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| | | Author: | Gladeye  | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 16:48 | | Subject: | Advice on Selling my Collectible Minifigures | | Viewed: | 109 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I tried to buy one of each collectible minifigure for as long as I could, but
eventually couldn't afford it anymore. I have one of every minifig through,
I think, series 19, and complete sets of some of the Simpsons, Ninjago, Batman,
Disney, etc.
I need advice please, on a couple things.
First, is it better to sell complete sets of each series or to sell the minifigures
individually My strong inclination is to sell them individually.
Second, is there any way to streamline the process? I'm wondering if there
was some kind of spreadsheet listing all the minifigures, that would have places
for me to enter all the descriptions and prices. Could I pull up a single document
price guide, to give me an easier idea on how to price? Something that draws
from bricklink, ebay, other lego sites?
The description will be the same for 99% of them; "Taken out of bag to briefly
display in a smoke and pet free home, but never played with. All accessories
and base included." I'd love to be able to somehow batch apply most of the
descriptions.
For almost all of them, my quantity is one. I do have a couple complete sets
of unopened bags and a few doubles though.
Any kind of shipping advice when it's just 2 or 3 minifigures?
Any advice is greatly appreciated! My son starts college in a couple months and
I just got hit with an obscenely high car repair bill. I saved these for a rainy
day and the rainy day has come!
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| | | | | Author: | Gladeye | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 17:11 | | Subject: | Re: Advice on Selling my Collectible Minifigures | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Gladeye writes:
| | I tried to buy one of each collectible minifigure for as long as I could, but
eventually couldn't afford it anymore. I have one of every minifig through,
I think, series 19, and complete sets of some of the Simpsons, Ninjago, Batman,
Disney, etc.
I need advice please, on a couple things.
First, is it better to sell complete sets of each series or to sell the minifigures
individually. My strong inclination is to sell them individually.
Second, is there any way to streamline the process? I'm wondering if there
was some kind of spreadsheet listing all the minifigures, that would have places
for me to enter all the descriptions and prices. Could I pull up a single document
price guide, to give me an easier idea on how to price? Something that draws
from bricklink, ebay, other lego sites?
The description will be the same for 99% of them; "Taken out of bag to briefly
display in a smoke and pet free home, but never played with. All accessories
and base included." I'd love to be able to somehow batch apply most of the
descriptions.
For almost all of them, my quantity is one. I do have a couple complete sets
of unopened bags and a few doubles though.
Any kind of shipping advice when it's just 2 or 3 minifigures?
Any advice is greatly appreciated! My son starts college in a couple months and
I just got hit with an obscenely high car repair bill. I saved these for a rainy
day and the rainy day has come!
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| | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 17:24 | | Subject: | Re: Advice on Selling my Collectible Minifigures | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I don't know about an easy way to list them, but I would recommend selling
individually at below 6 month sold average as used, complete sets. I think in
general, the figs without the parts sell a tiny bit faster, and you might get
more by selling figs and their accessories separately, but it's probably
pretty slight differences.
Lack of other inventory generally hurts sellers, but I don't think it will
hurt you too much when it comes to selling complete collectible figs so I wouldn't
think you'd have to go nuts discounting much below the 6 month average, but
a little below will help. In my experience about 1/2 of my collectible figs
are sold individually without random parts thrown in.
As for shipping, I always ship minifigs in a 6x4x3 box via first class and charge
a minimum of $4.50 for shipping which goes up by weight. Periodically I end
up losing some cash when I have to ship a baseplate or large instruction book
and I end up going over a pound due to the type of box, but in general, you'll
break even with a $4.50 to $6.50 range on shipping first class if you're
just doing mini-figs.
In Selling, Gladeye writes:
| | I tried to buy one of each collectible minifigure for as long as I could, but
eventually couldn't afford it anymore. I have one of every minifig through,
I think, series 19, and complete sets of some of the Simpsons, Ninjago, Batman,
Disney, etc.
I need advice please, on a couple things.
First, is it better to sell complete sets of each series or to sell the minifigures
individually My strong inclination is to sell them individually.
