Getting Started - Selling This is an brief overview of what you can do to set up your Brick Owl Store and start selling Lego.To create a Brick Owl Store you must first have a Brick Owl Account and be signed in.You can create your Brick Owl Store by visiting the Stores Section and clicking the 'Create Store' button.The help page, Creating a Store, talks you through the entire process to get your store and all its settings sorted. Here are the most important steps:Set your store country and currency, from the Store Information Section.Set up Payment methods.Set up Shipping methods, more details found in the Shipping Method help page.Add some Lego to sell, more details found in the Inventory help page.Once you have done the above, you store should be up and running and ready for customers to place orders. You can now start using or improving your Brick Owl Store by:Customising your store by setting the colour scheme, adding logo's and a slogan.Filling in additional settings such as Despatch Time or Minimum Order.Creating your own Store pages to tell the world just how special your Brick Owl store is.
View and manage your orders, from the Orders Tab in the My Store section.Create coupons to offer customers tempting discounts from the Coupon Tab in the My Store section.Watch your store grow and moniter its popularity with cool statistics in the Dashboard Tab in the My Store Section.The Store Fees help page details the fees that you will occur for orders placed in your Brick Owl Store, there are no fees for having a store or listing items in your store.If you need some help, the best place to go is the Creating a Store help page and if this does not help you, feel free to email us! We are LEGO® Education. For 35 years we have been working with teachers and educational specialists like you to deliver playful learning experiences that bring subjects to life in the classroom and make learning fun and impactful. We have a wide range of physical and digital educational resources that encourage students to think creatively, reason systematically and release their potential to shape their own future.
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Students are encouraged collaborate as they work through open-ended tasks and extension ideas, facilitated and guided at all times by you, their teacher. The four phases are: As part of the LEGO Group, LEGO Education is committed to leaving a positive impact on the surroundings in which we work. We want to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow and we need to leave them a future that will allow them to do this. Since 2003 the LEGO Group has been working consciously and deliberately towards sustainability and since 2006 a full and in-depth sustainability report has been issued every year to track this progress. LEGO bricks and elements are manufactured at the LEGO Group’s own factories in Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic and Mexico. Furthermore, a new factory is on its way in China. The moulds used in production are accurate to within five my (=0.004mm) and this accuracy means than only 18 elements in every million products fail to meet the high quality standard.
In 2014, more than 60 billion elements were made, that's equivalent to approximately 117,000 elements per minute. All LEGO elements are fully compatible, no matter when they were made or by which factory. There are more than 3,500 different elements in the LEGO range – in more than 60 different colours. Each element may be sold in a wide variety of different colours and decorationsThere was a time, not so long ago, when eBay seemed the only place to head if you wanted to sell second-hand goods online. But for some the online auction giant is no longer as attractive as it was, with relatively high fees and an apparent bias towards buyers – The Observer's consumer champion Anna Tims has reported on numerous cases where buyers have apparently pocketed sellers' wares without paying and eBay's system has been found in their favour. The proliferation of social media websites has introduced new outlets – the likes of Facebook and Twitter offer the opportunity to sell second-hand goods without eBay's fees.
"Social media has allowed individuals and independent shops to achieve the visibility and brand loyalty which was previously gained only through traditional advertising or local shoppers," says Noemi Kubiak, of independent price comparison site Pricespy.co.uk. "The ease of cash-in-hand, and the security of buying from someone you can communicate with via social media, can prove an occasionally attractive alternative to waiting for items to arrive through the post."Chapman from Tunbridge Wells in Kent runs a fabric, gifts and stationery company called Ollie & Roo. "Having used eBay quite a lot to sell second-hand things with successful results, more recent attempts have resulted in poor auction results with items either not selling or achieving a low price," she says. "I have tried a number of Facebook groups for selling items locally; I find the smaller village pages have more successful and easier results, leading to a smoother transaction. "I guess this is because people know each other in a small community and it is an easier way to exchange items and name your price."
