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Is it even worth the effort?
I'm not a business. I'm just one person with one Lego box set to sell. I'm not active in any Lego "communities" and I don't know where they all hang out.
theplasticbrick never replies to my sell requests.
ebay requires a direct bank account number, which I will not give.
bricklink won't let you become a seller until you become a buyer, which defeats the point.
brickowl's "add shipping method" dialog is so complex I am lost from the first dropdown field ("band type"!?) all the way to the mandatory "zone" fields. Plus everything in between. (I select "fedex" and I still have to make up a name for it, too?) And I'm not sure about anything else. Seems like they require KYC identification, too, which I'm not sure I want to provide. (KYC is the death of e-commerce.)
I feel like the computer should figure out all the shipping automatically based on country restrictions, shipper, and ZIP code. My input should be far, far less. Even if I was a professional business my time would be more valuable than decoding USPS zone spreadsheets on behalf of fedex (?) to satisfy webmonkey mandates.
Is it worth all the effort? Is there a better guide for setting up a store on this site? For reference, I was even lost on this forum page:
https://www.brickowl.com/forum#/discussion/comment/58953?t=1685236038754&remote=https://www.brickowl.com/forum&locale=
theplasticbrick never replies to my sell requests.
ebay requires a direct bank account number, which I will not give.
bricklink won't let you become a seller until you become a buyer, which defeats the point.
brickowl's "add shipping method" dialog is so complex I am lost from the first dropdown field ("band type"!?) all the way to the mandatory "zone" fields. Plus everything in between. (I select "fedex" and I still have to make up a name for it, too?) And I'm not sure about anything else. Seems like they require KYC identification, too, which I'm not sure I want to provide. (KYC is the death of e-commerce.)
I feel like the computer should figure out all the shipping automatically based on country restrictions, shipper, and ZIP code. My input should be far, far less. Even if I was a professional business my time would be more valuable than decoding USPS zone spreadsheets on behalf of fedex (?) to satisfy webmonkey mandates.
Is it worth all the effort? Is there a better guide for setting up a store on this site? For reference, I was even lost on this forum page:
https://www.brickowl.com/forum#/discussion/comment/58953?t=1685236038754&remote=https://www.brickowl.com/forum&locale=
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Here (and Bricklink) are really geared to making repeated sales and there is some work involved in getting set up.
Also, selling one box piecemeal will take a significant amount of time. Your parts will be competing against stores with hundreds of thousands, or millions of parts. You won't appear on many people's wanted lists with a small inventory, and sales are likely to be slow.