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Lol! My aunt (in law?) stopped over tonight to see my wife and saw a slew of new lego boxes that just came in from uk. She asked shouldn't we hide Will's toys until Christmas. My wife explained about our side business and gave her a tour of all the lego collection areas in the house....she was as close to in shock as you can get without smelling salts...especially when she saw the bulk I just bought in the laundry room. She sat down and had some coffee...and asked my wife if we ever saw the show hoarders! I kid you not! When she was leaving she came up to say bye to my son in his room, then ducked in the bathroom to say bye to me. She leaned over the tub ( where I was bathing my new bulk find--tub had at least 100 pounds and nearly full--with mr bubble everywhere. Not sure how long she was there..I turned around when I had that feeling that someone is watching you...she gave me a funny look, shook her head and left. Without saying goodbye! My wife said when she was leaving she asked if she I knew I was upstairs bathing Legos!? My wife said she knew and was heading up to help me....then she asked if the rest of the family knew!? Nope---not yet--but I bet they will now! My wife said to expect an intervention on thanksgiving! I'll be sure to have the fall scene and a bunch of lego turkey's as the center piece.

That means the upper class that can actually afford Lego gets to benefit from the low prices. It'll be tough for all of us to resell. No beuno.

I might buy some to run over with my car

The stupid got thick in here fast. Greedy capitalist bastards! Now where are those coupons so I can go get 4 more architectural studios. That's the problem with you folks...you forget there is always someone poorer than you, when you rant against the rich and successful. I can take you into some areas of providence or Boston where you are the greedy bastard running around trying to corner the lego architectural studio market. You'll get your teeth knocked in if they see you walking down the street with $400 in legos. Even if you carry a Romney/Bain sucks sign. Still can't believe so many find this site, and complain about capitalism and rich people. Most of us here respect the successful, and want to join them...not despise them. Greed and jealousy are close cousins. Are you a better person because you don't use lbo to load companies with debt, try to ipo them after a turn around, or break them out to creditors? You are working harder than Romney? By buying up lego sets before Christmas, so parents need to get their gifts from you at huge mark ups instead of the store for retail price? Are you more noble than venture capital, than private equity? Take your jealousy elsewhere please. We are all greedy here, and want to make the most money for the least amount of work/risk. Willy<-greedy and wants to be like Romney Private equity bought kb fao, and tru for a reason. They were for sale. Why..because they were going bankrupt ANYWAY! And the stupid comes out when you bring up Romney's name. He left Bain ****** 2001. Bain was EQUAL partners with kkr and vornado when they bought these 3 stores... In 2005.

Hogwarts 4842 and 4867 New for $ 270. Not great, but still a decent deal.

Did the 15% off coupon expire already?

They should just change the status to "Tired".

I would hate it if they do go under - mostly because I love finding ways to get around their dumbass pricing schemes. The one thing I will say - My TRU is packed, all the time. They sell a lot. So this isn't Kmart, or at least not where I am.

Bought a Tie Interceptor for 345$ sealed. Sold it today for $580 - 6 days later. Gonna use the same box it came to me in!

My in laws are similar to yours. I don't think they 'get' what a business is. I can tell when my wife's been talking to them, because she'll come back at me with "Well where's all of this money you're making then?" And I point to another huge stack of Lego boxs and say, "Right there, it's reinvested." I explain to them that there's a very small window of time where you can really exploit the toy market, and that's between September 1st and about December 22nd. Every dollar I spend on toys returns about 2 dollars back. They look at you like you're nuts. I think after the Christmas season is over, I'll take a little hiatus and count my earnings, pay my taxes, account my inventory, and then gloat. I may just go to the bank and get it all out in Dollar Coins. The gold ones. Fill my tub and swim in it Scrooge McDuck Style.

The nearest one is a little more than 300 miles away so no I don't. I can't wait to hear that Shopko spiel start up again come January. Then again, we get to hear more stories of you draggin' your dad around for them Legos! :lol:

Funny how this set sits for months at 30% to 50% off, then all of a sudden as soon as it is starting to dry up, people will pay over retail. The human race baffles me.

Come on Willy From Brickdiction, by Bill Deen

I was listening to Clark Howard this AM on the radio. He said retailers like Walmart and Target increased purchasing by 65% for the christmas season earlier in the year when the economy was supposed to experience it's "escape velocity". Since then the govt shutdown, the healthcare mess, and "fiscal cliff" have shattered consumer confidence. THe result is that these major retailers need to unload a ton of Christmas inventory. Look for prices to start dropping drastically on items the next few weeks. ***again...this is just what i heard on the radio, but Clark Howard is a pretty knowledgable guy when it comes to cosumerism, so take it for what it's worth.

Luckily he only works weekends! Easy pickings during the week! This is the last bulk lot I an buying! I promise! (Fingers crossed) <-you didn't get a call from robin hood yet...did you? Ok..be there in 10. Don't check email or answer phone until then.

Are you saying that all the Kmarts have gone... COLD?!?!?! I win this thread.

