Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 09:05 | | Subject: | Re: 90-percentile as new average price ? | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | I noticed the highest prices of items sold (or of items that are on sale), have
an out of proportion influence on the average prices.
Example: when 9 people sell (or have sold) an item at €0.10 but 1 person has
sold that item for €10.00, the average price would be €1.09
You may say this example is not realistic, but it's not that unrealistic
either. Check out item 6558. The avg used price of last 6 month sales is €0.023,
while the majority of the sales are for less as €0.02
If you look more closesly, you see a few sales at a high price, but not a lot.
(Note: someone even sold a few of these for €1.00 !)
It's my suggestion to change the calculation of avg price to use the 90-percentile
method. So only the 90 percent (lowest prices) are taken into account. That way,
the top 10-percent highest prices are not taken into account when calculating
the avg price.
To avoid weird behaviours, the rule could be in place only when there are 10
items sold/for sale.
Example would become an avg price of €0.10
Another somewhat more complex method would be the use the median. Not the mathematic
average, but the middle price: 50% of the sellers have a lower price, 50% of
the sellers have a higher price.
What do you guys think?
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This suggestion comes up now and then, I am not in favour, as it makes the priceguide
less transparent but most of all it promotes the race to the bottom even more.
In a different kind of design, with a different role and usage for the priceguide,
I could be in favour. But the way Bricklink is set up now, I think sellers very
strongly evaluated based on their prices not being above average - at least that's
how I used to use Bricklink when I was a buyer. I think in the current design,
we need those quirky up-effects, not because they make for the most ideal and
scientifically sound kind of priceguide, but to balance things in a context where
down-effect already prevails.
What surprises me though is that you suggest it to include only the lowest. Why
not middle 90%? What you propose seems to me like a race to the bottom on top
of a race to the bottom.. That sounds like you prefer the priceguide showing
just low prices over accurate prices. I really don't think prices on Bricklink
are unfair at all considering all the work that goes into running a store.
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| Author: | Gaston.La.Brick | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 08:47 | | Subject: | 90-percentile as new average price ? | | Viewed: | 202 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| I noticed the highest prices of items sold (or of items that are on sale), have
an out of proportion influence on the average prices.
Example: when 9 people sell (or have sold) an item at €0.10 but 1 person has
sold that item for €10.00, the average price would be €1.09
You may say this example is not realistic, but it's not that unrealistic
either. Check out item 6558. The avg used price of last 6 month sales is €0.023,
while the majority of the sales are for less as €0.02
If you look more closesly, you see a few sales at a high price, but not a lot.
(Note: someone even sold a few of these for €1.00 !)
It's my suggestion to change the calculation of avg price to use the 90-percentile
method. So only the 90 percent (lowest prices) are taken into account. That way,
the top 10-percent highest prices are not taken into account when calculating
the avg price.
To avoid weird behaviours, the rule could be in place only when there are 10
items sold/for sale.
Example would become an avg price of €0.10
Another somewhat more complex method would be the use the median. Not the mathematic
average, but the middle price: 50% of the sellers have a lower price, 50% of
the sellers have a higher price.
What do you guys think?
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| Author: | Bricks_NW_UK | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 06:19 | | Subject: | Re: Price offer | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mikmo writes:
| | Can you imagine getting 2000 messages offering you 3$ for your Chrome black Darth
Vader minifig ?
There should at least be a min. amount if this option is implemented.
Kind regards
Mikael / MikMo
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In my opinion this wouldn't work!
They have this function on eBay and it is a nightmare to be honest.
The sellers have set their prices and if you don't want to pay the listed
price then you simply buy elsewhere.
I suppose if you want to make someone an offer you could do this via the quote
function and ask if they are prepare to sell for "x"
Bricklink needs to stay well clear of this.
Just my thoughts!
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| Author: | mikmo | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 05:11 | | Subject: | Re: Price offer | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Can you imagine getting 2000 messages offering you 3$ for your Chrome black Darth
Vader minifig ?
There should at least be a min. amount if this option is implemented.
Kind regards
Mikael / MikMo
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| Author: | miskox | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2018 03:53 | | Subject: | Price offer | | Viewed: | 115 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Could an option (maybe this was suggested before?) be added that would allow
possible buyer to offer a price?
I would list an item with a price and a check box there would make this item
appear with a 'make an offer' options. Potential buyer would enter the
price he/she is willing to pay for an item. Seller receives this Quote and denies
or accepts this offer. If seller accepts it he then can add shipping quote and
send a quote (or something like that).
Saso
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| Author: | bricksahead | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2018 23:43 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, randyipp writes:
| | I would love it if the "note to seller" when a buyer is checking out were handled
more like a message and show up in the messages inbox, with the notification
number. The note looks like a message when using "contact your buyer about this
order" link but can easily be missed by sellers. It has happened to me a few
times, and can be frustrating if you see it too late!
