Author:  Brickman4you  Posted:  May 10, 2024 07:32  Subject:  Re: Useful selling tip.  Viewed:  61 times  Topic:  Selling Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card Brickman4you (1929) Location:  USA, North Carolina Member Since Contact Type Status Aug 14, 2014 Seller  Store: Brickman's Store

In Selling, runner.caller writes:    As you pick an order, group all the items in small piles of 5. When done picking, it should be super easy to count. If the final total items picked matches the total order items, then odds are the order was picked correctly. It's the most useful selling tip I've encountered. This has been shared in the forum before (which is how I first learned it), but I thought it's worthwhile to bring it up again because I see forum complaints often like "over half of my orders on BL are wrong missing pieces"... etc... This usefulness will also vary depending on the types of orders you get as a seller. MOST of mine are all small items and less than 100pcs so this method is pretty easy. It works for larger orders too, just need more space/larger groups or a mix of both. It still saves me from a short pick here and there and since using it, my error rate has gone down considerably. While I think you're describing something totally different than how we pick, it is interesting to hear different ways others are doing it. We don't ever try to match total items picked as we are double checking each lot, but over time did find that counting by 5 is visually possible, where its hard to tell pile of 9 vs 10 parts. Taking another different approach is we pick onto trays lined with small white cloth hand towels. Then are able to double check counts, while minimizing handling of new bricks and avoiding more surface scratching.

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Useful selling tip. - runner.caller (2653)

As you pick an order, group all the items in small piles of 5. When done picking, it should be super easy to count. If the final total items picked matches the total order items, [...] (19 days ago, May 9, 2024, to Selling)

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