I’m an Aussie I get mostly all my sets from Amazon they are wayyy cheaper than anywhere, also Kmart when we have stock I get from there. I’ve only bought 1 set from the Lego store ever cause their prices are through the roof in comparison. For example prime day I got the home alone house for $230 as it was on sale down from $399 - $299 and I had $60 free Amazon gift cards from a tik tok promotion and now look it’s retail is $450 so I cannot wait to build in December for Xmas. I’ve probably spent about $1500 on heaps of sets and saved a total of $2000 if I was to buy from Lego store
I'm from aus too and also picked up a home alone set on prime day haha. Some things I've noticed is on occasion when myer or David Jones have Lego sales, they initially have modulars and some larger sets on discount by mistake. They are pretty quick to change it but I have picked up my bookshops that way. Also if you havent already, you can sign up at target and bigw and they will give you 10 bucks off your first order (bigw makes you wait a full day for the code I guess hoping we'd give up on it). It's not much but if you are getting 5 speed champion sets, instead of your buy in being 22 (which is from what I've seen already the cheapest they get to) with 10 off you're looking at a buy in of 20. The honey browser extension every content creator used to tell you to get whilst has never saved me a cent through codes is still actually really helpful. When you are on Amazon atleast, honey will show up if you hover of the top right side of your screen and it will take you to a page with mostly US info however if you scroll down there is a chart that can show you every price jump the set has had in the last 120 days on Amazon au. If any of that served useful great, if not I still will ask you to team up with me in calling these others cheaters for having essentially the equivalent of batman's sonar device from the dark knight. Unless brickhawk works for Australia... in that case sign me up :).
Lol I laughed at the dig but i don't think Lego resellers affect kids getting their toys too much. Lego is produced in high enough quantities for them not to have such an impact. It's mostly going to be older collectors buying retired sets.
Welcome to the channel David. 1. That comment got me and I got a good laugh out of it. 🤣🤣 2. I think there is a difference between scalping and investing. Scalping is when people buy up tons of a LEGO set right when it is released or around the holidays to sell at profit for quick money… which I do not encourage. Investing is picking up sets near retirement for long term holds and shouldn’t affect any kids the chance to buy the LEGO set (well the parents to buy it for them for that matter) 3. My goal from this channel is to help other lego collectors, like myself, fund their building hobby! Hope this helps
Missed out on prime day got swamped with work and missed out..I'm hoping to get the police station at a discount before it goes on sale ..I'm new to Lego investing how often does Lego do the gwp offer I did manage to get the free gift last week it was bag of mixed pieces but apparently the other gift went out of stock the day before😡I picked up a few of the Disney 100 brickheadz at diccount
I had more than 20 system sets 20 years ago, but now only bulk lego left and some racers and bionicle sets. I even had 6046 but gave it to another person as well as other cause "you have to grow up" shit. Recently was searching for a lego for my sister's child and felt I want to build lego again. Found cool MOCs on Speed collections, opened rebrickable and other, all these sites. Spent nights looking for sets I had (and their price tags ofc)). I felt so bad because I lost almost all of them. But I think some of them weren't marked on bricks. Were they fake, what do you think? Anyways, I was shocked how my brain found and reconstructed emotions, feelings, associations and pictures I got when I built these sets... like, places, people around me. Not even when I build something but also gave some brand new sets to happy bdays. Just incredible. Can't wait to build a new collection) Thank you for you video
Ya price per piece is tough because their are some many other factors that come in to play for lego investing... 10 cents per piece is typical for licensed sets and 7 cents per piece on non licensed sets.
I picked up the cloud city for 190 at Lego store it was the last one I wish I bought more but I won’t make that mistake again as I have been picking up the mos eisley set every few months
How quickly does Brickhawk notify you? For example with some of the latest Walmart flash clearance sales, they come in stock briefly (a minute or less) and then are sold out. Would brickhawk have recognized that and notified you immediately when it's in stock? Or would it miss that short window?
I think BrickHawk runs its scrub every 1-2 min or so. You could miss it but its all about how it lined up. I got a bunch of my discounts on walmart during their flash sale from brickhawk. They send you emails in real time.
@@JakesBricks And also maybe you could say something about what sets you should buy for investing purposes - Im thinking, should you wait until the LEGO retirement list is official, and focus on buying the soon to be expired sets - or does it make sense to buy random sets at cheap offers - even if risking, that they will be on the market for several years.. Would you end up having a lot of stored sets who first increase in value in the post retirement period?
Tried to sign up for BrickHawk, gave them my email address to create an account and they said I needed to confirm the email. They never sent the confirmation email. I can only assume they are a fishing website farming email addresses.
@@JakesBricks No problem. I have used Rakuten on my lego purchases through both target and lego and have saved over $90 in the past year since joining very worth it to me and Rakuten is completely free to use to so that is a bonus.
