BrickLink Discussion Forum

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So we all have want lists, right?

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to take a want list and instead of looking
for stores that have all the individual parts, do a search against "sets" or
multiples of sets that have all the parts on a want list.

Everything needed to make this tool already exists on Bricklink.
Parts want list - check
Sets, parts inventory - check (the part out tool)

This function could be added to the Buy section like the distillers to get from
the fewest stores, or best price etc - add sets to buy that have all the parts.

Then a shopper could shop for complete sets to buy from sellers or determine
that they already have the sets in their own collection to build the MOC they
are shopping for pieces for.

Example: I bought the instructions for the UCS U-wing project by Mirko (Awesome
MOC by the way and beautiful instruction book)
uploaded the parts list 430 different parts 3300 pieces total.
I would love to know if I could buy 4-5 sets to get all the parts I need to build
the UCS U-wing project and the extra pieces could go in my collection. Certainly
there would be a handful of random special pieces to buy separately but it would
be cool to have the option of buying a few complete sets to get the majority
of the parts.

Just a thought and the development cost would be minimal since the hard parts
(set part inventories & want lists) already exist.

Author:

Tech_M

Posted:

Nov 18, 2018 22:47

Subject:

Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background

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I find it extremely irritating that the two options for the background while
rendering are: No background (renders as a png of only the MOC) and Floor (sets
the floor to a color, the background is black or white depending on light
type, has the bricks reflect the color of the floor as well) Why can't we
have an option that is like floor, but fills the entire background with the selected
color?

Yes, I understand that one could just lay the PNG from no background over a solid
color, HOWEVER, the thing about floor is that the reflected light color being
tinted towards the floor color is really nice, and makes the model seem to glow
the color of the floor.

Additionally, I find it annoying that while picking a color for the floor, there
is not a way to see what color the floor will actually end up looking like after
being lit unless you start rendering.

My suggestions are:
–Add an option for rendering that functions like floor, but fills the entire
background with selected color/
–Add option to see what color the floor/background will actually end up being
once lit, or add an option to lock the floor/background from changing color due
to lighting.

I think these are very much needed especially the first one, the renderer is
slightly dysfunctional without it in my opinion, and there isn't a way to
manually fix it perfectly. The best you can do is smart crop the color of background
out and then the entire image over a solid color that matches the floor. However
this doesn't work if the floor color or the model is too close to the color
black, and even then it really doesn't look that good.

I would very much appreciate it if these changes were made, and I think others
would as well.

Author:

gregmgallup

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 21:25

Subject:

List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab

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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

Author:

MidwestBrick

Posted:

Nov 12, 2018 13:42

Subject:

Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have

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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

Author:

Gaston.La.Brick

Posted:

Nov 11, 2018 14:15

Subject:

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

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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.

Author:

createat8

Posted:

Nov 7, 2018 03:47

Subject:

Open catalog item with color selected

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Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is requested before, but this is one of the things I
frequently ran into so I thought I'd post it here as a suggestion.

I know that a couple of years ago an improvement was made to Bricklink when adding
a part to your store inventory. If you have the part color selected in the catalog
screen, it would be prefilled in the "add to inventory" screen. I for one was
very happy with that

. This also works when clicking a part in the inventory
of a set to go the the part's catalog page; It will be loaded with the color
pre-filled.

It would be great if this functionality was to be implemented in the folowing
cases as well:

1. Clicking from part in store to catalog. When browsing a store, you always
browse parts in a particular color. Clicking the part image in the store shows
a modal window with the part info and a link to the catalog. Clicking that link
will open the parts catalog page, but without a color selected. I use it often
to check how a part in a certain color is priced compared to other stores. Passing
on the color code to the catalog page would be an improvement

2. Somewhat similar is the following case:
Clicking the inventory of a minifig, e.g. C-3PO (https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?M=sw365)
will give all parts that minifig consists of in their color.
- Clicking the inventory of the torso assembly (https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?P=973pb1049c01),
will give all parts that torso assembly consists of, with colors for arms and
hands, but no color for the torso part.

