Brick Link

With my interests returning to Lego's, I quickly learned that eBay was not where I want to purchase most of my sets, most of the sellers are being way to greedy with their prices and most did the free shipping which only means that the shipping costs were included into the bid price, resulting in over pricing if you purchased more than one item from a seller. I have purchased a few sets off of eBay and have gotten them for reasonable prices but knowing most sets that I wanted were over priced I would have to find another source for acquiring these sets.

A couple of YouTube channels mentioned a place called Brick Link, not knowing what this was I looked it up and quickly became overwhelmed with the amount of things I could find there. Brick link has members that have set up stores and within each store they list their inventory. You select your items and checkout. Checking out doest mean you're paying for the items just yet, checkout means you agree to pay for the selected items by agreeing to a contract. The seller will be notified and will send an invoice with the final cost that includes shipping and insurance if you select it.

I have a first experience with Brick Link with the transaction finishing up tonight. I purchased four older construction sets from the 90's. The 6658 Bulldozer, the 6667 Pothole Patcher, the 6649 Street Sweeper, and the 6512 Landscape Loader. All four sets came from a seller that is located in Germany. The seller had reasonable prices with the most being S10 for one set, shipping was also reasonable with it being close to S6.50, not bad when you consider this coming from half way around the world.

All four sets have been assembled and been played with. The Pothole Patcher was the only set I remembered having as a kid, the other three came out about the same time but I never got a chance to have them. I wanted the Street Sweeper and the Bulldozer most of all and after building them I haven't been able to leave the Bulldozer alone. The condition of the kits were listed as used but most of the kits pieces were looking brand new, with only small amounts of dust collected on the tops of the sets once they were assembled. these were put together and sat on a shelf to look at. Two of the sets were however missing a couple pieces, the Pothole Patcher was missing two 1x2 black tiles that were needed under the truck frame and the Landscape Loader was missing the minifigure's head. Neither set was missing anything of great value and they were both fixed with parts I had.

I had an overall great experience with brick link and the seller from Germany and hope to do more business soon. Go over and have a look for yourself.