Lego finds in Consignment Shops!

[Dadster]

Besides Ebay, BrickLink, TRU, Target, etc, etc don't forget to check out your local consignment shop! I found a huge cache of really nice pieces (there were a few BrickBlocks and Mega-Blocks mixed in...) for a great bargain, IMO. About 14lbs for $7.00.

For those of you who don't know...A Consignment Shop is a store where folks bring in old clothes, toys, video, DVD's, shelves, books - pretty much anything one can think of to try to sell them. Rather than holding a year-round sale through your home, the Shop holds the stuff, then when it sells, receives a commission of the sale.

I told the lady to call me right up if she ever gets any other Lego in!

[Brickmaster]

There's been afew threads about great find's in GoodWill stores and such :-$ Personally I have no finds there, only been lucky from friends who outgrew lego and them giving it to me.

I can never outgrow lego :-P Even now I tell anyone ill buy all their old lego, and have been discussing buying a rich kid's stash for quite some time. Just need to get to it and finalize it. ;-)

Always nice to find a little treasure trove of lego. Congrats :'-)

[Mr. Builder]

I have had a near same thing happen. I was in a flea market and my mom found 3 bags full of minifigs and stuff for $3 dollars each!

[simonjedi]

I'll check my local charity shops (which is the UK version of GoodWill/consignment shops) during the week.

[Landlubber]

Nice find. I bought 130 Kilograms of lego on the weekend. It cost me a couple of grand but it was well worth it. Pirates, trains, castle, space, technic and a stack of clasic town. Some sets with boxes and some very rare old parts packs and ideas booklets from around 1965 that were in mint condition. I had to take the van to pick it up. Wouldn't fit in the car.

[jedikermit]

I've made some great bulk finds at thrift stores too--around these parts, there seems to be a lot of Duplo. I've got two preschool boys, so that comes in handy sometimes. A lot of regular LEGO too, but rarely minifigs.

[Lord Of Pies]

I got the r2d2 droid developer set in a charity shop, complete with box for £2 once!!

[Shoc]

I rarely go in these shops, but when I have I've never found any Lego!

I find another good place to get Lego is a car boot sale. I've only been to two but I saw a lot there, I got an assortment of Paradisa pieces from one car that turned out to be a whole set and more!

So I recommend car boot sales as well.

*skull*

Edited March 19, 2008 by Shoc

[casewindu]

Yes I have found many good lego sets in charity shops by where I live!

My best was a box of pirate, city, knights all from the 90's! there was atleast 30 small and large sets in the box and all of it for £20! best bargain ever! :'-)

[The Kid]

Sadly no :'-(

I was forced (ahem) to pass up on a great box of assorted LEGO - I saw raised baseplates, old Pirate figs and plenty of other cool stuff in there :'-(

TK

[Medievalego]

Sadly no :'-(

I was forced (ahem) to pass up on a great box of assorted LEGO - I saw raised baseplates, old Pirate figs and plenty of other cool stuff in there :'-(

TK

Soooooo jealous of all these juicy sounding finds! >:-( >:-( >:-(

Thus far I have not found anything at thrift stores / garage sales etc. Unfortunately there don't seem to be many active thrift stores / consignment shops around me. I looked before, after reading a similar thread, but they'd all gone out of business :(

I've got a few new locations lined up to check for the spring though. I'll post an update in a month or two.

~ M ~

[madoka]

I once missed a complete and excellent condition Yellow Castle for $15 by about 6 hours at the Salvation Army Thrift store. I'm still haunted by that loss. :'-(