"Investing" is for retards but I did find success running a bricklink store for a few years and currently enjoy the hobby on a quasi-net-neutral basis that provides me 10 an hour to sort around and play with my own toys. I am not interested in retail Lego, boxed, or assembled sets - bulk bins from Facebook marketplace only. And I only snipe poorly-listed lots that I can get for 20-40 bucks. I pick out the pieces I immediately want and resell the bulk brick and plate to after-school programs, churches, and new parents. Anything I don't keep for myself gets sold or traded privately. Pic related is a random example of a "keep" and "sell" pile from a Facebook lot I probably paid $20-30 for, and resold the chaff for the same 20.
>>11270555For retail Lego this is the way to go. The fact that Lego is actually a luxury hobby that people can stress about how much they spend in it - or where to store it - barely calculates in my brain.
I am naturally immune to investorfagging because I actually like the toy of Lego (you can make so many investors seethe with this one), only bother with custom building, and have a hobbyist pride of saving toys from the landfill and distributing pieces to the individuals that will most appreciate them. If you want to make money doing nothing you don't even have to invest. There are fucking savings accounts with high enough interest to make more year over year if penny grifters could resist touching sealed boxes long enough to have the cash to open one.
