Sign up or log in to customize your list. Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Bricklink has this handy feature on its site which allows you to view the average selling prices of a particular set based on previous auctions. I like this feature, but unfortunately, it only displays trades made in the last six months. Are there any tools that can track or display historical selling prices on sets. Preferably using data from popular LEGO auction sites like Ebay and Bricklink. Not sure about several years, but Brickpicker covers one full year. Here are the stats for the Green Grocer, for example: Or the ones for the UCS Millenium Falcon: And so on, you get the idea. They have more and other stats, too — e.g. the following quick overview for every set: They pull their data from eBay, through some third-party tool they licensed. Now, I think they only let you look up like three sets at a time — then you have to register.
But the registration is completely free. They cover their costs via affiliate marketing, i.e. links to Amazon and the like. They can also sync your account with (i.e. import your sets from) Brickset and Rebrickable, but I never gave that a try. I'm not much of an investor anyway, just your typical AFOL. In fact, according to them, the prices for some of the discontinued sets I still have unopened have actually plummeted. I suppose if I were in for the long haul, I would just take a screenshot of their stats every twelve months and then string them together in GIMP. I'm not familiar with any tools that do this with eBay or Bricklink price histories. I'm pretty sure that Bricklink removes all data older than 6 months, so if this information is available, it would have to come from a third party who scraped it from the site. I have used a tool called Tracktor to look at Amazon price histories for LEGO sets. Sadly, this tool is most useful for sets that are currently in production, as there aren't many listings for out of production sets on Amazon.
Here's an example showing the price of Medieval Market Village (10193) over the past couple of years: Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged investment value or ask your own question.See I told you, this would help! How to Start Couponing Where to Get Coupons = Proctor and Gamble = When You Buy = Buy One Get One Free = 75 cents off one item = 75 cents off three itemsI can help you understand coupon terms and abbreviations This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure here. If you shop for a Lego fan, don’t miss these deals. Here is a round-up of Lego sets that are at their best Amazon price. If your child has one of these sets on their wish list, buy it now & save for a gift! LEGO City Prison Island Starter Set, $5.11
LEGO City Fire Starter Set, $5.11 LEGO City Volcano Explorers, $5.99 LEGO City Race Boat, $6.07 LEGO City Volcano Explorers Truck Building Kit, $17.99 LEGO City Town 60134 Fun in the park, $30.99 Shipping is FREE on orders $49+ or you can get FREE 2-day shipping with Prime. Get a FREE 30 day trial here. *Prices at Amazon are subject to change at any time. See more Amazon deals. If there’s one big gripe common among brickheads, it’s that the prices of LEGO sets are quite lofty (plus maybe not enough spaceships). But two disparate people interested in the plastique fantastique eschewed conjecture in favor of hard data, and found that LEGO prices scale linearly with piece count, and that on average, prices of sets have actually remained constant over the last couple of decades. In a recent Reddit post published by user proxyformyrealname, a graph originally created and then posted to twitter by Ken Steif shows that the cost of a LEGO set increases linearly according to piece count.
(Steif controls for both the theme of the set, and the year.) My 3 y/o (ahem) loves #lego. Using @brickset data, controlling for theme & year, each add. piece on avg. adds $0.09 to set price. — Ken Steif (@KenSteif) January 14, 2017 (a major hub for the bric-a-brick world), found that “each additional piece adds $0.09 to the price of the set, on average.” The idea that some sets having a far better price/piece ratio may be overblown (although perhaps not totally untrue). But while this may seem reasonable, it could still be that LEGO set prices have increased wildly over time, right? ) the average price for a LEGO set has actually remained roughly constant over the last 20 years. Sielen, whose research is absolutely superb in terms of rigor and presentation, notes that “From what our data shows, it seems that the notion that LEGO is increasing in price is false at least in regards to the last couple decades. Since around 2006, the average price of a piece of LEGO has remained relatively stable between 10 and 13 cents apiece.”
When the reports are considered together, it seems that in regards to LEGO pricing, you can expect to pay $.009 for each extra piece a particular set has, and also expect that the average price of any particular set will remain constant over time (when adjusted for inflation). Licensed sets — Star Wars LEGO sets presumably being the most popular examples of this — do still appear to cost more than generic LEGO sets, however. So if you want to make sure you’re paying the average price for some LEGO rather than above average, make sure to mix in plenty of City and Ninjango on your next shopping spree. What do you think about LEGO’s pricing? Give us all your brickheaded thoughts in the comments below! Images: Wikimedia / Benjamin D. EshamBritons will have to pay 5 per cent more for their Lego sets, as the Danish company raises prices in response to the pound's decline in the wake of the UK’s decision to leave the EU. Lego is the latest in a line of retailers to raise its prices in the UK to deal with the collapse in the value of the pound.
Economists expect the depreciation of trade-weighted sterling since the 23 June referendum to feed through to higher prices in the shops over the next two years, which will, in turn, reduce real household disposable incomes and help slow the economy sharply in 2017. Prices of Lego sets could increase starting from January 1 next year, according to a letter by Fiona Wright, the general manager and vice president of Lego. The letter, shared on Twitter as well as social news aggregation website Reddit, says that the increase in prices is a “direct result of the continued devaluing of the UK pound”, it adds that Lego will try to “minimise” the consumer sales impact. Details of the recipient of the letter have been withheld and there is no indication of where the document initially originated from. Lego prices in the UK going up by 5% as of January. — Robb Lewis (@rmlewisuk) December 10, 2016 However, in a statement sent to The Independent, a spokesperson for Lego said: “As communicated to our retailers, The Lego Group will raise prices in the UK, due to currency fluctuations”.
Inflation has hit its highest level in more than two years thanks to the sharp depreciation of the pound since the Brexit vote, according to the latest prices report from the Office for National Statistics released on Tuesday. "It looks inevitable that consumer purchasing power will deteriorate markedly over the coming months as inflation moves appreciably higher and earnings growth is limited," said Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight. The pound has fallen by around 16 per cent against the US dollar since Britain voted to leave the EU in June. This already means that any goods brought in from outside the UK will be more expensive. Dave Lewis, the chief executive of Tesco, has previously warned its international suppliers against using the plummeting pound as an excuse for illegitimate price increases. In October, Tesco took brands such as Marmite, Ben & Jerry’s and PG Tips off its shelves after consumer goods giant Unilever raised their prices by 10 per cent to compensate for the weaker pound.