How to steal Lego sets... rather, how NOT to...

[CopMike]

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[SuvieD]

I'm sorry you feel that way. Bricklink remains an invaluable resourse for expert builders.

A person with a modest amount of income simply can't buy sets for pieces. Its TOO EXPENSIVE :o! Often, a $60 set will contain only a few pieces the expert builder actually wants.

I have always thought that expert builders would be able to use every part in a set. ;) Hence the reason they are experts.

Bricklink has it's uses. I use it to get parts I missed out on or didn't get enough of. I recently started selling there also as a way to pay for my current house repair needs.

[JINZONINGEN73]

Well well, LEGO is a dirty business. When do we get to see agents with L.E.G.O on the back of their jackets? Will they be armed with huge plastic blasters

[blueandwhite]

I'm sorry you feel that way.  Bricklink remains an invaluable resourse for expert builders. 

A person with a modest amount of income simply can't buy sets for pieces.  Its TOO EXPENSIVE :o!  Often, a $60 set will contain only a few pieces the expert builder actually wants.

I have always thought that expert builders would be able to use every part in a set. ;) Hence the reason they are experts.

Bricklink has it's uses. I use it to get parts I missed out on or didn't get enough of. I recently started selling there also as a way to pay for my current house repair needs.

Experts probably don't have alot of uses for 40+ Spiral staircases, or Harry Potters. Simply put, the parts-ratios of most sets simply isn't consistent with the needs of most builders.

Later.

[snefroe]

1) honestly, i don't think i could get away with this type of fraud. In my experience, people behind the counter are very much aware of what a set costs. I often talk to them when i'm buying sets and they always seem well informed about the stuff they sell... So i guess this guy dealt with students working in the shop... They are very often not particularly interested in the product, but in the money they make...

2) you have to put it all in a context. We're not going to stop the World Champianships Football in Germany because a few Turkish and Swiss idiots decided to attack each other after one particular game... This is not going to damage ebay or bricklink.... These things just happen. I just hope Kim and Morton will be getting their sets... To me BL is a vital instrument to get the pieces i want without having to spend too much money on sets. It's only a shame that lego.com is still quite expensive and doesn't have a decent catalog for parts...

[dviddy]

Experts probably don't have alot of uses for 40+ Spiral staircases, or Harry Potters. Simply put, the parts-ratios of most sets simply isn't consistent with the needs of most builders.

I'm sure I don't count, even with my multi-BZP contest awards, but personally, I've never bought pieces en bulke. I always buy the sets, even if it's for only one piece. Because that's how I do. And there's always a use for most pieces. You just have to find it.

Wasn't Bill 40? Dang middle-aged men  ;)

No, the teenage clerks behind the counter. A lot of Target stores and the like hire teens to run the registers.

Teens make money, and the company doesn't have to pay real wages to a real working adult.

<<DV>>

[blueandwhite]

I'm sure I don't count, even with my multi-BZP contest awards, but personally, I've never bought pieces en bulke. I always buy the sets, even if it's for only one piece. Because that's how I do. And there's always a use for most pieces. You just have to find it.

I never said that. I never insulted your abilities as a builder. Now, I'm not a fan of Bionicle, so I can't speak to the parts ratios in most Bionicle sets. From what I've seen, Bionicle isn't as brick-intensive as some themes (look at some of the more elaborate Town and Train layouts for example). For fans of those themes, Bricklink is a godsend. If you think that most of these builders can amass such a large collection of unique elements without resorting to the secondary market, your kidding yourself.

Later.

[JINZONINGEN73]

For fans of those themes, Bricklink is a godsend. If you think that most of these builders can amass such a large collection of unique elements without resorting to the secondary market, your kidding yourself.

Later.

I would not even dare to build a one-color castle just by buying retail sets. If I were to walk into Walmart right this second... yikes... I have no idea what sets would even come close to satisfying some large structure. And the cost of all these multiple sets? :|

You have a point I didn't realize till now... you can do great things with say, 2 system sets and 3 Bionicle. But for system-only guys like on this site... HELL no.

