£30 for a single brick!?

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• Huw Administrator Posts: 7,087

  October 2014

  This piece? http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=40490&colorID=2
  
  Seems reasonable given there are none for sale there if he's trying to complete the model.

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• adventure_al Member Posts: 243

  October 2014

  Yes the very part.

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• Venunder Member Posts: 2,659

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  Is this some kind of exchange rate blunder?
  Did the buyer mean UK £ or did he mean his local currency?

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• GentlyBenevolent Member Posts: 343

  October 2014

  I once, (a few years ago mind you), paid €36 for 1 of these :-
  http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=3063&colorID=48&in=A
  I would dread to think how much they are now.

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• Renegade007cjh Member Posts: 696

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  That's nothing compared to the big "wheel" from #10030
  
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=157&colorID=9
  
  but the most expensive single "brick" I've ever seen is the rigging from #10179
  
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=56261&colorID=86
  
  Kee-razy!!
  
  
  

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• TLG Member Posts: 125

  October 2014

  Renegade007cjh said:

  That's nothing compared to the big "wheel" from #10030
  
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=157&colorID=9
  
  but the most expensive single "brick" I've ever seen is the rigging from #10179
  
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=56261&colorID=86
  
  Kee-razy!!
  
  
  

  That is crazy!
  
  

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• Gavin83 Member Posts: 251

  October 2014

  Renegade007cjh said:

  That's nothing compared to the big "wheel" from #10030
  
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=157&colorID=9
  
  but the most expensive single "brick" I've ever seen is the rigging from #10179
  
  http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=56261&colorID=86
  
  Kee-razy!!
  
  
  

  Worst thing is needing 2 for #10179. At least they're easy to substitute!
  

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• samiam391 Member Posts: 4,492

  October 2014

  Some bricks have gone for a wee bit more ;o)
  
  http://www.brickenvy.com/Shop/p-482-14k-Solid-Gold-LEGO-Employee-Brick-2x4-Brick-in-Display-Box.html
  
  Although not part of any set, so I'm not sure if it can be really put up for comparison.

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• CCC Member Posts: 20,526

  October 2014

  It's not that crazy when you consider that if a set is worth more as a set than the sum of all the constituent parts except the one unique part, then the unique part is going to be worth at least the difference.
  
  Sets are normally worth more piece-by-piece once parted out, so the unique part may be even more valuable than the difference.

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• andhe Member Posts: 3,940

  October 2014

  I think I'd just make the chairs in a different colour...

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• Bumblepants Member Posts: 7,624

  October 2014

  I just spent way too much on a reddish-brown 1x4x6 door. But anything else would have uglified my project so I just bit the bullet on that one.

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• GentlyBenevolent Member Posts: 343

  October 2014

  Bumblepants said:

  I just spent way too much on a reddish-brown 1x4x6 door. But anything else would have uglified my project so I just bit the bullet on that one.

  Sorry to be nosy @Bumblepants but was it this door from #4184 The Black Pearl ? :)
  http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=60623&colorID=88&in=A

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• Bumblepants Member Posts: 7,624

  October 2014

  Yeah that is the one. Didn't bother to investigate why it was so high. Just rolled with it because otherwise I would've had to redesign my moc extensively

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• Renny Member Posts: 1,145

  October 2014

  Wouldn't selling that one piece though hurt your chances of selling the set as a whole?

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