BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

What specific problems are you having with inventories and what suggestions do
you have for improvement?

Author:

chetzler

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 14:06

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, WhiteHorseMatt writes:

In Suggestions, CheshireBricKs writes:

I sell on BrickOwl too and I've never had a single issue. You may be the
market leaders currently but your cockyness will catch up with you soon. I pay
my monthly fees on time every time and this is the mess I have to work with?
Can't it just 'work'? Why is everything difficult and half made?
Not acceptable. I'm tired of apologising to customers because of the issues
on this site. I dread to think how many people have turned away from my store
and not said anything.

Reece

I've been on BO for 3 weeks and in that time over 50 stores have opened.
Bricklink has 100 fewer stores than in the summer last year (UK stores). Small
sample size, but a sign of things to come?

I just listed 25 vintage sets on BrickOwl yesterday. I have a few other small
lots there but haven't haven't had a sale yet even with with my 800 feedback
boost (not really surprising, I guess, owing to my dearth of inventory). My
difficulty is deciding if/when to synch my inventory between both platforms.
I know there is software that will do this, but I just haven't had the time
required to sit down and learn it.

BrickOwl currently only accepts BrickStore and BrickOwl formats for inventory
uploads. I think if Lawrence developed an upload template that would accept
a BrickLink file format, he might see a surge in new sellers.

Author:

bb680938

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 13:42

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Hmm, possibly.

One thing that is happening though; I've had Bricklink customers buy from
me but on BrickOwl in recent weeks. It's not just a few either, it's
many.

Author:

WhiteHorseMatt

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 13:36

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Suggestions, CheshireBricKs writes:

Reece

I've been on BO for 3 weeks and in that time over 50 stores have opened.
Bricklink has 100 fewer stores than in the summer last year (UK stores). Small
sample size, but a sign of things to come?

Author:

calsbricks

Posted:

Feb 10, 2018 04:54

Subject:

Re: Please bring Order Download up to date

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In Problem, Minifigforlife writes:

Agreed. Make this a suggestion post and I will vote yes.

Done

Now let's see what happens.

Author:

minithings4life

Posted:

Feb 10, 2018 04:40

Subject:

Re: Please bring Order Download up to date

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Agreed. Make this a suggestion post and I will vote yes.

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Jan 22, 2018 10:06

Subject:

Re: AJAX error while searching for stores

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In General, xenocryst writes:

[…]

The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.

You keep saying this in all the threads, and maybe I’m just dense, but Classic
is so inscrutable to me that it may as well also be broken.

(Just in case: You get Classic “By Shop” by clicking “Classic” then “By Shop”
on the menu bar in the WL page.)

It shows the list of stores ordered by the number of lots or items they have.
That’s exactly what you get on the (new) “Buy” page just after loading it (when
it works

).

What Classic doesn’t have:
1. no Auto-Select, no Easy-Buy,
2. no way to select items to look for, it’s whole WLs or nothing,
3. no way to quickly see exactly what items each store has without opening the
store,
4. no way to select a store / preselect items to buy (thus removing the items
from the list of items to look for and updating the list of stores),
5. and undoubtedly other things I don’t remember right now.

Well, at least, you still have a list of stores with items in your WL….

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jan 22, 2018 10:04

Subject:

Re: AJAX error while searching for stores

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In General, xenocryst writes:

In General, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, a213jf writes:

I am unable to place or search for any stores with my WANTED list. Everytime
I try to search for stores from my wanted list, I get an "AJAX error while searching
for stores. Check you local network." I am sure you have been getting several
complaints, this has been going on for nearly 24 hrs now for me. Looking forward
to a quick fix!

The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.

You keep saying this in all the threads, and maybe I’m just dense, but Classic
is so inscrutable to me that it may as well also be broken.

The Classic view does exactly the same as the New view.
For many it can be helpful enough to know about the existence of the Classic
view.

Author:

xenocryst

Posted:

Jan 22, 2018 09:28

Subject:

Re: AJAX error while searching for stores

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In General, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, a213jf writes:

The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.

You keep saying this in all the threads, and maybe I’m just dense, but Classic
is so inscrutable to me that it may as well also be broken.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jan 22, 2018 07:31

Subject:

Re: AJAX error while searching for stores

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In Suggestions, a213jf writes:

The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.

Author:

TwinSooBricks

Posted:

Dec 20, 2017 19:57

Subject:

Re: Bricklink Discord

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Announce

In Suggestions, DerekThomasp89 writes:

Hey all,

not sure if this has been posted/mentioned before but has anyone thought of using
discord for a BL type chat server?

it's super easy to set up and join.

I'd be willing to do the set up myself if your all interested.

Derek

Hey everyone thanks for the messages I set up a lego worldwide user discord with
a bricklink dedicated channel, please feel free to come and chat

https://discord.gg/xhTDz3s

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Dec 18, 2017 21:53

Subject:

Re: 'blservice@bricklink.com' as the sending addr

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In Suggestions, kwmcmillan writes:

When I receive messages from members that have been generated via the Contact
Form, my instinct is to hit the 'reply' button and then proceed providing
a response to whatever question has been posed. THis is the way every other email
or messaging system I have ever encountered works.

