About Brickheist

How Brickheist tracks LEGO prices

Brickheist is built on one automated pipeline that runs every single night. Here's exactly what happens to the prices you see on a set page — and why you can trust them.

1. Nightly scraping. In the early hours (from around 02:00 CET) our scraper visits all 13+ retailers in our index and pulls the current price, stock level and shipping cost for every set they carry.
2. Change-only price history. We record a new data point only when a price actually changes, not on every scrape. That keeps the 12-month history honest — the lows and highs you see are real prices that were genuinely offered, not noise.
3. Total-price ranking. When you open a set, we rank retailers by what you'll actually pay — item price plus shipping — so the genuinely cheapest option sits at the top, not the one with a low sticker price and high postage.
4. RRP-based discounts, no fakery. Any "was/now" saving is measured against the LEGO Group's recommended retail price (RRP) — never an inflated reference price we invented to make a discount look bigger.

Where our data comes from

Every price is scraped directly from the retailer's own website — we don't buy a third-party price feed or take retailers' word for what a set "usually" costs. If a price looks wrong on a set page, it's because that's what the shop was showing when we last visited, and you can always click through to verify it at the source.

We're independent and not affiliated with the LEGO Group. We earn a small commission from some retailers when you buy through a link, but it never changes a set's ranking or which retailers we include — the cheapest total price always wins. More on how we make money.