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A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
Yep, you only need look at Enron or Bernie Madoff for proof of that!
What a real modern day Robin Hood, keeping all the kiddies happy with cheap, quickly delivered lego's.
What a real modern day Robin Hood, keeping all the kiddies happy with cheap, quickly delivered lego's.
You shouldn't laugh - LEGO is big business on eBay.
One guy here in Edmonton (bricklord or something like that), goes to Toys R Us every time they have a sale on LEGO and buys up tons of boxed sets, then splits the sets into sets of bagged bricks and sells them for a hefty profit.
What a real modern day Robin Hood, keeping all the kiddies happy with cheap, quickly delivered lego's.
You shouldn't laugh - LEGO is big business on eBay.
One guy here in Edmonton (bricklord or something like that), goes to Toys R Us every time they have a sale on LEGO and buys up tons of boxed sets, then splits the sets into sets of bagged bricks and sells them for a hefty profit.
Who would have thought?
I'm actually quite suprised that there's a huge market for something like Lego, especially considering that they produce about a gazillion of those little blocks a year?
Just one question though. Why wouldn't the people who buy his broken up sets just go to Toys R Us themselves and buy what they need or order online? It seems a little bizzare that he can actually make a profit doing this.
Who would have thought?
I'm actually quite suprised that there's a huge market for something like Lego, especially considering that they produce about a gazillion of those little blocks a year?
Yeah but Lego is like crack
I always got at least one Lego set as a kid at Christmas and it was always the most expensive "toy" I got.(I wasn't greedy. Gimmie Legos and I was happy lol)
I remember when I was giving them to my nephew, my dad telling me that even though it was pricey, it was always worth the money because of the use it got.
I don't know what it's like now but their cusotmer service was fantastic. If a set was missing a piece, they would rush a replacement piece, plus a nice handful of other assorted pieces to you.
Anywayyy sorry 'bout the stroll down memory lane.
Actually come to think of it, in this day of computers, gaming consoles, and portable game devices, I'm surprised there is still such a large market for the stuff.
You shouldn't laugh - LEGO is big business on eBay.
One guy here in Edmonton (bricklord or something like that), goes to Toys R Us every time they have a sale on LEGO and buys up tons of boxed sets, then splits the sets into sets of bagged bricks and sells them for a hefty profit.
Who would have thought?
I'm actually quite suprised that there's a huge market for something like Lego, especially considering that they produce about a gazillion of those little blocks a year?
Just one question though. Why wouldn't the people who buy his broken up sets just go to Toys R Us themselves and buy what they need or order online? It seems a little bizzare that he can actually make a profit doing this.
Convenience and price - say you 'need' 200 white bricks for a house you're building.
It's much cheaper and far easier to pay someone $5-20 on eBay for the pieces you need as opposed to going to Toys R Us and buying 20 sets (each priced at $25) to get the pieces you needed, plus a ton you didn't.
Where the guy really makes money is on the rarer pieces, like mini-figs, rotating pieces, etc. A bag of say 100 white bricks only goes for $5 or something...
Convenience and price - say you 'need' 200 white bricks for a house you're building.
It's much cheaper and far easier to pay someone $5-20 on eBay for the pieces you need as opposed to going to Toys R Us and buying 20 sets (each priced at $25) to get the pieces you needed, plus a ton you didn't.
Where the guy really makes money is on the rarer pieces, like mini-figs, rotating pieces, etc. A bag of say 100 white bricks only goes for $5 or something...
Hey you seem to know quite a bit about this!
Soooooooo.....what are you building??
Convenience and price - say you 'need' 200 white bricks for a house you're building.
It's much cheaper and far easier to pay someone $5-20 on eBay for the pieces you need as opposed to going to Toys R Us and buying 20 sets (each priced at $25) to get the pieces you needed, plus a ton you didn't.
Where the guy really makes money is on the rarer pieces, like mini-figs, rotating pieces, etc. A bag of say 100 white bricks only goes for $5 or something...
Hey you seem to know quite a bit about this!
Soooooooo.....what are you building??
I was actually doing the same thing as him, but on a much smaller scale.
He would invest a couple thousand in a buy and then turn around and sell it for 2-3 times the price he paid. I didn't have the ability to match him, so it was like Joe's Hardware going up against Home Depot. I stopped doing it in in 2005 or so because I couldn't match his prices.