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| | | Author: | firelordi  | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 05:43 | | Subject: | Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 323 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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| | | | | Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 06:29 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 134 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Suggestions, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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Not responding to a quote request is bad form and frankly rude. Unless the seller
was incapacitated in some way then he should respond to quote requests or not
offer the service IMO.
Changing prices is a seller/business decision and is normal. Fair? not sure but
it is not unfair as the buyer simply has a choice not to buy.
Robert
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| | | | | | | Author: | Fenneke_Jose | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 07:04 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 119 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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Not responding to a quote request is bad form and frankly rude. Unless the seller
was incapacitated in some way then he should respond to quote requests or not
offer the service IMO.
Changing prices is a seller/business decision and is normal. Fair? not sure but
it is not unfair as the buyer simply has a choice not to buy.
Robert
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You are implying a direct link between the quote and the raise of the price after
this. If this is the case, it's very bad business from the seller (also not
responding to your quote).
However there could be more to this. If they were having a sale last week and
the sale was only planned for a week, then this could happen (but a sale of 50%
is very rare).
What also could have happened, that because of the quote the seller found out
that he has made a price mistake (being by far the cheapest, because of an incorrect
price). Was the seller the cheapest one for with this item / set?
But not giving an answer to you quote, combined with the price raise, it would
be for me a no go, if this an example how further service is going to be...
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 07:35 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Suggestions, Fenneke_Jose writes:
| | However there could be more to this. If they were having a sale last week and
the sale was only planned for a week, then this could happen (but a sale of 50%
is very rare).
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An increase of 200% is tripling the price though. I suspect a sale of
67% is even more rare!
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | firelordi | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 08:03 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 126 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Fenneke_Jose writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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Not responding to a quote request is bad form and frankly rude. Unless the seller
was incapacitated in some way then he should respond to quote requests or not
offer the service IMO.
Changing prices is a seller/business decision and is normal. Fair? not sure but
it is not unfair as the buyer simply has a choice not to buy.
Robert
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You are implying a direct link between the quote and the raise of the price after
this. If this is the case, it's very bad business from the seller (also not
responding to your quote).
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when our quote request expired and we called up the shop, the article was 200%
more expensive
| | However there could be more to this. If they were having a sale last week and
the sale was only planned for a week, then this could happen (but a sale of 50%
is very rare).
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at the time we asked for the quote, the item was not reduced
| | What also could have happened, that because of the quote the seller found out
that he has made a price mistake (being by far the cheapest, because of an incorrect
price). Was the seller the cheapest one for with this item / set?
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he has probably been the cheapest since he posted the article himself.
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But not giving an answer to you quote, combined with the price raise, it would
be for me a no go, if this an example how further service is going to be...
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the quote request was ignored, as were requests via the contact form asking for
pictures to be sent
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 10:51 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | In Selling, Fenneke_Jose writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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Not responding to a quote request is bad form and frankly rude. Unless the seller
was incapacitated in some way then he should respond to quote requests or not
offer the service IMO.
Changing prices is a seller/business decision and is normal. Fair? not sure but
it is not unfair as the buyer simply has a choice not to buy.
Robert
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You are implying a direct link between the quote and the raise of the price after
this. If this is the case, it's very bad business from the seller (also not
responding to your quote).
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when our quote request expired and we called up the shop, the article was 200%
more expensive
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Is the item still listed on BL, and did the price change here as well ?
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | firelordi | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 12:39 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, cosmicray writes:
| | In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | In Selling, Fenneke_Jose writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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Not responding to a quote request is bad form and frankly rude. Unless the seller
was incapacitated in some way then he should respond to quote requests or not
offer the service IMO.
Changing prices is a seller/business decision and is normal. Fair? not sure but
it is not unfair as the buyer simply has a choice not to buy.
Robert
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You are implying a direct link between the quote and the raise of the price after
this. If this is the case, it's very bad business from the seller (also not
responding to your quote).
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when our quote request expired and we called up the shop, the article was 200%
more expensive
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Is the item still listed on BL, and did the price change here as well ?
