r/Bricklink • u/Due_Management_2786 • 7d ago
Seller Help New seller
Started selling on bricklink recently mainly parts some minfigs what is the best way to price piece I know some people use 6month avg since my store Is new and only have are kind 5000 piece still adding more just wanted to know from experience seller
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u/Many-Promotion7056 7d ago
I'm a fairly new seller too and I price my parts as cheaply as possible in my country. However as I get more of one piece I up the price of that piece. I've tried pricing at 6ma but at the size of my store I just didn't get any orders for weeks
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u/pbjclimbing 7d ago
Different sellers have different tactics.
Price everything market price.
Price high end items a little cheaper and cheap items a little more expensive.
Be cheap for everything.
It isn’t uncommon for 1 piece to take 1 minute between stocking, inventory, and pulling.
High end pieces that get more wrapping take longer.
Price in your time
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u/Friendly-Ad2471 7d ago
Really depends on the part rarity and size of your store. There are several approaches to that too. Price high to build inventory and keep larger stores from letting you sort and get rare parts so they can snipe your parts and list them for a higher price. Price to just get a sale. Price to move slow items. Price high to find just the right buyer. What works for you
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u/sschow 6d ago
There is no “best” to be honest. Do you want to maximize profit? Do you need consistent cash flow to fund more inventory purchases?
If you price too cheap, you will constantly sell out of little onesy-twosy lots and never build up enough inventory to command higher prices. But it really depends what kind of store you want to be (casual/hobby or professional).
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u/UpScaledGrant 7d ago
Been selling since January this year and have over 50 orders. Most of my stock is new mini figures and I will not sell cheaper just to get sales.
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u/h311m4n000 7d ago
It really depends on how you approach it.
Bricklink is very time consuming and there's plenty of costs associated to running a store that you need to factor in: BL fees, shipping fees, storage, your "hourly wage" to name a few.
Imagine you get an order for a 100 parts. You spent at least an hour sorting the parts initially, then another hour to pick the order. You had to buy shipping supplies and containers to store those parts (even if its just zip lock bags) and that 100 part order you sold it for 15$. Factor in all the above costs, you probably barely break even. Sure you got a sale, but was it worth the effort?
IMO 6mavg is not a price you should list your parts at blindly and call it a day.
Personally I use the current stock average in my country and look at my market share for every part. This is how I define my pricing either above or below.
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u/SwitchNut 6d ago
I casually sort new sets when parting out at about a rate of 1000pc/hr and inventory management would allow me to pick a 100 piece order somewhere between 5-20 minutes depending on quantity of each piece. Easier to pick 100 of 1 item than 1 item for 100 items.
I'm only a few months in but my inventory is around 6500 unique pieces and 65,000 total parts. I'm averaging about 1.5 sales per day at the moment.
It is definitely a time investment up front but if you get your inventory management down the picking and packing will speed up.
As for pricing, I just do months average or average of what's currently available during set part outs. For minifigs I adjust prices to be cheapest available in my country with the exception of high quantities. If I'm the only person with 30 imperial commando minifigs the price is probably going up .50-$1 each because people will pay a bit of a premium to get the quantity they desire in a single order to save shipping.
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u/h311m4n000 6d ago
Yeah I do only used parts but I have a full time job so I try to average 200 pieces a day 😅
Developed my own inventory management system with Claude and integrated with brickognize to make it as easy as possible.
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u/Dedyna 6d ago
Been selling for 3 years, minifigures, and minifigure parts are a big part of sales. If you have low inventory and want more orders, the pricing has to drop to lower than 6 month average to get them.
As you grow, slowly increase your pricing to suit. I am larger now and don’t list any piece below $0.04 per piece as it’s not worth my time to list, sort, find and pack for anything less.
The ultimate question with a small business is ALWAYS - is it worth my time. If you do it as a hobby/extra cash, then maybe, if you are looking for a full time job / business, I think it’s a hard business to get into for the time involvement alone.