Is Time Up For LEGO Investing?

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[BrickBucks]

Are you investing in LEGO sets this year?

[BoyFromBelgium]

*My thoughts as a professional Lego customer from 2005 until now on Lego Investing:*
- There are 3 main Lego markets: European, American & the rest of the world. Lego is like money investing based on location.
- For the rest of the world: I don't recommend investing in Lego because the purchase/retail price is already too high.
- This is because compared to the other 2 markets, you don't get the discounts and don't get the profit afterwards.
- For the American & European market, you need to look at specific themes. Adult themes are the future target audience probably.
- Don't invest in Lego Duplo, Lego Ninjago and any other themes for kids. The prices will always stay very low.
- Yes, there are too many investors from the 2 remaining markets. This will have a negative impact in the upcoming years.
- As for the American market, there are too many investors and the discounts don't go further 40%, which isn't on the European level.
- The European market is probably the most stable, where also the EU helps a lot with businesses between different countries.
- I wouldn't recommend to begin investing Lego now if you live outside of the EU due to my reasons above.
- Like with Bricklink being down and the COVID pandemic, in the near future more & more businesses will get hit hard for sure.
- People will less & less become interested in Lego in upcoming years due to inflation and future events like war.
- The amount of resellers/scalpers/investors also don't help the future of Lego. It makes it very hard for everyone to sell.
- Lego Investing as your main job will also not be profitable in the long term due to my reasons above.

[ikeashoeracksupportsclub]

Not watched yet, but YES lego investing is finished, so all please stop investing and just leave it to me, i will take the hit and still invest so you don't have too

[adriani]

Lego-Investing also depends on region imho. I feel like here in Germany it’s kinda dying out or people are just being over-cautious in general on what to buy, not just in terms of Lego.

I am not really an investor, rather I use this hobby to finance my Lego expenditures, ease up my purchasing decisions. Or certain sets that I may buy and not build, I might just resell. It all depends.

[samuelbourdeau]

I like to use your videos to check which ones I should buy right now for my self and sets I can wait on a sale.

[syproful]

My observation is that there is a massive inflation in the amount of sets. The amount to choose from is off the scale.

[EdFlanders]

It’s over dudes, at least in Ozzie. Facebook marketplace is dead as dead, I’m told, eBay auctions are passing through, and retired sets are going for retail years after. Better to buy up crates of Prime I reckon…

[Wealth_Wisdom_Discernment]

Very few people are going to spend money on old retired sets now, backside of the massive amount of current “big sets” that Lego makes.

[andregurrola]

I am able to bypass those fees because every year I ran a table at my local comicon and sell my lots there. The fees already factored in because I spend the entrance fee for me and my son to go there every year but now I just supplement by adding a little extra to it to rent the table and I still get into the con and walk around and do the things that we like doing every time we go I just sell Legos in between.

[brickstarsofficial]

I guess it depends on the expected return overall and pros and cons of the liquidity and storage required. I think Lego investing saw a boom as the afol population increased, and as a lot of 90s kids reached their 30s and have more disposable income to spend on nostalgic sets. I think investing will still yield ok returns but won't be as good as it has been. Finding sets on sale, collecting vip points, and being able to wait 3-5 years of holding a set may still get decent return in my opinion.

[ThomasKnip]

Simply put - as long as "buy low, sell high" works, LEGO investing will work.
The current dynamics close to the EOL of sets with overstocking by large vendors or LEGO postponing a date may mean you need more patience before a set becomes a collectors' items with increasing value. As with stocks, it is an investment for the long haul, not for day trading.

[cameron.swizzy]

Monkie kid wave 1 sets kinda are the only sets that I’ve seen that retained and increased in value. I’m finding some extremely desirable sets for dirt cheap so I just rounded out my childhood wishlist and capitalized. With the current climate retired sets are getting body slammed by sets like D&D, Dreamzzz, Jurassic park, and lion knight’s castle

[TheBrickQuest]

Some great insight! Always good to reevaluate but as of right now still plenty of money to be made if done correctly.

[matthewbest]

How long do you hold onto your sets post retirement on average?

[whodidit]

What do you think of Lego salvaging exclusives to Amazon and Walmart? One set I'm holding is on Ace Hardware website. Sets that were supposed to retire are still on Lego website and can stay for months.

[shotdowninflames]

Mercari just dropped Seller fees completely. Now FREE to sell. But added Buyer fees and larger cash withdrawl fees.
Be interesting to see if Selling is still worth it there... or Buyers stay away due to new fees.

[noahlanphere]

Well atleast I would be able to get the sets I like instead of people hoarding 10 of them in their basement.

[mishkinita]

Hi! thx for the interesting video. You have skills and experience we dont have. In my language we used to say "you have bigger shoulders" in case something going wrong. Imho starting investing now is something will make you underperform compared to other investments. Newcomers now doesnt have time to make mistakes due to decreased roi and longer time to get "in the money". So my suggestions it could be to start REALLY SLOW if they really want to try. Especially thinking that the time you will make money is increased a lot in the last years. I started 2019/2020 and made a lot of mistakes even if i had some experience in Lego and collectible items. Spent too much just to see the returning period getting bigger and bigger. I think what i m saying is especially worth in Europe (even due to market differencies we had to learn).

[metalsunny]

@BrickBucks so what do you recommend for selling retired sets ? if a set is retired for 6 months en you can make like 100% profit, do you sell ? or if you really don't need the money keep it for longer even for 2 years or so and then sell it ?

[myplatinumlife]

Yes, I still believe it’s a solid way to diversify investments while also having some fun. I’d be careful with some of the statements about not seeing anything dropping yet (for the most part). Go watch the clip of Jeremy Irons speaking in the movie Margin Call about the 2008 housing crisis. That will sum it up well