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Lego: How to discover LEGO sets in used Lego on eBay? - Part 1 - By brick pattern

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As a seasoned treasure hunter, I absolutely love set identification part. Looking at the photo and hundreds of bricks can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning but a little bit of patience and you should have a list of sets that should be there. Let's analyse auction I have won recently: Lego Mixed Lot Bundle - Bricks - Over 9kg Select a picture that has the best quality.  At a first glance, it's very hard to identify any sets. Especially that eBay picture is kind of small. Pictures send by sellers are usually bigger but eBay fits it to the screen size. So in order to open it up in a new tab, you need to wait for a white bar with thumbnails to disappear and right click the image and select "open it in a new tab".  So now we have a clear view of the full frame and we can zoom in in search of sets. To start the search look for any parts with printing and stickers on it. This assembly has 3 printed or stickered pieces and is in desired col
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Lego: Guide to buying used LEGO lots on eBay

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I'm a recent convert to a Lego world thanks to my son. I hate to call myself AFOL but it is as close to a definition as possible. As our collection of small sets grew we started making a list of sets, especially Star Wars that we would love to buy and to our disappointment prices on these sets were very high.  We decided to look for older used sets, especially 10195-1 Republic Dropship or 8039-1 Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser but prices were just way too high for us. My other hobby is treasure hunting and I knew that with enough research and knowledge, and a bit of luck supported by chance one could have wonderful results so I turned my eyes on eBay. The conclusion was that we need to buy a lot of mixed bricks that had sets we were looking for and spend time and elbow grease to reassemble it into complete sets. So here are the lessons I learned about buying used Lego lots to try to fish out complete sets: 10195-1 Republic Dropship It takes a lot of time.   Be
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