| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | RedSun  | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2021 19:39 | | Subject: | Long time Lego lover, new seller | | Viewed: | 255 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| Hello all!
I have been a long time lover of Lego, and several years ago I got out of my
"dark ages" and began buying up a ton of bulk lots locally. My goal is to complete
my Classic Space collection first, and then move onto Futuron, etc.
The second intent is to sell complete or nearly complete, used-vintage sets to
keep the hobby going. I'm sure this is what many of you are doing as well.
I have been building up a very large list of sets, and my thought has been to
"hit the ground running" listing everything at once so that buyers are encouraged
to add some smaller sets to their purchase, to save on shipping costs. The small
sets may be difficult to sell without something rarer or bigger to draw the buyer
in first.
Is this a sound idea?
I have read in several posts here, and on other forums that say it is potentially
a bad sign to list a ton of valuable sets/pieces with very little feedback as
scammers tend to do such things. I intend to provide original photos of each
set with my seller name watermarked in said photos.
I have a decent amount of experience selling items on Ebay (vintage automotive
parts, nearly 500 items sold in 2 years), but none whatsoever as a seller on
Bricklink.
I have been sorting and cataloging hundreds of pounds of bricks off-and-on for
nearly two years now, and hope to get a lot listed here shortly. At this point
I do not intend to sell individual pieces unless they are particularly rare or
valuable due to the fact that nearly 100% is good condition used parts. My loose
bricks will be used to complete other sets to be sold.
Any advice, questions, or critiques are welcomed!
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| Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2021 19:06 | | Subject: | Re: Who Pays to Reship Returned Int'l Order? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, Teup writes:
| | I agree though it's not an ideal system and ideally there'd be a system
where they automatically match so any possible confusion would disappear (or
maybe it already works like that with IC?)
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That's exactly how it works with IC - the BrickLink address is the PayPal
address for the order.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2021 18:57 | | Subject: | Re: Who Pays to Reship Returned Int'l Order? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, zorbanj writes:
| | In Shipping, Andrsv writes:
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I can't see that your store terms says that you ship to PayPal address. Was
his bricklink address also wrong? If not, then it's seller who did a mistake.
I would also blame seller even if terms said that you ship to PayPal address.
From the eyes of a buyer, he added his shipping address in bricklink, he buys
from bricklink. Invoice says it will be shipped to bricklink address. When paying,
he doesn't see his PayPal address which could have been added years ago.
I'd say that it's sellers responsible to verify that PayPal address and
bricklink address are the same before shipping to PayPal address.
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I disagree. Sellers *must* ship to the PayPal address or they lose seller protection.
If you do not ship to the PayPal address, the buyer can open a PayPal case and
the seller will automatically lose even if the shipping status shows that the
package was delivered to the "updated" address. This is a common scam.
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I doubt this is common. 90% of my orders used to go untracked worldwide for many
years, so it would not even have mattered if addresses matched or not, and I
never had a single problem with that. If people want to steal, they can do this
easily whether addresses match or not. Just order untracked or disallow PayPal
to draw funds form the connected bank account. That will undo the payment without
even needing to start a claim. Bottomline, it's easy to get screwed over
as a seller with PayPal in either case  But it's just not common - or,
at least, never happened in my case.
The Bricklink address is the address the buyer expects the order to be shipped
to, otherwise why would they enter it. It doesn't serve any other purpose
than that, while PayPal address do have other purposes (e.g. the billing address,
or account verification). So the most logical assumption would be that the Bricklink
address would be used (also because that's similar to entering a shipping
address in webshops).
Of course, sellers can specify otherwise in their terms if they want, but it
has to be really clear.
I agree though it's not an ideal system and ideally there'd be a system
where they automatically match so any possible confusion would disappear (or
maybe it already works like that with IC?)
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2021 18:47 | | Subject: | Re: Electric lights? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Ilikepandas writes:
| | ohhhhhhhh
huh
well
hmm
makes sense
ill have to keep looking into it
i was going to buy some
but i really only want to use one store and i cant find one that has all the
pieces i need
also i dont want to spend alot on it
so idk what imma do
but if anyone has alot of these pieces i might be interested
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Yeah, well, I thought you already had some of the parts but if you haven’t any,
and if you don’t want to build or complete an old set, I wouldn’t buy them just
to use on a MOC. Not only this system has been discontinued, it didn’t last
very long.
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2021 18:42 | | Subject: | Re: Who Pays to Reship Returned Int'l Order? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, NedsBrickShop writes:
| | I shipped an order (from USA) to Mexico a couple weeks ago. The shipping cost
was over $50, which the buyer paid. I just got the notification that the package
is being returned to me "because it could not be delivered as addressed."
I entered the shipping address in PayPal exactly as it appears on the BrickLink
order, so the fault is not mine. The buyer has made a slight change to his shipping
address and wants me to resend it. But now I'm worried about who's going
to pay for it? If I tell the buyer to pay another $50, I fear they will balk
and want a refund instead of reshipment. Then I am out $50 anyway.
Fellow sellers, what do you think is the right course of action?
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How slight is the change? We had a similar case and was able to remove the return
stickers, change the address with a pen, and reship it. It arrived no problem
and no one had to pay another shipping charge.
Then there was another case where the post office returned the package even though
the address was correct. We just reshipped it with the same label and it got
to the customer.
So no one may have to pay another shipping charge.
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