34 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Been a good start to the year. With a number of sales on eBay, FB and Gumtree:

Ninjago Dawn of Iron Doom Buy in £45 / Sold £100/ Profit £45 / Hold Less than a month

Pet shop £100 / £170 / £50 / 1 year

Shuttle Tydirium £40 / £95 / £45 / 1.5 year

Dr Who £22 / £53 / £28 / 1.5 year

Ecto 1 £27 / £62 / £29 / 1.5 year

5 x Anniversary promo, Valentine Bee, VIP Promo & Flower bundle £12.75 / £60 / £42 / less than a week

Elves Queen Dragon £45 / £109 / £50 / 1 month

5 x R2-D2 & R3-M2 poly £0 / £20 / £17 / six months

2 x Wall-E £23 / £80 / £50 / 1.5 year

2 x Wither £20 / £50 / £24 / less than a month

Total profit: £690 (which will be ploughed straight into 2 MOCs that I am currently sourcing bricks)

Nice work!

A few more fba sales:

Livi's House for $178, buy-in of $40

Lincoln Memorial for $107, buy-in of $20

Sold 4 more Raptor Rampage at $108 each and Final Flight of Destiny's Bounty for $219 (buy-in of $45) on fba last night.

Edited February 7, 20187 yr by micbelt

Well, I sold a NISB 10218 Pet Shop for $168 on BrickLink.  Buy in was...$62. 

And people said Pet Shops wouldn't bring in much money. Bah, I say!

FBA sales since last post:

1x 31041 Construction Vehicles for $36.99, buy-in of $2

1x 70737 Titan Mech Battle for $170, buy-in of $30

1x 41061 Jasmine's Exotic Palace for $68, buy-in of $13

1x 75092 Naboo Starfighter for $113, buy-in of $25

 

Edited February 8, 20187 yr by micbelt

Sold Davey Jones, found him in a load of random Playmobil we got at a charity shop, so no buy in.

Really sorry to see him go.

Sold for £55 on ebay, £44 profit after fees and postage.

44 minutes ago, richiej1979 said:

Sold Davey Jones, found him in a load of random Playmobil we got at a charity shop, so no buy in.

Really sorry to see him go.

Sold for £55 on ebay, £44 profit after fees and postage.

Wow,  when I sold the Black Pearl I had no idea this figure was worth so much!

Just now, Captain_chaos said:

Wow,  when I sold the Black Pearl I had no idea this figure was worth so much!

It took me about 2 weeks of researching and double checking to make sure he was real. He's the main reason we started looking at Lego investing.

19 hours ago, TANV said:

Well, I sold a NISB 10218 Pet Shop for $168 on BrickLink.  Buy in was...$62. 

And people said Pet Shops wouldn't bring in much money. Bah, I say!

As is argued plentiful here: buy-in is key ! For the ones who bought Pet Shop at RRP when it was about to retire there's no meat on the bones at that price. But a buy-in at > 50% discount from RRP is a no-brainer still for the Creator Expert Modulars.

Discounts (more than say £20) are quite hard to come by on Mouldars / Creator Expert sets

Hard to find but such offers do exist. TRU last year had 20% off all Lego during one weekend. That along with TRU £20 off giftcards which we’re still valid at time of the promotion meant that I was able to pick up a Brick Bank for £76 and a Ferris Wheel for £116.

 

 

There was the 20% cashback, £10 gift card, and Bricktober minifigs promo too.

5 minutes ago, Captain_chaos said:

There was the 20% cashback, £10 gift card, and Bricktober minifigs promo too.

And in the case of the Ninjago Minifigs promo they are up to £30ish now

2 hours ago, richiej1979 said:

Sold Davey Jones, found him in a load of random Playmobil we got at a charity shop, so no buy in.

Really sorry to see him go.

Sold for £55 on ebay, £44 profit after fees and postage.

What. The. ****.

That's crazy. Great find!

3 minutes ago, Lego Benito said:

What. The. ****.

That's crazy. Great find!

I know, we were so lucky, We got Hector Barbossa with him too. 

1 hour ago, andyposterfan said:

Discounts (more than say £20) are quite hard to come by on Mouldars / Creator Expert sets

I haven´t paid more than half price for a modular since 2015. Problem was all the ones I bought before that too damn high.

37 minutes ago, Val-E said:

I haven´t paid more than half price for a modular since 2015. Problem was all the ones I bought before that too damn high.

come on... >50% off must include cashback, discounts and promos and freebies being sold off.

even with SaH there's freebies to offset and points to consider.

I got the brick back at SaH for -20% and 3 Christmas promos that I sold for £40, but I wouldn't really consider that half price

16 minutes ago, andyposterfan said:

come on... >50% off must include cashback, discounts and promos and freebies being sold off.

even with SaH there's freebies to offset and points to consider.

I got the brick back at SaH for -20% and 3 Christmas promos that I sold for £40, but I wouldn't really consider that half price

Especially since 20% from LEGO Shop at Home is actually 16.67%.

Sold Davey Jones, found him in a load of random Playmobil we got at a charity shop, so no buy in.

Really sorry to see him go.
Sold for £55 on ebay, £44 profit after fees and postage.

Bet you wish you hadn’t stumbled on that Minifigure and thus never got pulled into the world of Lego Investing!

29 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Bet you wish you hadn’t stumbled on that Minifigure and thus never got pulled into the world of Lego Investing!

My wallet and my wife are both crying at me. 

Ask me again next year though.

3 hours ago, andyposterfan said:

come on... >50% off must include cashback, discounts and promos and freebies being sold off.

even with SaH there's freebies to offset and points to consider.

I got the brick back at SaH for -20% and 3 Christmas promos that I sold for £40, but I wouldn't really consider that half price

Direct discounts or price errors on PR and BB. No point in buying them for less discount and certainly not from SAH. Last one I paid full price for was TH because it had already retired and at that time you could make money on them paying full RRP. Not happened since and probably won´t again.

four digits club: 4207 for 180 euros shipped, 1 euro eBay fee. Last one, bought at 50% off

Sold a Chima Fire Temple for $130 shipped (can't wait to offload these). Bought at half off.

Sold a Coast Guard Patrol 60014 for $125 shipped. $50 buy-in.

Now I need to get around to dumping the 15+ Nindroid Mechdragons that I have back from my rookie days of investing in LEGO when I would buy every set that was on clearance

8x 40165 Wedding Favour set as a job lot £45 after fees.

Buy in was 30 pence each as a result of some complimentary points from SaH and a £10 lego shop voucher I got through the post before Christmas.

Thought I'd get them gone rather than waiting around - as the new version is better!

Kept my streak alive on fba, but only one sale yesterday. Sold a Jasmine’s exotic palace for $68.