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Limit on multibuys for combined orders
Hi so I am new to brickowl and has weight set as standard on my items - I have had buyers take advantage of this and buy 51 items - but pay just 4 in postage - so basically getting the lego at a very very low price- cant there be a way to limit the number of items of one kind that buyer can get - say 4 for example to stop this - I have no just stopped combined ordering - which I dont want to do - but seems the only way to stop it happening .Any suggestions, help for a newbie
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I'm not sure what you mean by someone buying 51 items but only paying 4 in postage. If the amount paid for shipping isn't enough, you need to tweak your shipping methods to ensure they take account of the weight and volume of your orders.
Experienced a single buyer here early on that exhausted our initial supplies of small parts in "opportunity buy" mode (leaving no feedback for us or the 10 other sellers they did the same to- their feedback received when they placed those orders - full of positives), thus leaving none of these "smalls" then in stock of the 125 lots of 1x1 anything or gem-toned parts for other buyers wishing to just fulfill some single or small quantities of these parts for reclaiming a set. See no other way to dis-encourage this.
If your intent is not to sell all your stock of a lot to a single buyer, just don't list all that you have. This can be managed by having a second lot of the same item with the tick removed from the 'for sale' box. You can then adjust quantities in your live and stock lots as desired.
I really don't understand the desire to have lot limits, honestly I don't. We've had this discussion on here a few times and no-one's ever put forward an argument that convinces me. It's like saying supermarkets should limit shoppers to 10 items of less just so they don't need a bigger carrier bag. Each lot takes time to pick, but surely your picking time (ergo hourly pay rate) is factored into the item prices?
@Hoddie really see what you are saying and respect you as an oracle here!
We have so far reclaimed 125 amazing sets, including age-matched items, buying only what we needed-
This is a first-person perspective: people need 1 to 2 of something and need to make use of the resources here to find those parts- with a minimum of shipping from individual stores. When one user exhausts the supply, fill in the blank, of a small part, well...just saying, we have experienced something outside of our mission as a store to offer used parts. We will take your disparaging remarks.
From the seller side, I know the pain of pulling 200 individual parts for a $12 order... or the easy pull (well, it does take more time in terms of carefully counting) of 300 1x1 white tiles for one order, but I set the prices, so that is on me. :-) It's the diff between selling to someone finishing a set, a MOCer, or someone finishing a BIG set. My goal is to sell (and make a bit of fundraising $$ for CCFA in the process), so I'm all good with anyone that wants to buy any amount.
I do fear a bit when I get wiped out of key items I won't pop on as many wish lists, but I can only do so much cleaning/sorting/listing at a time as an army of one at a certain pace (and as a part-time gig on top of a full time day job) - I've just had to accept that as it is what it is. :-)
I think what we can all very cheerfully agree on is there is NO right or wrong answer here, just whatever best suits the seller!