (idea by Veegs)
 
- Hero Factory (by JuneauJQB) - (Claimed by Eightbrick)

 

- "Renting" sets and sell for profit (by jaisonline)

 

- "Turboflipping" (by rcdb1984) - Claimed by FCB101

 

- Disney Princess theme (by Snarkie)

 

- Bricklink vs eBay (by comicblast) - Claimed by gregpj

 

- Auction vs BIN (by Migration)

 

- Flipping vs Long term holding (by Ed Mack)

 

 

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Ed Mack: "To all members...For future reference, please notify me by PM when you submit an article/blog that was created from an idea on this thread.  It's hard for me to keep track of everything and a simple private message stating that you got your blog idea from another person will help me divvy out the BrickPoints correctly."

Flipper vs. long term investor. This could be a great article. Needs some great data to make work. Do not attempt this piece unless you are willing to back it up with some quality numbers.

I have been thinking about this one for a while, but as you said it really needs to be as accurate as possible to make it work.... We'll see if I can claim the idea in the next week or so. If someone else wants to give it a go, fell free (as I am not sure I will find the time)

This may be related to the polybag idea:

 

Brickmaster Kits (not the Ultimate Stickerbooks): Worth A Flip or Certifiable Flop?

Flipper vs. long term investor. This could be a great article. Needs some great data to make work. Do not attempt this piece unless you are willing to back it up with some quality numbers.

 

 

I have been thinking about this one for a while, but as you said it really needs to be as accurate as possible to make it work.... We'll see if I can claim the idea in the next week or so. If someone else wants to give it a go, fell free (as I am not sure I will find the time)

 

I've been pondering this one as well.  It's a very large topic that would require a lot of research.  At present I think the data we have available limits us a little.  Ideally we could examine the debate by looking at sets that went EOL 3-5 years ago and comparing profits from flipping at the time vs profits from selling now.  The trouble is we only have 1-2 years of monthly price data, so we can't see the flipping prices back 3-5 years ago.  We need to wait another year or 2 and build up the data that we have.  There are some other possible angles you could take but to answer whether flipping or long hold is optimal would at this stage require comparing different Lego sets, leaving it open to "apples vs oranges" problems.

 

I had thought about an article just on the compounding power of flipping and using the last years data as an example.  The "issue" with that though (as with an attempt on the above as well) is that hindsight is 20/20 and when we actually need to make investment decisions we have a somewhat unknown future.  But we can probably still take some sort of learnings from it.

Maybe an article on the new Disney Princess theme?

FCB, I don't have time to author an article but I can contribute data and other information. Basically, I need a ghost writer. ha.

My idea is about how members can buy higher priced retired sets to build (that they normally wouldn't for various reasons - e.g. Eiffel Tower, Cloud City, UCS Falcon) and then sell for a profit. Essentially, people can finally build and own theiir dream sets. The main objective is about building / owning and investing is secondary.

How about an article evaluating Hero Factory? I think that would be interesting. Maybe something like "Can Hero Factory make you Heroic profits?" Or "Hero Factory: Great Legs to Stand on or a bad joint?" Lol

on the note of flipping, i was thinking specifically pertaining to getting a set right when it comes out (mr gold/crawler/delorean) in that 3 day window or so when you can sell a set for much higher than msrp before it comes crashing down once everyone has availability. or when ur the 1st person on ebay to list a new set. (just not sure how to word that into a topic title) "turboflipping" ? Copyright pending on the term LoL

 

I'll try this one. I understand what you mean, but if you want send me a pm with what you want covered feel free

How about an article evaluating Hero Factory? I think that would be interesting. Maybe something like "Can Hero Factory make you Heroic profits?" Or "Hero Factory: Great Legs to Stand on or a bad joint?" Lol

I'll claim this one. Would you be fine with a format similar to my Galaxy Squad article? (http://blog.brickpicker.com/lego-galaxy-squad-wave-1-stellar-investments-or-space-junk/) There's over 100 HF sets so is there something specific you'd like me to focus on (the new wave perhaps, or all available waves, or the first wave, whatever's cool with you), reply here or PM me. If you want me to look over all the sets I might have to stretch it out over several articles. Thanks!

Just a thought. Maybe an article about the investment potential of the Mindstorms robots that would analyze the 31313 Mindstorms EV3, the 8547 Mindstorms NXT 2.0, and the 8527 Mindstorms NXT.

How about an 'Investing in polybags 101' article? Identifying recent sleepers and trends? History of investing in polybags? This is a subject I'm trying to learn more about currently.

 

This will probably get posted shortly - thanks again for the idea.  If I have time I might do a less data dense article on polybag buying/selling unless someone else wanted to cover that.  I've actually got to drop off four polys in the mail before work this morning, so I'm feeling pretty poly-proud at the moment.

Some of you may have noticed this in the dashboard if you were working on your articles.  There is a page here that will allow people to post their blog article ideas and then other members can claim them

 

http://blog.brickpicker.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=idea-manage

(just go into the dashboard area and you will see a menu option for Article Ideas)

 

Only logged in members will have access to this page.  You can post as many ideas as you want.  When someone claims your idea, you will get notified that someone did (right now just a very generic message, but will be enhanced).

 

For those that claim the idea, a button will show up that will say "Write",  please click this link to start writing the blog.  This will tie it all together so that in the end, the person that came up with the article idea will be awarded 50 Brickpoints just for the idea.

Lets test this out and see how it works. Hopefully it will keep things organized and promote good content.

Can we start a page that grants me more time in my life to write blogs? Have a lot of ideas, no time. lol.

Can we start a page that grants me more time in my life to write blogs? Have a lot of ideas, no time. lol.

Lol. I wish. Fortunately it's transition week at my school so I have lots of time .. but I have a long way to catch up to you (4700), Veegs (3300) and Grolim (2300) haha.

 

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