Nita Rae
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yes he is still listed, also with the cheapest
Pictures that we have requested have not yet been communicated.
It's also simply about fairness and principle
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Ra | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 12:13 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| This could have been a dropship item possibly. Fair, not really cool, not cool
either.
In Selling, Fenneke_Jose writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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Not responding to a quote request is bad form and frankly rude. Unless the seller
was incapacitated in some way then he should respond to quote requests or not
offer the service IMO.
Changing prices is a seller/business decision and is normal. Fair? not sure but
it is not unfair as the buyer simply has a choice not to buy.
Robert
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You are implying a direct link between the quote and the raise of the price after
this. If this is the case, it's very bad business from the seller (also not
responding to your quote).
However there could be more to this. If they were having a sale last week and
the sale was only planned for a week, then this could happen (but a sale of 50%
is very rare).
What also could have happened, that because of the quote the seller found out
that he has made a price mistake (being by far the cheapest, because of an incorrect
price). Was the seller the cheapest one for with this item / set?
But not giving an answer to you quote, combined with the price raise, it would
be for me a no go, if this an example how further service is going to be...
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Tanti | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 12:49 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Fenneke_Jose writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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Not responding to a quote request is bad form and frankly rude. Unless the seller
was incapacitated in some way then he should respond to quote requests or not
offer the service IMO.
Changing prices is a seller/business decision and is normal. Fair? not sure but
it is not unfair as the buyer simply has a choice not to buy.
Robert
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You are implying a direct link between the quote and the raise of the price after
this. If this is the case, it's very bad business from the seller (also not
responding to your quote).
However there could be more to this. If they were having a sale last week and
the sale was only planned for a week, then this could happen (but a sale of 50%
is very rare).
What also could have happened, that because of the quote the seller found out
that he has made a price mistake (being by far the cheapest, because of an incorrect
price). Was the seller the cheapest one for with this item / set?
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Hello
we have already noticed from inquiries that we no longer had the current average
price and were significantly below it.
We then answered the inquiry and only adjusted the price after 3 weeks after
the interested party had not bought.
We don't think it's fair to ignore or change it during an inquiry and
it would be our bad luck if the interested party gets it cheaply, we could have
made a price adjustment beforehand if we had compared it.
Should an interested party discover a bargain and get hold of it?
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But not giving an answer to you quote, combined with the price raise, it would
be for me a no go, if this an example how further service is going to be...
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 13:46 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | we have already noticed from inquiries that we no longer had the current average
price and were significantly below it.
We then answered the inquiry and only adjusted the price after 3 weeks after
the interested party had not bought.
We don't think it's fair to ignore or change it during an inquiry and
it would be our bad luck if the interested party gets it cheaply, we could have
made a price adjustment beforehand if we had compared it.
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If it is this case and it was three weeks between the quote and price change,
I really don't see that there is a complaint to be had.
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| | | | | Author: | rab1234 | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 12:57 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Least favorite the store and move on. Sellers can choose not to sell to you
and raise their price. Hopefully he sits on it for a long time at the higher
price. 
In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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| | | | | Author: | SasquatchBricks | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 14:00 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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I can't speak for the price increase but sometimes if someone requests a
quote with a long list of items in it, and someone else either instant buys the
same item in that persons quote request the quote will automatically cancel because
the item is not available anymore. We also run a retail store so if it's
sold in store and gets taken out of inventory the same thing will happen. So
that could affect a quote request, but again I can't speak for the price
hike.
Scott
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| | | | | | | Author: | Tanti | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 14:12 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, mach1baby writes:
| | In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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I can't speak for the price increase but sometimes if someone requests a
quote with a long list of items in it, and someone else either instant buys the
same item in that persons quote request the quote will automatically cancel because
the item is not available anymore. We also run a retail store so if it's
sold in store and gets taken out of inventory the same thing will happen. So
that could affect a quote request, but again I can't speak for the price
hike.
Scott
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the article is still available, the question came up and was answered.
