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Go re-read the first few paragraphs of the first post:

> After doing some minimal research I noticed that sets do roughly 40 euros / Kg and that bulk lego is about 10, rare parts and lego technic go for 100’s of euros per kg. So, there exists a cottage industry of people that buy lego in bulk, buy new sets and then part this all out or sort it (manually) into more desirable and thus more valuable groupings.

> I figured this would be a fun thing to get in on and to build an automated sorter.

He then impulsively bid on a ton of bulk lego on eBay and ended up with a garage completely full of the stuff.

Sounds like it started for fun, then spiraled out of control and is now a thing he would very much like to do to get all this lego the hell out of his life for at least enough of a profit to cover shipping it to and from his place, if not much more.



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