Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 07:01 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | | | I thought current items for sale were all displayed using the exchange rate of
this moment. Why is it that important though if the exchange rate would be an
hour older?
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That isn't how it works unfortunately. They change hourly, according to the
help pages. It would be far simpler to show the rate used at the top of the column.,
hence the suggestion.
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I imagine doing instant lookups is just not efficient, as every time someone
accesses the price guide or looks at a store or a cart in another currency,
BL would need to access the exchange rates from xe.com. Plus I don't think
their (xe) rates are continuously updated anyway - aren't they something
like every 10 or 15 minutes, plus they also have some lag. I can totally understand
why BL sets them and fixes them for one hour, given how slowly they change (at
least change significantly, not in the 4th or 5th decimal place).
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Understand what you are saying but it all depends on how the code is put together
to display the current data. It would be highly unusualk as well as inefficient
if they were storing the figures - good code isn't written that way, so when
we call up the price guid for a given element it should be doing those calculations
then and presenting the data - if that is the case then it is a simple matter
to add a single or couplof fields to the display.
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It wouldn't do any harm to either have the exchange rate on the price guide,
or possibly better still, have a separate page where all the current exchange
rates being used are listed along with the time they were updated for those interested.
That way, it is one less thing on the price guide page. Of course, you can always
get the current BL exchange rate, by doing the calculation yourself, to about
4 decimal places.
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I would prefer it on the price guide so I didn't have to go back and forth.
Mind you this is all hypothetical cause they really are not doing anything with
the classic site whilst they work on XP.
Still one can hope - it really isn't rocket science or a lot of development
time to simply display the number you have used for the calculation.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 04:32 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | | | I thought current items for sale were all displayed using the exchange rate of
this moment. Why is it that important though if the exchange rate would be an
hour older?
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That isn't how it works unfortunately. They change hourly, according to the
help pages. It would be far simpler to show the rate used at the top of the column.,
hence the suggestion.
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I imagine doing instant lookups is just not efficient, as every time someone
accesses the price guide or looks at a store or a cart in another currency,
BL would need to access the exchange rates from xe.com. Plus I don't think
their (xe) rates are continuously updated anyway - aren't they something
like every 10 or 15 minutes, plus they also have some lag. I can totally understand
why BL sets them and fixes them for one hour, given how slowly they change (at
least change significantly, not in the 4th or 5th decimal place).
It wouldn't do any harm to either have the exchange rate on the price guide,
or possibly better still, have a separate page where all the current exchange
rates being used are listed along with the time they were updated for those interested.
That way, it is one less thing on the price guide page. Of course, you can always
get the current BL exchange rate, by doing the calculation yourself, to about
4 decimal places.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 01:40 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, BricksThatStick writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
It's just a guide.
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Yes, true so why not make it informative, rather than having to use guesswork
and trial and error.
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If sellers want to use it to actually price their listings to the averages they
accept its not 100% perfect.
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I am not sure anyone makes that assumption - we don't it is supposed to be
a data average and the currency conversion should be dynamic not hourly. Not
sure why this would cause any real problem for any developer.
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Otherwise sellers should just see it for what it is and adjust their prices/set
prices as they see fit.
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Many of us do but the adjustment should be based on real - not supposition.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 01:37 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | We are aware that nothing is going on on the classic site whilst the development
team focus on Bricklink XP, so we will make this as short and sweet as we can.
Having contacted the forum and put all elements of this together it is plain
that a subtle but important change needs to be in place for the price guide screen.
Understanding full well what happens with the 'sold at' columns those
can be left as they are until the whole price guide is revisited, whenever that
is going to be. The current items for sale, however needs s small but important
change, in our view. It is currently not possible to determine the currency conversion
rate for those figures. It could have been anyti8me in the last hour or this
hour or whenever.
Please simply add the two fields which are used to convert e.g. for example $1
= 'x' £;s and £1 = 'x$). This will enable any member, buyer or seller,
to at least get their figures correct when working offline. This is not a complicated
change/fix - it merely requires placing those fields on that screen each time
they change. The fields are held somewhere in the system even if it is a temporary
table, so it should be relatively straight forward to display them on the price
guide screen.
Thoughts ?
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I thought current items for sale were all displayed using the exchange rate of
this moment. Why is it that important though if the exchange rate would be an
hour older?
