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To open an online store, you need a computer, printer, stock, a way to store and organize it, and some bubble mailers or other shipping materials (Shipping post forthcoming). A scale is nice, but optional. You will need to set up a Paypal account, and a bricklink account.
The first iteration of our store was 5 shoe boxes on a shelf and about $250 of new Christmas sale LEGO® sets. We’d accidentally hit on the Friends advent calendars and three sets of Skyra’s Mysterious Sky Castle (41078), when few other stores were buying the Friends and Elves lines to part out.
Then we bought about 30 pounds of used bulk LEGO® parts online and lucked out again, getting a lot of older parts that were in demand for people completing sets. Along with a few more new sets purchased, our store now filled 5 shelves and about 25 shoeboxes.
As I write this, 4 years later, the right side of my desk holds trays of cataloged and uploaded inventory that is waiting to be put away. To my left sits about 48 linear feet of organized parts, stacked over 6 feet high. On the printer there are three orders that I will pick today. And in the “sorting room” is over 800 pounds of unsorted bulk, waiting for SOMEONE to turn it into cataloged stock.
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Read next post in the Series: The Birth of a Bricklink Store – The Basics Part 2, Systems
