Advice on opening Bricklink store.

j.hermit · 2014-09-29T04:18:30.000Z

Howdy. I've finally decided to give Bricklink a try; I've been kicking the idea around for months now. The Ebay part-out store has been operating for almost a year now and has treated me well- I'm a TRS with 1500 transactions, and I'm currently running about $3-4K in sales a month. I'm fine with selling minifigs on Ebay, but I've never been a big fan of the "sets w/o minifigs" method for sets. As the store's gotten bigger, there are always more sets sitting around for longer, and the ones that do sell will often go for less than I feel they're worth. Especially being an old-school builder, it makes me grind my teeth every time I sell the entire set portion for less than one of the set's individual minifigs. If I liquidate (brickuidate?) my current "no figs" inventory and start mining the mighty Clearance Mountain, I estimate I could have a starting inventory of between 50-100k parts. Approaching Bricklink is daunting enough, and with that much possible inventory, I have no idea about the best way to price it or get everything uploaded. If anyone has any advice to give (either general or specific), or if you know of any good sources of information, feel free to let me know. Also (and I hate to admit this), I haven't bought anything from BrickLink yet- I build plenty, but I'm usually making stuff for the kids out of their Lego. I want to be familiar with their order process before I start worrying about a store, so mention your store if you reply and maybe i'll place an order.