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Disney Tribute at my store was $33.91, so couldn’t pass up those. Stitch and Poinsetta were $28 and $31.

Yes, I quoted the wrong post.

Picture is a link to a Flickr account with the whole booklet...

Giftcards.com has 10% off the Giftcards .com branded gift cards as well as 10% off LEGO gift cards for the reverse double stack. Rakuten is at 2.5% for Giftcards.com as well.

Local Sams Club had the Stitch and Potter sets for $22

I've been doing it for 12 years, full time for the last 6. You can't make any money at it and I wouldn't try. But tell you what, let me know what parts you have and I'll give you a decent price for them, especially minifigs. Seriously, it's just like running a car or motorcycle parts house. As stated above, you need good organization skills as well as familiarity with the parts. If you can look at a pair of legs and know that they belong to the Zeb minifig, it'll save you a ton of time over trying to look it up to discover what they are. I also determined early on that I don't want some customers. I don't want the customers that order 240 different parts, 1 of each. So I set a modest lot average minimum of $.90. I also have an $8 minimum order. True, I lose some small orders but, those are not my customers and I do not want them. I value my time more. You just have to decide what type of store you want to run. One other word of advice. Don't contribute to the race-to-the-bottom on items. If 20 people have a part and the cheapest is $.20, don't automatically go to $.19. It makes us all poor. Some store owners never seem to realize that, you can sell that same part for $.28 IF you have the other 40 parts that the buyer needs in stock. I'll gladly pay a higher price for a part NOT to have to place yet another order, with shipping. Good luck to you and don't hesitate to ask questions here.

And do you have a lot of time? Parting out takes time, and then pulling BL orders can be very time consuming for (sometimes) not a lot of money. I really enjoy my BL store and its a great community to be a part of, but I phased out a lot of my parts this summer because parts specifically were not a good use of my time now that I have two little ones at home. Pulling 300 parts across 250 lots for $9 before fees was fun at one point but as my free time dried up it just became stressful. If you are looking to do this small time there is always money to be made, but you'll need to have a large inventory to start making sizable money and really compete with the well established stores with big inventories. Also, and this is pure speculation, but if you are thinking of going big, I personally would wait to see how all this with Amazon shakes out - I have to imagine there are sellers booted from AMZ who's escape plan involve parting out into new or existing BL Stores.

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