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Re: Brickbay problems........again
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Sat, 19 May 2001 18:46:58 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Mike Stanley writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Morten Soerensen writes:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Don't care to speculate about the numbers like that, mainly because I'm not
> that fond of math.  I hope Dan's making a killing from Brickbay, especially
> given all the effort he puts into it.
> 
> > Therefore, would anyone care if he charged each member a year fee of USD 10
> > ? It ain't much to pay for all the services he provides, but it will give
> > him an extra profit of USD 32,000 emediately (under the circumstances that
> > everyone pays) and the amount will increase each day from the new members
> > that registrate them selves on the side. That way he'll have plenty more
> > money to get a reliable server provider and the needed equipment to keep on
> > expanding the brickbay site.
> > 
> > What do you say ?
> 
> I saw that I personally, as a seller, would gladly do something like this.
> Were I only a buyer, I would not.  Well, I would, just to help Dan, but any
> extra cost like this ought, imo, to be borne by the sellers, not the buyers.
> That's not just a "how I feel" statement - I think that makes the most sense
> market-wise.  I wouldn't pay eBay a fee to let me bid on auctions - they
> make their money from the sellers, just as Brickbay does.

I'm pretty much the same way, although I'd kick in as a buyer, I'd rather
that sellers were carrying the extra weight.  As a seller I'd happily go 3%
- in fact I would have been willing to do 3% from day 1.

James



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  Re: Brickbay problems........again
 
(...) Yes, sellers should either carry ALL, or at least the large part, of any increase. They can in turn raise prices. I had a nice father send me a note, he wanted some garage doors for his son, (but couldn't place an order because Brickbay was (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Morten Soerensen writes: <snip> Don't care to speculate about the numbers like that, mainly because I'm not that fond of math. I hope Dan's making a killing from Brickbay, especially given all the effort he puts into (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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