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 Author: Hm79 View Messages Posted By Hm79
 Posted: May 18, 2024 05:21
 Subject: Very new store :)
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Hm79 (16)

Location:  Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
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Store: 3BBricks - Sài Gòn
Hi,

With much effort in the past 6 months,
I have operated my store. Coming from a very far away place, I'm sure most
of you have not heard of where I live.
I look forward to receiving your support.

Thank you very much and have a nice day.

Best Regards,
3BBricks - Saigon
 Author: Ramsesr83 View Messages Posted By Ramsesr83
 Posted: May 14, 2024 18:54
 Subject: Re: Getting rid of all my lego sets
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Ramsesr83 (6)

Location:  USA, California
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Store: Ramses' Closet
In New Stores, sasquatch_eater writes:
  In New Stores, Ramsesr83 writes:
  hello Lego community,
I have a HUGE amount of sets and misc things I need to get rid of to buy a new
PC and other misc. things coming up life wise, so unfortunately, im selling my
entire collection. i'm still VERY new to this service and any help from vets
would be appreciated and please take a look and possibly buy something off me,
it goes along way!

https://store.bricklink.com/Ramsesr83&utm_content=globalnav#/shop

regards,
-Ramses

What everyone else will tell you: "keep adding inventory!" What I will
tell you: "They're right you know."

--Claude

currently im piecing back in sets I had pieced out, so there will be more for
sure. What I want to know more is how to handle international shipping and such,
so if anyone has any hints to that, that would be nice.
 Author: sasquatch_eater View Messages Posted By sasquatch_eater
 Posted: May 14, 2024 17:56
 Subject: Re: Getting rid of all my lego sets
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sasquatch_eater (81)

Location:  USA, Ohio
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Store: The Baboon's repository
In New Stores, Ramsesr83 writes:
  hello Lego community,
I have a HUGE amount of sets and misc things I need to get rid of to buy a new
PC and other misc. things coming up life wise, so unfortunately, im selling my
entire collection. i'm still VERY new to this service and any help from vets
would be appreciated and please take a look and possibly buy something off me,
it goes along way!

https://store.bricklink.com/Ramsesr83&utm_content=globalnav#/shop

regards,
-Ramses

What everyone else will tell you: "keep adding inventory!" What I will
tell you: "They're right you know."

--Claude
 Author: Ramsesr83 View Messages Posted By Ramsesr83
 Posted: May 14, 2024 14:43
 Subject: Getting rid of all my lego sets
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Ramsesr83 (6)

Location:  USA, California
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Store: Ramses' Closet
hello Lego community,
I have a HUGE amount of sets and misc things I need to get rid of to buy a new
PC and other misc. things coming up life wise, so unfortunately, im selling my
entire collection. i'm still VERY new to this service and any help from vets
would be appreciated and please take a look and possibly buy something off me,
it goes along way!

https://store.bricklink.com/Ramsesr83&utm_content=globalnav#/shop

regards,
-Ramses
 Author: TheBelgiumBrick View Messages Posted By TheBelgiumBrick
 Posted: May 14, 2024 09:18
 Subject: !! Grand Reopening 50% off all minifigures !!
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TheBelgiumBrick (50)

Location:  Belgium
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Store: Brick Solutions.
Grand Reopening

After a couple of months of restructuring, we are pleased to announce that Brick
Solutions is back in business, and this time we are bigger and better than ever!

We changed a lot these last few months, We simplified our shipping options to
provide you with a simpler purchasing experience, we reduced our Shipping Costs,
and we got rid of fees altogether, because let's be honest who likes fees?

We also updated our inventory with existing new minifigures, parts, and for the
first time some sets.

Because of this reopening, we are also running a sale through May, where we are
giving up to 50% off on all of our minifigures, and believe me, you don't
want to miss this one!

