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| | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks  | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 15:44 | | Subject: | Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 194 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
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| How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
First the concept in general:
Buyers could submit offers to sellers for items they have on sale.
Quick example: Seller has set A, set A sits on the shelf for a while and buyer
comes along and offers 10% under the asking price for Set A and will see if the
seller will part for that price knowing it sells right then and there. When
seller accepts offer, it is a binding sale.
Of course there are all kinds of problems from offers, spam, lowballers etc.
So some obvious programming features to include or consider:
Make Best Offer optional
Make it only allowed for sets, minifigures or some combination and leave out
parts or include all
Limit the number of offers a seller can make per hour/day/week, etc, throttle
them
Allow sellers to report buyers abusing the new feature
I think BL admin should be implementing any features that can increase buying
or selling.
I would like a feature like this instead of messaging, which can be a total waste
of time.
Buyers could enter in shipping prices in their offer helping buyers know what
they will pay ahead of time.
So what does the community think?
Good idea/bad idea?
Any other programming/implementation features to be including for buyer/seller
protection?
Would you use the feature?
Thanks,
Happy Weekend,
Ken
Brick It Yourself
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| | | | | Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 15:51 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Like eBay. 
In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
First the concept in general:
Buyers could submit offers to sellers for items they have on sale.
Quick example: Seller has set A, set A sits on the shelf for a while and buyer
comes along and offers 10% under the asking price for Set A and will see if the
seller will part for that price knowing it sells right then and there. When
seller accepts offer, it is a binding sale.
Of course there are all kinds of problems from offers, spam, lowballers etc.
So some obvious programming features to include or consider:
Make Best Offer optional
Make it only allowed for sets, minifigures or some combination and leave out
parts or include all
Limit the number of offers a seller can make per hour/day/week, etc, throttle
them
Allow sellers to report buyers abusing the new feature
I think BL admin should be implementing any features that can increase buying
or selling.
I would like a feature like this instead of messaging, which can be a total waste
of time.
Buyers could enter in shipping prices in their offer helping buyers know what
they will pay ahead of time.
So what does the community think?
Good idea/bad idea?
Any other programming/implementation features to be including for buyer/seller
protection?
Would you use the feature?
Thanks,
Happy Weekend,
Ken
Brick It Yourself
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| | | | | Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 15:58 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I'll pass (but won't vote). Whenever I offered best offer on an ebay
listing I often received offers that were quite unacceptable. I'm not talking
about 10-20% off, but 50-60% lower than fair market price. My items were always
priced to sell to begin with.
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| | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 16:06 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | I'll pass (but won't vote). Whenever I offered best offer on an ebay
listing I often received offers that were quite unacceptable. I'm not talking
about 10-20% off, but 50-60% lower than fair market price. My items were always
priced to sell to begin with.
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That is where auto decline is useful. If I use best offer, I usually auto decline
at about 90% of asking price. That way you can consider reasonable offers without
getting bothered by the chancers.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 20:26 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | I'll pass (but won't vote). Whenever I offered best offer on an ebay
listing I often received offers that were quite unacceptable. I'm not talking
about 10-20% off, but 50-60% lower than fair market price. My items were always
priced to sell to begin with.
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Miro,
On junkbay you can set an auto reject up to a certain amount, this deters low
balling
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 20:27 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | I'll pass (but won't vote). Whenever I offered best offer on an ebay
listing I often received offers that were quite unacceptable. I'm not talking
about 10-20% off, but 50-60% lower than fair market price. My items were always
priced to sell to begin with.
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Miro,
On junkbay you can set an auto reject up to a certain amount, this deters low
balling
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Freudian slip, that is Miroslav's moc right?
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 07:54 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Yes, he created it in LDD for me, so that I could build it. He made it a little
different with a base.
| | Freudian slip, that is Miroslav's moc right?
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 16:00 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
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Ah ha! Through this typo, your greed is showing! 
| | [… about a kind of auctions …]
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Wasn’t a similar suggestion posted a few weeks ago? And another earlie? And earlier?
Etc. from time to time since auctions were removed?
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| | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 19:51 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented,...
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They are. Some were added a couple of weeks ago. One was marked as "already implemented"
yesterday.
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Marc.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:47 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented,...
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They are. Some were added a couple of weeks ago. One was marked as "already implemented"
yesterday.
