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| | Author: | bb967970 | Posted: | Jul 30, 2018 21:03 | Subject: | Damaged or Discolored filtering | Viewed: | 87 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi folks,
I've been getting a bunch of orders lately with severely damaged and discolored
bricks that are coming out of big orders. While I attempt to skim the orders
for things that stand out like that, it seems like its easy to miss these things,
and then I wind up with dozens of low quality bricks I wouldn't give to kids
for free.
I have two suggestions:
1. Create a new category for quality. We have new, we have used (should probably
be renamed to gently used) and there could be a third category for "partially
digested, covered in feces, discolored" or use a number rating system like
comic books do.
2. ANY comments on the item made by the seller should be highlighted in a different
color. When I am skimming a list of several hundred bricks, the seller notes
tend to get lost in with the brick description. Leave the brick description
black, and make the seller comments red. If I see red, I'll know something
needs to be read more carefully.
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| | | | Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Jul 31, 2018 04:50 | Subject: | Re: Damaged or Discolored filtering | Viewed: | 32 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| The idea for different qualities for used parts has been suggested many times
in the past and never taken up.
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| | | | Author: | WoutR | Posted: | Jul 31, 2018 06:08 | Subject: | Re: Damaged or Discolored filtering | Viewed: | 28 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Canadeon writes:
| Hi folks,
I've been getting a bunch of orders lately with severely damaged and discolored
bricks that are coming out of big orders. While I attempt to skim the orders
for things that stand out like that, it seems like its easy to miss these things,
and then I wind up with dozens of low quality bricks I wouldn't give to kids
for free.
I have two suggestions:
1. Create a new category for quality. We have new, we have used (should probably
be renamed to gently used) and there could be a third category for "partially
digested, covered in feces, discolored" or use a number rating system like
comic books do.
2. ANY comments on the item made by the seller should be highlighted in a different
color. When I am skimming a list of several hundred bricks, the seller notes
tend to get lost in with the brick description. Leave the brick description
black, and make the seller comments red. If I see red, I'll know something
needs to be read more carefully.
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Sellers have to describe the condition of used parts accurately, but that also
means that buyers have to read those comments. Don't skim the list, but read.
Also, the cheaper the lot, the more likely you are to see some quality issues.
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| | | | Author: | 62Bricks | Posted: | Jul 31, 2018 06:17 | Subject: | Re: Damaged or Discolored filtering | Viewed: | 28 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Canadeon writes:
| Hi folks,
I've been getting a bunch of orders lately with severely damaged and discolored
bricks that are coming out of big orders. While I attempt to skim the orders
for things that stand out like that, it seems like its easy to miss these things,
and then I wind up with dozens of low quality bricks I wouldn't give to kids
for free.
I have two suggestions:
1. Create a new category for quality. We have new, we have used (should probably
be renamed to gently used) and there could be a third category for "partially
digested, covered in feces, discolored" or use a number rating system like
comic books do.
2. ANY comments on the item made by the seller should be highlighted in a different
color. When I am skimming a list of several hundred bricks, the seller notes
tend to get lost in with the brick description. Leave the brick description
black, and make the seller comments red. If I see red, I'll know something
needs to be read more carefully.
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The solution to this problem is for sellers not to list badly damaged or discolored
parts at all.
Rather than complicating the problem with rating systems or long descriptions,
Bricklink should adopt a policy that damaged or discolored pieces should be sold
as custom lots only and not under the individual catalog entries.
To my mind there are two qualities of used part - those good enough to sell,
and those not. As a seller, I do not have the time to categorize parts into ten
possible grades. I have time to look at each part and decide if it's good
enough to list or not.
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| | | | | | Author: | WoutR | Posted: | Jul 31, 2018 06:34 | Subject: | Re: Damaged or Discolored filtering | Viewed: | 36 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, Canadeon writes:
| Hi folks,
I've been getting a bunch of orders lately with severely damaged and discolored
bricks that are coming out of big orders. While I attempt to skim the orders
for things that stand out like that, it seems like its easy to miss these things,
and then I wind up with dozens of low quality bricks I wouldn't give to kids
for free.
I have two suggestions:
1. Create a new category for quality. We have new, we have used (should probably
be renamed to gently used) and there could be a third category for "partially
digested, covered in feces, discolored" or use a number rating system like
comic books do.
2. ANY comments on the item made by the seller should be highlighted in a different
color. When I am skimming a list of several hundred bricks, the seller notes
tend to get lost in with the brick description. Leave the brick description
black, and make the seller comments red. If I see red, I'll know something
needs to be read more carefully.
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The solution to this problem is for sellers not to list badly damaged or discolored
parts at all.
Rather than complicating the problem with rating systems or long descriptions,
Bricklink should adopt a policy that damaged or discolored pieces should be sold
as custom lots only and not under the individual catalog entries.