If we understood correctly, the article was added to the stock about a year ago
and only the price was increased
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2022 09:05 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Tanti writes:
| | In Selling, mach1baby writes:
| | In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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I can't speak for the price increase but sometimes if someone requests a
quote with a long list of items in it, and someone else either instant buys the
same item in that persons quote request the quote will automatically cancel because
the item is not available anymore. We also run a retail store so if it's
sold in store and gets taken out of inventory the same thing will happen. So
that could affect a quote request, but again I can't speak for the price
hike.
Scott
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the article is still available, the question came up and was answered.
If we understood correctly, the article was added to the stock about a year ago
and only the price was increased
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I'm going to propose a hypothetical explanation. I don't know what really
happened, but what I'm proposing is well within the realm of what may have
transpired. Some of this is based on what others here have said, or suggested.
Sometime in the past, a seller listed an item (e.g. a set) for a specific price.
The seller had more than one in inventory, but only specified a quantity of one
on the listing. I do this all the time, and it is a common practice. The listing
was marked with Retain on Zero Quantity ON.
You saw an item listed, at an attractive price, and submitted a quote request.
Another buyer saw the listing, submitted a real order and took that item out
of play. This order caused the listing to go to zero quantity, which canceled
the quote request. Since retain was turned on, the listing was still present,
but with zero quantity and in Stockroom A.
Seller sees order, fills order, then checks inventory to see if they have more
to sell. At this point, the quote request no longer exists. Seller determines
the have another to sell, then does a sweep of various sites (including BL's
price guide) to see if a price change is warranted. Seller adjusts price and
quantity, and turns off the stockroom flag.
You look around and see a higher price, but no completed quote request and no
response from seller.
I can very easily see the above happening. The quote request does not reserve
the item while the 3-day period is running. Even if it did, and the seller chose
to not want to sell at that price (a questionable practice, but whatever) they
can manually decrement the listing quantity to zero and trigger a cancel on the
QR.
Using the retain flag and quantity zero, you can (at least in theory) use the
same listing over and over and over. For some odd reason, I even recall once
completely re-designating an old listing to a totally different catalog entry,
quantity and price. Don't recall why I did that, but it is possible. You
could, with some manipulation, take a very old listing and hook it to a brand
new item in the catalog. That's where we would use the head-exploding emoji.
I can see how all of this might have played out, within the parameters of how
BL is programmed.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 19:42 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SasquatchBricks | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 19:55 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, popsicle writes:
| | In Selling, mach1baby writes:
| | In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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I can't speak for the price increase but sometimes if someone requests a
quote with a long list of items in it, and someone else either instant buys the
same item in that persons quote request the quote will automatically cancel because
the item is not available anymore. We also run a retail store so if it's
sold in store and gets taken out of inventory the same thing will happen. So
that could affect a quote request,
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Really?
How virtuous of you, Scott. I can and will "speak for the price hike" to all/any:
If the price is right, buy it! In other words "you snooze, you lose" applies
to all of us. We all know this, right?
I've never had the quote feature enabled, nor do I use it when buying. But
do receive similar requests, to which I always extent the courtesy of a reply.
In that reply, I make it clear they have x-amount of days to pull-the-trigger,
after which, I'll be adjusting the listed price upward.
For me, prices are always unidirectional. Envision the 'bigger picture'
Lego vendors... or not
-popsicle
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Hey Cory, we respond to all quote requests, they can and have disappeared if
the buyer doesn't pull the trigger fast enough and somebody else instant
carts it. Your right ya snooze ya lose, in that fashion. I don't know what
the OP's item was in mention and I guess I can be the devil's advocate
and say maybe they saw the price in the quote request and looked at comparables
and saw that whatever they had was well below market value and so they adjusted
it. I'm not saying that was right but it is their product and they have the
option of changing the price. Again not saying that's great customer service,
they should have messaged and said they were going to price hike it for reason
xxx. It's sucks for the buyer but yeah.... If we miss price something in
the retail store we honor it as any retailer should.
