Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | MidwestBrick  | | Posted: | Dec 1, 2018 23:59 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic price while listing items | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rainey writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rainey writes:
| | 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 
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This already exists, use your default selling settings: https://www.bricklink.com/invOptionsAdd.asp
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I didn't see any setting for adding individual items. There is only one
for parting out sets.
Rainey
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Use brickstock. If the average is automatically put in then it is one more thing
that needs to be deleted before typing in the price you want, thus takes more
time.
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Dec 1, 2018 21:45 | | Subject: | Home page - more stages shown | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently it says
Invoices
Shipments
Drove-thru
Would like to see
Orders
Invoiced
Paid
Packed
Shipped
Orders -- these need to be invoiced
Invoiced-- seller has sent the invoice
Paid --- buyer has paid
Packed-- seller has packed the order
Shipped -- seller has shipped the order, and can complete drive thru here
to move it out of the shipped bucket
Same for buyers. Not sure why everything was condensed to three options when
there are more stages than this and with IC, items move quickly through the stages
and skip some.
Thanks for the consideration.
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| Author: | primadeluxe | | Posted: | Dec 1, 2018 14:04 | | Subject: | Re: Personal catalog | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Thanks for the tip👍
In Suggestions, primadeluxe writes:
| | Hi BL'ers,
Sorry for my English. Is it an idea to make a personal catalog in Bricklink in
which you can inventory the sets which you own? And maybe inventory missing parts
or sets and put them on your wanted list or order them?
Shall give a nice view of your collection.
Best regards and enjoy your lego.
Like to hear from you.
From the Netherlands, Wilbert
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| Author: | reuvenk_IL | | Posted: | Nov 29, 2018 16:04 | | Subject: | Wanted list: redistribute items to added shop | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi,
On the "Buy Wanted Lists" page, when choosing a store, the site adds all parts
possible to the first store chosen's cart. Then, once I choose a second store,
it adds all remaining parts to the second store's cart.
Is there a way to choose two (or more) stores at once, and then the site will
distribute the parts between the two stores, choosing whichever store is cheapest
for each part?
(This feature is available on BrickOwl, and really help pull down the cost of
purchasing an entire wanted list there. I'm hoping this is also possible
on Bricklink, but I haven't figured out how to do it if it is).
If you press auto-select then the site does what I am describing, but I don't
always want to use the single solution that auto-select provides (often due to
one stores shipping costs).
If it isn't possible, is it possible to request this from the Bricklink developers?
Thanks,
-Reuven
PS Sorry for mentioning the competition
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Nov 29, 2018 01:01 | | Subject: | Re: Personal catalog | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, primadeluxe writes:
| | Hi BL'ers,
Sorry for my English. Is it an idea to make a personal catalog in Bricklink in
which you can inventory the sets which you own? And maybe inventory missing parts
or sets and put them on your wanted list or order them?
Shall give a nice view of your collection.
Best regards and enjoy your lego.
Like to hear from you.
From the Netherlands, Wilbert
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You've a wonderful name.
You can use Brickset, Rebrickable.com or Brickstock.
Or use your Store Stockrooms on Bricklink.
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| Author: | primadeluxe | | Posted: | Nov 28, 2018 10:22 | | Subject: | Personal catalog | | Viewed: | 182 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi BL'ers,
Sorry for my English. Is it an idea to make a personal catalog in Bricklink in
which you can inventory the sets which you own? And maybe inventory missing parts
or sets and put them on your wanted list or order them?
Shall give a nice view of your collection.
Best regards and enjoy your lego.
Like to hear from you.
From the Netherlands, Wilbert
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2018 21:55 | | Subject: | Re: Please Allow Alternate Item Numbers for Books | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | This suggestion has now been implemented.
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Thank you for this and for the other work you're continually doing behind
the scenes to improve the catalog and inventory systems.
Little improvements like this have been needed for many, many years and you've
made many of them since you've been there.
