Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Re: Typical profit margins - Stuart9 (1067)  | Sourcing suitable Lego at a good price here is not easy either, nearly everyone expects a high price, can’t blame them but it makes it difficult if you want to resell. In [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 19, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: Typical profit margins - Teup (6606) | [...] Ah, that makes sense, I was talking strictly about parting out new sets. Those will usually be 2x or 3x almost by definition, as I think that roughly gets you an hourly [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 19, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: Typical profit margins - StickyBrickit (385) | [...] Some good points about time management. I think this is key with reselling Lego...max. gains could be seen by parting out every piece and listing individually but to [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 19, 2022, to Announce) |
| 10k bricks milestone - Oliverbricks (224) | Hello everyone my store just hit 10,000 bricks please stop by my store and check it out
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - yorbrick (1185) | [...] It depends if the used set is already checked for completeness and everything is genuine. If that is already done, then part out times are similar. Unless there are stickered [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - Brickitty (6460) | [...] Thank you so much, Crystal! I like your store too, and since I see you have a handful of things on my wanted list, expect an order from me later today! (Not because [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - Adjour (2466) | as a side note, I've always liked your store. It's the size I hope to reach. I think we have similar strategies on many things based on other posts. It is so interesting [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - Brickitty (6460) | [...] +1 to just about everything. If I had gone into the field I majored in over a decade ago, I still wouldn't be making as much as I do with Lego, even after the high [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - Adjour (2466) | [...] Agreed. After I posted I realized I should specify. Used is def a different ballgame. That said, I still do better than 2x on new stuff. I don't find new sets [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - yorbrick (1185) | [...] A big difference here is new vs used. New sets, whether sold as part outs or sets, don't have the profit margins that used ones do but then they do not require the [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - Adjour (2466) | [...] if you are topping out making 2x markup doing this IMO you are doing something wrong. .02 I frequently make 10-20x my investment sometimes more. I'd say 4-5x is [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: Typical profit margins - runner.caller (2651) | [...] You bring up a good point about time. I'd say the best % return on paper would be from cheap used bulk with figs and listing every possible piece. I recently acquired [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - Teup (6606) | [...] I think the unwritten rule many sellers have in their heads is that x2 = OK. x3 is great, x4 is exceptional and x5 is fishermen's talk. Well, I heard that in America [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Typical profit margins - yorbrick (1185) | [...] That depends on when / how you sell. If you are a private rather than a registered business seller, they regularly do 70% off the percentage fees. If you list then, you [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
| Typical profit margins - StickyBrickit (385) | Just wondering what sort of % profit margins people generally make, if they know? I don't know the exact number but I usually try to buy parts at a price that allows me to [...]
(28 months ago, Jan 18, 2022, to Announce) |
Reached 20 000 items. - Paul_Dreuning (57) | Hello every one, This week i hit 20k parts. Everything in my store is 10% off. If you have tips for my store, please let me know. Sincerely, Paul Dreuning.
(29 months ago, Jan 15, 2022, to Announce) |
| New store - Oliverbricks (224) | Hello everyone please come check out my store I am a new seller. If you have any tips for me please let me know and If you are interested in supporting me that would be great. [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 14, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: What Would You Do Different? - zorbanj (821) | [...] There is also the opportunity cost of putting all the pieces away, picking them for orders and shipping out the orders themselves. Once the set is together it takes 5 [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - Adjour (2466) | Selling sets is how I got rolling. I love buying bulk and putting sets back together. Opportunity cost IS a thing. So even though you make more on selling the parted out set, [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Minifig Heads Blocked Open Vs Hollow - peregrinator (777) | [...] Not to be a pedant but I think it's a Y - there are three arms instead of four. There are also a few "vented" studs around - that's just a single bar across. [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Minifig Heads Blocked Open Vs Hollow - ChickswithBrix (3592) | I've been listing used minifig heads and there seems to be inconsistency on these 2 varieties. Is there a consensus on which is which? I assume the hollow studs are the [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - kzinti (4925) | [...] I'd have invested $50k in bulk brick purchases (instead of only $3k) from the guy I met who had the scrap contract with the Mexican Lego manufacturing facility. [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - Brick_Qc (3747) | [...] Funny personnal story on BL. 12-14 years ago, I got lucky, I got a surprise in a collection I bought. A boxed 106-1 Unicef set in great condition. I was ecstatic, I knew [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - Brickitty (6460) | [...] I mean, don't you know that the United States Postal Service should be profitable? Unlike... let's see... virtually every other federal institution? *heavy sarcasm* [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - Brickitty (6460) | [...] Storage bags like this: (URL) They're usually available at box stores and grocery stores, but they're usually more expensive than regular storage bags. (Sorry, [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: What Would You Do Different? - SylvainLS (46) | [...] Ziploc (which, apparently, is a brand) does them: just search for “ziploc slider.” And if you want another brand, search for “ziplock slider.”
