What Lego set did you sell today and for how much?

[brickvoyeur]

Quote

I'll read the Nightmare Before Christmas story this year, kids. 

Twas the night before Clearance
And all through the aisle
Steamrollers were packed
Into my cart like a pile

Exo Suits were hung
In the storage with care
Knowing that in a decade
They still will be there

Sergeant Jyn Erso was nestled
Deep under my bed 
With terrible proportions
And a face that looks dead

Wonder woman in her armor
And cheetah in her cap
The lasso of truth will tell you
That this set is pure crap

When out on my doorstep
A noise shook me awake
ShopJustice still delivering Olaf
Flat as a pancake

Faster shipping than FedEx
The turds as they came
I cried and I pouted
As I called them by name

"Now, Dots! now, Mario! 
Now Lego Movie 1 and 2!
On, Raiders! on, Mighty Dinos! 
On, Takodana and constractables too!

To the depths of the dumpster! 
Stacked 50 feet tall
Now throw away! throw away! 
throw away all!"

Each year I make efforts
To donate a bit more
But Toys for tots sends a bill
For returning them to my door

Since I can't give them away
I'll dig a big pit
It's the final solution
To get rid of this sh!t

I shook as I laughed
At the thought of relieving this pain
It was nearly 3am
So I looked quite insane

As I poured the kerosene
I cheered with delight
"I'll light you on fire,
So you're out of my sight"
 

Edited December 7, 2022 by brickvoyeur

[redghostx]

Tldr: I sold a lot of stuff in a random order.

[landphieran]

Some sales doing better then expected

100 60147 fire boats 47.99-49.99

50 41235 Wonder woman dorm 69.99-79.99

10 76047 Black panther 109

 

Edited December 9, 2018 by landphieran

[exciter1]

1 hour ago, landphieran said:

Some sales doing better then expected

100 60147 fire boats 47.99-49.99

50 41235 Wonder woman dorm 69.99-79.99

10 76047 Black panther 109

 

Fishing Boats - I've been pleased with the performance of the Wonder Woman Dorm set.

[dustyshelf]

Some more facebook marketplace sales today, cash sales:

x6 76036 Carnage's Shield Sky Attack $25 EACH
x1 75916 Dilophosaurus Ambush $60
x2 60118 Garbage Truck $50 EACH
x3 60083 Snowplow Truck $35 EACH

[My_own_2_bricks]

40139 Gingerbread house $130+ down to the last one though

[dustyshelf]

70010 The Lion CHI Temple $185 before shipping/fees

[Guest TabbyBoy]

4x 21304 Doctor Who for £60 cash each (£22 from George). A lot of you thought this was a turkey.

2x 60051 Passenger Train for £100 cash each (£50 from Tesco).

10x 60150 Pizza Truck for £12 cash each (£0 from JD Williams - no comment!).

1x 21101 Hayabusa for £180 cash (about £30 from Sogo in Hong Kong).

5x 21102 Minecraft Forest for £20 cash each (£30 from SaH - went 2x quickly then bombed).

10179 UCS MF (box only) for £150 cash.

[redghostx]

4x 21304 Doctor Who for £60 cash each (£22 from George). A lot of you thought this was a turkey.
2x 60051 Passenger Train for £100 cash each (£50 from Tesco).
10x 60150 Pizza Truck for £12 cash each (£0 from JD Williams - no comment!).
1x 21101 Hayabusa for £180 cash (about £30 from Sogo in Hong Kong).
5x 21102 Minecraft Forest for £20 cash each (£30 from SaH - went 2x quickly then bombed).
10179 UCS MF (box only) for £150 cash.

So you're out now, as in everything is sold?

[Rog]

15 hours ago, redghostx said:

So you're out now, as in everything is sold?

[Guest TabbyBoy]

15 hours ago, redghostx said:

So you're out now, as in everything is sold?

I've not even scratched the surface!

[Frank Brickowski]

17 hours ago, TabbyBoy said:

4x 21304 Doctor Who for £60 cash each (£22 from George). A lot of you thought this was a turkey.

 

Whether a set is a turd or not depends on its performance related to RRP, not buy-in. RRP was £49.99, you sold it for £60 almost 2 years after EOL. Well, that does sound very much like a turkey to me. "Performance" and "profit made" can be two very different things.

