I'm 16 and been running a bricklink store for about a year, and if it stays consistant with the sell through rate I shoud be easily able to live off it by the time I graduate and have a store worth about $150,000! Also, 11:40 you gotta look at US listing prices, I sold a polybag in that series sealed, price guide said $14, cheapest in the us was like $18, i put it for $17.50 and it sold in like a day! After looking into the sand trooper, you can sell him for more as just the fig. also the cheapes listing for the figure in the US (After your's) is $39.99, so I would definatly put the price more like $37.50.

Great vid brotha, love the content

that star destroyer was a pain..

I’ve made it. I’m in the storage system. Lol

hey travis how do you do your bricklink partouts? Do you do it through bricklink or Brickstore? because if you dont use brickstore i would highly recommend checking it out it makes partout so much easier then when using bricklink directly

my two pieces of advice when it comes to bricklink storage 1. mixing parts in drawers is fine but make sure they are different colours, trust me its significantly easier to find a black 1x1 in a sea of different colour 1x1s than in a sea of other black pieces. 2. when youre picking orders and you see drawers that have space thanks to the order mark them with a stickynote or something to indicate that the have space.

I’m so happy you now have Stripe on bricklink! At the moment I can’t spend money as I need to save after I bought a big lot (25-40 lbs estimated, saw the stagecoach from LR and the Sydney opera house), but I will once I can! Also, what type of drawers are those white ones that have the dividers?

I’m a few videos behind. Time to catch up

Those drawers with the red bricks you use when you need to complete a set - are those just your own collection, not part of BL? Are those used parts? Do you keep new and used parts in separate drawers when inventorying BL stuff? Eg: if you part out a set that's obviously new, but it has pieces you have used, you don't put the new pieces in with the used, right? And I assume your used minifigs and new minifigs have different homes too? Apologizes for the many questions!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for setting up Stripe. As a PayPal user since 1999 [back when it was X and only available on Palm Pilots], I had suddenly got banned by them in March 2020 - like tons of other people who get kicked off by the algorithm - there is no appeal process. And no way to make a new account unless I changed my SS/EIN, name, address, bank account info, etc. As a biz owner account with them with no chargebacks and never any illegal purchases, there was nothing in the TOS that I violated [and I had the account well after I turned 18]. But no way to appeal. It put my eBay Store out of biz for a year and half while they migrated to eBay Payments, and curtailed 99% of my BrickLink purchasing, as I can search for parts from stores that offer Stripe, but that's maybe 5% of the stores, so it's made shopping there quite hard [and doing web development for others using WooCommerce and having to have PayPal dev accounts that are not linked to my existence, etc]. So...thank you thank you thank you for accepting Stripe. I'll be bookmarking your store and hopefully buying from there soon. :) [as well as making my BL store public as I slowly, *slowly* populate it]

Thanks for answering my question about storage! I'm glad my questions inspired future videos. I'm looking forward to seeing those.

The kid has a job now. He gets off work at 4😂❤

Let's Go!

Lego 41714. It's a Friends set, but i think it will bring back nostalgic memories.

Love your videos, Travis. Wise words for young folks. Some advice for you regarding inventory management, especially Lego, is to organize them by part type and not by color. Saw you sorting through the drawer of all black pieces. It makes it so hard to find pieces, as you discovered here. Haha

As someone also nearing 40, 1000% I wish I had learned entrepreneurship in general at a young age. Growing up in the Midwest, my parents weren’t really about talking about money and business. I also always had a self starter mentality which helped me get started during and after college, but would have been awesome to get that jumpstart earlier in life on how to do the hustle. I’m a firm believer that they should require some sort of course on entrepreneurship/value of money/business-y type real world stuff etc in high school to prepare young people on how the world works before they step into it. It’s applicable to every facet of life no matter what career you pursue.

Why didn’t anyone question the convenient timing that clones were grown up as soon as the republic needed an army?

My original comment apparently didn’t go through, but I’ve been doing exactly what you said for a bit 😂. I was referring to bricklink in my comment 😂. Great advice

So, just turned 37, and absolutely if I had known at 17 that I could be taking all the toys and collectibles I didn’t want or need and turning them into cash, I would have been so much happier when college (culinary school) ultimately let me down. Now, I did go back to school 3 years later for a one-year small business course, and that definitely helped me understand more about some of what it takes to survive running my own business. All that said, I am definitely going to impress upon my daughter the idea of finding that self-sufficiency early in life. She already talks about taking over the Bricklink store later in life, but it doesn’t even have to be that, of course. It took me too long to find that what I love is to stick to the toys and fun of my youth but make it business. She’ll know how to explore so many more options than just college/university.