Thanks,
Randy
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Hi Randy,
This is a great suggestion which I can fully support. It has happened to me a
couple of times that I missed a "note to seller". 
Hanne
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2018 22:17 | | Subject: | Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 295 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I would love it if the "note to seller" when a buyer is checking out were handled
more like a message and show up in the messages inbox, with the notification
number. The note looks like a message when using "contact your buyer about this
order" link but can easily be missed by sellers. It has happened to me a few
times, and can be frustrating if you see it too late!
Thanks,
Randy
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| Author: | BrickArchitect | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2018 17:43 | | Subject: | Order Item Removal Request notification | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| As a buyer on Bricklink
I sometimes have a seller requesting an "Order Item Removal Request"
on items the seller does not have in stock.
When the seller requests an "Order Item Removal Request"
can this request be sent to the buyers Bricklink Messages (presently it does
not).
This lack of notification from bricklink has caused many issues between buyers
and sellers
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| Author: | AngrySquirrel | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2018 17:41 | | Subject: | Re: Search inventory remarks in top search bar | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | can we get this going again? |
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Sep 27, 2018 12:53 | | Subject: | Re: Sorting prospective sellers by Favorites | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, rblondeau writes:
| | After typing a part number in the search bar, the screen displays a list of all
the sellers based on the options entered there.
Is there any way to indicate that the list of sellers should only be from 'My
Favorite' stores? If there isn't any way to do this, then can I suggest
that this filter be added?
Besides being happy with specific Sellers and therefore wanting to use them again,
I've also found that when I'm trying to put together orders, the slightly
higher cost of the item is often offset by the savings on shipping by keeping
the order to a smaller number of sellers. I find that I'm often scrolling
through the list looking for those specific sellers that I want on this batch
of orders.
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This kind of already exists, check the Favourite settings on this page https://www.bricklink.com/wantedSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
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| Author: | bb1202806 | | Posted: | Sep 27, 2018 12:40 | | Subject: | Sorting prospective sellers by Favorites | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| After typing a part number in the search bar, the screen displays a list of all
the sellers based on the options entered there.
Is there any way to indicate that the list of sellers should only be from 'My
Favorite' stores? If there isn't any way to do this, then can I suggest
that this filter be added?
Besides being happy with specific Sellers and therefore wanting to use them again,
I've also found that when I'm trying to put together orders, the slightly
higher cost of the item is often offset by the savings on shipping by keeping
the order to a smaller number of sellers. I find that I'm often scrolling
through the list looking for those specific sellers that I want on this batch
of orders.
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| Author: | StarBrick | | Posted: | Sep 24, 2018 14:01 | | Subject: | Re: Stopping/Checking inflated prices | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi
Probably a lot of us have been guilty of this, adding an item to your inventory
and forgetting the decimal point, or putting it in the wrong place, thereby creating
an abnormal price.
Is it possible when entering a price for new or used, to flag if the price entered
is say more than xx% of the average prices already on file. Still giving you
the option to enter that price, but just warning that this price is abnormal
Thanks
Tracy
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Discussed and proposed many times before, but still no sign of implementing something
like this.... Focus was on other points I guess. Something with Stud.IO and a
designer competetion sort of thing....
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| Author: | Pippysblocks | | Posted: | Sep 24, 2018 06:58 | | Subject: | Re: Stopping/Checking inflated prices | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Sounds like a good plan. I listed a cheap 9p item several weeks back and about
a week later I did my usual Brickstock download to check for missing locations
and oddities and noticed I'd listed it at £90. But doing that routine check
did allow me to quickly fix it.
In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi
Probably a lot of us have been guilty of this, adding an item to your inventory
and forgetting the decimal point, or putting it in the wrong place, thereby creating
an abnormal price.
Is it possible when entering a price for new or used, to flag if the price entered
is say more than xx% of the average prices already on file. Still giving you
the option to enter that price, but just warning that this price is abnormal
Thanks
Tracy
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| Author: | tpr | | Posted: | Sep 24, 2018 06:17 | | Subject: | Stopping/Checking inflated prices | | Viewed: | 146 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi
Probably a lot of us have been guilty of this, adding an item to your inventory
and forgetting the decimal point, or putting it in the wrong place, thereby creating
an abnormal price.
Is it possible when entering a price for new or used, to flag if the price entered
is say more than xx% of the average prices already on file. Still giving you
the option to enter that price, but just warning that this price is abnormal
Thanks
Tracy
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| Author: | figrindave | | Posted: | Sep 20, 2018 17:26 | | Subject: | Can we please have a "notes" column in Cart | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Would it be possible for us to be able to write down notes for all the different
carts we have? I usually have 8-15 carts going that I'm debating between,
and usually have to open each one to see what's there and why I haven't
bought it yet. For Instance: "This cart contains a rare minifig that won't
last long at that price, so buy this next."
Thanks!
