BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, Brick.Door writes:

I recently listed another batch of used sets. Once again in reviewing prices
I found in most cases the cheapest one available for sale is listed as "complete"
but missing minifigures.

Bricklink can't you do a sweep of these errant listings and send the seller
a warning? Maybe query sets that are listed as complete but have the word "missing"
or "no minifigs" in the comments

I know you don't want to make changes automatically (the seller could have
written "no missing minifigures" or something) but it is a long and slow process
to find these one by one. And there are thousands of them listed.

Sounds like a lot of work? You are probably losing money too. The average
sold price is lower than it should be because so many incomplete sets are being
sold as complete. If sellers saw the real average price they would set their
prices higher and Bricklink would benefit from the higher commission.

For example I recently listed Star Wars set. The cheapest 3 currently available
(listed as complete) are $15, $20 and $24. None of them are complete according
to the sellers description.

The average sold for this set is $22 but since 3 of the sold sets were prices
$15, $15 and $21 they were probably incomplete but sold as complete and now are
polluting the price guide. The correct average sold is about $27

I hope your not suggestion that BL do a sweep by checking each and every listing
of every set listed by every seller or even just the least expensive listing
of each and every set? If you are then that would take so much time and effort
that it would be, well for lack of a better word, ridiculous. If I have miss
understand you then I apologize.

Jim

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Mar 16, 2018 18:52

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Re: New buyer LOE to tie up inventory for 14 days

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In Suggestions, matejo writes:

And a question (or questions) for a question (not addressed to you), why does
BrickLink not address this decade-old concern?

Is there a bona fide problem with giving sellers & buyers say "only" 6 days to
get something done (like the courtesy of sending of simple message) rather than
the current 14 days?

If yes, what's the problem?

Is instant checkout their one-size-fits-all solution?

Have they told anyone this?

If they have, is there some place to find their positions outside of this needle-in-a-haystack
forum (where I add hay such as this), where administrators' positions are
very low in number and extremely hard to find?

Are they taking the eBay road and discounting the importance of low volume buyers
and sellers?

And did I say "Whoopdeedoo" yet?

In Suggestions, WoutR writes:

Why not make sure that every buyer has to use the instant checkout? That should
solve your problem.

You really dont even have to wait one day, just cancel the order and move on.
If you are concerned about getting a negative feedback then just wait the alloted
time.

You have the ability to cancel the order so there is no need to downgrade BrickLink
for their policies (not your first posts, just this one)? And remember, you agreed
to these policies when you signed up to be a seller here on BrickLink as we all
did.

Jim

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Feb 23, 2018 13:39

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Re: Interface improvement

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I can forgive a lot of incompetence if you're at least working
in my interest.

"My interest" is very subjective. The problem is that so many feel the same way
as you do so in that when a change or changes are made and it dose not benefit
what they consider 'their interest' then you get this...

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Feb 23, 2018 12:13

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Re: Interface improvement

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Don't forget the typical forum response to ANYTHING that admin tries to do....

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Jan 20, 2018 12:18

Subject:

Re: Sellers who smoke should let buyers know

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They did not fit me so I threw them away.
John P

That gave me a good laugh, it sounds exactly like something you would say.

Jim

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Jan 20, 2018 12:13

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Re: Sellers who smoke should let buyers know

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It also helps to put Jet Dry in the rinsing water, not with the small but with
helping the parts to dry water spot free.

When we wash used parts, after spray rinsing, we take a container filled with
water and add a good amount of jet dry to it. We fill up a fine strainer with
lego and dip them into the solution. We then lay them out on a large towel an
point a fan on them. The parts come out beautiful - no water spots at all! We
have very hard water so the difference that the Jet Dry makes is very substantial.

Jim

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Dec 12, 2017 16:37

Subject:

Re: So many "incomplete" sets listed wrong

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I think some sellers mistakenly list them as complete but I think most others
list them as complete even though they are incomplete to avoid them from being
filtered out by buyers that have incomplete sets filtered out of their viewed
listings - I will not buy at all from these stores, I view them as already being
a bit shady.

Jim

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Sep 11, 2017 11:52

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Re: Separate email addresses for buying/selling

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In Suggestions, stecre writes:

I think it would be very useful to be able to have separate email addresses for
your buying and selling activities.

I operate a store but also have wanted lists and buy from time to time and being
able to separate the various emails to different addresses would be helpful.

e.g.

To the "Buying" email address:

Any messages regarding orders you placed e.g. Invoices etc.
Wanted list notifications

To the "Selling" email address:

Any messages regarding orders received e.g. invoices, payments
Emails about Fees

Perhaps there could even be a configuration page for users to select which emails
they would like to go to which address?

Yes you can probably achieve this with filters on your email client if on a PC
but not sure about phones and other devices.

Thanks,
Steve

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Jul 24, 2017 14:36

Subject:

Re: Get shipping costs BEFORE final checkout

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In Suggestions, Teup writes:

And is your guess always correct? Or do you guess pessimistically?

For parts it isn't really guessing but just adding a little bit of weight
and figuring the shipping cost. Envelops are easy to add into the total weight
of the order and so are small boxes for parts, it takes just a couple of seconds
per quote.

Now sets are a different story but not really that much different. For sets,
I will just grab a box that the set will fit into and weigh it. I will add a
little bit more weight for other packing materials like peanuts and the such
and I will have the total weight for a quote figured out in just a matter of
a couple of minutes at most. If I sold more sets then I would just make a chart
of various size boxes and and their weights which would then make it even faster
for figuring out the shipping cost for quotes.

As far as making mistakes, I have made VERY FEW and not enough to affect my bottom
line so I really dont think that is really a valid argument against making quotes
mandatory. At most, I think it just means making ourselves more familiar with
shipping materials and maybe verifying the weights of of sets at the time we
enter them into our inventory and making a note of any discrepancies on the Remarks
line.

Jim

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Apr 21, 2017 21:16

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Re: Where are our manners gone?!

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