Set 42609
Electric Car and Charger
Retired Dec 2024Retail price$15.99What LEGO charged
Worth now$14.95Typical sealed asking price · 33 listings
Recently sold$9.15Only 2 sales so far — too few to lean on
vs retail−7%Worth less than shop price
Too expensive
Selling costs more than this set returns.
How much is LEGO 42609 Electric Car and Charger worth?
LEGO 42609 Electric Car and Charger is worth about $14.95 sealed right now, based on 33 live sealed listings on eBay. That's 7% below its $15.99 retail price. It came out in 2024 with 170 pieces and 2 minifigures. It was retired in Dec 2024. Its typical asking price has held steady over the last 82 days. We last checked it 8 days ago.
Price history
Value history
Oct 17$1533 listings
- Lowest
- $15
- Highest
- $16
- Change
- 0%
- Asking vs retail
- -7%
26 observations · median asking · rechecked 8× daily
Should you buy it?
Retired, but it never really took off. Some sets just don’t.
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 170 pieces−$9
Reaches you$3
Pay no more than$2
For a 30% return at your costs. Change them and every figure on the site follows.
What it actually sold for
Sealed
$9
2 sold in six months · $8–$11Sellers are asking 63% 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
- 42609
- Theme
- Friends
- Released
- 2024
- Status
- Retired Dec 2024
- Pieces
- 170
- Minifigures
- 2
- Retail price
- $15.99
- Value per piece
- $0.088
- Price confidence
- high · 33 listings
- Last checked
- 8 days ago
Where these numbers come from
eBay33 live listingsThe asking price here — the median of what sellers want right now, $15. Last checked Oct 17.See the listings →BrickLink2 completed salesWhat it actually sold for — $9 across six months of real transactions. Last checked Oct 24.Open the price guide →Catalogue170 piecesPiece counts, minifigures, release year and retail price come from Rebrickable and Brickset. Retail was $16.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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