| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | VOTB  | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2019 20:25 | | Subject: | Re: Adding box contents for sets? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I have a source where occasionally I have just a giant tub of bags (no boxes
no instructions). The price per pound is only worth it if they are decent so
I want to hunt out the good ones.
The best I have come up with identifying a set by looking at some unique parts.
Then on brothersbrick.com find their review. They usually will lay out all
the bags and take a photo. I can usually identify what I have pretty easily.
I scored the last time and spent $70 and got $890 worth of parted out pieces.
This is not normal but it just worked out. On the other hand, I have just grabbed
$50 by weight and parted them out for $75.
When you have a full set it is much easier to part out than one bag of an unidentified
set. Plus multiple bags will usually lead to higher lot counts.
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2019 09:28 | | Subject: | Re: Adding box contents for sets? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | For example: I have a Legofactory "SKYLINE" SET #5562 new open box with just
one numbered bag missing all the other numbered bags are present and sealed.
Trying to determine what pieces are missing from the set is quite a challenge!
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Look in the instructions. When you come to a page for which you don't have
the bag, then you know which bag is missing. The following pages will be the
parts you are missing.
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Unfortunately, the instructions for that set do not do that. 
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| Author: | mzehnder | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2019 09:23 | | Subject: | part condition "damaged" | | Viewed: | 132 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would be nice not only to have a "new" and "used" condition but also a "damaged"
for parts. E.g. the 2490px2 often has broken clips and is still sold. But searching
for intact parts is a bit time consuming.
I didn't find out if someone else already asked for this feature.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2019 05:24 | | Subject: | Re: Adding box contents for sets? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | I'm not sure how many folks would be interested in that information, but
in the last year I've probably had questions on the contents for close to
10 different sets.
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What are you doing with the sets? If you are parting them out, then it is not
really needed. If you are building them, again it is not needed. I can only see
it will be useful if you want to sell the set as a new but opened set although
then you will either have to try to buy a complete sealed bag or buy the new
parts that were in that bag. For the latter case, one bag will still be open
so the value of that set is not really going to be any different to a set in
which all the bags were opened to check the inventory.
It seems a lot of work to do this for every set for under 10 sets per year, when
there are other ways of selling / using those sets.
It also doesn't fit in with the idea that the base inventories for new sets
could be extracted from LEGO's main server, with extras added when inventories
are checked (which I think was planned at some stage) as LEGO doesn't give
this information by bag.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2019 05:14 | | Subject: | Re: Adding box contents for sets? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | For example: I have a Legofactory "SKYLINE" SET #5562 new open box with just
one numbered bag missing all the other numbered bags are present and sealed.
Trying to determine what pieces are missing from the set is quite a challenge!
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Look in the instructions. When you come to a page for which you don't have
the bag, then you know which bag is missing. The following pages will be the
parts you are missing.
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