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| | | Author: | infinibrix  | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 06:53 | | Subject: | BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 284 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I don't know if this applies to all sellers but I rarely list my entire inventory
for any individual minifig part all at the same time mainly because whenever
I've done this in the past there usally comes a point when someone will buy
out all your stock in one go however many hundreds of the same part you might
have!
This is usually because you've dropped your guard and are suddenly selling
well below the BL average for the current price/demand and of course at that
point its too late for you to adjust your pricing to fit in line with current
market value. The other thing is I like to hold back stock for future minifig
builds as there's nothing worse than having to buy back minifig parts at
double or even tripple the price you once sold them for yourself!
Anyway getting to the point....
This can mean that with the smaller amounts I list in my store at any one time
I can unknowingly sell out of a part for weeks or months at a time before I even
notice and remember to replensih my store inventory again which is not good for
buyers, not good for BL and certainly not good for me!
Therefore I can't help but wonder whether BL should implement a similar system
to Brickowl where as your picking your order you can also see exactly how many
you will have left in your store thereby allowing you to easily re-adjust your
inventory as you go?
Even ebay has now implemented this feature as I think they also recognise that
this helps prompt sellers to replenish or re-purchase stocks before selling out!
I've also noticed that many other BL sellers try to get around this problem
by creating 4 or 5 listings for the same part all with varyig prices so that
as they sell out at the cheapest price they still have the same item listed at
higher prices but this just creates clutter and makes shopping with these sellers
very frustrating as you end up having to search through quadruple the number
of pages seeing the same items come up again and again!
Really not sure why Sellers do this as its not good for business and I've
quite often found myself having to give up with browsing any further through
their stores.
Does anyone share a similar view on this or perhaps theres a different way around
this that I'm missing?
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| | | | | Author: | BricksThatStick | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 07:17 | | Subject: | Re: BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | I don't know if this applies to all sellers but I rarely list my entire inventory
for any individual minifig part all at the same time mainly because whenever
I've done this in the past there usally comes a point when someone will buy
out all your stock in one go however many hundreds of the same part you might
have!
This is usually because you've dropped your guard and are suddenly selling
well below the BL average for the current price/demand and of course at that
point its too late for you to adjust your pricing to fit in line with current
market value. The other thing is I like to hold back stock for future minifig
builds as there's nothing worse than having to buy back minifig parts at
double or even tripple the price you once sold them for yourself!
Anyway getting to the point....
This can mean that with the smaller amounts I list in my store at any one time
I can unknowingly sell out of a part for weeks or months at a time before I even
notice and remember to replensih my store inventory again which is not good for
buyers, not good for BL and certainly not good for me!
Therefore I can't help but wonder whether BL should implement a similar system
to Brickowl where as your picking your order you can also see exactly how many
you will have left in your store thereby allowing you to easily re-adjust your
inventory as you go?
Even ebay has now implemented this feature as I think they also recognise that
this helps prompt sellers to replenish or re-purchase stocks before selling out!
I've also noticed that many other BL sellers try to get around this problem
by creating 4 or 5 listings for the same part all with varyig prices so that
as they sell out at the cheapest price they still have the same item listed at
higher prices but this just creates clutter and makes shopping with these sellers
very frustrating as you end up having to search through quadruple the number
of pages seeing the same items come up again and again!
Really not sure why Sellers do this as its not good for business and I've
quite often found myself having to give up with browsing any further through
their stores.
Does anyone share a similar view on this or perhaps theres a different way around
this that I'm missing?
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Go here and tick the show quantity left box...
https://www.bricklink.com/orderSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
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| | | | | | | Author: | Pippysblocks | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 07:31 | | Subject: | Re: BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Yes, I was selling here for six months before I realised this feature exists,
you have to turn it on (tick box). It's really handy and also lets you double
check quantity left so like a mini stock take.
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| | | | | Author: | MarshMan80 | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 07:22 | | Subject: | Re: BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | I don't know if this applies to all sellers but I rarely list my entire inventory
for any individual minifig part all at the same time mainly because whenever
I've done this in the past there usally comes a point when someone will buy
out all your stock in one go however many hundreds of the same part you might
have!
This is usually because you've dropped your guard and are suddenly selling
well below the BL average for the current price/demand and of course at that
point its too late for you to adjust your pricing to fit in line with current
market value. The other thing is I like to hold back stock for future minifig
builds as there's nothing worse than having to buy back minifig parts at
double or even tripple the price you once sold them for yourself!
Anyway getting to the point....
This can mean that with the smaller amounts I list in my store at any one time
I can unknowingly sell out of a part for weeks or months at a time before I even
notice and remember to replensih my store inventory again which is not good for
buyers, not good for BL and certainly not good for me!
Therefore I can't help but wonder whether BL should implement a similar system
to Brickowl where as your picking your order you can also see exactly how many
you will have left in your store thereby allowing you to easily re-adjust your
inventory as you go?
Even ebay has now implemented this feature as I think they also recognise that
this helps prompt sellers to replenish or re-purchase stocks before selling out!
I've also noticed that many other BL sellers try to get around this problem
by creating 4 or 5 listings for the same part all with varyig prices so that
as they sell out at the cheapest price they still have the same item listed at
higher prices but this just creates clutter and makes shopping with these sellers
very frustrating as you end up having to search through quadruple the number
of pages seeing the same items come up again and again!
Really not sure why Sellers do this as its not good for business and I've
quite often found myself having to give up with browsing any further through
their stores.
Does anyone share a similar view on this or perhaps theres a different way around
this that I'm missing?
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I think Bricklink has this already. I can see how much is left in my inventory
as I'm picking an order.
-Hit My Store and when you see all of your current orders hit the setting link
at the top. and check the box that says "Show Qty Left in My Inventory"
Is this what your talking about???
Marshal
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| | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 07:32 | | Subject: | Re: BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Thanks guys feel so stupid now and am so glad I asked the question as its going
to make a big difference to me going forward although I can't help but wonder
whether it should be ticked as default? (unless I accidentally unticked it?)
Only there are so many other sellers out there that are creating multiple listings
of the same item with staggered prices that I'm sure they can't be aware
of this feature??
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | BricksThatStick | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 07:46 | | Subject: | Re: BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | Thanks guys feel so stupid now and am so glad I asked the question as its going
to make a big difference to me going forward although I can't help but wonder
whether it should be ticked as default? (unless I accidentally unticked it?)
Only there are so many other sellers out there that are creating multiple listings
of the same item with staggered prices that I'm sure they can't be aware
of this feature??
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I would guess the majority of those are ending up with multiple listings because
they don't consolidate whilst parting out sets.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 08:51 | | Subject: | Re: BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I guess that is a possibility with some sellers but judging by the way the pricing
is carefully structured into gradual increments I think a lot of sellers do this
intentionally for the reasons mentioned.
I also once purchased from a seller who had about 4 or 5 differently priced lisitngs
for the same part. I bought all of his cheaper ones yet when I suggested I'd
be willing to buy more of that same stock if he was willing to price match to
what I'd already payed he pretty much confirmed to me that once his cheaper
priced stock was gone you have to pay a little more each time as his remaining
stock depletes
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