BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, HPBrickhead writes:

In the forum I may see a red box under a seller's name. I hover over it
and it says
"Seller does not ship to my country"

The alert is to warn you don't need to enter the store at all.

I go to their store, and the message at the top is "Seller does not ship to me".

It alerts it's pointless to browse the shop further.

I can't help it, the second message hurts my feelings!

Is there any way we can make the messaging consistent with the actual reason
I can't buy in their store? (Country/Person?)

Both are different intended so don't need to be the same.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 28, 2017 12:28

Subject:

Re: Link to feedback for purchase in price guide

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In Suggestions, nuthman writes:

It'd be nice with a link to the feedback for a purchase from the price guide
of a product, to get an idea of how happy the buyer/seller was with the purchase
for the price they gave.

It would be against privacy laws.

The feedback from the seller is already available for viewing.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 24, 2017 13:35

Subject:

Re: Force sellers to show cart weight

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In Suggestions, Miffy. writes:

Hey folks!

I think this option is counter-productive for buyers. (See image below)

Sellers are allowed to turn off the display of cart weight in their store, even
if the buyer has chosen to see cart weight.

This means that if buyers are cost-of-shipping-sensitive, they have to manually
calculate the cart weight, or ask the seller for a quote.

Why force this upon ourselves when the website can automatically do it for us?

I suggest we force sellers to have the weight of cart shown within their store.

Thanks for voting!

Miffy..

Have you read the **note, item weights aren't guaranteed correct.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 24, 2017 06:42

Subject:

Re: Get shipping costs BEFORE final checkout

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In Suggestions, rumbi_rumun writes:

In my opinion the largest problem of the Bricklink page is that the final shipping
costs are often unknown till the invoice. It is much too late. I suggest calculating
the maximum shipping costs before the final checkout.
Let me display an example:
The buyer Alice orders parts which weigh 80 grams. The seller Bob states that
the shipping costs are 3 EUR up to 100 grams and 4 EUR up to 200 grams. Bob means
the TOTAL weight while from Alice's point of view the weight of packing materials
is unknown and never stated. This way Alice doesn't know the final price.
(Btw. I suppose it is against the EU law.)

Once I have come across such a case that in seller's opinion the maximum
net weight of parts was about 30 grams to keep the total weight below 100 grams!
Is it fair and clear?

I can see the following solutions:
(i) suggest the buyers to state their shipping costs precisely, in terms of net
weight of parts or dimensions of parts

The catalog doesn't have correct dimensions.
Postage for 80 gram flowers is letter rate while 80 gram of Burps is parcel rate.

(ii) apply automatic calcultion of maximum shipping costs on the checkout page
so that the seller couldn't apply higher costs.
The latter one is much better.

I would not prefer to be charged the highest rate automatically.

Best regards
Tomasz Witkowski / rumbi_rumun
Gdynia, Poland

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 22, 2017 19:08

Subject:

Re: When you click on an item -> go to big pic

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In Suggestions, HPBrickhead writes:

When you click on an item in a store at present, you go first to the small image,
then have to click again to get a large image. Why not go straight to the large
image?

If your goal is to go to the item in catalog, the picture you go to first makes
no difference.

If your goal is to see a bigger picture of the item, you still have to click
again, why not go straight to larger picture?

Voted yes.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 22, 2017 12:30

Subject:

Re: Separate Feedback to Parts/Comms/Speed

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In Suggestions, HPBrickhead writes:

There are a number of slow shippers on Bricklink, but bricks are perfect when
they arrive.

I actually like ebay system of being able to rank item/communication/shipping
separately.

Ebay or any star rating system is too subjective, determining what is a 4 or
5 is subjective. It's easier to just say what you mean.

Here you can leave a positive and mention slow shipping. (assuming you mean the
moment of shipping by the seller was slow or when the carrier was slow at processing
the shipment after the seller shipped fast the order).

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 21, 2017 06:12

Subject:

Re: inventory for buyers

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In Suggestions, matt33 writes:

You should try one of these:
Rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/
Basebrick: http://www.basebrick.com/login.php
Brickstock: http://brickstock.patrickbrans.com/#download

Goodluck

thank you M Boss, after looking at all 3 I have decided to go with basebrick
as it seems the easiest to add too, but I would still like to see something like
this on bricklink so your parts are listed next to the amount the seller has
in his shop

Add items to a Wantlist and use the Have feature.

You can upgrade to seller and keep the store closed.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 19, 2017 15:27

Subject:

Re: Employ real support staff

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In Suggestions, imanarchy writes:

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In Suggestions, RobErNat writes:

In Suggestions, MarieA writes:

As I understand it, BL sellers and buyers are earning BL several million quid
a year via commission. Can I humbly suggest that some of this profit is redirected
into giving the platform an active customer support staff that is available 24-hours
per day. That such a site relies on volunteers to keep the wheels greased is
a bit perverse given the circumstances.

The site does not run on volunteers, only the forum and the catalog does (translators
of pages as well).
Development and Admin tasks are run by 'professionals' (= paid staff).
A 24/7 service just on the Admin team would require 4x as much people (8 in stead
of 2) to cover a full week, I doubt Bricklink is making enough to cover that
(considering there is also an IT team working during workdays)

And if you check online, BL is not making 'several' million per year.
I can't access US tax reports, but I'm sure a larger US seller can obtain
actual figures?

There have been almost 1.3 million orders in the last 12 months. At a $40 per
order average, that's $52,000,000. The 3% fee on that is $1,560,000 USD.

Average order is much lower

Mine certainly is.

What is the big emergency that can't wait for the Admins to finish sleeping
and have their breakfast?

It is not a matter of finishing sleep and having breakfast. The auto-finder
tool, an integral part of the site and an essential tool for buyers finding your
parts, is often down. In this particular case, it has been down since Friday...
I myself have submitted two different tickets, one under Help and one under Bug
Report, and i have yet to receive a response or any sort of ticket number to
follow up on.

As a new seller myself, this is concerning to me, and it makes me wonder if I
should bother investing time in building up a store on this site, or if doesn't
make sense
to try and use another site like BrickOwl.

As a relatively new user to both buying and selling, i'd like more experience
users to chime in. Is there really no recourse? Anyone have an email of the
admins?

Luckily they haven't removed the good old Classic By Shop, it is still available
and works: https://www.bricklink.com/wantedShop.asp?showOld=Y&wantedMoreMultiple=Y&qs=

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 16, 2017 15:49

Subject:

Re: Removing "My Wanted list" from "My Inventory"

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Help

In Suggestions, MarshMan80 writes:

Just wondering if there is a way to remove "my wanted" list from My own store?
Rather than removing parts for a set line by line.

Marshal

With Brickstock.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 16, 2017 12:06

Subject:

Re: Easy Buy / Autofinder

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Problem