| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bb863711  | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2017 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: Used lego | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, montana_girl writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cosy writes:
| | In Suggestions, vxb writes:
| | sorry I am going to disagree most of the searches turn up closed stores and stores with little inventory, so I will have to manually have to search through hundreds of stores to find one that specifically deals in used parts as I don't mess around with small orders.
|
Ok.
Not knowing exactly what you want except larger quantities of used brick, you
may well find it hard to narrow things down.
A large wanted list will always make finding everything much harder, but consider
these two examples.
1. I just searched for simple BLEY 1x2 brick (let's ignore that you might
prefer old light grey). If I want a minimum 0f 100 Used 1x2s I get 16 stores.
If I want 1000+ there are only 2 stores. This is all USA, but bear with me.
The cheaper of these is Brick-N-Brac. Looking at their inventory they are mostly
a Used shop. Out of 9000+ Lots the vast majority are used (only 67 New Lots).
Well I don't know this store and can't vouch for them, but they look
like a good Used candidate.
2. Use your Wanted List to find bricks. Again maybe not your example, but pretend
I want Used 1x2 BLEY Masonry Bricks this time. I have that on my Wanted List
as Used with a minimum of 50. There is only 1 store, Ace of Bricks, that has
50 or more of these as Used Lots.
If you extrapolate either case I don't see how you would not find what you
are looking for and especially once looking a bit also find some store in particular
that specialize in large quantities of Used parts.
Most stores I expect dealing with Used parts will not have large individual part
quantities. You are more likely to find variety in Used parts but less depth.
My 2 cents.
Good Luck with your searches.
|
I second this! (Also, side note... I've bought from Bric-N-Brac several times
- good store!)
I sell primarily used parts (hence the name), but only have limited amounts of
each part. Why? Because used bricks we buy are often scratched, chewed, marred
and faded by sunlight. So a majority of the bricks end up in a bin to be played
with by my grandsons. It's hard to find a bulk of unmarred used bricks and
other parts. We try to sell only the best, so that limits are supply. lol I never said that I want the best I want used beat up chewed on there is demand maybe it's just me.
|
|
 |
| Author: | bb863711 | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2017 22:53 | | Subject: | Re: Used lego | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Cosy writes:
| | In Suggestions, vxb writes:
| | sorry I am going to disagree most of the searches turn up closed stores and stores with little inventory, so I will have to manually have to search through hundreds of stores to find one that specifically deals in used parts as I don't mess around with small orders.
|
Ok.
Not knowing exactly what you want except larger quantities of used brick, you
may well find it hard to narrow things down.
A large wanted list will always make finding everything much harder, but consider
these two examples.
1. I just searched for simple BLEY 1x2 brick (let's ignore that you might
prefer old light grey). If I want a minimum 0f 100 Used 1x2s I get 16 stores.
If I want 1000+ there are only 2 stores. This is all USA, but bear with me.
The cheaper of these is Brick-N-Brac. Looking at their inventory they are mostly
a Used shop. Out of 9000+ Lots the vast majority are used (only 67 New Lots).
Well I don't know this store and can't vouch for them, but they look
like a good Used candidate.
2. Use your Wanted List to find bricks. Again maybe not your example, but pretend
I want Used 1x2 BLEY Masonry Bricks this time. I have that on my Wanted List
as Used with a minimum of 50. There is only 1 store, Ace of Bricks, that has
50 or more of these as Used Lots.
If you extrapolate either case I don't see how you would not find what you
are looking for and especially once looking a bit also find some store in particular
that specialize in large quantities of Used parts.
Most stores I expect dealing with Used parts will not have large individual part
quantities. You are more likely to find variety in Used parts but less depth.
My 2 cents.
Good Luck with your searches. thankyou for your knowledge, not looking for specific parts, just used beat up parts as I use them in my machine shop for prototyping and am very hard on them, drill holes in, kragle them ect.
|
|
|
| Author: | bb863711 | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2017 22:22 | | Subject: | Re: Used lego | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Cosy writes:
| | In Suggestions, vxb writes:
| | So many stores... could they be organized into new sellers, used, and, set sellers?
As there are some that specialize in these areas. I find it time consuming to
find reputable used brick sellers. I like to find parts from simpler times 1980's
before the franchises took over
|
Not necessarily disagreeing with you but I think the distinction you wish to
draw is easily filtered.
Take for instance Used parts. If you have one or many wanted lists which just
have used parts your wanted list searches will limit to store with items as used
only.
If you are looking for sets this will be self explanatory as well.
Reputable will have to be evaluated more by you, but I think you'll have
more good experiences than bad. Don't forget to favorite stores you like
and set them to appear first in wanted list searches.
sorry I am going to disagree most of the searches turn up closed stores and stores with little inventory, so I will have to manually have to search through hundreds of stores to find one that specifically deals in used parts as I don't mess around with small orders.
|
|
|
| Author: | bb863711 | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2017 22:04 | | Subject: | Re: Used lego | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Cob writes:
| | In Suggestions, vxb writes:
| | So many stores... could they be organized into new sellers, used, and, set sellers?
As there are some that specialize in these areas. I find it time consuming to
find reputable used brick sellers. I like to find parts from simpler times 1980's
before the franchises took over
|
You might try one of these stores:
https://www.bricklink.com/memberList.asp?storeName=space&searchLike=L&v=1&viewUserType=*
Searched "space" and looked for the oldest stores. Most of these stores are closed or have few parts to offer however your store looks good thankyou
|
|
|
| Author: | bb863711 | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2017 21:21 | | Subject: | Used lego | | Viewed: | 286 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
|
| So many stores... could they be organized into new sellers, used, and, set sellers?
As there are some that specialize in these areas. I find it time consuming to
find reputable used brick sellers. I like to find parts from simpler times 1980's
before the franchises took over
|
|
|
USA, Minnesota
