Investment advice
Don’t spend nine thousand dollars on a Playstation 3.
Spend several hundred dollars on a 918, a 920, a 924, a 926 and, drum roll please, a 928. Boxed and hardly played with, apparently.
The Galaxy Explorer by itself is a $US200-plus item. Which, of course, is why (comparatively) sane people just build their own. Paint “LL 928″ on a 4x1 blue brick with White-Out or something, if you must.
I was wondering if nobody would notice this lot, but no such luck. It got too rich for my blood a few days ago - place your bets on the winning bid!
(The same seller’s got some less gold-mine-ish sets on sale as well. If you’re an Australian who’s always wanted one of those hideous-but-excellent-parts Robot Command Centres, now’s the time.)
Why spend $9000 when you could spend.. fourteen?
EBay's history has a number of examples from 11/14 in the $4000 to $15000 range. There was even one for $44,000, though one wonders how many past 10K were legitimate bidders. Glorious conspicuous consumption, I yield to thee.
Comment by David — November 19, 2006 @ 3:46 am
Wow... I actually had all of those, except the 928. At the time I thought my life was incomplete; eh, times change.
Why on earth would these be still boxed and hardly played with? I imagine someone bought them and put them away thinking "25 years in the future there will be an online auction site I can sell these on and nearly double what I paid for them!" Not exactly blue-chip! More like blue-brick (HAH!).
Speaking of which, in my Big Box of Jumbled Lego I still have all four of the rego bricks - 2 x LL918 and 2 x LL924. I wonder if they're worth anything? Those new Mindtorms NXT kits like nice...
Comment by corinoco — November 19, 2006 @ 10:05 am
Those bricks are rather more valuable than the average blue 1x4, but not as valuable as you might hope :-).
(LL918 is cheaper, but LL924 is more expensive, for some reason.)
Comment by Daniel Rutter — November 19, 2006 @ 4:39 pm