!! All are welcome, so come in and check out the new Brick Solutions !!
 Author: SWBConstruction View Messages Posted By SWBConstruction
 Posted: May 13, 2024 06:43
 Subject: Re: New Store in Western Australia
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SWBConstruction (1)

Location:  Australia, Western Australia
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Store: Down South Bricks
Just wanted to post on my thread again to promote my store to the Australians
on BL and like before, any feedback is appreciated.
 Author: AngrySquirrel View Messages Posted By AngrySquirrel
 Posted: May 7, 2024 20:46
 Subject: Re: Check out my new store
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AngrySquirrel (1253)

Location:  USA, Massachusetts
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Store: Squirrels@Play
Congrats on the new store, and welcome to bricklink!
 Author: LarrysBlocks View Messages Posted By LarrysBlocks
 Posted: May 6, 2024 20:34
 Subject: Re: Check out my new store
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LarrysBlocks (3) 

Location:  USA, Kentucky
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Store: Larry's Blocks
In New Stores, Nubs_Select writes:
  Welcome to bricklink!
Used items do have lots of demand and do sell but take more time to list.
Also you have
"We are not responsible for lost or stolen items."
which you may want to change as the seller is fully responsible for the package
until tracking marks it as delivered

I'll change that now, I didn't think about that honestly. Thank you so
much for your input.
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: May 6, 2024 19:44
 Subject: Re: Check out my new store
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Nubs_Select (3781)

Location:  Canada, Ontario
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Store: Nub's Select
Welcome to bricklink!
Used items do have lots of demand and do sell but take more time to list.
Also you have
"We are not responsible for lost or stolen items."
which you may want to change as the seller is fully responsible for the package
until tracking marks it as delivered
 Author: LarrysBlocks View Messages Posted By LarrysBlocks
 Posted: May 6, 2024 19:41
 Subject: Check out my new store
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LarrysBlocks (3) 

Location:  USA, Kentucky
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Store: Larry's Blocks
Come check out my newly opened store with only new parts. Curious do people prefer
used parts over new parts? We just opened and will be growing over time and are
excited to have the opportunity to serve fellow lego fanatics such as ourselves.
We are looking at adding used parts too if the need is there.
https://store.bricklink.com/LarrysBlocks&utm_content=globalnav#/shop
 Author: tonnic View Messages Posted By tonnic
 Posted: May 5, 2024 09:52
 Subject: Re: Bellie's Brickshop Zeeland
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tonnic (4350)

Location:  Netherlands, Noord-Holland
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Store: Tons_of_Bricks
Good luck with your store!

I do have some advice, look at your prices.
Just 3 examples, the rest is up to you to check and do whatever you want to.
1) technic ball black used is priced up to 15 times higher than other Dutch stores.
2) technic bush black is up to 30!!! times more expensive than other Dutch stores.
3) Bionicle Bohrok eye black is up to 10 times more expensive etc.

This combined with a small shop, specifically looking at the number of lots,
will have potential buyers overlook your store.

I hope you can do something with the advice, if not it is okay too (even better,
saves us other sellers extra competition 😉).

In New Stores, markB writes:
  Hello everyone, my store is open now for a couple of weekse

Please have a look.

More parts are adding if i have time for it.

If you have any questions or tips please contact me

Greetings
Mark Beljaars
Bellie's Brickshop Zeeland
 Author: markB View Messages Posted By markB
 Posted: May 5, 2024 09:03
 Subject: Bellie's Brickshop Zeeland
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markB (152)

Location:  Netherlands, Zeeland
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Store Closed Store: Bellie's Brickshop Zeeland
Hello everyone, my store is open now for a couple of weekse

Please have a look.

More parts are adding if i have time for it.

If you have any questions or tips please contact me

Greetings
Mark Beljaars
Bellie's Brickshop Zeeland
 Author: SatisfiedBrick View Messages Posted By SatisfiedBrick
 Posted: Apr 30, 2024 11:24
 Subject: Visit my store!
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Location:  Czech Republic, Jihomoravský Kraj
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Store: Satisfied Bricks
Hello,
I am very happy that Satisfied Bricks store was opened just yesterday!
Today I am adding new pieces and sets, come check it out.

