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Hello,
I am looking to sell on a fair few sets I have collected over the years. All built but complete with boxes and instructions. I was hoping someone could point me in the best direction in terms of specialist Lego sites. Sets range from Speed Champs to the Technic Porche.
Is best practice to break these sets back down and re bag pieces?
It will sell, just stick with it and don't fall to pieces.
My dad took to Lego in a big way in retirement with building it with my son. He bought a lot off ebay and alike and they are all broken down and bagged, in their boxes. The prices some of the kits fetch is eye watering.
I sold a millennium falcon few weeks back. Removed enough bits to fit in original box only. Couldn’t be arsed taking it all to bits. New owner can do that if they want. Sold it on eBay.
Only list when £1 selling fees are active. Still the best place to sell with largest audience.
Thank you. I do have some big sets I want to offload so they may go on brick list. Ebay with small fee deals is a good shout for the smaller ones.
Kits on Ebay, the market will set the value, if its desireable it will sell for a lot, if its not it wont, things like Stsr Wars hold their value, other stuff wont. Selling pieces on Ebay doesnt work well unless you are selling bulk lots, but then you will get a lot less than its worth (i regularly pick up Lego this way and pay around a 25% of the piece value). You can sell by piece on Bricklink or BrickOwl but you need a lot of pieces to make a store viable, you also need to clean it, categorise condition and ideal mould type (there are many pieces that are basically the same but there may be 3 or 4 versions of them). You also need to get the colours right which is not easy, even for an experienced Lego collector.
Sell the kits on Ebay, any that don't sell break up and sell as a job lot. Lego tends to sell for around £15 per kilo plus postage, if you have loose technic components they will go for nearer £20 per kilo.