general Moving on

Posted January 8, 2006 • Comments Off on Moving on

Well, I did it. I found the right place and found the right tools and I did it.

My Lego is for sale. All of it.

http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=kostia

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I feel I should point out that most of the large boxes in the above photo are not each one big set—they are full of Ziploc bags containing smaller sets. So are the storage boxes (including the two you can’t really see because they’re behind others).

Bricklink.com has what appears to be an active market (hundreds of people on the site all evening) and easily checked market prices. If I were to sell all 141 Lego sets I listed tonight, I’d make $2,079.19. I know I didn’t pay quite that much.

(Yes, a hundred and forty-one. The listing and checking and uploading took six hours—with a great piece of software from Bricklink to help.)

A lot of the little sets are worth more than I thought, and a lot of the big sets are worth a little less. Most of the ones I really like are worth much more than I paid for them. Most of the ones I bought at MacFrugal’s years and years ago because I thought they’d be worth much more than what they were going for finally are. Skull Island, for instance, is worth about $42 unopened. A Belville set I paid $3.50 for is listed at $47. And so on.

I felt a slight twinge at some of the sets, like the wonderfully intricate Victory Cup Racers, which I might still take off the store list, but mostly I don’t feel bad at all to be selling my collection. I expected it to be a lot harder to part with. We’ll see how it goes when I start actually shipping things out.

I’m keeping a lot of Duplo. I always liked Duplo, and it’s nice for Max to have something to play with besides my kitchen tools.