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Negative Sale Rates
Apologies if this has been brought up before - I did some searches on the forum and didn't find anything.
Is it possible to allow negative sales percents? This would raise the visible price instead of showing the buyer the negative percent.
The reason I request this (instead of just raising my prices) is that I use negative sale percents to make temporary increases in prices based on specific criteria. That increase is easily reversable without me having to keep track of which lots I adjusted.
So for example if I want to temporarily slow down my sales of Bionicle parts, I can put a -15% sale on those parts. And when I'm caught up again, I can simply remove the sale without having to recalculate correct pricing.
Is it possible to allow negative sales percents? This would raise the visible price instead of showing the buyer the negative percent.
The reason I request this (instead of just raising my prices) is that I use negative sale percents to make temporary increases in prices based on specific criteria. That increase is easily reversable without me having to keep track of which lots I adjusted.
So for example if I want to temporarily slow down my sales of Bionicle parts, I can put a -15% sale on those parts. And when I'm caught up again, I can simply remove the sale without having to recalculate correct pricing.
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But what is really like is to be able to use BrickOwl to manage my inventory more effectively.
Would having negative sales percents hurt you in some way?
- I won't see how far above the average I am
- I can't separate the items I price aggressively from the items I just sell at or around average prices
- I have no sense easy way to modify large batches. Now I just take all my -49% and -%29 and adjust to -39% an -19% to do a fast adjustment. Otherwise I'm stuck with a process to reload and readjust.
It may not seem that way but "-49%" is almost like a tag that says a lot to me.
- I'm not chasing the bottom on these
- I think the price is to low to justify the pick time
- The volume isn't there to capture a big order with an aggressive price.
When this would change, the system could execute a one-time conversion so the currently entered "Sale" values would be updated to the negated value (so the "Price-Adjustment" matches the previous Sale value).
For instance, if you price one item at 1 EUR and add 10% it becomes 1,1 EUR but then when you subtract 10% it becomes 0,99 EUR.
In that respect a "negative" sale is more clean, easy and effective. And as someone said you will always have more control of which prices were increased.
I think this is one of those little things that don't hurt anyone and make life easier for some of us
New price = 1.10
10% of 1.10 = 0.11
New price = 0.99
@Bricklanta's method would work better, as the base price would be retained and the 10% increase or decrease would be worked out from that.
Usual price = 1.00
Positive sale of 10% = 0.90
Negative sale of 10% = 1.10
Either way, when you remove the sale, the price reverts to 1.00.
I don't believe I would make use of this but I can see how others would find it useful.