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I remember joining this site a long long time ago and I'm glad that I still have my username active and could access it. I started investing in Lego a way long time ago, maybe 12 years ago, sold off a bunch of my inventory to go into other investments and adventures seven years ago, and now I'm back. My love of Lego has been reborn in raising my two sons and seeing the products Lego has been putting out and the way the economy is going I feel like it's time to get back into Lego.

Also, for those that did not already grab one from Scheels they have them back in stock for shipping with $35 Honey https://www.scheels.com/p/lego-technic-mclaren-formula-1-race-car/42884-6379491.html

Built Ares from 76075 Wonder Woman Warrior Battle

Welcome back. The sets LEGO is producing currently are just amazing. A decade ago, we would have never imagined how much the packaging and designs would improve . Almost every set is a keeper today.

Aimee Mann, didn't have to Google. Lead singer of 'Til Tuesday I believe, famous for their MTV hit "Voices Carry".

Welcome back! Wanna be a mod? @Bold-Arrow is a slacker and needs replaced. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

WTF....and I thought @oneknightr taking a pic after our transaction was "for Brickpicker" 😁

UCS Luke having the nervous sh*ts before the trench run

The kid looks hopped up on Mountain Dew!

F1 available at LLNY,,,limit 1...https://shop-newyork.legoland.com/collections/lego-creator-technic-speed-champions-ideas-and-art/products/lego®-technic™-mclaren-formula-1™-race-car-42141

She'll put on a great show. She hasn't had many hits, but she is an amazing song writer.

had to google out of curiosity lol

This has to be one of the worst music videos ever, but I am posting it because I was always enamored with the female vocalist and only now 35 years later found out who it was. Anyone know, no Google, winner gets a Chima polybag,

All Walgreens orders from earlier today shipped...

Oh my goodness. Sadowsk1! It has been a long time. Welcome back! You are one of the few members who has been around longer than I have. Children are the perfect reason to get back into LEGO. At least that is what I have heard from all the parental units here. Haha. Again, welcome back!

Speaking of Bowsers castle, hopefully this signals the end: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08589RHPZ/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_7?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1 $80 Frustration Free

Fred Meyer is running a BOGO 40% + $20 coupon for any purchase over $100. Takes a bit of puzzling, store stock varies, and most boxes have stickers, but there are no exclusions.

Same here. I used to love the brickfolio and worth estimator features of this site.

So excited for this years raffle. Thank you for all the support you and your members give our school!

Not just time, space and ease of shipping as well. After being in this game for two years as a seller, I've been looking at my data more closely this year to really focus on the money makers taking into consideration various factors. I found that I used my heart and gut feel more than hard numbers in the past. I'm now at the stage where I've had enough time to 'age' good number of sets and would like to be more selective on the sets I buy moving forward to focus on winning themes. Where I live, star wars, Technic, Harry Potter, creator expert, speed champs continue to be top performing themes. Architecture, Brickheadz and Ideas have good returns but volume is way too low. I tried going into Minecraft and Friends but it didn't really work out.

The rain is in there too, you just can't see it.

There's that word again, 'heavy'. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull? DAY 1 for me. Totally going to be using this to make a base model Delorean.

I submitted that question but to this point it hasn't been answered. This whole situation just feels like a giant money making scheme to me. Here's how I picture this all got started .... (my opinion only) Vorys hires a smart guy to track a specific reseller online to help win "a" case. Light bulb goes off and they develop a software that can track a multitude of products and resellers for future cases. Being the leaches they are, sit around a table and say "Time to cash in and bro down!". They put together a PowerPoint with loose case law and a broad list of accusations that could apply to many different brands and head on down to the local trade show. Meanwhile, one of the attorneys developing said master plan calls his buddy from law school over at AmazonSellersLawyers.com (more on this later) and tells him to add content to their website claiming to combat the Vorys letters. Saying something to the effect of "This is going to be big! Don't miss out!" and jokingly asks for a referral fee. Walking around the the trade show is a poor innocent Lego representative minding his own business when all of a sudden a Vorys monkey pops out and does his sales dance. Beating him down with fancy charts and lawyer speak ... using words like streamlined, cost effective and produces made up RESULTS! until he finally agrees to "talk to his manager". The Lego manager decides to employee this strategy, not because they want to sue a bunch of unauthorized resellers, its because they want to be able to tell their pissed off and winey authorized resellers they are doing something to help them compete. (exit opinion) As for AmazonSellersLawyers.com, I took advantage of their free consultation and man was I impressed! I never actually got to talk to one of their attorneys but their sales team had all the right answers ... and for a flat fee of $3500! How could I pass this up!? In all seriousness though, they did nothing wrong, it was just my gut telling me something wasn't right after they called me 3 straight days seemingly begging for my retainer. I had to tell them I retained someone else to get her to stop calling. She also made it seem like they were very friendly with the Vorys which turned me off ... I wanted a shark, not a minnow. Regardless of my opinion it's pretty easy to see who's the main beneficiary from sending hundreds of C&D letters ... Vorys. I'm sure their eControl is working quite well ... resellers with very little stake are dropping out with nothing more than a whine and the outright thieves run and hide. These numbers are then presented as proof to whatever story needs to be told. The fact that Lego hasn't sued anyone selling legitimate Lego product tells me dragging a bunch of people to court is not their intent and why we're choosing to hold our ground. When I was a kid Lego was a "Toy" but now as an adult its a "Collectible". You can't have collectibles without a secondary market and with that comes the reseller. Lego should be embracing us and the value we add to their brand name. Lego customers will continue to pay inflated prices as long as the perceived value continues to go up. You're welcome. Vorys planning their pitch meeting to Lego...