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Marc.
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Just giving a little hyperbole Marc...
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 11:02 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented,...
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They are. Some were added a couple of weeks ago. One was marked as "already implemented"
yesterday.
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Marc.
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Just giving a little hyperbole Marc...
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Fair enough. But a lot of people believe it to be true.
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Marc.
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| | | | | Author: | JayBeeOnline | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 04:43 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
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I don't like it...
| | Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
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FALSE. Have a look at the list again...
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| | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 09:35 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JayBeeOnline writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
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I don't like it...
| | Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
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FALSE. Have a look at the list again...
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Hyperbole...
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Grego | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:48 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | In Suggestions, JayBeeOnline writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
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I don't like it...
| | Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
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FALSE. Have a look at the list again...
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Hyperbole...
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Hyper? ...not sure I I'd go that far ...maybe superbole but most likely just
bole. 😁
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| | | | | Author: | edk | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 09:27 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
First the concept in general:
Buyers could submit offers to sellers for items they have on sale.
Quick example: Seller has set A, set A sits on the shelf for a while and buyer
comes along and offers 10% under the asking price for Set A and will see if the
seller will part for that price knowing it sells right then and there. When
seller accepts offer, it is a binding sale.
Of course there are all kinds of problems from offers, spam, lowballers etc.
So some obvious programming features to include or consider:
Make Best Offer optional
Make it only allowed for sets, minifigures or some combination and leave out
parts or include all
Limit the number of offers a seller can make per hour/day/week, etc, throttle
them
Allow sellers to report buyers abusing the new feature
I think BL admin should be implementing any features that can increase buying
or selling.
I would like a feature like this instead of messaging, which can be a total waste
of time.
Buyers could enter in shipping prices in their offer helping buyers know what
they will pay ahead of time.
So what does the community think?
Good idea/bad idea?
Any other programming/implementation features to be including for buyer/seller
protection?
Would you use the feature?
Thanks,
Happy Weekend,
Ken
Brick It Yourself
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I see no need to turn BL into a flea market type of site. I get more inquiries
already (without inviting them) than I care for begging for discounts. If sellers
want to take less, just lower the price.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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I see no need to turn BL into a flea market type of site. I get more inquiries
already (without inviting them) than I care for begging for discounts. If sellers
want to take less, just lower the price.
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If you don't want the inquiries, don't use the feature.
I don't like getting spam messages about offers as it is, does this mean
I don't want perspective buyers to contact me? No, I just have to take good
with the bad.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | edk | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 11:08 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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I see no need to turn BL into a flea market type of site. I get more inquiries
already (without inviting them) than I care for begging for discounts. If sellers
want to take less, just lower the price.
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If you don't want the inquiries, don't use the feature.
I don't like getting spam messages about offers as it is, does this mean
I don't want perspective buyers to contact me? No, I just have to take good
with the bad.
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Not using the feature will not matter. By inviting offers in some stores it will
lead to more and more people expecting those who do not want to receive offers
being bothered with offers anyway. Just like ebay (fleabay) currently.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Not using the feature will not matter. By inviting offers in some stores it will
lead to more and more people expecting those who do not want to receive offers
being bothered with offers anyway. Just like ebay (fleabay) currently.
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allow for this to be displayed on the message screen 
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| | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:56 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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I see no need to turn BL into a flea market type of site. I get more inquiries
already (without inviting them) than I care for begging for discounts. If sellers
want to take less, just lower the price.
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I currently have an item for sale:
[p=598pb01]
cheapest available at about the same price as the last one sold. However it
will probably sit there for a while.
However, if I had a BINDING Offer and I could accept or deny, I would have a
hard time not accepting anything over $100 on a binding offer for this part.
I get money, bricklink gets money, buyer gets part for cheaper
alternative, it sits on the shelf for longer and no one gets anything.
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| | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 09:30 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
First the concept in general:
Buyers could submit offers to sellers for items they have on sale.
Quick example: Seller has set A, set A sits on the shelf for a while and buyer
comes along and offers 10% under the asking price for Set A and will see if the
seller will part for that price knowing it sells right then and there. When
seller accepts offer, it is a binding sale.
Of course there are all kinds of problems from offers, spam, lowballers etc.
