Selling legos by the pound by color or random?

[Gompers]

Any one sell legos here? I have only sold complete new or used lego sets in the past. However, recently I purchased a 20 lb lot of random legos for $10. I have looked thru the sold listings and it doesn’t seem to matter if the legos are sorted by color or just sell them in random lots.

I would prefer random lots, as I started to sort the legos by color, but it is extremely time consuming.

What say ye ?

[Retro Treasures WV]

Last Thanksgiving I processed a huge bulk lot of legos I got from Goodwill. I didn’t sort by color, but I did sore by type.
Specialty bricks, technics, standard bricks, curved bricks, star wars gray plates, regular plates, bricks with stickers or art, and flat pieces. May have been one or two more styles, but that is about it.
I also ended up with 3 lbs (yes lbs!) of minifig pieces, partial figures, and complete figures. I started to piece together figures and listed 20 or so. I’ve sold all but 2 of them over the last year for prices from $5-20 a figure. The minifigs is where the money is at if you have lots of patience.
Once the holidays were over I kind of lost interest. The bulk stuff I was gonna sell for about $10 a lb. I had total over 50 lb of bulk. It’s all neatly sorted and stored. I really need to get it listed. Still conflicted on if I should try to complete/identify more minifigs. It was really fun, but time consuming.

[Inglewood]

I sell Lego and other building toys in bulk by weight – what I do though is that I figure out enough weight before the next shipping weight increase with the post office.

I’ve never sorted Lego – but other items like Construx or KNex I sort by series type/color.

[skydog]

There are “fake”, or generic Legos out there. I found out the hard way. My first lot sold, and the buyer (nice guy, BTW) informed me that about 1/2 were not real Legos (he was right!). He told me real Legos are ALL stamped Lego-each little piece. I worked out a partial credit with him.

I sell a couple of bags a year. I usually take out 2-3 random fistfulls, and check for the Lego stamp instead of examining every piece. If they are OK, the entire lot is most likely OK. I then explain my Lego ID process along with the following “I am not a Lego collector, and know very little. But call me with questions before you buy.”

[Retro Treasures WV]

Knex makes compatible lego bricks. They are definitely an inferior quality. Eventually I got to where I could identify them just based on the slight differences in color and feel. Their quality was definitely a step below Lego.

[Gompers]

I did play with legos when I was a kid, but I Don’t have a clue about them now that I’m an adult. I’m smart enough to know whenever I see complete new or used sets to buy them.

Never thought I would run into a huge random lot for $10. Every garage sale I’ve been to that has loose legos want $100+ (one sale wanted $300 and they were all loose). Goodwill stores are even pricing them at $10+ per pound so IMO every one knows their value now.

To get back on topic I did check some of my legos and they are all stamped lego on the circular part (pegs) where they would click into another piece.

Since I have already starting sorting by color, I will try selling by color and by random. Might as well put all the time used sorting to good use.

[Inglewood]

I’ve seen guys on TV that make custom Lego items and sell them – just saw a documentary on a guy that builds Football stadium replicas and sells them for good money. Guess if you are creative, you can turn a bulk bag of Lego into more cash.

[skydog]

Quite an idea about the football stadiums. Thanks for the heads up.

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