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| Author: | raycloud01 | | Posted: | Sep 20, 2018 07:09 | | Subject: | It is perfect if adding depth of field blur | | Viewed: | 106 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I used studio to render a simple work，I found it is really nice result，
But I think if adding a popular effect： depth of field blur
Hope it will be created，even if need to pay it.
For now，I added a photoshop efffect on the result render picture， it seems awesome！
here is link in behance:https://www.behance.net/gallery/70440343/Lego-3d-render
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2018 08:39 | | Subject: | Re: Promo Codes | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, firestar246 writes:
| | We should be able to create promo codes for our store that buyers can use. Unlike
coupons, promo codes can be used by anyone with the code. For example, my store,
Tons of Bricks (GDM), has a Facebook page. I would like to give out a promo code
there for anyone who finds us through Facebook. However, I can't do that
since promo codes don't exist.
This would be an awesome addition to bricklink.
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They can mention the code in the comments at ordering.
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90% off our order are instant, so this won't be a solution.
since you cannot alter anything once its processed.
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Another possibility is to create Shipping methods for certain discounts only
to be unlocked with a password/code.
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| Author: | jbricks | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2018 08:17 | | Subject: | Re: Promo Codes | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, firestar246 writes:
| | We should be able to create promo codes for our store that buyers can use. Unlike
coupons, promo codes can be used by anyone with the code. For example, my store,
Tons of Bricks (GDM), has a Facebook page. I would like to give out a promo code
there for anyone who finds us through Facebook. However, I can't do that
since promo codes don't exist.
This would be an awesome addition to bricklink.
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They can mention the code in the comments at ordering.
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90% off our order are instant, so this won't be a solution.
since you cannot alter anything once its processed.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2018 07:27 | | Subject: | Re: Promo Codes | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, firestar246 writes:
| | We should be able to create promo codes for our store that buyers can use. Unlike
coupons, promo codes can be used by anyone with the code. For example, my store,
Tons of Bricks (GDM), has a Facebook page. I would like to give out a promo code
there for anyone who finds us through Facebook. However, I can't do that
since promo codes don't exist.
This would be an awesome addition to bricklink.
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They can mention the code in the comments at ordering.
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Sep 17, 2018 07:22 | | Subject: | Promo Codes | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We should be able to create promo codes for our store that buyers can use. Unlike
coupons, promo codes can be used by anyone with the code. For example, my store,
Tons of Bricks (GDM), has a Facebook page. I would like to give out a promo code
there for anyone who finds us through Facebook. However, I can't do that
since promo codes don't exist.
This would be an awesome addition to bricklink.
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| Author: | DeLuca | | Posted: | Sep 16, 2018 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: Shouldnt be able to enter store if stoplisted | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BricksThatStick writes:
| | It makes no sense that you can enter a store you are stoplisted from (let alone
be able to fill your cart and only find you are stoplisted when attempting to
checkout)
Please change it back to the way is used to be that when you tried to enter the
store it tells you you are stoplisted.
Thanks,
Paul.
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Since you can set search/Wanted List settings to exclude stores that have stop
listed you, I am not sure why this is an issue that requires BL to modify the
site.
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| Author: | WhiteVanMan | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2018 10:58 | | Subject: | Re: Return the Catalog tab | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
| | Please put it back.
It was the perfect word to describe where it took users.
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I came to BrickLink for the catalog first, and started to buy later.
The catalog is not just a tool we use for selling, it is a hugely important way
to draw people to the site. I know that it has been gone for a long time, but
I would still love to have a separate catalog tab back.
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I totally agree.....
BUT....
If according to the BL developers and admins, us sellers are supposed to be getting
new 'tools' and features to help us with our selling, I'm not sure
if there is any thing like this in the pipeline, so I guess it's a situation
of where we will need to wait and see...
However, saying that, I'd love to see an additional line within that drop
down box when I hover over the Market Tab, and that is to have 'Instructions'
I'm really fed up of having to input a set's number into the search bar
so that I can get to the instructions section.
Apart from that, I'm now used to going to the 'market' tab to get
to the parts section of the catalogue...
Just my 2p on this....
Paul
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| Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2018 10:46 | | Subject: | Re: Return the Catalog tab | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
| | Please put it back.
It was the perfect word to describe where it took users.
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I came to BrickLink for the catalog first, and started to buy later.
The catalog is not just a tool we use for selling, it is a hugely important way
to draw people to the site. I know that it has been gone for a long time, but
I would still love to have a separate catalog tab back.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2018 05:08 | | Subject: | Re: Tick Box | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, CRAIGENDARROCH writes:
| | do you think it possible, that TICK BOX might be added to invoice to facilitate
easier checking of contents, may be it could be incorporated within the existing
colour code box
Robert
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Below the order details page click Enable temporary Checkboxes to check the content
of your order.
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| Author: | CRAIGENDARROCH | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2018 03:24 | | Subject: | Tick Box | | Viewed: | 102 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| do you think it possible, that TICK BOX might be added to invoice to facilitate
easier checking of contents, may be it could be incorporated within the existing
colour code box
Robert
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