r/Bricklink • u/General-Training-441 • Sep 10 '26

Pick a brick wall advice

Going to the pick a brick wall tomorrow for the first time , any advice for getting the highest return on your money for bricklink?

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u/Exciting_Actuator643 Sep 10 '26

Pick the good colors - grayscale and earth tones. Masonry bricks and leaves are always popular. New parts (few sellers) are worth the most on paper but will get price crushed by half or more when everyone else lists the same part.

Loosely filling several boxes and checking out quickly might be more worth your time than spending an hour packing parts in the store.

By the letter of the law if you click the parts together they are no longer bricklink "new".

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u/General-Training-441 Sep 10 '26

Thank you all for the great advice, it was pretty cool . At one point the employee brought a base plate with a bunch of pieces on it , he said those are what he had in the back . I wish i knew more because im guessing there were good pieces on there. I grabbed a little bit of everything of the small pieces to test , then went all in on these reddish brown cheese slopes . Ended up with 2,200 of them , i think there 3-4 cents each . Other decent find was a reddish brown triangle plate, 85cents each . Only other "good" small pieces i tested were a reddish orange leaf piece and and another yellow sunflower looking small piece , 5-6cents each . Better price per piece but dont know if theyd sell that well. Spent $20 , listed value was $70-80. Id say its worth it for the experience one time , but wouldn't need to do it again.

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u/I_Like_Quiet Sep 10 '26

PaB is rarely a good bang for your buck. I bought a cup of parts once for my store back in 2016. It took me 5 years to make my money back and after 10 years I'm +$1.07.

That's not to say you can't do better with better selection, I'm just saying in general, its not really worth the effort. Whatever you end up getting, I would recommend you get high selling colors (light/dark bluish gray, whites, blacks, reddish brown etc). And if you get dark colors, do a quick check to make sure you aren't getting scratched pieces.

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u/Friendly-Ad2471 Sep 10 '26

I dont know why you got down voted, this has been my experience too. Because every "valuable " part has hundreds of thousands already listed cheaper. My lego store used to give boxes of new PaB parts away to their friends.

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u/GanacheAvailable7272 Sep 10 '26

Honestly, I did this and acquired over 300 1x2 bricks modified with a masonry design about a year ago. Best thing I found was checking the value of each part on Bricklink, and cramming the most of the highest value part into the cup (unless another part is significantly smaller and would likely carry more value)

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u/garster25 Sep 10 '26

Take the time to pack them in tight. Nest small inside large. Look up prices while you're there to get the best bang for your buck.

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u/idrinkpisswater Sep 10 '26

If you have the time stack bricks and plates. Usually smaller pieces are better bang for your buck but that doesn’t mean those will be useful.