r/Bricklink

This has been a year long process so far. Over that period of time I’ve browsed goodwill buying lots with desirable builds, mini figures or just good price per pound ratio. Would definitely say I’m in profit significantly if I sold everything I’ve sorted so far and I haven’t sorted everything by any means.

What I’ve sorted so far:

Off brand/trash
Tiles
Plates
Bricks
Printed/sticker pieces
Mini figure accessories
Mini figures
Sealed sets

Sorted all by hand, no sifter. When inventorying the tiles, plates and bricks I use a scientific scale with a count feature which is a game changer. The accuracy is .00g according to the product but still give some wiggle room for error when listing

Using brick store to inventory and upload. Currently 80.6k piece count and 16300 lots

I really don’t know how many pounds of Lego I have bought but it’s probably around 600lb or more.

I haven’t opened my store since it would be impossible to have time to sort while also packaging orders with a full time job.

Any tips or opinions on workload flow, products to use, or any other ideas to be more efficient and make the task of sorting, inventorying and uploading easier.

I also had the thought of in the long run just sorting accessories and minifigures along with any desirable items or pieces such as Star Wars and then selling the remaining bulk by the pound? Any thoughts welcome. Thank you!

I have over 10,000 parts on BrickLink and counting. Why am I only selling minifigs and specialized parts?

I was looking to buy a set from Bricklink and I tried using the "Instant Checkout Only" checkbox on the item page, but upon trying to check out, lots of the stores that come up still require me to wait for an invoice to find out the final shipping cost. Is this a glitch? I thought instant checkout was supposed to include automatic shipping cost calculations. Is there another way to filter out stores that do manual invoicing?

I've ordered a rare, used set for a pretty significant price that was advertised as complete, but it was missing a whole 10 bricks. Instead of those I got some other bricks too many times and also a few that aren't part of this set at all.

Luckily the missing bricks are super cheap, so this is not a deal breaker. I definitely want to keep this set, but now I need to obtain the missing pieces somehow.

What I've done so far since 8th May:

- Contacted seller via DM

- Contacted seller via e-mail

- Filed NSS (just recently)

Got no response at all.

I used PayPal. I think one option here would be ordering the missing pieces somewhere else and filing a complaint with PayPal, only requesting a partial refund to cover the material and shipping costs for the missing pieces. Then I would attach the invoice I got from the new seller and request that amount be paid back.

Am I missing something or does this sound like the correct approach to handle this? How much longer should I wait for a response from the seller?

I think I would be able to find a shop where I would pay 5-10€ total for the missing pieces. So I'm not sure if it's really worth the trouble to go after this. But the set was in the hundreds and it was not a lot of parts, just a dozen very rare ones, causing the high price, so it does bite a bit that so many bricks were not accounted for.

Hello,

A customer didn't provide a phone number, I asked him to provide one thru bricklink messages and email.

I didn't get a response, I can't ship the package without a phone number. It is been a week, what should I do?

The customer created his account 2 month ago, have no review and live in another country.

Thanks you for reading me.

Have a nice day! ☀️

(Yes mistakes happen and I always ship missing parts at my own expense. Buyers shouldn’t pay for seller mistakes)

This one just doesn’t feel right to me. Buyer states that I am missing 1 slope from their order, and sent an extra of a plate. With a “how do you want to handle this?” This was a very small order in small quantities, and was very easy to double check before packing. My remaining quantities show that the correct quantities were shipped out.

For whatever reason this one feels like they just placed their order wrong. Is there a way to respond to verify that or should I just take the L and move on?

Hello everyone!

I wanted to get some tips and critics from experienced buyers and sellers on Bricklink for my shop that started around this New year's.

I somehow feel the more items I add the less orders I get haha... I really like this hobby and I literaly add used (mostly) and new items every day averaging at least 500 items per day I'd say.

When I check some other similar size stores I feel they offer less for more money but still get more orders, so there has to be something I am doing wrong.

My minimum order is set to 5€, shipping is normalish, I do ship only in EU tho for now, and all buyers were kinda satisfied so I have 100% praise and hope to maintain it.

I had only 2 orders in last month (used to have 5-8 in previous months), and felt I had more orders when I had like 6000 items and 3000 lots, compared to 28500 items now in 6000ish lots. :D I do lack minifigs that are magnet for orders but I lacked even more before so...

This is my shop so any tips and critics are welcome: https://store.bricklink.com/Raxik#/shop

If putting link to shop is against the rules I'm sorry and I'll remove it.

Thanks!

Hello all, first post here. I have purchased from Bricklink several times, but I have a couple of questions, I want to buy the parts to build the Imperial Shuttle from the new Death Star set, apart from doing a part out and removing the parts not needed which will take a while, is there anyway to order the parts from specific bags? Or is there somewhere which lists the parts that come in each bag from a set that can be imported into Bricklink?

I wanted to design a custom set and order all the pieces but I’ve no idea what the price point would be. If I make a ~1000 piece set and order all the pieces, approximately how much would it be? I understand the pricing varies by piece and store but is it more like $500 or $100?

So I have 3 Akro-Mils 10124 24-Drawer Storage Cabinets, each on is labeled MF - T01 to MF - T72 These are used for only Mini Figures and when I add to my BL store I put the tray number in the My Remarks: section so when I get an order I can see which tray that MF are in, it is relatively easy then to pick an order as each tray only holds around 10 to 15 MFs.

Now as I empty a tray or it gets low I need to replenish it instead of buying more Akro-Mils, but I have no way of remembering which trays are getting low unless I physically check each time.

Does anyone have a quick and easy solution that would help me keep track of this?

I recently went through all my Legos and am working on rebuilding some of my minifigs. I figured I could just buy small missing pieces from Bricklink but everything is like ~$5 of shipping even if I buy from a U.S. seller. Are there any other alternatives? I don’t have like $500 to spend on replacement pieces. (I would use Lego’s official thing but 90% of my stuff is retired)

Hello, im currently ordering a few of the spinjitzu pieces from ninjago for the sake of stop motion. I found a seller selling two of them for about two bucks. Thing is, the shipping is free for some reason? It says the final price includes VAT and everything. This is within the european union so does it have anything to do with that?

I have this urge to always being doing more for bricklink , but I also don't wanna neglect my family , what's your best advice for finding the balance for both.