To my mind there are two qualities of used part - those good enough to sell,
and those not. As a seller, I do not have the time to categorize parts into ten
possible grades. I have time to look at each part and decide if it's good
enough to list or not.
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I am buying cheap "filler brick quality" 3001 and 3001old. Those absolutely need
an accurate description, but not a ban.
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| | | | | | | | Author: | 62Bricks | Posted: | Jul 31, 2018 17:53 | Subject: | Re: Damaged or Discolored filtering | Viewed: | 27 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, Canadeon writes:
| Hi folks,
I've been getting a bunch of orders lately with severely damaged and discolored
bricks that are coming out of big orders. While I attempt to skim the orders
for things that stand out like that, it seems like its easy to miss these things,
and then I wind up with dozens of low quality bricks I wouldn't give to kids
for free.
I have two suggestions:
1. Create a new category for quality. We have new, we have used (should probably
be renamed to gently used) and there could be a third category for "partially
digested, covered in feces, discolored" or use a number rating system like
comic books do.
2. ANY comments on the item made by the seller should be highlighted in a different
color. When I am skimming a list of several hundred bricks, the seller notes
tend to get lost in with the brick description. Leave the brick description
black, and make the seller comments red. If I see red, I'll know something
needs to be read more carefully.
|
The solution to this problem is for sellers not to list badly damaged or discolored
parts at all.
Rather than complicating the problem with rating systems or long descriptions,
Bricklink should adopt a policy that damaged or discolored pieces should be sold
as custom lots only and not under the individual catalog entries.
To my mind there are two qualities of used part - those good enough to sell,
and those not. As a seller, I do not have the time to categorize parts into ten
possible grades. I have time to look at each part and decide if it's good
enough to list or not.
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I am buying cheap "filler brick quality" 3001 and 3001old. Those absolutely need
an accurate description, but not a ban.
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I think they should be listed as custom lots. Looking through the current listings
for 3001s, I see many, many listings at one cent each that are described as damaged,
scratched, discolored, etc. and the quantities are less than 5. Nobody looking
for filler bricks is going to buy them one or two at a time from 100 different
shops. They would be best sold as large custom lots. Given BL's current search
function, they would actually be easier to search for and find there than in
the regular listings (unless you use goatleg).
(In the meantime, that seller who is listing one heavily damaged brick for one
cent is probably going to have that brick in his inventory forever. The longest-listed
one I found in the three minutes I spent checking has been for sale since March,
2013.)
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| | | | | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | Posted: | Jul 31, 2018 18:03 | Subject: | Re: Damaged or Discolored filtering | Viewed: | 30 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| In Suggestions, 62Bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, Canadeon writes:
| Hi folks,
I've been getting a bunch of orders lately with severely damaged and discolored
bricks that are coming out of big orders. While I attempt to skim the orders
for things that stand out like that, it seems like its easy to miss these things,
and then I wind up with dozens of low quality bricks I wouldn't give to kids
for free.
I have two suggestions:
1. Create a new category for quality. We have new, we have used (should probably
be renamed to gently used) and there could be a third category for "partially
digested, covered in feces, discolored" or use a number rating system like
comic books do.
2. ANY comments on the item made by the seller should be highlighted in a different
color. When I am skimming a list of several hundred bricks, the seller notes
tend to get lost in with the brick description. Leave the brick description
black, and make the seller comments red. If I see red, I'll know something
needs to be read more carefully.
|
The solution to this problem is for sellers not to list badly damaged or discolored
parts at all.
Rather than complicating the problem with rating systems or long descriptions,
Bricklink should adopt a policy that damaged or discolored pieces should be sold
as custom lots only and not under the individual catalog entries.
To my mind there are two qualities of used part - those good enough to sell,
and those not. As a seller, I do not have the time to categorize parts into ten
possible grades. I have time to look at each part and decide if it's good
enough to list or not.
|
I am buying cheap "filler brick quality" 3001 and 3001old. Those absolutely need
an accurate description, but not a ban.
|
I think they should be listed as custom lots. Looking through the current listings
for 3001s, I see many, many listings at one cent each that are described as damaged,
scratched, discolored, etc. and the quantities are less than 5. Nobody looking
for filler bricks is going to buy them one or two at a time from 100 different
shops. They would be best sold as large custom lots. Given BL's current search
function, they would actually be easier to search for and find there than in
the regular listings (unless you use goatleg).
(In the meantime, that seller who is listing one heavily damaged brick for one
cent is probably going to have that brick in his inventory forever. The longest-listed
one I found in the three minutes I spent checking has been for sale since March,
2013.
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I'll add them to orders whenever I can, but I am buying larger amounts (because
of the shipping cost). I do not believe that I am the only one who is adding
such lots to my orders. Looking at the price guide, a lots of these cheap parts
are being bought.
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