The past years spending is like this:

60% Bricklink

58% Toystores

1% S@H

1% A local grocery store.

I just had to ask, what kind of LEGO does your Grocery store carry?

I'm mildly amused that several of the replies in this topic add up to 120% in total. But math is hard, I'll be the first one to admit that.

Luckily my answer is easy: for now, 100% of my lego purchases have went to local department and grocery stores. I'm not listing names since they all are Finland-exclusive chains anyway.

In the near future, however, I'll start buying lego from online stores. Just need some money for them first.

Edited July 13, 200816 yr by Sandy

hmm, just target really, and a bit toysrus for exclusives, but i may order soome custom stuff too, soon.

jifel

Hmmmm....

60% Bricklink

20% LEGO Stores

10% TRU

10% Other

I think that sums it up properly.

48% Lego Store/S@H

40% Amazon

5% TRU

3% Local supermarket

2% Ebay

2% Local Toy Stores

I just had to ask, what kind of LEGO does your Grocery store carry?

They actually have a little toys corner, or a shelf to be exact. It's different from time to time what Lego set they have. Usually it's some small creator sets like 4915 Mini construction, or mini racers like 8132 Night Driver. But the biggest buy I did where last christmas when they suddenly had 7990 Cement Mixer, 7991 Recycle Truck & 7248 Digger. And on a sale with 25% off on top off that. Then I actually bought all of thoose sets that they had left...

As for me, this should explain most of how I get my funds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHet0zpIbQ

And here is where I spend them,

50% TRU

20% Target

20% Wal-mart

10% Online sellers

Edited July 16, 200816 yr by WisrthanU

Parts

100% bricklink

Sets

30% bricklink

20% 'higher end retailer', myer and David Jones

50% Target and K-mart (usually ahve better deals than Myer or DJs)

0% Ebay!

50% Ebay

50% Singapore LEGO stores BricksWorld and Toyshunt, the latter is good for Minifigs... And Dragons!

Edited July 19, 200816 yr by Inertia

LEGO S@H - 35%

BrickLink - 45%

BrickForge - 10%

Other retailers - 10%

I think generally, lego.com gets more of my money than toy stores, but maybe not this year as I bought a lot of Lego from stores in Germany. Legoland Deutschland also got some of my money this year -- I went twice, once in March (alone) and again in June (with both of my parents). In the future I'll probably get a lot more from lego.com and other places like Bricklink.

I don't track my LEGO purchases closely enough to give accurate percentages but I can tell you that most of my recent AFOL purchasing has been done through bricklink. Prior to the colour change I did make a number of large purchases through S@H, however my interest in new LEGO has diminished greatly now that bley is the new grey . I now buy sets on only rare occasions, leaving most of my focus on acquiring desired bricks from bricklink.

Ok, let's try to make 100%

S@H = 0% (I was tempted by latest sales, but my friends took too much time to think)

Lego brand stores = 0% (where are they????)

Shopping malls = 60% (good availabilty, most chances of discounts)

eBay = 25% (good deals, on both used -I've bought them for some time- and new -I've been only buying new for a few months, and forever will!)

Toy stores = 10% (sets priced like on S@H, or higher!)

Bricklink = 5% (ok, you can find everything, but last time I bought from Canada my Custom added taxes, and that trashed my savings! And, €/$ exchange rate is kind of unfair)

80% TRU

10% S@H

5% BL

5% Other

What can i say, i am a good friend of the local TRU owner (they just love it when i come in and buy up a large quantity of stock, i dont like shopping online very much, no instant gratifacation. ill do S@H for exclusives and BL for some parts, the other is from sites like BA and Fine Clonier and thats that.