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A kinda interesting way to make money is to go to flea markets and buy Lego bricks at a discount, then sell them at the likes of this site. Normally I see brick
by aliswe 7y ago
A kinda interesting way to make money is to go to flea markets and buy Lego bricks at a discount, then sell them at the likes of this site. Normally I see bricks go for about 60USD per kilo I think if not more, but in flea markets you can make some good deals.
- pflats 7y agoThis reminds me: A few years ago, Jacques Mattheij accidentally won a lot more bulk lego auctions than he meant to. His story of sorting through them with a homemade hopper/camera/ML/computer vision showed up on HN. It's still a good read today. It begins at: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
- SteveGerencser 7y agoBuying bricks at flea markets has gotten a lot harder in recent years. Occasionally you run across someone selling random bags of minifigs in packs of 5 for $10, or the occasional damaged box at 25% to 50% off retail, but in my experience, the prices at flea markets have gone up dramatically and finding 'deals' has gotten veyr hard.
- catalogia 7y agoI hope this market inefficiency doesn't get ironed out. Yard sales and flea markets are where I got all the lego I had when I was a kid. My parents couldn't afford to buy that much lego new, nor at the prices charged online.
- jacquesm 7y ago60USD/kilo is vastly overpriced, you should pay no more than 8 in bulk. Sorted and cleaned it's a different matter.