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| | | Author: | wildchicken13  | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 13:27 | | Subject: | Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 348 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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| | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 13:37 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
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No. There'd be no reason for this.
Even if they've hired 10 developpers full time, they still very probably
make a (very) decent profit of it.
And as you said, there's not much which have changed that could justify this.
Even the MOC shop was closed.
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LEGO won't do this; they wouldn't associate even by chance their name
with a bad brand or products they could be a problem with their public, mainly
chidren.
Also - I feel it's Sunday, you've no idea what to talk about but need
to talk, so you're posting a new Certified Troll silly discussion 
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| | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 13:50 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
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No. There'd be no reason for this.
Even if they've hired 10 developpers full time, they still very probably
make a (very) decent profit of it.
And as you said, there's not much which have changed that could justify this.
Even the MOC shop was closed.
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Maybe we should start by taking the trash cans off of their heads. Kind of hard
to debug when you can't see your code… http://v4ei.com/comics/index.php?id=500-errors
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 14:31 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| | | | | No. There'd be no reason for this.
Even if they've hired 10 developpers full time, they still very probably
make a (very) decent profit of it.
And as you said, there's not much which have changed that could justify this.
Even the MOC shop was closed.
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Maybe we should start by taking the trash cans off of their heads. Kind of hard
to debug when you can't see your code… http://v4ei.com/comics/index.php?id=500-errors
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I'm sure you'd do far better, and why not save us from Covid also!
Common sense is the exact opposite of science, or in this case, software engineering.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | enig | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 08:49 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
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No. There'd be no reason for this.
Even if they've hired 10 developpers full time, they still very probably
make a (very) decent profit of it.
And as you said, there's not much which have changed that could justify this.
Even the MOC shop was closed.
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Maybe we should start by taking the trash cans off of their heads. Kind of hard
to debug when you can't see your code… http://v4ei.com/comics/index.php?id=500-errors
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The choice of keeping staring at the inside of the trash can instead of the source
code.. says all you need to know about the source code.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 14:26 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| | | 1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
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Adverts i- I'd stay along as they are not too diverting. Although lego advertising
other products on its site would be a bit strange. I could see clone brands paying
a fee to be advertised by lego!
Increase in fees - I'd sell elsewhere. With all the offers on ebay recently,
it is cheaper to sell sets, minifigs and job lots there compared to BL plus paypal
fees. For parts, I'd use brickowl.
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| | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 14:41 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, yorbrick writes:
| | Increase in fees - I'd sell elsewhere. With all the offers on ebay recently,
it is cheaper to sell sets, minifigs and job lots there compared to BL plus paypal
fees. For parts, I'd use brickowl.
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Yes, if BL charged 10% in fees than it would be higher than feebay (currently
12.55%) unless BL charged those fees and managed payments as part of that
10%. 13.49% to sell on BrickLink? I think not
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 16:23 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, peregrinator writes:
| | In Technical Issues, yorbrick writes:
| | Increase in fees - I'd sell elsewhere. With all the offers on ebay recently,
it is cheaper to sell sets, minifigs and job lots there compared to BL plus paypal
fees. For parts, I'd use brickowl.
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Yes, if BL charged 10% in fees than it would be higher than feebay (currently
12.55%) unless BL charged those fees and managed payments as part of that
10%. 13.49% to sell on BrickLink? I think not
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Here ebay keep doing promos every other weekend. Typically 80% off fees, so about
3% plus 30p fixed fee. So ebay is better value already here if you play it right.
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| | | | | Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 15:40 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 89 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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| | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 16:10 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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Good to know! I'm looking forward to the new changes.
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| | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 16:24 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 92 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen.
There is a lot going on behind the scenes that you have no idea of.
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Very hush-hush, I'm sure 
| | Things are definitely happening, but they take time to happen.
LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of earlier this year.
In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the helm.
And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink
concerning the Catalog and the Marketplace.
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| | There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't say more for now.
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Highly classified stuff, no doubt: https://youtu.be/MnWSI-PVl1s?t=22
Have a nice Sunday 
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 07:27 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, popsicle writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
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| | | | There is a lot going on behind the scenes that you have no idea of.
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Very hush-hush, I'm sure
| | There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't say more for now.
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Highly classified stuff, no doubt: https://youtu.be/MnWSI-PVl1s?t=22
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Yes, yes and its very important that I make you all aware that I know what’s
going on without actually telling you what’s going on as it gives me a huge sense
of importance you see!
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, infinibrix writes:
| | In Technical Issues, popsicle writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
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| | | | There is a lot going on behind the scenes that you have no idea of.
