  
| Author: | ToriHada  | | Posted: | May 23, 2015 00:10 | | Subject: | Re: Link to catalog entry from store | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, forseti writes:
| | Hi,
it would be very helpful if there would be a link directly to the catalog entry
of an item/set when browsing an item/set in any store. This way, you don't
need to go all the way back to the catalog page and manually search for it or
browse your way to the entry.
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This suggestions has come up several times in the past - almost annually. And
every time I and many others vote against it.
As a seller I want to keep customers in my shop so they can place an order. I
do not want to make it easy for them to leave, nor do I want to give them links
that could take them somewhere else. It is not my job to tell my customers if
they can get a better deal from any of my competitors, nor do I want to help
make that comparison easier for them - at least not while they are in my shop.
Buyers should do this on their own without expecting me to make it easier for
them. There are very few retailers in the real world that will give you an in-store
tool to immediately check the prices of all their competitors on everything they
sell. So why is it expected here?
Sure, many buyers can already compare prices by manually opening several windows.
But many don't bother doing this. Even I find opening multiple windows and
comparing the prices of each item slow and cumbersome. So many times I just shop
by gut feeling - I can recognize when a price is lower than average and good
enough for me, even if it isn't the cheapest.
And, like Darren says, I believe this tool would only place even more downward
pressure on prices. It is hard enough to make a decent profit here. Make it even
more difficult and sellers will start leaving.
That being said, this tool - if implemented - might actually be beneficial to
me and result in more orders for me (in the short-term) because I have some of
the lowest prices on BrickLink. However, I don't believe it is good for BrickLink.
And, in the long-term, it would probably result in lower profits for me as more
sellers try to undercut my prices.
Thor
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