Anyone want 1000 LBs of LEGO?

[def]

I don't know what to make of a sale like this. Possibly it's a good value for the dollar, but, possibly, $20,000 is too much to drop on Lego purchases at one time. There are all kinds of people in the world though.

http://cgi.ebay.com/270661733387

Bid now though, times running out.

[prateek]

That's insane. I'd get it if I had $20,000 on anything I want, but I wouldn't know how to handle all that Lego!

[CorneliusMurdock]

Dude.... Only if money starts falling from the sky. That is awesome.

[Zeya]

"It's me or the bricks, Johnny! Who do you love more!?" That is quite a collection. I guess he doesn't have the time or will to part out things by theme. He probably just wants to get rid of everything all at once. I don't think I could handle my collection getting that big. Maybe if I'm retired and I have a spare house to fill up, lol.

[def]

If you look deep into that page, you'll see he's a fairly obsessive collector. Check his Photobucket page

http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac45/harpelphoto/HUGE%20LEGO%20LOT/

Binders of instruction booklets going back 30 years. It must be killing him to sell it.

[Zeya]

If you look deep into that page, you'll see he's a fairly obsessive collector. Check his Photobucket page

http://s884.photobucket.com/albums/ac45/harpelphoto/HUGE%20LEGO%20LOT/

Binders of instruction booklets going back 30 years. It must be killing him to sell it.

Yeah, wow. He's got 3-digit set numbers in there.

[Brickdoctor]

Okay, let's see:

Assuming the amount of plastic averages out into all standard 2 x 4s,

>Converting 1,000 pounds into metric gets you 453.592 kilograms, according to a website that I Googled for.

>One 2 x 4 weighs 2.32 grams.

>Converting kg to grams gets the obvious 453,592 grams; divided by 2.32 equals 195,513.793 That's 195,514 bricks, approximately.

>195,514 is divided by 10 to get an ideal bricks-per-dollar ratio: $19,551.40. That means the lot falls 549 bricks short of hitting the 10:1 ratio; however, add in the 2,300 figures, some of which judging by the pictures are fairly old and are worth a good $3-$5 each, and the lot is pretty fairly priced.

Bottom line: 195,514 bricks plus 2,300 minifigs for $20,000 is a fairly priced deal. Keep in mind that some of the pieces may be smaller and weigh less, in which case it's almost certain that you're going to get more that 200,000 bricks. Now all you need is the money.

[RileyC]

Its a really nice collection of lego but I wouldnt buy that even if I did have the money to spend on it. Cause the fun of getting that much lego is the process. Getting all the lego would be too much to handle imo.

[Brickdoctor]

Its a really nice collection of lego but I wouldnt buy that even if I did have the money to spend on it. Cause the fun of getting that much lego is the process. Getting all the lego would be too much to handle imo.

I think it'd be the opposite for me; I'd be so excited to find out what rare pieces and figures were hidden in those boxes of bulk LEGO.

[CorneliusMurdock]

And almost all of the sorting work is already done for you. It also comes with all the containers it's in. Think of all the time saved.

I told my wife about this and she just looked at me all seriously and said "NO." So now I know I have to accumulate my Lego slowly so as to avoid detection. Like that's a problem.

[prateek]

And almost all of the sorting work is already done for you. It also comes with all the containers it's in. Think of all the time saved.

I told my wife about this and she just looked at me all seriously and said "NO." So now I know I have to accumulate my Lego slowly so as to avoid detection. Like that's a problem.

You actually told your beau?

[CorneliusMurdock]

You actually told your beau?

Um, no I told my wife. She's all woman. (not sure what emoticon to use for the end of this post.)

[fred67]

If I had enough money, I'd do it. By enough, I don't mean $20k. $20k in one shot like that would require that I held investments in the high hundreds of thousands, if not a million or more, to spend $20k in one shot on something as frivolous as LEGO. There, I said it... it's just a hobby. I wouldn't sacrifice my kid's college education for it.

[MacK]

Wow now that's a lot of Lego, I wonder why he's selling it. I mean it must have taken years to gather it all I wonder why you'd just decide to sell it all.

[XimenaPaulina]

Even if I'm as die-hard Lego fans as you guys are, and even if I had that money, I still wouldn't buy those. $20k for a single purchase of a 'bunch' of plastic pieces is just impractical and insane IMHO, considering the tough times nowadays.

