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| | | Author: | miskox  | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 03:53 | | Subject: | Price offer | | Viewed: | 115 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Could an option (maybe this was suggested before?) be added that would allow
possible buyer to offer a price?
I would list an item with a price and a check box there would make this item
appear with a 'make an offer' options. Potential buyer would enter the
price he/she is willing to pay for an item. Seller receives this Quote and denies
or accepts this offer. If seller accepts it he then can add shipping quote and
send a quote (or something like that).
Saso
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| | | | | Author: | mikmo | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 05:11 | | Subject: | Re: Price offer | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Can you imagine getting 2000 messages offering you 3$ for your Chrome black Darth
Vader minifig ?
There should at least be a min. amount if this option is implemented.
Kind regards
Mikael / MikMo
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| | | | | | | Author: | Bricks_NW_UK | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 06:19 | | Subject: | Re: Price offer | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mikmo writes:
| | Can you imagine getting 2000 messages offering you 3$ for your Chrome black Darth
Vader minifig ?
There should at least be a min. amount if this option is implemented.
Kind regards
Mikael / MikMo
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In my opinion this wouldn't work!
They have this function on eBay and it is a nightmare to be honest.
The sellers have set their prices and if you don't want to pay the listed
price then you simply buy elsewhere.
I suppose if you want to make someone an offer you could do this via the quote
function and ask if they are prepare to sell for "x"
Bricklink needs to stay well clear of this.
Just my thoughts!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Gaston.La.Brick | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 09:57 | | Subject: | Re: Price offer | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Bricks_NW_UK writes:
| | In Suggestions, mikmo writes:
| | Can you imagine getting 2000 messages offering you 3$ for your Chrome black Darth
Vader minifig ?
There should at least be a min. amount if this option is implemented.
Kind regards
Mikael / MikMo
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In my opinion this wouldn't work!
They have this function on eBay and it is a nightmare to be honest.
The sellers have set their prices and if you don't want to pay the listed
price then you simply buy elsewhere.
I suppose if you want to make someone an offer you could do this via the quote
function and ask if they are prepare to sell for "x"
Bricklink needs to stay well clear of this.
Just my thoughts!
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I'm not a seller on eBay, but I have used the "Make an offer" as a buyer
a few times (with always reasonable offers) and sellers have accepted my offer
in about 50% of the cases. Or made a counter offer that I thought was still acceptible.
Of course, you are right: this is ridiculous to do for common items. But for
items that aren't that highly available (often very expensive items), I find
it useful.
But to be honest: I think there are more urgent items to be implemented on BrickLink
(Responsive Design please!)
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 10:56 | | Subject: | Re: Price offer | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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In my opinion this wouldn't work!
They have this function on eBay and it is a nightmare to be honest.
The sellers have set their prices and if you don't want to pay the listed
price then you simply buy elsewhere.
I suppose if you want to make someone an offer you could do this via the quote
function and ask if they are prepare to sell for "x"
Bricklink needs to stay well clear of this.
Just my thoughts!
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I think it could work if:
1) Sellers opted into it on an item by item basis.
2) Sellers could set two extra prices where (i) the offer is automatically rejected
if below and (ii) the offer is automatically accepted if above. So for example,
if a seller lists at $25 and would definitely accept $23.50 but wouldn't
want to be bothered by offers lower than $22, then they would enter those three
numbers. If a buyer offers $24, they would purchase instantly. If a buyer offers
$22.50, the seller needs to consider it. If a buyer offers $21.50, the buyer
is rejected instantly and the seller need not bother with it. A seller could
always set the definitely accept price to their normal price, to consider all
offers over their absolute minimum threshold. Of course, there would need to
be some checks in place to limit the number of offers, so a buyer doesn't
just offer $20, then $20.25, then $20.50, ... etc going up in small increments
to hit the minimum price the seller will accept.
It would be good for those rarer items where pricing is difficult due to lack
of similar sales. I don't think it would work at all well for general parts
or orders where you are likely to have multiple items. But for one-off, expensive
items (presumably either sets or rarer minifigures) it might be a good idea.
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