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| Author: | Lauren_Luke | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2018 21:46 | | Subject: | Re: Please Allow Alternate Item Numbers for Books | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| [Admin_Russell] writes:
| | This suggestion has now been implemented.
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Yes! You beauty! 
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| Author: | AvemBricks | | Posted: | Nov 26, 2018 05:23 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic price while listing items | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | I hope bricklink sees this! |
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| Author: | MontagueBrick | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2018 19:38 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic price while listing items | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rainey writes:
| | 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
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This already exists, use your default selling settings: https://www.bricklink.com/invOptionsAdd.asp
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I didn't see any setting for adding individual items. There is only one
for parting out sets.
Rainey
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2018 17:57 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic price while listing items | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rainey writes:
| | 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
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This already exists, use your default selling settings: https://www.bricklink.com/invOptionsAdd.asp
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| Author: | MontagueBrick | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2018 17:22 | | Subject: | Automatic price while listing items | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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
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| Author: | mwright5 | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 12:20 | | Subject: | Re: Part out value may not always be accurate | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, shovhans writes:
| | 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
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Way too much attention is paid to average prices as it is. Just consider what
the average sold price is...
across markets/ countries
all stores big and small
stores that price fairly and those that charge add ons
all orders - single lot/ multiple lot
It is also dangerous to purchase based on part-out sold prices anyway as many
parts might have sold for an average prixe of X but in some cases there are many
100's of times of the part for sale than have ever sold!
Focusing on making the average "more accurate" is IMO a diversion and not a good
way of optimising inventory investment decisions. If it was just a mathematical
excercise to determine what to buy this place would be even more swamped with
inventory and prices would drop further.
I always vote no to these enhancements to averages for these reasons, I think
these average values mislead many.
Robert
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Just take look at the last 6 months average and then figure out what your price
is going to be if you aren't satisfied with the average. And yes I know
the last 6 months avg is going to deviate over time, but your price (the amount
you expect to get for each piece) will not deviate unless you change your prices.
In short, the last 6 months avg is just a guage. Make your prices whatever you
want if you don't like the average price. If the avg is $100 for a parted
out set and you want $110, then upload everything with a 10% increase. It's
not rocket science.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 11:22 | | Subject: | Re: Part out value may not always be accurate | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In Suggestions, shovhans writes:
| | 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
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Way too much attention is paid to average prices as it is. Just consider what
the average sold price is...
across markets/ countries
all stores big and small
stores that price fairly and those that charge add ons
all orders - single lot/ multiple lot
It is also dangerous to purchase based on part-out sold prices anyway as many
parts might have sold for an average prixe of X but in some cases there are many
100's of times of the part for sale than have ever sold!
Focusing on making the average "more accurate" is IMO a diversion and not a good
way of optimising inventory investment decisions. If it was just a mathematical
excercise to determine what to buy this place would be even more swamped with
inventory and prices would drop further.
I always vote no to these enhancements to averages for these reasons, I think
these average values mislead many.
Robert
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Agreed. And then there's VAT.... Even if Bricklink would have only 1 store,
that store could still find itself in a race to the bottom. They list things,
some sell with VAT, some without... so the L6MS average will be lower than their
own prices... so they mark down... again sell some parts without VAT... average
drops again...
The more we stick to the priceguide, the more we'll race to the bottom, even
without anybody trying to price under anyone else.
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| Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: Part out value may not always be accurate | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, shovhans writes:
| | 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
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Way too much attention is paid to average prices as it is. Just consider what
the average sold price is...
across markets/ countries
all stores big and small
stores that price fairly and those that charge add ons
all orders - single lot/ multiple lot
It is also dangerous to purchase based on part-out sold prices anyway as many
parts might have sold for an average prixe of X but in some cases there are many
100's of times of the part for sale than have ever sold!
Focusing on making the average "more accurate" is IMO a diversion and not a good
way of optimising inventory investment decisions. If it was just a mathematical
excercise to determine what to buy this place would be even more swamped with
inventory and prices would drop further.
I always vote no to these enhancements to averages for these reasons, I think
these average values mislead many.