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Very hush-hush, I'm sure
| | There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't say more for now.
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Highly classified stuff, no doubt: https://youtu.be/MnWSI-PVl1s?t=22
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Yes, yes and its very important that I make you all aware that I know what’s
going on without actually telling you what’s going on as it gives me a huge sense
of importance you see!
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who me or rnady ?
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| | | | | | | Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 18:51 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| | | You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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That is really great news to hear. I look forward to seeing what these changes
will bring to BrickLink in the future! Keep up the good work!!
Jim
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1974 | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 04:01 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen
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I like this a lot. Which is a good thing since I've heard that over and over
sinnce I joined up more than a decade ago
BL is on it's fourth owner by now, I'm sure we'll hear the same tune
in following decades to come
Cheers,
Ole
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 07:14 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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No one can - thanks for your comments randy. Lots is going on and in time all
wail be revealed, but things do take time especially with the small development
team that is available and the compliance issues which continue to take time.
BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG. Lots has already
changed with the sales tax and vat implementations and more is going to in due
course and after thorough testing has taken place. Patience is a virtue etc etc
etc.
TLG are very much working on lots of good things for all of us.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 09:01 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, calsbricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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No one can - thanks for your comments randy. Lots is going on and in time all
wail be revealed, but things do take time especially with the small development
team that is available and the compliance issues which continue to take time.
BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG. Lots has already
changed with the sales tax and vat implementations and more is going to in due
course and after thorough testing has taken place. Patience is a virtue etc etc
etc.
TLG are very much working on lots of good things for all of us.
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Another one, albeit more flowery
I believe Ole is correct with "on it's fourth owner by now" Didn't Jay
acquired ownership from Dan's parents? Eliska was nonetheless at the helm
as CEO for a time.
btw, not cool correcting another's details to dismiss the more salient
point being made.
-popsicle
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 09:05 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, popsicle writes:
| | In Technical Issues, calsbricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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No one can - thanks for your comments randy. Lots is going on and in time all
wail be revealed, but things do take time especially with the small development
team that is available and the compliance issues which continue to take time.
BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG. Lots has already
changed with the sales tax and vat implementations and more is going to in due
course and after thorough testing has taken place. Patience is a virtue etc etc
etc.
TLG are very much working on lots of good things for all of us.
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Another one, albeit more flowery
I believe Ole is correct with "on it's fourth owner by now" Didn't Jay
acquired ownership from Dan's parents? Eliska was nonetheless at the helm
as CEO for a time.
btw, not cool correcting another's details to dismiss the more salient
point being made.
-popsicle
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I wont rise to the snide comment -
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 1974 | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 15:07 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, calsbricks writes:
| | BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG
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Dan, then Eliska/his family, the late Mr. Nexon on and now TLG. Btw, that's
four
And in that time (more than a decade ) VERY little have changed as on online
market platform
It's probably the only one around that doesn't have an app version
But that's just around the corner like everything else promised, I guess
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| | | | | Author: | eileenkeeney | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 16:38 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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I think they should have a profit sharing system that shares with sellers, or
possibly a fee refund system based on profit. But that doesn't answer your
question.
Since I am a buyer, and likely will never want to deal with all the hassles of
being a seller, of course I would rather see an increase in seller fees over
advertisements, unless the advertisements were only for the Lego Group, and non
invasive.
I recognize that increasing seller fees will likely lead to an increase in seller
prices as well, so it will not have zero impact on buyers.
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| | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2022 21:29 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, eileenkeeney writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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I think they should have a profit sharing system that shares with sellers, or
possibly a fee refund system based on profit.
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Interesting ideas.
| | But that doesn't answer your question
Since I am a buyer, and likely will never want to deal with all the hassles of
being a seller, of course I would rather see an increase in seller fees over
advertisements, unless the advertisements were only for the Lego Group, and non
invasive.
I recognize that increasing seller fees will likely lead to an increase in seller
prices as well, so it will not have zero impact on buyers.
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Good point
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| | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 06:31 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
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no no no. All this would do would cause a mass exodus over to Brickowl, which
would mean less orders to get the 10% off of, which would mean bricklink is still
no getting much extra money, if any.
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| | | | | Author: | wabsol | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 06:52 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| I rather have bricklink monetize on cosmetic features for Stud.io or the website.
It's been a while that i have used Stud.io but i in LDD we had backdrops
for you models and a explode button. Darkmode or UI skins in general would be
cool as well both for Stud.io and the website.
My recommendation is letting users customize there experience for a low price.
Either by themes/skins or by giving an option to have people customize their
profile or store page.
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