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Re: Automated Inventory Ordering through Bricklink
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lugnet.market.brickshops
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Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:01:57 GMT
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In lugnet.market.brickshops, Erik Olson wrote:
> As a seller, I find this talk disturbing. My job is to take many sets apart and
> consolidate the pieces. If someone can easily place an order for all the parts
> from one set... An order of many lots of onesies or twosies is unprofitable
> because it takes hours to fill.
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> Now nobody is going to pay the parted-out prices if they can still get the set
> for a better price. But I fear one day I will add a rare but long parted-out set
> to inventory (say, those 10 parted-out copies of 3053 Emperor's Stronghold in my
> closet) and somebody's wanted list will go *ping* and fire off an automated
> order for 197 lots of onesie-twosies. (This one is worth more as a set than as
> pieces, but I don't want to put them back together. Anyway I am selling it off
> bit by bit.)
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> Currently, sellers post their own policy about filling such orders. This is a
> gray area and there is nothing to stop someone from placing the order anyway.
> Once the technology exists to do so, sellers will need a way to say "don't do
> this in my shop."
Simple, just cancel the order. If your ToS restrict such orders, then you are
within your rights to refuse the service.
ROSCO
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