I've builded 2 big MOC's in the past, and i'm looking to sell them right now.

The 2 MOC's are my lego great fox and lego battleship halberd, here are some details of both custom creations:

The Lego Battleship Halberd:

- 145 cm long.

- ~5000 parts (doesn't include extra parts mentioned below).

- set comes with a decent amount of parts for extra inside/outside support if needed.

- Also includes digital instructions for Lego Digital Designer.

The Lego Great Fox:

- 33 cm long.

- ~400 parts.

- Also includes digital instructions for Lego Digital Designer.

UPDATE: 19 jun 2012

I've decided to sell both these Lego models for a combined price of 280 euros (bulk price) if anybody wants to buy it, please send a message or make a post, this lot includes a large amount of rare and large Lego parts.

The reason for me selling these Lego models for a relatively cheap price is that I simply want to get rid of the Lego to pursue other hobbies.

I'm also sorry for the multiple bumps, since I have still not reached the 100 posts I need to create a new topic.

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Edited June 19, 201212 yr by TheAllSeeyingGuy

I can't imagine anyone buying the top one for more than $50, and the bottom for more than $300. I'm sorry, they are AWESOME MOCs, but I don't think that there is a big market for medium-large command ships, even if this has a bunch of lovely and rare colors.

Great work on them anyways.

I can't imagine anyone buying the top one for more than $50, and the bottom for more than $300. I'm sorry, they are AWESOME MOCs, but I don't think that there is a big market for medium-large command ships, even if this has a bunch of lovely and rare colors.

Great work on them anyways.

Thank you for you're reply,

The exchange rate between euro and dollar is pretty diffrent, 300 dollars would only be 231 euros. Which is less than half of what the big ship costed me. Most parts were aquired through bricklink at pretty nice rates. Also, the ship contains about 1100 purple parts alone, which go by a higher price usually.

I wouldn't sell the Halberd for any less than 500 euros, the material costs would come pretty close to this number (since the ship contains large amount of big parts (like 2x10 bricks).

I'm not an economist, but there is more to the value of a product than the amount of work and material that goes into it. It is also determined by what people are willing to pay for it and I suspect that in many cases with LEGO models the latter amount is less than the former.

I get requests by people who want to buy some of my MOCs on a fairly regular basis. I always turn them down and one of the reasons why is because they are unlikely willing to pay enough to make it worth my while. I had an offer of $200 for my Chinook, for instance. Old dark grey is getting harder to get hold of nowadays, so I probably wouldn't be able to buy the parts for it for that amount, but since they are parts I gathered over a longer period of time they didn't cost me $200 to buy all in all. However, I probably spent about 30 hours building the thing. If I were to charge $10 an hour (which is a hell of a lot less than I make in my day job) that alone would be $300 and nobody is likely to pay that much.

There are some people who manage to sell custom kits and make a profit. One strategy for doing this is by keeping the fixed costs associated with designing them down by producing the kits in question in numbers of several dozens. Despite this, if you compare the prices for these sets to sets produced by LEGO you'll see that they are considerably higher for their parts count.

Several copies of one of my other models have been on display at a toy store in London and they got many requests by customers about buying them. The store manager figures they could probably sell them at £100 each, but with the parts costing about £80 on bricklink, the time it would take me to buy the parts, and the time it would take me to make instructions for it and to modify the design such that it wouldn't be quite as fragile as it is now, they'd probably have to sell about a 100 to make it remotely profitable for me (and I've already got a job).

In other terms, unless you get lucky, you'll likely make a loss if you try to sell your MOCs.

Cheers,

Ralph

I'm not an economist, but there is more to the value of a product than the amount of work and material that goes into it. It is also determined by what people are willing to pay for it and I suspect that in many cases with LEGO models the latter amount is less than the former.

I get requests by people who want to buy some of my MOCs on a fairly regular basis. I always turn them down and one of the reasons why is because they are unlikely willing to pay enough to make it worth my while. I had an offer of $200 for my Chinook, for instance. Old dark grey is getting harder to get hold of nowadays, so I probably wouldn't be able to buy the parts for it for that amount, but since they are parts I gathered over a longer period of time they didn't cost me $200 to buy all in all. However, I probably spent about 30 hours building the thing. If I were to charge $10 an hour (which is a hell of a lot less than I make in my day job) that alone would be $300 and nobody is likely to pay that much.

There are some people who manage to sell custom kits and make a profit. One strategy for doing this is by keeping the fixed costs associated with designing them down by producing the kits in question in numbers of several dozens. Despite this, if you compare the prices for these sets to sets produced by LEGO you'll see that they are considerably higher for their parts count.

Several copies of one of my other models have been on display at a toy store in London and they got many requests by customers about buying them. The store manager figures they could probably sell them at £100 each, but with the parts costing about £80 on bricklink, the time it would take me to buy the parts, and the time it would take me to make instructions for it and to modify the design such that it wouldn't be quite as fragile as it is now, they'd probably have to sell about a 100 to make it remotely profitable for me (and I've already got a job).

