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Re: Streamlining the parts selling process
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Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:03:14 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Mike Stanley writes:
> In lugnet.market.theory, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > What you see when you go to Mike Stanley's store is what's left after all
> > the big buyers in GoB have picked it over. A lot of the good stuff doesn't
> > make it out to the public because we snap it up.
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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.
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> That sounds real bad, and I'd really rather Larry hadn't put it quite that
> way - it sounds to me like all I'm selling to the larger public is junk,
> which isn't, imo, the case.
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 generous. To have someone make me aware once again
that less is available to me feels like salt in a wound. Only this time it
is because of my peewee buying power as opposed to my geographic location.
My internal dialogue goes from appropriate for lugnet.rant to lugnet.whine.
At this point, I am trying to decide how many subgroups lugnet.whine should
have if one existed. [ lugnet.whine.market, lugnet.whine.people,
lugnet.whine.off-topic,...] It does mellow me some... I *know* just being
in the US gives me more access than many, be grateful for what I've got
...blah, blah, blah...nope it doesn't make me feel any better... I am in
prime whine mode...
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> Of the 117 orders I have had so far at Brickbay, 17 of them have been to GoB
> members, which means 100 of them have been to everyone else. Now of those
> 17 Larry accounts for 9, and he's certainly my most frequent buyer, which
> makes me happy - Larry's tops when it comes to trustworthiness and
> dependability.
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> It is true that I run my stock by my fellow GoB members before I open my
> sale to the general public,
> but I've noticed over the last few months that
> the bulk of my parts are sold after I open my store to the public.
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> Oh well, probably just me being overly sensitive, but it just struck a
> strange cord in me to read that comment that way.
Well, some days I am more vunerable than others. I guess today is one of
those days for me. Reality stinks. I just don't like to think the *best*
is always beyond of my reach. I need my illusions...dellusions?
> I have to think that the
> people who placed the 100 out of 117 orders found something "good" at my
> shop or they wouldn't have bought them from me. That and what one AFOL
> thinks is a good part may not be useful to others - and vice versa.
YES!
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> That having been said, this thread has gotten big, and I'm going to reread
> it now, maybe take some pics of my Lego room and inventory setup tomorrow,
> and post them. I can also say that I'm seriously thinking of working
> towards offering less than huge quantities on most parts. I know it works
> for the larger buyers, but I've gone from my usual "can you sell just X out
> of Y of these" mail that I get once every other week to actually getting two
> of them this week alone. I may not be able to do much with my current
> inventory, as it is already sorted and counted and entered, but I'm working
> on coming up with a way to incorporate smaller quantities (doubt I'll ever
> do onesies or twosies) in my sorting/counting/storing process.
Please think about some smaller quantites. Sometimes an element is only
available from someone offering a huge quantity or a high minimum. This
puts it totally out of reach. It can be very frustrating and disappointing.
Sheree
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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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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