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| | | Author: | antant7  | | Posted: | Nov 30, 2021 06:15 | | Subject: | Parts to fees ratio | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| What's the lowest parts to fees ratio that you've seen? Should these
stores be named?
I've seen it called fee avoidance, unfair competition, buyer luring/tricking
and other things over the last couple of years of my BrickLink life here on the
forum.
I've also seen a lot of people defending it because time consuming orders
are not profitable.
From my personal experience, and from seeing how frustrated both my girlfriend
and mother-in-law get, I would call it a "buyer deterrent" that reflects badly
on all stores. Yes, you can read the terms in advance but how many other places
can you name, where the price on the shelf is not the price you are expected
to pay? How many new buyers just give up on BrickLink before they even get started,
thinking "these are just a bunch of con artists"?
The basket on the screenshot is just an example. I sorted all the parts by price
and kept adding until I met the minimum buy. A single minifig basket added for
comparison.
To be clear, I would be very annoyed with an order like this as well but I would
fulfil it and make a mental note that my prices need to be raised...
I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Nov 30, 2021 08:47 | | Subject: | Re: Parts to fees ratio | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
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Bricklink are not going to do anything about it, especially for fees that are
added on using their own (seller customisable) fee algorithms at checkout.
So just least favourite the store and forget them.
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| | | | | | | Author: | antant7 | | Posted: | Nov 30, 2021 12:15 | | Subject: | Re: Parts to fees ratio | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| No, I guess not and I'm not even sure if I would want them to. Everyone should
be free to run their store any way they like after all, as long as they don't
break any laws.
What would be really nice though, is a filter that would let me exclude stores
with minimum lot values and per lot fees from the search results, in the same
way that I exclude non-IC shops.
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