Note: I haven´t set up international shipping methods yet, feel free to ask about
shipping!
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Apr 25, 2024 04:14
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yorbrick (1185)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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Store: Yorbricks
  
If they buyer did not answer you, you could still reply to his feedback something
like: "reached out to resolve if there was any issue but the buyer didn't
reply"

The issue was "good prices". Anyone that cares enough to look into feedback
scores can see that the buyer that left the neutral feedback was an idiot.
 Author: SezaR View Messages Posted By SezaR
 Posted: Apr 25, 2024 03:31
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SezaR (1395)

Location:  Canada, British Columbia
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Store: Sezar's trains
In New Stores, Cdaut13 writes:
  I'd love your feedback.

Why did you receive a neutral feedback?

You are a newbie as a seller and you need to be obsessed with maintaining a perfect
score. This is very important considering you just started selling and your record
is not yet huge, i.e. not many feedbacks.
All my first 1000 feedbacks were positive but I have initially received about
20 neutral or negative feedback. In all those cases, I contact buyers and resolved
the issue.
Did you try to contact this buyer? Do you know why he left you a neutral fb?

If they buyer did not answer you, you could still reply to his feedback something
like: "reached out to resolve if there was any issue but the buyer didn't
reply"

  
Thanks for stopping by!

https://store.bricklink.com/Cdaut13&utm_content=globalnav#/splash
 Author: Cdaut13 View Messages Posted By Cdaut13
 Posted: Apr 25, 2024 02:24
 Subject: Come visit!
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Location:  USA, Illinois
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Store: Cheri's Attic
I'd love your feedback.

Thanks for stopping by!

https://store.bricklink.com/Cdaut13&utm_content=globalnav#/splash
 Author: PickedABrick View Messages Posted By PickedABrick
 Posted: Apr 14, 2024 13:13
 Subject: New store!
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Location:  USA, California
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Store: PICKED A BRICK
I offer affordable parts, message me if you'd like to bulk buy so that I
can lower the price just for you! Feedback greatly appreciated .
 
 Author: koolkris200 View Messages Posted By koolkris200
 Posted: Apr 14, 2024 12:03
 Subject: I reopened my Lego resale bricklink store
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Location:  USA, Michigan
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Store: Brix studio
I have re opened the bricklink store of mine officially organized and happy to
serve all my customers in the USA
I have almost 60,000 more parts to come

Come check out my store
 Author: SurplusParts View Messages Posted By SurplusParts
 Posted: Apr 14, 2024 08:11
 Subject: Re: New Store! Any Feedback Appreciated!
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SurplusParts (6251)

Location:  Australia, Victoria
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Thanks so much for the advice!

In terms of the minimum spend, that does make sense. My thought process was around
ensuring enough profit to run viably based on less orders coming in due to being
new/less stock. And it has worked decent for minifigures but I can see how that
would limit part buyers which would most likely end up being a large chunk of
the buyer pools I would I assume?
Once I finish parting out all my remaining sets and stock for inventory, I should
have closer to 14,000 parts which still isn't a lot but should help provide
a good chunk more options for people than I have currently.

I can see where you are coming from. Most stores will include a packing fee
for orders, especially small orders. This will ensure that you will still make
a profit. Yes, a large proportion of buyers are parts buyers. Unless you have
lots of rare and hard to find minifigures of course.
  
That is a good point about letter shipping. I honestly didn't think about
it really as every person I have purchased from has always arrived in boxes or
bubble mailers..
I will have a look at adding letters as an option for domestic as that would
indeed drop shipping costs quite a bit for people buying parts..

Have a look at other stores terms and see there shipping costs and postage weight
ranges. Set a maximum price for letter shipping, and then if they spend over
that it has to come in parcel rate.
  
