Hi,

 

New member here, so here's my intro:

 

I'm 30, married & have two little girls, the oldest being 3-1/2 years old and getting into Duplo.

 

I grew up playing with a LOT of LEGO in the mid-late 90's and still have my entire collection. (was really into Pirates, Castle, Technic & Town).

 

What started my recent Lego revival was My 5yo. Nephew wanted some bulk bricks for his birthday, so I bought some organizer trays from Harbor Freight, and decided to grab a batch of Craigslist to clean up for him.   I also filled it in with some bricks from BrickLink.   At that point, I've been getting more and more interested in keeping an eye on Craigslist for smaller lots (under $50) and have purchased a couple of times.  Then just today I went and bought a big lot of CL, but that's another story.

 

*Here's my challenge:

 

I find that I really like to take the big bulk bins of unsorted pieces and break them down into a mix of general types (like slopes, bricks, plates, etc.  And I also take the smaller parts and sort down the exact type (but haven't gone not as sorting only by color yet).  Beyond this, I don't really have the additional workspace or time to start rebuilding all the sets that are potentially there. 

 

Are there any known methods for making money doing this general & fine sorting?    I tried selling a couple of very low quantity parts on Ebay, but that was extremely wasteful of my time and effort (making a dollar at a time, with profit margins in the pennies by the time Ebay & Paypal ravaged me with fees).

 

I'm looking forward to being a contributor to the forum.   I don't know much about the newer sets, but like a lot of others on here, I have a passion for these things.

 

 

Hello,

 

I wanted to update as it has been three months since I made this introduction thread.

 

So at the advice of several people here, I have been taking the path of selling pieces on Bricklink (vs. rebuilding the sets, or selling batches on Ebay).

 

I'm happy to say that I have almost 20 sales completed on BrickLink, and really enjoy the control that I have over the process.   From sorting CL bulk parts, entering to BL inventory, and handling the picking & packing when the orders come in.   It's all methodical and fits into my schedule (I'm a night owl).

 

I did try piecing together a couple of the higher value sets that I identified, but I don't like putting an hour or so into pulling the parts just to find that pieces are missing.   I think my time limitations keep me to just parting out.

 

So thanks again to everyone that suggested opening a BrickLink store.  That has certainly been the best fit for me.

 

 

congratulations its nice to here people finding their niche. 

I have to agree with just a frog.  Like you I started the same way but with my son sorting a big lot we purchased on CL and put all the sets back together to sell.  I bought a lot on brick link and started to really understand just how big Lego really is.  Couple with finding this awesome site I decided to ope a store of our own.  It has been about a year and half since we opened our store.  It is really cool doing it with my kids and we have in that time frame grew our store to over 110k pieces which has financed the investment side of our brick folio.  At the end of the year our business part time of course will be fully funded by Lego profits and will have grown our investment side (sealed sets) to about 10k.  It has been a great ride.  Brick link can be daunting but if you have a great system in place it really doesn't take a lot of time to do it.  Good luck

Welcome to the fun. Everything is awesome.

Hello and welcome 

As I am new also , It is nice to know about you.

Thanks