If I were to list something for $50 when it is really worth half that and still someone bites, the only person at fault is the buyer as it is their choice to do so. No one forced them and that was their choice to make. No to both remarks. If a seller places a 'well below value' price on their item then they were lax in researching current market value thoroughly or perhaps the person just needed to get rid of it quickly (for a move or something), and items change their exclusivity all the time (think polybags) so you can't blame someone for trying to capitalize on that 'exclusiveness' while the item still yields it (Comic-Con 2011 Superman & Comic-Con 2013 Azog for example). If we are going into the 'Walmart Wednesday' fiasco, well, the company needed to close down the site for the day on maintenance but despite all the incorrect listings they still kept the site up. Some people scored big simply because they wanted to and you can't exactly fault them for that unless one of them was the unknown hacker who deliberately attacked Walmart's site just so they could get some cheap Lego or more than likely steal people credit card numbers from all the charges that day. As for in store, if I were to find a set with an official clearance tag on it yet still rings up retail (or even a slightly higher price), I will have them match the sticker price. I'll even go to customer service if need be because it is their actual sticker slapped across the box. I did not put it there so it had to be a store employee unless some random guy is running around printing these things yet doesn't buy them him/herself. There is a point where I may question what the price sticker is doing there but, hey, if I find say a Pirate Ship Ambush for $40 in the clearance aisle I'm snagging it so fast your head would spin right off. There is a line such as running out of the store with unpaid goods, swapping price stickers, creating false UPC codes, site hacking, etcetera, but "buying too low" or "selling too high" makes little sense. Far as buying goes, if someone at Target slaps a sale sticker or messes up the price on an item, it is their mistake and I should not feel guilty for buying it. And with selling, any jackwagon can list whatever they want for the price they wish but it only works when someone comes along and is willing to pay. Otherwise it is much like every other unsold listing.

Are you just trying to stir the pot? I mean seriously, you do realize that you're on a website that is based on the purchase of legos at the lowest possible price (why we all alert each other to deals) and hold them for as long as you can to sell them at a higher price later? Is there something wrong with purchasing a share of Walmart stock today, with the hopes that it will grow in value so that you can sell it later on for more money? How about gold? Should we not purchase gold or other precious metals with the hopes it will be more valuable in the future? Are you going to sell your house for the exact same price you paid for it 10 years ago, if the real estate market has increased it's value? Of course not. One of the major concepts of this site is to buy legos as an investment. It's why there's a portfolio for your lego purchases. You claim that a seller has no knowledge of it's value. Hmmm... if we were in 1980 I'd say you have a point. However, this is 2013. All you have to do is type in the information on the front of your box into eBay and you can see EXACTLY what they are going for. If a person CHOOSES to ignore all of the tools at their disposal and still sells for considerably less than it's worth, then shame on them. Forgive me if I don't see a deal and tell them, "Oh, that's WAAAAAY too low. Allow me to pay you exactly what it's worth." Walmart, Target, and Toys R Us don't operate like this. They purchase their legos from Lego for much less than they are selling them for. So why don't you take your soapbox over to them and lecture them too on the evil practices of capitalism.

I'm not clear if you're claiming Willy is as soulless as Johnny Depp, but there's a rather important difference between the items' owner (or agent) offering up a lot of Lego at $50 and Willy/Johnny paying the asking price without going into details on the ultimate fate of the items in question, versus Johnny coming in as an expert, claiming the items he wants are worthless when he knows differently, and offering a few cents on the dollar after lying about their value. Any seller of Lego or rare books has every opportunity to do their own research on non-biased venues to determine what they're worth and then try to get that price. I am under no obligation to educate the lazy, shiftless, busy, distracted, or stupid; nor am I interested in humoring any bizarre notion that a pile of commodity children's toys ought not to be resold to anyone who isn't going to hand them to a deserving starving waif and/or the nearest spoiled brat they have jurisdiction over.

This is the beginning of The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp. Great movie, but the beginning is a great example of how to get a great deal and ***** every else's deal down the road. Had I not a soul, I think I would be doing this very same thing. It's not a big part of the movie, but its a great scene. Depp is a rare books collector/dealer/swindler. He goes into an estate where a son is selling a huge collection of rare books that were his fathers, but the father is on his deathbed and cannot speak. Depp tells the son that the previous offers from other dealers were insults and that his collection is actually worth 10x the amount the other dealers were offering. He goes on to explain how the son can get a huge increase in the sale price by taking time and having each book evaluated, but it will take a long time. When he is done inflating the son's ego and dollar-imprinted eyes, he mentions an almost worthless set of Don Quixote books that he could take off the son's hands for 5 thousand cash right now. Of coarse the Don Quixote are worth hundreds of thousands, and the others are nice, but no where near what Depp has suggested. He leaves the estate with the Don Quixote in hand and another dealer approaches him on the way out. He is screaming at Depp for ruining his own deal by giving ridiculously high prices to to son. It's all a mind game, and I can see how one could have fun manipulating sales like this. Anyway, great movie, but that scene reminds me of this whole CL post.

Attention stock holders of S&P500 companies. Shame on you for buying stock when its cheap and selling when its high. You should sell it at what you paid for it or less. ....for the children.