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| | | Author: | Leftoverbricks  | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 12:15 | | Subject: | How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 277 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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| | | | | Author: | 1974 | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 12:22 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
I have less than one part right now, I feel left out 
Cheers,
Ole
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1974 writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
I have less than one part right now, I feel left out
Cheers,
Ole
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That means both of our stores can fit on the head of a pin!
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| | | | | Author: | StickyBrickit | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 12:25 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| What would be interesting is to see a histogram of store sizes across all currently
active stores. I'm sure BL have analysts who know this but not sure if it's
easy for the users to work out.
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| | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 12:28 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
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We're a 7!
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Do you think this is useful?
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Useful for what exactly? It might be fun if a rating system like this could be
implemented on BL and you could see what percentage of sellers you were in.
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| | | | | Author: | calebfishn | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 12:33 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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When my store had less than 2500 parts, I thought that a store with 10,000 parts
was big. Now I think it is small.
Looks like you have a typo in line 3.
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| | | | | | | Author: | StickyBrickit | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 13:02 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
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Lots of German stores on the first page! UK only has 1... 
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| | | | | | | Author: | StickyBrickit | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 13:04 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | General | |
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Also be interesting if the person who runs the biggest store did some kind of
BL interview...be interesting to know more about him/her/them....how they run
things, how did they get started, was it a hobby that turned into a business
etc? Always interested in small businesses that are doing well and how they got
to that point. 
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 13:52 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, StickyBrickit writes:
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Also be interesting if the person who runs the biggest store did some kind of
BL interview...be interesting to know more about him/her/them....how they run
things, how did they get started, was it a hobby that turned into a business
etc? Always interested in small businesses that are doing well and how they got
to that point.
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Bricklink did some nice ones a few years ago:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/article_view.page?id=1000
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 14:06 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stellar writes:
| | In General, StickyBrickit writes:
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Also be interesting if the person who runs the biggest store did some kind of
BL interview...be interesting to know more about him/her/them....how they run
things, how did they get started, was it a hobby that turned into a business
etc? Always interested in small businesses that are doing well and how they got
to that point.
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Bricklink did some nice ones a few years ago:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/article_view.page?id=1000
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I remember those! The one on Constructibles was what actually inspired us to
start selling new pieces here; at the time we were only selling used Lego by
the pound and count on other sites and would sell the complete minifigures and
some animals here.
Now we sell all our Lego here and are staying around 700,000 items in our inventory!
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| | | | | | | Author: | par016 | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 13:54 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, hpoort writes:
| | In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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Why not use the store list, sorted by number of items or number of lots:
https://www.bricklink.com/storeResults.asp?sMM=12&sDD=3&sYY=2021&itemNo=&itemSeq=1&breakType=M&sortBy=2&q=&itemType=&catID=&colorID=&itemYear=&invNew=&countryID=NL®ionID=-1&sellerLoc=&shipCountryID=NL&moneyTypeID=2&pmtMethodID=
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My store is on the 5th page by number of items, 3rd page by number of lots.
Not bad for a 1 man operation.
-Pete
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 1974 | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 14:43 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, par016 writes:
| | My store is on the 5th page by number of items, 3rd page by number of lots.
Not bad for a 1 man operation.
-Pete
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Yeah, we're not going to believe that Mr. Pete Anderson Robertson ... What
about the other 15 bots you have employeed, eh?
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | par016 | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 15:06 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1974 writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | My store is on the 5th page by number of items, 3rd page by number of lots.
Not bad for a 1 man operation.
-Pete
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Yeah, we're not going to believe that Mr. Pete Anderson Robertson ... What
about the other 15 bots you have employeed, eh?
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Not a bad guess. But that's actually bot number 11's name.
-Pete
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| | | | | Author: | superchicken77 | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 13:30 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I always thought of it like this.
under 100k parts, small store
100k-500k parts, medium sized store
500k+ large store.
In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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| | | | | Author: | donja_nl | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 13:56 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Parts or items?
You can have 10 parts and 100.000 parts.
10x 10.000 tiles 1x1 at 3000 EUR.
Is that a large (5) store? Or a small store??
I think it should be items AND parts that makes a store a large store. And I
think I would classify a store on it's sales. If you sell 3 orders a week
or 300 orders a week. That makes it a large or smaller store.
Just my 2 cents....
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| | | | | Author: | Poncke | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 14:03 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500-12500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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A store with 300,000 pieces maybe big, but you're talking Lego bricks. I'd
much more impressed with a store with a 1000 retired sets. Which could easily
be bigger than a 300,000 bricks store in terms of pieces.
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| | | | | Author: | edeevo | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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Apparently, I'm an 8; but I *feel* like a 4...
Life is Good.
~Ed.
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| | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 14:10 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| “Big” is one of those terms open to wide application.
Big as in sheer number of parts regardless worth? Big as in physical size of
inventory (floor space needed) i.e. large parts? Big as in selection offered
(number of unique parts). Big as in value of inventory, irrespective volume?
Going with your application of the term, we were big at one time, even while
having storage units full of unlisted inventory. But I made the decision
years ago to adopt a different approach, or see another application of the term
as it were with lower volume and higher total value. Fine-tuned inventory,
as I saw it.