Robert
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 10:50 | | Subject: | Re: Part out value may not always be accurate | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, shovhans writes:
| | 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
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Whilst your suggestion is very good - nothing is being done by the development
team to the classic site whilst Bricklink eXpress is being developed. So it will
more than likely fall on 'deaf ears'. An awful lot more needs doing on
the entire part out process on this site. The part out log should not be just
a reminder of the date when you parted it out - it should contain full details
of the part out. You should also be able to see what the 'new lots' will
be from the first screen - we need more flexibility in the initial screen especially
with remarks fields, as well as seeing what we have the item listed as etc. etc.
Lots to do - nothing will get done. Shame really as it is a very important part
of the site.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 04:48 | | Subject: | Re: Part out value may not always be accurate | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, shovhans writes:
| | 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
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If you need this information you can get it, you just need to do it part by part.
However, it is probably way too much information needed for most people when
considering purchasing a set to part out. You also miss one really important
thing, and that is the trend in the prices of the parts. New parts especially
can have a very misleading six month average, as they typically start high and
drop as more people buy the set and part it out. I found it was always better
to look at the expensive parts of a set first, and check whether those are realistic.
You can find those quickly by starting a part out but not completing it.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2018 18:43 | | Subject: | Re: Part out value may not always be accurate | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, shovhans writes:
| | 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
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It's not supposed to be a gold standard. It shows the average price of SOLD
items in the last 6 months and that's a pretty good guideline. It isn't
necessarily accurate to what you will get and it definitely isn't precise,
but it's a pretty good guideline.
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| Author: | shovhans | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2018 15:56 | | Subject: | Part out value may not always be accurate | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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
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| Author: | legomalego | | Posted: | Nov 19, 2018 19:36 | | Subject: | Re: Parts Look-up tool | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Great idea!
In Suggestions, smlgraphics writes:
| | 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.
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| Author: | smlgraphics | | Posted: | Nov 19, 2018 16:00 | | Subject: | Parts Look-up tool | | Viewed: | 113 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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.
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| Author: | Tech_M | | Posted: | Nov 19, 2018 00:28 | | Subject: | Re: Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | I just found a work around but its still a pain.... |
| Author: | Tech_M | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2018 22:50 | | Subject: | Re: Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I just noticed that my profile picture is a good example of how Stud.io 2.0 renders
things using the floor option, disregarding how compressed it is. So, view that
for reference... .
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| Author: | Tech_M | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2018 22:47 | | Subject: | Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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.
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2018 10:17 | | Subject: | Re: Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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
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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.
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| Author: | mikmo | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2018 08:06 | | Subject: | Re: Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2018 01:06 | | Subject: | Re: List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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
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Already exist. Check USA in your Catalog, Price Guide and Wantlist settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/settings/pref_settings.page
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 21:52 | | Subject: | Re: List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | Its an extra two clicks, but the option is already there |
| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 21:40 | | Subject: | Re: List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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
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Click on "More Options" and you'll see this already exists.
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| Author: | gregmgallup | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 21:25 | | Subject: | List only USA items in "Items for Sale" tab | | Viewed: | 102 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
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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
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| Author: | Andrsv | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 15:39 | | Subject: | Re: Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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
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You will also see it when you do an inventory part out on bricklink
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 13:42 | | Subject: | Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have | | Viewed: | 157 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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
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| Author: | Etown | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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.
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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. 
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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
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 09:06 | | Subject: | Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick 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.
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Would this be legal? Having such a parameter also seems like a negative feedback
for a buyer. If a parcel genuinely doesn't arrive, then they get a black
mark against their name if they inform you it hasn't arrived. They may have
to decide whether to get a black mark for a low order value parcel going missing,
or just forget their consumer rights so as not to get a black mark.
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I don't know about legal but BrickOwl has it and I think it's quite useful.
If it's not legal, it could at the least be recorded internally and scammers
could be blocked automatically.
