Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Stellar  | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 11:17 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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Anyone have the data on what percentage of parts/colors/patterns available on
BrickLink is on the current PAB menu?
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They now have 15087 lots for sale, but only 14694 in stock. Bestsellers in stock
are 4180 lots.
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Also, I think the prices would become much higher if LEGO had to pay enough people
to ship every order as quickly and accurately as a good BL shop does.
~Jen
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 10:45 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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Anyone have the data on what percentage of parts/colors/patterns available on
BrickLink is on the current PAB menu?
Also, I think the prices would become much higher if LEGO had to pay enough people
to ship every order as quickly and accurately as a good BL shop does.
~Jen
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| Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 07:16 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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In my experience, it's rare that PaB is actually cheaper - if it were I'd
definitely be buying parts there and selling them here.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 02:59 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
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Because that would directly impact their own sales. Myself and many others focus
solely on new sets and new set part outs, buying multiple copies of high dollar
sets. How many $200, $400, $600+ sets do regular consumers (or BL buyers without
a store) buy per year, and how many do small rinky dink stores like me - or
extremely large stores not like me - buy per month? I'd argue that an enthusiastic
3PS is worth a minimum - minimum - of 40 run of the mill consumers.
| | Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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Indispensable and profitable are two different things. Plus how many people
place an order for 50 lots of discontinued parts? Think of at least five of
unavailable parts you're trying to find and go look at the sales history
of it. At best it's current for sale average is probably a couple of bucks
and at least three of those probably have an outlier that's ~50% below the
average. From the sounds of it, you're going to buy from the cheapest store,
and they made "a coupl'a bucks". That's not running a business,
that's running a charity without the benefits of 501c status.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 02:05 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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When taking over bricklink, LEGO claimed they wouldn't interfere with the
marketplace, implying they wouldn't compete with sellers. If they want to
compete with sellers, then many sellers will leave and move to the independent
marketplace.
They would also need to behave like other BL sellers. I'd leave them negative
feedback unless they improved their order turn around times.
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| Author: | UTLF | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 00:42 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | Yes, BH is amazing, and I often use it. But it adds another layer of complexity and another step in the process.
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well that's just life man, not everything is streamlined and done instantly,
things require effort
If you want, you can pay me and I'll order stuff for you so you don't
have to worry about anything
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 00:09 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, rtzx9r writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | In Suggestions, UTLF writes:
| | | | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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Lego owns Bricklink, and Bricklink is strictly third-party sellers; the site
would die and Lego would lose money on their investment & whatnot
If you want to source parts from PAB and Bricklink, use BrickHunter, a Chrome
extension that lets you upload a wanted list & auto-selects parts from PAB and
shows what you would need to get from Bricklink if parts are unavailable or retired
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Yes, BH is amazing, and I often use it. But it adds another layer of complexity
and another step in the process.
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Ever order from PAB? Enjoy your bricks 2-3 months later.
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For standard bricks but yah it’s crazy.
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| Author: | rtzx9r | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 00:00 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | In Suggestions, UTLF writes:
| | | | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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Lego owns Bricklink, and Bricklink is strictly third-party sellers; the site
would die and Lego would lose money on their investment & whatnot
If you want to source parts from PAB and Bricklink, use BrickHunter, a Chrome
extension that lets you upload a wanted list & auto-selects parts from PAB and
shows what you would need to get from Bricklink if parts are unavailable or retired
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Yes, BH is amazing, and I often use it. But it adds another layer of complexity
and another step in the process.
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Ever order from PAB? Enjoy your bricks 2-3 months later.
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:52 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
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cool pizza flag
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pizza!
| | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
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since they make up a good chunk of Lego's revenue. 3rd party sellers buy
from lego and then do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
minimum wage they probably couldn't make it profitable so with the current
setup all parties involved benefit. Also it seems lego is pursuing this route
as there have been surveys from lego and bricklink trying to improve the lego-reseller
connection.
| | Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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To a point but if lego started selling lots on bricklink then a good chunk of
sales would move to them and then the stores that could offer said parts would
have most of their stock not moving since lego takes that and then they probably
wouldn't bother with selling the few parts that lego doesn't sell as
sales would be significantly lower and make it not profitable for many
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pardon my ignorance (I'm an AFOL newbie), but could you explain this a little?
what work?
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Listing and pulling orders is usually extremely work intensive in comparison
to profit.
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| Author: | ej76az | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:40 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
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cool pizza flag
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pizza!
| | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
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since they make up a good chunk of Lego's revenue. 3rd party sellers buy
from lego and then do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
minimum wage they probably couldn't make it profitable so with the current
setup all parties involved benefit. Also it seems lego is pursuing this route
as there have been surveys from lego and bricklink trying to improve the lego-reseller
connection.
| | Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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To a point but if lego started selling lots on bricklink then a good chunk of
sales would move to them and then the stores that could offer said parts would
have most of their stock not moving since lego takes that and then they probably
wouldn't bother with selling the few parts that lego doesn't sell as
sales would be significantly lower and make it not profitable for many
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pardon my ignorance (I'm an AFOL newbie), but could you explain this a little?
what work?
| | 3rd party sellers... do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
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| Author: | ej76az | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:33 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, UTLF writes:
| | | | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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Lego owns Bricklink, and Bricklink is strictly third-party sellers; the site
would die and Lego would lose money on their investment & whatnot
If you want to source parts from PAB and Bricklink, use BrickHunter, a Chrome
extension that lets you upload a wanted list & auto-selects parts from PAB and
shows what you would need to get from Bricklink if parts are unavailable or retired
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Yes, BH is amazing, and I often use it. But it adds another layer of complexity
and another step in the process.
