Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Made_In_Bricks  | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2016 23:12 | | Subject: | Re: Negative Feedback: What if? | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| No, I posted some of the auto negative behaviors and insulting me, using profanity
and asking me to break the law are all reasons for auto negatives, I think people
should be warned about these activities on this site.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2016 13:09 | | Subject: | Re: Personal Collection Inventory | | Viewed: | 128 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, par016 writes:
| | Maybe not a priority at this point, but it would be nice to see BrickLink add
features so that you can keep track of your own personal lego collection. Obviously
you can use a stockroom right now, but it's not optimal and it would be nice
to have it separate from your store so that nothing gets mixed up by accident.
It would also be really nice if when this was implemented, you can go in another
user's store and see what you already have in your personal collection.
That way you can see if you are low on a certain part and need to order more,
etc.
-Pete
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Pete,
What is wrong with using Brickstock for this? My son keeps track of his minifig
collections and all his sets he has stored away after building using brickstock.
It works great.
I personally do not want the powers to be at Bricklink to know what is in my
personal collection.
Thanks,
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2016 17:04 | | Subject: | Re: Feedback Removal for Unhappiness with Customs | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ToriHada writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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So this gets implemented and buyers just leave feedback that doesn't mention
the VAT or other import duties...
They could just leave a neutral that says "seller did not disclose all fees"
Then how does this get changed?
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It is not intended to fix everything or read buyers' minds. But if the non-positive
feedback itself complains about having to pay VAT and customs, I think it is
safe to say that is the main reason for such feedback. If buyers want to hide
their displeasure with paying VAT and customs behind some other reason, so be
it. But I don't think that will happen often enough to make this suggestion
worthless.
Thor
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So isn't better to have feedback where a potential new buyer could see that
the non-positive feedback was because the buyer had beef with customs and not
the seller instead of a buyer seeing bogus feedback?
Thanks,
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2016 14:01 | | Subject: | Re: Feedback Removal for Unhappiness with Customs | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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So this gets implemented and buyers just leave feedback that doesn't mention
the VAT or other import duties...
They could just leave a neutral that says "seller did not disclose all fees"
Then how does this get changed?
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | May 26, 2016 09:12 | | Subject: | Re: Open Bids and Purchase Requests | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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I disagree. Overall, I think it could result in less sales (especially impulse
buys when browsing). And rather than increasing overall sales, I think it would
also just divert or shuffle sales from one seller to another.
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Sales as in # of orders or volume of items sold?
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | May 26, 2016 08:39 | | Subject: | Re: Open Bids and Purchase Requests | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ToriHada writes:
| | Seems like a lot of work for minimal and questionable benefit. Plus some potential
problems as others have noted.
Sorry, but if the item is going to sell quickly anyway (like the example you
used to support this suggestion), what does BrickLink need this for? Maybe it
is just me, but I don't really think it is a problem that someone else bought
it first. First come, first served. The seller got the price he wanted and
the (first) buyer got a nice figure for a price he was willing to pay. Those
who were too slow to order just have to act faster next time. And the existing
Wanted List feature can already quickly tip them off when new things are listed.
Thor
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Remember in the references thread about SW102, the buyer stated publicly he would
pay $$$ for the figure.
Also, the wanted list for this particular item wastes part of his time because
he is looking for a variation on the item. So he gets an e-mail every time one
is listed and most of them are going to be the wrong one.
Now asking, what are the benefits of such a feature is a question.
benefits I see are as follows:
Buyers would be able to place 1 order instead of several if they have the time
to wait
Collectors could put out specifics on items they want without have to browse
many stores to see if the items meet their needs
Sellers could actively initiate more business for themselves.
Buyers could save money by getting parts for less money, not guaranteed, but
he is my example:
I have 1200+ 3004 in blue. Cheapest in the USA is .03 at the amount. If I know
I could unload them all in an order RIGHT NOW for .025 each, they'd be gone.
Buyer wins, Seller wins
Item hasn't sold in at least 6 months, there is no price guide on sales.
Buyers are posting what they are WILLING to pay, it can help me price my item,
maybe perhaps above what buyers are willing to pay and below what the cheapest
for sale is INSTEAD of just undercutting the lowest available by a penny to be
the lowest for sale.
This would also help with items that have 0 for sale as well.
Thanks
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | May 26, 2016 08:24 | | Subject: | Re: Open Bids and Purchase Requests | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | I prefer the view point that this site is for people to connect and share Lego
for the pleasure of it. So I ask myself would this feature assist in this.
And YES it would.
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It isn't for that though, is it?
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It is why it was created...
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money, not for pleasure.
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Well, with the new ownership, I don't know what it is for anymore.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | May 26, 2016 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: Open Bids and Purchase Requests | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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You can’t have a market place that works in all the ways (street market, stock
exchange, auction, Dutch auction, raffle, Chinese auction, etc.) at the same
time, for the same items to boot.
