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In Suggestions, MidwestBrick writes:

I used Brickstock to Load my stock into the store but the Price Guide that BL
has is a wonderful estimate to what I would do using Brickstock.

However, a piece of the parting out could be pushed to one degree further if
only you were able to have the BL system tell you what the items are that you
do not have.

In the attachment, off of a random set, I have the majority of the lots in my
store, but do not stock 4 of them. This is where it would be wonderful to have
a quick way of knowing what those 4 Lots are. Is there a way this already exists?
The only want I know of to check on this is to run an upload from Brickstock
into BL, take it to the verify screen and review the items that are not being
consolidated. Is there another way that is helpful?

Thank you

Take a look at a tool named bricksync. You can evaluate an inventory and
see which parts you have and don't have in your inventory in brickstock.

Author:

mikmo

Posted:

Nov 13, 2018 08:06

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Re: Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have

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You can see it by looking at which parts consolidate.

Check the youtube videos thet Bricks on the dollar has about how he uses Brickstock
to part out sets.

He has a series of 4 videos showing the whole process.

They are very informative.

Mikael / MikMo

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Nov 13, 2018 01:06

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Re: List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab

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In Suggestions, gregmgallup writes:

When I want to buy something under the “Items for Sale” tab, all of the items
from all of the countries are listed.

It would be nice to see only USA sellers.

Under the “Price Guide” tab there is a way to change the settings to see only
USA prices.

Can that also be applied to “Items for Sale?

Thanks

Greg

Already exist. Check USA in your Catalog, Price Guide and Wantlist settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/settings/pref_settings.page

Author:

Adjour

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 21:52

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Re: List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab

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Its an extra two clicks, but the option is already there

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MidwestBrick

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Nov 12, 2018 21:40

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Re: List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab

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In Suggestions, gregmgallup writes:

Click on "More Options" and you'll see this already exists.

Author:

gregmgallup

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 21:25

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List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab

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Already Exists

Author:

Andrsv

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 15:39

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Re: Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have

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In Suggestions, MidwestBrick writes:

You will also see it when you do an inventory part out on bricklink

Author:

MidwestBrick

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 13:42

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Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have

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Author:

Etown

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 11:47

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Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival"

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In Suggestions, iprice writes:

In Suggestions, Gaston.La.Brick writes:

It happens a buyer says he didn't receive the items. When shipping using
an untracked medium, there is no way in verifying if the claim is legit. So I
usually make no fuss and either refund the total order amount (including shipping)
or re-send it (if I have the items in stock).

In these cases, I sometimes get the feeling the buyer might have done this before
and actually has received the items. But as I said: there is no proof, since
no tracking. Then I wonder: "has this buyer done this in the past before with
other sellers?". There is no way in knowing. And that's why I think a buyer
should get some sort of parameter/rating stating the number of orders that were
refunded due to non-arrival. It seems like a small feature. Not really that important,
but if it were there, it would give some extra statistics in the long run as
well.

I actually had this happen recently; I'm the buyer BTW. I made an order in
May this year with someone in Belgium (your neck of the woods it would seem,
but not you).

The seller posted it a couple of days after ordering, and it did have tracking
information. However it still had not arrived after two months. I contacted the
seller, who showed evidence that it had been supposedly been delivered a couple
of weeks after my order - however his proof indicated a date and time wher no
member of the family was home, so how can it have been delivered...

After trying to track the package for a couple of weeks it was decided that a
refund was in order; so the seller was out of pocket and out of bricks. However,
this is not where the story ends. As a few weeks ago, my order finally arrived
(5 months late!). I contacted the seller and let him know and returned the unopened
package back to him so that he could re-stock his shop.

Moral of this story - you don't know whether the buyer has or hasn't
receieved his package, however you have to give him the shadow of doubt. In my
case I would have had a "Potential scammer" label if your idea bore fruit, which
could have harmed my reputation - despite the fact that I genuinely had not received
the item. Sometimes stuff does get lost in the post or takes an unreasonable
amount of time to arrive. Or you might have got scammed. I doubt the buyer would
admit, so you'll never know.

I don't think he's suggesting anything that would make sellers think
that a buyer who had had this happen once before is a scammer. What he's
suggesting would perhaps eliminate buyers who do this repeatedly.

That said, I do think they're exceedingly rare and I definitely agree that
you need to give the buyer the benefit of the doubt. I refund in full any order
that goes missing that does not have tracking. So far I've only had to do
a few.

Also, in my experience a couple of these instances have been brought up after
more than 6 months after the order was placed. It's difficult to know exactly
what to do in those situations as Bricklink purges the order after 6 months.
Not sure why exactly it takes that long to realize your order hasn't arrived,
but it has happened.

Ron

Author:

Teup

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 09:06

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Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival"

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