The Crusade: A Consolidated Discussion | Episode 11 | The Brick Separators 

This guy gets it!!!

Did not even think of doing this, I generally go to the next sized drawer up, if it's bigger than that I give it a second location in the store. Nothing has outgrown 2 locations yet, I only have maybe 2 or 3 products that have multiple locations too.

@@BuildaBrick I've been doing this for years and works very well for me. I have bulk that would use up 20 drawers (or more) so its just not practical for me to do. I guess it depends on your space and the drawers/containers your using. Another indication that we are all different and run our stores very differently from each other.

@@BrickArena Completly agree, it's all about scale, I definately wouldn't want 20 odd products with multiple locations, so this will be definately an idea I keep in mind as I grow - thank you.

I kept thinking about what your thoughts on the customer experience would be on this topic. Thanks for letting us know.

I know Chris is a one drawer one lot type of person. What I never learned from him though is how he puts parts away. He always skipped over that part in his videos. I'm sure he had an efficient way of doing it. But who knows.

Thanks for the kind words.

As Quigon said in The Phantom Menace.... There's always a bigger fish. Seriously though 2000 orders in a year and a half ... you're doing something right. You working fulltime on this?

@@RalphsBricks no we only opened in May so we are at 1981 orders in 9 months, we are hoping to hit 2500 by the time we hit the 1 year mark. Only doing it part time at the moment but one day maybe it could be a full time gig. Our friends at BRICKTASTIC UK are on 5364 orders and have been open selling since late May 2020, so again they will be 2 years open in May this year, they will hit 6000 orders easily I think by the time they hit 2 years open. All our lots are consolidated and I agree with you that from a buyers experience,non consolidation is a right pain. I have often found stuff unconsolidated and then left the store when buying in stores. We haven't really started with minifigures yet and have 10's of thousands to list so they will massively increase out lot count when we get on to them. Thanks for your interest Ralph, give us a shout out for people watching in the UK if you can. BRIGGSBRICKS UK - still in 1st year of selling on Bricklink.

Can agree with this, hiring more help is always one way to get more done, but put the right processes in place before you get to that stage. I feel like it would eat away at what profits you could make aswell, it's not like bricklink stores make heaps of $$.

Yep each color of a part is a separate lot. Thanks for watching.

Let them know that their used is higher priced than new? I'm sure they know.

Thanks for insight Mike. We do not actually do this method , so it is nice to hear from someone that has experience using this method.

What with BrickStore specifically are you looking for? I'm sure you saw but I put out a bunch of videos last week on BrickStore.

I don't think it's lazy, I think it's just a different strategy. With contractors and unconsolidated some of these stores are experiencing rapid growth. Fix the customer experience issue and I think you'll see many more stores adopt this approach potentially.

Wow. That is a nice order. Hope you find this video helpful.

Well have you watched it yet? We're waiting for your thoughts!!!!

I like it! You guys make great content! I'm on Team Consolidate! As a BL buyer I don't like shopping on multi-lot/same part sites!

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