VLOG55 - I bought a MASSIVE £40K+ Lego Haul to Expand my Bricklink Store. Buying a Bricklink Store.
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
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This is massive, so nice to see that your store is growing but the same time kind a sad feeling that someone else had to close the store.. Good luck with sorting, organising, have fun and share with us as much as you can. It's just pure happiness to see that amount of bricks 😌
Thanks! yeah its a pretty huge challenge.
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I dont usually comment on the videos, but this has been one of the coolest and most interesting I've seen so far!!
Cant wait for you to show us the integration of the shops over time. Good luck!
Wow, thanks! - Glad you enjoyed it
HUGE move! Good luck with it, and I love seeing the merging steps. I think half the fun of having my tiny store is just the organizing zen so this was fun to watch.
Yeah, weird how we get enjoyment from others organisation etc.
Glad you liked the mug . Have a bricktastic week of orders
Thanks again!
Always fascinating to see what goes on behind the scenes
Glad you found it interesting.
Wow! You’re handling the whole expansion like a champ!
Haha thanks!!
You will need an arena to fit all of your inventory! Congratulations from the states, on your purchase!
Thanks a lot. I'm already a few months in and still have plenty of room at the moment :)
Thanks for the drawers again Keith
If you are struggling to get the others sold I can take them the first week in September
Thanks for what you picked up. All gone now. Recognised you after you had gone 😂
@@BrickArena glad you managed to get them gone, hope the move to the new container goes well/went well! 👍
Wow. That’s a crazy big haul. Endless volume of unsorted thou. Lifetime of work ahead of you
Yeah, the bulk was kind of a freebie on top of the stores catalogued stock. It could be that in time I resell some of it ask bulk, but we'll see. The main thing is to cut down on my monthly spending for a while.
@@BrickArena can’t see you ever needing to buy any more bricks till it’s all inventoried into the store. But great deals come along don’t they
I am sure there will be gaps in the inventory that will need filling :) and we are about to hit sale season
Congratulations on your expansion. Good luck with it all. I assume this will be the last haul video for quite some time!!
Thanks - I don't think I need to buy for a little while now :)
Been waiting all week for this....at last
Haha enjoy!!
Excellent vlog. Very interesting and thanks for taking the time to document it on video. I'd love to have all that used bulk to sort through - find it very relaxing going through old parts. Don't think you'll be needing to replenish your store with purchased stock for a while. Good luck getting to that 1 million parts goal!
Thanks, I tried to cover as much as possible. I just wish I could have had everything in one place at one time to take a picture of it en mass. Doubt I'll be buying for some time :)
Wow, really interesting to see how the purchase integrates with your existing stock. So glad you put all the coloured draws in colour order, it was bothering me how the colours were all mixed up!
Thanks so much! - Its s just a process of getting everything in order. I'm surprised the inconsistent numbering isn't bugging you too :) That will be fixed soon too.
Look forward to the next episode, this is great content!
Wow - best vlog and insight on this channel In a long time :)
Thanks!!
Excited to see your ‘journey’ with this. Good Luck :)
Thank you!!
WOW that's an amazing score , so much work to do but should keep you busy for a long time . keep up the great work/hard work
Yeah lots of work to get through this lot
Exciting to see such a large haul!
It sure is 😜
Great video Keith. Amazing haul. Knew it was big but that is real big. Love the look of the store. Love those rainbow drawers. Wish I had some of those with those dividers too for the inside. And those small blue drawers that connect seem pretty cool. Keep up that great work and videos.
Glad you enjoyed it :) and glad you like the look of the store, that's very important for me and my wife in particular
Wow, what a haul Keith! Good luck with the consolidation process.