Its a really nice collection of lego but I wouldnt buy that even if I did have the money to spend on it. Cause the fun of getting that much lego is the process. Getting all the lego would be too much to handle imo.

I agree. There's no fun in acquiring a lifetime worth of lego collection in just one purchase. Besides, spending $20k is never fun.

[Follows Closely]

...

Bottom line: 195,514 bricks plus 2,300 minifigs for $20,000 is a fairly priced deal. ...

Way over priced. I have been getting lots off from craigslist for $3-$4 a pound. He will never get 20K. 5K tops.

I agree that acquiring the bricks is where the fun is at.

Edited November 16, 2010 by Follows Closely

[Scorpio]

I would say a big Bricklink store could probably profit off buying this lot. Selling the figs could probably net them a decent amount. Although I do agree $20,000 up front is hard to stomach.

[Legoist]

Bottom line: 195,514 bricks plus 2,300 minifigs for $20,000 is a fairly priced deal.

Hell no... 10 cent per piece where all pieces are RANDOM and second hand, AND you have to buy 200.000 of them is not at all a fairly priced deal.

Unless someone is a very bored rich man (or someone wanting to start a re-selling business, but in this case it's a gamble to guess how many complete sets are there), he would be insane to buy this lot.

Edited November 16, 2010 by Legoist

[Walter Kovacs]

If I had that kind of cash lying around, I'd make an offer. Rest assured, I don't.

Unless you think the seller might take an offer of $100?

[Sisco]

After looking at the page, you also have to remember that on top of the $20,000 up front, you have to go pick it up yourself. If you live even 50 miles away, that's going to be a big problem. If you live overseas, well, let's add another $5,000 to the total. So the total investment would most likely be upwards of $25,000.

[vexorian]

I feel sorry for this person. He is either in huge economic trouble or he got tired of LEGO and that's after possibly a whole life of doing it.

Bottom line: 195,514 bricks plus 2,300 minifigs for $20,000 is a fairly priced deal. Keep in mind that some of the pieces may be smaller and weigh less, in which case it's almost certain that you're going to get more that 200,000 bricks. Now all you need is the money.

Way over priced. I have been getting lots off from craigslist for $3-$4 a pound. He will never get 20K. 5K tops.

Yes and no.

Note the collection is sorted. I also bet cost includes the containers. From a guy that has been purchasing bulks of unsorted LEGO for the last year. I got to say sorted LEGO is worth 10 times more than unsorted LEGO :). Plus seeing the kind of collection he is got, I bet the bricks are in good conditions. Bulks of unsorted LEGO are cheap but that's because bulks of unsorted LEGO are garbage until you sort and wash and get rid of all the trash that tends to appear in them (megabloks, other toys, etc). And sorting all the bulks of LEGO you would have to buy in crag list to match this amount is gonna take you years.

It also includes the instruction binders and 3500 minifigs. Even at one dollar the fig, that's 3500 dollars.

I honestly don't think you can find a better deal than this if you have 20000 USD and want to instantly boost (boost for real) the size of your collection. (unless there is fraud involved, I guess). But of course, how many people actually are in that condition? Most of the people with that combination of money and urges for LEGO probably already have a big enough collection and would rather spend in sets.

If I was him I would put it all on bricklink and wait to see what happens. Overall I think the earnings would be better to sell things individually instead of all together.

Edited November 16, 2010 by vexorian

[Legoist]

If I was him I would put it all on bricklink and wait to see what happens. Overall I think the earnings would be better to sell things individually instead of all together.

He would definitely make much more money, but how long would it take to add all the entries? It's a huge work... and then he'd have to wait years until selling most of it.

[drevim]

Sure $20K seems like a lot, but what if 20,000 of us threw in $1.....Plus I'm in the 500 mile range of delivery, so I'll sort them out into 20,000 small packs, and mail them out to everyone, so this should be done by about 2016. (and that would only be about $100K in postage, figuring $5 per package)

[CMP]

He's got to divide into maybe 5 - 10 lb sets and sell them individually.

I think the posting is over. I wonder if someone bought it.

[jm28cardiff]

There was an ad on Ebay UK recently, someone wanted 50k for "the largest lego collection in the world", claimed to have "millions" of pieces, yet the photos showed an ordinary looking collection in a normal house!