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| | | Author: | RyanJatho  | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 10:42 | | Subject: | Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 124 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.
Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.
But how should I start?
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| | | | | Author: | Bond | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, RyanJatho writes:
| | Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.
Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.
But how should I start?
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There are veteran sellers on BrickLink who will likely chime in with their counsel
by the end of the day if not long before that. I'm not anywhere close to
being a subject matter expert on SW or HP, but...$200 for a lot like you're
describing is an insult any way you slice it.
Unless you're short on time, please take advantage of BrickLink's catalog
(https://www.bricklink.com/catalog.asp), and look up each set by number, noting
its average value for both a complete used set, as well as seeing what other
sellers may be charging for incomplete used sets. Even if you don't make
any kind of formal list, you'll start to get a much clearer picture on what
the whole lot should go for.
Smart move, incidentally, to start in the BL Forum.
- Bond
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| | | | | Author: | edk | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 12:05 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, RyanJatho writes:
| | Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.
Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.
But how should I start?
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Do your research, $200 sounds like someone is trying to rip you off but I cannot
see what you have. You may have 2K in stuff
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| | | | | | | Author: | zorbanj | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 15:19 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, edk writes:
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Do your research, $200 sounds like someone is trying to rip you off but I cannot
see what you have. You may have 2K in stuff
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Not so sure about that. If the collection is in a giant pile then it's going
to sell for x dollars per pound. If the OP wants to make more than that he will
have to do the work and sort the collection.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 12:07 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, RyanJatho writes:
| | Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.
Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.
But how should I start?
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Random unsorted bulk is worth very little. If you want a good price, you need
to sort it.
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| | | | | | | Author: | marlinjc | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 19:28 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Try to find a buyer who sells on BL or another site. They may be interested in
buying to lot and putting together the sets. Keep all the bricks and pieces that
you know belong to a set together in clear bags. The misc. remaining parts will
then be easier to identify, especially using the BL feature that lists all of
the parts for a given set. For example if you have a star wars ship that is largely
complete, the missing pieces will be rather easy to identify as will the minifigs.
If you guys have the time, you might put them together and sell them as sets.
Otherwise advertising on local media like your equivalent of Craig's List
might work.
In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, RyanJatho writes:
| | Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.
Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.
But how should I start?
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Random unsorted bulk is worth very little. If you want a good price, you need
to sort it.
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| | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 12:16 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| The amount of money you can expect completely depends on how much time you want
to spend on it. If you’re not interested in becoming a long term lego reseller,
you should probably use bricklink to get an idea of what used sets are selling
for (average sold price), group the sets with their correct figures, and then
sell on a local marketplace.
You can probably easily get between 50-75% of the bricklink price if you take
pics of your sets and plan to sell individually.
And yes $200 is ridiculously low. You mention ships. If that’s pirate ships and
you mean Queen Anne’s revenge or the black pearl, one ship is with double that
initial offer. Some rare Star Wars figs can also go for $50+ for a single fig.
Good luck.
In Selling, RyanJatho writes:
| | Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.
Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.
But how should I start?
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| | | | | Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2024 20:42 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, RyanJatho writes:
| | Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.
Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.
But how should I start?
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Short answer; you started in the right place.
Long answer; Bricklink is a little clunky on my iphone (I have to scroll around
the page sometimes) so if you can get on an a computer it'll go a little
faster.
Compile all the set numbers you have, then click the "market" button
at the top. The green bar's links will refresh. Click "Price Guide".
There are two sections. The one on the left is for looking up parts/sets/whatever
(select "sets" that in the drop menu), the one on the right is for parting
out a set. Enter the set number and hit enter. This will show you all the sales
of that set for the recent new (left) or used (right) sets that have sold in
the past 6 months. The two right columns show you the new and used sets currently
listed for sale. Jump in to the settings and narrow this down to stores in the
USA.
Now, those prices reflect the fact that a seller has gone through and made sure
there were no missing pieces and that the instructions are included, possibly
the pieces are re-bagged in numbered bags and possibly has the original box.
For sellers, a lot of the legwork has been taken care of and there is value
in that.
Add all those totals up and halve it and that's about what you'd be able
to sell them all to a "store" because most people are looking for 200%
return minimum. If you're unable or unwilling to do all that and just want
to unload it "as-is" then you're probably going to get 30% of the
total value.
People on facebook marketplace near me are nuts when it comes to buying LEGO.
Not sure how it is up in Maine but take a look and see how many listings there
are. You can probably offload the whole lot un sorted for closer to 70-80%
of the total value.
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| | | | | Author: | kittybrickz | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2024 01:20 | | Subject: | Re: Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Hi! Just want to throw my 2 cents in the pot.
First I would decide how much time you would like to spend on this. If you want
to spend a few hours or a couple days and then be done with it, I would spread
out what you got in complete sets on a table or living room floor and take some
photos, and the tops of the bins, and post on your local marketplace. Look up
a chart for loose lego by the pound, weigh it and list it.
Look up the prices of complete sets on bricklink. Look at the lowest price for
the sets available in your country. List them "As Is" and note that they
might be incomplete. List them for about 10-25% below the market value.
Decide if you are going to list everything separate or together. It might be
easier to list everything as a bulk lot but it will take a lot longer to find
one right buyer. However, listing separately will mean more work and more face
time with people, however you will see returns on money sooner.
If you have more time to dedicate to this, start with one set and do an inventory
count, checking to make sure each part is there. Use the loose pieces to fill
in the blanks. Sometimes sets are not worth getting replacement parts because
the pieces are too special, like stickers or prints or minifigs. The present
pieces need to be in relatively good condition as well.
Once you have a set completed, decide if you are going to list on a marketplace
on facebook or other website, or start a store on Bricklink. To start a store
here you will need materials and supplies and more time than you think, but you
will reach a much wider consumer base.
Hope this helps a little! It's a big job and either way will take a lot more
time than you anticipate. Have an epic day!
---Katrina
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