General Buying & Selling

Hi All, Been a lurker here for awhile, but signed up to participate as I have a question. I have a variety of sets that I've been selling online through the usual channels, Ebay, Amazon, etc., and read about West End Toys as an option to take everything off my hands and handle the sale and fulfillment directly, but I've heard some comments through the grapevine that the company has some issues. Not sure if these are financial problems, management problems or just bad communication as I wasn't given much in the way of specifics, but figured the community here is the best place to ask since I'm sure there are some West End Toys vendors here who have sold through them. …

Hi guys, We have a local eBay like platform in Switzerland named Ricardo, a VW Camper polybag sold for 52CHF yesterday, that's 57$! Not bad...should make those with several of them happy

Shame on you people who knowingly buy from illegal drop shippers on EBay! The reason you do it is because you know that even if you report it there is a high probability that the retailer will tell you to keep the set anyway. You are just as guilty as the person using the stolen credit card and are contributing to someones hardship. Why do I post this here and why do I know this is going on? Because I have seen it with my own eyes and some of the people that are doing this are BP members. Shame on you and don't you worry you will get yours trust me! I'm disgusted!

Some of you might remember I posted this Summer about selling off a 1,000+ collection of Lego to raise money for a new home purchase. I input everything into Brickfolio and discovered I had 1,098 sets valued at $55k. I started selling the sets selectively on Craigslist and Amazon and raised about $16-18k over the last month and then came into my warehouse this morning only to discover that most of my remaining sets have been stolen. The Sheriff's department just left, but it is pretty obvious the suspects knew what they were looking for, they took some sets and left others. They hauled out a couple hundred sets and even stole two moving dollies in the process.…

I'm going to post pictures of my free LEGO finds. The local dump/transfer station has a good sized free shop. I'm always scoring toys. This is todays score. Feel FREE to add your own free scores..

Hello, new guy here. I've been a lurker and I registered a while back but haven't really been active. I had luck with one set, Cloud Cuckoo. I parted it out and sold it (a single set) on eBay. My goal is to slowly (very slowly) turn $300-400 into a full-fledged business. How can I do this? I have full-time availability. Here are my questions: What is the research process for picking a set? That is, do I pick a random set and part it all out on paper, or is there a way to narrow down my selections first to say, 5 or 10 sets and do the math from there? How do I part out a set? My thinking is each minifig separately plus the set pieces. Maybe it'd be better to …

I came across a good deal on four Sealed Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets (2002) Sets and was wondering if there would be any benefit in holding onto them for a bit longer. Another question do you think it would be better to sell them separately or in a lot together? The Four sets are , 4726 - Quidditch Practice (Sealed) 4729 - Dumbledore's Office (Sealed) 4731 - Dobby's Release (Sealed) 4735 - Slytherin (Sealed) Thanks,

I had 15% off there last weekend on anything (although only 1 of each exclusive) and I picked up an R2D2 (for investing), a VW Camper (for investing), Palace Cinema (to build or to invest, haven't decided) and a tower bridge to build with the wife. I get 30% off on 5 sets this weekend but not on exclusives, what should I get? Don't ask how I get the discount, I'm not allowed to say.

Pretty simple. Target and Walmart will start clearancing some toys - which lego lines/sets do you think will be included? I am going with Hobbit, Lone Ranger, TMNT and a few of the older star wars and city sets. What do you think?

I'm fairly well established as an EBay Individual Seller (Power Seller status, 100% Positive with 185 FB), and now wondering if I should branch out to selling on Amazon also. For those with experience with selling on both, how do they compare in regards to ease of use, selling fees, for both an individual and or Professional/Store, etc. How many of you actually sell on both Amazon and EBay? Which do you prefer? Is it worth it to sell on both? Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.

Hey Guys what do I do??? I sold an item and the buyer says they didn't receive it. I shipped via usps priority with insurance... usps says the item was delivered. the buyer says they've been going back and forth with usps. thanks for any advice!

Are there any other places to sell Lego other then eBay ? What sites are the best for sales and sellers fees

Not sure where to post this but thought it was interesting. I just went to a couple of my local shopkos to pick up some 40% off Airport Terminals and I saw these stickers at one of them plastered all over the Friends sets and a few Star Wars sets...

