Buying second hand Lego..

I prefer the lucky dip approach to buying it second hand, buy it by the Kilo and see what turns up. Fish out the broken bits, fake lego, random bits of plastic and fur balls. All goes in the sink for a long soak with some hand wash and vanish before use.

I've a load of city lego for sale (mostly complete) - open to offers

Buy by the lb it's less stressful.

I bought three large boxes of city/police/rescue/space/racetrack

It never crossed my mind to ask if complete I'm not going to pretend to the kids it's new or it's complete.

It will get lost I'm sure I will stand on it in the night at least it wasn't complete to begin with

We will have fun creating stuff. And use brickit to get instructions based one what pieces we have

Just build it and deconstruct it into bags!

Which is more time than the people generally selling has they just want rid.

Plenty collectors on eBay who will do that for you. It costs significantly more ime.

Fyi You can buy the missing parts direct from. Lego if you know the codes and it's still in production.

Reminds me I need to check if any of the kids old stuff is worth £££ before letting the grandkids get their grubby mitts on it 🙂

My sister built loads of my nephews kits she is pretty thorough . I bought some off my nephew (for his graphics card fund) she managed to misplace some bits. I'd trust her more than some eBay random.

Buy it loose and let their imagination run riot.

I'm stock piling technic for when they're old enough that I can play too

Who wants to buy some ice planet from my yoot

I've a whole load of Lego that I've been trying to build the sets and then bag up. I've not got very far over the past couple of years, but next year for sure 🙂

Then it'll be on eBay as sets where they're complete and boxed or as kg where not.

Spiderman, Batman, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, ...

Which is more time than the people generally selling has they just want rid.

I dunno, doing it via the list isn't quick!

Bit more context, we buy a lot of second hand lego. Several so called "complete" sets have been missing bits. I'm fine buying "as is" too, and picking up any missing bits with an occasional Bricklink order.

We're currently looking at a s/h express train set.... most expensive we've considered by a long way. Hence I'm keen that the person has actually checked all the bits are there.

2nd hand Lego ? probably teeming with germs.

Just like primary school. Wee plague pits.

I think I'm going to sell a few in the new year, I reckon I'll build them, stick em on ebay as "built once but I can dismantle it for you" and that way I'll know it's complete. I love the stuff, I just don't really have the space so if I sell some and cut back, I can get some more! And a couple of kits I bought have gone way up in price so I'm an accidental investor.

More intimidatingly I've got all of our lego from when we were kids in 2 big boxes, and some of it's definitely worth real money, especially some of the minifigs if I can find them. But that means digging through it all and finding stuff, and then listing it. I already did a sweep through to remove non-lego and broken bits and even that was soul destroying. I predict that I sort it, find the little dudes, and that's exactly where I run out of energy and never get round to selling any and then it all gets jumbled again

dyna-ti
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2nd hand Lego ? probably teeming with germs.

It's very easy to clean, mind.

I just drew a custom model using cad for the wife's Christmas pressy. Quite easy to do, all the bricks are in a library. Once drawn you can send the parts list to Bricklink which is seems to be like eBay for Lego. You can choose new or second hand bricks (all the sellers talk about cleaning and sanitising the bricks). Great system. Even generates an instruction manual.