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A Modest Proposal
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Tom Denton RJ: kaibutsu Post Rating: 1 + / - Total Posts: 24 Karma: 53 Joined: Apr 5, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 10, 2012 When offering products for sale on B2B, please check the going rate on the import market in order to ensure that you are not selling your Q3 Thingamobs for $15 a piece whilst Q25 Thingamabobs are available from China of $5 a pop. And now for some even friendlier advice: One should probably check import prices before buying up all of a lower-priced B2B competitor's goods in a misguided attempt to corner the B2B market... For Fearless Leader: A good way to deal with this from a design perspective would be to include both the B2B and Import listings on the "View on Market" page that one reaches from the Warehouse. This would just place the country flag or name in the Seller line, and infinity symbols in the Quantity and Total Price fields, making it damn obvious that no one's going to buy China out of the market... Your Friend, -kaibutsu |
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Ay Vee RJ: Ay Vee Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 33 Karma: 29 Joined: Mar 30, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 10, 2012 Better yet might be to fix the import quantity at some enormous figure, so that it -is- possible if you were gutsy enough, to buy China out of the market. Trying to support a corner for too long is what ultimately crushed the Hunt corner on silver in the 80s, and the Hamanaka corner on copper in the 90's.The idea of the import market was to ensure at least some availability of raw materials when production was low, not to cap prices, no? |
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Space Butler RJ: Space Butler CO: Space Butler Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 19 Karma: 18 Joined: Apr 2, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 10, 2012 I think adding import prices to the B2B directly is a good idea. It gives people a quick guide to see what the 'competition' is for goods that aren't on the B2B. As it is now, you have to hop around to different pages to figure it out.
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