| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | ej76az  | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:40 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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: | ej76az | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:48 | | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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: | ej76az | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:35 | | Subject: | add LEGO PaB website to stores | | Viewed: | 196 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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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