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During its nearly 80 years, LEGO has captivated generations, and parents continue to share their love of the building toy with their kids. EBay reviews can be a good place to find out the lay of the land on selling vintage items, so I visited.
Did you know that the best way to sell all those loose LEGO pieces is by the pound? You can get $8-$10 a pound for a mixed lot, it seems, with minifigures adding value. Make sure to put “minifig” in the title, and give a count of the pieces. And including broken pieces is a no-no.
Perusing eBay’s completed items, the highest recent price was paid for a “Classic Lego Town Vintage 6399 Airport Shuttle,” with instructions, box and some unused stickers for $285. Checking for other sets selling for over $100 complete with box I found: a 1986 Model Team Highway Rig, 5580, for $124; and a Castle System Forestmen’s River Fortress, 6077, for $135. In the pieces department, I found a box of white cubes, 487, selling for $10.
If you only have the item’s number and want to know more you can go to lugnet.com, the International LEGO Users Group Network. Click on “Guide” and type in the number at the top to get details. For the white cubes on eBay, for instance, I typed in 487 and found that they are from 1966 and the original box contained “44 elements/ 0 figures.”
On the same website page you can click on categories for more information, like Star Wars, Technics and Trains to get the scoop on individual sets. There’s also a neat “LEGO Sets Ranked” link, which gives the top 100 sets as ranked by its members. The Airport Shuttle set mentioned above was ranked 21, and by clicking on it I found that it was released in 1991 and contains 743 elements and nine figures.
For more information, visit www.lugnet.com or www.lego.com |
| 2/16/2011 |
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