| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SezaR  | | Posted: | Apr 4, 2024 03:29 | | Subject: | Re: My first store! Feedback greatly appreciated. | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
| In New Stores, Bristmusic writes:
| | In New Stores, infinibrix writes:
| | In New Stores, Bristmusic writes:
| | In New Stores, Nubs_Select writes:
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It’s referring to a bank/paypal claim. If an order never arrives and the seller
dosnt refund the buyer then the buyer can file a claim with their bank or with
PayPal who will then refund the payment.
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Ah ok, I understand. Has this ever happened to one of you guys? If one is unlucky
and a package gets lost in transit, is it right to just take the loss as a seller
if this situation occurs, or should one try to get PayPal to refund the payment?
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The odd package will sometimes go missing or buyer falsely claims to go missing
but its very rare on Bricklink compared to other platforms.
Whilst it may be wise to insure high value orders I wouldn't be overly concerned
with regular orders because even if you are so unlucky to find 1 in every 10
orders goes missing (it will actually be far, far less than this)
If you do the maths and lets say each order averages $10 in value. 10 orders
= $100 in total sales revenue. One missing order drops that total sales revenue
down to $90 split across 10 orders = receiving around $9 per order instead of
$10 per order so in reality its not going to hurt you as much as you think.
Obviously I've not taken into consideration any actual profits/cost of stock
and any added costs to ship out replacements etc, etc... but the fact that we're
actually probably talking about less than 1 in 100 orders going missing more
than covers any losses you may incur
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Alright, thank you very much for a really good explanation! Good to know that
it's such a rare occurrence.
Mind if I ask you how long it took before you got your first sale on Bricklink?
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12 days and 5 hours and about 33 minutes since you open your store. Any other
question?!
More seriously, i would recommend to:
- start selling only within your country mean lwhile learn about paypal seller
protection, brickink (nbs, nas,…),
- study the terms of established seller in your country, their shipping method
and policy,…
- find rare parts or sets from your local marketplace or huge lots on auction
sites. Make sure you can sell them and have a good profit. If something is rare
and wanted and peice is ok, people buy it from you.
- keep listing. More items you bave, more you sell.
- make. Sure you know everything very well. It personally took me over one year
to learn things, the prices of market, what is rare, how bricklink qnd paypal
works, good packing, how to help buyers,.. (reading in my spare time) and after
i opened a store.
- once you gain confidence, you can sell to europe and then the whole world (
except one country 😕)
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Apr 4, 2024 02:10 | | Subject: | Re: what is max number of neutral and neg comment | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Gambit57 writes:
| | I should have read the comments/feedback before buying from this one seller.
He left me a negative feedback after I left him a neutral one. Most of the comments
about him concerned his high price of shipping . My feedback to him was about
stuffing over 100 in two snack sized baggies. I tried talking to him but he is
very belligerent. Why does Bricklink still allow him to have a store
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On bricklink, neutral feedback is almost the same as a negative one.
This store has received so far:
951 pos. feedbacks
7 neutral feedbacks
4 negative feedbacks
You left
279 pos. feedbacks
8 neutral feedbacks
2 negative feedbacks
If we calculate the ratio of positive feedbacks over total feedbacks, who should
be banned?!
Checking his feedbacks, it seems to me the problems of buyers were minor.
As for why you are upset, you left neutral feedback for several sellers because
you found that there were not enough number of baggies. This leaves a question:
why don't you ask a seller to use many baggies (and express your willingness
to pay for the cost) or even ask this before you place your order? This simple
step seem to resolve this in a simple manner.
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 22:23 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6654-1 | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 193a2 Blue Minifigure, Headgear Helmet Space / Town with Thin Chin Strap - with Visor Dimples (Alternate) (match ID 1)
Comments from Submitter:
My sealed set has thin chinstrap
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What is the catalog inside your box? I wonder if it is from 1984 (most likely)
or 1985 (possible but less likely).
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 22:22 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig pln052 | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, zorbanj writes:
| | Yes. I bought several of these new. To save space, I took the sealed baggies
out of the boxes and put them into a zip lock bag. Several years ago I started
going through my stored collection and found the zip lock bag. I took photos
of the sealed baggies before I opened them and listed the pieces for sale. The
193b2 helmets I have for sale in my shop came from these sets. I do know that
I did not buy these when the set was first released, so maybe the helmet was
changed in subsequent production runs.
Apologies for the delay. I spent some time over the weekend trying to find the
photos I took back then but came up empty.
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Can I assume you sets came with
and
(from 1984)
and not with
and
(from 1985ish-...)
I am pretty sure you can find this out through what you sold or have for sale
(I see you have 5 red 4275a for sale, assuming they are correctly 4275a and not
4275b)
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In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, zorbanj writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Blue {193au Minifigure, Headgear Helmet Space / Town with Thin Chin Strap (Undetermined Visor Dimple Presence Type) to 193b2 Minifigure, Headgear Helmet Space / Town with Thick Chin Strap - with Visor Dimples}
Comments from Submitter:
I have numerous copies of this set.
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Were they sealed? I just opened a sealed one and have a thin chin strap, which
matched the box art.
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 20:42 | | Subject: | Re: Incorrect parts price inflation | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I observe that some parts are regularly offered for exorbitant prices when there
is actually no reason for this.
Take for example this part
This was previously only available in set and
These sets were limited in number and are much sought after.
Since 2024, a new set has been available that contains this part.
It can be purchased in any LEGO store or reseller. But I still see that every
new seller of this part bases their price on the original price when this part
was still rare.
This it totally nuts imo.
I'm thinking of parting out 10 sets containing this part and pricing them
at around 50 cents to change the price guide
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This thought is also crazy 😉
| | which will force future sellers
of this item to sell this item cheaper.
To the sellers: do you also experience these kinds of crazy things?
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More tims goes by, more items will be listed and price drops down on its own.
This is how things are working in the realm of economy. Today’s average sold
price in used condition is 13.95$ usd and in the last. 6 months, only 8 of them
are sold. The average price in new condition is 5.98 $ usd and
9 are sold. Lets wait a few months and see how it changes. ☺️
If you buy a few of them and list them, assuming you mange to control yourself
and list them for 50cents instead of $3 (i personally won’t control my desire
to gain a higher profit) you would just make changes to happen quicker.
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