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| | | Author: | CSC  | | Posted: | May 5, 2021 18:03 | | Subject: | Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 238 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I started listing and selling here on Bricklink this year and it has been fun
to see where LEGO came from when it was my toy as a child 35 years ago.
I started buying sets, parting them out, filling up drawers and boxes and listed
it here.
Now sales are picking up and I am always sad to see some of the parts go and
some of the boxes getting empty. I know it is a great problem to have, but it
is also sad 
I know I am weird, but am I the only one?
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | May 5, 2021 18:08 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, CSC writes:
| | I started listing and selling here on Bricklink this year and it has been fun
to see where LEGO came from when it was my toy as a child 35 years ago.
I started buying sets, parting them out, filling up drawers and boxes and listed
it here.
Now sales are picking up and I am always sad to see some of the parts go and
some of the boxes getting empty. I know it is a great problem to have, but it
is also sad
I know I am weird, but am I the only one?
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You are not the only one. I am currently in the process of liquidating my LEGO
collection and while it is nice to have all that extra space and cash, it is
sad to see the old LEGO go away. Of course, you could always by more sets and
start the process all over again
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | May 5, 2021 18:13 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Watching Lego go out the door doesn't make me sad, I know someone will make
good use of it. What I don't like is that I now look at Lego and instead
of looking forward to building, I'm wondering how much money I can make from
it.
In General, CSC writes:
| | I started listing and selling here on Bricklink this year and it has been fun
to see where LEGO came from when it was my toy as a child 35 years ago.
I started buying sets, parting them out, filling up drawers and boxes and listed
it here.
Now sales are picking up and I am always sad to see some of the parts go and
some of the boxes getting empty. I know it is a great problem to have, but it
is also sad
I know I am weird, but am I the only one?
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| | | | | | | Author: | hkl22 | | Posted: | May 5, 2021 19:08 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | Watching Lego go out the door doesn't make me sad, I know someone will make
good use of it. What I don't like is that I now look at Lego and instead
of looking forward to building, I'm wondering how much money I can make from
it.
In General, CSC writes:
| | I started listing and selling here on Bricklink this year and it has been fun
to see where LEGO came from when it was my toy as a child 35 years ago.
I started buying sets, parting them out, filling up drawers and boxes and listed
it here.
Now sales are picking up and I am always sad to see some of the parts go and
some of the boxes getting empty. I know it is a great problem to have, but it
is also sad
I know I am weird, but am I the only one?
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Yeah that's true. Well, I'm selling used parts from my old sets, but
using some of that money to fund lego mocs, so I guess I haven't felt that
that much yet.
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| | | | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 5, 2021 19:25 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I'm sorry about that, I have been looking at how expensive any given set
I can complete from my unsorted LEGO bins is, but ultimately if the set doesn't
have some sort of appeal to me I won't go forward with the process of part
collection and putting it for sale, since I will have to have the set around
for some while before someone buys it from me, and I can only have so much space
dedicated to LEGO in my apartment.
In General, peregrinator writes:
| | Watching Lego go out the door doesn't make me sad, I know someone will make
good use of it. What I don't like is that I now look at Lego and instead
of looking forward to building, I'm wondering how much money I can make from
it.
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| | | | | Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 5, 2021 19:22 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| You definitely aren't, when I sold my 8868 Airtech Claw Rig at 16, I immediately
regretted it.
However, now that I'm back into the business of selling LEGO, I don't
really sell my own, I sell sets and parts from bins I found on the street
or purchased on Craigslist. I have less attachment to it so it makes it easier.
Still, I don't put everything I got for sale, only the parts I'm sure
I won't need to complete a set or a MOC, like stickered parts or parts in
colors that are specific to a single set.
This is why my shop has so few parts for sale, the rest of my collection is off-limit.
I tried to sell some basic bricks to make some space in my drawers, and the next
month I realized I needed some of the parts I sold and that I would have to buy
them again. We're talking about pennies lost, but it felt worse than the
financial loss.
This is why I probably won't be suckered into buying sets to part them to
sell. In fact I'm committed to do the exact opposite, reassembling sets from
loose collection, the investigative work and the part collection are fun hobbies
for me.
In General, CSC writes:
| | I started listing and selling here on Bricklink this year and it has been fun
to see where LEGO came from when it was my toy as a child 35 years ago.
I started buying sets, parting them out, filling up drawers and boxes and listed
it here.
Now sales are picking up and I am always sad to see some of the parts go and
some of the boxes getting empty. I know it is a great problem to have, but it
is also sad
I know I am weird, but am I the only one?
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| | | | | Author: | cplonsdale | | Posted: | May 5, 2021 19:42 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| This is an over 18 site full of people obsessed (and I don't think obsessed
is too strong a word...just look at the intensity and dedication shown by those
people that form the catalogue.) with a child's toy. While I'm sure there
are some here who only see an opportunity to make some money from a highly sort
after commodity (and good luck to them they are part of the beauty and usefulness
of this site) the vast majority are LEGO fanatics for whatever their own reasons
are. This being the case, in the whole wide world you possibly are weird but
here on Bricklink you are just another AFOL, we all are to one degree or another,
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| | | | | Author: | Akir | | Posted: | May 7, 2021 13:04 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 89 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, CSC writes:
| | I started listing and selling here on Bricklink this year and it has been fun
to see where LEGO came from when it was my toy as a child 35 years ago.
I started buying sets, parting them out, filling up drawers and boxes and listed
it here.
Now sales are picking up and I am always sad to see some of the parts go and
some of the boxes getting empty. I know it is a great problem to have, but it
is also sad
I know I am weird, but am I the only one?
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Mine is an exact copy of your story, you're not alone!
I hate letting pieces go, I always think I missed something and I might still
have rebuilt one more of my childhood sets. But knowing that someone else gets
some joy out of them helps.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Texxy38 | | Posted: | May 9, 2021 04:19 | | Subject: | Re: Am I weird? | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, stearns writes:
| | In General, CSC writes:
| | I started listing and selling here on Bricklink this year and it has been fun
to see where LEGO came from when it was my toy as a child 35 years ago.
I started buying sets, parting them out, filling up drawers and boxes and listed
it here.
Now sales are picking up and I am always sad to see some of the parts go and
some of the boxes getting empty. I know it is a great problem to have, but it
is also sad
I know I am weird, but am I the only one?
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Mine is an exact copy of your story, you're not alone!
I hate letting pieces go, I always think I missed something and I might still
have rebuilt one more of my childhood sets. But knowing that someone else gets
some joy out of them helps.
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This is especially true if you get to know that some rare parts are going to
be used in a large project that may end-up in a show, museum or make a simple
builder proud of his creation !
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