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| | | Author: | Heartbricker  | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 11:00 | | Subject: | Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 260 times | | Topic: | Inventories | | Status: | Open | |
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| With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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| | | | | Author: | nectara | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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Hi
You were Ganja Dealer before?
Sometimes is the cheap build scales.
Regards
Nectara
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| | | | | | | Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 11:28 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, nectara writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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Hi
You were Ganja Dealer before?
Sometimes is the cheap build scales.
Regards
Nectara
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I think our feedback % is a testament that it is NOT the cheap scales.
A good scale is only as good as its operator.
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| | | | | Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 11:20 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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That is a very good point. There has always been a weight variation on some parts
with mould variation but changes in materials will certainly add to the problem.
Good counting scales will give a warning if parts are not added in accurate multiples
of the average sample weight but the operator needs knowledge and care to avoid
errors for sure.
Robert
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| | | | | | | Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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That is a very good point. There has always been a weight variation on some parts
with mould variation but changes in materials will certainly add to the problem.
Good counting scales will give a warning if parts are not added in accurate multiples
of the average sample weight but the operator needs knowledge and care to avoid
errors for sure.
Robert
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Well phrased, Thank you.
We keep parts that are sourced from different places in different bins so PAB
bricks in one bin, bricks from a certain set in another, it really help to part
sets in multiples of 50 or 100 and then bag the items in those multiples, it
helps finding pieces we may have sorted incorrectly and maintains accurate inventory.
sure, it's more time consuming but our focus is more on customer experience
so we aspire to be as accurate as possible.
Thanks again.
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| | | | | | | Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 11:43 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | Good counting scales will give a warning if parts are not added in accurate multiples
of the average sample weight
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*Mind blown*
I did not know there were such things as counting scales.
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| | | | | Author: | zorbanj | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 11:49 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| That is a huge difference. I was always afraid of this. I have a small store
so I still count (and re-count) by hand, don't know what the solution would
be for larger stores that have to use scales.
In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 12:20 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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This is why we can't have (accuracy in) nice things.
Thankfully, all my inventory is sufficiently elderly that I don't have to
worry about the weight shifting that much … plus I hand count things.
Do you know if one or the other of those contains more or less than the quantity
stated ?
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:08 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, cosmicray writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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This is why we can't have (accuracy in) nice things.
Thankfully, all my inventory is sufficiently elderly that I don't have to
worry about the weight shifting that much … plus I hand count things.
Do you know if one or the other of those contains more or less than the quantity
stated ?
Nita Rae
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Both are exactly 100 pieces, both lots were sourced from different sources (production
sets).
we make sure to maintain items that are collected from different sources in different
bins or counted and put into bags of 50 or 100 pieces.
We have asked all the questions that may come up (scale issue? calibration? user
error?) and verified by had counting.
These differences are gonna occur more often in the next few years as TLG are
shifting into plant based raw materials. The quality seems to be exactly the
same but we have not put these materials through any stress tests.
Sellers that are not going to be putting measures to address this will experience
diminished service quality and sending short orders.
On the upside; with plant based LEGO we may one day consume an Azure salad instead
of a Caesar salad 
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| | | | | Author: | timby | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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That is the reason that we have Build our own countingmachine 4 years ago
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| | | | | | | Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:17 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, timby writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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That is the reason that we have Build our own countingmachine 4 years ago
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We LOVE the videos you post of it counting/packing!
I'm not sure why but it's extremely captivating
It's also why we love shopping with you, always accurate 
Best Wishes.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | BrickBros20 | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:33 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Inventories, timby writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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That is the reason that we have Build our own countingmachine 4 years ago
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We LOVE the videos you post of it counting/packing!
I'm not sure why but it's extremely captivating
It's also why we love shopping with you, always accurate
Best Wishes.
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That machine looks awesome! Where would I find the video showing how it functions?
Very intriguing
~Brick Brothers
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:39 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, BrickBros20 writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Inventories, timby writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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That is the reason that we have Build our own countingmachine 4 years ago
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We LOVE the videos you post of it counting/packing!
I'm not sure why but it's extremely captivating
It's also why we love shopping with you, always accurate
Best Wishes.
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That machine looks awesome! Where would I find the video showing how it functions?
Very intriguing
~Brick Brothers
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Check their facebook page.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | BrickBros20 | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:40 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Inventories, BrickBros20 writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Inventories, timby writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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That is the reason that we have Build our own countingmachine 4 years ago
|
We LOVE the videos you post of it counting/packing!
I'm not sure why but it's extremely captivating
It's also why we love shopping with you, always accurate
Best Wishes.
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That machine looks awesome! Where would I find the video showing how it functions?
Very intriguing
~Brick Brothers
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Check their facebook page.
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Will do, thanks!
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 17:27 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Inventories, BrickBros20 writes:
| | That machine looks awesome! Where would I find the video showing how it functions?
Very intriguing
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Check their facebook page.
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Or google "timby counting machine".
Niek.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | WildBricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 15:08 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| | | We LOVE the videos you post of it counting/packing!
I'm not sure why but it's extremely captivating
It's also why we love shopping with you, always accurate
Best Wishes.
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WAIT..... That wasn't a joke?
W-O-W!
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| | | | | Author: | Ber_i | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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How accurate are your scales?
What happens if you switch the bags
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| | | | | | | Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:29 | | Subject: | Re: Why many shops fail at accuracy | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Ber_i writes:
| | In Inventories, Heartbricker writes:
| | With LEGO moving to utilize different sustainable raw materials: you will see
more sellers who rely on scales failing to provide accurate counts to customers.
Sellers should be mindful of that.
Example attached
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How accurate are your scales?
What happens if you switch the bags
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It's not the scales, we tried everything from hand counting to changing scales
and even using a $200 scale (we only have one of those which we regret buying).
It's the pieces, they weigh differently- it is a fact!
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