WHITENING BRICKS AND PAUL LEAVES THE STORE!!! | Weekly Lego Selling Vlog #42
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- WHITENING BRICKS AND PAUL LEAVES THE STORE!!! | Weekly Lego Selling Vlog #42
This week we added parts and picked orders, and honestly that was mostly it... Oh... and we whitened some white bricks... kind of a lot of them. Paul also left for vacation in Portland for the second half of the week, so Evan was stuck in the store all alone for 4 days.
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Really clickbait titel, it implies that Paul was leaving the business. Or mayby it's just me.
Didn't even read the title until I saw your comment :D But you're right, the thumbnail is even worse...
That's the point... it's a joke
Lol. Yeah, it is definitely a joke. The VLOG would not be the format of a video to announce one of the two of us are leaving the store... lol.
Deciding to clean or whiten an order after it is placed - I’ve got to say I don’t think that’s a good idea.
They cancelled - how many days had it been since they placed the order?
Agree... not great to whiten parts after the fact. But it felt necessary for these parts. He canceled the order within 48 hours of placing it claiming he no longer wanted the parts, hence why we charged our restocking fee. If he emailed and said we took to long to fulfill we would have refunded the whole thing, but the buyer just changed his mind. He still would have had the parts within 5 days of his order date if we shipped them the day we planned on it.
We're working to come up with an efficient way to make sure all parts are whitened all the way before they are added to the inventory. We clean all the used parts we sell, but unfortunately that doesn't whiten the faded ones. It's a separate process to do that...
Thanks for watching and your insight!
I think you should show more new parts getting put away. Might drive people to look at you inventory
Do you have a design plan for the stands you mount your storage on? Would love to see one
Can you whiten plates and tiles with hudrogen peroxide the same, or does it damage them?
How often do you move parts into larger drawers as you get them? Do you have have lost parts you have to search drawers for?
Thanks for the comment! We have to move pieces fairly often. Lost parts are a constant "issue". Personally I group lost pieces into three categories. Wrong remark (piece is listed as being in one drawer but was moved to another drawer and the location was not updated), oversold pieces (qty was miscounted and we sold more than we have), and ghost pieces (put into a drawer but never listed).
We do not typically "search" drawers for the first two. We will do a backlog lookup to see if we have processed but not yet uploaded extras. If not, depending on the value of the piece, we may go further. If it is an expensive minifigure or something then we may pull up the original BSX that the piece was uploaded with and check all other drawers the piece could have interacted with. This is very rare, probably happens once ever two or three months. It is usually far more efficient to just refund the customer or order the piece from another store and ship it out.
Ghost pieces get found as drawers are interacted with, but it is definitely a problem. They take up space (rent), cost labor (processing), and generate no revenue (not listed so can't be purchased). It is not possible to estimate the percent of the inventory that is ghostly, but it is probably well under 1%. Hope that helped answer your question.
-Paul
How do you manage large lots? As you have a incredible amount of small drawers, I guess you split lots to more then just one drawer? Im curious about. :) Keep going with your videos! I like them!
Hell nah Paul better come back
Soooo,.. you are moving? Big warehouse and then numbers are going through the roof. If so, nice. Stay awesome.
That's the plan! Likely not happening until later this year if we can afford it though... That's the hope...
Thanks for watching!
I use brickfreedom to pick my orders. What do you do when you say you made pick sheets for yourself to pull? Do you actually print out sheets?
How did you find your contractors?
Thanks for your comment! We did a whole podcast episode on this actually! You can check it out here: th-cam.com/users/liveS7emm3gmYIE?feature=share
But in short, we did interviews through indeed. In the end though our most skilled and fastest contractors ended up being people we already knew well.
Write the order number on the outside of the box….yes. Individually bag each lot…..no.
We emailed him about this so many times, but finally it seems he stopped asking for individual bags, and if he does want it, he (or whoever places order for him) actually check out with our shipping method we have set up for this, which makes it easier to fulfill and charges extra for shipping. Took many many emails though... lol.
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