| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Author: | Lauren_Luke | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 16:17 | Subject: | Re: Minibuilds | Viewed: | 30 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| axaday:
| If I were the king, I think I would put them on a new tree and not go by themes.
Use categories like "Vehicle - Land", "Vehicle - Space", "Animal", "Furniture".
It would be a whole new way for customers to shop Bricklink and a whole new
area for sellers to specialize.
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I totally agree.
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Author: | Lauren_Luke | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 16:14 | Subject: | Re: Minibuilds | Viewed: | 24 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Pretty_Pieces:
| I have commonly sold minibuilds on the "other" auction site. I never bothered
listing them here.
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Fantastic. So this may be an untapped market for BL and BL Sellers!
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Author: | Lauren_Luke | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 16:13 | Subject: | Re: Minibuilds | Viewed: | 35 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Miro78:
| There are some obvious builds like the characters from Cars, brickbuilt figures like Groot, the giant Antman and such, train cars, but then it it's not so clear on the smaller builds that are not attached to the main set build.
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I agree. However, I think an organic evolution of this would be the best approach,
such as axaday suggests:
| | ...I don't think we would have to make a complicated set of rules about what was and wasn't acceptable either. Just leave it up to what people want to submit. [axaday]
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This would mean a whole new additional request-approval procedure for admins.
Miro78:
| There are lots of little minibuilds across various themes/subthemes and I am not sure how they will be easily cataloged in what would require a whole new branch of the catalog.
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Yes, I agree there would have to be a whole new branch of the catalog, i.e. ‘minibuilds’.
Admin_Russell also agrees with this:
| | ...another type of item would ultimately need to be created... [Admin_Russell]
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Miro78:
| Would they be classified under their themes and subthemes. How will they be easily found. If I just want a brickbuilt trashcan, how will one know what theme and subtheme to find it under. The character ones would be fairly simple to find by name, but some accessory minibuilds would seem to lurk in the shadows of the catalog, to be never found or browsed. There needs to be an early decision to differentiate between an ambiguous figure being a minifig or a minibuild.
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Yes, a major classification structure would have to be agreed upon before the
minibuilds are loaded. This would require discussion and research. On the face
of it I think it would be beneficial to classify (i.e. structure) minibuilds
by what they are / setting.
Miro78:
| Additionally it would take a huge undertaking to re-catalog many of these.
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WoutR:
| ...a lot more inventory work, and that also means a lot more verification work for our inv.admin
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I agree, however, we are not adding any new parts only new inventories. I know
that sounds glib, I have worked in database/programming for over twenty years
so I do know how something that sounds easy to the user is in fact a huge operation
for the programmer. I suppose we must look at the return on investment (of time
and money). Sellers and BL are not bringing anything physical ‘to the table’,
only providing an extra way to part-out a set. The time and money for BL to
set it up (new minibuild branch) and the extra work involved by Sellers and BL
(I presume the collaborative community spirit is still here at BL) to manage
it (request-approve) needs to be balanced against a gain in sales (good for sellers
and BL) and an extra avenue for buyers. Sellers are already adding minibuilds
as incomplete sets in the current ‘set’ branch of the catalog, so I presume there
is a demand.
Miro78:
| The sticker sheets is one of the biggest issues that I can't figure out the best way to handle the issue without making the minibuild seem incomplete if omitted, but if the stickers are applied, then it would classify them as used.
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I agree, and yorbrick gave an example of this:
| | ...this type is even worse:
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Sellers will not want to cut a sticker sheet, because that would invalidate the
‘new’ status of the minibuild, and if they add the sticker sheet to one minibuild,
then that would prevent stickers for other minibuilds and/or the main build (since
there is only one sticker sheet per set)! I suppose we will have to live with
examples of dp029 Cogsworth.
Another approach taken by AaronHeng in his minibuild of Ironman suit from set
‘#76105-1 The Hulkbuster: Ultron Edition’, is that he has changed the minibuild
to omit the stickered parts (see attached image).
https://store.bricklink.com/AaronHeng?itemID=139793517#/shop?o={"invID":"139793517"}
Miro78:
| Ultimately, people will probably still list sets as incomplete to gain better visibility and to dump off the rest of the unwanted minibuilds in 1 sale as opposed to various minibuilds.
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I guess most of the minibuilds (actually incomplete sets) are where the seller
has taken out the parts they want (usually minifigs) and dumped the rest as set-incomplete
in one sale, but they have to sometimes go to great lengths in their description
to explain what they have on sale and what has been taken out (again usually
minifigs). They have to do this specifically for the novice buyer. If there
were a proper structure (i.e. what we are discussing here) then then seller would
not have to go into an elaborate ‘liability clause’ and the buyer (novice or
not) would know exactly what they are buying. In fact, with minibuilds available
as a new catalog branch, could we eliminate the ‘incomplete’ status (new and
used)? Is the ‘new-incomplete’ set supposed to be for minibuilds; a rampaged
set; or, a set in a box that was damaged and a sealed bag fell out (or a mixture
of the three)? What is the definition of a 'used-incomplete' set?
