I'm a 40 year old male from the UK. I don't consider myself an investor (I only have 4 unopened sets - vampyre castle, Cinderella castle, ecto-1 and Delorean, which I'm keeping until the kids are older). I mainly read the forums here just to get a feel on which sets are cool or worth stashing for the kids - they're just starting out with lego but only simple sets for now.

Funnily, I started like this. I bought a couple of sets for my kids (1 and 3 year old). Then I bought more, and then I decided it was way too much for kids 

Then I decided to be an investor, at least to feel less guilty about it. It was 2 years ago. Today I have approx. 100 unopened sets (5000

Edited September 18, 201411 yr by denosya

Funnily, I started like this. I bought a couple of sets for my kids (1 and 3 year old). Then I bought more, and then I decided it was way too much for kids 

Then I decided to be an investor, at least to feel less guilty about it. It was 2 years ago. Today I have approx. 100 unopened sets (5000

I am having a hard time seeing that I am the only one from Mexico investing on this site.  If you are from northern Mexico, you can get all the US sets that you want and sell them in Mexico , as there are not exclusives being sold in my country......

 

37 male from  Monterrey, Mexico....

 

Home of the largest LEGO manufacturing facility in the world......

Hello everyone, 36 years old from honolulu hi. Thanks a lot for putting on this great site.

34, Laguna, CA. Like dub above... Easy to get back into them now that I have children of my own. And the quality of the sets these days make them a blast to build as an adult.

I consider Lego investing as a branch of my overall portfolio, complimenting my IRA and stock savings. Though we do have some fun on speculative sets, 80% of our holdings are modular which I adamantly feel are the safest play for the long term investor.

It's fun, and great to connect with others doing the same.

19, from the middle of the U.S.! I've been an investor since 2008 but I really got into it last year. I love building sets but I don't like how it steals money away from investing..

26, SoCal. I would buy a couple of random lego sets to build every now and then when I had some sort of mild midlife crisis (lol). Anyway, recently my nephew (who is a lego investor) came from Korea and told me about how he flips Star Wars and CMF sets. All my sets were opened, broken down and eventually put in a large bin except two: batman two-face escape and hulk's helicarrier breakout (mostly unopened due to lack of interest and display space). After Iooking up the market value for the batman set, here I am.

Edited October 6, 201411 yr by Sahntoki

Almost 50 (yikes) does that qualify as an "ole fart"?

 

Several years ago I was looking into getting started in selling Jeep (YJ) parts on the new fangled ebay thingy, I heard it was best to just sell something cheap that you knew well until you learned the system & built up FB... randomly found a box of classic Lego in a local add & began selling those parts from a bin on the kitchen counter. Now it's 3 bedrooms & the basement & even the new house under construction is built around the Lego dedicated rooms - I wonder if maybe this has gone a little too far... naaaw...

Hi.

36 m Vancouver Canada. (I'm having a chat room d

25tahun my age , from Indonesia , greetings all

27 and eastern PA, United States here. Hello!

Hi all I know must people Here are investors or collectors by night but are are you by day. I my self am a systems administrator By day and investor by night.

I'm a student :)

I sell LEGO (and books, but not for much longer).

red bull distribution warehouse mgr

Selling widgets and certain intellectual capital.

Healthcare executive

Manager of an independent record store & job coach/mentor

Pharmacist 

Full-time seller.

The country's finest Federally employed janitor on a billion dollar war machine- or as the government calls me a us navy sailor

Full time ebay dealer

Boat captain/waterman.

Education

Full-time Arbitrageur. Part-time Economist. The former gets paid to be right about the future. The latter gets paid to be wrong about the future. I've covered all the bases.

 

Is there a thread for full-time sellers?

Edited October 11, 201411 yr by imirish11