Scott
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2022 07:58 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, mach1baby writes:
| | In Selling, popsicle writes:
| | In Selling, mach1baby writes:
| | In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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I can't speak for the price increase but sometimes if someone requests a
quote with a long list of items in it, and someone else either instant buys the
same item in that persons quote request the quote will automatically cancel because
the item is not available anymore. We also run a retail store so if it's
sold in store and gets taken out of inventory the same thing will happen. So
that could affect a quote request,
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| | but again I can't speak for the price hike.
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Really?
How virtuous of you, Scott. I can and will "speak for the price hike" to all/any:
If the price is right, buy it! In other words "you snooze, you lose" applies
to all of us. We all know this, right?
I've never had the quote feature enabled, nor do I use it when buying. But
do receive similar requests, to which I always extent the courtesy of a reply.
In that reply, I make it clear they have x-amount of days to pull-the-trigger,
after which, I'll be adjusting the listed price upward.
For me, prices are always unidirectional. Envision the 'bigger picture'
Lego vendors... or not
-popsicle
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Hey Cory, we respond to all quote requests, they can and have disappeared if
the buyer doesn't pull the trigger fast enough and somebody else instant
carts it. Your right ya snooze ya lose, in that fashion. I don't know what
the OP's item was in mention and I guess I can be the devil's advocate
and say maybe they saw the price in the quote request and looked at comparables
and saw that whatever they had was well below market value and so they adjusted
it. I'm not saying that was right but it is their product and they have the
option of changing the price. Again not saying that's great customer service,
they should have messaged and said they were going to price hike it for reason
xxx. It's sucks for the buyer but yeah.... If we miss price something in
the retail store we honor it as any retailer should.
Scott
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I cancelled my post. I do try and take the surliness out of what I say here in
the forum, but I'm not always successful at it. I'll try harder.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | legoman77 | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2022 09:43 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, popsicle writes:
| | In Selling, mach1baby writes:
| | In Selling, popsicle writes:
| | In Selling, mach1baby writes:
| | In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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I can't speak for the price increase but sometimes if someone requests a
quote with a long list of items in it, and someone else either instant buys the
same item in that persons quote request the quote will automatically cancel because
the item is not available anymore. We also run a retail store so if it's
sold in store and gets taken out of inventory the same thing will happen. So
that could affect a quote request,
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| | but again I can't speak for the price hike.
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Really?
How virtuous of you, Scott. I can and will "speak for the price hike" to all/any:
If the price is right, buy it! In other words "you snooze, you lose" applies
to all of us. We all know this, right?
I've never had the quote feature enabled, nor do I use it when buying. But
do receive similar requests, to which I always extent the courtesy of a reply.
In that reply, I make it clear they have x-amount of days to pull-the-trigger,
after which, I'll be adjusting the listed price upward.
For me, prices are always unidirectional. Envision the 'bigger picture'
Lego vendors... or not
-popsicle
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Hey Cory, we respond to all quote requests, they can and have disappeared if
the buyer doesn't pull the trigger fast enough and somebody else instant
carts it. Your right ya snooze ya lose, in that fashion. I don't know what
the OP's item was in mention and I guess I can be the devil's advocate
and say maybe they saw the price in the quote request and looked at comparables
and saw that whatever they had was well below market value and so they adjusted
it. I'm not saying that was right but it is their product and they have the
option of changing the price. Again not saying that's great customer service,
they should have messaged and said they were going to price hike it for reason
xxx. It's sucks for the buyer but yeah.... If we miss price something in
the retail store we honor it as any retailer should.
Scott
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I cancelled my post. I do try and take the surliness out of what I say here in
the forum, but I'm not always successful at it. I'll try harder.
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Just don't be snide. They do not like that, or at least Troy did not.
John P
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| | | | | Author: | Ra | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2022 14:49 | | Subject: | Re: Price 200% up after quote request | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| The moderators have been all over Ukraine, but are not protecting people from
speculation.
The rules of the forum prevent calling out specific users but happens every few
days, sometimes resulting in review bombs and harasment.
In Selling, firelordi writes:
| | Seller does not respond to quote request.
After this expired, the article price was increased by 200%.
Is it normal and fair or how do you see it?
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