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Re: BAYLIT - Brickbay
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lugnet.market.theory
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Sun, 1 Oct 2000 06:58:37 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.market.theory, Jeff Shiner writes:
> > In lugnet.market.theory, Jon Kozan writes:
> >
> > -- BIG SNIP --
> > >
> > > -Jon
> > >
> > > (Hey - I changed the shop name, others should do the same... Dan might
> > > consider eliminating that front-page shop listing as I referred to earlier)
> > > ((I'm considering changing the shop name frequently anyway... In a city • market,
> > > shop names don't matter! Just seller reputation and product selection and
> > > price))
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> >
> > I'm not so sure that shop names don't matter... a shop name is the first (and
> > often easiest) way to associate yourself with your customer. It is often
> > through this shop name that the customer can recognize the seller and
> > associated level of service provided.
>
> Indeed. How am I to know it's you I am dealing with if I don't recognise your
> shop name. I have no intention of ever changing mine. I'm working hard
> to "build up the brand" of Milton Train Works so I am not going to change my
> shop name to "A Awesome Larry's Shop" in order to move up to the head of the
> list (even if I *am* awesome...) because that kind of thing is cheesy and
> reputable sellers are above such folderol. Anyone who jockeys for the first
> position on an alpha list has a whiff of non reputability, in my "first
> impression" book. (that's not to say that trying to get first position on a
> list of lowest price per piece or highest feedback isn't a great thing to try
> for, mind you... if that's the business model you're after)
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> I am sure Dan is mulling over the suggestions we've given about additional
> ways to view shops and I suspect the best thing to do at this point is let
> them percolate for a while.
I don't think there needs to be a change to the front page, it looks good
now. Maybe a "Personalize my front page" section which could be set as
default in which one could select to see either one of the following 3:
* the number of parts/sets
* the feedback rating
* the number of lots
I'm also thinking of doing a Spotlight on a shop on the front page: The shop
that would be currently in the spotlight would be the one that last received
an order and would stay in the spotlight until an order is submitted to
another shop which would then become the spotlight shop. Don't know if anyone
would have a problem with that since receiving orders is kinda private.
Going back to the BAYLIT case, I see it as a potential problem in the future
where others might follow BAYLIT's example. There is no perfect rule that
would disallow sellers to use a Brickbay shop to simply advertise their own
site other than eliminating the custom pages alltogether which won't happen.
So at this time I would simply simply like to ask everyone to please use
Brickbay as intended - Open a shop to sell Lego related items and not to
primarily advertise one's own commercial site.
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| (...) Oh - good word. See - my dictionary works. ;-) (...) First, IMO the way you've grouped shops by country is a great "solution" to this naming "issue". Like other's have said, the name doesn't really matter, so long as you keep it logical and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Indeed. How am I to know it's you I am dealing with if I don't recognise your shop name. I have no intention of ever changing mine. I'm working hard to "build up the brand" of Milton Train Works so I am not going to change my shop name to "A (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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