Lego Investing: How Well Does it Scale

Snowcrash · 2013-02-16T17:09:13.000Z

Topic says it all. For you big time investors out there how well does your investment operation scale up? I'm sure for the casual investor its no problem. Buying a few small sets here and there and stashing them in the cupboard where you forget about them for years is easy mode. Sell them 5+ years down the road and you've probably made money, especially if you don't really keep track of how much you've spent on them. I'm talking about making a more substantial investment though, like 10k+. Obviously at that level things like record keeping, storage, entry costs, inventory management, and shipping all become much more important. Heck, with TLG limiting purchases now its seems like it will be tough just sourcing the sets in sufficient volume at the discounts one would need to make this a profitable enterprise (at least to level I would need to justify doing it, YMMV). If I were to consider doing this I certainly wouldn't have time to drive around town to retail locations trying to source sets locally at discount, so I'd have to primarily go through Amazon. My understanding is they currently limit you to 2 per account on popular sets. Any experienced investors out there? How do you get around this? Multiple Amazon accounts? Bite the bullet and buy some sets at full retail? Many small orders over the life of the product line to build inventory? I can solve the space/storage issues for myself, and each investor's unique situation would dictate his/her own solution to those problems anyway. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.