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How do you view your LEGO collection?
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Do you view your LEGO collection as an investment in your...
A. Mental Well-being. (Its just something you have fun with).
B. A financial investment that should increase in value over time.
C. A tool for financial gain (you sell your creations and/or parts)
D. Other
E. Some combination of the above.
I realize many of you would answer E but I have been wondering about this
because of some of the recent threads that I have seen involving people being
Upset about bulk ordering decreasing the value of their collection or other
people seem to think they hold some copyright on a certain combination of
bricks and how they are assembled and expect to make money on this.
Truthfully I have been supprised by much of this. I can trully say I fall into
the "A" catagory. Yes I sell parts on Brickbay but that is just because I
don't want/need those parts and it defrays the cost of my collection. For me
my collection is there for one reason and that is my personal enjoyment. I
could care less about the value of some set I own that is now sorted into my
collective or even the value of a single part.
In my mind Bulk Ordering is nothing but good news no matter how extensive or
limited it may end up being. Sure it might be expensive in some cases but if I
can get 20 of part A for $.20 a part instead of buying 20 sets at $20 a set and
having to sort each set then I am happy because all I wanted in the first place
were the 20 parts. I don't care if my 75 blue 1x2x2 classic windows suddenly
decrease in value because you can get them in bulk, I wasn't going to sell them
anyway.
Now I can see where some people consider it enjoyable to be able to sell sets
that they designed, created directions for, and collected the parts for. Thats
great for them but to claim some kind of right to their assemblage of parts to
an extent that they would be upset with me if I reverse engineered it for my
own personal enjoyment is just plain crazy IMO. If I own the parts I can
assemble them as I please and no one has a right to get upset with me for
borrowing an idea that they posted publicly for all to see (unless I try to
sell it but even then it would have to be either an exact copy or so close a
match that there is no doubt where the model origionated from).
I guess what I am asking is that if your collection is for something other than
or in addition to your personal enjoyment then I would like to know what that
is and why.
In addition to that is there anyone out there that is able to support
themselves selling LEGO (either as parts, sets, or your personalized sets)? If
not does anyone plan to try? I guess I just don't see the market being that
big but heck if I could make a living selling something I created then I would
have to consider it. I just don't think we are there yet (and probably never
will be).
Anyone have any thoughts or am I just crazy and most everyone just uses their
LEGO for the same reasons I do?
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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Message has 17 Replies:
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| (...) I think my primary response is A, but there's a little bit of B in there too. If the bricks weren't so darned expensive I probably wouldn't worry about it that much, but since they cost me a fair chunk of change it's a lot easier to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) [A] all the way, baby. I sell things only for the same reason you do - to make the stuff I keep cheaper. (...) Mostly the same here. I will confess that I get a certain amount of happy from having rare parts. I'm not certain exactly where it (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) F. Like a monkey on my back that demands to be fed. Constantly. Ok, that's how I feel lately, with the almost nightly stops at Toys R Us on the drive home from work, the extended drive to the boonies seeking Wal*Marts for new SW sets, but it's (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I can honestly say that A is my reason for having a Lego collection. Though sometimes it wrecks my mind why I have so many of those little bits of ABS, it is for my well being and not for profit that I have them. I haven't sold a single Lego (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| I would answer this way: a: 70% c: 15% (I sell old sets to finance more brick purchases) z: 15% (z would be the nostalgia of collecting the sets of my childhood and sets from the past that were well designed) -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| "Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:G59KK8.EsK@lugnet.com... (...) I guess I will have to answer "E" because all of them apply to me but "A" is the primary motivator for me. A: With LEGO I have a hobby that I find enjoyable (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) <snipped> (...) which I wish to retire and B turns into C). My current goals include the following, listed in order of time spent. 1) Gather examples of all the individual elements from past through present. Thanks to my discovery of LUGNET (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) Considering how much selling I do, it may sound crazy, but the answer is mostly A. The reason is that *my* Lego collection is kept completely separate from the stuff I sell - the for-sale stuff I don't count (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) AAAAAAA!!! The only time that B even enters into the picture is when I buy a set somewhere and then find it drastically reduced somewhere else a month later. But that isn't because I view LEGO as an investment, just that I feel stupid for (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 100% A for me. It's fun. (...) I think the same. It's just like TLC saying "you must not build set X, if you don't have it, no matter if you have sets Y and Z and these two sets have enough bricks to build it" (here X, Y and Z are official (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: How do you view your LEGO collection?
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| (...) because the of trying to figure out whether it was a, b, c, d, or e, but because some how I never have called my Lego a collection in my mind. Denial. This whole Lego thing has kind of snuck up on me. A few little cute figures here and there, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| <sigh> I couln't answer this without writing a novel... :] (...) K) I use it as a cover to smuggle contraband, with proceeds helping to prop up dictatorial regimes in small developing nations. This gives me a big kick of Vitamins A) and C). Hehe. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: How do you view your LEGO collection?
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| My answer is definitely A, having been hooked by Evil Stevie and his Pirate Game. www.io.com/~sj/PirateGame.html It's typefied by a conversation I had with my very patient wife. Her: Why are you so concerned about the boxes? Me: I dunno, in case I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: How do you view your LEGO collection?
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| I'm definitely an "A" person. I wouldn't sell my LEGO for any price! Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:G59KK8.EsK@lugnet.com... (...) being (...) other (...) into (...) me (...) I (...) my (...) or (...) if I (...) set and (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: How do you view your LEGO collection?
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| (...) I'll probably start a flame war here, but I think answering B. or C., and being serious about it, is completely ridiculous. In order to make B. work, you would have to buy in such huge bulk (read . . . HUNDEREDS or THOUSANDS of a particularly (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: How do you view your LEGO collection?
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| (...) Most greatly so. (...) Not really. (...) Slightly (and increasingly so). Seeing that I need the money now, I'm looking at brickbay and prepping my store there. I wouldn't do it if I could get a permanent job, but I can't, so... (...) Well, I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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