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Re: Bricklink frustration
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:02:28 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Lane wrote:
> Therefore my parts would begin their journey, not by coming to me but going
> to another seller I was dealing with, therefore this part of the journey
> would only cost the price of surface mail (which I would be billed for).
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> The primary buying node would then add these parts to the parts I bought
> from them and send them to me. I would only have to pay one seller and one
> set of amalgamated carriage fees.
The biggest issue as I see it is probably the fact that it's not worth the
primary seller's time in this example. The point of them instigating a minimum
order is so that they don't have to deal with stuff that's "not worth their
time". But now, they have to deal not only with your order, but also with the
order that they buy and sell from another seller, and they still don't
*actually* get the $10 minimum because they spent it on the secondary seller.
Although-- maybe I'm thinking about that the wrong way. Perhaps the secondary
seller is the one with the parts you want (and the $10 minimum) in this case.
That makes more sense. Essentially, that you can set up sellers as "Network
Sellers", who will buy things from *other* BL stores to complete your orders. If
the secondary sellers have minimum orders, the primary seller can choose to
either simply pay the minimum order for that set one order, or may choose to
include other items that they can add to their own primary inventory.
Effectively, a middleman service.
Issues are probably overhead and time. It's a lot of extra effort to be a
middleman in that case, so there'd probably be an additional cost involved that
the buyer would pay for. And as a buyer, you'd have to wait longer for your
parts, since they'd first have to get to the primary buyer before getting back
to you.
DaveE
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 | | Re: Bricklink frustration
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| Quoting David Eaton <deaton@intdata.com>: (...) The largest issue I've always seen with this was that the amalgamated carriage fees would very quickly pile up. Not only would the buyer pay for the first shipping fee to the middleman, but then the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Bricklink frustration
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| Here is my situation I want a large quantity of a single part type. I have found the one BrickLink seller who has the part in quantity, in the right colour. Even worse his price is ridiculously cheap (Especially compared to other sellers). But (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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