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Re: LARGEST LEGO LOT ON EBAY EVER!! (???)
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sat, 3 Feb 2001 20:07:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Ack! That is indeed a whole friggin' mess of LEGO!
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> > > In lugnet.general, Aaron Gershon writes:
> > > > Seller states that there really is over 2000 lb of Lego. He will rent a
> > > > U-Haul and deliver in USA or Canada. Search 'Lego Collection:'item
> > > > 553020871. Current bid was over $3000 but he wants probably 20x that! Let me
> > > > know what you think!
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> However, broken up I really do agree that $50K is a conservative
> estimate of its value. If it's really a full ton, with older sets
> and complete instructions for some of those sets (I saw that Yellow
> Castle, yessirree) it could easily be worth six figures as parts.
Possibly, possibly not. I did some quick calculations. A month or so back, I
posted the results of my 'how many 2x4 bricks are in a pound' experiment. My
answer was 202-203 (or 101/8-oz to be precise). 2x4 bricks are, at least to me,
a benchmark for what a Lego piece weighs. Many pieces weigh less, and some weigh
more. Based on that, he (most likely) has 400K - 600K pieces here. If I were
betting, I would put it somewhere around 475K. These was computed using 202/lb
and 2K lbs.
Extrapolating a bit further (out the pier), the 'new MSRP' value of the parts
alone is probably $20K. Some of those sets are much rarer than the intrinsic
parts, a few (mostly the recent ones) as worth less. I think a fair high bid
would be $12K-$15K. Lets make some popcorn and sit back and watch. What does
everyone think ?
Ray
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| (...) I don't know--your mass/pieces reckoning is fine by me, but you're far undervaluing the market value of the pieces, IMHO. $0.10 is a good rule of thumb buying them at MSRP; even then, we'd be talking $47,500. But my experience of selling parts (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.theory)
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