Hello,
I am totally new to the site and have spent a week or so browsing before deciding to post! My husband and I have five year old twin boys who are Lego fanatics. They started with the Lego Architecture series just before they turned four years old and by 4.5 they had completed the Robie House- "reading" the directions and laying every single brick with their own little fingers!
So here is why am here- Our sons have desperately wanted the London Tower Bridge for nearly two years now and the Sydney Opera House since it was released. Given their age we have not jumped at the idea! Our boys are learning about how sets retire and increase in price. Their main goal in life is to save enough to buy the Taj Mahal! They are also aware that by the time they are old enough to get the London Tower Bridge and Opera House, they will be retired and rather expensive. My husband and I have recently decided that we are going to purchase both the bridge and opera house now and put them away until our boys are a bit older in case either set ends up tripling or quadrupling in price like the Taj Mahal did.
In deciding to do this, we stumbled upon the idea of investing in Lego sets- thus how we found this site. Our sons are actors and have a decent amount of money sitting in their savings accounts. We do not touch this money. However, my husband and I are now considering purchasing a few large sets that are likely to increase in value after retirement. We understand it will make small gains in our sons money. We are not looking to make huge, life-altering profits. But some small gains would be nicer than the money just sitting there. We are looking at buying four to six large sets, based on information gathered from this site. Our question is this- Is it safe to say we would at least recoup our investment? Even if the sets do not go up drastically in value, is it likely that we could at least off-load them for what we paid? In browsing trends and sets currently on eBay, it seems that almost everything sells for at least what it was worth, if not a bit more. Surely it is a risk- but is it a relatively safe risk as far as not losing a lot??? Any input would be greatly appreciated. We are totally new to this and not sure if it is something we want to do!