the joys of lego and ebay....
It was about four years ago when I was bored and was searching ebay for things to waste my hard earned pennies on when I stumbled across the idea of rekindling my fondness with the plastic little stubby bricks of Denmarkian fame.... It started off with the red supercar from the technic range when before I knew what was happening I had happily and giddingly won not one but eight or nine auctions with the total grand final sum of over £600 in the space of only two weeks, oh well I guess you've gotta spend money to enjoy yourself I thought! I had a month of great memories coming back when I was crouched on the floor sifting through huge mounds of newly looking lego, it was when friends and family would visit that it dawned on me that playing with lego when your almost thirty is probably not the best thing to be doing with ones time! I ended up finishing the sets hidden away as my giddy laughs and smug smile were looking like I had turned into some deranged geek (i've since consolidated myself to realizing i've perhaps been one all my life!). Anyhow, years later I find the said boxes of lego all tucked back away in their respective pristine boxes (I made sure of this when i purchased them off ebay to begin with....again geek!), now although I loved to own these pieces of joy....I had colllected the red supercar, the model previous to that (black supercar), the jcb, a space shuttle with light and sound and pnuematics!, a plane, a forklift, and a huge lorry with rear claw. So with no funds for new toys or gadgets I begrudgingly put them all back on ebay hoping to get a bit back on this crazy impulse buy......as it turned out not only did I sell all sets straight away but I actually MADE money!!! So to all who have that rush of blood running through your veins when your in a shop/online hovering over the buy it now button, go for it! You have nothing to lose but your pennies....
(I should point out that when selling items like lego on ebay I suggest postage only and NOT free pickup.....you should have seen some of the characters that came to collect! The one that sticks in my mind is a wife who'd been sent out with her shopping trolly to collect one of the larger sets, her face was that of someone who had obviously argued with the better half about what it was exactly that he was spending the joint wage on that week.....priceless!)
(violentcake has got fieldrunners on the brain...., Fri 22 May 2009, 13:11, Reply)