Set 40188
Pencil Pot
Retired Feb 2020Retail price$12.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$39.99Typical sealed asking price · 21 listings
Recently sold$25.00Only 1 sale so far — too few to lean on
vs retail+208%Worth more than it cost
Proven performer
Up 208% on its $13 retail price since retiring. Pay under $15 to still make a margin reselling.
How much is LEGO 40188 Pencil Pot worth?
LEGO 40188 Pencil Pot is worth about $39.99 sealed right now, based on 21 live sealed listings on eBay. That's 208% above its $12.99 retail price. It came out in 2018 with 187 pieces and 1 minifigure. It was retired in Feb 2020. Its typical asking price has held steady over the last 83 days. We last checked it 5 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 20$4021 listings
- Lowest
- $40
- Highest
- $41
- Change
- 0%
- Asking vs retail
- +208%
26 observations · median asking · rechecked 8× daily
Should you buy it?
Retired 7 years ago and now 3.1× retail. The people who bought two are very happy.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$40
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$6
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$2
Shipping · est. from 187 pieces−$9
Reaches you$23
Pay no more than$18
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$25
1 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 60% more than buyers actually paid. The $40 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
- 40188
- Theme
- Other
- Released
- 2018
- Status
- Retired Feb 2020
- Pieces
- 187
- Minifigures
- 1
- Retail price
- $12.99
- Value per piece
- $0.214
- Price confidence
- high · 21 listings
- Last checked
- 5 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay21 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $40. Last checked Oct 20.See the listings →BrickLink1 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $25 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 22.Open the price guide →Catalogue187 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $13.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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