I’ve started selling lego on bricklink almost a year now and it’s been a fun process. I always love getting big lots of figs or sets then putting some up online. It also gives a nice cash inflow which will be useful as I go to college in a few years.

As someone who's 15 and my bricklink store is coming on 1 year since i opened it i can 100% vouch for what travis said. Ive learnt so much about all the things you mentioned time management, money management, how to deal with customers, where to find good deals etc. It started as something i just did to fund my lego hobby and because i thought it would be fun. I just started with a few figs that i had lying around from my childhood that i didnt want anymore and from there bought some lots online and from other friends my age that had grown out of lego and just snowballed from there, its not very difficult take your time to watch a few tutorials before you jump straight in and just try to have some fun. I was lucky that ny parents were super supportive and helpful when i needed to set up some of the stuff that needed IDs and when it came to buying shipping supplies. Main point is just jump in start small get the ball rolling, if you are into lego figs are a great place to start as they sell quickly and are easy to list. Make sure to enjoy the journey dont get too frustrated, if you make a mistake on someones order people are usually forgiving and you can always just refund them

You're welcome, that is my BL order. Keep up the great vids!

How much does batman layer go for

Great advice! I sure would like to have the knowlage in my youth. Now I try to teach my son this lesson and give him the opportunity to have fun in this. Regards from Poland!

Amazing advice for young people as I am one myself

The advice I would give my younger self is don’t let those around you stop you from doing what you dream of

I am 40 and I wish I had discovered this when I was about 19 it would help me be more motivated to get out and live for myself as a disabled person and not have to rely on others to provide for me

Everything you said about doing reselling before college is 100% true. As someone who's going to college in a few weeks and has been doing reselling for a bit, the amount I've learned has been invaluable. I'm now going to business school with actual experience running a business - a huge boost for me. I hope to continue during college, but the space and time requirements may not allow me to. Seeing your business has been a huge inspiration to me, and your advice has encouraged me to branch out from just LEGO. So thanks! -tully

Awesome work mate. Nice to see some organisation coming together. The numbers are looking fine considering you've been through a lot of changes recently. Maybe you could divide your storage into 4 types. Small parts, medium parts, large parts and overflow? So the small drawers for smalls. Medium tubs for medium and large tubs for large. Then overflow could be larger bins with bagged parts to separate them or a dedicated overflow by colour system? Can't wait to see more progress 😅

awww you missed me lol i was not to far

definitely recommend whatnot if you're looking to build a community of loyal buyers. bought heaps from there. good luck man 🫡🫡

Stop buying and start listing, Travis. :D

Shave the beard, be careful the day after is how babies are made😂❤

WOWZA that $400 buy made me a LITTLE jealous... GREAT BUYS TRAVIS!

Not only help with the cash flow, but getting more of your space back, organized and knowing everything you have should help clear your mind and help you move forward!

Excuse me?!?! What if we r here to talk about the beard??😂

Honestly I’m having no the exact opposite problem lol. I’ve had actually some of my best sales this month, but I have a lack of new inventory, or any stocked up. Question: do you think eBay is the best platform to sell on? Because I go between Mercari and eBay, and I don’t know if I’m making the right decision (I use eBay for auctions and Mercari for BIN mostly)

Are the time lapse builds only going on social media or are you thinking of making the side by side a thing in the main videos? I have to say I'm not a fan of the side by side. I watch your videos to relax and find the sped-up video the COMPLETE opposite of relaxing.

I want that

If u do a giveaway on that StarWars bag/playmat, im gonna have to get in on that. Maybe just pick a viewer out of all the viewers who placed Bricklink orders in ur store last month(?)😂😂😂

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Appreciate the sharing ! I have been updating my Blink store weekly, business is good for only 7-6.5k parts in the store, growing! Figuring out a balance of growing the store with low prices and consistent sales vs more profit, higher margins, less sales, more time to sort is tough. Keep going man!

Great vid as always! Its great that you don't say Legos lol

“Staying up too late and getting up too early” I don’t appreciate being called out like this Travis! As I write this comment at 1am..

Thanks for the order and shout out. Got the delivery today and as always, I appreciate the high quality of parts and care when packaging. Keep up the great work!

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