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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Langstaff wrote:
>
>
> > Right now their Pick-A-Brick consists almost entirely of used pieces. I've
> > not seen LEGO sold like this before in a retail setting. It looks like
> > they have been collecting as many old, used pieces as they could find from
> > whomever would give it (or sell it?) to them and are simply re-selling it.
> > Not sure if they will be setting up a "real" Pick-A-Brick with the big bins
> > and new pieces...I never spoke to the staff.
>
> I've been told by rtlToronto'er Oliver Giesen that this is the way it works
> at some used stores in Germany apparently.
>
> > Certainly a good store for selection, but the prices are certainly not any
> > better than Wal-Mart or Toys-R-Us. I hope they bring in a "real"
> > Pick-A-Brick.
>
> I don't think they'll ever be able to match the Wal or TRU for pricing.
> Hopefully they'll do okay by making it up on hard to find stuff. The
> selection is nothing short of incredible, but is that selection enough to
> draw regular buyers to keep the store afloat?
Selling of Used LEGO bricks in a retail store I guess is a rare thing. I know
of only one such store that does this in upstate New York, USA. The store is
primarily a video gamer store. The used LEGO is just a gimmick to draw in kids
and their money.
For example, they pay cash or store credit for any used LEGO you bring in. You
don't get much cash value and I don't know about store credit value. So, say a
kid brings in a sack of LEGO and the store offers $5.00 cash or $10 store
credit. The gimmick is that a kid will want to buy a $50 game and now only has
to pay $40 to get it. That was a sale that perhaps would not have happened had
it not been for the LEGO trade-in.
I consider the place to be a pawn shop. Mostly because of the way it operates
and the other merchandise it deals with (home stereo and electronics). I have
even heard it is a front for organzied crime, but I have no facts on that. I
just know that I have only gone there three times in the last 5 years or so and
I always leave with a bad taste in my mouth. It takes hours and hours and hours
to sift through all the poor-quality bricks and non-Lego trash to find a few
handfuls of gems. I have walked out of there with some good finds. My last
visit cost me $50 and I estimate I came home with LEGO worth about $300 if I
were to buy it on BrickLink.
They have a simple webpage, but no mention of used Lego bought and sold:
http://www.mediamaxstore.com/
So, if The Toy Blox gives cash or store credit for used LEGO, it could be a way
to unload unwanted parts (wheels and tires, trap doors, unmatched wings and
wedges, Orange bricks, Bley bricks, etc) and get a discount on new LEGO sets.
That certainly would be worth investigating.
__Kevin Salm__
LUCNY
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