Thanks Randy, I'm going to need all the luck I can get :)
Can you buy a Store every week now please :D Excellent video. Very interesting & cool to see how you are doing it(& it's giving me a few ideas to for the future) My Store has been closed for a few weeks now due to family problems so I don't know what's next for me with my Store but I want to keep doing it because I have put a lot of work into it & it was making a bit extra money for me to. Looking forward to seeing more next week. Good luck ;)
haha - as much as that would be cool I don't think my wife or bank manager would be very pleased. Sorry to hear about the family problems, good luck with the store in the future.
@@BrickArena :D + This year Buy every store in the UK to :D Thanks ;)
That is a massive one time investment. I wish you all the success my friend. Keep posting update videos!
Thanks! Will do!
you totally need to rent a little office space so you can have everything together! love it
I will have everything together eventually I hope but just takes time to sort and condense. An office space would defeat my ojective to work from home and brings huge overheads
Good luck hope it works out brilliant for you. Takes alot of guts to do what you did I tip my hat to you sir.love the videos
Have a look in B&Q for any 3m long kitchen worktop to sit on top of your drawers to give a great stable work area. You can get the thinner top and sometimes they sell slightly damaged ones cheap.
Great effort though buddy, onwards and upwards!!!
It's a 4M span so would still need a join, but to be honest I find the tops of the drawers very workable, but we'll see.
watched from start to finished. Great vlog thanks!
Thanks!!
Hi Keith,
Best of luck for your new Megastore
Kai
haha - Many thanks Kai
Just found you, an english channel, more feel at home channel. thank you, and welcome.
Welcome! - Glad you found me.
Excellent buy! When you have sorted it in a couple of weeks......you can buy my 92k part store....just keep hovering all the stores up! 🤣🤣
haha - This may be my one and only store purchase. It'll probably see me till retirement.
@@BrickArena Ha! Yeah I don't blame ya, thats a hell of a lot of work to be done!
O my Keith...this was a great vlog...cant wait to see more detail on how your integration goes...
Thanks! Gonna take a long time 😂
@@BrickArena well if one stack of coloured draws took 4 hours....ummmmmm well.it will all work out...
No-one said it was gonna be quick 😉
Hello Boro Boy how you doing, listen mate you are no spring chicken take it easy one piece at a time , fantastic haul by the way i think you wont be sourcing any time soon . them draws look really good the small ones are really smart shame they we not a bit longer , right the bulk lego it looks like it is going to stuck in the container for a long time have you considered selling it off on ebay at a kilo a time some sellers are getting upto £20 a shot ,i know you can make a lot more money parting it out but we all have a life span and i would have thought recouping some of what you have spent may be better than having it stuck in the container, i bet you have not been sleeping well over the last few weeks ,your mind on the lego where, when and how i know i have been there thats why i said take it easy also selling the used lego off in bulk will take next to no time to sort and give you a regular income
Hi Andrew, What do you mean I'm no spring chicken :) - I'm sure I have many years ahead of me. Yeah selling the bulk is a consideration and something I've thought about for a quick return, but I'm going to see where I am when I have merged all the catalogued stuff first. I'll need something to do after that :) Sleep was certainly in short supply for a week or so when both deliberating whether to spend my savings and after making the purchase and planning everything.
It's unfortunate that BrickPickers used such big drawers, that is going to take ages to go through...
I've been pushing to grow the store myself & have started building my own shelves.
The amount of space you can save if you custom build the shelves for your storage solutions; it's crazy good! :)
I think the drawers are useful for bulkier or high qty items. We all have our preferences for shelving and storage. It's partly about time and money
@@BrickArena For sure! I do prefer to invest a fair bit more to cut down on picking time. In the long run it will provide dividends.
@@thorakvideos2495 Thats were the drawers are good as you pull out one drawer and immediately have access to at least 15 lots.
The used bulk can drive casual browsing while-i'm-there sales, particularly if your buyer is looking for a certain older individual piece. If you're in no rush, then I'd hang on to the potential of it rather than kilo it out on eBay. Depends how much the shipping container owes you I suppose. Great job on the acquisition - the sky is the limit now.
