Inside ShopBlainesWorld's 1.6M LEGO Piece Bricklink Store (FULL-TIME LEGO SELLER + TIPS)

[@TheBrickWiz]

Sorry for the awkward lighting/color-grading! We shot this video late at night with minimal in-house lighting. Hope you enjoy! -Matt

[@SHYTIMEismyTIME]

This was cool to see. I always find it fascinating to see how BL stores organize their stuff.

[@CloneBrotherReviews]

I wish my house looked like that ! Awesome video and good luck to Blaine in finding a new place

[@bkbricks5119]

Awesome video just started my own store selling minifigs! This is so cool to see!

[@eduardleppur]

Hey im in the middle of my store for Germany…Im as well selling Minifigs as I live them… do you have any tips on where I can get more new mini figs…Or you just take them from the sets?

[@Scott-yu4yt]

Blaine always seems so chill

[@ethanphillips889]

Great video! Actually just put in an order for some stuff so thanks for showing us his store!

[@noaho0862]

Hey Matt love all your videos and have bought from Blaines world many times

[@Nitrotix1]

I have 400,000 parts in my store and thought it was a lot. Awesome.

[@Murdocke89]

It is don’t worry

[@VampguyN85]

So my project this summer is to go through my massive tub of legos that has been put in storage for the past 15 years. I'm dreading the work to organize it. But it's all my childhood sets I played with. Mom kept everything from my childhood. So it's a lot of castle sets and such from the 90s. Not sure about late 80s. But it's all a jumbled mess in a giant box. As adults we are entirely different at how we approach organizing, storing and taking care of our stuff.

[@accuratebrickinnovations]

The time to have a bricklink store is now. I just placed a 41,000 brick and tile order from Germany. If i were to suggest something for American bricklink sellers: buy a lot from the German stores for low and sell higher.

[@The_brick_daddy]

the shipping eats into the cost but have done that for sure

[@BrentsBricks]

That 1977 hoodie is flames

[@sweetlittlebricks]

Nice. I use the number system for over 1.5M pieces. Doesn't matter if I know the piece name, I'll forget where I put it lol

[@noampitlik2332]

Hey, nice operation.

[@gbj6581]

Are you going to be adding more star wars figs to ur bricklink store. I only see 8 figs at the moment.

[@MaxmerRomansUnashamed]

AWESOME "Inside ShopBlainesWorld's 1.6M LEGO Piece Bricklink Store (FULL TIME LEGO SELLER + TIPS)", Matt TheBrickWiz! ;):)

[@bryankia]

Good for you. I watch theses and wonder. How much do these people make. This seems so time intensive. I wish you well good sir.

[@willbricksproductions]

Yessir the Blaine man

[@tt33333wp]

How you obtain all the bricks that you are selling? What is the best way (for best price)?

[@bentuzz99]

Can I hire him to come sort my collection? 😅😂

[@Gazelle0078]

I’m about to open a bricklink store and my beginning inventory is going to be 1.3 to 1.4 million parts. How can I tell where the puts me in the number of sellers on bricklink?

[@tomleech9753]

So I'm a Magic/YuGiOh/Pokemon seller, and there are "price guides" so I can see which ones are rare and worth money. Is there anything like that for Lego? Also there are just straight up "buy lists" where you publish a list of cards you're always looking for and the price your paying, so other people sell straight to you and then you sell for profit, is there anything like that? Do lego exchanges exist other than bricklink? Bricklink looks like it was designed in 2005 and never updated. I find it difficult to use. :) Any advice would be great.

[@JobemBricks]

Bricklink has tabs under ever item that tracks what a particular item has sold for across the last 6 months. Most sellers use that as a baseline for general value, but be sure to double check what current listings are going for, as some figures especially can suddenly jump if a popular character appears in some new media.

[@richardcranium9663]

Yooo. I live in orlando and have a big city i need to link up with this guy. f that shipping price lately.

[@blackshadowWR]

no Bionicle?

[@scottrogers2186]

What is a typical bricklink order and margin? 3K orders per year is ok but doesn't seem like enough to make a living?

[@ianwassink7664]

General rule when parting out sets is to sell at 3x the purchase price based on 6 month average sales for that part.

[@user-jk1zk8sd7g]

Ive got over 600 lbs legos tote of instructions and 14 leaf bags of boxes how does one start this. Its mess to me and collecting over 25 yrs its way to much

[@donm2255]

If you haven't organized the collection by now, you most likely never will. Just sell everything as a lot to someone with the skills and patience to organize it. Not everyone poses those skills. Blaine has a nice ecommerce store set up in his house. He has efficient process for brining in new stock and shipping out sold goods. If you still really want to start your own brick store, then just start by pulling out a few parts. Perhaps some mini figs and list them. If those sell, then sort out some more parts. I wouldn't try sorting the entire collections at once. Keep track of the amount of time you spend sorting and compare that to the revenue per part you can generate. Handling parts that only sell for a few cents a piece takes a good bit of time but generate very little in revenue. I'm surprised this guy is making money.

[@user-jk1zk8sd7g]

@@donm2255 my kids just outgrew em

[@donm2255]

@@user-jk1zk8sd7g Have you decided what you are going to do with them? I just got done sorting through my old Lego from the 1970's. I cleaned, inventoried, and purchased missing pieces for set 948. I want to give it back to my brother. Took me a couple hours. And that was a 200 piece set. I couldn't imagine having 600lbs.

[@michaelpowis]

How much can you make selling this stuff?

[@donm2255]

Not much. Even if you get the brick for free, think about all the labor going into cleaning, sorting, and putting away inventory. And all that happens before you sell any. Not to mention the space and all the fixtures to organize that many parts. I would bet most people selling lego are making just a couple dollars an hour in profit.

[@donm2255]

I'm and accountant with a good bit of ecommerce experience. I would be curious to see the financial side of the business. It's hard to image there is a lot of profit selling things for a few cents a piece.

[@flicksteryo]

don m I am an accountant as well hehe. We gotta stick together! I would imagine there is a shipping mark up that is pretty crucial when selling pennies worth of pieces. Sometimes you just need a specific piece and the only way to find it is shipping through a Bricklink store

[@donm2255]

@@flicksteryo At some I need to purchase some spare parts. I'm curious to see the pricing on shipping and if it's enough to cover the labor on the pick/pack/ship process as well as the postage.

[@flicksteryo]

@@donm2255 I purchase parts from Bricklink on occasion and I have noticed the shipping cost seems quite high as of late. But just imagine, if the shipping costs the vendor say like $3, and they charge you $6 for the shipping, then that's $3 profit per order if you assume the pieces themselves are marked up a few cents. You'd have to ship out a shit load of orders to make any real money, but at least it's profitable.

[@reality_bites7887]

people buy a lot in each order

[@sweetlittlebricks]

1. Charge the cost of shipping so you don't lose money. Shipping is high because USPS made it high. Almost $5 for anything that tracks these days. 2. You can have order minimums/max so people don't waste your time or overwhelm you. 3. Some people don't realize that shipping costs for companies may also include materials. Customers will complain why is shipping $6 when its $5 at USPS, paper, ink, mailers, etc are not always free.

[@matt8004]

This guy has basically just travels back and fort to the pick a brick wall and dumps the bricks in his containers.

[@sweetlittlebricks]

So what? You can find some nice pieces there. He also mentioned opening sets and sorting too

[@tom400iq6ft]

Resellers 🤮

[@Murdocke89]

Lol what man? I understand the hate for scalpers or people who buy tonnes of everything just for money but people who sell single pieces or individual figs especially older are always appreciated as those items are around anymore