Set 40205
Elves' Workshop
Retired Dec 2016Retail price$9.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$16.00Based on 5 recent sealed sales
Asking now$24.95Typical price on 17 eBay listings
vs retail+60%Worth more than it cost
Holding value
60% above its $10 retail price. Steady rather than spectacular.
How much is LEGO 40205 Elves' Workshop worth?
LEGO 40205 Elves' Workshop is worth about $16.00 sealed right now, based on 5 recent sealed sales. That's 60% above its $9.99 retail price. It came out in 2016 with 238 pieces. It was retired in Dec 2016. Over the last 84 days its typical asking price has risen 11%, from $22.50 to $24.95. We last checked it 5 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 21$2517 listings
- Lowest
- $23
- Highest
- $25
- Change
- +11%
- Asking vs retail
- +150%
26 observations · median asking · rechecked 8× daily
Should you buy it?
Sellers want $25, but it’s actually been going for $16. Offer low.
If you bought it to resell
Sells sealed for$16
Marketplace fees · 15.25%−$2
Payment processing · 2.9% + $0.30−$1
Shipping · est. from 238 pieces−$9
Reaches you$4
Pay no more than$3
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$16
5 sold in six months · $10–$20Used
$8
1 sold in six monthsSellers are asking 56% more than buyers actually paid. The $25 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
- 40205
- Theme
- Seasonal · Christmas
- Released
- 2016
- Status
- Retired Dec 2016
- Pieces
- 238
- Minifigures
- —
- Retail price
- $9.99
- Value per piece
- $0.105
- Price confidence
- high · 17 listings
- Last checked
- 5 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay17 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $25. Last checked Oct 21.See the listings →BrickLink5 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $16 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 24.Open the price guide →Catalogue238 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $10.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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