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| | | Author: | Poncke  | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 09:04 | | Subject: | Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 366 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this |
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| | | | | Author: | Nicolasamico37 | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 09:54 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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obsessive compulsive disorder in math ? 
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| | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 10:57 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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Maybe they like them, but could be persuaded to part with them for the right
price.
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| | | | | Author: | legoman77 | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 11:33 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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Perhaps a sale later? On eBay I have seen items listed for a outrageous0 price
and if you offer a very low price it is accepted. Or it is to get buyers to
look and maybe look at other things in the store. Or, maybe the seller is in
LaLa land.
John P
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| | | | | | | Author: | Poncke | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:20 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, legoman77 writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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Perhaps a sale later? On eBay I have seen items listed for a outrageous0 price
and if you offer a very low price it is accepted. Or it is to get buyers to
look and maybe look at other things in the store. Or, maybe the seller is in
LaLa land.
John P
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Sure, but on BL there is no auction option
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | legoman77 | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 18:02 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | In Selling, legoman77 writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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Perhaps a sale later? On eBay I have seen items listed for a outrageous0 price
and if you offer a very low price it is accepted. Or it is to get buyers to
look and maybe look at other things in the store. Or, maybe the seller is in
LaLa land.
John P
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Sure, but on BL there is no auction option
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Just an example from eBay to show that sometimes sellers do stange things to
listings to make money.
John P
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| | | | | Author: | Ra | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| An error between user and keyboard ie cat, bug, crumbs, coffee. Macro or computer
glitch. Human error. Some stores have employees enter high values the owner adjusts
later. Tons of other reasons.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Poncke | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:22 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, ZorBeast writes:
| | An error between user and keyboard ie cat, bug, crumbs, coffee. Macro or computer
glitch. Human error. Some stores have employees enter high values the owner adjusts
later. Tons of other reasons.
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This seller has ridiculous high prices across the board, his minimum buy is 99
euro. I couldn't even buy the 77 euro minifig without adding something else
expensive.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:33 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
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This seller has ridiculous high prices across the board, his minimum buy is 99
euro. I couldn't even buy the 77 euro minifig without adding something else
expensive.
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The €22.22 minifig would do it
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| | | | | Author: | yoavheskia | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 12:40 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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They don't really want to sell it
I listed all my trans medium blue and trans neon orange parts in very high prices
from the same reason. But my store is not really a normal business 
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| | | | | | | Author: | Poncke | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:23 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, yoavheskia writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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They don't really want to sell it
I listed all my trans medium blue and trans neon orange parts in very high prices
from the same reason. But my store is not really a normal business
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But why list it then? Why not just not list it? Or are you waiting for odd chance
that someone pays the price and then you are willing to part?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yoavheskia | | Posted: | Aug 14, 2023 05:48 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | In Selling, yoavheskia writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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They don't really want to sell it
I listed all my trans medium blue and trans neon orange parts in very high prices
from the same reason. But my store is not really a normal business
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But why list it then? Why not just not list it? Or are you waiting for odd chance
that someone pays the price and then you are willing to part?
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You are right, I moved it to the stockroom (first time I'm using that option)
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 13:14 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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They need to stop allowing their cat to walk across the keyboard, and create
listings.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 14:06 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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If it is the Portuguese store, presumably it is intentional as they overprice
everything but make many sales. I imagine they don't care about least favourites
for their store so long as enough people go down the "buy now" route
and don't care about checking prices.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Nicolasamico37 | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 14:19 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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If it is the Portuguese store, presumably it is intentional as they overprice
everything but make many sales. I imagine they don't care about least favourites
for their store so long as enough people go down the "buy now" route
and don't care about checking prices.
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This store is already in my least favourite because of their VERY VERY HIGH prices
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Some things are incomprehensible...
Nicolas
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:15 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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If it is the Portuguese store, presumably it is intentional as they overprice
everything but make many sales. I imagine they don't care about least favourites
for their store so long as enough people go down the "buy now" route
and don't care about checking prices.
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This store is already in my least favourite because of their VERY VERY HIGH prices
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Some things are incomprehensible...
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But it's very simple to understand!
Say you wish to build an old Millenium Falcon, you then just buy all "easy"
parts anywhere, and ALL the remaining at Paulo's shop.
If you don't care for the price, and/or calculate you'd anyway pay 1
shipping fee per remaining part in 50 different shops, then it could be a good
deal.
Maintaining 20000 Lots shop is a full time job.
Price isn't "just an item price compared to another"; it's also
(and for some, mainly) a service.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Aug 14, 2023 00:07 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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Maintaining 20000 Lots shop is a full time job.
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Except during the summer
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| | | | | Author: | WhiteHorseMatt | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 14:27 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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Those prices seem to me to be placeholders on items that really should be in
a stockroom rather than for sale. But hey, someone may want one desperately.
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| | | | | Author: | ghyde | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 14:34 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 105 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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I think someone went and purchased their minifig anyway.
Looking at this Help Topic, which I found from searching for "minifigure",
in the Help Center link found at the bottom of every BrickLink page, there doesn't
seem to be anything illegal about listing these minifigures:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=102&q=minifigure
You might be out of luck if you don't like the seller's gimmick. Maybe
he got a sale of a minifig he did want to sell.
Cheers ...
ghyde
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| | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 16:54 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, ghyde writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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I think someone went and purchased their minifig anyway.
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It would show in the price guide if it had sold here.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | ghyde | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:08 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, ghyde writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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I think someone went and purchased their minifig anyway.
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It would show in the price guide if it had sold here.
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I didn't see it in the items for sale for that listing. Does it show while
it's in an order awaiting processing? I don't remember when BrickLink
updates the items sold list anyway, although I reckon that the order status would
have to be invoiced or after payment has been received. Perhaps it gets done
during or after maintenance?
Cheers ...
ghyde
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:21 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, ghyde writes:
| | In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, ghyde writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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I think someone went and purchased their minifig anyway.
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It would show in the price guide if it had sold here.
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I didn't see it in the items for sale for that listing. Does it show while
it's in an order awaiting processing? I don't remember when BrickLink
updates the items sold list anyway, although I reckon that the order status would
have to be invoiced or after payment has been received. Perhaps it gets done
during or after maintenance?
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It is instant.
Payment status has nothing to do with it.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Poncke | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:26 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, ghyde writes:
| | In Selling, yorbrick writes:
| | In Selling, ghyde writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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I think someone went and purchased their minifig anyway.
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It would show in the price guide if it had sold here.
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I didn't see it in the items for sale for that listing. Does it show while
it's in an order awaiting processing? I don't remember when BrickLink
updates the items sold list anyway, although I reckon that the order status would
have to be invoiced or after payment has been received. Perhaps it gets done
during or after maintenance?
Cheers ...
ghyde
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The price guide updates are real time. I once removed an item and the price guide
changed accordingly, same with lowering or upping a price.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Poncke | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2023 17:25 | | Subject: | Re: Why do people do this? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, ghyde writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | I mean, if you want to be sure it never sells, then price it like this
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I think someone went and purchased their minifig anyway.
Looking at this Help Topic, which I found from searching for "minifigure",
in the Help Center link found at the bottom of every BrickLink page, there doesn't
seem to be anything illegal about listing these minifigures:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=102&q=minifigure
You might be out of luck if you don't like the seller's gimmick. Maybe
he got a sale of a minifig he did want to sell.
Cheers ...
ghyde
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I never mentioned anything was illegal with this listing
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