Miro78:
| As far as the catalog price averages issue, I think incomplete sets need to be marked as incomplete and sale of those should not be listed or used for calculations of averages. Perhaps that is already what is happening, I just wouldn't know.
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Doing a quick investigation (and only one sample set - sorry) of the price guide
for set ‘#76105-1 The Hulkbuster: Ultron Edition’, it appears that the one minibuild
(new-incomplete set) is not included in the average price calculations. See:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?S=76105-1&ColorID=0
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Author: | WoutR | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 16:02 | Subject: | Re: Stop counting neutral feedback as negative | Viewed: | 49 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Dino1 writes:
| Where is the percentage for buyers?
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I don't know.
For buyers, we still use the old system.
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Author: | Dino | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 15:52 | Subject: | Re: Stop counting neutral feedback as negative | Viewed: | 53 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Where is the percentage for buyers? |
Author: | Pretty_Pieces | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 15:13 | Subject: | Re: Minibuilds | Viewed: | 32 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I have commonly sold minibuilds on the "other" auction site. I never bothered
listing them here.
Specifically, the Tardis and control room (separately) of , and the
police car from (no stickers included).
Dawn
Pretty_Pieces
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Author: | WoutR | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 15:13 | Subject: | Re: New buyer LOE to tie up inventory for 14 days | Viewed: | 50 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| And a question (or questions) for a question (not addressed to you), why does
BrickLink not address this decade-old concern?
Is there a bona fide problem with giving sellers & buyers say "only" 6 days to
get something done (like the courtesy of sending of simple message) rather than
the current 14 days?
If yes, what's the problem?
Is instant checkout their one-size-fits-all solution?
Have they told anyone this?
If they have, is there some place to find their positions outside of this needle-in-a-haystack
forum (where I add hay such as this), where administrators' positions are
very low in number and extremely hard to find?
Are they taking the eBay road and discounting the importance of low volume buyers
and sellers?
And did I say "Whoopdeedoo" yet?
In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| Why not make sure that every buyer has to use the instant checkout? That should
solve your problem.
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Personally, I think that the first 7 days are reasonable. When shit happens to
someone, it is easy to be distracted/overwhelmed for a few days. Once a claim
escalates to NPB/NSS/NRS, then the waiting period of ANOTHER 7 days is long.
It is reasonable to expect immediate action at that time.
I would propose something like 7 + 3 days.
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Author: | alahaka | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 15:04 | Subject: | Re: New buyer LOE to tie up inventory for 14 days | Viewed: | 47 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| And a question (or questions) for a question (not addressed to you), why does
BrickLink not address this decade-old concern?
Is there a bona fide problem with giving sellers & buyers say "only" 6 days to
get something done (like the courtesy of sending of simple message) rather than
the current 14 days?
If yes, what's the problem?
Is instant checkout their one-size-fits-all solution?
Have they told anyone this?
If they have, is there some place to find their positions outside of this needle-in-a-haystack
forum (where I add hay such as this), where administrators' positions are
very low in number and extremely hard to find?
Are they taking the eBay road and discounting the importance of low volume buyers
and sellers?
And did I say "Whoopdeedoo" yet?
In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| Why not make sure that every buyer has to use the instant checkout? That should
solve your problem.
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Author: | chetzler | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 15:04 | Subject: | Re: New buyer LOE to tie up inventory for 14 days | Viewed: | 37 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| Hi,
The new buyer's level of effort required to tie up any given seller's
inventory for 14 to 21 days still stands a very, very firm almost none.
I get that irresponsible and indifferent buyers present a difficult challenge,
but the NPB process needs to be significantly shortened to make it something
less than a sick joke.
Eight sets and one entire lot are now off the market for 14-days or more. Whoopdeedo.
For any decisive administrator of BrickLink, please take action on behalf of
the responsible BrickLink community.
A good day to any readers, Matthew
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Why not make sure that every buyer has to use the instant checkout? That should
solve your problem.
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It actually doesn't. I just had to NPB a buyer who used Instant Checkout.
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Author: | RobErNat | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 14:56 | Subject: | Re: New buyer LOE to tie up inventory for 14 days | Viewed: | 54 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| Hi,
The new buyer's level of effort required to tie up any given seller's
inventory for 14 to 21 days still stands a very, very firm almost none.
I get that irresponsible and indifferent buyers present a difficult challenge,
but the NPB process needs to be significantly shortened to make it something
less than a sick joke.
Eight sets and one entire lot are now off the market for 14-days or more. Whoopdeedo.
For any decisive administrator of BrickLink, please take action on behalf of
the responsible BrickLink community.
A good day to any readers, Matthew
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Why not make sure that every buyer has to use the instant checkout? That should
solve your problem.
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And what about non instant payment methods like IBAN/Cash/etc. Auto-checkout
with non instant payment methods will still cause a problems... If autocheckout
becomes more of a 'standard', part of the problem will be solved, but
not 'all', so those should have shorter timeframes depending on 'method'
(and IMHO it should be flexible and a seller setting, not a site wide setting)
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