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The black card worked wonders for me. I was in line at the local coffee shop and I reached in my wallet and picked up my LEGO card by mistake. A few young ladies saw me whip out a black card and instantly their interest me tripled. I could feel their gazes and hear them licking their lips at the thought. Then my thumb moved and they spotted the Millennium Falcon, and not the Mastercard logo. Not only did their interest drop, but it fell in half compared to the original interest level. My wife had quite the laugh.

Anyone who has ever had a boat or a dock knows there’s nothing cheap about either

Newbies flippin 6 month old sets on clearance for $5 profit and Exciter be like, Das cute. I sell 4 digit lego ID sets.

D2C set with estimated RRP around 160 euros and release probably in March or April seeing as the boxes are already available.

Leave it to the community to get creative:

Still buying Chima? X2 Glad I had to stop for milk.

COme on, TLG would never rip off a rejected Ideas candidate.... Seems it has the same box size as Saturn V.

calm dahn?

When I´m lost, I use Alpine Maps too.

Thanks for the input. I've decided, after reading 30 pages of almost all glowing feedback (plus one negative from over a year ago from someone who claims they didn't get their item), to send the guy a message via EBay checking if he really wanted mine when there are 20+ listing at half price. I mentioned that I appreciated a quick response, and that lack of response meant I would cancel the order. Hopefully I get a "oh shoot, sorry" response and all is well. If not, I cancel. EDIT: Phew, glad I did this: "Yes I did not authorize or purchase this. Please cancel it and I will get in contact with eBay". Looks like he got hacked.

starting over business relationships that have been built the last 19+ years is the most aggravating thing to me. Everything was centralized, then they wanted to spin off, now they want to dump all together. Confusing when you built the brand names and they have been synonymous within each other for the last nearly 2 decades. Paypal had some rough customer service spurts during the middle years but they have been rock solid for me the past 5-7 years as far as customer support and services offered for large accounts goes. Be interesting to see what comes of this after it is all unveiled but I am not optimistic.

#Jealous

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/7uld5f/lego_ninjago_70657_the_dockyards/

Did a small carpentry job for friends in-laws as a favor. They gave me $150 Lego gc which I used on a ninjago city with 60yrs set a couple days ago. Today I went to the Lego store to get a sat v for me and the 2 seasonal brickheadz for my kids Easter baskets and another 60yrs set. Used $20 in vip points.

Here’s the full album: http://imgur.com/gallery/ytjVO

Just for reference, here is the link to the original IDEAS proposal from 2015, which had 800 pieces. Knowing how TLG like to put cheese slopes and 1x1´s everywhere, I estimate a lot more pieces for a 10 inch high version https://ideas.lego.com/projects/0fb496b8-e406-421f-b9f0-bba4f476fbce

Very few people looked at lego sets as a speculative investment play when GG retired (in 2010 (!)), which is why few copies were saved and prices for it are high now---demand is reasonable, but supply is low. GG also sat for a long time at 20% off on the shop-at-home website in Oct of that year, showing that demand was moderate for it, even then. 2018 might as well be a different world: more copies of modulars are being produced, many are being horded, and they don't last for weeks on sale. Depending on your time line and buy-in price, any set can successfully appreciate. I think the "buy it, forget about it, then cash it in" days for modulars are long past, however. Tread cautiously.

I've decided to make a pause and ignore my crypto holdings for the month of February. Will look at the rates again after my birthday in March. Hopefully it will be on a more sunny side by then.

Anybody who is reading this thread and disappointed with the offer needs to call LEGO customer service today and let them know we expected better. We were early adopters of the biggest and most expensive set ever and were promised great value, and we’re getting peanuts. I think the worst thing about the double VIP points promo is that there’s not even really anything that great out in the Star Wars theme right now. I wouldn’t even know what to buy, everything is kind of lame. Anybody have any suggestions? Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum

Bang On Another Thousand.

I bet you make more on the promo.

I guess Ebay want to improve the experience for hackers as now they will have access to funds as well as ebay accounts under the same roof.

Whoever got all my Legoland sets for a single figure sum back in 1984 did well for themselves.

They suck you in with a cheap boat only to deliver a punch to the stomach with the dock.

Lego only puts out a really nice ship once every few years. The last great one was QAR and that was 6 years ago. This set will be appreciated and sought after long after it's gone. I'm in it for the long haul.

Percentage wise, the drop today was only marginally significant. We’ll see what happens next week.

So long as they stay the hell away from Lego it´s all good.

