h311m4n Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 Buying: I don't really have anything I regret buying except the batcave, there isn't much of a market for marvell and DC over here. Wasn't that expensive but I'm not expecting great profits from it. Not Buying: Back when I started, I made a list of sets I wanted to buy, this was end of last year. I had the QAR and the Black Pearl on there, still available on LEGO Shop at Home, but I decided to wait next month to make my purchase. Well of course, both got discontinued the month after and I was just able to snag up 2 Black Pearls on Toys R Us France for 99 Quote
Guest TabbyBoy Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 BUYING Going in head first and buying 10x 10214 from LEGO Shop at Home at RRP ( Quote
h311m4n Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 Lol yeah forgot about that 41999. I thought just like you I'd have time to buy them but they sold out in minutes... I find I'd rather buy few items and risking less profit in terms of size rather than buying millions of a set and locking up too much money in it. Being aware of the market is important too, not all sets sell well everywhere. And I find Amazon rarely have really interesting offers when compared to the online retailers in my country. Even using camelcamelcamel I rarely see good discounts for sets I like... Quote
sadowsk1 Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 I have some PoP and Toy Story sets in the basement. I wish I would have gotten them cheaper but I did get them all on sale, just not as deep of a discount as I would have liked. I also bought a couple of Home Ones and Battle of Endors early on. Oh well, no long term damage done. If I would have waited longer I could have gotten them cheaper. Thems the breaks. Quote
stoltzjl77 Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 Buying: Nothing really yet. I've only been doing this for about 8 months so I don't know what losers I've got in my collection yet. Most of my "losses" showing in Brickpicker are sets I bought for myself and paid more than I should have before I learned how to get the best deals, and I don't really regret having bought any of the open sets I own - because I'm a Lego fan first, investor second. Not Buying: I remember passing by The Burrow 4840 multiple times at WalMart. I wanted to buy it for myself (cool set) but at the time my kids weren't "in" to Harry Potter yet and I couldn't justify it. I saw it on clearance for $30 or so and still passed it up (this was well before I thought about the investment potential of Lego). . .I finally bought a used one, 99% complete, on eBay last month for $75 (but hey, I used eBucks on it so it wasn't that bad, right?). Ugh. I bought an Imperial Flagship 10210 for myself (at RRP, $180ish if I remember correctly and it was worth every penny - awesome awesome set!) back in 2006 or so. I remember thinking at the time I should buy a second one to hold and re-sell later, but I didn't. When I started looking at Lego as an investment earlier this year, the 10210 set was the example I used to help convince my wife it was worth our time and money. Selling: The Ghost Train and Vampyre Castle. In September I flipped 2 GT's I bought on clearance in July and made a nice profit (on a percentage basis) but if I had held out until now I could have close to doubled my money. Didn't save one - should have. And should have tried harder to find more of them on clearance in July. Same with VC - got one on clearance, sold it for retail and made what seemed like a nice profit at the time but now seems foolish. All part of the fun - live and learn! It's great to have this community to share successes and warnings. Quote
Quacs Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 I have some PoP and Toy Story sets in the basement. I wish I would have gotten them cheaper but I did get them all on sale, just not as deep of a discount as I would have liked. I also bought a couple of Home Ones and Battle of Endors early on. Oh well, no long term damage done. If I would have waited longer I could have gotten them cheaper. Thems the breaks. Slightly OT here, but will the Battle of Endors spike a little with the release of Ewok Village, or are there just too many available? Quote
exciter1 Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 Slightly OT here, but will the Battle of Endors spike a little with the release of Ewok Village, or are there just too many available? It's already risen some since July and I think it will continue rising over the next year. Quote
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted October 24, 2013 Posted October 24, 2013 Slightly OT here, but will the Battle of Endors spike a little with the release of Ewok Village, or are there just too many available? I think they might. Its honestly a pretty sweet set to combine with it. Quote
