The sales stats on BL have not been updated for a while.
It may help to show the huge growth in BL sales since those old stats were published.
Some sellers' sales are clearly down from what they are saying on the forum but
many others are certainly growing too.
IMO it would be useful to have some basic benchmarking data, either an update
of the pages already in the help centre section, or just something quick to publish.
This will show sellers if it is something they are doing (or not doing) to make
their sales down (going to other sellers which there are many more of these days,
competition is healthier than ever) versus sales as a whole being down (which
would very much surprise me looking at the data we do have like order number
growth, membership growth, etc.).
Sorry to suggest more work! After all the issues with the hacking and so on and
all the work put in to keep the site on track it might help demonstrate that
things overall here are buzzing in terms of the key purpose of the site anyway
i.e. to buy and sell LEGO.
If this can't be done for now then perhaps this can be noted as an area to consider
for later review. Good stats can help serious sellers analyse and grow their
sales by better understanding trends in the marketplace as a whole.
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