Right now scamming is ridiculously easy - just place a couple of orders, say
none of them arrived, get money back, and have no negative feedback or any consequences
at all. I have not really had such scams, luckily, but in theory it's a walk
in the park.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2018 04:36 | | Subject: | Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
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Would this be legal? Having such a parameter also seems like a negative feedback
for a buyer. If a parcel genuinely doesn't arrive, then they get a black
mark against their name if they inform you it hasn't arrived. They may have
to decide whether to get a black mark for a low order value parcel going missing,
or just forget their consumer rights so as not to get a black mark.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 11, 2018 15:53 | | Subject: | Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
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It's again one of those features that BrickOwl has but Bricklink probably
never will because of lack of development. I would vote yes, but I've been
doing that for over a decade and how many suggestions were even looked at...
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| Author: | iprice | | Posted: | Nov 11, 2018 15:14 | | Subject: | Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
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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.
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| Author: | tonnic | | Posted: | Nov 11, 2018 14:33 | | Subject: | Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
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Years and years ago I made a forumpost or answered one regarding this issue.
I even volunteered to put my name on the list too as I just prior to this post
had an order that did not arrive at my place.
It would be a good idea because there are some buyers that can misuse the system,
specially the Paypalsystem.
It is very rare but they are out there.
Just like you I always refund the buyer in the rare occassions it happens.
When it happens I always leave a positive feedback because my believe is that
a buyer should be trusted, I believe in most members of the Bricklinksystem.
I also make a note in the feedback like ‘sorry the order did not arrive at your
place’.
If all sellers would do something like this it might show if someone is more
than average victim of the postal service.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Nov 11, 2018 14:30 | | Subject: | Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
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You can mention it in the feedback.
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| Author: | Gaston.La.Brick | | Posted: | Nov 11, 2018 14:15 | | Subject: | Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" | | Viewed: | 160 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2018 17:52 | | Subject: | Re: Allow catalog to be browsed by Large Images. | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ghyde writes:
| | Currently we can get many different view types of BrickLink part images. Could
we get an extension of the current functionality to allow viewing large images
of individual sets, parts, and stickers in the List View?
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I believe this is possible now and that this open suggestion from 2011 could
probably be closed out.
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| Author: | createat8 | | Posted: | Nov 7, 2018 03:47 | | Subject: | Open catalog item with color selected | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 12:23 | | Subject: | Re: Part 3062old in projects AFOL | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jpascual writes:
| | […]
I did not know that the part 3062old has not been made for 50 years
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On the part’s page, on the right of the picture, there’s the period the sets
in which the part appears.
The last time there was a set in which 3062old was included was 1967:
Be careful using this info for other parts though because the dates are those
of the sets. Sets that have been produced for a long time often have had their
latest runs use newer variants.
I could say it’s because the “modern” round brick is more versatile or whatever
(e.g. it can be place in the center of 4 studs) but that kind of decision often
ends up in:
The Ways Of The LEGO Group Are Mysterious
| | because she is so useful and prettier than the two current versions
of the 3062. Could not do it again?
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For similar purposes, they made
but they also discontinued this one.
Now they use
with pins.
You can also use
with a
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| Author: | bb458944 | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 11:57 | | Subject: | Re: Part 3062old in projects AFOL | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, Biglesdug writes:
| | In Suggestions, jpascual writes:
| | 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.
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Are you not allowed to use them now?
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jpascual is talking about the Studio contest.
And 3062old is not an “active” part allowed in submissions. It’s not been produced
for more than 50 years!
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I did not know that the part 3062old has not been made for 50 years and I do
not know why. because she is so useful and prettier than the two current versions
of the 3062. Could not do it again?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 09:35 | | Subject: | Re: Part 3062old in projects AFOL | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Biglesdug writes:
| | In Suggestions, jpascual writes:
| | 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.
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Are you not allowed to use them now?
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jpascual is talking about the Studio contest.
And 3062old is not an “active” part allowed in submissions. It’s not been produced
for more than 50 years!
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| Author: | Biglesdug | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 09:28 | | Subject: | Re: Part 3062old in projects AFOL | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jpascual writes:
| | 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.
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Are you not allowed to use them now?