Thanks for the tips Jake, Great video. Im going to make sure i make good investments around black friday when it comes! I already got the Mandalorian N1 Starfighter for 33% off which is pretty sweet 🙌
@@JakesBricks Managers at local Target told me, when they would typically be doing the big reset of the toys section a month ago, everything else was 30-75% off, the old Lego sets were moved to the clearance isle but were never marked down… then they disappeared (have found old Lego sets on the shelf, and tried to buy and was told they were not sale-able and they took them away at the checkout),
@@romy1223 on sale, yes, but not clearance (50-75% off) like they used to with all the other toys in a reset, they have sets still jammed on an overflow shelf from the reset earlier this year in the spring, I have also found retired sets at 3 targets this year that I was told could not be purchased as they were not in the system any longer and they took them away
Tbh they aren’t sponsoring it! I reached out to them wondering if I could promote it and they gave me a code for all my viewers. That’s how much I like it 💪
I’m an Aussie I get mostly all my sets from Amazon they are wayyy cheaper than anywhere, also Kmart when we have stock I get from there. I’ve only bought 1 set from the Lego store ever cause their prices are through the roof in comparison. For example prime day I got the home alone house for $230 as it was on sale down from $399 - $299 and I had $60 free Amazon gift cards from a tik tok promotion and now look it’s retail is $450 so I cannot wait to build in December for Xmas. I’ve probably spent about $1500 on heaps of sets and saved a total of $2000 if I was to buy from Lego store
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I'm from aus too and also picked up a home alone set on prime day haha.
Some things I've noticed is on occasion when myer or David Jones have Lego sales, they initially have modulars and some larger sets on discount by mistake. They are pretty quick to change it but I have picked up my bookshops that way.
Also if you havent already, you can sign up at target and bigw and they will give you 10 bucks off your first order (bigw makes you wait a full day for the code I guess hoping we'd give up on it). It's not much but if you are getting 5 speed champion sets, instead of your buy in being 22 (which is from what I've seen already the cheapest they get to) with 10 off you're looking at a buy in of 20.
The honey browser extension every content creator used to tell you to get whilst has never saved me a cent through codes is still actually really helpful. When you are on Amazon atleast, honey will show up if you hover of the top right side of your screen and it will take you to a page with mostly US info however if you scroll down there is a chart that can show you every price jump the set has had in the last 120 days on Amazon au.
If any of that served useful great, if not I still will ask you to team up with me in calling these others cheaters for having essentially the equivalent of batman's sonar device from the dark knight. Unless brickhawk works for Australia... in that case sign me up :).
Brilliant information as usual. I am definitely going to look into Brickhawk. Thanks again
Let me know what you think
I'm an aspiring toy scalper too and looking for better ways to intercept toys before they get to kids, thanks for the advice.
Lol I laughed at the dig but i don't think Lego resellers affect kids getting their toys too much. Lego is produced in high enough quantities for them not to have such an impact. It's mostly going to be older collectors buying retired sets.
I admit it: you got me with that one.
Welcome to the channel David.
1. That comment got me and I got a good laugh out of it. 🤣🤣
2. I think there is a difference between scalping and investing. Scalping is when people buy up tons of a LEGO set right when it is released or around the holidays to sell at profit for quick money… which I do not encourage. Investing is picking up sets near retirement for long term holds and shouldn’t affect any kids the chance to buy the LEGO set (well the parents to buy it for them for that matter)
3. My goal from this channel is to help other lego collectors, like myself, fund their building hobby! Hope this helps
@@JakesBricks Thanks. I’m setting up to go big. I “invested” heavily in baby formula and starting to diversify into Duplo.
@@playbench brilliant choices 💪
Thabks for rhe video..cant wait to use this in the weeks leading up to black friday and really get thise great deals
What did you pick up for Prime day?
Missed out on prime day got swamped with work and missed out..I'm hoping to get the police station at a discount before it goes on sale ..I'm new to Lego investing how often does Lego do the gwp offer I did manage to get the free gift last week it was bag of mixed pieces but apparently the other gift went out of stock the day before😡I picked up a few of the Disney 100 brickheadz at diccount
Awesome Tips! Haven’t heard of Brickhawk before but sounds like a great tool!
It’s awesome tbh
Thanks Jake for the information! As a new Lego investor/collector this was very beneficial! 🙏
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Dropping those Gems! Thank You 💎
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I had more than 20 system sets 20 years ago, but now only bulk lego left and some racers and bionicle sets. I even had 6046 but gave it to another person as well as other cause "you have to grow up" shit. Recently was searching for a lego for my sister's child and felt I want to build lego again. Found cool MOCs on Speed collections, opened rebrickable and other, all these sites. Spent nights looking for sets I had (and their price tags ofc)). I felt so bad because I lost almost all of them. But I think some of them weren't marked on bricks. Were they fake, what do you think? Anyways, I was shocked how my brain found and reconstructed emotions, feelings, associations and pictures I got when I built these sets... like, places, people around me. Not even when I build something but also gave some brand new sets to happy bdays. Just incredible. Can't wait to build a new collection) Thank you for you video
Welcome back to LEGO collecting! It is a blast!!!