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That isn't how it works unfortunately. They change hourly, according to the
help pages. It would be far simpler to show the rate used at the top of the column.,
hence the suggestion.
Don't we all.
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| Author: | BricksThatStick | | Posted: | Oct 24, 2018 14:26 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
It's just a guide.
If sellers want to use it to actually price their listings to the averages they
accept its not 100% perfect.
Otherwise sellers should just see it for what it is and adjust their prices/set
prices as they see fit.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 24, 2018 14:06 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | We are aware that nothing is going on on the classic site whilst the development
team focus on Bricklink XP, so we will make this as short and sweet as we can.
Having contacted the forum and put all elements of this together it is plain
that a subtle but important change needs to be in place for the price guide screen.
Understanding full well what happens with the 'sold at' columns those
can be left as they are until the whole price guide is revisited, whenever that
is going to be. The current items for sale, however needs s small but important
change, in our view. It is currently not possible to determine the currency conversion
rate for those figures. It could have been anyti8me in the last hour or this
hour or whenever.
Please simply add the two fields which are used to convert e.g. for example $1
= 'x' £;s and £1 = 'x$). This will enable any member, buyer or seller,
to at least get their figures correct when working offline. This is not a complicated
change/fix - it merely requires placing those fields on that screen each time
they change. The fields are held somewhere in the system even if it is a temporary
table, so it should be relatively straight forward to display them on the price
guide screen.
Thoughts ?
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I thought current items for sale were all displayed using the exchange rate of
this moment. Why is it that important though if the exchange rate would be an
hour older?
By the way, in case you didn't know and it's useful - you can always
flip the currency of the priceguide by changing the vcID parameter in the URL:
Euro: https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSummary.asp?vcID=2&vatInc=Y&a=p&colorID=110&itemID=3005
Dollar: https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSummary.asp?vcID=1&vatInc=Y&a=p&colorID=110&itemID=3005
I just wish this was properly interfaced (and that there was an easy simple to
understand API to access these things without downloading the page and run into
download limits imposed by Bricklink)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 24, 2018 13:01 | | Subject: | Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 217 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| We are aware that nothing is going on on the classic site whilst the development
team focus on Bricklink XP, so we will make this as short and sweet as we can.
Having contacted the forum and put all elements of this together it is plain
that a subtle but important change needs to be in place for the price guide screen.
Understanding full well what happens with the 'sold at' columns those
can be left as they are until the whole price guide is revisited, whenever that
is going to be. The current items for sale, however needs s small but important
change, in our view. It is currently not possible to determine the currency conversion
rate for those figures. It could have been anyti8me in the last hour or this
hour or whenever.
Please simply add the two fields which are used to convert e.g. for example $1
= 'x' £;s and £1 = 'x$). This will enable any member, buyer or seller,
to at least get their figures correct when working offline. This is not a complicated
change/fix - it merely requires placing those fields on that screen each time
they change. The fields are held somewhere in the system even if it is a temporary
table, so it should be relatively straight forward to display them on the price
guide screen.
Thoughts ?
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| Author: | burghbricks | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2018 17:35 | | Subject: | Re: Archive completed wanted lists | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | I like to have a feature to archive my completed (100%) wanted lists.
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I agree that this would be a very helpful feature. My thought is that if it were
a checkbox or toggle to archive, it could then exclude the selected list when
using the want list feature in a store as well as categorize it under a different
section. Personally, I find it helpful to use my wanted lists as a reference.
Depending on the project, I sometimes add to an existing list as I'm expanding
so the ability to toggle from archived to active would be very helpful.
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| Author: | MMillere | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2018 22:38 | | Subject: | Re: Instant Checkout testing simulation | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | Please implement a testing framework for Instant Checkout such that …
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Goot Idea Ollie, voted yes
Milissa
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| Author: | nectara | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2018 12:55 | | Subject: | Re: Instant Checkout testing simulation | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | Please implement a testing framework for Instant Checkout such that …
1. Any seller can determine a number of test cases to valudate their IC shipping
parameters.
2. Those test cases can each be expresed as a script (textual or GUI object based).
3. The seller can then select all, or a subset of the test cases.
4, The seller can then submit those test cases as a batch request.
