What did you invest in 1 year ago?

Grolim · 2013-05-31T11:35:12.000Z

I've been thinking about this topic for a while and now that we have some good new poll options I thought it would be a good time to post it. What I have been wondering is how good are we, as a collective Lego Investor community, at predicting what the best sets to invest in are? To measure this I'd like you to think back to the period 12-15 months ago and tick all the sets you bought then as a medium to long term investment (excluding sets you quick flipped or sold before a year was up) thinking they would do well in the first poll. The second poll I'd like to know what intuitively people think that the best investments would have been with the benefit of hindsight, what do you think actually produced the best return over the last year? I only had room for 20 options obviously, so I put in a few of the more talked about sets, but feel free to tick "other" and list them in a post. Remembering that the set had to be around, either at retail or secondary, a year ago (so for example Monster Fighters & LoTR don't qualify). After a sufficient time I'd like to measure these poll results against a list of the top 20 1 year return rates and see how we stack up. The big "flaw" with this that I think many of you may raise is that some sets bought a year ago may have been for a long term investment. I'd still like to include those and I think that's valid as from a pure investment standpoint you'd have been better off buying a higher performing set for 1 year and then selling and buying that long term set with your capital+profits.