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I have nothing. all I know is a long time ago I was told do not borrow money to buy stock and would not shorting a stock be the same. In the free market no one should have been frozen out of selling their shares. You can not predict the events of the future . (you can think you know but you can never be sure) A lot of people learned that lesson this week (or were reminded). You know my Disney shares went up about 4% today (yeah for me) but I also think I will own those shares in thirty years.

I have no idea why or how this got to my Youtube feed, but now you can laugh at it too

The old and the new...Yoda and The Child. Or is this back to the future, or forward to the past???

Knowing how life has gone the past 12 months, I’d end up rich but quarantined like Thurston Howell III.

F it. I am now part of the insanity

Some sellers do have real invoices. Besides...Amazon is not always a rational actor when it comes to these types of decisions.

As an option trader, I agree that you have more risk with greater volatility. I disagree with some of the points however. Selling naked puts, you can owe more than the stock is worth, but the most you would owe is the strike price, but some of that is offset by what you sold the option for. And most accounts won’t let you sell naked puts without experience and the cash on hand to buy them. Similarly, if you bought the same stock and it went down in value, you’d be out the same amount but you wouldn’t have the sale proceeds. So, owning the stock would have been net worse. Assuming you continue to hold the stock and it doesn’t recover. You can lose a lot of money on selling naked calls. But very few brokers will let you do that. You can sell covered calls and then you may just end up forgoing some profits on the stock you used to own. Buying and trading puts and calls can result in losing the money you put into them if they expire before you make money on them. It’s basically a time versus price movement gamble you take. If you have a hunch about a stock but you don’t have the money to buy the full shares, then this is a good strategy. For example, I made a little money last year buying puts on stocks I expected to be hammered by COVID when it was first starting to make news and before most investors connected the consequences to airline and movie theater stocks. That second article is misleading. In those cases, people converted their options to stocks. If the options expired worthless, they’d owe no taxes on them. But once you exercise them, you owe taxes on the gains — which is the difference between the exercise price and market value when they are exercised. And the employee has to pay the exercise amount up front. But the employee would have gotten something of value — albeit stock and not cash — they still owe taxes on it that year. If the stock goes down in value, they can claim short or long-term losses depending on how long they held the stock, but they will only be capped to $3k in losses a year and carry the remaining forward to the next year. But in all of these scenarios, it wasn’t the options that got them—it was that the company wasn’t required to withhold taxes on the stock conversion. Most companies abandoned options however because of the accounting rules changes and issue shares of stock instead. Those have tax consequences on the day they vest. And most companies will auto-sell enough on the vesting day to pay the taxes on the remaining shares. That way the employee can’t be stuck with a surprise tax bill if they do nothing. But right now I’m watching GME for entertainment purposes. Not touching that action with a 10-foot pole. Because while people think they are making money, until they sell, it’s only on paper. If they are buying it for $300 thinking it will go to $1000, it can just as easily drop to $50 tomorrow — with or without brokerages putting buy restrictions in place. Nobody is expecting GME to stay at $300. When folks finally bail and move to something new, it will snap back and people will lose money.

Not entirely correct, shorting is much riskier that buying shares. You have additional borrow fees. Shares be can recalled by your brokerage at anytime and you are forced to buy back, unlimited upside risk, etc. etc. etc.

Well I dare say that the 2020 numbers will be skewed due to the current situation... As of now TLG has reported stronger sales than expected, as of September consumer sales in all markets, including western Europe were up 14%, this is before the holiday rush so I would imagine they will show strong gains for the second half. I would also take your argument and apply it to Held der Steine and turn it around the emergence of the high quality competitors such as CADA (which I understand are very high quality products) have only really emerged in the past couple of years so the fact that he started as 100% LEGO doesn't really carry much weight to me, there weren't that many competitors until just recently. Having said all that I do see in general more acceptance here in the U.S., especially by younger folks, of the actual knockoff brands. That is a real problem for LEGO, and a hard one for them to solve unless they can get support from the home governments of these brands to move forward with litigation. In any event, I think if there is a little competition for LEGO that will only benefit everyone. I'm just not sure if I readily accept that this 'attack' on one person represents a downward turn for TLG. I think that LEGO is going through a bit of an identity crisis right now, looking for ways to capture more market share and I think that how they come out of that over the next couple of years will have far more affect on their sales (and status) in the global market than any legitimate competitor.

can't forget the Anniversary unique Star Wars Minifigure. It's not just the box label but a collectible token for the anniversary. It should huice the appreciation a little...but by far the Book of Boba will be the main booster for interest in this set...and by Dec the set will be "well retired" and memories of clearance prices will be long gone...the new "floor" in pricing should be well established with no clear ceiling for growth.

