Author:  popsicle  Posted:  Dec 21, 2021 17:17  Subject:  Re: Selling new Lego as used?  Viewed:  119 times  Topic:  Selling Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card popsicle (6673) Location:  USA, Washington Member Since Contact Type Status Feb 21, 2006 Seller  Store: ConstrucToys

In Selling, 9_lives_bricks writes:    Hi, I was wondering if anyone is listing both there new and used Lego as used. I can see a lot of benefit to it and very little reasons why I shouldn't. Just wondering if anyone has tried it and how it effected sales. Thanks I can see the benefits of taking such a tack as seller… though I don’t know if they would outweigh the detriments to a vendor on this site? Staying with the premise though, moderating it some, you might do as Carol has practiced for sometime: https://www.bricklink.com/feedback.asp?u=carolannee that is sell new parts/items as "new" with a description within each listing's comment section, denigrating the item's condition for prospective buyers. Underselling the new listing, in other words. Incidentally, she’s been an inspiration for me as a BrickLink seller. Ever since my early years as a clueless fool in California with too much budget and too little knowledge, I’ve tried to anchor my selling behaviors in part by emulating sellers such her, whom I consider through empiricism to be the pinnacle of selling-excellence. Of course I’m not of Amazing Bricks caliber, but to quote from the classics “All men reach and fall, reach and fall” Doesn’t discourage us from reaching in the first place, I would add -popsicle

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Selling new Lego as used? - 9_lives_bricks (3203)

Hi, I was wondering if anyone is listing both there new and used Lego as used. I can see a lot of benefit to it and very little reasons why I shouldn't. Just wondering if [...] (30 months ago, Dec 21, 2021, to Selling)

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Re: Selling new Lego as used? - 9_lives_bricks (3203)

Thanks, I just took a look at her store but it seems to be closed. I'm assuming that's because of the holidays. So there is not a lot of information I can see, but what [...] (30 months ago, Dec 21, 2021, to Selling)

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