| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bb398322  | | Posted: | Sep 19, 2017 00:49 | | Subject: | Block New Accounts from posting in forumsq | | Viewed: | 198 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Why are there so many fake money/passport spam daily? Are bricklinkers their
core customers? What gives!
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| Author: | bb398322 | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 14:43 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:
| | I just went onto Amazon.ca and looked for a death star
It said $599.86
I had to click another link to show what someone else was selling the same set
for (3rd party)
No where did I see a comparison of what the average price is
I didn't see what the cost was at Lego
Or Walmart
Or bricklink
or TRU
How am I supposed to see if the best price is from Amazon if they don't give
me the other figures, or at least the average.
They make me go to Lego, or walmart, or TRU or eBay.
I just want something that's easy and caters to me.
It shouldn't matter that if TRU is having a sale that I'm likely not
to purchase it from Amazon, they should tell me everything I need to know with
out doing any further clicking.
In Suggestions, TokerSays writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
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All of which is fine (more or less). But it becomes a bit of a problem when sellers
who want to list that "$10" minifigure for $10 show up on a BrickLink tool as
being 75% higher than average.
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Who said it was a “$10” minifigure? The Seller selling it for $10? Was it Lego?
Lego can tell me it’s a $10 minifigure and I have to pay $10 because it’s Lego’s
product. I’m not buying from Lego. I’m buying from a reseller. The official
Lego price no longer comes into play. The price now is what the resellers are
selling it for. 10 other Sellers think its worth $6. Doesn’t their opinion
of value matter? I was previously told that if a piece has an average price
of $0.33 and it’s selling for $1.48 then I need to gauge how much that piece
is worth to me. Shouldn’t that same courtesy be extended to Sellers to who think
their piece is worth $6? If 10 Sellers think the piece is worth $6 then that
piece is now worth $6 and the $10 Seller made an investment that may not have
been wise.
Think of Lego as stock. Sellers purchase stock in Lego and then as a broker
they resell it. They do this hoping that the stock they buy will increase in
price. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down. Most of that up and down
depends on what other brokers are selling that stock for. It also depends on
the available of stock, and on the reputation of the company. I buy stock in
Lego. I buy it from the Seller brokers. I walk into the Bricklink marketplace
and I see hundreds of Sellers and they’re all showing me their prices and right
next to their price I should see an average 6 month price. That price should
not include shipping, handling, fee and surcharges. Those are brokerage fees.
You research your broker fees before you decide to do business with them. That
research is different from price research. No one takes all brokerage fees,
adds them up and divides them into an average and adds them to the average price
of stock. When I walk into Bricklink I should see prices and right next to them
I should see average prices. Do you know why?
Because I just picked up my phone and opened the app that shows me the actual
real world stock I own. The app shows me the current market value of that stock
and right next to it – it shows me the 52 week high and the 52 week low.
It’s an awfully useful app. I wish Brinklink had one.
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How could amazon do such a thing? They must not believe in Free Market not providing
these 6 month averages from their competitors.
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| Author: | bb398322 | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2017 20:51 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ranarn writes:
| | For a few items, sure its no problem...
But try it when your wanted list contains over 400lots.
What i did that i cant do now, is take: Buy All on my wanted list, select a store
that i know have good terms, and check the prices, remove all lots that is over
average price and buy the rest. I think a middle solution would be to hide the
percent, and leave the color?
The Auto suggest is crap at best... get 20 stores, and suggest 1 single lot from
a few stores, if it would take shipping into account that would be good but no.
And about free market, there is price lookup and compare prices for everything
these days. Those that dont want this, are people living in the old ages and
still believe everything was better before, they dont understand that easy to
access information is everything of a good service.
Removing this from BL, is like taking a step back in the digital era, never make
information inaccessible or harder to get, that is the key fundamentals of any
service.
In Suggestions, Cosy writes:
| | In Suggestions, ranarn writes:
| | Voted Yes, i have stopped buying anything at BL at the moment, impossible to
know what price im paying,
In Suggestions, tillmanbalazs writes:
| | few weeks ago when I went to a wanted list, and selected the items which I wanted
to buy, then the shop, it showed what is the price of items in this shop compared
to the average price of the items.
Now this function is not available, can I ask why?
Is it possible to have it back?
Thanks,
Balázs
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Vote as you like, but your statement is untrue. Maybe your hyperbole is driven
by frustration. You should not state as fact what is not true.
If I wanted to buy the Used Chain with Ball, 5 Links (15532) from your store
I can easily compare your price against the Price Guide.
Your part: https://www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=ranarn#/shop?o={"itemType":"P","catID":"143"}
Price Guide: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=15532#T=P&C=11
While your price at ~$.95 is below the current Used Avg price available, you
are charging more than the Last 6 Months Sales price by ~15%.
I understand the previous graphic was a faster check, but you can certainly compare
the price in your cart to the Price Guide, and not only know what you are about
to pay but also how it stacks against both current and past pricing.
Either way I still need to read your terms and shipping.
This is not meant as a personal affront to you. Your vote is yours.
Hyperbole or untruths though do not help anyone, experienced or not.
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I wonder how people on BO buy stuff since you are arguing without the price percent
indicator its impossible to buy legos ..
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| Author: | bb398322 | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2017 01:43 | | Subject: | Re: DO AWAY WITH PRICE GUIDE....... | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Why do German sellers charge you 5% paypal fee? I never understood this fee.
I have never charged my customers a paypal fee???
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