(Re)Starting My BrickLink Store - An Overview
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- (Re)Starting My BrickLink Store - An Overview
5 years ago I decided to open a BrickLink store in my free time, with only a couple thousand parts just for some extra LEGO fun. After a year of doing that, I sold off my store and called it quits. Realizing I loved the fulfillment of picking orders and building a satisfied customer base, I decided to start again in 2017. My next store ran for about a year and a half into 2019, until life became too busy, and my store grew too much for the space I had allotted for it, so I took another break. Flash forward to December of 2019. I had more free time, a larger place to be able to store inventory, and even potential business partners, so decided I would start my store again, but this time it would be different... Instead of only having upwards of 10,000 parts, I wanted to grow to over 1 Million. This is the beginning of that journey.
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TH-cam recommended your video to me. I really like your setup. I dream of having my collection organized like this. Not to sell, just for building MOCs. I hope you continue documenting your experience with BrickLink. I think it will be interesting to follow.
brickitect Thanks so much for checking it out! I love your videos! You are Clark are so much fun and it’s been so fun following your journey as well.
I plan on keeping this channel going so I can look back on it in the future and we the growth we’ve made. Such an honor to have you watch my video! Thank you so much!
Yes it recommended for me too. You are doing it right! I love these type of videos! I did same thing. I tried bricklink and parting out sets and than I sold everything as I was not well organized. And than build I built a huge LEGO Wall like yours in Dec 2018. Now sales hit over $3000 month in January and my regular job is currently on the chopping block!!!
Pop's Block Shop Hi Pops! It’s such an honor for you to see this! Your channel is part of what inspired me to start again. I’ve watched your videos for months now. It’s been so fun to watch your journey. I hope to grow as big as you one day! Maybe bigger 😉
I didnt know you were here
I guess it's kind of randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to watch new movies online ?
Lots of great. information. Thank you for sharing. I get motion sickness watching it but really enjoyed listening to what you had to say.
Brickitect recommended your channel to his followers, and just wanted to say thank you for sharing. I have subscribed and look forward to watching your current and future videos. Good luck with the BL store!
Hi Patrick! Thank you so much for watching and subscribing! I appreciate Brickitect more than ever for sending you and a few others over!
Awesome and very informative video. TH-cam recommended it, I liked and subscribed. Loving hearing how others are doing it.
Thank you for checking it out! I hope to be both informative and entertaining with these videos!
Done with all pops block shop videos. Now starting to watch all yours while working on my own store :)
Congrats! And thank you!
Nice work especially for only being open a couple months! I started about a year ago now. Just hit 140k parts and 4K lots. Good luck to you!
Thanks! How has your store been doing? Are you still expanding or have you kind of hit your limit due to space? We can probably get to about 130-140k parts until we run in to a space issue, so we're discussing possible ways to expand.
I hit about 75k parts and was kind of stuck for space in my home office. Around November I moved the store to the basement and continued to expand. I’m probably about 80% full now. Just parting out the backlog as fast as I can. Hoping to get to about 250k parts and 5000 lots or so. I think that’s about all I can handle by myself on a part time basis. Going well though and having fun with it.
Brickitect recommended you after TH-cam recommended you to him. I really enjoyed the 1st video. I'm in the process of opening my BL store and videos like yours as well as Jaabo/Brick Tsar, Jason/Trick or Brick and Derek/Pops Block Shop have guided me along the way. I really hope to open soon but life and a really messy basement keep getting in the way. I'll be sure to check out more videos as well as your store. Have a great day & Keep 'em Coming!
Hi Chris! Thank you so much for checking out my channel! BrickTsar, Trick or Brick, and Pop's are great! They have been extremely helpful to me as well. I hope to be able to help people like they have me. Thank you again Chris for your viewership and comment!
Haha good on you man, i've just started my store again for the 3rd time, it's a fun hobby, but more fun to run as a business! I'll keep an eye on your videos, be great to see how you grow!
Thanks for checking it out! You should post more! I'd love to see how your store is going as well and be able to follow your progress! :-)
@@JustABrickInTheBucket thanks mate! ill get there, slow and steady! i plan to do another one once i finish my new storage setup!
This looks amazing bro! I’m planning to have a go at this soon. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on bricklink!!
Little Brix We find it super fun to see the wall grow and to get and fulfill orders. Definitely give it a shot. I’d sign up soon as I’ve heard that it takes a few weeks for BrickLink to verify everything before you are allowed to sell.
I have researched the hoops that I have to jump through to get to a stage where I can sell but I’m in no rush. I wana get it right and be organised from the off. Your setup is awesome and really inspiring.
I just reopened my BrickLink store a few weeks ago and tonight TH-cam recommended your video to me! Great setup. It’s nice to see some people in the same boat. Looking forward to checking out the rest of your channel
And great use of the barcode scanner! Very smart r
Hi BrickLover! Congrats on opening your store again! I find it incredibly fun and fulfilling to pack and ship order to customers. I know exactly what it's like to receive a package, and hope I make people happy when they receive mine! The barcode scanner definitely saves time and helps reduce errors! You have a great channel by the way! Thanks for checking it out!
