| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | nallen44  | | Posted: | Jun 17, 2021 07:03 | | Subject: | Old baseplates | | Viewed: | 128 times | | Topic: | General | |
| I recently purchased a group of older Lego sets including some castle sets.
It was someone's childhood collection. The sets were mostly complete, some
missing a few small parts. Boxes and instructions in good shape. Sold a set
and the buyer thought two 8x16 base plates looked like they were cut from a 16x16
plate. Sent a partial refund but not fully convinced this was the case as when
I inventoried the set nothing jumped out at me as being wrong. I guess the question
is were the older base plates cut/manufactured differently than newer ones?
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| Author: | Grego | | Posted: | Jun 17, 2021 01:44 | | Subject: | Re: New or used? How do you see it? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, Hurt writes:
| | In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, gwurst writes:
| | In your situation I might ask for a partial refund and then list them as used
but like-new and only stacked once. 
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BL policy discourages listing items as "like new":
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=102
"Please do not use phrases such as "Like New" or "As New" in the description
of any item, regardless of whether it is being listed as NEW or USED."
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I wonder why? It's clear for NEW items to not do this, but for USED ones?
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Goes back to eBay listing rules ...it's called keyword SPAMMing
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| Author: | Daragh | | Posted: | Jun 16, 2021 19:53 | | Subject: | Re: New or used? How do you see it? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Unfortunately they are "used" in my mind.
At least they stagger-stacked them. I had a similar issue some time ago and over
1000 1x2, 1x3 and 2x2 plates were stacked. Boy did I have sore fingers after
separating them all.
I resold them as used after a partial refund from seller, but I understand that
might not suit you, so I would look to return the whole order.
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| Author: | bricknationtoys | | Posted: | Jun 16, 2021 17:28 | | Subject: | Re: New or used? How do you see it? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Of course the buyer wouldn't know but it isn't about if you can tell
the difference or not. You also wouldn't know if someone built a set first,
carefully took it apart and sold the parts as new.
In my dictionary Lego parts that were joined together count as used. Wheater
you build a stack for shipping or a tiny skyscraper. The moment you join two
new parts together you have two used parts. Hopefully the photo illustrates it
well.
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| Author: | Fr0stByt3 | | Posted: | Jun 16, 2021 16:11 | | Subject: | Re: New or used? How do you see it? | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | General | |
| I'm not picky about parts unless they're scuffed, cracked, or obviously
worn. Personally as a buyer I wouldn't mind it too much since I was used
to clicking parts together at the Pick-A-Brick wall in the local LEGO store anyway
to get more for my money. I'd rather clicked bricks than loose scuffed ones
but some buyers aren't like me and so OP's concerns are noted.
But this brings up a good point. How many sellers here would buy parts from the
Pick-a-Brick, click them together, then sell them new on Bricklink with or without
taking them apart before shipping them out? Would the buyer even know in most
instances?
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