| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | yorbrick  | | Posted: | Aug 5, 2022 04:04 | | Subject: | Re: Different Prices Depending on Site Usage | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, BaronBlackbird writes:
| | Howdy,
Has anyone else noticed a difference in prices depending upon which way you access
the site?
Specifically, I looked up a part using a browser via PC indicating the 6 month
average price was ~$23, however when I looked it up via my phone which used the
mobile version (beta site) it indicated the price at ~$13 which I think we can
all agree is a massive difference.
Baron
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Which part?
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 14:56 | | Subject: | Re: Top Sellers with Perfect Feedback List | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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Being on this side of the pond, I'm glad to see Geoff on there. Definitely
my number 1 seller for building supplies, I think about 50 of those feedbacks
are from me! Always fast service and fair prices and postage, and when there
is a sale it's a genuine sale.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 13:01 | | Subject: | Re: Best/worst buyers/sellers you've experienced? | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| The best buyers are ones that pay, then don't complain when they receive
their order or worse still, chargeback without any communication. The best sellers
are ones that send what was ordered in a timely manner.
Whereas the worst buyers are ones that don't pay (not so bad), or pay then
complain and want refunds for nothing (worse). The worst sellers are the ones
that don't send anything, or send the wrong things or wrong conditions, or
send fakes.
Fortunately, in my experience there are far more great buyers and sellers than
bad buyers and sellers.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 12:41 | | Subject: | Re: Compatible Power Adapter for Speed Regulator | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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Thanks for your clear answer !
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As a kid I was taught - "always match the volts and have enough amps". You don't
have to be too precise on the volts for some things (motors, lamps, etc) as changing
the voltage regulates speed or brightness. But going too far over can damage
some things, whereas too far under usually means it just doesn't work.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 11:20 | | Subject: | Re: Polybag 40515? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Turez writes:
I have a friend that was selected for the trial. He mentioned this to me the
other day when I told him the pirate pack was coming for all. He got the Halloween
and Christmas packs but was never offered the pirate pack. Similarly, he was
never surveyed about the scheme at all. I assume LEGO just gave up with the trial
and went ahead with them as normal GWP rather than as VIP selectable gifts.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 10:04 | | Subject: | Re: Bulk Lego Bionicle and 98% complete BNSF set | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | I'd buy the missing pieces and mini-figs and sell the train as complete.
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Same here. Complete sets typically sell better (faster and higher prices) than
incomplete sets. The figures aren't anything special, so are not too pricey
to replace.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 10:01 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink email? is it real? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | I think the epidemic on Bricklink, where sales are tracked transparently, is
surely a sliver compared to eBay. It probably wouldn't take a lot of disincentive
to drive the fakers totally to eBay. It wouldn't solve the root issue, but
it would make it not Bricklink's problem.
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The problem is that if it is on one site, then it is on every site. BL can try
to root out all fakes (if they are fakes), but they will still come here. Maybe
different sellers and maybe in different numbers per seller, but they will still
be here.
If ebay was known to be full of (indistinguishable) fakes and bricklink was assumed
to be clean, then prices here would be higher. And so people would buy on ebay
and sell here. And so BL would not be as clean as thought. It wouldn't have
the 1000+ qty rare figure sellers, but the problem would still be here.
If I listed a C-3PO today, would BL believe it was genuine or not? I could have
bought a (very good, custom printed) fake from eBay or I could have got it from
a set. I could have even bought it from a BL seller in the past and decided to
sell it on. If it looks indistinguishable from a genuine LEGO one, enough to
fool me and to fool the buyer, then nobody will know. Would it even be a problem
then? What if I did it five times. Or 10. Or 50. How many would an individual
need to sell for it to be a problem. And if that is ever answered, then sellers
know exactly how many illegitimate ones they can sell pretending they are real
before the warning light comes on.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 08:55 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink email? is it real? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, George_Lucy writes:
| | What if Lego put limits on how many of a certain figure you could list every
30 days. Maybe not on all figs but certain ones. The only way to stop people
from making fakes is to cut of the ability to sell them in large amounts. If
a fig sold 4000 times on BL is reduced to 300-400 the demand will go away. This
will also increase the value a bit. There is no easy way to stop it.
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I guess they could, but that doesn't stop the same seller selling the same
item in multiple places or having multiple accounts under other names. From what
I have seen on some facebook groups, deals for very large quantities of figures
seem to get discussed there.
It would also hit high volume sellers of things like CMFs or cheap figures from
cheap sets, unless the limits were placed on specific figures only.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 08:44 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink email? is it real? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | I think the counterfeit minifigs are probably a bigger threat to Bricklink than
they are to LEGO. It costs LEGO some sale opportunities and they'd like
someone not to be stealing their IP, but they obviously don't think it warrants
changes to their business model to head it off.
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Very true. It wold be interesting to see how much BL issues with things like
this get passed on to LEGO corporate, but I guess we'll never know that!
If BL is seeing lots of fakes, or lots of stolen or illegitimate items, now that
they are owned by LEGO presumably there is a route for that information to pass
from one to the other, at least more than possible than in the past.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 08:15 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink email? is it real? | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | | The only reason it’s a hot mess, is that demand has outstripped legitimate supply
to the extent the some people can turn a profit by selling counterfeit. TLG has
control over the legitimate supply chain, and could very quickly solve this.
But doing so would yank the rug out from under various sellers, so it’s a catch-22
situation.
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The problem they have is that they have created a monster in the form of the
minifigure. Lots of people collect them now and don't necessarily want the
sets they came in. Yet LEGO want to sell lots of new sets every year and to do
so have to keep coming up with slightly different versions of minifigures to
make them attractive. If they put the same old version of C-3PO into the UCS
Landspeeder that has been around for some years, there wouldn't be the issue
of fakes of C-3PO.
Could LEGO kill off any counterfeit sales by putting the high demand figures
in multiple cheaper sets? Sure. But they'd also damage the sales volume of
the larger sets as minifigure collectors or resellers wouldn't buy the larger
sets.
Of course it is not as black and white as that, and there are still people that
enjoy building LEGO too (luckily!). But while there are large demands for figures
and those figures only appear in large sets, something has to give. Either LEGO
gives in and puts the figures in smaller sets or there will be money to be made
by selling counterfeit (and that is more money than by parting out the sets).
I think (at least for now) that LEGO will tend to chase the money of the big
sets and have to live with counterfeits for sale here and elsewhere, than give
up on the exclusive figures in larger sets. I dread to think what level counterfeit
figures would have to be at to make them change their minds.
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