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 Author: PickBrix View Messages Posted By PickBrix
 Posted: Jul 21, 2021 12:02
 Subject: Slow Sales
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PickBrix (95)

Location:  USA, New Jersey
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I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.
 Author: Gaston.La.Brick View Messages Posted By Gaston.La.Brick
 Posted: Jul 21, 2021 12:18
 Subject: Re: Slow Sales
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Gaston.La.Brick (1836)

Location:  Belgium
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Store: The Rolling Bricks
In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.

Since I have started my shop (2017) on BrickLink, the summer months have always
proven to be the slowest months of the year.
Most active months are Fall and Winter months.

That's at least my experience.
 Author: Kuboteka View Messages Posted By Kuboteka
 Posted: Jul 21, 2021 12:29
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Kuboteka (17319)

Location:  Lithuania, Vilnius
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In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.

Yes, there are very slow sales this July.
The worst month for last 2 years.
Covid rules are not so hard now so people take their time in real life, not Lego...
But hope the autumn will be better)
 Author: Shiny_Stuff View Messages Posted By Shiny_Stuff
 Posted: Jul 21, 2021 12:35
 Subject: Re: Slow Sales
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Shiny_Stuff (1275)

Location:  USA, New York
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In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.


Summer months are slower in general, I would guess. Plus, whenever LEGO releases
new products a lot of people put their money there. And Last week was Double
VIP Points at Lego dot com and Lego stores, so I bet a lot of Lego fans spent
their money there instead of BL.

I had a slow week last week, but it has picked up again somewhat. Here is my
list of recent orders.
 
 Author: MrPetovan View Messages Posted By MrPetovan
 Posted: Jul 22, 2021 11:01
 Subject: Re: Slow Sales
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MrPetovan (930)

Location:  USA, New York
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Store: MrPetovan's Clearance Sale
As other said, summer months are the worst for BrickLink sales, on the other
hand I've received 4 orders over the past week-end after more than two weeks
without any, but I'm also running a kind of specialty shop.

In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.
 Author: memowen View Messages Posted By memowen
 Posted: Aug 14, 2021 22:05
 Subject: Re: Slow Sales
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memowen (2589)

Location:  USA, Arkansas
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Store: bigmobricks
In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.

We have I would say a decent size store with 160,000 parts, but these last couple
months have been awfully slow.
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Aug 15, 2021 06:49
 Subject: Re: Slow Sales
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Teup (6595)

Location:  Netherlands, Utrecht
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In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.

It's interesting that so many sellers agree summer months are the slow months
(my experience too) when the statistics show that there's only a 10%-20%
season effect on Bricklink sales as a whole. I'm aware summer means winter
in Australia but don't think that's enough to explain why the effect
is so mild in the stats.... I wonder what offsets all those sellers who are having
slow sales May-August.
 Author: SezaR View Messages Posted By SezaR
 Posted: Aug 15, 2021 06:54
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SezaR (1383)

Location:  Canada, British Columbia
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Store: Sezar's trains
In Selling, Teup writes:
  In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.

It's interesting that so many sellers agree summer months are the slow months
(my experience too) when the statistics show that there's only a 10%-20%
season effect on Bricklink sales as a whole. I'm aware summer means winter
in Australia but don't think that's enough to explain why the effect
is so mild in the stats.... I wonder what offsets all those sellers who are having
slow sales May-August.

My sale was very good last month (July)
 Author: Rob_and_Shelagh View Messages Posted By Rob_and_Shelagh
 Posted: Aug 15, 2021 06:54
 Subject: Re: Slow Sales
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Rob_and_Shelagh (26304)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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Store: YELLOW FARM BRICKS
In Selling, Teup writes:
  In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.

It's interesting that so many sellers agree summer months are the slow months
(my experience too) when the statistics show that there's only a 10%-20%
season effect on Bricklink sales as a whole. I'm aware summer means winter
in Australia but don't think that's enough to explain why the effect
is so mild in the stats.... I wonder what offsets all those sellers who are having
slow sales May-August.

Sellers buying inventory perhaps?

Robert
 Author: Lmaniac88 View Messages Posted By Lmaniac88
 Posted: Aug 19, 2021 14:00
 Subject: Re: Slow Sales
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Lmaniac88 (806)

Location:  USA, Massachusetts
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Store: Toy Box Wonders
In Selling, PickBrix writes:
  I assume everyone is having slow sales? I was getting at least one order per
day a week or two ago, and that has since stopped. Anyone else having that? I
have been adding a couple things here or there but I have a big upload coming
soon. Looking for things in particular stay tuned.

It's been slow on me too. I even have a sale going on.