One day I'll have nice things. Since I work at Walmart, I can look at our cost/margins on sets. The store usually makes 25-30% profit from each unit sold on Lego. I have a 10% discount, or once a month, staff get 20% on anything. Discounts don't work for clearance / events (eg Black Friday sales), but it does work on rollbacks.
Spent the last 4 months buying any set that went on second clearance. This could be anywhere between a -60% to -170% margin for the store. Realistically, it gives me about 2-4x margin to market value.
Having said that ebay and logistics are cancer, I sold a set for DOUBLE the price I paid (buyer paid market/retail, and shipping) and I made $4.85 after taxes, fees, and shipping. I think the more important thing is that the current market value is 3.7% above retail value, which implies a fairly decent rate of growth long term
>>10801622>>10801615I'm pretty sure the engineer series holds value pretty good, the previous eiffel tower sets had some pretty good % growth since their retirement. Not sure how well that will perform.
Kinda like the new Animal Crossing sets, they're cute I guess.
