Lego Event Roundup - How my day at the National Brick Event in Plymouth went.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Saturday 8th June 2024 and I attended my first National Brick Event in Plymouth, Devon.
In this video I discuss the event, how my Lego sales went, what didn't go so well and how much profit I made.
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Southampton was chaos wasn’t it, like you the best I’ve ever done at a brick festival!!
Good return on this one, will definitely look into one of these events!! Cheers for the info and well done, appreciate your efforts in getting the info out to us all!! 👍
Thanks Lee. NBE events are very well run and definitely worth trying as a trader.
Thanks for watching
@@iainsbricks Always!! Love your channel!! 👍
Great insight behind the veil of selling at a brick event, thanks for being so open!
Thanks Martin. There is a lot of work goes into planning for these even, but they are definitely worth it
Thanks for sharing, and for being so open in terms of your numbers :) Decent return even at a quieter event
Thanks for watching. Yes, despite lower footfall, I took enough to make the event worthwhile.
First to comment 🥳 I love these roundup videos, I always find them so interesting!! Thank you Ian for making them!!
Hi Sofia - great to hear from you. Hope you are well. I try to be as honest as possible in these round up videos. Hopefully that comes across.
We're collectors and not sellers but we love all your Lego related content. I'm making a special trip to meet you in Brighton Lego Fest finally 🎉
Appreciate you watching and all of your comments. Looking forward to finally meeting you.
glad you did ok at the sale.I agre the gwp are a good sale, somepeople cant afford the crazy buying threshold to get some of them, so buying them at shows are great. I am still on the lookout for the moving truck.
Thanks for your comments. Yes, the gwps are very potato shows. I sold all my moving trucks a while ago unfortunately
A good profit for a slow show. Well done
Thanks - although footfall was lower than normal, my sales were fairly steady throughout the day.
That's still a great profit Iain. So long as you enjoy doing it. You will get slow times but mostly you've sold a lot every time. Well done.
Thanks Caron - yes, I've certainly had better days sales wise but the takings and the profit were still good.
Good video and good profit at the show, but do be careful with all that cash!
Thanks. 95% of the money I took at the event was by card.
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You're welcome, and that's good to hear about the card payments 👍
Nice little round up - I love seeing those retired sets sell for a nice amount of profit for you! (But yes as you say there are other costs involved like petrol etc ) Do you have to pay to rent to tables at the Brick Fest? How much is that roughly if you dont mind me asking?
Thanks for watching. Yes, traders tables cost around £65 per front table and £15 per backing table at these events.
these are such peanut profits lol, but you made it fun! You got something out of it. It is really endearing the amount of effort you go into. I think this channel and your lego investing biz will do well with time!
Thanks for watching. No, not the best profit this time, but still not bad for an extra event that I only had 5 days notice of. Don forget that Lego investing for me is just a side hustle and I have a 9-5 office job which is my main source of income
@@iainsbricks Nice Iain, that explains a lot. I think you have a good eye for future sought after Lego items. I enjoy watching your channel.
Great to meet you there! My video from the event featuring yourself is on my channel :)
Hi. That's excellent. I'll have a look at that.
@@iainsbricks my pleasure! Glad you came down and did the show. We really enjoyed it
Hi Ian like the videos. Which themes would you say you sell the most of?
Thanks for watching. I guess Star Wars is my most popular theme.
Yes the dimensions are a strange one, most people are interested in the minifigures.
By any chance are you bidding on more that are up for sale?
I'm surei will be able to sell them all in due course.
If I find any more at the right price, I will buy some
Iain, what i was wondering about: Is Iain's Bricks a company or do you all do this as a hobby? In the Netherlands a person is not allowed to make more than €1800,00 a year next to their normal job, this is why i was 'forces' to start a company in Lego investing/ reselling.
Hi Peter. So at the moment, Iain's Bricks is just a side hobby. If my turnover is more than £90,000 (around €100,000) then I will need to become VAT registered and set myself up as a limit company, which may have to happen in the next year or so.
For now, as long as I report my additional Iains Bricks takings at the end of each year to the tax man, then I will be OK.
Peter - the UK is a lot more "enterprise friendly" than most developed countries..
@@iainsbricksSounds like i might have to move to England haha, 90k is extremely reasonable. the Dutch government seems to discourage people to make any little extra money and if they do then you have to pay a lot of taxes on it (for example: 49% of my earnings went straight to the IRS last year, that feels really unfair and makes you wonder if it is even worth all the effort)
Morning Iain, you didn't do a RoundUp for Sandown to show how it can also go wrong. I'm impressed by your margins on the Plymouth event, given a moderate sales total, but it would be good to see how it can also make a poor return sometimes. thanks
Hi Paul. There wasn't much to round up after the Sandown event. My gross takings were only £640 that day - I never did work out my net profit - safe to say it wasn't much.
Super interesting! Thank you for sharing this with us. I was thinking that the other “cost” element is that you are doing something you really enjoy. Do you do anything special with the funds you raise selling Lego?
Thanks for watching. Yes, it can be time consuming, but I do also enjoy it.
With the money I make, I normally just buy more Lego.
Well done Ian , thank you for sharing your Lego sales. Hopefully my family and my self will meet you soon at an event near Dorset???
Matt from Dorset
Thanks Matt. No definite Dorset events yet planned for this year, although I'm still hoping to squeeze into the Bournemouth Brick Festival in early September. If not, then my nearest events this year will be Portsmouth Brick Festival in early November and Exeter NBE in late November
Hi Iain, I'm just wondering how you find the booking process for these events? I did my first Brick Festival in the Exeter event you mentioned, and again for a quieter event was very happy with how I did, and so would be very keen to do more as soon as possible. I know the Brick Festivals mention that they're fully booked for the foreseeable (like with NBE Plymouth, some last minute tables were made available for BF Exeter), and I've sent NBE a message about future events but not heard anything back as yet, so unless another last minute slot becomes available I fear that I won't be at any more shows for the rest of the year! I know bookings will be months and months in advance, but I'm just wondering how far in advance bookings usually need to be made and how easy or otherwise it is to actually manage to get into these on a regular basis? Any advice very much appreciated!
Thanks for your comments. I'm sure NBE willbe in contact soon regarding your query. As you can imagine, they proget a lot of queries.
Brick Festivals are very difficult to get into. I've tried for quite a few events this year and was disappointed on more than one occasion, as traders tickets normally sell out within 5 mins of going on sale.
Brickfestival normally sell their traders tickets around 6-9 months before the actual event, which I feel is a bit too early, but so keep you eye out for those late availability tables, as they can pop up at any time.
Hi Iain, another great straight talking vid full of info. I'm considering getting invloved with these in the future and your videos provide a very good insight. Thank you for taking the time and effort.
Thank you for watching. There are plenty of different events out there now, some can be busier than others though.