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30% Target Circle Deals are active. $39.19 Commander Cody Helmets, Eldorado Fortress $150.49, many others. Also, make sure to look for this under deals: https://www.target.com/pl/167884446

Ya, it should look more “Space-y” considering it’s a Castle set.

Mine was 10 back from 70 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Putting this one away so Minty.

As I mentioned in the past, Shane likes to troll YouTube and Instagram so he can copy business. Before my YT channel was rebranded to Brick Bucks, it was called FBAA Millionaire. I purposely made the channel hard to find and I would have people occasionally reach out to me and ask me questions about reselling. When I moved from Ohio to Kentucky I stopped making videos but I was still encouraged to continue making more. Around 2018 Shane reached out to me and we chatted and exchanged information from time to time. I had open heart surgery on March 16, 2020, the day when everything shut down because of Covid. I had a lot of complications from my surgery so I couldn’t work for a year. Because I had a lot of time on my hands, I was diving deep into LEGO ROI spreedsheets and sent a few to Shane. He asked if we could be business partners and relaunch my YT channel. He was not the first one who asked me to be partners but because he worked at Microsoft and he said that he knew how to do everything, I thought it would be a good fit. Not long after he would say things like. “I was researching how to do X” or “We need to purchase something from Income School to do Y.” I thought to myself, you had told me that you already knew how to do this. SMH. It’s interesting when I hear you say, “It's been quite a show watching the market fall apart and a few choice people really working hard to prop it up.” At this moment I’m quite happy with what is going on with LEGO reselling. Many fly by night resellers are exiting the space and I couldn’t be happier! I think the future is very bright for LEGO reselling but that doesn’t mean that you can just keep doing what you’ve been doing for the last ten years. When it comes to getting top dollar reselling LEGO sets, I believe Q3 is the new Q4. The problem is Q3 doesn’t have as much sales velocity as Q4 so you need to adjust for that. The name of the game now is exclusive sets. There are some top picks that don’t involve exclusive sets but excuse the expression, you have to know what you’re doing. The zombie sets are one of the biggest threats to LEGO resellers and I’m certain LEGO knows that now. You need to account for that as well. The days of buying a bunch of Batcave 6860 and hoping for the best 18 months after it retires just doesn’t cut it anymore. As for the second part of your post, again, he had only recorded three videos himself. There were well over 100 videos of me, and I knew I could start a new channel relatively easily. My main goal out of all of this was to just get away from him as quickly as possible and I wasn’t too concerned with receiving my fair share of the company. You think he’s annoying from a distance, try dealing with him on a daily basis. LOL. The choice was either to buy him out or dissolve the company, and then both of us restart from scratch. After we couldn't reach a deal during a video chat, we agreed to dissolve the company and talk more in detail about the next day because it was getting pretty late. The next morning, I woke up to a very lengthy message from him explaining why I should buy the company. I laughed because he was clearly more interested in selling Brick Bucks than I was in buying it. If I recall, I may have offered him $20k, and he said no. Again, he's no business genius. That email I attached makes him sound like he knows what he’s talking about, but when you google ‘How to sell a business,’ he pretty much paraphrased the content in the first search result. I told him that everything he contributed to the ‘business’ I could have easily received from UpWork or Fiverr at the time. There was nothing special about what he was doing. Yes, he worked for Microsoft, but he only worked in ad sales placement at the time. Nothing more. Anybody could do what he did on YouTube, and plenty of people are now. I’d be surprised if he was still buying LEGO in somewhat large quantities. He had that warehouse for his book business, but I think that might be gone now. He hated dealing with his book business, by the way. In the past, he presented it as some great thing on his YouTube channel, but he would always ***** to me about it. Lol. I saw on one video a while back that he mentioned he was sending Speed Champions to FBA. That’s a big pivot from his original business model if that’s the case. He would often reference the California gold rush business model, why spend time mining for gold when you can just sell the picks and other equipment. Also, if Shane is some LEGO investing genius, why isn’t he buying LEGO at a significant discount from that place overseas that everybody with $100k is now doing? Again, I’d be surprised if he was still buying much LEGO. In the past, his wife commented on a YouTube short saying that they would never show Shane’s inventory after a bunch of commenters kept pressing them to do so. I would’ve shared that screenshot in this post, but they must’ve taken that video down. Personal note: I’m certain this thread has caused some attention and there are a few onlookers. I’m very aware that many of you have personal scorn for me. Some will talk **** about me on here but when I talk to them on the phone, they act friendly as can be and that’s ok. I understand that I am not ‘one of the boys’ on here and I’m fine with that. I hope I at least get a little bit of credit for the times I have made it a point to tell people on YouTube that I would not be here if it were not for Brickpicker. I have said that numerous times and it is true. I have not acted like I am the one who discovered reselling LEGO reselling.

No price shown yet… https://www.funwhole.com/products/antique-store-antique-co-officially-available-on-july-19?_pos=2&_sid=44ba264ab&_ss=r I am working on the Gum ball machine.

True....But if i'm gonna risk getting banned from target it'll be for something bigger and better than some Cody Helmets

Well, you know what they say. If ain't never been banned, you ain't tryn hard enough.

yep, i can attest to being banned personally.. no warning

It’d be fine on a Creator set but looks out of place compared to the rest of the fortress. Just my opinion.

I thought about going for 3 more Cody Helmets but figure it's not worth the risk If i remember correctly Target Circle Deals are similar to Walmart+ deals....Go over the limit and risk your orders being cancelled, getting banned, or both Hasn't happened to me yet but i've talked to many people who it has happened to

mine was spin in a Target circle, hurt my back

Sry for redundancy but I added mine to a post by editing so in case it was missed. My offer is $15 from $110. Thx!

Thats the best part

Thanks for the heads up Raindog.....Mine is Spend $125 get 15 back Most of the time these Target Circle Deals are all the same.....Anyone else getting a different offer?

Edit -- **Actually nevermind, Toys are excluded**... for those inclined, Rakuten normally has 1% cashback @ Target. Not much but every little bit helps. Also, my circle shows only $15 from $110 so guess YMMV

ordered the magnets : ) brick clicker showed the magnets in stands and the boxes they come in today on youtube. It's about the 9:08 point on the video. they look nice. hope they sell out soon lol

Got my Mountain Fortress Castle. Beautiful. Packed Well. Stored away. Some day Lion Knight Castle will take on the Black Falcon's and the Mountain Fortress. Volley Thunder Tally Ho Gents !

yeah I'll probably get them if you get yours first captain please post what you think

The sooner you stop caring about box condition the better your life would be

I could probably never MOC something as good but I’m just going to say that I don’t like the decoration above the front gate. It reminds me of Medieval Times.