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| Author: | UTLF | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:02 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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Lego owns Bricklink, and Bricklink is strictly third-party sellers; the site
would die and Lego would lose money on their investment & whatnot
If you want to source parts from PAB and Bricklink, use BrickHunter, a Chrome
extension that lets you upload a wanted list & auto-selects parts from PAB and
shows what you would need to get from Bricklink if parts are unavailable or retired
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:54 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
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cool pizza flag
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pizza!
| | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
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since they make up a good chunk of Lego's revenue. 3rd party sellers buy
from lego and then do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
minimum wage they probably couldn't make it profitable so with the current
setup all parties involved benefit. Also it seems lego is pursuing this route
as there have been surveys from lego and bricklink trying to improve the lego-reseller
connection.
| | Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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To a point but if lego started selling lots on bricklink then a good chunk of
sales would move to them and then the stores that could offer said parts would
have most of their stock not moving since lego takes that and then they probably
wouldn't bother with selling the few parts that lego doesn't sell as
sales would be significantly lower and make it not profitable for many
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| Author: | ej76az | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:48 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
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cool pizza flag
Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:42 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| | When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
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| Author: | ej76az | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:35 | | Subject: | add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 152 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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| Author: | Hal8472 | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2024 14:17 | | Subject: | Re: New filter based on % off | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, TheHatter13 writes:
| | I have seen a lot of sellers offer multiple different discounts. It would be
nice to have a filter that you can choose the discounts you want to see instead
of just all sales. Like if a shop has different sale percentages at 10, 25, 30,
50 and 75 percent off you could filter for everything above 50%.
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This is a comparison to a created number. There are no sales on bricklink.
Just different prices.
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 11:49 | | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | […]
| | I've definitely had buyers leave feedback before they even received their
orders - rare, but it happens.
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Yes but this example just illustrates someone not using the system properly and
I'm pretty sure we don't require a system built around a one off user
not using the system correctly?
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A system shouldn’t allow its users to use it incorrectly.
(That includes sellers marking orders complete  )
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And your point? Removing the Completed option would solve this issue at the same
time?
Besides which as a Seller I have never marked an order as Complete! Once I mark
the order status as 'Shipped' I then leave the customer alone to change
the status from there on in
| | “You’re holding wrong” is a registred trademark. BrickLink is too cheap to use
it.
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??
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 11:19 | | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | […]
| | I've definitely had buyers leave feedback before they even received their
orders - rare, but it happens.
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Yes but this example just illustrates someone not using the system properly and
I'm pretty sure we don't require a system built around a one off user
not using the system correctly?
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A system shouldn’t allow its users to use it incorrectly.
(That includes sellers marking orders complete )
“You’re holding wrong” is a registred trademark. BrickLink is too cheap to use
it.
| | I can imagine the feedback they left was interesting....
"Great Seller, Order is on its way and it will arrive in good time and be
absolutely perfect!"
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Have you read the feedback left on other plateforms? It’s sometimes worse than
that.
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 10:53 | | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
| | In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | I cannot think of a single situation where a buyer would leave feedback if they
didn't consider the order completed? Presumably they leave feedback when
they've either received goods and are happy (Order Completed) or they leave
negative/neutral feedback because they are unhappy with the sellers lack of resolve
(Order Completed)
On other platforms like ebay there is no Completed status because feedback alone
defines the orders status and rounds up the overall transaction as complete!
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I've definitely had buyers leave feedback before they even received their
orders - rare, but it happens.
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Yes but this example just illustrates someone not using the system properly and
I'm pretty sure we don't require a system built around a one off user
not using the system correctly?
I can imagine the feedback they left was interesting....
"Great Seller, Order is on its way and it will arrive in good time and be
absolutely perfect!"
| | I don't know if one can do the same on eBay
(it seems one can click the "Leave Feedback" button but I don't know
if the form can be submitted), but in any case, since eBay also tracks orders,
I imagine the order isn't complete until the buyer has received it (I don't
know what happens in cases where the order can't be tracked).
I think if the buyer marks the order as "Received" and then leaves positive
feedback the order should automatically complete. Maybe when the buyer leaves
any kind of feedback? Not sure about that last part.
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The way I see it the very final option in the dropdown should be 'Received'
with no need for a 'Completed' option. The buyer essentially completes
their order by leaving feedback!
i.e they mark as received and then leave feedback once they are happy with their
order or if they are unhappy with their order they mark as received, message
seller for a resolution, wait for issue to be resolved(or not resolved) and then
leave appropriate feedback. By leaving feedback the buyer is finished with that
order and it is essentially complete
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