Not a ton, but I flipped a few Aston Martin's during the holidays. Even had one returned after that still sold above RRP. I'm surprised at the number of sets I thought I was going to be stuck with that still sold above RRP. I was prepared to just dump and move on. Some I just broke even (or close) at but that was a win for me.

This is the first I am hearing about this. I live in the U.S. and am not a native German speaker, though I grew up and lived in Switzerland for many years. I don't think this is grabbing much attention outside of Germany for several reasons. I can only speak for the U.S as that is where I currently live and have experience dealing with issues of copyright and fair use (I'm not a lawyer but in my work this is a topic we are constantly engaging with). In the U.S. this kind of litigious action is very common, big companies will often go after people who they feel are infringing on their copyright (usually this takes the form of a cease and desist letter first, and if no action is taken then it can lead to further legal action), so in some ways this wouldn't really be seen as newsworthy. As you said this is primarily a German story with most discussion occurring in German so that automatically takes it out of the larger realm of discussion in the worldwide LEGO community. Now for my opinion (I know- I know what they say about opinions). This is the first that I have looked into Thomas Panke, and I have to say that from an outsider's perspective it appears that he is at least partly pushing the "outrage" button in a move to increase engagement on his videos - this may not be outrightly intentional, just a result of seeing that videos on this topic get a lot of comments, drive up engagement and increase views, thus it becomes a bigger topic. In any event I certainly wouldn't look at the notorious youtube comment section or ratios as an indication of a greater trend. Also I have to say I'm not 100% confident in the reputability of BILD which seems to be the primary (traditional) news organization reporting on this (I admit fully I could be wrong on this as my understanding may well be out of date). As far as Bluebrixx goes, if you look into it a bit further it appears that LEGO mostly had issue with sets containing minifigures, and as they state they consider the minifig, with its precise proportions to be a trademark of LEGO. In the U.S. we would say that this is "Making a mountain out of a molehill". As far as LEGO Sales being down in Germany, maybe in brick and mortar retail shops, but it would appear that overall, including online sales this is not the case. A quick google search brings up this info: https://www.statista.com/statistics/671661/sales-toy-market-germany/ Which indicates that LEGO along with Brandstätter lead sales in the growing toy market there. As a moc maker and designer I can fully see where people like Janke are coming from, I have plenty of gripes with the designs of some LEGO sets, but I don't see that as large enough portion of the LEGO market to make that big of a dent (and many of us AFOLS still spend $$$$$ each year on official LEGO sets despite our misgivings). Granted, again, I will admit I am not that familiar with the German LEGO afol community. If you've made it this far thanks for reading lol. If this is a topic you are interested in you can see more here https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-play/ where LEGO goes over what they consider copyright infringement and what they don't in great detail - and you can see where they may have issue with people like Janke and Bluebrixx, whether those objections are legal or not, well that is up to the courts to decide...

One of Trump's failures was he did not disclose all of secrets stuffs behind AREA 51/52/53/54 before he left office 👎

SAH has a new VIP survey about space for 15 points. LEGO seems interested in knowing if you believe aliens exist. This is not a joke. https://www.lego.com/en-us/vip/rewards-center

I also had a very fruitful clearance round, but how could I pass up ~60% off being shipped to my door?!

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My wife asked me why I didn’t get in on this. After reading your post....that’s why. I am totally dumb on this topic. I’ll just sit by and watch. I don’t have money to burn on this. I think I’m some on some topics, but this one I claim no smarts at all.

Yeah, but $420.69 specifically? Where’s your toke smiley? Lol

Wow, now y'all buying Blockbuster stock. Jesus.

This is good advice. When I joined this site a 2 year hold after retirement was the norm. No patience anymore.

$150 craigslist pick up. Now I have to take it apart and bag it so my little dude can build it.