The container is an overhead that I’ve accounted for but I need it irrespective of the bulk. Once the cataloged parts are merged I’ll be in a better position to make a decision on the bulk.
Hi Keith I just wondered if you knew the source of the small blue drawers (the mftlong drawers) within the UK they look great would love to get some, and blummin great video by the way.
Thanks - All I can tell you is that they were bought via Ali Express and shipped from china. Think they worked out at around 0.75p each for 500 - Sent by sea.
Jeez I sorted a box of used bulk Lego for cleaning that was half the size of one of the ones around the 6mins mark and that was tough. Okay it was mixed with rogue mega blocks so that could be it too.
Yep, used sorting is not easy :)
I think the best thing about buying the store is that you don't have to continue selling your own collection. It must be heart breaking selling your own box sets.
Not really, I had to decide when I went full time that I am no longer a builder/collector of Lego. Otherwise, I'd never part with anything. Plus I. don't have room for a store and still have room to display anything.
Would love to know how you organised such a large purchase when historic trusted companies aren’t involved. How do you transfer money to this value and what protection do you have if this was actually a scam or undervalued purchase? Plus it will take months to check, what if you have big differences to what you thought you had bought? Would love to know in case I want to buy or even sell myself one day.
Hi Paul, thanks for the question. I am in the planning stages of a series of videos that will cover this exact topic. There will be several videos in the short series which include buying a store and what to look for etc, in depth look at my buying process and decision making for this store and what to think about when selling a store. Hope you can wait a little while for the answer :)
Dunno why I was thinking of how much of a nightmare it’d be if the van doors opened on the motorway lol, can just imagine having to pick up all the Lego, my back winces at the thought. 😂 I know, sorry bit random but I’m kinda spaced out on Morphine from a dislocation so thought I’d share my terrible thought. Lol
Well, we actually did have a spillage later in the day when taking a few remaining drawer towers back to the container. Thankfully it was a very small one :)
Congratulations on the hall
When do counting of the new do use the method of weighing 1 of them then
Weighing them all to work out how many have
I have counting scales (see my links in video description) which allows me to with a sample, say 10 and weight them. Then when I add the rest it tells me how many there are.
What is the brand of your new blue stack-on drawers?
Would love to know as well
The only marks on them say MFTLONG - But I can tell you they came from china and were bought via AliExpress.
Some suggestions for alternative titles to this video:
Single purchase brings man out of retirement.
English man finds a loophole around minimum wage laws.
Lets hope it's not Lego haul puts man in early grave
Hi, great video. Can you tell me the name of those individual blue drawers please?
They are made by MFTLong - You can get them through Alibaba
Where abouts do you get the organiser trays that go inside the draws?
They are from really useful products, the same people who make the drawers. BUT keep in mind these ONLY fit the scrapbook size drawers.
You don’t happen to know the brand name of the little blue units please?
Check comments on this vid - it’s something like MTLLong I think (not able to look right now)
Thanks for showing us the back-end of our suppliers.
I would not want to do this, more of a buyer myself ;)
No worries! - Hope it helps to appreciate the job that sellers are doing :)
@@BrickArena Very much appreciated - it also gives ideas of what kind of drawer systems and other storage facilities to use, these things are expensive!
Yeah always good to get ideas for storage - It can be very expensive.
really amazing video. where could i find those colored storage boxes??? Thank you very much and greetings from Spain 💪
Hi Victor, You should be able to get them directly from the manufacturer - www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk
thank you very much for your information , you are left with a store worth admiring . I also want one just like it 💪
Keith- you’ve mentioned the active carts in BO item a few times. Does this exist on BL? I did extensive googling and found no such feature so I assume no, but figured I’d ask. Right now I’m only on BL as I can’t justify paying for the software to sync and am unsure I can be fast enough to update inventory if I had listed on both given my day job.