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There used to auctions on BL, I thought it was a great feature and I don't
remember why it was taken down, it was removed during my first year here and
I didn't spend much time in the forums then...because there was chat
| | For now, BL is a street market: sellers propose products at a price, buyers pick
and choose. BL provides the “street” and a little police. If you set up those
“bids” and “requests,” BL would become a stock exchange.
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commodity exchange but I also do think we should allow "futures" 
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I’m not interested in if one type is good or bad, or better or worse. I’m just
saying they are two different kinds of market places. You could have both in
parallel but that’d be two different market places.
As QCBricks explains, you can’t have bits of one in the other without changing
the rules and disrupting the market. Either you totally change the place, or
you create another, totally separated, place.
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Again, I have pointed out a basic idea, and for all I know, this already happens,
I get messages all the time from buyers saying they will pay an amount for something
I have in my store trying to get a deal.
Also, we complain about "slumps" in sales during certain times of the year.
I would think that some sellers would like to actively gain business during this
time of year by connecting with those people who wants items at a discount.
All the comments about "disrupting this or that" can't we all agree that
the biggest "disruption" in this "marketplace" is the cutthroat nature of the
constant under cutting of prices, mainly because there is a certain percentage
of sellers that don't care about making a profit or have NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE
MONEY...
The worries about jacking up prices already happens in the FORUM, the OP of the
thread I posted just alerted tons of sellers that there is a demand for a particular
figure with a printing variation.
Prior to his post, I did not know of this. Now I know and if I come across this
figure you can bet the price is going to be higher that if I just looked at the
price guide.
I gave a basic idea, of course I did not outline every exact idea of implementation,
and I know the idea is not going to get implemented, because nothing from the
suggestions does. I wanted to point out and discuss a way that would help people
complete their collections. I obviously see that more people here are concerned
with small little details than connecting people with what they want...
Thanks,
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | May 26, 2016 08:11 | | Subject: | Re: Open Bids and Purchase Requests | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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So you don't see a single consequence of potentially providing this information
freely?
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I prefer the view point that this site is for people to connect and share Lego
for the pleasure of it. So I ask myself would this feature assist in this.
And YES it would.
If all you do is consider the negatives, nothing will ever get done, there is
no such feature that if you implemented it, everything would be 100% positive.
Any change in the buying/selling experience will have pluses and minuses.
I think the pluses in helping people who have Lego get it to those who do not
are greater than the minuses with the suggestion, thus I made the suggestion.
Think of the dire consequences of allowing Joe Schmoes across the world to open
up a store on a whim and list rare items they don't have, think of all the
possible scams. Better not allow that...
| | What if it crowded out certain buyers? What if it allowed certain sellers
to corner the market on a rare item?
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I believe this already happens thanks to the price guide
| | What if it allowed high dollar buyers to
just shut out small buyers on a limited budget?
I'll give a specific example from our business. There are a few parts that
we use in projects that have a very high margin for us at retail. In some cases
we buy as many as 60-80% of a specific part that is listed on BL in a given month.
In some cases the going rate on BL is just 20-30% of what we are willing
to pay. We'll often buy them at 2-3 times (or more) of the BL average
price if a seller has a decent quantity.
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I don't think it could be any simpler...don't use the feature. Boom,
problem solved...
| | Do you realize what would happen if we chose to make that information public
that we were willing to buy large quantities at 300% of the average price for
a certain part?
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| | Forget for a second that we would probably pay more as sellers
simply met our higher than average "maximum price", but think about all the other
buyers who are only willing to pay the current average price.
Now their parts are potentially 3 times more expensive.
Again, great for BL's fees, great for sellers, great for the buyers willing
to buy at a higher price, but terrible for all the other buyers.
Scott
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | May 25, 2016 15:48 | | Subject: | Re: Open Bids and Purchase Requests | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | There is a difference that the buyer chooses to buy at that time.
A buyer putting up a wants list at $x moves the power from buyer to seller. If
the price drops and the buyer does not cancel their list quick enough, then the
seller decides the sale goes ahead and forces (or tries to force) the buyer to
pay what is now over the odds.
If it was a nonbinding quote, that would be better.
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This was already brought up.
If you as a buyer put out "I want a SW102 for $25" (just a hypothetical) and
a seller comes along with what you want and answers your open bid. And you purchase
it, YOU got what you wanted for the price you were willing to pay.
If the prices DROP or were already dropping and you didn't pay attention,
what is the difference on how the transaction was completed?
This happens all the time. This could happen with auctions on the other site.
You could place a bid to win an item on a 30 day auction and the very same
seller could start selling the same exact item for less, and then at the end
of the auction, you would still be obligated to purchase. In reality, I don't
think prices change THAT fast.
I could see where rare items might go up in price, but I could also see them
going down.
If there is a buyer out there that says I will commit to buy a New Sealed - Mr.
Gold for $1,200 and no Mr. Gold is listed at that price, but a seller wants to
move their merchandise, this now brings the price for the item DOWN. Also, sellers
can use such a tool on where to price rare items that might not have had one
move for 6 months...
Thanks
Ken
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