Top Ten Best Selling Sets (eBay): July 2013

Welcome to the July 2013 Best Selling Sets on eBay blog entry. Unfortunately, there was a delay in the updating of June's numbers that did not allow me to write a list for that month, but that's in the past already. Here are the Top 10 Best Sellers in July!: (Positions in the list are determined by both Used and New listings, but I will only include information for new copies)

July 2013 Top Ten

1- One of the favorite sets for investors has finally made the best selling lists and in what a way. The Funhouse Escape has secured the top position of this month's list with 261 New units sold, up from 116 last month. This set is a TRU exclusive in the same price range as the Orc Forge from the LOTR, and is constantly recommended by several members in the forums as well. One has to wonder what exactly produced such a large jump in sold values, maybe investors are ramping up summer purchases?

261 Sold (New)

2- Once again Minecraft proves to be a sales powerhouse, staying in the top position of this list for several months already. It has been such a successful set that LEGO recently announced the production of even more models based on the online game, with even its own "theme" section in the S@H page. It seems Minecraft is here for the long run.

223 Sold (New)

3- Somewhat of a surprise, this Creator Construction Hauler set sits in the Top 3 of July's list. However, this is not necessarily a rare occurrence, as the set was just released and probably experienced that "new release" effect that gets a lot of people buying it as soon as it comes out. Pretty cool set, we will have to see how it positions itself next month.

232 Sold (New)

4- Another long standing member of the Top 10 list, the Millennium Falcon 7965 continues to prove itself as the single most popular ship in the Star Wars universe. The set saw a pretty decent increase in sales from June to July, and this trend will only get more prominent with the holiday season in the horizon. Will this be the last year for 7965? I seriously doubt it.

204 Sold (New)

5- This really nice looking Creator polybag really does not come as a surprise. The polybag was given as a promotional item during a pretty long period of time on purchases over $75, which generated a large supply of this in the market by sellers wanting to recover some of the cost of their LEGO purchase. Of course, this kind of sale activity does not happen with every single promo item, but the appeal of this particular one and its compatibility with LEGO City and modular layouts turned it into a popular item.

207 Sold (New)

6- On my last entry I wanted to check where this set would place once the "early retirement" situation was completely forgotten. Well, it seems that the set continues to be very popular, probably as a consequence of it being one of the most iconic locations of the original trilogy and a great collection of high quality minifigures.

168 Sold (New)

7- Interesting to keep seeing this set in the top positions. As I have said before, this is a really underrated set, in my opinion, that has proven to be an excellent investment in a relatively short period of time (Current Market Value: $ 383.93). Even at the higher price tag it continues to sell extremely well on eBay.

95 Sold (New)

8- This small set contains what I think is the most popular character of the entire X-Men franchise for a very affordable price. It is my belief that this is probably the reason it sells so well, but we have to note that even though it has performed (sales wise) very good in July, the previous months were nothing worth mentioning. I have no concrete proof, but I would assume that the set got clearanced in several stores and quick flippers are unloading them.

71 Sold (New)

9- First Ninjago set I see on the list, and one that I really did not expect. Most of my knowledge of these sets is limited to the largest sets, so I can't really give an informed opinion about why this set experienced such a high jump in sales. I would think summer clearance had something to do with it, as with the previous and next set, but that is only speculation.

137 Sold (New)

10- The last entry of this month is a small set that appears to be retired at this point. With 134 new units sold, I would assume that a lot of last minute investors and collectors hurried up to get this one before prices started to go up.

134 Sold (New)

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And with this, our July entry about Top Selling sets is officially closed. One thing to look for in the next update will for sure be the position of the Limited Edition Crawler, that with the short release and apparent success on eBay will probably find a place in the Top 20. Thanks for reading