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I took a break from my LDrawing up my latest Milton Train Works creation, (coming soon!) to answer this one... (...) Those of us that buy bulk will love it. That includes me... when I want a part, I want ALL of that part that is available. Right now (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) <snippage> (...) The one thing I'm not, *not* going to be able to do is drop my prices. The vast majority of my parts are $0.10 - already below retail. If my prices dropped, I would either have to start selling parts I want to keep, or give up (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes: - SNIP - (...) Part of the trouble with this "big buyer" selling in my opinion is the number of unwanted parts which are left over. After the top buyers have exhausted the seller of the desired parts (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) If it's the *right* 5000 pieces, you can be sure my interest will be piqued, although it may not be the peak of piquing... But yes, this is a problem indeed... you have to set the desirables high enough so that you can set the undesireables (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Commodities. I've said it before and I'll sait it again, we need some kind of system that allows persons desirous of a particular part/color to place outstanding 'buy orders'. Preferrably in the open. Then the 'set busters' can do analysis (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Standing open buy orders... I suggested this very thing to Dan not too long ago. I think it's a great idea. I hope he does it, heck, he may have it in development as we speak! (of course you want to add "all or none", limit, stop, market, gtc (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I'm not a seller on brickbay (yet), but it seems obvious that those who sell in large numbers really need 2 shops - all the left-overs go to the second shop, which can justify slightly higher prices because of the extra work involved counting, (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Something that occured to me the other day (with respect to BrickBay): a 'Clearance' category. Or perhaps it should be called a 'pseudo-category'. I would like to see a 'clearance' attribute on the item record. When I get to much of a (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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"Ray Sanders" <rsanders@svic.net> wrote in message news:G4o1uw.D03@lugnet.com... (...) mostly (...) I (...) to much (...) check the (...) category as (...) having (...) I agree whole heateredly. I have a bunch of parts I would like to put on sale (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) This discussion is getting me thinking about how to clear out some of the parts overstock I'm experiencing. I have not typically been buying sets to break down for parts, but there are some types of parts which are probably desireable that I (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) You know what I'm going to say...sell what you can, and then when you get a significant backlog of certain sorts of parts, it's eBay time... (...) ...I've almost never had to do this. Case in point: An insane number of grey and tan 1x2 plates (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Well, part of the problem is that my whole storage system is starting to break. I will be spending some time this weekend overcoming my inclination to keep everything, and actually discard a lot of boxes (Larry and Todd, are you still looking (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes: (snip) (...) There can be only 1. (Too good to pass up) -Jon (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) (deliberately misconstruing) Although many have asked, "Can he be the one?", somehow I don't see you as the Quizatz Haderach. Do you look like Kyle McLachlan? (...) Ditto. (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not in the last 100 or so years. ;^D (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There are many sets that I bought only for certain parts...there are very few available sets that I buy for the model nowadays...In the past I was able to auction the rest of the parts, so as to make the parts I kept *free*... the market is (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Wow, I was glancing back through this thread intending to offer my methods for sorting and storing inventory (nothing special - just how I do it) when I noticed this. That sounds real bad, and I'd really rather Larry hadn't put it quite that (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Cool :) (...) You probably remember that I just bought from your store, and though I didn't email you, I was a little unhappy at the quantities I had to buy of items. Nevertheless, I bucked it up and did it anyways...because I just got my (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Note I said "less than huge" and "on most parts". :) (...) Well, just keep in mind that the only way everyone will be able to buy "just what [they] need" is if I sell individual pieces, and that just plain won't ever happen again. I sell the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I am very glad you have responded to this. I must say Larry's comment hits a raw nerve with me. In my city there is a kmart, a target, a kbtoys, a walmart,[they don't deserve capital letters] and a Tuesday Morning, the selection is far from (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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To All, I have been following to this to some extent, but it is interesting. Let's see.... (...) It can be, it depends (0.08 parts are not, minifigs are, etc.). I found most of my orders are never one or two, mostly 5-10 of each part at least. I (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Nah, not really. The bulk of my parts really do go to people making $10-$20 orders. Part of me wishes the bulk went to a handful of people making $100-$200 orders, since that would be a LOT easier for me to deal with, but that just isn't (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I wish I hadn't said this, at least not in this way. It's not actually true, and it's not particularly thoughtful to have said it. I'd edit the post in place, marking that para out as not my current words (but not denying I said it) were it (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I think with more sellers, there is more competition (on BrickBay or wherever). The quantity volume on BB has shot thru the roof. 60 days ago, there was somewhere around 300-325K of parts on all stores, now the number is around 600K (I'm (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) This may be true. I saw, in the last two weeks, three BSBs go for right around $100 each. (Granted, not MISB--that was still $250--but still...) best LFB (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Really? I wonder if any of the other big sellers would chime in and say whether or not profit has remained stable--I did really well last summer, and a part of me wants to engage in it again this summer (God knows I've got enough pieces). (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Profit has dropped slightly for me, but I don't mind because I'm spending much less time on the sales than I used to. Maybe I'm selling for less, maybe there are more people doing it and so I'm not selling as much at full asking price the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) You can run a search by sale having greater than x% off raging from 0% (default which will show all items) to 100%. For example, Hardcore has a headless shark for 95% off: (URL) all items more than 90% off) When you have a sale, there is (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Rut-roh. Is that a "good thing"[tm] or a "bad thing"[tm] ? I just try harder. When something seems in need of a little TLC, I speak up. Ray (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) That's just because I put all of mine in long long ago... <GD&R> ++Lar (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I think that would do it, for most people. I've looked at your listings sometimes, and I've just never been motivated to buy in the lot-sizes you offer. But I'm probably not representative of most of the brick-buying public. Steve (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) I know some people don't buy because they don't want (or need) huge quantities, and I'm ok with that, but if there weren't a goodly number of people who are ok with buying in those quantities I wouldn't have had 120+ orders in the last few (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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"Mike Stanley" <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message news:G52L94.AnJ@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) directly, (...) be (...) Actually I think it does. I recall browsing someone's store where they had elements available individually and (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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In lugnet.market.theory, Mike Stanley writes: <snip> (...) Brickbay does do it (last I checked). List your 25 rare blue snergwiffles (single lot, or whatever). Then add more rare blue snergwiffles. Brickbay tells you that you already have blue (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Heres another way to do this. List your blue snergwiffles at the single piece retail price. Then list the larger bulk lots at the same price, but with a sale percentage. That way the bulk lots get marked down and highlighted as a sale at the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Well, to be honest, I considered that a both ... and statement there. So even if Brickbay does allow for a way to handle that sort of multiple listing, to do it across the board would be a *nightmare* for me. I have 10 60-drawer chests that I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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(...) Interesting - that's probably how I will do things for the parts on which I reduce buy quantities. Thanks for the idea. (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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