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Hi everyone. Well, after thinking about it for the last couple years, I decided to start up a real life physical retail store selling lego. I’ve been working on getting the space ready for the last couple months, and will open the doors this saturday, October 20th. Starting out, I will be the only employee, but I’m sure that will change very soon. I’ll at least have to hire someone to host the birthday parties we will offer. Since i’m doing this independently, instead of joining a franchise like bricks and minifigs, i don’t exactly know what all to expect, but i’m sure it will be fun. If anyone here is in the rhode island area, come check out the store and say hi.

Decided to build 4 sets into 1 big train station. Will give it more body by using a Tower Bridge set, and add a glass (curved) roof.

Yep got it, panicked. I did a quick search and found this link: https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/lego-group/product-safety/ You can get certificates for most sets it looks like. I couldn't find one for Milano vs. the Abelisk (76081) but all the other ASIN's I got queried about in the email were there. So I guess I'll be sending a bunch of emails to [email protected]. What a pain!

Just go to the restock inventory page, checkbox all items and then click hide recommendations. Hiding them stops them from affecting your score.

FBA in-stock rate has no affect on the Inventory Performance Index. This was straight from Amazon when booksellers went beserk about their thousands of one offs not being replenishable. The big items are sell through rate and excess inventory. Aim to turn every 30 days if you can and aim for all of your skus to be less than 90 days old. Do that and there is no way to have a score less than 600. If you do delete a listing and a customer returns then it will go into stranded inventory. From there you can relist it if it is deemed to be in sellable condition or recall/have it destroyed.

Honoring GC's and rewards programs... Continue to (cautiously) plunder Kmart/Sears as normal...

Currently in stock. Limit of 3 per order. https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/lego-classic-creative-box-10704-walmart-exclusive/6000196458034

Brick Bank back in stock at WM for $145.70.

In stock 26 October. 79,99€ https://www.promobricks.de/lego-ideas-21315-brick-tales-pop-up-book-bei-ebay-aufgetaucht-mit-bild/69914

I prefer that as well and they can all be attachments.

I am preparing one inclusive email......

From personal experience , every time I delete listings in batches my score goes up .

I picked up the whole SW line. Leia, Darth Vader, Luke/Yoda, and Boba Fett. Finished the Leia yesterday as it was the last to show up with it being backordered. Fun little builds. Hope to see more SW Brickheadz from the OT. Edit: Forgot about the Stormtrooper, already had that one.

Set 6866 would be a good place to start ?

you can replenish your stock when your storage goes below 10 cuft. If you go over I believe the current rate is $10/cuft. in storage fees.

it is a good practice to delete items what you wont restock , specifically RO/RA items.

Was anyone else legit scared at the wolf with yellow minifig hands?

delete the item. some people would rather wait 30 days ( return window ) , others delete after last item ships. If you delete and get a return, item will go to stranded. relist under same sku and you good.

This answers it for me: I would sell in bulk. Might be worth looking into values of individual minifigures, but we will all be dead by the time you successfully put back together 300 sets.

Florence Cathedral by Stephen Busbee

Pics would be nice. I’d like to see what the store looks like.

Minifigure frame is live on LEGO Shop at Home.

or Polish TRU.

Come to Canada.

OK. So where to start. Are these new and boxed? Did you buy with a view to selling or are they a collection? To get a value, stick them all into your Brickfolio and take it from there....

Yes. The collector's insurance I use is... https://collectinsure.com/ It's about $800.00 a year for $300,000.00 in coverage.

Yep. You missed it.

I randomly decided to check LetGo this morning and scored with this 10221 for $60!It is super dusty but appears near complete (minus minifigs).

I got 2x entire frist wave as well - imagine at RRP!

I wonder why my credit card limit is maxed out with fraud alerts

i wonder why people wonder

4x4 technic crawler was limited edition with 20k made.

Hogwarts Express by david zambito

So I found out my apartment survived with minimal damage luckily. But it could be up to 2 months or more before the electricity and water is back, before I can move back. The whole grid /infrastructure is gone. The people that do have water there have to boil it since it could be contaminated. Gas leaks have been reported. My firefighter brother in law is working full time. Like FULL TIME 24/7 on call, literally living at his fire station, since it's one of the few places in the area with electricity. They don't have water to shower, so you literally got like 30 guys in close quarters, on bunk beds, working like 12 hours a day just chainsawing trees off the roads, and wiping off as best they can with wet wipes. Eventually he'll move into working 24 hours on/24 hours off. But with the electricity out, I guess he'll pretty much be living at his station for a little while. It's crazy. My landlord who stayed had his roof ripped off as he and one of his tenants that stayed layed in a bathtub under a mattress, but luckily they survived. Most of the cell towers are all out, so they can only use certain brands of prepaid phones. I can't even imagine how long it'll be before the area is actually livable. You can look online and see aerial views of everything and entire forests were knocked over, hundreds of thousands probably of 100 ft tall pine trees and downed power lines everywhere. Pretty much all the stores/gas stations/restaurants/schools/churches are seriously damaged if not rubble. The only really intact are the really big ones, Wal-Mart, Target, Sam's Club, and such. And even then, they often had large sections of roof partially ripped off. If I had to guess maybe a third of the houses seriously damaged or gone. So looks like I'll probably be living at my parents for a couple months. They're going in tomorrow in my dad's truck to retrieve what they can from our houses and come back with our cats. It was a surprise. Everyone's in shock. Usually it's only like a category 2 or 3 and even then they usually weaken significantly before they make landfall. And this was essentially a category 5. It was like the third or fourth strongest on record by pressure/wind speeds and whathaveyou. Anyone in Florida knows you'll get a few each year routinely and 95% of the time it's basically just a big thunderstorm, strong winds and rain. I remember thinking it was ridiculous and a waste of gas, overkill for my sister to insist we leave, knowing we'd get back and have a few palm branches in the yard and all these extra cases of water for nothing. Because that's usually what happens. And when you do get a bad one, it's usually off in Cuba or Costa Rica or somewhere and it's hard to relate to just pictures. And when it's closer to your area, odds are you'll just get the edge of it. But everything came together like it does every 15 years or so with an Andrew or a Katrina, and it's a direct hit, it's a strong 4/5, it doesn't weaken. It's alot to take in. Just the weekend before we stopped at some yard sales, and a Goodwill, hunting for Halloween costumes, and stopped and got donuts at a local place. That exact Goodwill and donut place basically don't exist now a week later. They look like they went through one of those garbage compactors at the dump. And that's not the exception, that's the norm.