In other terms, unless you get lucky, you'll likely make a loss if you try to sell your MOCs.

Cheers,

Ralph

The biggest reason why it might not sell at the price is because the theme isn't very populair in lego, like starwars for an instance. But with prices like 231 euros. It would make it more profitable if i would sell everything to a seller on bricklink, but selling everything as a mixed lot generally would give me a big loss, as you'll usually only find standard small (common) parts in these kinds of lots.

I'm not aiming for a profit, just wondering what people would offer. The problem is that this varies greatly. If i would buy an indiana jones custom MOC, while only buying it for the parts, i wouldn't bid that much. While if i would be a fan of the franchise and be interested in it, i would probably pay a nice amount of money for it.

The costs of the Halberd were around 500 euros, so if there wouldn't be any significant offers, i would most likely store the parts away. I do have the digital instructions, so i still can rebuild it any time if i like.

The biggest reason why it might not sell at the price is because the theme isn't very populair in lego, like starwars for an instance. But with prices like 231 euros. It would make it more profitable if i would sell everything to a seller on bricklink, but selling everything as a mixed lot generally would give me a big loss, as you'll usually only find standard small (common) parts in these kinds of lots.

I'm not aiming for a profit, just wondering what people would offer. The problem is that this varies greatly. If i would buy an indiana jones custom MOC, while only buying it for the parts, i wouldn't bid that much. While if i would be a fan of the franchise and be interested in it, i would probably pay a nice amount of money for it.

The costs of the Halberd were around 500 euros, so if there wouldn't be any significant offers, i would most likely store the parts away. I do have the digital instructions, so i still can rebuild it any time if i like.

I'll be blunt here, if there is no profit to be made, I don't see the point in selling MOCs -unless I'd be in pretty serious financial trouble, I suppose.

I can't really judge the value of people's MOCs. I prefer to build my own stuff, so for me to be remotely interested in a MOC, it would have to have a fantastic parts collection for a price that is comparable (preferably less) than I;d pay for those parts on bricklink. Some people are indeed a little nutty when it comes to Star Wars, and frankly, I was amazed that the store in London figured they could sell my LEGO Routemaster buses for £100. I myself wouldn't pay £100 for one

Cheers,

Ralph

Someone (I'm feeling too lazy to look it up) made some really cool LOST MOCs that they shared here on EB a while back. My supervisor is not a LEGO fan, but was a big LOST fan, and wondered how much she could buy them for.

So here you have the market - it's not LEGO enthusiasts, who might be inspired by other people's MOCs, it's the people who aren't traditional LEGO fans, but like like the theme of the MOC.

I said that generally people don't do MOCs for resale, and that she could make an offer, but it'd probably have to be quite high, relatively speaking, for someone to part with it.

And Ralph is absolutely right... I can buy a canvas and paint and paint a house for a lot less money than I could buy a painting of a house... but my painting would look like garbage; that's how a good artist makes a living.

Someone (I'm feeling too lazy to look it up) made some really cool LOST MOCs that they shared here on EB a while back. My supervisor is not a LEGO fan, but was a big LOST fan, and wondered how much she could buy them for.

So here you have the market - it's not LEGO enthusiasts, who might be inspired by other people's MOCs, it's the people who aren't traditional LEGO fans, but like like the theme of the MOC.

I said that generally people don't do MOCs for resale, and that she could make an offer, but it'd probably have to be quite high, relatively speaking, for someone to part with it.

And Ralph is absolutely right... I can buy a canvas and paint and paint a house for a lot less money than I could buy a painting of a house... but my painting would look like garbage; that's how a good artist makes a living.

Sorry for the big bump, but i put them on bricklink as custom sets with some advice.

Click the link if you want to see them:

Bricklink Store

The prices i'm asking are pretty much how much they costed me, i'm selling them mostly because i need more space at home now.

I'll be blunt here, if there is no profit to be made, I don't see the point in selling MOCs -unless I'd be in pretty serious financial trouble, I suppose.

I completely agree

I completely agree

I'm not in financial trouble, but i'm not that much into lego anymore. It's been fun making these models but unfortunatly they only take up space, that's mostly why i wanted to sell these 2 models.

I haven't gotten any offers yet, so they'll probably stay in my possesion for a while.

Anyone who is interested can make me an offer if they want!

I'm not in financial trouble, but i'm not that much into lego anymore. It's been fun making these models but unfortunatly they only take up space, that's mostly why i wanted to sell these 2 models.

I haven't gotten any offers yet, so they'll probably stay in my possesion for a while.

Anyone who is interested can make me an offer if they want!

Sorry to reply to this post, but since vessels are prohibited from posting in the Buy, Sell and Trade section of the forum this was the only option for me.

Updated the main post (I'm very sorry for bumping this topic again).