| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | kzinti  | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2023 23:04 | | Subject: | Re: Who sells Lego by the pound? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, legoranger00 writes:
| | I’m looking for any bricklink stores or websites that sell Lego by the pound.
If you know any bricklink stores or websites that do, please let me know.
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New or used? I've got a bunch of used bulk I'd work a deal on.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jul 11, 2023 18:25 | | Subject: | Re: Canadian Postal Issues | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, uticabrix writes:
| | Is anyone else from the US having postal delivery issues from Canada? Their
postal service has returned 5 of the last 6 we have sent. All of them had address
verified and sent back out only to be returned again. We haven't had a
problem ever with Canadian postal until now.
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Could you give some more details on the items shipped, how they were packaged,
did you print through Paypal's shipping, and any other information that could
help pinpoint the problem? Right off the top of my head, maybe sending in regular
envelope and/or first class mail instead of package rate for goods, improper
addressing on Paypal shipping forwarder service, could be others, details please.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 10, 2023 23:12 | | Subject: | Re: selling parts. | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In General, mkbricksandmore writes:
| | Hi. Everyone I've been selling over a few months. I've suddenly hit a
snag. What's the key to getting people to purchase parts?
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since we have now entered the summer season there is often a dropoff in sales.
they should pick up once we get closer to Q4. the only way to get more sales
is to keep listing and if wanted run larger % sales
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Yes, summer break is the ideal time to catch up on inventory, do sorting, add
in more stock, hit the summer garage sales, it's building time, both inventory
and playing!
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 3, 2023 15:08 | | Subject: | Re: 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer (Not original) | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| In My Own Creation, mipszzz writes:
| | I have a question for everyone out there.
Back in 2004 I started collecting all the pieces for the Star Destroyer and along
with my collection I was able to complete it sometime in 2014.
It is based on the original instructions but I have improvised in some places.
For example the interior technic beams are black and not grey, the repetitive
greebling between the two halves uses different elements and I am missing the
2 grey domes at the top. There are a couple (maybe 4 or 5) missing light grey
plates.
I would think that you would have to be a true Lego Star Wars collector to know
that this is not the original set.
But this is 100% Lego - no compatible pieces.
I am thinking of selling it but I know no idea what it might be worth or if there
would even be a market for such a collection of pieces.
Please give me your thoughts.
Thanks
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I've already parted out several, have a few more to go if you're looking
to finish it out with correct parts and sell it complete.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2023 14:02 | | Subject: | Re: How does everyone sort used? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, tons_of_bricks writes:
| | So we're looking at trying to streamline of processing our used pieces. Currently,
we figured we handle each piece about 6 times from start to finish, and we'd
really like to cut that down a bit. Here's our current process.
1. Get a box of used pieces, break it down into about 40 or so broad categories
(brick modified, tiles, plate 2x, etc.).
2. When one of the boxes of those categories gets full, we'll break it down
to individual pieces.
3. We then take each individual piece and separate them into colors and putting
aside the decorated items.
4. We then take the colors, do the final deep lookover for fakes, defects, etc.
then count what we have.
5. We list each item, putting them into one of our several hundred organized
and labeled bins.
6. When ordered, we pull the piece from their bin and package it up, sending
it to the customer.
So how does everyone else go through the steps? As you can see, each piece is
handled quite a bit, but because of the quantities we deal with, we can't
figure out a way to combine any steps that will still be efficient.
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This is interesting, because I've learned through practice that brains work
differently. I sort out the major stuff first, 1x bricks and plates, 2x bricks
and plates, 3+x bricks and plates, then slopes, trans parts, wheels/tires, and
technic/misc. That makes it easier to go back and sort by color, then by size.
When dealing with large quantities, the bricks and plates sell best, and you
can get them listed quickly, then take your time on the slopes, and technic/misc
stuff which tends to be onesie-twosie type pieces. This is how I sort, but my
wife and kids are color first, then by type, then pretty much how you've
laid out. They can't sort the way I do, their brains have problems registering
things that way, and they go much faster by color, whereas I can fly through
by seeing shapes. In the end, do what works for you, maximum output from the
minimum effort. Leave the slow/low volume movers for later.
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