One very commonly asked question in the BrickPicker Forum is what is the better place to buy and/or sell your LEGO sets - BrickLink or eBay? More often then not, responses will list advantages and disadvantages of both services, but not necessarily which one is superior. The purpose of this article is to settle that dispute once and for all!
Several installments of this type of article will be produced in the near future, but for now, here is the first part of The Superior Market - eBay vs. BrickLink.
Several dozen sets, varying in size, will be compared, based on eBay and BrickLink sales of the last 6 months. I will try my hardest to keep these findings as non-biased and impartial as possible, as well as survey a good variety of sets that have qualifying data.
Small Sets - MSRP $0.01 - $9.99
If the image is a little small, you can click on the table and it will be enlarged.
*Average over the last 5 months. Numbers provided by BrickPicker.com and BrickLink.com Price Guides.
**Value in red signifies eBay USA has higher price, value in green signifies BrickLink has higher price.
***Percentage difference between greater sale price and lesser sale price. All values rounded to the nearest thousandth. On average, sets that sold for more on eBay USA sold 16.95% more on eBay. Sets that sold for more on BrickLink had sale prices of an average of 12.16% more than eBay. Overall though, of the 20 sets surveyed, 80% of them sold for a higher price on eBay than on BrickLink.
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