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Originally Posted by Swift
Has anyone ever sold to Brick Bin? Sadly my son and I haven't touched our Lego in years as he's grown out of it. It's just been sitting in a corner of the basement, so the time may have come to just get rid as we want to start downsizing things in the next few years. I pulled up our old Rebrickable account to get an inventory and it estimates that our collection is worth $25k+. I presume that's new in box though, but even if it's worth half that I can't imagine Brick Bin buying it for even close to that.
Anyone dealt with them? Assuming they lowball (they're a business after all) what kind of lowballing are we talking about? Some of our sets are still together, but the majority are just jumbled together in tote boxes. Do they care about that? Does that affect the price?
On the other hand, selling on Bricklink looks like it would yield better results, but involves a lot more work.
I'm not 100% sure I want to part with it at the moment, (the thought of getting rid of so many good memories makes me sad, both from my son's childhood, and some from my own) so I'm just doing some preliminary investigation at the moment.
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Mints is right. And it sounds like you realize the predicament as well. To get more money you need to spend more time. If you don't want to deal with it at all, you can take what you can get. Depending on your collection, you may want to try and remake valuable sets. If you literally have $25k worth of lego jumbled in bins, well thats going to take some work. But if you have them sorted at least somewhat, then you have a fighting chance. (and what I mean by that is that for any single set, its at least all in one container and not spread across any number of them)
Bulk Lego goes from $5 to $10 bucks a pound down here, which is extraordinarily less than sets. Start with those sets that are pretty much together, and look them up on bricklink to see what the recent sale prices have been. That will give you a good idea on how much you value your time. Theme makes a big difference as well. I see big lots of Friends sets on facebook all the time and they are rather cheap. If you have good star wars sets that are older its quite the different story.
Or we can just figure out how much it costs to ship to Tulsa!