5. The BL system will then schedule and run those test cases.
6. The seller will then receive an email back showing which test cases were run,
what shipping methods were allowed, etc. This would be roughly analgous to what
is reported via the shopping cart display.
7. This would not involve actually taking any items out of inventory, nor creating
any real orders, but would be a test case simulation of that.
8. The seller could retain those test cases for later reuse, as various parameters
are modified.
thank you, Nita Rae
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For what?
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2018 09:19 | | Subject: | Instant Checkout testing simulation | | Viewed: | 116 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Please implement a testing framework for Instant Checkout such that …
1. Any seller can determine a number of test cases to valudate their IC shipping
parameters.
2. Those test cases can each be expresed as a script (textual or GUI object based).
3. The seller can then select all, or a subset of the test cases.
4, The seller can then submit those test cases as a batch request.
5. The BL system will then schedule and run those test cases.
6. The seller will then receive an email back showing which test cases were run,
what shipping methods were allowed, etc. This would be roughly analgous to what
is reported via the shopping cart display.
7. This would not involve actually taking any items out of inventory, nor creating
any real orders, but would be a test case simulation of that.
8. The seller could retain those test cases for later reuse, as various parameters
are modified.
thank you, Nita Rae
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2018 17:41 | | Subject: | Re: Physical dimensions on Catalog pages | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | Currently, for parts, the Catalog page only displays the logical dimensions of
the part (i.e. the stud counts + brick height).
Please add the physical dimensions. This exists, but is only seen under a lot
listing when custom values are enabled.
thank you, Nita Rae
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A big YES! This should have been done ages ago. Then, everyone like me who does
not sell on BrickLink but loves to contribute to the catalog could add physical
dimensions where they are missing for Instant Checkout. It would be a big win
all around.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2018 13:45 | | Subject: | Physical dimensions on Catalog pages | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Currently, for parts, the Catalog page only displays the logical dimensions of
the part (i.e. the stud counts + brick height).
Please add the physical dimensions. This exists, but is only seen under a lot
listing when custom values are enabled.
thank you, Nita Rae
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2018 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: Block buyers with a different country email p | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| So I do agree that your proposal does provide better information, which if valid
eliminates the one of secrets I mentioned.
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2018 11:40 | | Subject: | Re: Block buyers with a different country email p | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
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What would be better, is if the buyer were required to specify their shipping
address, then have two checkboxes under that …
One would be something like "Home address in same country as shipping address".
The other would be "Payment funded from same country as shipping address".
If either is unchecked, then it would be required to specify which country is
correct for that item.
This would not solve the indicated problem, but it would give us better information
to tell what buyers are more likely to be legitimate buyers.
Nita Rae
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I think your suggestion above opens the door toward couriers, which in turn for
some buyers places courier, their packing, and their shipping responsibilities
on sellers, as opposed to ending seller responsibility at courier receipt.
I recognize couriers' value as well as the added risk they can present, and
have no solution at this point.
I do not like things big brother-ish, however admittedly would prefer to not
have the final destination and possible re-packing or breaking down of something
I've packed be secrets.
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2018 11:17 | | Subject: | Re: Block buyers with a different country email p | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Hagbart writes:
| | Hi
Would it be possible to block a buyer having an email from a given country eg
Russia, but his postal address is the UK?
Just got yet another scammers ordering from my shop with this very suspicious
config, even got negative from himfeedback from him.
Or a setting that enables us to block and oblige the buyer to pay buy only with
iban
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This is a poorly thought out suggestion. As it is written, it should be tossed.
Having said that, I believe there is a need for better information disclosure.
What would be better, is if the buyer were required to specify their shipping
address, then have two checkboxes under that …
One would be something like "Home address in same country as shipping address".
The other would be "Payment funded from same country as shipping address".
If either is unchecked, then it would be required to specify which country is
correct for that item.
This would not solve the indicated problem, but it would give us better information
to tell what buyers are more likely to be legitimate buyers.
Nita Rae
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| Author: | Rarah | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2018 11:08 | | Subject: | Re: Block buyers with a different country email p | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
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People move. Either for years or only months or even weeks. And the Internet
has no frontier.
Will you force buyers to open a new e-mail account in the country they are while
they had had one for years that works pretty well anywhere in the world?
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Hi,
I stated that associating emails with countries would be messy (i.e. I agree
with you), and I was not supporting the original suggestion.
