Author:  CE_Tanja  Posted:  Jul 5, 2023 16:16  Subject:  Re: Announcing the MOC Pop-Up Store Pilot  Viewed:  158 times  Topic:  Administrative Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card CE_Tanja Location:  USA, California Member Since Contact Type Status Feb 17, 2021 Admin BrickLink Administrator

Dear all, Let me try to address the concerns in this thread. The MOC Pop-up store is a pilot, a test to see if by adding Pick a Brick to the mix in the MOC Pop-up store, we will be able to realize the fan designs that do not end up being produced. We know that without adding Pick a Brick we do not have the volumes available in the marketplace to fulfill elements for many of the same design. Investigating the best ways to accomplish getting these designs in to the hands of the people who would like to build them, we checked in with quite a few BrickLink Sellers and Buyers to get their perspective on the approach, we have applied these perspectives to the best of our ability in a pilot setup. Although we strongly believe that adding a new initiative like the MOC Pop-up store to BrickLink will generate more sales for the Sellers on BrickLink (due to added business from the MOC sales where many of the elements will not be available through Pick a Brick) We have decided to take a buyers perspective on the decisions we have made, because we believe that if this is not a feasible model from a buyer perspective then there can be no MOC Pop-up store. We reached out to a few of the largest sellers on BrickLink because this is a pilot and it will only be running for about 10 weeks and we don’t know if this will be a success or not, it would not be fair to ask more, smaller sellers to take a risk of stocking up on elements when we do not know if they will sell or not. Fulfillment of orders is critical to the success of the pilot and we asked the bigger sellers to take a chance on supporting this initiative in order to hopefully be able to prove the success and move forward with a complete program in the future - at which time we will not only be working with a select group of sellers. In Administrative, CE_Tanja writes:    BrickLink is thrilled to announce the MOC Pop-Up Store pilot https://www.bricklink.com/v3/moc-pop-up-store/about.page

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Announcing the MOC Pop-Up Store Pilot - CE_Tanja

BrickLink is thrilled to announce the MOC Pop-Up Store pilot (URL) Going live in late August! This is a test program that allows BrickLink members to purchase digital building [...] (11 months ago, Jul 5, 2023, to Administrative)

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Re: Announcing the MOC Pop-Up Store Pilot - yorbrick (1185)

[...] Surely having no limits on the number of different sets produced or of each set produced during the pre-ordering stage would have done that. And instead of having to [...] (11 months ago, Jul 5, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Announcing the MOC Pop-Up Store Pilot - Ra (291)

A 17 billion dollar company cant put their money at stake and require small businesses to put up front cash to carry the needed inventory lol (11 months ago, Jul 5, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Announcing the MOC Pop-Up Store Pilot - Ra (291)

What a big company doesnt understand is loyalty. What if i only needed 2 or 3 sets to provide my most loyal customers. Those customers would pay top dollar to buy from me over [...] (11 months ago, Jul 5, 2023, to Administrative)

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