A little update.....I hired an attorney (teaches Trademark law at a major law school) who has reached out and had some back and forth contact with Vorys....our approach was to be pretty open in that I buy from authorized retailers including Lego, many times at full price, I hold until they are unavailable on these platforms, and then I resell, with fulfillment through Walmart or another AUTHORIZED Lego retailer. I voluntarily sent them a month of receipts showing $25K in legit purchases from Amazon/Walmart. I have specifically asked how long I would need to hold inventory to be considered a retailer vs the need to be an authorized seller (and requested approval to be an authorized seller if required for these type of purchases.) It seems a disclaimer of this was is being RESOLD as repurchased and as a collectors item. I hope I wasn't too open but sort of dumbed it down to anyone in the world can walk in Walmart and buy a set (or 200 of a set) and stick it in storage for two years and then resell it for twice the value. I had pretty high volume (probably much smaller than people on here) , but I do not know that they can see that. I also think they target the non-WFS or FBS sales where we ship and manage customer service. Still waiting on the requested clarification, and we may not get it. They did make it sound like if I immediately stopped buying, they would gladly let me sell out my legit inventory...but again no full clarification.

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The letter was 6 pages long and full of of baseless claims. We responded to each and every one of them. For example, one of their main arguments to the First Sale Doctrine is material difference. Everything we sell on Amazon and Walmart (including Collectible Minifigures) are sealed in the original factory packaging.... even if the listing says "opened to verify". So it's baseless to claim we're selling a materially different product and the quality is the same as it was when it left the Lego factory. For sellers that open packages ... well I could be swayed to see Lego's point of view. We chose to do it this way from the beginning because it's almost impossible for a customer to claim we're selling counterfeit or used as new when they are cutting open the packages themselves. This also tells me they've didn't do test buys or they'd know that.

We got the Vorys letter in back in January and immediately hired an IP attorney. Our letter called out our presence on Amazon, eBay and Walmart but of course not on Bricklink. We use a different store name on Amazon because we sell more than Lego but it was probably our business address that linked them together. After my attorney spent a couple weeks getting the lay of the land understanding our position in the market, where we source our products, our quality control measures and near flawless customer service for 15 years, he recommended we respond with an 8 page "Thanks but no thanks" which was sent about 2 weeks ago. At first I was nervous about responding in fear of putting a target on my back (knowing so many others are tossing the letter in the trash) but too much of my life has been dedicated to Lego for me to sit on my hands. Most of us reading this thread can legitimately say we are more knowledgeable about Lego products than most (if not all) of Lego's authorized resellers in the US. I can also tell you with 100% confidence that by "us" reselling genuine Lego products and providing a 2nd life only adds to the perceived value of the Lego brand. If Lego sliced the necks of ALL legitimate Lego resellers then Lego would quickly become nothing more than Mega Bloks with a shinier brick. The perceived value of Lego would erode very quickly ...the parents who now justify buying a $350 Gunship by saying "I can probably sell this eBay in 2 years and get my money back" would no longer have this option and thus make better buying decisions. This would also produce many more "pop-up shops" with a higher number of scammers and the market will have a tougher time determining the good sellers from the bad. We are one of the good guys and treat Lego like part of the family so for us to be called out in this dragnet is very disappointing. We intend on fighting this until we run out of resources.