| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bje  | | Posted: | Sep 18, 2020 03:53 | | Subject: | Re: Please improve min average lot explanation | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Again, can Bricklink please do something about the way the mininum average lot
value is explained to the buyer? I am getting many messages about it and find
myself explaining the same thing over and over. Please improve these descriptions
in the interface. Maybe by including an example, and by changing the terminology.
As is evident from many forum posts as well, many fresh buyers don't even
know what a "lot" is supposed to mean, let alone they will understand the concept
of minimum average lot value.
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Walk into store to buy bread, get to till, no you MUST buy 1 kilogram of fillet
steak as well so that the average price of the goods you buy is more than what
the bread costs, which is the only thing you need. Leave bread, walk out.
It does not matter how good you explain it, buyers do not understand how you
have an item on the shelf you are not willing to sell for the price you are advertising
it at, or for which you need a degree in mathematics to work out how many you
must put in a cart before you can, well, pay for it at checkout.
I would rather BL take this away altogether. You already have minimum buys to
avoid small orders, you can already set a minimum lot quantity for purchase.
Why give an impression that an item can ship by itself, when you as the seller
is not willing to sell it like that? It confuses buyers when sellers willfully
shows prices for goods they are not willing to sell at.
Rather suggest, if sellers really want to use this, that the quantities the buyer
wants cannot be added to the cart unless the minimum average is met automatically.
That way the cart is managed for the buyer and nobody has to know the why and
the wherefores of why an item cannot be bought for the price it is listed at.
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| Author: | ZwarteMagica | | Posted: | Sep 18, 2020 03:49 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Auctions! | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Sound like fun to put items on auction.
Please also make Dutch auction possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
I do too...
I still think it would be a fantastic generator of traffic, commerce and fun!
-popsicle
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We are going to be looking at the Suggestions topic in the near future and seeing
what can be done. I have reset this suggestion to Open. So if you are inclined,
please vote.
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| Author: | uvt203 | | Posted: | Sep 18, 2020 03:21 | | Subject: | Re: Please improve min average lot explanation | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| +1 - YES!
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Again, can Bricklink please do something about the way the mininum average lot
value is explained to the buyer? I am getting many messages about it and find
myself explaining the same thing over and over. Please improve these descriptions
in the interface. Maybe by including an example, and by changing the terminology.
As is evident from many forum posts as well, many fresh buyers don't even
know what a "lot" is supposed to mean, let alone they will understand the concept
of minimum average lot value.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 18, 2020 03:16 | | Subject: | Re: Please improve min average lot explanation | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Again, can Bricklink please do something about the way the mininum average lot
value is explained to the buyer? I am getting many messages about it and find
myself explaining the same thing over and over. Please improve these descriptions
in the interface. Maybe by including an example, and by changing the terminology.
As is evident from many forum posts as well, many fresh buyers don't even
know what a "lot" is supposed to mean, let alone they will understand the concept
of minimum average lot value.
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Maybe add suggestions: "Try increasing the quantities of some items in your cart,
add a more valuable item, or remove some low value items from your cart."
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| Author: | BrickCompulsion | | Posted: | Sep 18, 2020 03:15 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Auctions! | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
I do too...
I still think it would be a fantastic generator of traffic, commerce and fun!
-popsicle
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We are going to be looking at the Suggestions topic in the near future and seeing
what can be done. I have reset this suggestion to Open. So if you are inclined,
please vote.
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its a yes from me - I would love to see auctions on here. I think it would bring
a lot of traffic from the other well know auction site
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 18, 2020 03:10 | | Subject: | Please improve min average lot explanation | | Viewed: | 149 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Again, can Bricklink please do something about the way the mininum average lot
value is explained to the buyer? I am getting many messages about it and find
myself explaining the same thing over and over. Please improve these descriptions
in the interface. Maybe by including an example, and by changing the terminology.
As is evident from many forum posts as well, many fresh buyers don't even
know what a "lot" is supposed to mean, let alone they will understand the concept
of minimum average lot value.
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| Author: | dearlydeparted | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2020 17:15 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Auctions! | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Thanks, Judith!
btw, my daughter and I were just yesterday, talking about Rhode Island's
fall foliage.
Are you looking forward to it, next month?
Found this photo looking up what this year is projected to be like
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I'm not so sure it will be colorful in RI this year. We, like the west coast,
have been classified as Extreme Drought conditions. So I think it will be an
early leaf drop with lots of browning. It is downright crunchy here - I gave
up on my gardens. We need rain!
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2020 17:10 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Auctions! | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, dearlydeparted writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
Auctions didn't do resoundingly well for the sellers, but I still welcome
the venue. Voted yes.
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Thanks, Judith!
btw, my daughter and I were just yesterday, talking about Rhode Island's
fall foliage.
Are you looking forward to it, next month?
Found this photo looking up what this year is projected to be like
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| Author: | jeslego | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2020 16:57 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Auctions! | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, jeslego writes:
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Auctions work best where the market is thin and the true market clearing price
is difficult for a seller to intuit. There is no need to auction bulk white
bricks. There is an absolute need to auction a store display from the 70's. […]
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What if auctions were limited to (non-custom) items that don’t have a 6-month
history?
Or a small one.
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My expectation is that this is the exact type of item that sellers would want
to sell via auction.
The other is bulk lots.
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| Author: | dearlydeparted | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2020 16:35 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Auctions! | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
Auctions didn't do resoundingly well for the sellers, but I still welcome
the venue. Voted yes.
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