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| | | Author: | garbanzo  | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2016 08:03 | | Subject: | Are you sure? This is not a known color. | | Viewed: | 232 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| The catalog is littered with parts that have very likely been uploaded under
the wrong color. Look at 4495 for example, I would guess that 6 of those colors
with lots under them are just listed incorrectly (bright pink, dark blue-violet,
dark purple, Maersk blue, pink, rust).
* | | 4495 Flag 4 x 1 Wave Undetermined (Undetermined Type)
Parts: Flag
Marked for Deletion |
This shouldn't happen when parting out new sets, but when listing used parts,
it seems some sellers don't check against current listings or against the
"known colors" data for the part they are listing, and they end up picking whatever
they want.
I would like to suggest that a control mechanism be put in place to help address
this. Maybe if a seller is adding a part to their store that is not a known color,
there can be a popup saying "this is not a known color for this part - are you
sure?". Maybe the pop-up can contain a list of the known colors to choose from.
If the seller is confident they have a "new" color, they can click "this part
is not a known color" to proceed with the listing.
Ideally, this would flag the entry with a tag that can be used in searches and
wanted list notifications. I would love to pick a part and ask to be notified
when one is listed in a "new color", or to be able to search within categories
for parts in new colors.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2016 08:58 | | Subject: | Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, garbanzo writes:
| | The catalog is littered with parts that have very likely been uploaded under
the wrong color. Look at 4495 for example, I would guess that 6 of those colors
with lots under them are just listed incorrectly (bright pink, dark blue-violet,
dark purple, Maersk blue, pink, rust).
* | | 4495 Flag 4 x 1 Wave Undetermined (Undetermined Type)
Parts: Flag
Marked for Deletion |
This shouldn't happen when parting out new sets, but when listing used parts,
it seems some sellers don't check against current listings or against the
"known colors" data for the part they are listing, and they end up picking whatever
they want.
I would like to suggest that a control mechanism be put in place to help address
this. Maybe if a seller is adding a part to their store that is not a known color,
there can be a popup saying "this is not a known color for this part - are you
sure?". Maybe the pop-up can contain a list of the known colors to choose from.
If the seller is confident they have a "new" color, they can click "this part
is not a known color" to proceed with the listing.
Ideally, this would flag the entry with a tag that can be used in searches and
wanted list notifications. I would love to pick a part and ask to be notified
when one is listed in a "new color", or to be able to search within categories
for parts in new colors.
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I guess they are using other software then uploading to bricklink, so the software
they use wold also need to know about known colours.
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2016 09:23 | | Subject: | Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, garbanzo writes:
| | The catalog is littered with parts that have very likely been uploaded under
the wrong color. Look at 4495 for example, I would guess that 6 of those colors
with lots under them are just listed incorrectly (bright pink, dark blue-violet,
dark purple, Maersk blue, pink, rust).
* | | 4495 Flag 4 x 1 Wave Undetermined (Undetermined Type)
Parts: Flag
Marked for Deletion |
This shouldn't happen when parting out new sets, but when listing used parts,
it seems some sellers don't check against current listings or against the
"known colors" data for the part they are listing, and they end up picking whatever
they want.
I would like to suggest that a control mechanism be put in place to help address
this. Maybe if a seller is adding a part to their store that is not a known color,
there can be a popup saying "this is not a known color for this part - are you
sure?". Maybe the pop-up can contain a list of the known colors to choose from.
If the seller is confident they have a "new" color, they can click "this part
is not a known color" to proceed with the listing.
Ideally, this would flag the entry with a tag that can be used in searches and
wanted list notifications. I would love to pick a part and ask to be notified
when one is listed in a "new color", or to be able to search within categories
for parts in new colors.
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I guess they are using other software then uploading to bricklink, so the software
they use wold also need to know about known colours.
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This is something we have asked Patrick Brans (Brickstock) for as well as the
only way you can tell if it is an unknown colour is if there is no small image
available (and that isn't entirely accurate).
