Help with Buying and Parting Out?

former-member · 2014-07-03T18:19:35.000Z

Hello, new guy here. I've been a lurker and I registered a while back but haven't really been active. I had luck with one set, Cloud Cuckoo. I parted it out and sold it (a single set) on eBay. My goal is to slowly (very slowly) turn $300-400 into a full-fledged business. How can I do this? I have full-time availability. Here are my questions: What is the research process for picking a set? That is, do I pick a random set and part it all out on paper, or is there a way to narrow down my selections first to say, 5 or 10 sets and do the math from there? How do I part out a set? My thinking is each minifig separately plus the set pieces. Maybe it'd be better to separate the set pieces by color and sell lots of each color? The only avenue I know of for getting rid of sets is eBay. It works (so far), but does anything else compliment this? I've heard about bricklink - is it good? What about CL? I realize some stuff might be guarded secrets. I just don't want to spend my college years broke (haha). Thanks for any help you can give!