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Re: How do you view your LEGO collection?
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Fri, 8 Dec 2000 20:27:02 GMT
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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)
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Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
Eric Kingsley wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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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| Well I have to agree with Thomas, "A" gets most of my vote, but "z" , the re-collecting the sets of my childhood is very strong in the picture, which means that "b" is having a greater effect all the time. But it is still "A" all the way. As to the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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