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🗓️ 5 July 2024
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0:00.0 | The Case of the Stolen Lego. We're going to hear a story from a LEGO rese Stolen LEGO. |
0:13.0 | We're going to hear a story from a LEGO reseller's lesson in integrity. |
0:16.0 | Welcome to Side-School. |
0:17.0 | My name's Chris Gallopoe, |
0:18.0 | welcome as well to this week's failure Friday segment. |
0:21.0 | In this segment, we look at mistakes, missteps, disasters, all the things |
0:25.0 | that don't go so well. So not big success stories, usually stories in adjustment, adjustment |
0:31.2 | of expectations, adjustment of |
0:33.0 | behavior in some cases. We got to do something different. In this case it's more like if a deal seems too good to be true it probably is. |
0:40.0 | And so basically what happens here well I'm going to let Brian from Anaheim, California tell the story. |
0:46.4 | He is the LEGO reseller, I think he sells some other stuff too, but he's been buying and reselling |
0:52.0 | stuff, often a good business model. |
0:54.3 | I encourage people who are new to side hustling. |
0:56.4 | If you're just trying to get started, think about buying stuff and selling it. |
0:59.4 | You learn a lot along the way, and you can go on and do something else after that. But in this case the |
1:03.9 | side-us-luring question Brian had a unique challenge so let's hear the story from |
1:07.7 | him along with what he learned. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap-up but for |
1:12.2 | now here's Brian. Hey there fellow side hustlers. I'm Brian and today I want to share with you a cautionary tale from my early days as a LEGO reseller. |
1:38.6 | It's a story of how my eagerness for a good deal led me down a path I never intended to take and the big |
1:44.5 | lesson I learned along the way. It all started when I discovered the world of |
1:48.9 | LEGO reselling. As a lifelong LEGO enthusiast I was thrilled at the idea of turning my passion into profit. |
1:55.6 | I began by purchasing sets on sale and reselling them online for a markup. |
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