waddamon Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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). Quote
No More Monkeys Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 I would also assume there would be import fee? And the free shipping is to the port of entry, not to final destination Quote
brickelements Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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 Quote
newbie77 Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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 } Quote
jerryherb Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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! Quote
supergtp1 Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 I called lego... Ssd's are completely sold out and not coming back! Let the panicking begin. Lol Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Quote
mudcatsfan Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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 1 Quote
33Lego Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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. Quote
No More Monkeys Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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". Quote
No More Monkeys Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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" :-) Quote
33Lego Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 You sure it is not: "Ssd's are completely sold out right now and not coming back in the next 30 mins or so". Quote
comicblast Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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? Quote
No More Monkeys Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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 1 Quote
gregpj Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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. Quote
33Lego Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 Down time for e-commerce site is hell. Every minute = xxx k dollars. And for major site, hour = million. Quote
Zien Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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 Quote
No More Monkeys Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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 Quote
naf Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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. Quote
No More Monkeys Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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 Quote
33Lego Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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. Quote
tonysbricks Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 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. Quote
gregpj Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 Hacked by Anonymous. Or Iketart placed dozens of orders for 99 sets again. 1 Quote
33Lego Posted July 30, 2014 Posted July 30, 2014 Or Iketart placed dozens of orders for 99 sets again. the half off SSD ! 1 Quote
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