Brickify for Collecting Videos: Scan, Check and Keep Track

Filming a haul, a pack opening or a shelf tour puts pressure on your identification work. You are trying to name a set or a card, say something sensible about what it is worth and keep a record of it, all while the camera is running. This guide covers a repeatable way to use Brickify around a shoot: what to prepare beforehand, how to scan without stalling the video, how to phrase value on camera, and what to clean up afterwards so the session turns into usable records.

What Brickify does while the camera is rolling

• Camera scanning for LEGO minifigures and sets, loose LEGO pieces, Pokemon cards and Magic: The Gathering cards.
• Multi-item photo modes for supported items, including LEGO minifigures and trading cards, so a small tray can be identified from one photo.
• Estimated market values and price history for identified items, with condition options where they apply.
• Collection records: quantities, condition, variant and purchase details, reachable from the same account on your supported devices.
• Catalogue browsing and collection records for LEGO, Pokemon, Magic, Funko, Disney Lorcana and One Piece.
• Reaction recording while you scan card pulls, which is handy when you want the identification moment and your reaction in the same take.

Two things Brickify does not do, and worth saying plainly before you put it on camera: it does not authenticate an item and it does not assign a professional grade. Estimates are a reference, not guaranteed sale prices.

Before you film: a short setup pass

1. Set your lighting so the item face is evenly lit and there is no hard glare band across a card or a printed torso. Glare can obscure identifying details and cause a missing or incorrect match.
2. Pick a plain surface with contrast against what you are scanning. Dark cards on a dark desk mat make separation harder in multi-item photos.
3. Lay items out with visible gaps. Overlapping cards and stacked minifigures hide the details the scan needs.
4. Decide the order of the segment. Knowing which five items you will linger on keeps you from scanning forty things on camera and losing the thread.
5. Do a rehearsal scan on one item so you know how the review step looks before the take. Practising the review step helps you plan the segment.

During a pull or haul video

1. Scan the item, then read the proposed match out loud: name, set and any variant or printing detail shown. Saying it aloud forces the review step that keeps a wrong printing out of your records.
2. Check the details that actually separate printings: set symbol and number, language, edition marks, foil or special treatment, and for minifigures the exact head, torso and accessory combination.
3. If the match is not the item in your hand, rescan rather than accepting a close relative. Similar artwork across printings is normal and the price difference between them can be large.
4. Save the item with the condition and quantity you can actually see. Do not guess at a grade.
5. Note anything you want to revisit later: a possible authenticity concern, a damaged edge, a missing piece, a suspicious seal.
6. For a tray or binder page, take the multi-item photo, then sweep back over items that were obscured or cut off at the frame edge. Only visible, identifiable items can be picked up.

Bulk photos versus one at a time

Talking about value on camera without overselling

• Say estimate when it is an estimate. "The app is showing an estimate around this much for a near mint copy" is accurate. "This is worth this much" is not.
• Name the condition and printing you are quoting. A raw estimate and a graded estimate are different numbers for different objects.
• If you mention a graded price, be clear that the card in your hand is not graded and that a submission outcome is unknown.
• Separate what you paid from what an estimate says. Purchase cost, current estimate and money actually received after fees and shipping are three different figures.
• Avoid predicting the market. If you want to discuss direction, point at what changed recently and let viewers draw their own conclusion.

A hypothetical haul recap, with the assumptions stated

Numbers below are made up to show the arithmetic, not a result you should expect. Assume you paid 60 for a mixed box at a local sale. After scanning, you have five items with estimates that sum to 180 and a long tail of common items you value at nothing for planning purposes. Assume you would sell three of the five, with estimates summing to 140. For this illustration, assume a selling fee equal to 13 percent of the item sale total and you spend 12 on shipping supplies and postage across those three sales.

• Estimated value of items you intend to sell: 140.
• Assumed platform cost at 13 percent of 140: 18.20.
• Assumed shipping and supplies: 12.
• Assumed proceeds if every item sells at its estimate: 140 minus 18.20 minus 12, which is 109.80.
• Against a 60 purchase price, that is 49.80 before any value assigned to your time, and it depends entirely on those three items selling at their estimates.

The point of running it this way on paper is that the interesting part of a haul video is rarely the headline total. It is the gap between the estimate you read out and the money that would actually land.

After filming: turning the session into records

1. Fix the rushed entries. Anything you saved mid take with a guessed condition or quantity deserves a second look.
2. Add purchase details while you still remember them: date, source, what the lot cost in total and how you split that cost across items.
3. Delete duplicates. Scanning a set and then scanning its minifigures separately can double count the same items.
4. Flag the items you called out on camera as uncertain, so future you does not treat a maybe as a fact.
5. Check the price history on the few items that matter before you make any selling decision, rather than acting on a single estimate seen once.

Quick checklist

• Even lighting, plain contrasting surface, visible gaps between items.
• Read the proposed match aloud and confirm set, number, language and variant.
• Rescan instead of accepting a near miss.
• Record condition you can see, never a predicted grade.
• Say estimate, and separate cost, estimate and net proceeds.
• Clean up quantities, duplicates and purchase details after the shoot.

• Scan LEGO minifigures and sets
• Scan Pokemon cards
• Track a Magic collection
• Bulk scanning Pokemon cards
• What condition means for a card's value
• Understanding collectible price changes
• Raw versus graded price estimates
• Buying Pokemon cards on Whatnot

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