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 Author: uticabrix View Messages Posted By uticabrix
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 16:12
 Subject: Members mark you as least favorite store?
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uticabrix (11754)

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Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 16:23
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Stuart9 (1047)

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I do glance occasionally at these but not that concerned as to why I have 4
least favourite ( 33 favourite ).

Everyone has their own reasons for not wanting to deal with specific stores,
I suspect mine are mainly due to having a number of multiple listings of the
same items in new condition, I’m in the process of merging these.





In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?
 Author: Tracyd View Messages Posted By Tracyd
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 16:42
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Tracyd (418)

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In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I do glance occasionally at these but not that concerned as to why I have 4
least favourite ( 33 favourite ).

Everyone has their own reasons for not wanting to deal with specific stores,
I suspect mine are mainly due to having a number of multiple listings of the
same items in new condition, I’m in the process of merging these.





In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?


I have 9 marking me as a least favorite store. And my store has never been opened.
Some people do it when you disagree with them on the forums.
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 17:06
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SylvainLS (46)

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In General, Tracyd writes:
  […]
I have 9 marking me as a least favorite store. And my store has never been opened.
Some people do it when you disagree with them on the forums.

(Same: 1 least, 2 most, and 1 registered to my newsletter )


Note that least-favoriting is the only way a buyer has to prevent a particular
store from beeing chosen by Auto-select.
So, it may not be because your store is “totally bad” but maybe the member wanted
to try to find a solution without you because you’re too far from them but keep
coming up and there’s no way to filter by US state.
 Author: Tracyd View Messages Posted By Tracyd
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In General, SylvainLS writes:
  In General, Tracyd writes:
  […]
I have 9 marking me as a least favorite store. And my store has never been opened.
Some people do it when you disagree with them on the forums.

(Same: 1 least, 2 most, and 1 registered to my newsletter )


Note that least-favoriting is the only way a buyer has to prevent a particular
store from beeing chosen by Auto-select.
So, it may not be because your store is “totally bad” but maybe the member wanted
to try to find a solution without you because you’re too far from them but keep
coming up and there’s no way to filter by US state.

My store doesn't come up in any searches. It has never been opened or stocked.
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 17:43
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In General, Tracyd writes:
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My store doesn't come up in any searches. It has never been opened or stocked.

Same.
I had to “upgrade” to seller before “upgrading” to moderator.  (Credentials are
hierarchical.)
 Author: iprice View Messages Posted By iprice
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 17:11
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In General, Tracyd writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I do glance occasionally at these but not that concerned as to why I have 4
least favourite ( 33 favourite ).

Everyone has their own reasons for not wanting to deal with specific stores,
I suspect mine are mainly due to having a number of multiple listings of the
same items in new condition, I’m in the process of merging these.





In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?


I have 9 marking me as a least favorite store. And my store has never been opened.
Some people do it when you disagree with them on the forums.

THIS (but the opposite). I have a store that has stoplisted me that I've
never even bought from. I enquired and it was because of something I said on
the forums (relating to me preferring less plastic and packaging).
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
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Stuart9 (1047)

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I think I got mine for complaining about bite marks not described on minifigure
heads as some seem to regard these as just normal used pieces, who knows.



In General, iprice writes:
  In General, Tracyd writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I do glance occasionally at these but not that concerned as to why I have 4
least favourite ( 33 favourite ).

Everyone has their own reasons for not wanting to deal with specific stores,
I suspect mine are mainly due to having a number of multiple listings of the
same items in new condition, I’m in the process of merging these.





In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?


I have 9 marking me as a least favorite store. And my store has never been opened.
Some people do it when you disagree with them on the forums.

THIS (but the opposite). I have a store that has stoplisted me that I've
never even bought from. I enquired and it was because of something I said on
the forums (relating to me preferring less plastic and packaging).
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 17:27
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In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I think I got mine for complaining about bite marks not described on minifigure
heads as some seem to regard these as just normal used pieces, who knows.

When I was a buyer, I could still see who stoplisted me (gone from 6 or 7 to
9 since) and that was mostly stores I didn’t interact with on the forum and that
I would never buy from anyway.
*shrugs*
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
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Now listed as least favourite by 5 for replying to this thread, so so funny.
😎



In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I think I got mine for complaining about bite marks not described on minifigure
heads as some seem to regard these as just normal used pieces, who knows.



In General, iprice writes:
  In General, Tracyd writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I do glance occasionally at these but not that concerned as to why I have 4
least favourite ( 33 favourite ).

