Set 30040
Octopus
RetiredRetail price—Not on file
Worth now$14.47Based on 6 recent sealed sales
Asking now$24.00Typical price on 5 eBay listings
vs retail—Needs both prices
Too expensive
Selling costs more than this set returns.
How much is LEGO 30040 Octopus worth?
LEGO 30040 Octopus is worth about $14.47 sealed right now, based on 6 recent sealed sales. It came out in 2010 with 42 pieces. It's retired. We last checked it 5 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 23$245 listings
- Lowest
- $24
- Highest
- $43
- Change
- -44%
- Asking vs retail
- —
2 observations · median asking · rechecked 8× daily · early days — a line drawn through 2 readings shows what we measured, not a trend
Should you buy it?
Sellers want $24, but it’s actually been going for $14. Offer low.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$14
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$2
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$1
Shipping · est. from 42 pieces−$5
Reaches you$6
Pay no more than$5
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$14
6 sold in six months · $12–$15Used
$6
1 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 66% more than buyers actually paid. The $24 figure above is a ceiling; this is the floor to negotiate toward.
Completed BrickLink transactions over the last six months. Real sales, not asking prices.
Set details
- Set number
- 30040
- Theme
- Atlantis
- Released
- 2010
- Status
- Retired
- Pieces
- 42
- Minifigures
- —
- Retail price
- —
- Value per piece
- $0.571
- Price confidence
- low · 5 listings
- Last checked
- 5 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay5 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $24. Last checked Oct 23.See the listings →BrickLink6 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $14 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 25.Open the price guide →Catalogue42 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset.See the catalogue entry →
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How to read this. The value is the median of live sealed listings, after removing instructions, empty boxes, used sets, multi-set lots and implausible outliers. Real sale prices usually land below asking, so the buy-below figure is deliberately the conservative end of the range.
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