Buying or selling...just curious what other members have forked over or received. Cash is king. Any interesting or memorable stories? I'm a small time investor/flipper so selling 2 mint Crawler 41999 to a local buyer (kjijij) gave me $1000. By far my highest cash transaction. Without fees I thought it was good enough flip...but part of me did want to keep one in case the value climbs to +$1000 range and have something pretty exclusive brand new, mint and unopened. Oh well, it was fun having it for 2-3wks

Based on what i earn every month and what then comes out of that for my rent, should i give the Lego eBay business a go? On average i earn roughly

Do any of you get on bricklink.com??

I scored a great deal on almost the entire run of the lego viking theme on ebay but a couple of the sets are missing some pieces. Of cousre I plan on bricklinking the missing pieces. This gets me to my big pet peeve about most bricklink stores. It seems most stores charge an "additional materials and handling fee". I can stomach maybe 50 cents but shouldn't getting the parts and shipping them be part of doing business on bricklink? You can get padded evenlopes on bulk for less than 10 cents a piece. I see stores who charge an additional $1.50 and fees. That seems like a lot to me. I can understand stores don't like to handle small orders, then just have a minimum or…

Are there any websites to sell Lego sets besides ebay? I have a few sets I need to shed to raise some cash for unexpected bills. I'm trying to avoid ebay since the whole fee thing is getting ridiculous there. -***-

...I was checking out what's new at my local Lego Store yesterday and decided to fill a small cup from the Pick-a-Brick wall... an employee saw me and said that yesterday was the last day for the "old" price for both small and large cups... starting today, the price of both cups would have gone up... how much, I didn't ask as I scrambled to fill several more cups... no wonder (first time I saw it), a couple other employees were emptying out some slots for "new" parts... ...can someone confirm this?... if so, is the price increase just for stores in the US or all over?...

Howdy folks, I have been recently strapped for capital as many opportunities have come recently. Keep the info below to myself or share? Hmm. It is not gospel and it is only what I intend to do as I try to get more structure in my acquisitions. Here goes for some of the bigger sets. Feel free to comment, add your own, etc Past history in this series has shown me this is its second holiday season and if this line-up remains consistent it will the last time to buy this at retail. 10211 GE - Probably EOL 10214 Tower Bridge - still perplexed on this one. Have 4 would like at least 10...it is out of any other sets range I am trying to re…

I am thinking about selling a few extra sets, lots, pieces, as I go throughout the year. I wanted your input as to where to devote my time building a store? I really like the Brick Owl user interface and communication from the owner. Responds within minutes on nearly every question or topic. But, I've used bricklink for purchases and it is the "go to" for so many. I know they are "suppose" to be updating their site in the near future. I've seen where people run the same inventory on both stores, I guess that is an option. Where would you put your efforts? This will be something I tinker with over time. Thanks!

Just wondering if anyone else is having problems with USPS lately? I have already have one package go missing and of course usps can't do anything about it and now I have another package that hasn't moved in 3 days. The latter package is suppose to go to NC but it is still stuck in Detroit. Starting to get concerned.

I am a new seller on Ebay with only about 200 sales and a little over 100 feedbacks at 100 positive ratio. My problem Ebayer, with zero feedback, bought a Hulkcarrier 6868 and is now saying "I ordered the hulk carrier breakout set(6868) for my son for Christmas. The set was said to be new and sealed and appeared that way when delivered. However when we opened the set all bags where not sealed and all the figures were missing. The figures were why he wanted this set and he was devasted. This was his main gift and it really spoiled the holiday for him and his belief in Santa. I am hoping you can make this right and quickly please." I personally don't…

I just sold a Lego Attack of the Wargs. BNIB. I've been selling for 11 years with 379 100% feedbacks and no negative feedbacks. I bought it new, took pictures of it to sell on Ebay, packaged it well. This was a brand new unopened item. The buyer opens a case with ebay (he has feedback of 11) and says, "The box was already opened. The instructions for this set were in the box but the Legos included were not this set. As well, there was a World of Warcraft action figure set included...My son is very upset that what he thought he was receiving was not at all what you promised." I've never owned a World of Warcraft action figure! How will Ebay handl…

Seeing this happen makes me want to return this just to teach this person a lesson. I recently bought a fire temple Ninjaco set (new) off ebay for $90. Pretty nice deal. Got here today - wrapped in shipping paper, no box, crushed all to hell, seals burst on both sides, looks like elephant used it as a seat cushion. Obviously, its still worth way more than I paid for it but I am irritated about it. Don't understand how anyone can think this is ok. Does this happen to you all a lot? I have had this happen 3 times in the last month with sets. One was luckily fine, other two were beat to hell.