No there is no active cart feature on BL. As for syncing Bricksync is free but requires a machine to be running 24/7. I definitely would not try managing both systems manually with the same stock.
Thanks Keith. Surprised BO has it but BL doesn’t but glad I didn’t miss it.
Did you weigh the truck before and after?
Where do you think you will recoup money the fastest?
I had no way of weighing the truck afterwards. It had a weight limit of 1100KG which I think we may have exceeded, hence my concerns of driving back home without breaking an axle. All I can say is that I drove very carefully and even had articulated trucks overtaking me :) - Regarding recouping the money it's not all about speed. If I wanted to do it fast I'd sell off a lot of the bulk, but I'm not in that much of a hurry.
That's a lot of Lego but I don't know if it's worth what you paid for it,to me does not look like 40k but good luck to you.
There’s way more than 40k. There is 40k in the inventory alone and there must be at least double that with all the exteas and bulk bins. I think the problem
Is you not seeing it all in one picture ever.
@@BrickArena you have a point there for sure there's no doubt a lot there.
Could you give measurements of these colored drawers. I got one but its longer rather than wider. I think 7l version. I think the 9l
is better. Also can you advise on dividers that youre using inside these drawers if you are using ones. Thanks. And impressive collection.
These are 9L Scrapbook drawers - Dimensions can be found at amzn.to/3QYybGu - The dividers are specially made for the 9L scrapbook drawers and are available from the manufacturer.
@@BrickArena thanks, they dont seem to sell these where im based :/ you mentioned that fab 5 set you got few of to part out 3x the value paid - but will that price not go down if more people are picking them up now?
Where are you based? - the Fab 5 set has been out a long time now so the POV should have stabilised.
@@BrickArena your neighbour across the sea ;)
Also when you buy a collection are you a bit worried that all the good parts have sold?
Not at all, when you buy a store you need a brick store file in advance showing all the inventory, plus a lot of pictures. Then there's lots of analysis to be done before buying. It really helped that this was someone I knew very well and trusted. The £40K I mention was avg of the catalogued stock. It's probably worth twice that as there was so much more, new and used stuff that wasn't catalogued PLUS all that bulk, the equipment, drawers etc.
what cases do you youse for your minifig parts?
please send a link if you can.
If your refering to the clear plastic containers I store my used minifig parts in, I got them years ago from B&M. Can’t find a current link
That's OK like your videos.
Thanks! - glad you like them.
Isn't there a way to mass-upload using BrickPickers store inventory?
And then afterwards, slowly start changing the comments as to not disturb the picking cycle.
Yes and no - BUT - do you trust the quantities provided? what about merging lots that your store and Brick pickers have?
@@BrickArena Well, BrickPickers was a respected store, so I would believe their inventory numbers to be correct. Consolidating is still going to be a big job, there is no way around that I suppose.
Goodluck! ;)
yes they were - however, again its not as simple as that. Some lots are spread across locations and I don't have easy access to all locations yet (as some are still in the container). I'm also finding that some lots do have different counts though usually in my favour. I prefer the slower more accurate approach than risk customer disappointment if I can't locate all the stock. If I had the space to have all the brick-pickers containers in one place it would be much easier but that would take an industrial size unit to run the store from.
@@thorakvideos2495 Thing is, miscounting is easy and mislabeling too... multiply that with the # of lots ;) I already have trouble just with my own stuff for building!
@@diatonicdelirium1743 I run a fulltime BrickLink store & the n1 thing is to keep your inventory "clean". Seeing how BrickPickers also did it professionally; I wouldn't see why they would have had big errors. Also, I always give myself a margin for big quantity items, always upload a lower quantity then I actually have ;)
Wonder why they sold their shop?
They had lost the passion and wanted the stability that full time employment brings
@@BrickArena arh right. Thanks for the reply
I think its time to hire some help!
haha - yeah, god knows I need it.
that van was defiantly over weight
Yes it was :)