So some obvious programming features to include or consider:
Make Best Offer optional
Make it only allowed for sets, minifigures or some combination and leave out
parts or include all
Limit the number of offers a seller can make per hour/day/week, etc, throttle
them
Allow sellers to report buyers abusing the new feature
I think BL admin should be implementing any features that can increase buying
or selling.
I would like a feature like this instead of messaging, which can be a total waste
of time.
Buyers could enter in shipping prices in their offer helping buyers know what
they will pay ahead of time.
So what does the community think?
Good idea/bad idea?
Any other programming/implementation features to be including for buyer/seller
protection?
Would you use the feature?
Thanks,
Happy Weekend,
Ken
Brick It Yourself
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Voted no - wouldn't really like to see Bricklink become an auction site.
Far to many problems associated with that - if people wish to auction their inventory
there are lots of sites both on this side of the pond and that side to deal with
it.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:46 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Voted no - wouldn't really like to see Bricklink become an auction site.
Far to many problems associated with that - if people wish to auction their inventory
there are lots of sites both on this side of the pond and that side to deal with
it.
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It wouldn't make it an auction site, it would allow buyers to put in binding
offers
Those auction sites also charge a lot more in fees, one of the tenants of creating
this site was to NOT sell lego on those sites and to reduce fees for sellers
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:53 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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Voted no - wouldn't really like to see Bricklink become an auction site.
Far to many problems associated with that - if people wish to auction their inventory
there are lots of sites both on this side of the pond and that side to deal with
it.
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It wouldn't make it an auction site, it would allow buyers to put in binding
offers
Those auction sites also charge a lot more in fees, one of the tenants of creating
this site was to NOT sell lego on those sites and to reduce fees for sellers
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Understand your point - but still feel it would be too much like auctioning your
items. Appreciate you wanted it to be optional but in all honesty it just adds
more complications to the way the site runs at present (and not all that confident
that the development team would get this right).
Good luck with the idea
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| | | | | Author: | steekstra | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 11:23 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
First the concept in general:
Buyers could submit offers to sellers for items they have on sale.
Quick example: Seller has set A, set A sits on the shelf for a while and buyer
comes along and offers 10% under the asking price for Set A and will see if the
seller will part for that price knowing it sells right then and there. When
seller accepts offer, it is a binding sale.
Of course there are all kinds of problems from offers, spam, lowballers etc.
So some obvious programming features to include or consider:
Make Best Offer optional
Make it only allowed for sets, minifigures or some combination and leave out
parts or include all
Limit the number of offers a seller can make per hour/day/week, etc, throttle
them
Allow sellers to report buyers abusing the new feature
I think BL admin should be implementing any features that can increase buying
or selling.
I would like a feature like this instead of messaging, which can be a total waste
of time.
Buyers could enter in shipping prices in their offer helping buyers know what
they will pay ahead of time.
So what does the community think?
Good idea/bad idea?
Any other programming/implementation features to be including for buyer/seller
protection?
Would you use the feature?
Thanks,
Happy Weekend,
Ken
Brick It Yourself
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Whow,, you want to sell it all.
Even the nice hard to find collectors sets ?
And all for a nice price ?
This reminds me when i had a new grillfrind ( years ago) she needed al the shelfs.
Yeh, have a nice weekend all.
Steekstra
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| | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 13:26 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| That's why we already have the option to have sales.
In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
First the concept in general:
Buyers could submit offers to sellers for items they have on sale.
Quick example: Seller has set A, set A sits on the shelf for a while and buyer
comes along and offers 10% under the asking price for Set A and will see if the
seller will part for that price knowing it sells right then and there. When
seller accepts offer, it is a binding sale.
Of course there are all kinds of problems from offers, spam, lowballers etc.
So some obvious programming features to include or consider:
Make Best Offer optional
Make it only allowed for sets, minifigures or some combination and leave out
parts or include all
Limit the number of offers a seller can make per hour/day/week, etc, throttle
them
Allow sellers to report buyers abusing the new feature
I think BL admin should be implementing any features that can increase buying
or selling.
I would like a feature like this instead of messaging, which can be a total waste
of time.
Buyers could enter in shipping prices in their offer helping buyers know what
they will pay ahead of time.
So what does the community think?
Good idea/bad idea?
Any other programming/implementation features to be including for buyer/seller
protection?
Would you use the feature?
Thanks,
Happy Weekend,
Ken
Brick It Yourself
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