Bitcoin is currently trading at $8,540 USD. Personally, I think Ethereum (ETH) is in a better position to gain in value than BTC. But I wouldn't do anything today. In fact, I would wait for the dust to completely settle from this ongoing sell-off.

..and some more. Dow plunged 600 points BTC will go to 5k next week...or two. Sent from my SM-N900T using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

Mr ADHD when it comes to titles (me) has been busy all day with my little ones having the day off from school. I fixed it even better than Greg did.

Is the bottle half empty or half full then?

I changed it.

I was shocked to see this today in a local toy shop (Intertoys). A bad sign if you ask me. Not even to talk about the fact that they’ve put these sets below the Nexo Knights. Maybe that’s a sign/forecast for the possible gains for Ideas sets here in Holland from now on.. ? Here in the Netherlands Ideas sets were, from what I’ve experienced, exclusive to SAH. And now they’re apparently also available to ‘the public mom and dad who has no clue about the existence of SAH’. Now I feel a little less confident of my SAH orders (4x) for the Apollo from the last couple of days. 60 years sets makes the pain a little more bearable, but nonetheless.. ?

Just wait for better deals on STAR WARS sets in a few months from other retailers. Double VIP isn't always the best discount.

It has a light brick for his power source that's pretty cool.

Which he bought the day before using his time machine

OMG, I just build the Valentine's Bee brickheadz - my first. It's so cute, and the bunny looks even cuter. I'm hooked, to a degree. I'll buy 2 or 3 of each, if I like them - one for me, one to sell. I find it... perplexing, knowing there are bricks in the center that we can't see, that aren't really doing anything, and are unusual colors... I think I'm going to have to do an alt build of some sort... I also love the new flowers - this is the first time I've had my hands on them.

They already have. "We are seeing someone else too, ok? You don´t need to know his name, right but he´s younger than you and is growing much faster. Oh, can you lend me 2 quid for the bus? I´ll pay you back on Monday."

All threads lead to the bubble or bitcoin threads eventually, anyway.

Ahhh, the days before Fire Stations had helicopters.

They are worth what you're willing to pay and they are not easy to sell. Those prices are on the high-end.

this is crushing paypal stock in the afterhours - down 11%. not surprising that this happened. paypal's value now dwarfs ebay's. paypal is a means of payment at all ebay's competing marketplaces and retailers so paypal is facilitating ebay's competition and getting bigger and bigger. ebay will become a large stake holder in Adyen and make a killing when it IPOs later this year. the cycle begins anew. this can't be good for sellers.

FBM - 4429 - City: Helicopter Rescue - $175

It's just a section. You can buy about 800 of them to complete it.

(all FBA) i've sold 11 for $97.99 so go figure. great return on a $35 buyin. all of the first order sets people took a leak on are going to surprise to the upside. sold 8x First Order Snowspeeders for $54.99, buyin $19 in the last 3 weeks also. sold 8x little red racer creator cars 31055 I picked up online clearance for $3.23 less than 4 weeks ago for $14.79. yeah baby - little sets getting it done. only 67x more to sell. 9x Friends Foal washing stations for $21.99 (buyin $4 a month ago). 8x Rebel Trooper battle packs for $20 each - buyin $4 2 weeks ago. 6x Speed Champions F150 Raptor -Model A for $74.99, buyin $25 during last years TRU 50% off sale. 5x Juniors Lost Temples for $44.90 each, buyin during Target's clearance blow out last summer for $11.63. glad i went deep on these.

Hello pot.

You greedy Brits wanting even more LEGO stores ... The Netherlands hasn't got any LEGO store! TLG expects us to drive for a few hours to either Germany (Oberhausen or Essen) or Belgium (Wijnegem) for the D2C sets, seasonal sets and Ideas sets that are not sold in 3rd party toy stores in The Netherlands. If there's ONE country in Europe that finally deserves to get their own LEGO store it's The Netherlands!

So he can have a harem of women to dance around his throne made of Saturn V boxes But possibly, but less likely, to pair together for selling

Get an iphone or a cheap video camera. I videotape every single box I pack. About 2-3 years ago, a guy I shipped a $15,000 baseball card to (Eddie Mathews 1952 Topps, PSA 7) said I sent him a $5 card. I met with the police and provided the postmaster general with a copy of the video. Guess who is in jail or heavily fined for trying to commit mail fraud? That guy. Guess who saved $15,000 by taking a 2 minute video with his Canon Pure Shot camera? This guy.