Best way to sell a used Lego set?

capsa77 · 2014-12-01T04:33:21.000Z

Hello, digging for more information to reaffirm and add a little to what I saw in an older thread. So I bought a used Grand Emporium from a guy today and the thing was covered in a couple years worth of dust and dirt. No instructions or box. It was completely built though and I compared it to mine and the thing appeared 100% complete. I wanted to clean it so I submerged it in water and started pulling the bricks apart. It was way easier in my head to pull the whole set apart than reality, lol. I got tired of trying to pull apart every little piece so I now I have a mess of top two floors looking like a bomb exploded with the base level sort of there and intact. For the time and expectations of buyers on ebay, what would you all have done? If I could go back in time I would have taken a picture of it assembled before I started my shenanigans, lol. Would you just damp cloth clean it, hose it off all intact, or do what I did and start to take apart every piece and clean it with mild soap? I assumed buyers would want the thing disassembled, but now for the time it's taking and also realizing it's just a giant unorganized mess, I'm starting to second guess myself, especially with not including instructions. Should I take the time to organize the mess by any sort of system? Thanks for your help. P.S. - Dual wielding brick separators did not have the epic effect I thought it would on this tear down.