Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | BricksShop  | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2017 06:39 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7877-1 | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 47753pb0711 Yellow Wedge 4 x 4 No Top Studs with Black and Red Diamonds Pattern (Sticker) - Set 7877 (Counterpart)
Comments from Submitter:
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| Author: | CALBrickLAB | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2017 02:34 | | Subject: | Re: notify sellers when set inventory updated | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | I am all for an efficient notification system, but I do think sometimes people
get worried about things that don't end up happening. Did you have any buyers
complain about something traced to this partout?
Russell
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I didn't have a complaint about this partout, it just served as a good example.
This topic stems from a thread I read earlier today where someone asked how much
it mattered to buyers weither you distinguished between part versions:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1032668
It seemed that the general consensus was that while most buyers don't care
either way, some buyers do care an awful lot. We as sellers should try to satisfy
all of our customers, so we should assume that every buyer will care.
It doesn't matter that you and I think that an arch with cross supports has
the same functionality as one without. There's always a buyer out there that
has found a new way to use the piece and does care if the opening is blocked.
(Or at least a buyer that will use your mistake to ask for his money back.)
Romy
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 20:53 | | Subject: | Re: Catalog display | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I couldn't agree more. The shading used on all the list features on this
site is one of its most practical, logical features. I can't think of any
reason to stop using it.
Jen
In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
| | Our store inventory pages have a subtle background color change that alternates
between each item.
I suggest that the catalog pages have that same feature.
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| Author: | JulieK | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 18:53 | | Subject: | Catalog display | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
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| Our store inventory pages have a subtle background color change that alternates
between each item.
I suggest that the catalog pages have that same feature.
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| Author: | CALBrickLAB | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 18:16 | | Subject: | Re: notify sellers when set inventory updated | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Who said you have to count every part in every set? If you are parting out many
copies of one set, surely it makes sense to verify the inventory once for all
the sets with the same batch number.
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You are correct here. That is what we should do, but it doesn't always work
that way. We often dump the bags out into bins long before we actually part out
a set. It's my fault for not taking that extra step to verify before throwing
the LEGO box away, but it happens. We have other ways that work for us rather
than verifying each part.
My point with this post is that it could be an ADDITIONAL tool for sellers.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 16:31 | | Subject: | Re: notify sellers when set inventory updated | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Who said you have to count every part in every set? If you are parting out many
copies of one set, surely it makes sense to verify the inventory once for all
the sets with the same batch number.
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| Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 16:20 | | Subject: | Re: notify sellers when set inventory updated | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, CALBrickLAB writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | For the second scenario, don't you count parts when parting out?
If so, there wouldn't be an error that needs correcting.
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Not every lot. Especially if it's a piece that is in a lot of sets, sometimes
it's not worth the time to count out every lot.
The example I gave in the reply I just posted above wasn't arbitrary. I parted
out 24 of set 70751 (temple of airjitzu) on Dec 9, 2015. That set has 1965 parts,
13 mini figures, 447 lots, 51 lots as extra items, 17 lots as counterparts, and
4 lots as alternates. It was inventoried on August 26, 2015, confirmed on Oct
3, 2015, with 9 logs of inventory changes. 3 of those inventory changes occurred
after I parted it out.
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Nothing of consequence changed since you parted out:
Jan 9, 2016 - Treasure Chests moved to counterpart. This saved you the extra
step of assembling 48 treasure chests. But it didn't cause a problem with
a buyer.
Feb 3, 2016 - Spear to specific version. No buyer problem here either. And in
case you would like to use the determined entry, you *were* notified about this
when the undetermined spear entry was marked for deletion.
Mar 16, 2016 - large arch becomes new type. I don't believe there is any
functional difference, just that the newer one has more reinforcements underneath.
And strictly speaking, I do believe the older one is an umbrella entry that includes
the other one:
Part 14707 Brick, Arch 1 x 12 x 3 Raised Arch
Part 18838 Brick, Arch 1 x 12 x 3 Raised Arch with 5 Cross Supports
I am all for an efficient notification system, but I do think sometimes people
get worried about things that don't end up happening. Did you have any buyers
complain about something traced to this partout?
Russell
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| Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 16:00 | | Subject: | Re: notify sellers when set inventory updated | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, CALBrickLAB writes:
| | I knew I couldn't have been the first person to suggest it! I don't understand
all the objections in that thread. We work hard to identify problems before uploading
sets. OF COURSE we do! That doesn't mean that we might not miss something.
Especially my scenario where the lot piece count changes. Say I am uploading
20 of a set with 2000 parts each, 450 lots. I don't believe that the majority
of stores are counting out all 40,000 pieces.
Sometimes I catch the catalog errors while I'm sorting. But there have been
times when I haven't. This feature would be good for BrickLink because it
would reduce order errors. And order errors seem to be the #1 complaint of buyers.
Happy buyers, more retained customers, more orders, Bricklink corporate makes
more money.
