Just an interesting article on making money from selling used LEGO bricks.  Funny, I never really heard of the company.

That's dedication. I'd be curious to know how profitable it has been for him so far. I mean, the man has staff!!!

Interesting article for sure. Man, I don't know if I could wash and store lego pieces full time though. I do like buying sets and cleaning them up and reselling, but individual pieces is rough.

I remember seeing that article, it was here before: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20130530-50005.html.

Good article, it actually encouraged me to sell used Lego sets.

Funny, I'd never heard of him either 0.o

 

That's cool though!

Funny, I'd never heard of him either 0.o

 

That's cool though!

Really??? You have never heard of brick arms???

Really??? You have never heard of brick arms???

Brick Arms was the second business mentioned.  I know of them, but I never heard of the person the main part of the article was written about...Bricksy.com.

I thought be was talking about Will from BrickArms........I'm a little slow my bad ker!

Hah I love Brickarms! Just hadn't heard of Bricksy! you're good!

He`s right at the heart of the operation as well, given that the Bricklink store is said to be based in Germany. Must be an easier market to obtain pieces out there I`d assume? Still though, that`s a lot of work and dedication to organize something on such a massive scale. Kudos are in order. 

Very cool, thanks for sharing the article. I'm taking baby steps to try to be just like him when my Lego business grows up!

Interesting. What he does is pretty different from what the bulk of BrickPicker members do - instead of buying MISB sets, he buys USED bricks, then cleans and sells. I'm not sure how big a market there is for used bricks, but I can't imagine it being quite as large as the market for sealed/new sets.

Awesome goal for retirement.  50 employees!  Sheesh.  Part-time or not, that's a lot of manpower sorting bricks.

Interesting article. Wish I could do this full time!

I wonder if they'e hiring?

He`s right at the heart of the operation as well, given that the Bricklink store is said to be based in Germany. Must be an easier market to obtain pieces out there I`d assume?

A fair number of major Bricklink based powers operate out of the Fatherland.

Looking at the volume of stock they hold, the VAT they pay might be more that the average man's annual income.