Great video and great ambition! I wish you lots of success. Liked and subscribed! 👍
Thank you so much!
Man I need that barcode scan in my store, to many bins to look threw when I was keying in parts at all hours of the night
The barcode episode! So many things have changed.
Sadler_bricks here
Nice set up here i like the akro mills myself i just ordered about 30 of them as im expanding on my store nice set up though
Sadler_bricks
You answer the question I was about to ask. D/C/B. I'm THINKING of starting a store? We've brought from your store area time to build our MODULARS and MOCs. Thank you. Build on!
Very cool barcode idea!
Moc Magic Thanks! I’ll have a video on it soon with more detail on exactly how it works.
Hello. Great videos. I also have a BL store and this barcode idea is really cool. Can you also show or tell me how you made the barcodes? Greetings Edwin.
@@TheEdwin073 I have been looking around and I think the most cost effective solution is to buy printed labels from AliExpress unless starting from day one and you can print and label as you go, just make sure you start at 00001. Right now for my store it is looking like a $400 investment, that's nzd, I think it is worth while for us.
Thanks to trick or brick for sending me to you...great setup
Where it all started…
Where did you get all the pieces that you have ? And also how much money did you spend?
I love what you do, how much do you think it can cost in total all the cabinets you have for that amount of pieces? Where do you buy these filing cabinets
Hello PRIMITEMAS,
We have spent just about $1,280 in drawers so far. With that being said, about $250 of that are empty at the moment, and have no parts in them. So roughly $1000 to hold about 120,000 parts.
Thank you for watching!
@@JustABrickInTheBucket Thank you very much, do you think someone can make a living out of it, or is it rather a hobby that gives you extra money?
great content, wondering if you have link to the weighing scale you use? Also, based on you running the store for more than a year now, do you see this as a profitable business?
I guess you already have a video on the scale too.. Its amazing how you are able to cover every aspect of running a store on bricklink
The business is "profitable". I say quotations because we choose to spend our profit on expansion. If we decided to maintain our current size rather than expand at the very fast pace we are expanding at now we would be generating profit.
Hey Evan, do you actually get dust in the bins? If so, how do you manage it? Thanks.
Hi Hugo!
Being that we've only been in the location we are in now for about 2 months, we have not had any problems with dust, but I will elaborate more on the next episode of BrickSide Chat about our cleaning routines.
I would really like how much it cost you from scratch to where you are now! Thanks
Nicolas Châteauneuf It’s honestly really hard to figure out due to the fact that about half the stock that we parted out last month, I had already had just sitting waiting for a couple years. I might do a little video on how we manage our money and everything which can help to give more insight as to how much it would have cost to do it all from scratch.
I’ve been setting up a store. We’re up to $970 including stack ons. Been buying Lego movie clearance sets. Up to about 100k parts in 525 lots.
brian hilligoss Thats great! What’s your store name? I’d love to check it out!
Do you have a colour chart for sorting the pieces?
Stephen Bond We do not have a color chart at the moment, but there is a chance we will make one in the future. We just compare pieces to ones in our inventory at the moment, and when parting out sets, BrickLink already knows the color.
Do you have these attached to the wood or are they just stacked on top of each other?
Hi Dru! They are all mounted with screws on wood that is screwed in to the wall behind. We live in Southern California where earthquakes are very common so I would never trust stacking these without screwing them in.
@@JustABrickInTheBucket ok thank you! I was wondering how sturdy they would be if you stack 2 or 3 on top of each other. We rarely ever get earthquakes here.
Hi could you tell me how the barcoding system works, how does that interact with briclink comments section. thanks
Hi Peter!
I made a detailed How-To video on the barcode system. You can watch it here:
th-cam.com/video/kyJsg3somw8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching!
Where is the link to your logistical items in Amazon you referred to in your video? Scanner, bags, parts, etc…..
You can access the specific items we use on our website here:
justabrickinthebucket.com/products/
Thanks for watching!
@@JustABrickInTheBucket Does one of your videos go over what you need the scanner for if inventory is in brickstock and bricklink?
I'm using the paper envelopes right now can you send me a link to those blue envelopes?
These are personally the ones we use. There are cheaper plastic ones out there, but we just have these. We might switch to cheaper in the future:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XHW5Q99/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@@JustABrickInTheBucket Thank You!!!
hi sorry to say in the uk i had a very big bricklink shop i stopped selling as there's no money in it any more i think the leave the EU has hit people alot
sells of pab stock is down big time as kid's are back on there computer bricklink is full of dead stock i only sold moving stock a lot sold because of star wars
moc's and in the uk the pad's are very small and there's not the space for the lego any more in the usa your pads are bigger lot's of room under the pads
same in the EU i would never start a bricklink shop up just for the money making in the uk i am a fan and i have a big pad to put the lego in pound land bins
with grip bags to keep the cost down wall units have a lot of dead space all parts are logged on a computer to same time love to see how new people do there shop
this set up will not work for me
bob jerome I’m sorry to hear that it didn’t work for you over there. We’re trying out best here and so far it looks promising. Thanks for checking it out!