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Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
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lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance
Date: 
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:18:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Kevin Wilson writes:
LUGNET Admin wrote in message ...
as how we're brainstorming over in the lugnet.admin.finance
area, maybe this is worth re-visiting.

Okay, I made a quick mock-up. This isn't a fully developed concept... I
just want to give you some idea of what I meant in previous post.

http://www.baseplate.com/temp/lugnet/market-brickshops.gif

I like this idea, it looks interesting!

How would you decide what "a shop" is?

In a typical 'marketplace' advertising situation, adspace can be taken out
by just about anyone, but bigger operations are encouraged to take out more
prestegious and higher quality advertising space (more expensive) throughout
editorial the content.

In our case, I'd want to sell this Marketplace adspace by a fairly long
subscription (6 mos?) With any changes to the ad itself being expensive.
This discourages someone from having like 20 ads and changing them
everyother day. Those folks would be better off with something more like a
classified ad.

Individual Bricklink stores vs Bricklink itself, for instance...

Sticking with magazine methodology, I'd imagine BrickLink's advertising
appearing elsewhere on the site, and/or BrickLink taking out a bulk sum of
marketplace ads on behalf of its users and reselling it (privately) to them
at a discount (in comparison with LUGNET's regular marketplace rates). This
sometimes happens when a site like BrickLink wants its 'product' to speak
for itself. All these simple, similar-looking, small ads would appear ganged
together with/as a BrickLink ad. This situation has the obvious advantage
(for me) of leaving determinations up to the other party.

or like I have my own custom kits website AND a Bricklink parts store, I'd
rather see those treated as 2 separate stores.

me too.

But do you think there's any danger in the visitor seeing your 2 stores on
equal footing? that is, they can't tell that your ad for a BL store is at
BL, and your other isn't? As a visitor, would you want to know?

-Suz



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  Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
 
(...) I think 6 months is a bit extreme, especially to start with. I would suggest 1 month as a minimum, but you can buy longer time periods for a slightly better price. Perhaps a listing fee plus a monthly fee, so that a multi-month ad ends up (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)
  Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
 
LUGNET Admin wrote in message ... (...) I think it would be up to the advertiser to be clear about what (s)he's selling in a specific store ad, in my case kits vs parts. As a visitor, I'd be peeved if what I reach by clicking on the ad doesn't match (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)

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  Re: Marketplace / BrickShops was:[Charter Change for market.buy-sell-trade]
 
LUGNET Admin wrote in message ... (...) nifty (...) lugnet.admin.finance (...) just (...) I like this idea, it looks interesting! How would you decide what "a shop" is? Individual Bricklink stores vs Bricklink itself, for instance... or like I have (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.finance)

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