Yeah, that does make sense about international shipping. The main thought process
around opening up international was just about allowing more people the access
to see my store even though most won't really buy from my store.

Yep makes sense. Just maybe have a look at the list of countries you ship to.
When i shipped overseas, i just kept it too the main countries with good and
reliable postal services.
  
I do understand the difficulty I will probably have running a small store in
Australia. The main goals are to learn business & shipping, as well as I thought
it would be something fun to do. So I am not too concerned about getting regular
sales but do want to learn how to best optimize so I can learn the best way to
run a smallish business and shipping.

Makes sense and good luck with it all. Seems you don't have any unrealistic
expectations.
  
Thanks for all the feedback!
 Author: PhyreZtorm View Messages Posted By PhyreZtorm
 Posted: Apr 14, 2024 01:27
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Location:  Australia, New South Wales
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Store: Ztorm Bricks
In New Stores, SurplusParts writes:
  In New Stores, PhyreZtorm writes:
  Hey Everyone,

Opened my store just over a month ago but didn't know about this forum, so
thought I might as well look out for any feedback people might have..

The store is based in Australia and I started selling just domestically whilst
I took the time to figure out what I need for international shipping, pricing,
etc.
To which I think have got the information I needed and have opened up international
today in hopes to invite a larger audience as Australia is quite small compared
to the overall market from what I can see(around 4%).

I do understand that having more stock will be really beneficial and I have around
the same lot count in extra-storage that I am still yet to sort and add to inventory.
But as I have started this as a partial hobby, to get used to business-style
selling, etc, I only put a set starting amount of $1000 to build inventory as
well as a good amount of stuff I already had and am using any money made from
selling to reinvest back into more inventory.

Any feedback would be appreciated, whatever it may be.

Thanks in advance!

Hey mate,

Just a couple of things.

Firstly, you have a high minimum spend for a small store. $10 is a lot for a
store with only 7,000 parts. Most of the bigger stores in Australia have no
minimum spend or maybe a $1. To have a high minimum spend you need to have lots
of parts on offer so people can collate an order with a number of different lots.

Secondly, you don't have letter shipping at all? 70 to 80% of my orders
are shipped in small and medium letters. To have the cheapest shipping on offer
in your store within Australia at $11 is going to deter a lot of potential buyers.
Whilst letters don't have tracking, it is rare for them not to arrive.

Lastly, international shipping is expensive. So for someone to purchase from
a store in Australia you need to have things that are unique and hard to find
elsewhere. Common parts will be usually cheaper in their own markets. There
is no problems having international shipping, but it is rare to get an order.

Whilst Australia only has 4% of users, it has a disproportionate amount of stores,
740 currently open to be exact. USA has 6103 stores currently open, yet has
a much, much larger user base. It is difficult to run a small store in Australia
and get regular sales.

Best of luck

Thanks so much for the advice!

In terms of the minimum spend, that does make sense. My thought process was around
ensuring enough profit to run viably based on less orders coming in due to being
new/less stock. And it has worked decent for minifigures but I can see how that
would limit part buyers which would most likely end up being a large chunk of
the buyer pools I would I assume?
Once I finish parting out all my remaining sets and stock for inventory, I should
have closer to 14,000 parts which still isn't a lot but should help provide
a good chunk more options for people than I have currently.

That is a good point about letter shipping. I honestly didn't think about
it really as every person I have purchased from has always arrived in boxes or
bubble mailers..
I will have a look at adding letters as an option for domestic as that would
indeed drop shipping costs quite a bit for people buying parts..

Yeah, that does make sense about international shipping. The main thought process
around opening up international was just about allowing more people the access
to see my store even though most won't really buy from my store.

I do understand the difficulty I will probably have running a small store in
Australia. The main goals are to learn business & shipping, as well as I thought
it would be something fun to do. So I am not too concerned about getting regular
sales but do want to learn how to best optimize so I can learn the best way to
run a smallish business and shipping.

Thanks for all the feedback!

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