I would expect that the torso part has a color as well, seeing that you've
"drilled down" from a specific part in a specific color to it sub-parts, so it
makes sense that the sub parts are displayed in that specific color as well.

Let me know what you all think of these cases and if you feel an improvement
can be made as well.

Author:

bb458944

Posted:

Nov 1, 2018 09:22

Subject:

Part 3062old in projects AFOL

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Allow use of part 3062old in the projects for AFOL. It is prettier than the current
3062 and allows to make thinner columns more elegant.

Author:

Lauren_Luke

Posted:

Nov 1, 2018 00:14

Subject:

Seller Specific Catalog | 'My Category' Sort

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Goal: Develop a seller customisable category system for each sellers Inventory.

Each seller should be able to go to their Inventory Page [ https://www.bricklink.com/inventory.asp
] and see at the top of the page an extra sorting choice, called 'By My Category'
(?) (see image)

This will sort the Inventory into Sets | Parts | Minifigs | Books | Gear
etc and then into set categories entered by the seller.

This seller specific category is set in the Inventory Add Page [ https://www.bricklink.com/inventory_add.asp
] and the Inventory Detail Page [ https://www.bricklink.com/inventory_detail.asp
]. See images for visual idea.

The sellers store will categorise them using the BL catalog (as usual), only
the seller's view of his/her inventory can only be seen by the seller.

Rollout of this idea and then after new sellers would get the BL categories pre-populated
for their inventories. Any new catalog entries would be pre-populated for sellers'
category system to change at will. Any catalog changes (re-category particularly)
only change in the BL category system but the 'My Category' entry wil
come up in red for the seller (a bit like Storeroom settings).

The 'My Category' feature is lot specific so the seller could have one
part in one category and the same part (perhaps a different colour or condition,
or something else) in another category. For instance, the controversial Beehive...

35574 Cone 2 x 2 x 1 2/3 with Stacked Rings (Beehive / Cotton Candy)
Parts: Cone

...could be categorised by the seller as 'Animal, Accessory' for Bright
Light Orange and categorised as 'Food' for the same part but in 'Bright
Pink'.

The 'My Category' entry should be sorted alphanumerically, so the seller
will have to take this into consideration, when setting up his/her system.

Also Bricklink could also monitor how sellers are setting up their category systems
and gain some insight into the best use system. This would complement using this
forum for category ideas and listening to only about a dozen sellers on the forum.

This would help sellers sort their BL inventory the same as their physical inventory
making order processing easier and faster.

A reset function should be provide (after warnings) so the seller can reset his
inventory category system to the same as Bricklinks.

When an order comes in, there should be a setting to see the 'My Category'
with each order entry, so the seller can easily pick the order items.

Author:

Enlargee

Posted:

Oct 29, 2018 04:52

Subject:

Search by multiple parts

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This site is already awesome. I've been finding some old sets that I had
long forgotten about, just by finding a few unique parts in our 30+ year old
box of lego still at my parent's house.

I found a wedge shaped classic space part in the box, and from that I was able
to find that it only existed in a few sets. From there, I was able to find the
Sonar Transmitting Cruiser, something that I would have completely forgotten
about had it not been for the uniqueness of that part. I was in fact, able to
rebuild it despite all the pieces being scattered about in the old lego table
for 30 years, with numerous visiting and grandchildren messing around with it
for all this time - with only 2 substituted parts.

Tl;Dr
Anyhow, on to the ACTUAL suggestion

I would like to be able to do a multi part search. Ie if I have part 3xxx (colour
A), 5yyy (colour B) and ... 6zzz (colour X/Y/Z), which sets (if any) contain
all of those pieces? Even partial results would be particularly useful.
This could be implemented perhaps with a search limit of up to 5 peices at a
time, or more depending on an acceptable level of load on the server.