In reading the forum over the years, you can understand the obsession with size
around here, in so much that it can reflect growth for new or budding
stores. But let’s not forget the fundamental ideas that surround the end goal
of a business, profit.
That said, many are not here in a strictly business capacity. There's a sense
that a large percentage of members that move into selling, do so to support their
hobby. Which is ideal, imho! But then some of these same members years later
haven’t yet discarded their hobby-mindset, even though perhaps they should at
some point.
Always fun posts, Martin. Thanks
In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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| | | | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2021 20:51 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, popsicle writes:
| | “Big” is one of those terms open to wide application.
Big as in sheer number of parts regardless worth? Big as in physical size of
inventory (floor space needed) i.e. large parts? Big as in selection offered
(number of unique parts). Big as in value of inventory, irrespective volume?
Going with your application of the term, we were big at one time, even while
having storage units full of unlisted inventory. But I made the decision
years ago to adopt a different approach, or see another application of the term
as it were with lower volume and higher total value. Fine-tuned inventory,
as I saw it.
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My thoughts exactly as its very easy to fill a store with thousands upon thousands
of common generic parts like 1x1 plates in all the colours but does it make that
store big in its capacity to meet the needs of your average Bricklink shopper
particularly if those parts can be purchased from almost anywhere? besides as
you say fine tuning will increase profits whilst reducing the time required to
pick, store and manage all that inventory!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Dec 4, 2021 11:20 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, infinibrix writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
| | “Big” is one of those terms open to wide application.
Big as in sheer number of parts regardless worth? Big as in physical size of
inventory (floor space needed) i.e. large parts? Big as in selection offered
(number of unique parts). Big as in value of inventory, irrespective volume?
Going with your application of the term, we were big at one time, even while
having storage units full of unlisted inventory. But I made the decision
years ago to adopt a different approach, or see another application of the term
as it were with lower volume and higher total value. Fine-tuned inventory,
as I saw it.
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My thoughts exactly as its very easy to fill a store with thousands upon thousands
of common generic parts like 1x1 plates in all the colours but does it make that
store big in its capacity to meet the needs of your average Bricklink shopper
particularly if those parts can be purchased from almost anywhere? besides as
you say fine tuning will increase profits whilst reducing the time required to
pick, store and manage all that inventory!
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Good points. Thanks
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| | | | | Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Dec 4, 2021 11:32 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 164 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 12500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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Thanks for all comments so far. (My typo in the store size classification is
corrected above).
I know that size is not the only thing that matters, just as in real life
If you have 500 Star Wars sets for sale (and let's say they're older
than 5 years) you're not a small shop but a big entrepreneur!
On the other hand, you can have a multiple million parts store but where the
majority of the parts are one-by-one plates and other small items that were on
PAB walls. Such a store isn't great at all (using great here instead of big
for purpose, wanna see an example of a 6.7 million parts store that's like
this? You know how to search...)
Most important is of course how many sales you generate. The stores who have
the largest sales are front paged so everyone knows.
Nevertheless there's lot of interesting data when making comparisons of stores
by size (size meaning #parts for sale). I've developed a robot that does
this for countries with a couple of mouse clicks.
So let's take the Tour with the results from the shops in my own country.
My own small country has a surprising large number of stores, 945 open stores
as of today. When you compare that to the number of inhabitants this means that
we have roughly 1 BL store per 84,155 inhabitants in The Netherlands, while -for
example- in France this is 130,854.
Does this mean that people in France are 55% less interested in LEGO than people
in the Netherlands? I really don't know - I'm leaving that to others
to investigate.
There are 3 graphs.
The first one shows the distribution of stores in NL by size. On the right you
see the number of parts the shops have: 0.5k = 0-500 parts, 2,5k = 500-2,500
parts and so forth.
What you see is that 40% of the 945 stores are small shops who have with less
than 500 parts for sale. The large shops are hardly noticeable in this graph.
Second graph shows which shops 'own' the percentage of the total number
of parts for sale.
This changes the picture completely.
The 40% small stores are completely irrelevant when it comes to the number of
parts that are for sale. The 2% of all sellers with a large shop however own
42% of all parts for sale available in my country!
In the third graph I looked into Instant Checkout feature and how many stores
have it implemented and compared it to the store size.
This graph shows that instant checkout is available in about 30% of all stores
in any size, with the exception of very large stores where 60% has implemented
IC.
So far for today. Enjoy!
Martin
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| | | | | Author: | WildBricks | | Posted: | Dec 4, 2021 15:20 | | Subject: | Re: How big is your store? | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| We are an 8.
In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | How big is your store? I'm trying to figure out how to classify shops by
size. I'm talking about shops that mainly sell parts.
I arrive at the following classification, from very small to very large:
1. very small store 1-500 parts
2. -----------------500-2500 parts
3. -----------------2500- 2500
4. -----------------12500-62500
5. -----------------62500-150000
6. -----------------150000-360000
7. -----------------360000-864000
8. very large store 864000-and more
Do you think this is useful? Apart from the two first classes (1-500 and 500-2500)
every next step is about 2,5 times the size of the previous one.
What do you think?
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Netherlands, Overijssel
Denmark
France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
United Kingdom, England
USA, Missouri
Canada, Ontario
Spain, Comunidad Valenciana
Ireland, Meath
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