What regional pricing means
BL Metrics offers region-specific pricing so the numbers you see reflect what's happening in your market, not a global average. Wherever a price is displayed (parts, minifigures, set part-out values, store analysis, smart pricing) it comes from data collected for the region you have selected.
All regional data is also broken down by condition (new and used) and tracked separately for parts and minifigures.
How regional data is collected
BL Metrics builds its regional pricing by collecting BrickLink's public price guide for each supported currency. BrickLink itself segments its price guide by order currency, and we record the data per currency on our side so we can aggregate and analyze it over time. The Getting Started guide explains the overall data collection in more detail.
BL Metrics uses order currency as a proxy for region. The USD price guide groups every sale paid in US dollars (overwhelmingly US buyers), the EUR price guide groups every sale paid in euros (mostly European buyers), and so on. It is an approximation, but a reliable one in practice: the vast majority of orders in each currency come from the matching geography.
The proxy has known edges that are worth keeping in mind:
- A Polish store selling in PLN will not show up in the Europe region (only EUR orders are included).
- A store outside the US that prices in USD will be counted in the United States region.
Even with those edges, the currency-based split holds up very well in practice. As of May 2026:
9,785 stores on BrickLink price in USD, of which 9,102 (93%) are based in the United States. Together they generate around 3,170 daily orders, with 2,990 (94%) coming from US-based stores.
9,800 stores are located in Europe, of which 7,526 (77%) use EUR as their currency. They generate around 2,640 daily orders, with 2,170 (82%) coming from EUR-selling stores.
Using order currency as a proxy for region is accurate enough for practical use, and gives you regional insights far more meaningful than a single global average.
Regions and currency display
BL Metrics currently supports five regional markets plus a global view. Each region's prices are stored and displayed in that region's native currency:
- Europe: sales paid in EUR
- United States: sales paid in USD
- United Kingdom: sales paid in GBP
- Canada: sales paid in CAD
- Australia: sales paid in AUD
- World: BrickLink's worldwide price guide (every sale, every currency, converted by BrickLink), shown in USD
The World view is useful for items that barely sell in any single region, or when you want the global picture rather than a local one.
If you've connected your store, you'll often see an approximate conversion to your store currency next to the regional price (for example in your store inventory). The regional price stays the source of truth; the converted value is there to make decisions easier when you're working across currencies.
Regional data is more than just prices
Region affects every metric tied to sales and listings, not just the average sold price. The same item can look very different from one region to another:
- Sell-through rate (STR): computed from regional sold and listed quantities. A part that flies off the shelf in Europe might be a slow mover in Australia.
- Quantities and lot counts: both sold (last 6 months) and currently for sale, all per region.
- Listing prices: what stores in that region are currently asking, alongside what's actually selling.
- Min, max, average and median prices: the full distribution of recent sales in the region.
Average vs median prices
For every item in every region, BL Metrics records four flavors of "the price" so you can pick the one that matches the decision you're making:
- Average: the arithmetic mean of every recent sale's price. Easy to read but pulled around by outliers.
- Average weighted by quantity: the mean weighted by lot size. A single 1,000-piece lot counts as much as a thousand single-piece sales.
- Median: the middle sale price across all recent sales, treating each sale as one observation. Robust to outliers and a better representation of the typical sale.
- Median weighted by quantity: the price of the middle unit sold, rather than the middle sale. The most representative price when sales come in widely different lot sizes.
Medians are particularly useful for parts where occasional unusual sales (clearance lots, premium quick sales, sticker-shock outliers) can distort the average. If the average and median diverge noticeably, the distribution is uneven and the median is usually the safer benchmark.
Where to set and switch regions
Regional pricing is fully integrated everywhere in BL Metrics. You control it in two ways:
- Default region and condition: set your preferences in your account settings. These will be used across all pages by default.
- On-the-fly switching: in any table or analysis, you can temporarily change the region and condition using the controls in the table header, with no need to change your default.
This flexibility means you can quickly compare markets, experiment with different strategies, or check how your pricing would look against a different region without leaving the page.
How to use it effectively
A few practical ways regional pricing can improve your store's performance:
- Better set evaluation: when reviewing a set's part-out value, regional prices avoid overestimating because of inflated prices in other markets, especially for newly released parts where prices are volatile.
- Sourcing decisions: in the Store Arbitrage module, find underpriced items based on your region's value and demand instead of the global view.
- Region-aware smart pricing: the Pricing Formula includes rule types that reference regional listings, so your prices can react to what's happening in your own market.
Summary
Regional pricing is one of the features that makes BL Metrics genuinely different from the BrickLink price guide alone. By focusing on the real prices in your real market, and on the full distribution of sales rather than just one average, you'll make better decisions, optimize your inventory, and price more confidently.