What’s the most you’ve spent on a single piece?

[Rjbricks]

Not a bragging contest, just curious really. And hopefully people have spent loads and will make me feel better!

I really want to get the Overwatch Reinhardt helmet but it’s £10 at least. And a gold chromed dragon helmet but those are £13 at least. 
 

Most I’ve spent on a single brick is £8 for the Quadruple convex black slope for the Black Falcons’ fortress. 

 

 

[Murdoch17]

Here's my answer to your query, @Rjbricks:

$3+ a pop for a nine of these, from at least three stores. I needed eight of them for a large railroad water tower about seven years ago. (the ninth one was to replace a broken one I received) I swore after that, I'd never buy something so rare again!

Edited yesterday at 12:58 PM by Murdoch17

[MAB]

It wasn't me, but someone paid £60 for one of these in 2023.

I know, as I sold it to them. And based on today's prices, they got a bargain. But paid a lot more than the £2 I sold some others for in 2016 and 2017. They were originally 53p on bricksnpieces / PAB. 

Reinhardt's helmet was originally quute cheap. I bought 4 four £1.50 each. The price went a little crazy as it was a good stand-in for Sauron and you're looking at £15 now. I painted one to match armour. 

 

[icm]

A few years ago I built a Psiaki X-wing. The white parts that form the sides of the nose were rare to begin with, having come in only one or two Exo-Force sets, and almost all of the supply had already been used by other people for their Psiaki X-wings. I had to pay over $6 each for two of them.

This summer I finished restoring an old Black Seas Barracuda and an old Cross Bone Clipper that I got the hulls for about six years ago. The old dark gray firing cannons for the two ships were about $5 each, the 40L string with studs for the Cross Bone Clipper was $7, and the replica sail for the Cross Bone Clipper (not an original sail) was $20 including shipping. One yellow part for the stern of the Black Seas Barracuda was $4 plus about $7 in shipping, so I added a $5 polybag to the order to keep myself from feeling like I was paying $11 for a single part.

[MAB]

Something similar happened with the black dinosaur neck/tail when it appeared in the Arvo brothers' Alien. It jumped from about 10p to £5-6 each. Many more have since found their way to the marketplace so the price has dropped again but there are still BL sellers that listed in that time with high prices.

[SpacePolice89]

Probably the orange helmet I wanted for the orange BAM Futuron style torso to make a Futuron astronaut, I paid about ten euros for it. For replacement sails I have paid more than that but that was for a whole set of sails (for my Black Seas Barracuda).

Edited 22 hours ago by SpacePolice89

[Triceron]

15 hours ago, Rjbricks said:

Not a bragging contest, just curious really. And hopefully people have spent loads and will make me feel better!

I really want to get the Overwatch Reinhardt helmet but it’s £10 at least. And a gold chromed dragon helmet but those are £13 at least. 
 

Most I’ve spent on a single brick is £8 for the Quadruple convex black slope for the Black Falcons’ fortress. 

 

 

Prolly $30 for a raised baseplate.

[Jack Sassy]

Some years ago I bought three 1x2 black arched window frames, back when they last appeared in the 90s and costed 5 euros a piece. Glad that they have returned.