Edited December 11, 2018 by Frank Brickowski

[Rog]

3 hours ago, Frank Brickowski said:

Whether a set is a turd or not depends on its performance related to RRP, not buy-in. RRP was £49.99, you sold it for £60 almost 2 years after EOL. Well, that does sound very much like a turkey to me. "Performance" and "profit made" can be two very different things.

Probably time to move the goalposts. RRP doesn't matter when buy-in is king!

[Frank Brickowski]

1 minute ago, Rog said:

Probably time to move the goalposts. RRP doesn't matter when buy-in is king!

Alright, only you should not call it "investing" anymore then.

[Captain_chaos]

17 minutes ago, Frank Brickowski said:

Alright, only you should not call it "investing" anymore then.

Why not? Investing has nothing to do with a set's RRP. Investing is simply spending money on something now with the expectation of selling it for more money in the future.

[mizeur]

17 minutes ago, Frank Brickowski said:

Alright, only you should not call it "investing" anymore then.

I call it "making money." Is that lowbrow enough for you?

[Frank Brickowski]

14 minutes ago, Captain_chaos said:

Why not? Investing has nothing to do with a set's RRP. Investing is simply spending money on something now with the expectation of selling it for more money in the future.

To me the "art of LEGO investing" has always been about the growth of the initial value of a set after EOL. Maybe I'm old school.

23 minutes ago, mizeur said:

I call it "making money." Is that lowbrow enough for you?

The origin of this discussion was Tabby's comment that Dr. Who was no turkey. But it IS a turkey because it did barely rise in value after EOL.

[iahawks550]

44 minutes ago, Frank Brickowski said:

Alright, only you should not call it "investing" anymore then.

So if a stock is at $60, then drops to $50, and you buy in at $50, you don't use $60 as your reference point.

[Frank Brickowski]

1 minute ago, iahawks550 said:

So if a stock is at $60, then drops to $50, and you buy in at $50, you don't use $60 as your reference point.

I was talking about LEGO investing.

[Sfcommando14]

I was talking about LEGO investing.

But you are in the minority with your opinion. RRP doesn’t even matter anymore. Almost every LEGO set will be available, in bulk online, at 30% off. We are even seeing 40-55% becoming common. So the lowest widely available price should generally be the starting point IMO.


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[mizeur]

26 minutes ago, Frank Brickowski said:

To me the "art of LEGO investing" has always been about the growth of the initial value of a set after EOL. Maybe I'm old school.

The origin of this discussion was Tabby's comment that Dr. Who was no turkey. But it IS a turkey because it did barely rise in value after EOL.

I call what he did "making money." If we're able to sell for triple our buy-in, who cares whether the money is made by "investing" or "arbitrage"?

[MrToes16]

2 minutes ago, mizeur said:

"arbitrage"

That's the word I was looking for! THANK YOU

[jeff_14]

10 minutes ago, Sfcommando14 said:

But you are in the minority with your opinion. RRP doesn’t even matter anymore. Almost every LEGO set will be available, in bulk online, at 30% off. We are even seeing 40-55% becoming common. So the lowest widely available price should generally be the starting point IMO.


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To me official stats should be based on RRP as that is a universal reference point. Sure we all start at various sale discounts but those all vary with the person and make objective comparisons nearly impossible.

[mauro23]

That is correct but a set which reached MSRP after a year still can be no turkey at all when it was discounted 50% off like Amusement Park - a great investment.

The game has also changed. In the past there were hardly discounts on LEGO sets...

[Phil B]

I think we're having 2 different arguments here:
1. Tabby proclaimed Dr.Who to be "not a turkey", to which Frank B. made the (IMHO correct) callout claiming that getting barely over RRP after 2 years still classifies a set as a Turkey.
2. Everyone else then jumped in to call Tabby's investment a winner, because he turned 22GBP into 60GBP in 2 years.

I think Tabby's sale was indeed a winner (and indicative of the "new" LEGO investing), while at the same time, if what Tabby sold it for is a good indication of market value, the Ideas Dr.Who set is a turkey as per Frank's point, because people's expectations were much higher (should have at least made it to 2xRRP).

[mizeur]

1 minute ago, jeff_14 said:

To me official stats should be based on RRP as that is a universal reference point. Sure we all start at various sale discounts but those all vary with the person and make objective comparisons nearly impossible.

That's self refuting. Even if objective, universal comparison was important, RRP is as arbitrary a starting point as anything else if the bulk of resale purchases are occurring below it.