3 types of used

BrickItOn

How do you sellers handle the 3 types of used? I suposse a lot of sellers uploaded their inventory directly from another site, and make aditions by Brickstore/Stock.

Both can't handle the 3 types of used, so everything I have in stock is used (good), but some of it should actualy be acceptable (rare old parts) or like new. I explain almost all acceptables in the notes, but still...

hard to re-check 40.000 items however

SuperBrick

I don't sell much used and use the condition "used acceptable" for all used parts I have listed. I only have 206 used items in 89 lots (currently they are all in my stockroom) so my experience is rather limited.

If you use specific words to indicate when parts are 'acceptable' you could search your inventory for that term and then change the condition for the lots that need changes. You can also sort your inventory in BrickStock by the comments to find which lots you need to modify and then search Brick Owl using the lotid or the comment.

BrickItOn

I was in the hospital for a while, so I haven't been active much.

Superbricks, thanks for the reply. My inventory is about 44.000 parts at the moment, so "reverse checking" after every single inventory update is not really an option. No bigger sellers struggling with this?

Graham

I have a load of used still waiting to go live - when I moved over I selected used-good as the default condition, most of my used would be used like new however I chose to play it safe, at the time comments rolled over (maybe they still do) I had public comments on anything that was sub-par (as you say rare and/or discontinued parts)

To change them I just used the sort filter (on BrickOwl Inventory) by clicking "Used" - "Parts" then sort by "Public Note"

If "comments" rolled over to "Note" - they should have done if you went via BrickStock/Store then that may help you.

Locker47

When i transferred my stock from the other site in october i used brickstore. All of my used parts transferred to used (good) over here. I had around 20000 parts so, like you said, very hard to check each one and change it. I'd say 80% of those could probably be listed as good (excellent) but i was always happy that the average price of the parts were still slightly higher than on BL so i left them. I made the decision to only sell as used (good) to cut down the amount of extra bags/tubs/drawers that would have been required.

pmitch

I have defaulted to this same approach. I stress a lot about keeping New and Used parts separate, but to have confidence that I have the three levels of Used bagged and labeled correctly would be beyond my abilities. The relatively small difference in price is not a sufficient incentive.

BrickItOn

So, Topic bump .

I understand it is safe to set like new parts as "Used, good". But what about the other way around?

I recently sold a blue baseplate 16x32 with the remark ""discoloured, corner cracked, bad shape" for about 30% of the actual value. However, like everything I sell, it was listed as used good. The custumer didn't see/read the remark, and now complaints. I will give her the money back, but I can't figure out a way to prefend this....any ideas?

Again: It would be impossible to recheck at the moment 55.000 items.

Lawrence

You can bulk change all of your used good to used acceptable

Stragus

@BrickItOn I assume the lot was created before you started using BrickSync?

When BrickSync creates new used lots, it reads the comments to guess what the grade of used should be. If you wanted to let the software recreate the lots (deleting used lots then typing "sync"), that would probably fix such issues. It's not very nice for people with existing carts though.