  
| Author: | waltzking  | | Posted: | Jan 26, 2024 01:08 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| There seem to be 4 sides here.
1. Buyers who DON’T care about the carefully documented LEGO sets, parts and
their history.
2. Buyers who DO care about the carefully documented LEGO sets, parts and their
history.
3. Sellers who DON’T care about the carefully documented LEGO sets, parts and
their history.
4. Sellers who DO care about the carefully documented LEGO sets, parts and their
history.
(Need I also mention lack of care for the community, including the founder, Daniel
Jezek, that have done an unfathomably time-consuming labor of love to log it
all and even bring us to this point in LEGO history?)
Clearly I show my colors here as one in the 4th group via this post, but it’s
the honest truth. We care or we don’t care. And honestly that’s okay. We’re
different, and we all need to be…like LEGO parts, it’s what makes the world unique.
But…
When we don’t allow for “variance” (pun intended) we destroy creativity forcing
all bricks to fit “one mold” (pun also intended). Since when do we celebrate
a new release of a tub of Classic bricks over the latest AFOL inspired design?
It’s insanity to even consider it as a user of this site.
But more to the original point I ask…
When has a non-variant caring buyer annoyed or troubled a seller when they were
shipped random variants of parts? Never.
When has a non-variant caring seller annoyed or troubled a buyer when they shipped
them random variants of parts? Quite often actually.
(And clearly likeminded seller/buyer combos don’t have these issues either.)
So we see three of the above categories are acceptable and have no harm caused
in their action/viewpoint, but one is not acceptable really. That’s #3. As a
seller you provide a SERVICE, it’s not the buyer who should serve you and just
be expected to be happy with whatever you send them. So when you post to say
these changes are good from a seller standpoint, you undermine the very thing
you (hopefully) strive to be…a reliable seller of the brick.
Granted variants can be hard, but nothing worth having comes easy. It’s why selling
LEGO is not cut out for everyone. Removing the option to differentiate though
(and truthfully that’s is what the changes do…even if a seller can add a comment,
as it is NOT sortable in wanted lists, auto-shop, etc. still…) and disallowing
us variant caring seller to list the variants in an actual entry of the catalog
defining these regularly buyer-requested variants, is in reality serving no one
but yourself. (As the above points clarify.)
In my option to post in support of these changes as a seller is an utterly selfish
and telling aspect of seller integrity and intent behind being a seller here
at all. Pure and simple profit. Profit is good, don’t get me wrong. And yes,
this site allows selling as PART of its services. But far beyond the selling
aspect it is most notable for its unparalleled catalog documenting LEGO history,
piece by piece. It’s BECAUSE of this that we can then sell these documented morsels
of history one-by-one. So how can any AFOL (or in some cases ASOLFP…Adult Seller
of LEGO for Profits) stand in favor of deleting the communities hard work and
these valuably document aspects of the data and history of the evolution of the
LEGO brick…just to make selling a few parts easier? It’s absolute insanity!
Never in history has the mantra “provide inferior service, make happier buyers!”
worked as a business model. So in reality the one being pushed here is “prove
inferior service, sell more, and care less about the result or buyer.” This
change isn’t about happier buyers, or “easier” shopping. It’s about sales at
the cost of quality. Again, who does this benefit? And is that really what this
site or you as a seller are all about? I surely hope not.
If as a seller you can’t take the time to sort variants and be of service to
this community of avid AFOLs who are also buyers, you should probably just find
a real job. Don’t vote to take away the “rights” of the rest of us for your “ease
of use” making a buck. You lose many of us as buyers thinking you’re making life
and profits easier on yourself when you say this. It only makes it harder for
us all to remove options like this. I mean imagine shopping Macy’s and not being
allowed to pick shirt styles anymore. I’m sure that will make posting product
easier…and sales better. 
And for all you dedicated and LEGO history loving buyers, go ahead and bookmark
our store A *Deal* 4 U. We’ll list the variants as much as possible, as
we’ve done since day one (over 18 years ago), where you can shop the true history
of the Lego brick as your convenience.
With great fervor,
Waltzking
(End rant)
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