Second, is there any way to streamline the process? I'm wondering if there
was some kind of spreadsheet listing all the minifigures, that would have places
for me to enter all the descriptions and prices. Could I pull up a single document
price guide, to give me an easier idea on how to price? Something that draws
from bricklink, ebay, other lego sites?
The description will be the same for 99% of them; "Taken out of bag to briefly
display in a smoke and pet free home, but never played with. All accessories
and base included." I'd love to be able to somehow batch apply most of the
descriptions.
For almost all of them, my quantity is one. I do have a couple complete sets
of unopened bags and a few doubles though.
Any kind of shipping advice when it's just 2 or 3 minifigures?
Any advice is greatly appreciated! My son starts college in a couple months and
I just got hit with an obscenely high car repair bill. I saved these for a rainy
day and the rainy day has come!
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| | | | | | | Author: | Gladeye | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 17:59 | | Subject: | Re: Advice on Selling my Collectible Minifigures | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Thank you for the helpful advice. I should have mentioned, I do have a store
on bricklink already, but it's not very big, by any means. I was going to
add these to it.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 17:50 | | Subject: | Re: Advice on Selling my Collectible Minifigures | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Gladeye writes:
| | I tried to buy one of each collectible minifigure for as long as I could, but
eventually couldn't afford it anymore. I have one of every minifig through,
I think, series 19, and complete sets of some of the Simpsons, Ninjago, Batman,
Disney, etc.
I need advice please, on a couple things.
First, is it better to sell complete sets of each series or to sell the minifigures
individually My strong inclination is to sell them individually.
Second, is there any way to streamline the process? I'm wondering if there
was some kind of spreadsheet listing all the minifigures, that would have places
for me to enter all the descriptions and prices. Could I pull up a single document
price guide, to give me an easier idea on how to price? Something that draws
from bricklink, ebay, other lego sites?
The description will be the same for 99% of them; "Taken out of bag to briefly
display in a smoke and pet free home, but never played with. All accessories
and base included." I'd love to be able to somehow batch apply most of the
descriptions.
For almost all of them, my quantity is one. I do have a couple complete sets
of unopened bags and a few doubles though.
Any kind of shipping advice when it's just 2 or 3 minifigures?
Any advice is greatly appreciated! My son starts college in a couple months and
I just got hit with an obscenely high car repair bill. I saved these for a rainy
day and the rainy day has come!
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I'd sell as individual figure sets. That is, one figure per lot but as the
set version with accessories and base not as the minifigure only listing.
The easiest way to list them is part out as sets from the series catalogue entry
for the complete series of 16/12 sets.
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| | | | | Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jun 28, 2022 01:29 | | Subject: | Re: Advice on Selling my Collectible Minifigures | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| If you decide to list them separately then I STRONGLY recommend using Brickstore:
https://brickforge.de/brickstore/
It is free and has a lot of features. When I list minifigures I just add a bunch
of the same minifigure. I will put in something like 40 col102. You can then
then just tap on the minifigure Part Number and replace it with the correct minifigure
part number for each figure - it is so much quicker this way.
After you put in all your figs you can have Brickstore automatically set the
price on all of them to the 6 month sales average and then you can go up or down
from there for each one.
Jim.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Gladeye | | Posted: | Jun 28, 2022 02:38 | | Subject: | Re: Advice on Selling my Collectible Minifigures | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, TheBrickGuys writes:
| | If you decide to list them separately then I STRONGLY recommend using Brickstore:
https://brickforge.de/brickstore/
It is free and has a lot of features. When I list minifigures I just add a bunch
of the same minifigure. I will put in something like 40 col102. You can then
then just tap on the minifigure Part Number and replace it with the correct minifigure
part number for each figure - it is so much quicker this way.
After you put in all your figs you can have Brickstore automatically set the
price on all of them to the 6 month sales average and then you can go up or down
from there for each one.
Jim.
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That's terrific advice. I'm checking into it right now. Thank you and
best of luck to you.
Erik
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