[mutley777]

i have been a buyer and seller on biricklink and found the whole thing to be great! i did try to keep set prices as low as possible but if the price was to low other sellers would buy from me and sell them for more. demand is what keeps the prices as high as they are, but i always got my stormtroopers and clone's from USA as the prices were better than the ripoff prices that the star wars sets used to be in the UK.

[gylman]

OMG, how could we live without Bricklink? My keychain collection would be a......well... it would be a "never was"!

I could not get boxes and instructions that I needed.

I could not get 100 1 x 16 white bricks for my keychain display.

etc etc etc.

Bricklink is one of those things that makes being an AFOLego more worthwhile - and most vendors are fellow lego FANS, not FELONS.

There are also FELONS in our government, but no one proposes that government is not necsesary because of this (there may be other, more valid, reasons, but we can discuss those on the anarchist forum)

Is there anyone who seriously proposes that we would be better off without Bricklink? Lugnet, I could live without. Legofan, I could live without. Lego S@H I could live without. Bricklink... no way!

Anyway, this is all highly off topic.

{goes off to make an emergency purchase of 100 white pole reverser technic bits}

[dviddy]

I never said that. I never insulted your abilities as a builder

Oh yikes, nor did I mean to somehow infer you did.

Now, I'm not a fan of Bionicle, so I can't speak to the parts ratios in most Bionicle sets. From what I've seen, Bionicle isn't as brick-intensive as some themes

Well, Bionicle piece ratios usually suck, you get one or two good pieces, and the rest are over-specialized pieces. So multiples is a must. But I don't usually buy Bionicle only. Thanks to Jinzo and Cajun, I've bought more system sets in the past year than I've bought Bionicle since it launched.

For fans of those themes, Bricklink is a godsend. If you think that most of these builders can amass such a large collection of unique elements without resorting to the secondary market, your kidding yourself.

I was so seriously kidding about the Bricklink being bad thing. No, I don't use it, but I know it's pretty much amazing for many, many people. I don't use it, because I don't need it. *shrugs*

You have a point I didn't realize till now... you can do great things with say, 2 system sets and 3 Bionicle. But for system-only guys like on this site... HELL no.

^Ditto^

<<DV>>

[Sting]

Bricklink was created by some sort of greater power I think... I literally love that site... it has provided me with so many pieces and guarantee of quality sets that I never could imagine.

Praise the lord for the Internet!

[Beagle]

Ha ha, just out of curiosity I went back and checked my Bricklink order records, and sure enough I have bought stuff from Bartering the Brick. I bought a Wookie Warrior minifig from him a while back, as well as some other sundry pieces. Wow, it makes me think differently about my collection, knowing that some of it is probably HOT! :-D

He gave me good feedback, though. I'm glad.... after all, it is important to me what criminals think of me. :P

[ImperialJohn]

Look at this article

click the picture top left corner ;)

Know yhis guy?

This is very vierd.

[JINZONINGEN73]

Look at this article

click the picture top left corner  ;)

Know yhis guy?

This is very vierd.

Oh my fuckin' god... that IS him, isn't it?!?

And with a ton of Millenium Falcons!

Oh man... LOL!

Actually, it says "Franklin Duffy"... but he could be related.

Wouldn't it be funny if he was also slapping upc's on those?

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[Xeokym]

holy :oo **** :oo dude :oo

[xwingyoda]

Who is this guy ???? Anyone known ????

[KimT]

Who is this guy ???? Anyone known ????

I think they're making a reference to the late LEGO seller W. Swanberg - though the guy in the picture doesn't look like him to me.

KimT

[xwingyoda]

Tks Kim, but still have no clues on who this guy is ;)

[KimT]

Tks Kim, but still have no clues on who this guy is  ;)

He's the one who changed the price marks on the boxes and bought LEGO cheap that way (fraud). He had a shop on bricklink - got caught and is charged with economical swindle worth 200000 USD - there's a thread on this somewhere in the forum - how could you miss it? ;)

KimT

EDIT: argh missed the ;) You started that thread...my bad - I feel stupid and contageious *sick*

[Dragon King]

Thanks now i know 1 way not to stael legos :-D Joking