Buying/Selling Builds- Finishing Up Project!

[Headcrab Zombie]

Uhh paying for builds that are already built is completely handicapped. The whole purpose of a monetary incentive is to persuade someone to build exactly what you need that hasn't been made before

This.
Your supposed to ask the buyer what they want build.
Though building stuff for samples of what you can do is completely fine

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[Sylvanor]

Buy a build on blockland? i will buy add ons but builds, i don't think.

[Shadowed999]

I could've sworn I searched blockland on ebay and 1 result come up with a japanese styled build. It 99 cents also.

[Sleven]

More details on low quality, medium quality, and high quality...

Low Quality will contain standard bricks, no curves, wedges, and not very many rounds. Say you wanted a Mario built out of Lego's, it would be only 2*2 bricks. Low Qualities builds will be between 1.50-3.00 a piece.

Medium Quality will contain some rounds, curves, possibly JVS, and a maybe a few wedges. It will be around 5.00-7.00 a build, depending on quality.

High Quality will be expensive, and will take many hours to build. They will contain any bricks from any category. They will be from 10.00-12.50.

HAHAHA! That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[Mordius]

HAHAHA! That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

What would you rather have? I'm still trying to figure things out.
It's not like I can have prices for brickcount.

[J MASTER]

In the end, if someone wants a good build, they can go to an experienced builder and offer cash for them to build something for them.

[King Leo]

Honestly, if that little castle of yours is worth $7.50, then Sylv's mine would be worth about $30. Not to talk about his Seattle build. With your prices, it would easily be worth $500!!
In other words, you think to highly of people's wallets and/or your building abilites. I'm not saying you're bad, you're just aiming a bit high.

[Mordius]

Honestly, if that little castle of yours is worth $7.50, then Sylv's mine would be worth about $30. Not to talk about his Seattle build. With your prices, it would easily be worth $500!!
In other words, you think to highly of people's wallets and/or your building abilites. I'm not saying you're bad, you're just aiming a bit high.

Hmm. What do you suggest?

[Böltster]

have people vote on the price of a build with a poll, at least then you'll get an objective measure

[Mega-Bear]

I could definitely see some potential in something like this. The builds would have to be really good though.

[King Leo]

Hmm. What do you suggest?

have people vote on the price of a build with a poll, at least then you'll get an objective measure

Something like this.

Or having multiple builders bid on how much they're gonna take for building the requested build. The one with the lowest price wins, unless the requester decides otherwise. Healthy competition is always good :D

[Mordius]

Something like this.

Or having multiple builders bid on how much they're gonna take for building the requested build. The one with the lowest price wins, unless the requester decides otherwise. Healthy competition is always good :D

Alright then.

[Nexus]

>missed point of topic and treynold's post


what people are doing is posting builds to ask what price they would potentially be if they were commissioned.

No I choose to reinforce and compound on it rather than quote it and just say "this"

And there is a big difference between "this is what I built/want to build, would you pay me for it/to finish it" versus "this is what i'll pay you to build, how much do you want for it."

People don't seem to really be differentiating that particularly well in this topic so far.  I'm saying the former is a bad idea in general.

[Conan]

What would you rather have? I'm still trying to figure things out.
It's not like I can have prices for brickcount.

Hmm. What do you suggest?

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My guess would be around $4 for medium and $8 for better builds. Per-64x baseplate pricing would be about $0.40 for medium and $0.60 for high quality. Additional costs would be possibly another ten cents for detail. Probably add another 20 cents if ts a 64 cube region if the build has substantial z-axis construction.

None of this would be affected by addon usage; that's just dumb. A lot can be done with just default bricks.

Charging based on brickcount isn't a stupid idea; its just that excellent stuff can be made with little bricks so it shouldn't be a major factor in basing pricing off of.

have people vote on the price of a build with a poll, at least then you'll get an objective measure

That won't really work since everyone's economic muscle is different and some would be more willing to spend cash than others.
Plus then you can have private clans that upvote higher prices with promises of receiving part of the high price.
Price should be decided only between the builder and the client; negotiation would be a better idea than having public opinion. It also fits every person's available wallet rather than what the forum thinks.

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ok

[Mordius]

I decided to scrap most of the ideas and the ridiculous Low, Medium, High cost methods. Were just going to let the buyer announce the price before hand.

So, were working on our first project, a medieval village requested by Elm.

As soon as this is sold, it should increase our rep! :D