Everyone has their own reasons for not wanting to deal with specific stores,
I suspect mine are mainly due to having a number of multiple listings of the
same items in new condition, I’m in the process of merging these.





In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?


I have 9 marking me as a least favorite store. And my store has never been opened.
Some people do it when you disagree with them on the forums.

THIS (but the opposite). I have a store that has stoplisted me that I've
never even bought from. I enquired and it was because of something I said on
the forums (relating to me preferring less plastic and packaging).
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jul 28, 2023 18:20
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In General, Stuart9 writes:
  Now listed as least favourite by 5 for replying to this thread, so so funny.
😎

Ah shoot, I shouldn’t have participated: my number has doubled!  (1 to 2)
My store will never recover!
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
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Now your favourite score will probably rise by one, mine has now.

🤔


In General, SylvainLS writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  Now listed as least favourite by 5 for replying to this thread, so so funny.
😎

Ah shoot, I shouldn’t have participated: my number has doubled!  (1 to 2)
My store will never recover!
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
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In General, Stuart9 writes:
  Now your favourite score will probably rise by one, mine has now.

🤔

Not yet but I’ve a potential reader more (1 to 2 too).

Maybe I should start preparing articles to send to my followers 🤔

Can we send newsletters from a closed store?
 Author: cosmicray View Messages Posted By cosmicray
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In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I think I got mine for complaining about bite marks not described on minifigure
heads as some seem to regard these as just normal used pieces, who knows.

At the very least, they should indicate on the listing if the bite marks are
from children or pets 😛

Nita Rae
 Author: legoman77 View Messages Posted By legoman77
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In General, cosmicray writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I think I got mine for complaining about bite marks not described on minifigure
heads as some seem to regard these as just normal used pieces, who knows.

At the very least, they should indicate on the listing if the bite marks are
from children or pets 😛

Nita Rae

That is why children should not be allowed to play with Lego.
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In General, iprice writes:
  In General, Tracyd writes:
  In General, Stuart9 writes:
  I do glance occasionally at these but not that concerned as to why I have 4
least favourite ( 33 favourite ).

Everyone has their own reasons for not wanting to deal with specific stores,
I suspect mine are mainly due to having a number of multiple listings of the
same items in new condition, I’m in the process of merging these.





In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?


I have 9 marking me as a least favorite store. And my store has never been opened.
Some people do it when you disagree with them on the forums.

THIS (but the opposite). I have a store that has stoplisted me that I've
never even bought from. I enquired and it was because of something I said on
the forums (relating to me preferring less plastic and packaging).

A store I bought from with no issues on either side stop listed me because I
was friends with Foster.
 Author: Brettj666 View Messages Posted By Brettj666
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In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?

I have 112 people mark me as most favourite, 22 have marked me as least.

Reasons that I have least favourite stores are things like

charges for paypal, whether or not they are allowed to according to their countries
rules.
excessive charges, poor feedback. I have also least favourited stores that have
poor attitudes either in the forum or in the facebook group.

putting them as least favourite just gets them out of my searches.

I can almost guarantee that some of the people least favouriting me is because
I've put 666 in my user name, as that has been feedback before.
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
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In General, Brettj666 writes:
  In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?

I have 112 people mark me as most favourite, 22 have marked me as least.

Here:
3286 Most
161 Least

  I can almost guarantee that some of the people least favouriting me is because
I've put 666 in my user name, as that has been feedback before.

Simple problem, simple solution.
Rename you as "Brettj667-1"?
 Author: legoman77 View Messages Posted By legoman77
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In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?

167 Most 19 Least 128 on my stop list 14 stop listed me
Feedback posted 4032 positive 2 neutrals 26 negative

Feedback received 4032 positive 1 neutral and (1 negative as buyer) The
negative and the neutral were from France. I need my own Maginot Line Line.

John P
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In General, uticabrix writes:
  Curious if anyone ever looks at their activity to see how many members marked
your stores at "least favorite"? What is the percentage of most vs
least? I know this has been an issue before but would be nice if BL could have
members post the reasons why so that stores can correct themselves if necessary.
Thoughts?

If I remember, some people have been advised to mark a seller as Least Favorite
merely to suppress that seller from coming up in wanted list results. So it may
not be because you have specifically done something to that member, but more
the only tool available to keep a seller from appearing in those results.

Nita Rae
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For me it's almost always because a store is too expensive and I don't
want them to appear in my searches. I sell mostly minifigs and I often buy parts
to finish minifigs. If the prices are too high compared to the average costs
for parts I'll least favorite them.