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 Author: MontagueBrick View Messages Posted By MontagueBrick
 Posted: Nov 24, 2018 17:22
 Subject: Automatic price while listing items
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MontagueBrick (251)

Location:  USA, Wisconsin
Member Since Contact Type Status
Jul 13, 2015 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: MontagueBrick
I just bought a MacBook Pro and it is very fast! But it has got me wishing that
Bricklink had a seller feature that would automatically have the average price
(or what ever price you set it as) put in the box while adding items like brickOwl
does. I also love how brickOwl has the option to add the same part in multiple
colors at the same time and I really wish Bricklink had the same! I also like
it that if I posted a suggestion in the BrickOwl Forum for a new seller feature,
it would be done in a matter of a few minutes (most likely). I hope this seller
feature suggestion can be acted upon quickly and not years later to never.
Rainey
 Author: shovhans View Messages Posted By shovhans
 Posted: Nov 22, 2018 15:56
 Subject: Part out value may not always be accurate
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shovhans (29)

Location:  USA, Washington
Member Since Contact Type Status
Sep 12, 2018 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: HappyToys
Dear bricklink development team,

Currently the "Part Out Value" page shows the value in average, which may not
be accurate if any seller posts an item with very high, or inaccurate price.

To better represent the part out value of a set, we need to add the following
additional metrics:
1. Standard deviation of the Average value shown
2. Median value
3. Breakdown list of all items with the above metrics for each item. Additionally
we would like to see the count for each item.

Thanks
shovhans
 Author: smlgraphics View Messages Posted By smlgraphics
 Posted: Nov 19, 2018 16:00
 Subject: Parts Look-up tool
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smlgraphics (53)

Location:  USA, Indiana
Member Since Contact Type Status
Nov 4, 2015 Contact Member Buyer
Buying Privileges - OK
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 View Messages Posted By Tech_M
 Posted: Nov 18, 2018 22:47
 Subject: Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background
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Tech_M (30)

Location:  USA, Pennsylvania
Member Since Contact Type Status
Aug 20, 2016 Contact Member Buyer
Buying Privileges - OK
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 View Messages Posted By gregmgallup
 Posted: Nov 12, 2018 21:25
 Subject: List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab
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gregmgallup (274)

Location:  USA, Kansas
Member Since Contact Type Status
Jan 12, 2004 Member Does Not Allow Contact Buyer
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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 View Messages Posted By MidwestBrick
 Posted: Nov 12, 2018 13:42
 Subject: Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have
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MidwestBrick (1855)

Location:  USA, Wisconsin
Member Since Contact Type Status
Oct 17, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: Midwest Brick Factory
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 View Messages Posted By Gaston.La.Brick
 Posted: Nov 11, 2018 14:15
 Subject: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival"
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Gaston.La.Brick (1836)

Location:  Belgium
Member Since Contact Type Status
Nov 12, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: The Rolling Bricks
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 View Messages Posted By createat8
 Posted: Nov 7, 2018 03:47
 Subject: Open catalog item with color selected
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createat8 (4074)

Location:  Netherlands, Overijssel
Member Since Contact Type Status
Jan 20, 2013 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Create at 8
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 View Messages Posted By bb458944
 Posted: Nov 1, 2018 09:22
 Subject: Part 3062old in projects AFOL
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Location:  Spain, Navarra
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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 View Messages Posted By Lauren_Luke
 Posted: Nov 1, 2018 00:14
 Subject: Seller Specific Catalog | 'My Category' Sort
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Lauren_Luke (1609)

Location:  Australia, Queensland
Member Since Contact Type Status
Jun 24, 2010 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: Brickporium
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...

 
Part No: 35574  Name: Cone 2 x 2 x 1 2/3 with Stacked Rings (Beehive / Cotton Candy)
* 
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.
 




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