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| | | Author: | runner.caller  | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 09:47 | | Subject: | Useful selling tip. | | Viewed: | 176 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| As you pick an order, group all the items in small piles of 5.
When done picking, it should be super easy to count. If the final total items
picked matches the total order items, then odds are the order was picked correctly.
It's the most useful selling tip I've encountered.
This has been shared in the forum before (which is how I first learned it), but
I thought it's worthwhile to bring it up again because I see forum complaints
often like "over half of my orders on BL are wrong missing pieces"...
etc...
This usefulness will also vary depending on the types of orders you get as a
seller.
MOST of mine are all small items and less than 100pcs so this method is pretty
easy. It works for larger orders too, just need more space/larger groups or a
mix of both.
It still saves me from a short pick here and there and since using it, my error
rate has gone down considerably.
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| | | | | Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:43 | | Subject: | Re: Useful selling tip. | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, runner.caller writes:
| | As you pick an order, group all the items in small piles of 5.
When done picking, it should be super easy to count. If the final total items
picked matches the total order items, then odds are the order was picked correctly.
It's the most useful selling tip I've encountered.
This has been shared in the forum before (which is how I first learned it), but
I thought it's worthwhile to bring it up again because I see forum complaints
often like "over half of my orders on BL are wrong missing pieces"...
etc...
This usefulness will also vary depending on the types of orders you get as a
seller.
MOST of mine are all small items and less than 100pcs so this method is pretty
easy. It works for larger orders too, just need more space/larger groups or a
mix of both.
It still saves me from a short pick here and there and since using it, my error
rate has gone down considerably.
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I count into groups of 5 too. I also have a checked cloth on my sorting table.
I spread out 5 of whatever into each square and it's super easy to count.
~Jen
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 15:20 | | Subject: | Re: Useful selling tip. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, jennnifer writes:
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I count into groups of 5 too. I also have a checked cloth on my sorting table.
I spread out 5 of whatever into each square and it's super easy to count.
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Count by 10, 5, or 2 (depends on the size & quantity).
Check by another count, like 9 or 3 (even → odd, not a multiple, so you catch
“by one” errors), or by another method.
For instance:
— method 1: 9+1 = 10, pick 9 (or 3x3), push in a corner, pick a 10th an put in
another place. Count the 10thes and the remainder (less than 10) to get the
total.
— method 2: 2x5 = 10, pick five times two or two times five, and push in a corner.
Don’t care about the total, just that the remainder is the same.
But then, I mostly only count received orders. When picking for a build, it’s
not really a problem if I’m wrong 
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 15:32 | | Subject: | Re: Useful selling tip. | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, jennnifer writes:
| | In Selling, runner.caller writes:
| | As you pick an order, group all the items in small piles of 5.
When done picking, it should be super easy to count. If the final total items
picked matches the total order items, then odds are the order was picked correctly.
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| | I count into groups of 5 too. I also have a checked cloth on my sorting table.
I spread out 5 of whatever into each square and it's super easy to count.
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We count by 5 - watch the parts in one hand up to having a group of 5, then pour
it.
It's easy to recognize patterns like 2+3 or 4+1 to make 5.
Starting some quantity, depending the part - like 30 or 50 - we use the counting
scale exclusively.
We never check any order count, it's worthless.
If it's a "more crucial" count, we just count or sample the scale
slower.
If sometimes (rarely) there's an error, we refund or reship the problem.
Fixing a single problem is far more (IMO) efficient than the cost of counting
twice or visually checking but ALL orders.
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| | | | | Author: | Brickman4you | | Posted: | May 10, 2024 07:32 | | Subject: | Re: Useful selling tip. | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, runner.caller writes:
| | As you pick an order, group all the items in small piles of 5.
When done picking, it should be super easy to count. If the final total items
picked matches the total order items, then odds are the order was picked correctly.
It's the most useful selling tip I've encountered.
This has been shared in the forum before (which is how I first learned it), but
I thought it's worthwhile to bring it up again because I see forum complaints
often like "over half of my orders on BL are wrong missing pieces"...
etc...
This usefulness will also vary depending on the types of orders you get as a
seller.
MOST of mine are all small items and less than 100pcs so this method is pretty
easy. It works for larger orders too, just need more space/larger groups or a
mix of both.
It still saves me from a short pick here and there and since using it, my error
rate has gone down considerably.
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While I think you're describing something totally different than how we pick,
it is interesting to hear different ways others are doing it. We don't
ever try to match total items picked as we are double checking each lot, but
over time did find that counting by 5 is visually possible, where its hard to
tell pile of 9 vs 10 parts.
Taking another different approach is we pick onto trays lined with small white
cloth hand towels. Then are able to double
check counts, while minimizing handling of new bricks and avoiding more surface
scratching.
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