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One of the things I believe would be very helpful to sellers, is that if a set
had an inventory note, this would be displayed in bold on its own page at the
start of the partout process. This is where you look for oddball stuff happening
to sets, and even for sellers not particular about variants etc, everyone really
should read the inv note before parting out. It can save a lot of headaches down
the road.
I am all for a notification system, plus a number of other features to give sellers
more choices during partout.
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| Author: | CALBrickLAB | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 15:56 | | Subject: | Re: notify sellers when set inventory updated | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | For the second scenario, don't you count parts when parting out?
If so, there wouldn't be an error that needs correcting.
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Not every lot. Especially if it's a piece that is in a lot of sets, sometimes
it's not worth the time to count out every lot.
The example I gave in the reply I just posted above wasn't arbitrary. I parted
out 24 of set 70751 (temple of airjitzu) on Dec 9, 2015. That set has 1965 parts,
13 mini figures, 447 lots, 51 lots as extra items, 17 lots as counterparts, and
4 lots as alternates. It was inventoried on August 26, 2015, confirmed on Oct
3, 2015, with 9 logs of inventory changes. 3 of those inventory changes occurred
after I parted it out.
You can lay as much hate on me as you like, but I did not count out all 47,000+
pieces. Especially because I knew I had more unlisted inventory that I could
fall back on if I ran into a problem. Your store currently has less than 10,000
items. Counting that one upload would be like me counting your whole store 5
times. I'm not trying to be rude here, just trying to give some perspective.
There comes a point where I have to trust the BrickLink catalogue.
On the wrong item scenario, again, look at the Temple of Airjitzu partout I refer
to above. The last inventory change occurred on March 16, 2016. It was changing
the type of arch from "14707 Brick, Arch 1 x 12 x 3 Raised Arch" to "18838 Brick,
Arch 1 x 12 x 3 Raised Arch with 5 Cross Supports." So I originally had it listed
as the type that doesn't specify, when it turns out that I had the type with
5 cross supports. For whatever reason, those two parts don't even share the
same part ID. So I see 14707, not 14707a or 14707b. Many sellers wouldn't
even know that there is a completely different part to check for unless they
went to that part's individual catalogue page.
Of course, I could argue to a buyer that the unspecified type doesn't exclude
cross supports. But I WANT to give my buyers exactly what they ask for. BrickLink
should too. It's good for business.
Romy
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| Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2017 15:51 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, TokerSays writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
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All of which is fine (more or less). But it becomes a bit of a problem when sellers
who want to list that "$10" minifigure for $10 show up on a BrickLink tool as
being 75% higher than average.
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Who said it was a “$10” minifigure?
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The buyers who are willing to pay $10 for it. As I said in my post, it's
only a "$10" minifig because people are buying it for $10. I even put it in quotes
to highlight how that number does not actually indicate something intrinsic in
the minifig.
| | The Seller selling it for $10? Was it Lego?
Lego can tell me it’s a $10 minifigure and I have to pay $10 because it’s Lego’s
product. I’m not buying from Lego. I’m buying from a reseller. The official
Lego price no longer comes into play. The price now is what the resellers are
selling it for. 10 other Sellers think its worth $6. Doesn’t their opinion
of value matter?
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It does. But what matters more than what the sellers think it's worth is
what the buyers think it's worth.
I was previously told that if a piece has an average price
| | of $0.33 and it’s selling for $1.48 then I need to gauge how much that piece
is worth to me.
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You should. Buyers determine the value.
| | Shouldn’t that same courtesy be extended to Sellers to who think
their piece is worth $6? If 10 Sellers think the piece is worth $6 then that
piece is now worth $6 and the $10 Seller made an investment that may not have
been wise.
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It's worth whatever a buyer who is willing to hand over money thinks it's
worth.
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Think of Lego as stock. Sellers purchase stock in Lego and then as a broker
they resell it. They do this hoping that the stock they buy will increase in
price. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down. Most of that up and down
depends on what other brokers are selling that stock for. It also depends on
the available of stock, and on the reputation of the company. I buy stock in
Lego. I buy it from the Seller brokers. I walk into the Bricklink marketplace
and I see hundreds of Sellers and they’re all showing me their prices and right
next to their price I should see an average 6 month price. That price should
not include shipping, handling, fee and surcharges. Those are brokerage fees.
You research your broker fees before you decide to do business with them. That
research is different from price research. No one takes all brokerage fees,
adds them up and divides them into an average and adds them to the average price
of stock. When I walk into Bricklink I should see prices and right next to them
I should see average prices. Do you know why?
Because I just picked up my phone and opened the app that shows me the actual
real world stock I own. The app shows me the current market value of that stock
and right next to it – it shows me the 52 week high and the 52 week low.
It’s an awfully useful app. I wish Brinklink had one.
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Except that your stock market app does NOT show the average price of the stocks
available for purchase. It would show you the prices that it has sold at, and
the lowest price available. BrickLink also does that.
But, your analogy is deeply flawed in other ways.
--
Marc.
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