Remove minimum order feature

Greatgrandpa

Minimum orders are very very annoying. Why pay an extra $4 when all you want is one piece? I hope this change is made because I don’t want to waste so much money. I would be very grateful if you support my suggestion.

Pikka

The main reason some sellers have minimum orders is to avoid selling at a loss – the fixed PayPal fee that the seller pays may be much higher than the price of the one piece you want. Now, THAT is very, very annoying.

Bricks On The Move

hi greatgrandpa just noticed you are in OZ we are a OZ seller that has a NO MIN buy here may be worth a look to see if we can help you.

Greatgrandpa

Thanks

tons_of_bricks

Exactly as Pikka said. We have a $5 minimum buy, because once you account for the time to create the packing slip, pull and pack the order, then print and apply the label, any orders under $5 would most likely be a loss for us. It's a necessity, especially for us who do this as a full time business and not as a hobby.

WESTIEKaTH

I have no minimum order simply because I remember having to buy extra parts which I didn’t want just to get the few I did. It’s just a matter of choice but I do offer no minimum buy 😊😊

Greatgrandpa

I guess you all make a good point, but some stores I’ve seen have a minimum order of around $100. That’s just unnecessary.

Calibrick

Wow $100 is interesting... I suspect those stores are focusing on the big MOCers or set sales only. I have no minimum (I only ship to US, sorry!) for the same reasons as WestieKath - I part out buys for myself and had the same struggle with minimum buys for that last missing part I needed.

Conversely though, this is not my livelihood that pays my bills - this is my hobby for charity and to offset my personal LEGO buys. If it was my livelihood I may very well consider minimum buys also, because time is money and the fees are really rough on the sellers on all the platforms between the platform %, the payment provider % (e.g., PayPal), time to clean/sort/list/inventory/pull/pack and so on.

Greatgrandpa

Some of those stores with the $100 minimum order are kinda sketchy but they’re only about 3 of the hundreds of stores I’ve looked at. Some minimum buys aren’t that crazy (about $2) so I’d buy some extra parts to make up that money. Anyway I do agree with people who have a minimum order that isn’t to high because of all the PayPal fees and such.