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - jennnifer (3535) | [...] Funny...I like buying mixed-up bulk sets and selling them by the part no matter what fancy set was in there. I do feel a bit guilty sometimes breaking up the remnants [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - Brickitty (6460) | [...] That's funny, because that process of buying bulk, buying missing parts, and selling complete sets was the only way I was able to build up my backstock of parts, [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: What Would You Do Different? - Ziegelmeister (225) | [...] Probably the single dumbest thing I did comes with a caveat. Once things started taking off with my own personal leftover new pieces, I spent a couple grand buying new [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| What Would You Do Different? - StickyBrickit (385) | Just a thought experiment for those of you who run a store. If you could go back in time to when you started selling Lego, what's the one thing you'd do differently? [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 12, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: How do I remove yellowing - Brickitty (6460) | [...] Unfortunately, it only works temporarily (the bricks will usually return to an even more yellowed state in 6-18 months) AND it makes the bricks much more brittle. [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 11, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: How do I remove yellowing - iprice (1252) | [...] Despite repeated posts on siocial media about using hydrogen peroxide WhiteBright etc. from what I've seen and read the whitening effect may be limited long-term [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 11, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: How do I remove yellowing - Adjour (2466) | [...] As far as I know the peroxide trick only works on white and old grey. I think it changes the color too much on the other colors. If you find a solution let me know, [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 11, 2022, to Announce) |
| How do I remove yellowing - Oliverbricks (224) | Hello everyone I was wondering how do I remove yellowing on my sand green part. I have 32 sand green 1x8 bricks and if you know there quite expensive but they have yellowing [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 11, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: It's been a long time coming... - popsicle (6666) | [...] Of the 1,079,384 currently registered members, circa 123 hold feedback level of Dark Pink and above. That’ll put you in some rarified air, among the cloud-dancers of [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 11, 2022, to Announce) |
| Re: Pricing how to's. - Ziegelmeister (225) | [...] I was planning to do that either later tonight, but it's imprecise just raising the prices X amount. I was hoping there was a way to average only US stores' [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 9, 2022, to Announce) |
NEW STORE - Marvel - Datkuson (4) | Howdy, Hope everyone is having a great New Years! I just wanted to reach out to let everyone know that I have opened a new store. I have some soon to be retired marvel sets [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 5, 2022, to Announce) |
| nueva idea de un tanque - octubre2021 (0) | esta idea es sobre un lego militar llamado A-315,un nuevo tanque original y nuca visto y todavia no lo publico y no tengo fotos
(29 months ago, Jan 4, 2022, to Announce) |
| NEW Facebook and renewed YouTube pages! - dreambuilder71 (1166) | Hello all on my mailing list and Forum! Thanks for subscribing! I used to be very active in the Forum on BL but life got in the way and I had to back off years ago. Does anyone [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 3, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: 150,000 Parts - another milestone. - TheBrickGuys (13286) | [...] Congrats!! It always nice to hit new milestones as you grow your store. I love selling here on BrickLink and it sounds like you guys do to. Best Regards, Jim.
(29 months ago, Jan 2, 2022, to Announce) |
| 150,000 Parts - another milestone. - Bricks_NW_UK (1366) | Evening all and a very Happy New Year! From very small and humble beginnings, which was basically to complete several hundred old sets Cal & I had collected since he was young, [...]
