BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, thijss26 writes:

Hay Guys,

New to bricklink just noticed that you can't setup a different postal/shipping
adress then billing address.
Would be handy there's a lot of people living in different countries then
born.
Sometimes it would be easier and cheaper to send package to Motherland.
Regards

At checkout you can enter a different ship to address.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Oct 28, 2017 10:34

Subject:

Re: search sellers

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In Suggestions, jdiritto writes:

I've only used site for a week (with two toddlers screaming I want that one
the whole time) so this may be an option somewhere but it would be great if there
is a way to search for local sellers by zip code

Not possible, also for privacy reasons.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Oct 21, 2017 17:33

Subject:

Re: Restore non-Order# BrickLink messages

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In Suggestions, matejo writes:

Hi,

With the exception of one message (October 13) without the standard subject "Regarding
BrickLink Order #_______", all of my Inbox and Outbox non-Order# messages over
the last few months have been removed.

I did not delete these messages, and as a matter of routine do not delete any
BrickLink messages, since they're eventually cleared out after six months
or so. Recent messages are important, because they provide a record of shipping
quotes and other communications with potential buyers.

Please restore them, Matthew

Don't know what you didn't do, but I've no messages missing.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Oct 21, 2017 17:28

Subject:

Re: Clearing should be the same as Paid

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In Suggestions, DEREKFST writes:

I have just had an instance where a buyer has placed an order in my store and
paid with an echeque. I had set the status to clearing whilst the echeque cleared
and the buyer has
gone and placed another order which instead of creating a new order has been
added as an addition to the old one. This is making things messy.

My suggestion is that any order set to clearing should have the same status as
paid or packed and not allow any additions but create a new order.

Why didn't you set the order status to packed after you set the payment status
to clearing?

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Oct 13, 2017 18:51

Subject:

Re: User count Active vs. Inactive

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In Suggestions, Cyndis_Bricks writes:

Hello all. I have been going through the Members - Feedback ratings list, going
on page 21,158 to find information on something that I have been wondering about.
Well in doing this I have seen thousands of users that don't seem to be
"active" users. So I am thinking the 731,476 registered users is somewhat irrelevant.
Many are a once and done, sort of user.

I would like to suggest, that leaving the registered user count intact, but add
the count of "Active" users. Have BL not count the inactive users after say
6 months or 1 year, of actual log in date. This would give us all a better idea
of how many actual users are using BL. This could work just as the purge orders
after 6 months. This would still allow a user to log in after being put into
not active, and then would be in the active number for the 6 months or year.

What say you?

Dave

Sorry, implementing would be a waste of time and resources.
It would be disappointing to know how few really 'active' members BL
has.
There used to be a site visitor counter below on each page.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Oct 7, 2017 01:23

Subject:

Re: Reduce Store Verification Time

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In Suggestions, MarieA writes:

In Suggestions, redimension writes:

Team,

I have been waiting to open my store for over a month. I am more than ready to
start selling. Do you need help in this department? Volunteers to assist in matters
like this?

Cheers!

The process takes approx. two weeks after you complete the necessary steps. You
only completed at least two of those steps two days ago. You've been waiting
a month only because you didn't thoroughly read the information. I agree
the process could be simpler, but the information is there and simply needs to
be given the appropriate attention.

A better suggestion might be for BL to create an unambiguous list of things a
new store needs to do, with green ticks generated automatically against each
item as they're completed, with a "submit for review" button only available
after all other steps have been ticked off.

Agreed. All the information is there.
We've three people not understanding which settings to use.
They'd entered an unnecessary Store bypassword which keeps their stores locked.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Sep 1, 2017 06:38

Subject:

Re: Add payment method: iDeal

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In Suggestions, Teup writes:

Funny, I was thinking about it this morning and then received an e-mail that
the main Dutch second hand trading website Marktplaats.nl has just implemented
it: iDeal as a payment method.

This is not as much a major issue as supporting IBAN, but still it would be really
nice thing if BL would choose to add iDeal. More than 300,000,000 transactions
the Netherlands per year, most Dutch people are comfortable with it and use it
regularly. The Netherlands is a large country on Bricklink, so I think that if
it is not hugely complicated to implement, it would be a really good upgrade.
And, for the Bricklink team probably very nice: It is an onsite, instant checkout
compatible payment method.

https://www.ideal.nl/en/

Aliexpress also has it (and offers buyers protection), so it should be possible
for Bricklink too.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Aug 26, 2017 04:05

Subject:

Re: Sales statistics

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In Suggestions, exendo writes:

Hi, in the section Catalog/Statistic there's a old feature "top sold".
The feature seems a little bit buggy, because if you search "top sets sold" the
full result list contains mainly minifigures, parts and accesories.
Anyway, the resulting list is limited to few rows, compared to the catalog.

The complete feature for searching all the sold sets/minifg ordered by historical
total sell count could be a great help both for buyers and sellers.

The cherry could be the drill-down in detail of any record to see the chart (or
the plain data to keep it simple) showing the sell counts over year (or quarters),
or only the best and worst selling period in the set life.

Example:

PAGED LIST OF THE HISTORICAL SETS SELL COUNT, ordered by bestsellers, filtered
per year range.
In addition, after clicking on the set 7621 Indiana Jones we discover the sells
count distributed over the time from 2008 to 2017.

This information isn't interesting or necessary, which probably are the reasons
it still doesn't exist.
Comparing sets of any age is like comparing apples and oranges.
Hopefully Bricklink invests in more useful features.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Aug 23, 2017 01:03

Subject:

Re: Do not eliminate my BL classic for sellers

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In Suggestions, HPBrickhead writes:

At present I can do a great deal from the myBL page

change orders,
inventory

These two can be done by clicking on the My Store shortlists on top of each page.

report problem order

This can be done by clicking Problem Center below any page.

add/change catalog etc
I don't see any purpose to changing this to a streamlined version.

The graphics are big, but how big do they need to be to see orders pending, orders
awaiting payment orders awaiting shipment? It is a lot of wasted space.

I would like to be able to x out certain displays, ie the feedback.

I don't understand the purpose of the change? is it to enable mobile? because
a phone app seems vital.

Aside from that, if working from my PC, I like the current set up and don't
see why change to the new would be mandatory.

There seems little point to telling people to complain to help desk or make constructive
criticism there as it fails to get a feeling from community.

Note also, I am making PRAISE: the current myBL page works.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Aug 22, 2017 17:44

Subject:

Re: Help Link on Main Page

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