So yes would like to see some sort of control mechanism which at least warns
'it isn't a known colour'.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2016 09:25 | | Subject: | Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, garbanzo writes:
| | The catalog is littered with parts that have very likely been uploaded under
the wrong color. Look at 4495 for example, I would guess that 6 of those colors
with lots under them are just listed incorrectly (bright pink, dark blue-violet,
dark purple, Maersk blue, pink, rust).
* | | 4495 Flag 4 x 1 Wave Undetermined (Undetermined Type)
Parts: Flag
Marked for Deletion |
This shouldn't happen when parting out new sets, but when listing used parts,
it seems some sellers don't check against current listings or against the
"known colors" data for the part they are listing, and they end up picking whatever
they want.
I would like to suggest that a control mechanism be put in place to help address
this. Maybe if a seller is adding a part to their store that is not a known color,
there can be a popup saying "this is not a known color for this part - are you
sure?". Maybe the pop-up can contain a list of the known colors to choose from.
If the seller is confident they have a "new" color, they can click "this part
is not a known color" to proceed with the listing.
Ideally, this would flag the entry with a tag that can be used in searches and
wanted list notifications. I would love to pick a part and ask to be notified
when one is listed in a "new color", or to be able to search within categories
for parts in new colors.
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I guess they are using other software then uploading to bricklink, so the software
they use wold also need to know about known colours.
|
This is something we have asked Patrick Brans (Brickstock) for as well as the
only way you can tell if it is an unknown colour is if there is no small image
available (and that isn't entirely accurate).
So yes would like to see some sort of control mechanism which at least warns
'it isn't a known colour'.
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I guess BL could have a stock check tool that you can run on your inventory once
uploaded, although this isn't needed of course for people uploading via BL
(as you can easily check known colours).
Maybe they need a premium package where the seller pays more (either in fees
or fixed monthly cost) and has extra tools like this.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | garbanzo | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2016 09:45 | | Subject: | Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, garbanzo writes:
| | The catalog is littered with parts that have very likely been uploaded under
the wrong color. Look at 4495 for example, I would guess that 6 of those colors
with lots under them are just listed incorrectly (bright pink, dark blue-violet,
dark purple, Maersk blue, pink, rust).
* | | 4495 Flag 4 x 1 Wave Undetermined (Undetermined Type)
Parts: Flag
Marked for Deletion |
This shouldn't happen when parting out new sets, but when listing used parts,
it seems some sellers don't check against current listings or against the
"known colors" data for the part they are listing, and they end up picking whatever
they want.
I would like to suggest that a control mechanism be put in place to help address
this. Maybe if a seller is adding a part to their store that is not a known color,
there can be a popup saying "this is not a known color for this part - are you
sure?". Maybe the pop-up can contain a list of the known colors to choose from.
If the seller is confident they have a "new" color, they can click "this part
is not a known color" to proceed with the listing.
Ideally, this would flag the entry with a tag that can be used in searches and
wanted list notifications. I would love to pick a part and ask to be notified
when one is listed in a "new color", or to be able to search within categories
for parts in new colors.
|
I guess they are using other software then uploading to bricklink, so the software
they use wold also need to know about known colours.
|
This is something we have asked Patrick Brans (Brickstock) for as well as the
only way you can tell if it is an unknown colour is if there is no small image
available (and that isn't entirely accurate).
So yes would like to see some sort of control mechanism which at least warns
'it isn't a known colour'.
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Is that data not available through the BL API?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Royroy | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2016 09:48 | | Subject: | Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | This is something we have asked Patrick Brans (Brickstock) for as well as the
only way you can tell if it is an unknown colour is if there is no small image
available (and that isn't entirely accurate).
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I always look at the amount of sales of a specific color when I am in doubt (and
check BL to be sure). When it is just 1 or 2 in 6 months, that is almost certainly
not the color I have in my hands 
You can't go by images, because some parts have images in ALL colors, because
the images are created digital by this program I can't remember
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