General Buying & Selling

I haven't seen a thread on this and I think it could really help us all: Share your Lego negotation tactics. What's your approach? Once you've engaged in a conversation, what do you do/say in order to land a better price? I'm ok in my approach. Once I found a listing, noticed the phone number in the description below was inaccurate, and was hours late in texting the correct number. But I like to think my approach helped me land the deal: I introduced myself before inquiring about the collectionI came off as educated, or at least not un-educated, by using proper capitalization, punctuation etcI 'nicely' told her the number was incorrect even though it theoretically m…

I'm going to Florida Legoland and will also drop by Downtown Disney Lego store next week. What should I look for that's not easily found elsewhere? Legoland also gives 10% discount for annual ticket holder (which I don't have, and will cost $100 if I decide to buy one). Any advice is appreciated.

I need to sell to fund some of my next purchases but I am wondering which of my sets can I sell in order not to go in the future smashing my head against a wall. The candidates I have in mind are: 41999 - I have 2 units, would sell one. 10210 - Only one unit. Kinda interested in keeping it. 10193 - Only one unit. Not too interested. 4842 - Only one unit. Do not take this away from my hands please. I know that 10193 is in a different ballpark as figures go, but it'd be nice to have some dough to fund my addiction future investments, which will be determined by what I sell. Thoughts?

Ok, so many of you have seen my troubles with my Lego Availability and basically being restricted to just Walmart as my only physical store to visit for Clearance. I would love to have suggestions as to how I can save the most money ordering online. If I have to drive to Memphis, TN (2 hr drive) to hit Targets/TRU/WalMarts, I'll spend 4 hrs roundtrip traveling, and of course $$$ in gas. I know to watch Amazon. I'm not really familiar with shopping Amazon.Uk yet, but I'm going to make that a new way to check for deals. I know I can get Walmart to ship to store (crap) , or ship to my house... Target the same. What other ways can I save? Special Cre…

I have been looking on the site and they seem to have a limited stock, but some good deals.

What should I do with this set since it is missing 50-100 pieces? Sell it or try to get the missing pieces?

I have a sealed case of Series 3 CMFs I've been trying to sell with no luck. If I even do sell it, after fees and tracked, insured shipping (at least $40 from canada to the U.S), my profit is going to be less than I hoped for. Would I be better to crack it open and sell them individually or as sets of 16? How many sets of 16 could I expect to get out of a case? 2? 3? My buy-in price was about $200 CAD, including tax and shipping.

I'm thinking selling the 7 of these that I own. Anyone have any advice on if now is a good time?

From time to time, I will be posting some nice deals that I find from various Lego sellers that involve 'multiple' sets, called LOTS. They are usually made up of 3 or more sets and can be from the same Lego theme, or multiple themes. Feel free to list some lot deals that you find for the Brickpicker members... Please remember that a lot of these are auctions and they won't be available forever. Their prices might go beyond the 'good deal' point also. Use the Lego Set Guide to figure out what is a fair price for the set lot. Good luck.

Does anyone have any good experience or advice on this? I really want to start selling worldwide, but it seems that eBay will not protect the seller if the item can not be tracked with a delivery confirmation. eBay offers USPS services but I'm not sure that you are protected with their services. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Hello everyone. New member here. Just started collecting lego for fun a couple months ago. Discovered there are so many awesome sets, and realized I couldn't just keep on buying everything without funding my hobby from other means. So decided to look at investing in sets and sell them at profit, which led me to this awsome site. Anyway, I'm trying to decide if I should go the the pirate ship ambush for 69.99 at TRU (after the $20 discount) or the Vampyre Castle for 89? From where I am (Central IL) the Vampyre Castle is harder to find. But the pirate ship seems to be a very good deal. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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Greetings: I was reading the thread a few weeks ago with the rainbow 10179 and the reference and link to ebay for the custom black version. I know it's time consuming to go this route for 10179 or other big builds such as Taj Mahal, but what's the feeling typically on the money making side of this venture? I only really see the custom 10179 and there was money made on that one. My apologies if this is a thread already somewhere else. I looked for it but didn't find anything. Thanks as always!

Hiya im new here ive decided to sell my collection of modulars. I have got the corner cafe and grocery with boxes and manuals. Anyone have an idea of how much il get for them?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-2010-Lego-Star-Wars-10212-Imperial-Shuttle-Factory-Sealed-NEW-Unopened-Retired-/121097691127 I was very impressed with this auction. If this is someone on here, good for you. Maybe Amazon could take a lesson from this?

I just read that baxters robot rampage is a target exclusive??? Here in Europe we have no idea about these so called exclusives!! How can i find out which sets are exclusive before its to late!!! Help.......

Ok, so it looks as though I've been stiffed on a Taj Mahal through delcampe.net. In short, bought last Saturday, on Sunday had a re fund being processed, had an email today saying its failed. Had tried emailing the seller through delcampe and PayPal (both different email) and directly through both sites but no response. The delcampe email no longer exists and their store is now empty. So...........anyone had any luck in getting their money back? And to add insult to injury, just did a search for the image and it popped up on some Hong Kong Pinterest style site!!! FFS!

How long do you wait to sell a product? Are there any unique strategies? Sorry if something similar has been posted already, there have been quite a few polls lately.

Hey all I have been checking out BrickLink for a few days now and just can't seem to convince myself to actually buy anything as of yet, since I have never used it before. I was just wondering what does everyone on here think of the site, have you ever bought anything on there, new or old. Thanks everyone

Do most sellers use / purchase a tracking number ?

Just wondering if the dock workers strike in So. Cal. is having any effect on Lego LEGO Shop at Home running out of inventory and pushing back their estimated promise dates? Some items that were supposed to have been in on Dec 1 are now showing Dec 23rd.....

From what I’ve read, lego will be raising their prices on CMF’s to $4.99 in 2020.

I have a fellow investor that has had a bit of a hard time and needs to unload his collection. Is CL the best place. Ebay is no go because he needs the money soon. i am buying a bit from him today. He said he would return it all to the stores but is thre a place here where he can offer it up? He is doing cost on all of the pieces. Not trying to peddle wares, just asking.

Hi, I am looking for a US Wholesale Lego distributor, able to ship 3-4000$ worth of Lego for every shipping to Europe, Slovenja. Can you provide this service? Can you tell me the price including delivery to Slovenja (probably Trieste in Italy is the nearest Harbour and/or international airport) ? The reason is I am looking for Lego not distributed in Europe. best regards, M needless to say I'm not interested but I have never dealt with spam on bricklinks so I was a little taken back.

Hi everyone. I just wanted to share with you the several vintage 70's lego sets I have up for auction on Ebay. These sets are incomplete but come with boxes and instructions for the most part. Believe it or not these were given to me by a person whose husband passed away and she did not want anything to do with the legos that he had. They were pratically almost placed in the trash until they were rescued. Check them out if anyone is interested in having old vintage legos for display. Lego Space Cruiser 1978 http://www.ebay.com/itm/290962378470?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Lego Bulldozer http://www.ebay.com/itm/2…