  
| Author: | Heartbricker  | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2017 00:18 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tillmanbalazs writes:
| | few weeks ago when I went to a wanted list, and selected the items which I wanted
to buy, then the shop, it showed what is the price of items in this shop compared
to the average price of the items.
Now this function is not available, can I ask why?
Is it possible to have it back?
Thanks,
Balázs
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Here is a point you and everyone else in this thread have been missing:
Many store cut item prices but have high fees ($2 handling fee, 5% paypal fee,
lot fee, inflated shipping cost etc. fee) those fees are not reflected in the
price guide.
My store isn't the cheapest BUT we don't charge any fees for orders over
$10, we factor our paypal/handling/whatever cost into the price of the bricks
instead of listing low so we can show up on the lowest cost but then charge high
fees which would bring your cost per piece much higher- thereby; manipulating
the price guide and cheating the buyer into thinking he bought the pieces under
the average but in reality; the fees bring you over.
Next is the issue of Bricklink's admin: since BL only charges a commission
for the parts and not shipping or other fees sellers charge- BL would be a fool
to encourage a system that would cheat them out of commission by lowering the
commission-able amount (LEGO) and not benefiting from the extras (some) sellers
are charging as those are not commissionable.
I understand why a buyer would want this feature BUT you need to understand that
it is not in your benefit to pay a low piece rate and be charged a high fee/inflated
shipping/Paypal fee etc- you're just being manipulated by some sellers.
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