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| | | Author: | SDF_Bricks  | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2024 10:45 | | Subject: | How to sell a huge collection - Need 'advice' | | Viewed: | 160 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I have a fairly large collection, spanning over 20 years, and stored/sorted in
200+ boxes, including Technic, City, Ninjago, Bionicle, Friends, and many many
more. These include over 300 minifigs, and many unique/rare parts/sets (eg. Scorpion
Pyramid, Village Market, ...). I have little time to sort through and rebuild
all the sets. I'm looking for input as to what is the best way to sell all
at once. My initial investment was over $50k.
1. Any thoughts on how to liquidate everything ASAP?
2. Would selling everything by the pound on eBay be an option? - Not very attractive
I'm sure.
Thoughts are appreciated.
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| | | | | Author: | steelwoolghandi | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2024 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: How to sell a huge collection - Need 'advice' | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | I have a fairly large collection, spanning over 20 years, and stored/sorted in
200+ boxes, including Technic, City, Ninjago, Bionicle, Friends, and many many
more. These include over 300 minifigs, and many unique/rare parts/sets (eg. Scorpion
Pyramid, Village Market, ...). I have little time to sort through and rebuild
all the sets. I'm looking for input as to what is the best way to sell all
at once. My initial investment was over $50k.
1. Any thoughts on how to liquidate everything ASAP?
2. Would selling everything by the pound on eBay be an option? - Not very attractive
I'm sure.
Thoughts are appreciated.
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Spend hours and hours sorting the bricks in to each piece and color, check pricing
on Bricklink, then list them part by part on Bricklink. Wait for others on Bricklink
to purchase orders slowly, pack them up, send them out, wait for acknowledgement
that they arrived and get "Some" feedback and return said feedback and
then do it all over again.
I mean, why should we all have the fun!
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2024 10:57 | | Subject: | Re: How to sell a huge collection - Need 'advice' | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Pull out the valuable minifigs and parts, then sell the rest as "unsorted
bulk" on ebay or locally (facebook, etc). Or if you know which sets are valuable,
sort out those to sell individually but leave the rest mixed.
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| | | | | Author: | zorbanj | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2024 11:59 | | Subject: | Re: How to sell a huge collection - Need 'advice' | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | I have a fairly large collection, spanning over 20 years, and stored/sorted in
200+ boxes, including Technic, City, Ninjago, Bionicle, Friends, and many many
more. These include over 300 minifigs, and many unique/rare parts/sets (eg. Scorpion
Pyramid, Village Market, ...). I have little time to sort through and rebuild
all the sets. I'm looking for input as to what is the best way to sell all
at once. My initial investment was over $50k.
1. Any thoughts on how to liquidate everything ASAP?
2. Would selling everything by the pound on eBay be an option? - Not very attractive
I'm sure.
Thoughts are appreciated.
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If you have absolutely no choice but to sell quickly, do what yorbrick suggested.
Otherwise, I would sort it and sell the sets. You don't need to rebuild the
sets, just check the parts against the Bricklink inventory. If your collection
is stored in over 200 boxes, it must be semi-sorted already.
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| | | | | Author: | pcthurman | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2024 13:21 | | Subject: | Re: How to sell a huge collection - Need 'advice' | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | I have a fairly large collection, spanning over 20 years, and stored/sorted in
200+ boxes, including Technic, City, Ninjago, Bionicle, Friends, and many many
more. These include over 300 minifigs, and many unique/rare parts/sets (eg. Scorpion
Pyramid, Village Market, ...). I have little time to sort through and rebuild
all the sets. I'm looking for input as to what is the best way to sell all
at once. My initial investment was over $50k.
1. Any thoughts on how to liquidate everything ASAP?
2. Would selling everything by the pound on eBay be an option? - Not very attractive
I'm sure.
Thoughts are appreciated.
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You could sell the collection intact on eBay. List the sets you know are there.
Make note of those sets that have an instruction manual or box.
You could set it up as a "buy it now" and that way you get the amount
you want, or do it auction style and add a reserve price which is your lowest
amount you would accept.
Make sure you take pictures of all minifigures, animals, "glass", marked
& printed parts. Specialty parts like motorcycles, baseplates, plants, instructions,
& boxes will help sell it. You can upload 24 pictures.
Keep in mind you will not get full value (what you paid) but depending on theme
and condition and the rarity of the sets, you could make quite a lot.
Do some research to see what other people are listing collections for and what
they have sold for as well.
Good luck!
Cass T
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| | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2024 07:03 | | Subject: | Re: How to sell a huge collection - Need 'advice' | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| It depends on how much time you want to spend, but you could get between 10%
and 400% of the initial cost. Part of your problem is that you have such a large
quantity and no single “end user” is going to want it. Selling it all at once
will only be possible to a reseller who will be looking to make 3x on it at least.
Lowest to highest in my opinion:
- Take a single picture, don’t describe and throw it up on a local marketplace.
10%
- take a few good pics (including most or all figs/animals/instructions (to “prove
near completeness” on valuable sets) and list all sets that you have. 20-40%
depending on where you live (big city?)
- sell all the figs and valuable parts. This takes investigation into what parts
are in the set and what they’re worth. Then sell the rest as bulk. Maybe 75-100%
depending on themes you own.
- separate into sets and sell on local marketplace individually (50% to 150%
depending on theme, etc)
- same as above but on bricklink. Slightly more, but longer to sell.
- part out the entire collection and become a bricklink seller. Enormous time
commitment and it will take years to fully sell even if priced low. 150-400%
depending on set rarity, condition, etc.
In General, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | I have a fairly large collection, spanning over 20 years, and stored/sorted in
200+ boxes, including Technic, City, Ninjago, Bionicle, Friends, and many many
more. These include over 300 minifigs, and many unique/rare parts/sets (eg. Scorpion
Pyramid, Village Market, ...). I have little time to sort through and rebuild
all the sets. I'm looking for input as to what is the best way to sell all
at once. My initial investment was over $50k.
1. Any thoughts on how to liquidate everything ASAP?
2. Would selling everything by the pound on eBay be an option? - Not very attractive
I'm sure.
Thoughts are appreciated.
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| | | | | Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2024 07:25 | | Subject: | Re: How to sell a huge collection - Need 'advice' | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | I have a fairly large collection, spanning over 20 years, and stored/sorted in
200+ boxes, including Technic, City, Ninjago, Bionicle, Friends, and many many
more. These include over 300 minifigs, and many unique/rare parts/sets (eg. Scorpion
Pyramid, Village Market, ...). I have little time to sort through and rebuild
all the sets. I'm looking for input as to what is the best way to sell all
at once. My initial investment was over $50k.
1. Any thoughts on how to liquidate everything ASAP?
2. Would selling everything by the pound on eBay be an option? - Not very attractive
I'm sure.
Thoughts are appreciated.
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Outsource the building to some responsible children. They get the joy of building
sets with more LEGO than they've ever seen and will have fun doing so. They
might even help with unbuilding and preparing for packing. A reward like a LEGO
set for N completed sets will even make them happier still.
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