Oooh Deadpool is a great find! Yes I have one sitting there without the cape too.

Watch the rest of the vlogs, my dad opened a Bricklink store so technically is now my competition. Shouldn’t be too hard to get

🤫🤫🤫 if they don’t see the bank balance they will never know

More to come mate! A lot of great finds

Great find!

100% and yes sorting by date is even better. Great solution and keeps a customer happy as they get what they ordered

No worries mate 🙌🏽🙌🏽

No worries! Exactly, always constantly trying to improve but enjoy the process.

Thanks for the comment. I don’t think it differentiates New Zealand much besides us having high shipping rates to the rest of the world 😅 - if you have watched the vlogs 95% of my orders are from the local market here and we don’t need to open up yet to international. It’s busy enough!

​@@kiwibrickexchange Absolutely fantastic, so it's very much about the NZ community, As a Kiwi i love it.

Great to hear

No worries mate :) appreciate it

Thanks! Appreciate it

It will depend on each store but we do have to pay tax.

@ thanks for the response :) was thinking of starting one up but wanted to make sure I’m doing everything legally and wondering if it’s a good idea to register as a sole trader.

Yeah chat with an accountant to make sure. Will depend as well what you file under if it’s additional income or full time etc. Just be prepared for a lot of work if you do open one!

Yes I do that normally too but had quite a few orders to get through after camp - The classic example of trying to do things quicker to save time, but in the end it causes you issues and more time. A tired brain is not a good order picker!

This is the ultimate question :D It's a combination of everything - passion, money maker & investment. It's not a "lets aim for this hourly rate". It is a lot of work to setup, a lot of work to build, and a lot of work to pick. But now we have regular customers, regular orders and things continue to improve! We will break this all down in our one year selling video coming December 2024 :D

@kiwibrickexchange nice one. Best of luck with your plans. I'm just back into Lego through my 4 year son. Passion and investment for him. Good luck.

Thanks appreciate it. Yes can be both! We started the same way with the wee one :)

Thanks! It’s not always smooth sailing and things aren’t good 100% of the time. Anyone who tells you that is only showing the good bits.

Cool thanks - funnily enough have still not quite got to it yet 😂 too many good purchases to go through

Thanks for the question. It all depends really but we started very small 3-4K parts and built slowly. First order was within two weeks through a promo voucher and then orders started trickling in. In terms of detailed sales numbers etc I’m not really inclined to put it out in detail unless it’s under member content or a private zoom call etc. There are things that I see as a point of difference for us that I’d rather not share too publicly on vlogs etc. In saying that the vlogs should give you an idea of how things went.

Thanks for the feedback and support!

Hi Marco, from my experience sets are generally not exclusive to a country - but across regions. I did see a heap of Monkie Kid sets that we don't really get here over in New Zealand. You might want to ask them to go into Lego official stores and grab some of the magazines?

@@kiwibrickexchange : Yes they are gifting me a big award, based on some help I did for them - So the offer is pretty big, more than a few magazines, but that's a good start. I was thinking about Monkey Kid, (I wonder if they have any of those LARGE sets with 22 some+ figures)........ as that line is marketed strong in that neck of the globe........If you happen to think of anything over the next week, please let me know. Thanks!

@@kiwibrickexchange BTW those Monkey Kid sets you picked up are a Nice grab, even tho you picked them up for parts...... The Red Son's is a super nice set!

Yeah they are great and most of the parts have sold. I wish I had more luggage space and in hindsight I would have bought lots more! I'd suggest looking for a larger set then with good minifigures & lots of Dark Bluish Grey/Light Bluish Grey parts. Star Wars sets over in China were actually quite rare except for the main store and were definitely overpriced compared to here in NZ

Thanks for the feedback! Good luck for your opening and reach out if you want to ask more specific questions

Go into the settings on BrickFreedom and there is an option to tick “time your order” or something similar. Hope that helps

Binder clips! That’s a great solution. Appreciate it. Thanks for the feedback too :)

Yeah I hear ya, how easy do the dots come off after haha? I feel like mine would get stuck

Mine come off really easy. There the green Avery dots (from Officeworks) and I just put them hanging over the edge (of the top of the draw where there is the lip thing, handle thing?) a little so that I can pull them off easy enough!​@@kiwibrickexchange

Awesome thanks

Definitely something to consider, I just have a number of heads still to actually upload anyway. Could be two jobs into one. Thanks

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks appreciate it

Thanks mate 🙌🏽

Thanks! Finding that one piece you need or finding out something is worth so much more than you thought! Makes it worthwhile

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Thanks mate! Exciting to see your journey too, great to see the vlogs doing so well

Thanks for the comment! Much appreciated :)

Majority of people who watch the channel are from the US so thought it was clearer - be great if KZbin let you do thumbnails/titles by region :D

It's a great figure, haven't found it yet but have lots of incomplete figs to sort through!

I‘m excited to see that 👍🏻

Will be in the vlog this week! Just found a few more great items 🙌🏽🙌🏽

The pain in having to add them to the store haha. Can’t wait to hit the unfinished figs too!

The great thing about accents is the way you have typed it sounds even different in my head

Have a look at our Bricklink store list - easiest way to see if there are parts there. Otherwise I am just uploading as much as I can, so hopefully they are in a future upload. Thanks for the comment though

Thanks! Was a cracker

I have my methods, but this was part luck too! My old man can take some credit too

@ thats all fair ahaha i bought a 8 kilo lot this week and found 4 SW minifigs that paid and then some for the rest! Was very nice find

That’s the plan and definitey how we started. Some hauls don’t turn out like this - I’ll do a video on when it doesn’t go well, but seeing things in person allows you to make a more informed decision

Yes so many amazing minifigures and parts!

I’d encourage you to chat to someone where you live who can provide you with tax advice. We do as we are following the guidelines here in NZ

This one definitely took it to a new level. I do have some tips/ideas for what works in our local market and what the best option is. This one was actually the old man's find! I seemed to benefit from it due to location. Be great to see your space and how you do things though.

Full video to come! It gets even better!

I know IKEA and stores like that have similar type containers. We got these for free but I think they are like plastic food containers - something like that would work well from a bulk store/wholesaler that stocks supplies for restaurants etc. Not sure where you are, but that's my best suggestion

I got mine on Temu . I couldn’t find anything similar where I live but on there I did 😊. Put in bucket and they’ll show up

@@kiwibrickexchange thnx i will try again! Im in the netherlands and 1 use plastic is like banned here. But thnx for replying and the advice !

No worries. We have some single use plastic banned here too, but you could definitely go for something similar. There is another seller from Netherlands who comments so hopefully he sees this and has some ideas

Yes they are very nice!

Thanks for the comment 🙌🏽 it is a great community

They are 12 cm in diameter and 8cm deep or 4.5 inches by 3 inches deep. Were just some left over containers - ideally use more rectangular ones, but they stack nicely!

Yes she is :)

When you add items to you store you can click the "notify lots" button to send notifications to anyone who has that items added to a wanted list. It's awesome!

@@kiwibrickexchange amazing! I've never been on the receiving end of one of those notifications

Check your email settings & price you put for the item on your wanted list. If that still doesn't seem right try and put a couple of basic parts at a low price and see if that works then.