Tom J Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 regret not buying imperial shuttle 10212 when it was on offer on amazon, Quote
TheOrcKing Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 Forgive me, Lego, for I have sinned. I have not built a set since....since....since when? It's been so long I can't remember. :dontknow: 2 Quote
Anakinisvader Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 Lol i thought this thread was gonna be something weird like i made my pink lego bricks into boobs Pictures or it never happened. 1 Quote
Anakinisvader Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 Will I get excommunicated from the church of LEGO if I built with Mega Bloks? Quote
MartinP Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 Will I get excommunicated from the church of LEGO if I built with Mega Bloks? I hope not. I built with Megablocks when I was five, and I still have some laying around with my Lego bricks. Quote
rcdb1984 Posted October 26, 2013 Posted October 26, 2013 Pictures or it never happened. I'd have to do it with brown or black bricks because I don't buy friends. But "it never happened" Quote
fendiixx Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 When i had one of my first ever sales i sent the Lego set off with no tracking, the guy obviously knew this and mysteriously it didn't arrive so i was out of pocket around Quote
Guest TabbyBoy Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 When i had one of my first ever sales i sent the Lego set off with no tracking, the guy obviously knew this and mysteriously it didn't arrive so i was out of pocket around Quote
fendiixx Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 Block him as a buyer if you haven't already done so and then check his sales as he may relist the same set in a few months if he's an investor too. Then you've got him! Even though untracked, did you insure? No I didn't it was on Amazon, so not 100% sure how to block them on there i did keep an eye out but didnt see it pop up, i kept his details handy in case he popped up again. Of course it might not have arrived but for me it seemed far too suspicious (from the way he wrote his replies & his attitude) and instincts told me he was a liar, No i just sent it off standard delivery which is more or less suicide for the valuable sets as getting compensation was like getting blood from a stone. Quote
M4x18 Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 A friggin lot of City - Construction sets. There were something like 11 sets that I bought as a lot and tried to part them. Still have like 5 to go. Quote
Spartikis Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 I had 10 imperial flag ships in my shopping cart, online, on sale for $133 each, at the last second i decided to just get 2, one for myself and one for resale. Luckly i caugh my mistake a couple months later and was able to buy a uses imperial flagship for myself for just $100 and still have the two MISB sets. live and learn. Quote
gregpj Posted October 28, 2013 Posted October 28, 2013 A friggin lot of City - Construction sets. There were something like 11 sets that I bought as a lot and tried to part them. Still have like 5 to go. Which ones? My kids love the construction sets! Quote
M4x18 Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Which ones? My kids love the construction sets! Among some of the ones that were in the lot... 7243, 7249, 7633, 7685, 7344, 7632, 7900 and 7998. Also, any Ninjago set to sell in the EU market. I have almost all dragons, and I think that I'll open them and build them as Ninjago over here is lame investment-wise. Quote
M4x18 Posted October 29, 2013 Posted October 29, 2013 Which ones? My kids love the construction sets! Don't get me wrong, I really like construction sets, I just don't like construction sets that deconstruct my investments Quote
TheDarkness Posted October 29, 2013 Author Posted October 29, 2013 I bought Bumblebee Kre-O when it was heavily discounted Quote
Gonkalin Posted May 31, 2014 Posted May 31, 2014 Buying: not any real big bad purchases. Just a few toy story sets. But I've slowly unloaded those as gifts for young family members so not a big deal. Not buying: I have a nice collection but there are always tons of sets we all regret not buying. Or not buying more of. This is where the greed gets in the way. Selling: my 2 biggest errors (and these aren't really that bad in the big picture) was selling Taj Mahal for $400. Doubled my money but still... Also buying the carousel used for my daughter to build for less than retail and quickly flipping it after EOL for nearly double what I bought for. But we all know the value of those sets now. Almost all of my sets have sold for double, triple or more than I paid so I really can't complain. And I've never regretted lost value based on building sets. After all building is what Lego is about. Quote
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