If you don't have the packaging, just list it without.
Cheers ...
ghyde
Thanks ghyde, I will post it sans package, if I have to, but I have to do my
due diligence in trying to have it complete. Just my personal selling standards.
If anyone has one (USA preferred) drop me message and I'll buy it from your
store if at a reasonable price. Thanks!
First, absolutely love your store logo and name!
Second, if you haven't seen the Items For Sale Condition page, it specifies
that used sets do not need to contain the box or extra parts to be listed
as Complete: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=102
So you don't actually need the box, and from 7+ years of experience selling
used sets here and the auction site (before launching my parts store), including
the box with a set rarely helps it sell for more. Especially for a set that small.
In fact, the majority of buyers won't want the box if it increases the shipping
cost by even $1 -- which it almost always does. It's one thing if you
want to include the box as an option if you already have it, but even then most
buyers will opt for no box. In my opinion, hunting down and purchasing a box
to sell it with a set will only lose you money and time.
If anyone has one (USA preferred) drop me message and I'll buy it from your
store if at a reasonable price. Thanks!
First, absolutely love your store logo and name!
but even then most
buyers will opt for no box. In my opinion, hunting down and purchasing a box
to sell it with a set will only lose you money and time.
1) Thanks! In today's climate I'm always worried someone is gonna flag
me for being "political."
2) thanks for the advice. Like I said earlier I probably will list without the
box, I just try to go that extra mile when possible. It's not so much increasing
the sale as it is increasing reputation and respectability.
2) thanks for the advice. Like I said earlier I probably will list without the
box, I just try to go that extra mile when possible. It's not so much increasing
the sale as it is increasing reputation and respectability.
Oh sure, I get that desire. I'm a detail-oriented perfectionist, so I did
that too -- along with spending hours of extra time picking period-accurate
parts based on glossiness, stud design, and hollow vs. solid underside tubes.
Things like that. But after a little while, I saw that those efforts were wasted;
buyers never noticed or cared. So I honestly doubt that going the extra mile
with boxes will do anything for your reputation or respectability.
What will affect those, however, is whether or not you send out complete, correct,
undamaged sets. The majority of sellers here and on the auction site constantly
send out sets with missing parts, damaged parts, or incorrect mold variations,
even if it's just one or two. Probably 90% of the sets I've ever bought
have had something wrong with them... but 99% of the ones I sold had every single
correct part, clean and undamaged. I triple-checked the inventory to ensure it.
Spending that extra time is worth it for your reputation, whereas spending that
time on boxes won't affect it.
If anyone has one (USA preferred) drop me message and I'll buy it from your
store if at a reasonable price. Thanks!
First, absolutely love your store logo and name!
but even then most
buyers will opt for no box. In my opinion, hunting down and purchasing a box
to sell it with a set will only lose you money and time.
1) Thanks! In today's climate I'm always worried someone is gonna flag
me for being "political."
2) thanks for the advice. Like I said earlier I probably will list without the
box, I just try to go that extra mile when possible. It's not so much increasing
the sale as it is increasing reputation and respectability.
I dont understand point 2. How does selling it with a box increase reputation
and respectability? If you sell it with the correct condition then you are just
being as honest. Having a box doesnt change that imo. For me personally the condition
of an item doesnt increase or decrease the reputation and respectability of a
seller. The actual sales process and customer service does though.
I dont understand point 2. How does selling it with a box increase reputation
and respectability? If you sell it with the correct condition then you are just
being as honest. Having a box doesnt change that imo. For me personally the condition
of an item doesnt increase or decrease the reputation and respectability of a
seller. The actual sales process and customer service does though.
I think it's as simple as the fact that laypeople or people who are just
starting a hobby aren't familiar with the standards for that hobby. The box
thing is an easy assumption to make for someone who hasn't been in the Lego
community long, especially someone who tends to be a completionist.
I dont understand point 2. How does selling it with a box increase reputation
and respectability? If you sell it with the correct condition then you are just
being as honest. Having a box doesnt change that imo. For me personally the condition
of an item doesnt increase or decrease the reputation and respectability of a
seller. The actual sales process and customer service does though.
I think it's as simple as the fact that laypeople or people who are just
starting a hobby aren't familiar with the standards for that hobby. The box
thing is an easy assumption to make for someone who hasn't been in the Lego
community long, especially someone who tends to be a completionist.
Still dont see how selling it with a box increase reputation and respectability.
If you list a used item or new item, with a note: complete, no box, no instructions,
no layman will get confused that there will be a box.
If anyone has one (USA preferred) drop me message and I'll buy it from your
store if at a reasonable price. Thanks!
First, absolutely love your store logo and name!
but even then most
buyers will opt for no box. In my opinion, hunting down and purchasing a box
to sell it with a set will only lose you money and time.
1) Thanks! In today's climate I'm always worried someone is gonna flag
me for being "political."
2) thanks for the advice. Like I said earlier I probably will list without the
box, I just try to go that extra mile when possible. It's not so much increasing
the sale as it is increasing reputation and respectability.
We all try and keep the politics away from Lego talk… this is meant to be fun.
And agree it is a fun name.
I’m OCD about parts being right and 100% complete too… but not sure you can buy
a box with shipping and still be profitable on the set when you sell it. Sure
some want a set with box, but there are lots that will buy it sans box to save
on shipping and set cost. Good luck.
One more thing to consider with larger set boxes. Shipping is calculated based
on the greater of actual weight or dimensional weight.
DIM weight = (Length * Width * Height) / DIM factor
DIM factor or Dimensional factor is a number determined by each delivery company.
If you ship a set with a larger box, shipping could be more expensive based on
the size of the box. Also, you now need an even larger box and padding to put
the set box in.
In Wanted, Brickitty writes:
So you don't actually need the box, and from 7+ years of experience selling
used sets here and the auction site (before launching my parts store), including
the box with a set rarely helps it sell for more. Especially for a set that small.
In fact, the majority of buyers won't want the box if it increases the shipping
cost by even $1 -- which it almost always does. It's one thing if you
want to include the box as an option if you already have it, but even then most
buyers will opt for no box. In my opinion, hunting down and purchasing a box
to sell it with a set will only lose you money and time.
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