There are thousands of Facebook pages dedicated to buying and selling items, and the number is growing daily. /FaceBayEN) otherwise known as "Fbay", which was founded in 2010, now has 23,600 members. To join, you must "like" the page, and you can then post items you want to sell, or contact other members if you want to buy items they are selling. According to Facebook there are more than 1,000 other groups which are "FaceBay" sites for specific geographical areas. Plenty of other community groups on Facebook buy and sell items under names other than FaceBay. It's usually possible to track down these simply by entering the words "for sale" and then the area or postcode where you live. For example, the Bristol-based BS3 mums' buying, selling and giving group sells mainly clothes, toys and furniture for children and has 497 members. Like many, this is a closed group, so if you want to join, you will need to click "join group" in the top right corner. You may have to wait for an administrator to approve your request, though some groups allow you to be added by a friend who is a member.
Twitter is also an increasingly popular fee-free way to buy and sell. If you enter #forsale and then another # followed by the place where you live, you'll usually find a whole range of goods, from properties, to cameras, festival tickets and computer games. Many classified ads websites now have their own official Twitter accounts, too, where goods for sale are regularly updated. For example, the ads site forsalefreeorwantedinswindon.co.uk has a Twitter account at @4SaleSwindon which has advertised goods ranging from a single headboard to a 32-inch Panasonic television. However, the big downside is that, although there are no listing fees on Facebook or Twitter, they lack the resolution service offered by eBay. The auction site also identifies buyers who haven't paid, so it can automatically remove any negative or neutral feedback and low seller ratings they might leave for you. If a buyer refuses to pay, eBay can add a strike to their account, which can lead to buying limits or suspension.
The site uk.ebid.net has no fees, but you must pay 3% of the final selling price of the item. You can upgrade to "seller+" status for £49.49, which means you won't ever have to pay any listing or final value fees. In comparison, eBay.co.uk doesn't charge insertion fees for your first 20 listings every month, but when you sell there's a 10% final value fee on the total transaction amount. Once you've used your 20 free listings, they are 35p each. is worth a look. , and allows customers to put their items up for auction in an eBay-style marketplace where everything is vetted by experts. There are no listing fees, but 10% commission is payable on the final sale price. Prices start from £10 per item valued. Find other sites where you can buy and sell secondhand goods by visiting alternatives-to-ebay.co.uk. which, again, has no advertising fees, although there are charges for some ads posted for cars, rentals, jobs and services. There are also apps which enable users to sell goods.
For example, Shpock (an amalgamation of "shop in your pocket") which launched in the UK this March, is a boot sale-style app which is free to use and takes 30 seconds to list an item. Buyers and sellers can ask questions and agree a price through the app and then meet for the exchange. This means that they can check the condition before money is handed over. If you've got books, DVDs, CDs, games, mobiles or electronic devices to sell, the Zapper app allows you to scan in the barcodes and immediately gives you a price. If you're happy with the price you can send them to Zapper free of charge and you'll then receive payment. This app is free to download from iTunes. Many people prefer to buy and sell goods face to face where they can look at the goods and check them over. to find car boot sales in your area. It usually costs around £5 up to £15 to sell at a car boot sale. If you're looking to clear out baby items, you might want to consider a specialist sale. Parenting charity the NCT runs regular "nearly new" sales across the country.
.uk to find details of the next sale near to you. Sales usually run on a commission basis, with sellers receiving around 70% commission on items they sell, but some sales will charge a set fee for a table or rail so sellers can keep all their profits. Consumers buying through social media should exercise caution, according to the Trading Standards Institute, which is seeing rising numbers of complaints about items bought this way. Spokesman David MacKenzie says: "While many goods are sold in this way to the satisfaction of both buyer and seller, an increasing number of consumers are being stung." Problems encountered include the sale of shoddy or counterfeit goods, non-delivery of goods and money scams of various kinds. Even if the seller is legitimate, there are extra risks for consumers buying this way. "For example, if anything goes wrong with a purchase, it can be difficult to identify who exactly the seller is and how to pursue a complaint against them," says MacKenzie.