Bonjour sur plusieurs groupe facebook ou site de revente en ligne de boutique
j'ai l'impression de il y a de plus en plus de gens qui revente leurs
boutique pour divers raison.
le marché serait il saturé depuis le rachat de bricklink par lego ou plus difficile?
Bonjour sur plusieurs groupe facebook ou site de revente en ligne de boutique
j'ai l'impression de il y a de plus en plus de gens qui revente leurs
boutique pour divers raison.
le marché serait il saturé depuis le rachat de bricklink par lego ou plus difficile?
Merci d'avance pour vos lumiéres.
Lego has owned BrickLink since 2019 but that has nothing to do with it.
A lot of people think this is a "get rich quick" sort of thing and dont
realize how much work actually goes into operating a store.
Yes the market is oversaturated at the moment but it is more because covid and
dumb articles that claimed Lego is a better investment than gold (spoiler: it
is not. Sure some older sets have increased massively in value but nowadays Lego
sells so many copies of a single set that you'll be lucky if the value goes
up by more than 50% after years of retirement)
And then there are the stores that love to have the lowest prices and then complain
why they dont make a profit, get frustrated and leave.
BrickLink has always been a marathon and not a sprint
Bonjour sur plusieurs groupe facebook ou site de revente en ligne de boutique
j'ai l'impression de il y a de plus en plus de gens qui revente leurs
boutique pour divers raison.
le marché serait il saturé depuis le rachat de bricklink par lego ou plus difficile?
Merci d'avance pour vos lumiéres.
Lego has owned BrickLink since 2019 but that has nothing to do with it.
A lot of people think this is a "get rich quick" sort of thing and dont
realize how much work actually goes into operating a store.
Yes the market is oversaturated at the moment but it is more because covid and
dumb articles that claimed Lego is a better investment than gold (spoiler: it
is not. Sure some older sets have increased massively in value but nowadays Lego
sells so many copies of a single set that you'll be lucky if the value goes
up by more than 50% after years of retirement)
And then there are the stores that love to have the lowest prices and then complain
why they dont make a profit, get frustrated and leave.
BrickLink has always been a marathon and not a sprint
As far as I can tell and remember, it has always been the same.
When I joined in 2014, that was “The LEGO Movie” and/or “this or that particular
article” that had brought new sellers and now they are selling and blah.
Two years later it was another article or some video or whatever….
And then again later.
Thing is, there’s always been people opening stores and closing them a year or
two later.
Sure, there are people who think it’s easy… and find out it’s not. Or there’s
something happening in their life that changes the deal for them.
Sometimes it’s simply because they had something to sell and they did sell the
interesting items but are now are left with the dregs.
I don’t know if anyone (besides BL, who will stay silent on this) has ever made
stats on the numbers of open (and active) stores, and openings/closings, but
I’m not sure there’s more closings now than before.
(Also, don’t believe the monthly “going out of business” sales posts: if you
look closely, you’ll see it’s the same people who’ve been that for a year or
two….)
Bonjour sur plusieurs groupe facebook ou site de revente en ligne de boutique
j'ai l'impression de il y a de plus en plus de gens qui revente leurs
boutique pour divers raison.
le marché serait il saturé depuis le rachat de bricklink par lego ou plus difficile?
Merci d'avance pour vos lumiéres.
I don’t know if anyone (besides BL, who will stay silent on this) has ever made
stats on the numbers of open (and active) stores, and openings/closings, but
I’m not sure there’s more closings now than before.
For France anyway - we can see a clear and not positive change starting 2024
As about 2026 remember we're at the beginning of the year, but even if we
have more shops creations (or less closures), chances are we won't reach
2024 this year.
I'm not sure what could be the reasons, but DSA, OSS, taxes everywhere
and such obligations have probably participated.
Stats source:
* 2008 I think I've noted this number
* the others I got them using Internet Archive on this page:
le marché serait il saturé depuis le rachat de bricklink par lego ou plus difficile?
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For France anyway - we can see a clear and not positive change starting 2024
The dates aren’t clear on your graph but I’d say the deep is 2025.
In any case, the increase in stores from 2021 to 2024 is about the same pace
as prior. That means the buyout doesn’t seem to have had any effect on that,
neither positive nor negative.
le marché serait il saturé depuis le rachat de bricklink par lego ou plus difficile?
[…]
For France anyway - we can see a clear and not positive change starting 2024
The dates aren’t clear on your graph but I’d say the deep is 2025.
In any case, the increase in stores from 2021 to 2024 is about the same pace
as prior. That means the buyout doesn’t seem to have had any effect on that,
neither positive nor negative.
Okay, so there’s a global dip (number on top of https://www.bricklink.com/browse.asp
) of 10% stores beween February and March 2025. That matches the (non-)acceptance
of the EU DSA.
The dip in French stores is the about same date.
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