Set 40048
Birthday Cake
RetiredRetail price—Not on file
Worth now$15.00Typical sealed asking price · 15 listings
Recently sold$4.75Only 1 sale so far — too few to lean on
vs retail—Needs both prices
Too expensive
Selling costs more than this set returns.
How much is LEGO 40048 Birthday Cake worth?
LEGO 40048 Birthday Cake is worth about $15.00 sealed right now, based on 15 live sealed listings on eBay. It came out in 2012 with 24 pieces. It's retired. We last checked it 3 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 23$1515 listings
- Lowest
- $15
- Highest
- $15
- Change
- 0%
- 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?
15 listings. Solid number.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$15
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$2
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$1
Shipping · est. from 24 pieces−$5
Reaches you$7
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
$5
1 sold in six monthsUsed
$2
1 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 216% more than buyers actually paid. The $15 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
- 40048
- Theme
- Seasonal
- Released
- 2012
- Status
- Retired
- Pieces
- 24
- Minifigures
- —
- Retail price
- —
- Value per piece
- $0.625
- Price confidence
- high · 15 listings
- Last checked
- 3 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay15 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $15. Last checked Oct 23.See the listings →BrickLink1 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $5 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 25.Open the price guide →Catalogue24 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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