(29 months ago, Jan 1, 2022, to Announce) |
| Grand opening - Farrell7 (164) | Hello everybody. I recently finished setting up my store front and am having my grand opening today, so if anybody wants to come and check out my shop your more then welcomed. [...]
(29 months ago, Dec 28, 2021, to Announce) |
| ✨December FREE Set Giveaway!✨ Week 4! - jbo210 (471) | Hi everyone! For the month of December, you have a chance to win a FREE brand new ✨T-16 Skyhopper vs Bantha Microfighters✨ Set (#75265)! *Sealed bags only* All you have [...]
(29 months ago, Dec 22, 2021, to Announce) |
| Re: Flag from set 4195 - popsicle (6666) | [...] A very nice set, let me know if you'd like the proper flag for it, Lindsay. We've some stock from partouts of both sets, that we may never get around to listing. [...]
(29 months ago, Dec 21, 2021, to Announce) |
| New Store - tbohlsen (163) | Hello I am new to brinklink Just got my store open
(29 months ago, Dec 20, 2021, to Announce) |
| Would you bloody believe this - cheeky.monkey (3968) | Would you bloody believe this I’ve sold on this site for 16 yrs because I owed £8 there suspended my shop :( thank you Lego
(29 months ago, Dec 18, 2021, to Announce) |
| Store Closing Pricing - YeOldBricks (381) | Hello all! Unfortunately we will be closing down our BrickLink Store, G & A Bricks, permanently a short time after our break for the holidays. Issues with ill family (non-Covid [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 16, 2021, to Announce) |
| ✨December FREE Set Giveaway!✨ Week 3 - jbo210 (471) | Hi everyone! For the month of December, you have a chance to win a FREE brand new ✨T-16 Skyhopper vs Bantha Microfighters✨ set (#75265)! *Sealed bags only* All you have [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 15, 2021, to Announce) |
Christmas Break - ToyBurg (25878) | Hello everyone, ToyBurg will be closed on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, at 10:00 am due to Christmas Break. We will return on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. We will leave the store [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 14, 2021, to Announce) |
| Tiles! Loooots and lots of tiles just added. - Ziegelmeister (225) | Thank you whomever did the inventory for 10284. I parted these out a few months ago before realizing I could have done the inventory myself. This means all of these unique [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 10, 2021, to Announce) |
| Selling all parts - VikingLegoNL (172) | Is there anyone interested in buying my whole inventory? Parts that is? At half price or something like that. Or does this never really happen and should i just put all items [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 10, 2021, to Announce) |
| ✨December FREE Set Giveaway!✨ - jbo210 (471) | Hi everyone! For the month of December, you have a chance to win a FREE brand new ✨T-16 Skyhopper vs Bantha Microfighters✨ set (#75265)! *Sealed bags only* All you have [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 9, 2021, to Announce) |
| NINJALUDO is open - DARKBEN (4266) | Hello everyone, Finally I find you after moving to the south of France. See you soon.
(30 months ago, Dec 8, 2021, to Announce) |
| Re: Create a contest, we’ll sponsor it. - popsicle (6666) | [...] What a fantastic idea, Caleb! Please run with it, I’d really enjoy sponsoring such a wonderful project. But as to taking a role, I don’t think I’d best qualify among [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 7, 2021, to Announce) |
| Re: Create a contest, we’ll sponsor it. - cycbuild (827) | Happy Holidays Cory! I would love to see a weekly contest of pets playing with Lego. Or simply the "Funny Pictures" contest, no pets required. And that being more of an opinion [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 7, 2021, to Announce) |
| SV Brick Shop reopens!! - SVBrickShop (154) | Dear All, We are glad to announce that the quarantaine has been lifted for SV Brick Shop and we can continue business as usual. (I hope for good this time) All are welcome [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 7, 2021, to Announce) |
| Re: Trying Eco-Friendly Shipping - BricksShop (3087) | That's a great step from you. We only use paper bags, paper carton and paper tape for our packages. And we receive a lot of positive feedback about our package. If you want [...]
(30 months ago, Dec 7, 2021, to Announce) |
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