Comment by pavel_lishin
9 years ago
> Already did that for a batch, about 150 partial sets as a result. Those would then need to be completed and checked by hand, I don't think that can be done profitably, but maybe there is some way.
There's likely someone who's willing to pay X% of the set's price for a bucket that has a 95% chance of having all of the pieces, and a 100% chance of having too many pieces, including some that don't belong in the set, since you'd want to err on the side of caution.
But even that might not be profitable.
I think the problem with this would be to find sufficient sources of random bricks where the good stuff has not already been removed.
E.g. minifigs can get high enough prices in some instances that the total value of a set can be higher if you sell the minifigs and higher value bricks separately, because some people want to buy just the minifig, or need some piece that only appear in a few sets.
This would be my main issue with buying Lego to resell - I'd want to be very sure I'm not buying from other resellers where there'd be a risk it'd been stripped of the more valuable pieces.