But instead I wondered if BrickLink could verify member addresses against IP
address locations. A recent transaction indicates that PayPal is doing something
like this.
Sorry to cancel my previous post, not knowing if anyone might be replying. This
forum is a lot of (good) clutter, and after posting I weigh the value of my inputs
against adding to the clutter.
Thanks for the IBAN information, Matthew
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Please don´t even joke about this! I live in Slovakia spend the year in ASIA
my IP is from Vietnam/Japan/China whatever. I come back home on christmass and
open all my post sent home in the year. I use gmail which has "gmail.com" means
global ... I have enough troubles with money transfers just because some pages
need to have my address locked to IP which I find is the stupidest thing on earth
in 2018 !! Some helpdesk guy even told me to travel home change my country and
come back ... 1200 €for fligh ticket just to change my country of origin if I
have all document with it on them to buy a 10 € token ... oh yes! Please think...
rules like these make a lot of hell for people like me.
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| Author: | Vegitt | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2018 11:38 | | Subject: | Re: Payment | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Each seller chooses the payment methods they want to accept. There are many that
offer alternatives to PayPal such as bank transfers, Stripe etc. If you have
an issue using PayPal then just check what other methods the seller has set up
before ordering.
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| Author: | jimbo23uk | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2018 11:26 | | Subject: | Payment | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Isnt it time Bricklink was to offer other payment methods , we used to have our
church group on paypal then a couple of year back they said no ,you now have
to nominate a single person . if that person dies or goes on holiday or any other
reason our buying and selling comes to a stop (unless we use amazon ) we are
currently going through a situation where our account has been put on hold while
paypal investigate £1.01p the reason why i could go on and on,i just so happened
that we had placed 3 orders with brick link and a purchase with ebay , so the
question s how do you pay , one of the orders was paid via Pingit .its becoming
classed as restrictive practice will a government in one country take action
against this ,i can see it happening , so is it no paypal no bricklink !!!!!!!!!!!!!answers
on a toilet roll please
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2018 04:38 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | 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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The 'note to seller' is also in the order confirmation email.
Do you read the confirmation email?
Perhaps the order of the order details page should be customizable. Then the
notes can be moved to the top between the Details and parts section.
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That's a good idea I think. On the internet we are kind of programmed to
completely disregard mumbo jumbo at the bottom of pages (like "© 2018 BrickLink
Limited. All rights reserved. Some LEGO® sets contain small parts that are NOT
suitable for and may pose a hazard to children under 3 years of age. LEGO® DUPLO®
sets have larger pieces which are specially designed for children under 3. LEGO®
is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize,
or endorse this site. Use of this website constitutes acceptance of the Terms
Of Service and Privacy Policy."). Something above the parts list would be much
more noticable, and also the message may affect how the order needs to be sorted/packed
so it's kind of a bummer if you forget to scroll down and read it only when
you reach the end of order picking 
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| Author: | harro | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2018 04:38 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I do agree!
Just a layout change would be ok.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2018 04:35 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, bricksahead writes:
| | .. How do you know that you've never missed a message?
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Well, how do you know you packed all your orders correctly? Just a feeling, you
never know for sure of course if it comes to actual evidence. But as soon as
I open an order with a message attached to it I notice that right away, it's
the very first thing I notice. Right as you open the order, where there's
otherwise nothing, there's suddenly an icon, and a line "This order has an
attached message (view it)". In my opinion that is very clear. To the people
who do miss it, isn't simply a bigger font, bigger icon, enough?
If I would get the message in my inbox also, as sort of a duplicate thing, it
would make things less clear to me as it will show up as an item I need to handle
while I already did or already am going to. I will be more likely to miss
real messages that way or mix up something. The "(un)read" flag would lose parts
of its meaning as there will be messages that have already been read but still
appear unread in the inbox.
In my opinion anything regarding the processing of an order should be strictly
on that order page, and everything else - general inquiries, service - should
be in the inbox. I don't go through messages and orders crosswise, I have
a list of orders I need to do and a list of messages I need to work through and
I do one of these tasks at a time.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2018 03:47 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| 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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The 'note to seller' is also in the order confirmation email.
Do you read the confirmation email?
Perhaps the order of the order details page should be customizable. Then the
notes can be moved to the top between the Details and parts section.
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