Nope, Santa has been the best to date! $400 this Christmas for a $75 set. Not half bad.

cool; I think we're coming from different perspectives...I am not selling on Amazon so for me a $20 set selling for $60 is not moving the needle much for me, but a $99 set selling for $200 is. I honestly don't know what to do w/ all the small sets I have...the LOE to sell exceeds my level of laziness atm...even at x3.

There are many picks that never get discussed here (for the most part), but just take Zombie as a recent example. It dried up and hit 3x buy-in before another big shipment hit. Don't get me wrong, I'll buy GB every chance I get, but I don't expect to be able to buy hundreds of them and so I'm not concerned about having too many. This past year has been great, but its not the norm. Many sets appreciated that were stagnating before. Disclaimer: Past performance is no guarantee of future results. You should consult with your investment advisor before making financial decisions.

Robinhood is dead. The sacrificial lamb. They served their purpose.

On Robin Hood. They're still holding their stock there as they can't transfer it out instantly but, they'll move to a different broker as soon as they sell their shares.

Isn’t it this? Wall Street has got to think they can outlast the common folk, right? This is a fascinating exercise in crowdsourcing information and the power of group think.

Pricing comes down to supply and demand If the last trading price is $x, if there is now demand at >$x and there is now supply at >$x, then a trade takes place at a price >$x. If a hedge fund or any other investor wants to cover a naked short position by buying the underlying stock, then such investor could put in a bid of $y. If all asking prices are >$y, then the bid is not executed. If there is a asking price <= $y, then the bid is executed. Traders could see these bids, asks, and completed transactions. Based on this data, traders could adjust their bid and ask prices, thus impacting supply and demand.

....Well this thread got serious. Time for another classic.

I personally don't put much stock in the 20th anniversary label. But as a fan it is a great set. It has good accuracy (for a non-UCS model), great playability and really good figures. There is no doubt that the leap in value is due to The Mandalorian and Boba's return, and I am holding the few I have left until at least the book of Boba because I think that there will be even more increased interest in the ship then.

That price is a little too suspicious to be real.

All 3 of my LEGO Shop at Home Diagon alley orders placed 1/1 “will ship in 60 days” got the required courtesy email today that the item is still OOS, and will ship when available. Has anyone seen or know of this set being available at any other retailers in the USA? My lego store got the original shipment in for 9/1 which didn’t sell out until BF and have never gotten a restock. The Cantina which came out after has already been available or listed at Amazon, Target, BB, amd Walmart just wondering if DA may truly end up being a Lego exclusive. It should be the first in a series similar to Ninjago City but also heard that they HP liscense is due to expire in 2022 so maybe only 2 add on sets at best. There is a $249 HP D2C set scheduled for this year hoping for a Gringotts.

looking forward to when redditors figure out they are being played by just more big boys that could put all their cash into a big pile and start a fire and they would never burn out of cash. Being told to continue to hold is the equivalent of be out in the wild, encountering a bear, you tell you friends to stay still and don't' move, while you run away. I'm not far off am I?

That's definitely wrong, it's up 882%. I almost quadrupled my money. https://coinmarketcap.com/de/currencies/dogecoin/

I have a good friend who just this year caught the winter village Lego bug and she asked me if I had any tips for getting the older sets. Now, she is a "used with no box is fine" person, but the point remains: people fall into this wonderful collectible Christmas trap every year, so demand will be seasonal but steady for the foreseeable. Plus, this is easily the best WV set Lego has put out, so I intend, like many of you, to get my hands on as many as possible.

I looked, couldn’t buy it on Coinbase... gave up.

The LEGO creator car series (or the whatever the series names are/will be) has been simply awesome (as a fan). This and the Technic super car line are great for car enthusiast and LEGO fans alike. My only gripe is a general lack of a consistent size ratio, but that probably comes w its own issues.

Good luck with that IPO Robinhood 😂

And sheeple think the world is not being manipulated by big money

Cinderella’s Castle Celebration 43178 back at WM for $12.50. https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Disney-Cinderella-s-Castle-Celebration-43178-Building-Kit-168-Pieces/512182884

You are sooo going to be a LEGO reseller

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You two get this Beskar to the ship while we try an locate some more.