But doing so yields an unpleasant surprise: my response is sent to a black hole
instead of the actual sending party.

I (now) know that the member address can be found in the body of the email, but
two things:

1 - Would I ever really want to reply to 'blservice@bricklink.com'? (No)

2 - Replying on a mobile device where copying text segments (the email address)
isn't very easy makes this situation worse

I can't think of any good reason that the sending member's address ISN'T
the one provided upon receipt and would respectfully suggest that it be changed.

k.

It USED to work like you mention. It's been less than a year that it's
been broken.

David

Author:

JulieK

Posted:

Nov 2, 2017 08:48

Subject:

Re: Send Order Notifications for Instant Checkout

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In Suggestions, welo999 writes:

Order notification worked for me until yesterday - both Instant checkout and
manual.
Today i've had the first IC order without notification.
Werner

I received notifications yesterday, but none for the order that was placed overnight,
both IC orders. I use outlook.com.

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Oct 22, 2017 00:43

Subject:

Re: Clearing should be the same as Paid

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In General, tEoS writes:

It's for split payment status from order status. See picture (It's actually
a gold color text):

In General, crazylegoman writes:

I just checked my order received page, and there is no "clearing" status, just
the same 7 options that we've had for a while now.

David

Interesting...
I've never used that before, but it's good to know.

Thanks,
David

Author:

tEoS

Posted:

Oct 21, 2017 23:38

Subject:

Re: Clearing should be the same as Paid

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It's for split payment status from order status. See picture (It's actually
a gold color text):

In General, crazylegoman writes:

I just checked my order received page, and there is no "clearing" status, just
the same 7 options that we've had for a while now.

David

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Oct 21, 2017 23:30

Subject:

Re: Clearing should be the same as Paid

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I just checked my order received page, and there is no "clearing" status, just
the same 7 options that we've had for a while now.

David

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Jul 16, 2017 12:06

Subject:

Re: Easy Buy / Autofinder

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In Suggestions, daf1009 writes:

I get error messages every time I try to use this functionality. It seemed to
start within the last week or so...help!

I am using suggestions, as it is the only place I could find to leave a message!

Duane

See also this post from yesterday: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1046953

Author:

Captain_Q

Posted:

Apr 27, 2017 17:37

Subject:

Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once

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In Shipping, qwertyboy writes:

In Shipping, QCHUCKA writes:

You misunderstood me, I want to change the status of all "paid" orders
with 2 clicks total into "shipped", whether it is 5 orders or 20+ not change
the status per order, one by one . Clicking submit after just one is a little
silly.

You don't have to click submit after just one. You can pick a new status
for several orders, and then do the one submit click. So not "change status"
- "submit" - "change status" - "submit" etc, but rather "change status" - "change
status" ... - "submit".

Niek.

"change the 'order status' of multiple orders at once?"

Author:

qwertyboy

Posted:

Apr 27, 2017 17:18

Subject:

Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once

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In Shipping, QCHUCKA writes:

Author:

Captain_Q

Posted:

Apr 27, 2017 17:15

Subject:

Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once

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Just select shipped from the dropdown next to each order you want to change then
press submit, no need to press submit after each order.

In Shipping, QCHUCKA writes:

Greetings good citizen of Bricklink forums,

I have been wondering for some time, is there a way to change the "order status"
of multiple orders at once? It would be nice to change all orders that are
packed/paid to "shipped" when the time is right. Is there a way to do this
that I don't see? It gets tedious changing the status one by one.

Thank you!

Cheers,
Captain Q

Author:

Vegitt

Posted:

Apr 27, 2017 07:25

Subject:

Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once

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Just select shipped from the dropdown next to each order you want to change then
press submit, no need to press submit after each order.

In Shipping, QCHUCKA writes:

Cheers,
Captain Q

Author:

TheBrickGuys

Posted:

Apr 10, 2017 11:58

Subject:

Re: Please give the forum a make over.

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In General, Steineflut writes:

In General, TheBrickGuys writes:

In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.

Jim.

Jim

Okay, I get how we all love that nothing ever changes and that we love to keep
stuff the way it is but seriously, the guy is absolutely right!!!
And I am sure that this is the reason why there are about 100 people in this
forum when the site is used by thousands!
Even though you can click on a million buttons to make it look like you want
it to, it should look like that from the start and not with clicking links on
the bottom of a page every single time you want to read something.

The studio beta forum is what a normal forum should look like. It's been
invented... probably about 25 years ago!

- Nadine

All you have to do is set up a page with the setting you like and then save it
as a favorite up on your favorites bar and you wont have to keep clicking on
the options. Just do it once and all is well.

As far as changing the way it looks, I am all for that. I love the changes BL
has done so far. The only reason I kind of got on the guys case was because he
was complaining (with more of an attitude) about things that need to be changed
but was not even willing to see if the options he wanted already existed. He
complained even before he took just a couple of minutes to learn what options
existed.

Jim

Author:

Steineflut

Posted:

Apr 10, 2017 05:29

Subject:

Re: Please give the forum a make over.

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