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| | | Author: | ccroxton  | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:39 | | Subject: | Finding the best value? | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Suppose you have about 50 pounds of minifigs and parts, separated into heads,
torsos, legs, accessories, armor, etc. If you start with a basic head https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626bp01&idColor=3#T=C&C=3
there are 477 minifigs that use this head. How can I easily find out which of
these is
a) low in stock
b) has significant value
c) is selling quickly
This goes for any other part as well. With over 1000 pounds to list, how can
I know what is moving well, or low in stock, or has larger than usual value?
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:29 | | Subject: | Re: Finding the best value? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ccroxton writes:
I would start with torsos, these are typically the most distinctive minifigure
parts, and if you don't have the torso it might not be worth even attempting
to complete the minifigure.
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| | | | | | | Author: | ccroxton | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:32 | | Subject: | Re: Finding the best value? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, ccroxton writes:
I would start with torsos, these are typically the most distinctive minifigure
parts, and if you don't have the torso it might not be worth even attempting
to complete the minifigure.
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Even if I start with torso, there are usually 4-15 minifigs that use the same
torso. Without having to pull up at least 4 separate pages to look at selling
prices, is there an easier way?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:57 | | Subject: | Re: Finding the best value? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Generally if a minifigure part is used on lots of figures it’s probably better
to sell it parted out as usually city minifigure parts sell better than complete
city minifigures. But if a print looks unique and you find out it’s part of a
themed figure it likely worth tying to assemble.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | ccroxton | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 10:01 | | Subject: | Re: Finding the best value? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Generally if a minifigure part is used on lots of figures it’s probably better
to sell it parted out as usually city minifigure parts sell better than complete
city minifigures. But if a print looks unique and you find out it’s part of a
themed figure it likely worth tying to assemble.
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Thank you!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 11:12 | | Subject: | Re: Finding the best value? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ccroxton writes:
| | In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, ccroxton writes:
I would start with torsos, these are typically the most distinctive minifigure
parts, and if you don't have the torso it might not be worth even attempting
to complete the minifigure.
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Even if I start with torso, there are usually 4-15 minifigs that use the same
torso. Without having to pull up at least 4 separate pages to look at selling
prices, is there an easier way?
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The larger the number of minifigs a part appears in, the less valuable it is
likely to be.
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| | | | | Author: | Crafteewon | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: Finding the best value? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ccroxton writes:
| | Suppose you have about 50 pounds of minifigs and parts, separated into heads,
torsos, legs, accessories, armor, etc. If you start with a basic head https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3626bp01&idColor=3#T=C&C=3
there are 477 minifigs that use this head. How can I easily find out which of
these is
a) low in stock
b) has significant value
c) is selling quickly
This goes for any other part as well. With over 1000 pounds to list, how can
I know what is moving well, or low in stock, or has larger than usual value?
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If there are many figures with the same part it is likely not very valuable and
even if in demand the supply will be very high. I would suggest sorting all the
parts into the various parts; heads, torsos, legs, headgear, and bodywear etc.
Weapons and tools can be put to the side as most figures don’t have them included.
I then quality check every piece. Have a soft bristled tooth brush and a damp
cloth at hand. The toothbrush is perfect for removing dust and the damp cloth
for cleaning spots. Personally I only keep the excellent used condition (EUC)
pieces unless they are rare. It won’t take you long to start to identify the
more common vs rarer parts. Non-EUC common pieces I sell on eBay as lots. Once
you have cleaned and sorted your parts group colours together. Leg colour in
bricklink are based on hips. So start with hips and then sort all same colour
by their legs. I sort torsos into police/fire fighters and other commons then
into torso colour divided by arm colours.
Now that you have all the other parts sorted cleaned and ready for assembly into
figures I focus on the heads. Start by sorting regular vs modified heads then
by colour. Then double sided vs single sided. Then you can put all those with
glasses or beard into separate containers. Then you can seperate head types from
there (hollow stud, solid stud, open stud etc.) These help when identifying and
reducing the number of returns when searching. On average non yellow heads are
on figures that have more value. I would also say double sided non-yellow are
more valuable than single sided non-yellow. Based on this I start with modified
heads, then double sided non-yellow, then single sided non-yellow, then yellow
double sided, lastly single-sided yellow.
Use a separate site like https://figureitout.app/blfigure to filter figures based
on head colour/type/glasses/beard etc. If I don’t have all the parts to make
the figure I bag it and mark the BL part number so it is ready for upload.
Once I finish all the heads then I work at identifying and bagging all the other
parts. If I find one with good value I will see how many parts for that figure
I have and see if it is worth putting the figure together. Full figures in my
opinion sell for more value than parts when the figure is more rare. Bag and
mark all the parts for the figure and start a wanted list with the part you need
the value of the figure and the figure id. This helps when shopping to understand
the potential value vs your cost.
I am sure I missed parts and maybe others will add in.
The main thing you should know is this will take an insane amount of time. Way
more than you could possibly imagine. If you have a full time job and other responsibilities
I would really caution you on starting this. Once you start you will have invested
a significant amount of time and will need to finish to get your value out of
that time.
Good luck
Edward
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