Author:

romax1989

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Oct 27, 2018 00:02

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store carts

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I was thinking that it would be an interesting feature if store owners were able
to see who has carts/how many carts people have in your store so that we might
be able to issue coupons or have sales to encourage people who have had an open
cart for a long time. Another idea is people get email notifications (if they
want to enable them) for stores they have carts in whenever the price drops.

Author:

calsbricks

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Oct 24, 2018 13:01

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Price guide improvement

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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 ?

Author:

cosmicray

Posted:

Oct 16, 2018 09:19

Subject:

Instant Checkout testing simulation

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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

Author:

normann1974

Posted:

Oct 15, 2018 16:12

Subject:

Match ID 99 issue

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If I open this page

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=8017-1#T=I

the inventory shows "Match ID 1" in the counterparts, but if I open this page:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=8017-1

the inventory shows "Match ID 99". Is this a known bug?

/Jan

Author:

cosmicray

Posted:

Oct 15, 2018 13:45

Subject:

Physical dimensions on Catalog pages

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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

Author:

jimbo23uk

Posted:

Oct 13, 2018 11:26

Subject:

Payment

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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

Author:

WFMTF

Posted:

Oct 11, 2018 08:05

Subject:

3003 and 3003old

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As far as I know none of the Trans- and Glittercolors have inside supports.

WHY do these colors appear as known colors on item 3003 and do not appear as
known colors on item 3003old - without inside supports.

This is a mismatch of catalog criterias - seen from my view.

I think that a short explanation in the additional notes would be good.

Thank you for a response
Waltraud

Author:

bb1227754

Posted:

Oct 10, 2018 21:57

Subject:

Studio 2.0

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Hinge tool additions

Author:

DoMT

Posted:

Oct 6, 2018 12:26

Subject:

New Data Field for the cost/lb paid for stock

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For sellers that buy their lego by weight a field in the settings where a seller
can enter cost per weight would be really useful.

If there was, then the cost per piece field could automatically be filled in
for the seller, instead of having to work it out manually each time. And the
cost of inventory would then be quickly reflected.

Author:

EmblaRonja

Posted:

Oct 5, 2018 17:19

Subject:

What about meeting the Buyers?

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I thought about something...

It was great wheen BrickLink for about a year ago had some articles where we
could meet some sellers. Fun to read and great for any BrickLinker, I think specially
for sellers.

Coldn´t we have something just the same with some buyers? Invite them to participate
and show of their collection. What do you collect? Are you a builder or just
collecting? Any special finding to tell about? What do you seek now? Any goal
whit your project, collection?
Et c.

I been a collector my self and I often think it´s not so easy to share my passion
with ordinary friends, not that many of them understand Passion of Lego at all.
Maybe more people out there thinks the same?

I think this would be a very good byer friendly marketing thing that could increase
traffic and sales to the site.

God or bad idea?

Author:

Tech_M

Posted:

Oct 2, 2018 23:05

Subject:

Brickheadz Prints in Stud.io

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I and some of my friends are a bit disappointed by the lack of prints from the
Brickheadz series, especially the eyes. Does anyone else want these added?

Author:

bb1158246

Posted:

Oct 1, 2018 12:47

Subject:

Like feature

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I'm sure someone has suggested this before, but since I can't find an
earlier post that suggests this, I'll just make a new one.

Why not add a 'like' feature to the forum? So many times I read a comment
that I like, but I don't feel like responding to the comment to show I agree.
A like button would add a level of convenience.

Author:

Gaston.La.Brick

Posted:

Oct 1, 2018 08:47

Subject:

90-percentile as new average price ?

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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?

Author:

miskox

Posted:

Oct 1, 2018 03:53

Subject:

Price offer

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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

Author:

randyipp

Posted:

Sep 30, 2018 22:17

Subject:

Note to seller is not very good

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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

Author:

BrickArchitect

Posted:

Sep 28, 2018 17:43

Subject:

Order Item Removal Request notification

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