Where to sell lego?

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Can anyone recommend one of the Lego buying companies that come up on Google? I know the companies you sell gold to are notoriously dodgy so Im guessing a lot of the lego ones are too?

I have a few stones of lego to sell including some valuable peices according to the SOLD prices on ebay (not asking prices!).

I dont have the energy or physical space to deal with sorting or ebay so Im selling the whole lot for a very reasonable price. Ive listed it in various places including pictures and details of the valuable bits. But Ive had no interest at all.

So have you listed on Ebay or not?

Because that's the best way to shift it tbh

Ebay or Facebook marketplace?? Always see lots on there

I've sent you a PM.

I think my title was misleading. Maybe I should have said "has anyone used a lego buying company?"

I've put it on ebay as a job lot, Facebook and everywhere else I can think of but zero interest.

I dont have the energy or time or physical space to sort it properly and list the individual bits. I'm assuming that although some bits are valuable, they might sit around until the right buyer comes.

I suspect like most buying services a Lego buying company would give you pittance for a bundle of assorted Lego pieces.

If you've listed on eBay and FB marketplace and no one has shown any interest I would honestly presume the price is too high. A reasonably priced job lot of Lego would sell pretty swiftly on either platform, especially this close to Christmas.

I would like to know too if anot one has some suggestions, my son has ££££ of Lego he wants gone now

Ebay. Use Brickognize to check whether particular pieces / minifigures are valuable, or just google.

Its a very, very reasonable price. Im guessing about about 7p a brick.

The brick buying companies are coming in about £85. Im not asking much more than that.

I looked into this last year. The best price I could find was £3 a kilo. I didn't sell... I've got about 35 kilos (excluding minifigs and a few special bits) in the loft. It wasn't enough to persuade my young adult son to sell.

Are you selling random pieces or as sets with booklets? I think that makes the difference. We buy random pieces and have gotten an insane amount for really cheap- the thing is it’s not the same as buying from a shop and in some cases we cleaned it. The price of Lego is extortionate at the mo in shops so I think with a cheap enough price it will sell. Also to add make sure you really want to get rid of and if you do you could consider donating instead

I'd be very surprised if a buying site paid so much per brick most would buy by weight for a few pounds a kilo or by complete set.

How much have you roughly got to sell weight wise?

I have 15kg.

I have some booklets but they are battered so not worth mentioning.

I was looking yesterday and even just with peices I could easily identify quickly without any googling Im looking at £30 worth. Then there were individual bricks I saw coming in at £1 each that I know I have. This is SOLD prices. But Im guessing they will sit around waiting for a buyer for who knows how long which is the problem.

Has anyone used a brick buying website they could recommend?

I volunteer for a charity that sells donated Lego on eBay and it sells successfully as:

Job lots of mixed Lego such as 4-5 kilos for a starting price of £15-20 (will sell for close to this). Spread the Lego out in a large box or tray and take lots of photos of the contents.

OR

Build the models and sell with the instructions, clearly itemising any missing pieces.

If you had the time you could make bundles of similar items too i.e base plates, mini figures, blocks, windows etc.

Part of the issue too is that postal prices are so high that people are reluctant to pay £3-4 postage for just 1 piece of Lego that you have found is worth a few pounds.

The charity has found that some listings sell quickly but others may take a few months so it’s a bit of a long game sometimes.

Are you saying that you have a heap of random Lego listed for £90+? That's why no-one is buying it! I realise that it is worth much more but you won't get that for it if it's not sorted into sets.

Vintage Cash Cow have now started buying Lego, but again I think their price would be quite low as they will want to sell on for a profit.
I suppose it depends how much you want it gone.

Im realising maybe I do need to seperate the valuable bits. I was thinking that a lego enthusiastic might realise that it's maybe a lot for random stuff but that s/he can make money on it if they spend time sorting. They genuingely can probably double their money. I was looking again this morning and I saw that I can easily recreate a few of the smaller space sets that sell for £15 each even without the instructions.

So with the specialist peices above and the sets and a few random easily identifiable peices, that's their money back and they'll still have the majority left which includes smaller special bricks like unusual shapes that sell for a few pound.

I think I probably need to do that. Its not worth the hassle of sorting collection or dealing with strangers for so little.

You've listed an unsorted pile of Lego for £85??

There's your problem

You need to either take the time to sort each set, listing them individually so people can see what they've got or lower the price to £30ish

Regardless of if there are some rare sets in there, people aren't going to take a risk on £85 on just a massive heap of Lego, it might just be a load of cheap bits and they aren't going to even look at it for that price to work out if there is anything of value

I only buy unsorted Lego to just bulk out the Lego if I want sets I buy sets as I then know all the pieces are there.

Rather than wading though 25kgs to find half the bits are poof gone. It’s annoying enough with my own children’s sets let alone a randoms so for a random mixed box I pay £20-£40. Depending on size and quality.

I don’t know anyone who’s used one of those websites however as I don’t know anyone who personally sells their lego it’s all passed down the generations or to neighbours grandchildren.

DC has listed some relatively valuable pieces on eBay; they’ve been built, photographed from multiple angles, booklet & boxes included. Even competitively priced - versus others - they are selling slowly.
The amount of effort required to shift it is ridiculous, but at least buyers know what they’re getting.
We’ve not used any bulk sales agents as they’re the ones who will make the money - sorry we can’t help.

Go on Facebook join a group called “Lego- sell it, want it, buy it”
You can ask what the going rate is per kg of Lego and can sell it on there also.

The night op but it's still a large outlay for most people.

Hey OP contact a company called The Brick Hut; They're a genuine company (have a B&M shop) if they're not interested they may be able to suggest one that will be.

I'm hanging on to it and passing it down to my kids for their kids 😅

They can then have the family Lego burden. Must have amassed about a million pounds worth now 😅

My kids had loads of lego when they were young (30 years ago). We boxed it up and put it in the loft. Now our 3 grandchildren play with it - saved us a fortune 😂