Thanks Jake, just signed up to Brickhawk. What a excellent site.
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Do you have a price/piece you typically look for? And how do you account for premiums placed on the price by it being a licensed product?
Ya price per piece is tough because their are some many other factors that come in to play for lego investing... 10 cents per piece is typical for licensed sets and 7 cents per piece on non licensed sets.
As always, a helpful video. Thanks!
Sure thing!!
I picked up the cloud city for 190 at Lego store it was the last one I wish I bought more but I won’t make that mistake again as I have been picking up the mos eisley set every few months
Ya I’m curious if the mos eisley will have the same return! Large Star Wars sets historically do great!
hey I was wondering how long it takes to ship?
Ship from where?
Canada
As always great video class acr
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Great video, thank you! ❤
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How quickly does Brickhawk notify you? For example with some of the latest Walmart flash clearance sales, they come in stock briefly (a minute or less) and then are sold out. Would brickhawk have recognized that and notified you immediately when it's in stock? Or would it miss that short window?
I think BrickHawk runs its scrub every 1-2 min or so. You could miss it but its all about how it lined up. I got a bunch of my discounts on walmart during their flash sale from brickhawk. They send you emails in real time.
Thank you for this
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Bro that’s insane! What do you think the chance of a rereleased is on the Disney castle is?
Tbh could be be pretty high. Maybe not an exact rerelease but possibly the Disneyland California version
Jake for Lego investing, is it better to buy bigger sets, small or medium size sets??
This is a great question that I will do a video on soon
@@JakesBricks And also maybe you could say something about what sets you should buy for investing purposes - Im thinking, should you wait until the LEGO retirement list is official, and focus on buying the soon to be expired sets - or does it make sense to buy random sets at cheap offers - even if risking, that they will be on the market for several years.. Would you end up having a lot of stored sets who first increase in value in the post retirement period?
Tried to sign up for BrickHawk, gave them my email address to create an account and they said I needed to confirm the email. They never sent the confirmation email. I can only assume they are a fishing website farming email addresses.
Hey Hollyman! Shoot me an email: Jake@jakesbricks.com I want to help get this figured out for you.
Nice video. Does the brick hawk stuff work with Rakuten?
Hmmm not sure… I’ll have to investigate
@@JakesBricks No problem. I have used Rakuten on my lego purchases through both target and lego and have saved over $90 in the past year since joining very worth it to me and Rakuten is completely free to use to so that is a bonus.
No mention of Offer Up, Facebook Marketplace, etc?
Marketplace is where I get 95% of my Lego from.
Both are amazingly valuable but it is so specific to region, time, availability. Trying to offer plug and play options for “most people”
Cool!
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Thanks for the tips Jake, Great video. Im going to make sure i make good investments around black friday when it comes! I already got the Mandalorian N1 Starfighter for 33% off which is pretty sweet 🙌
Great deal!!
From your experience, what sites are best for Black Friday deals on LEGO?
Tbh all of them! Stay updated on the channel and I’ll post about them
Class act
Great vid! Appreciate the frree 30 days
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Target has said they won't mark Lego down at all anymore
Interesting… source?
@@JakesBricks Managers at local Target told me, when they would typically be doing the big reset of the toys section a month ago, everything else was 30-75% off, the old Lego sets were moved to the clearance isle but were never marked down… then they disappeared (have found old Lego sets on the shelf, and tried to buy and was told they were not sale-able and they took them away at the checkout),
I bought Lego on sale like a week ago at target in USA…
@@romy1223 on sale, yes, but not clearance (50-75% off) like they used to with all the other toys in a reset, they have sets still jammed on an overflow shelf from
the reset earlier this year in the spring, I have also found retired sets at 3 targets this year that I was told could not be purchased as they were not in the system any longer and they took them away
I only buy Lego at 40% or more off :)
Not a bad idea but I would imagine you miss out on some of the larger sets that never get discounted that much
Black Friday's coming
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I use BrickWatch instead of BrickHawk. Much easier interface and all-free instead of being charged for basic features 👎
Brickwatch isn’t available in the US unfortunately
I think you should have mentioned this is sponsored by Brickhawk before gushing about it.
Tbh they aren’t sponsoring it! I reached out to them wondering if I could promote it and they gave me a code for all my viewers. That’s how much I like it 💪
Scalpers are human trash