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| Author: | bb458944 | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 09:22 | | Subject: | Part 3062old in projects AFOL | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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.
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| Author: | Give.Me.A.Brick | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 05:57 | | Subject: | Re: Seller Specific Catalog | 'My Category' Sort | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Lauren_Luke writes:
| | 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.
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A big YES from me. Been wanting this to happen for several moons. Actually I
have this feeling Dan programmed the site with this in mind because on My Inventory
[Edit More] we can tweak the Category but alas it doesn't change (maybe it
works just for Custom items I suppose).
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| Author: | Lauren_Luke | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 00:14 | | Subject: | Seller Specific Catalog | 'My Category' Sort | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Oct 30, 2018 17:44 | | Subject: | Re: Search Tool for Sets with Undetermined Pieces | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | I don't know how hard what I'm asking for is, but I've had some fun
today tracking down "undetermined" variants in sets that I have from childhood.
I'm pretty close to mining it as far as I can go, but I would certainly
consider parting out some sets from eBay with the added interest in finding the
variants. Could we have a tool that would just identify a list of sets that
contain a piece of undetermined variant?
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To access this feature, simply go to the Advanced Catalog Search page:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogSearch.asp?v=C
and click "Show More Options". At the bottom of the first row of additional options
there is a filter for all items that have undetermined parts in their inventory.
For the purposes of this filter, an undetermined part is one that has the keyword
"undetermined" it its item name.
Very useful for those on a quest to find a truly undetermined part.
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I found one once. It felt great.
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| Author: | novabrick | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2018 05:22 | | Subject: | Re: Search by multiple parts | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Enlargee writes:
| | 1. Damn... That was a fast reply.
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I just saw your post.
| | 2. This already exists? Well I'll be...
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It's a not widely known feature. This subject comes up occasionally on the
forum so I kept the link handy for moments like this.
Your Welcome.
Christian
novabrick-team
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| Author: | Enlargee | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2018 04:56 | | Subject: | Re: Search by multiple parts | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, novabrick writes:
1. Damn... That was a fast reply.
2. This already exists? Well I'll be...
Thanks so much!
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| Author: | novabrick | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2018 04:53 | | Subject: | Re: Search by multiple parts | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Enlargee writes:
| | 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.
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Try this:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogIn.asp?viewMulti=Y
Christian
novabrick-team
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| Author: | Enlargee | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2018 04:52 | | Subject: | Search by multiple parts | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Oct 28, 2018 16:59 | | Subject: | Re: Show Messages Filter: My Topics | | Viewed: | 13 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SzieberthAdam writes:
| | Hi!
It would be nice to be able to filter the discussion forums to show topics started
by me.
I would like to see my Inventory Change Requests as it seems that the rejected
ones are deleted from my profile regularly. Some of them are rejected because
of the lack of proof and I would be able to do research for new proof for them
regularly.
Thanks,
Ádám
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Bookmark this link: https://www.bricklink.com/messageList.asp?nID=&uID=955755&v=c&max=20&mTP=Y
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| Author: | romax1989 | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2018 11:39 | | Subject: | Re: store carts | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, romax1989 writes:
| | 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.
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This suggestion has been made before and has privacy issues.
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o ok what about people being able to get emails when stuff in they're carts
go on sale?
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2018 01:32 | | Subject: | Re: store carts | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, romax1989 writes:
| | 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.
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This suggestion has been made before and has privacy issues.
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| Author: | romax1989 | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2018 00:02 | | Subject: | store carts | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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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.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 18:19 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | Interesting point - might need a bit more detail from Bricklink now. We understand
how the currency thing works in certain areas but we thought that the underlying
base currency for all prices was USD which Bricklink converts everything to and
then uses the xe.com exchange rate as and when necessary. So if what you are
saying is correct and the prices being shown for each country on the price guide
are converted directly from their currency to gbp that is a different story and
more thought would have to go into this. Unfortunately the help page isn't
really clear on how they are holding the currency from the outset. What you are
suggesting that if someone in India adds items in rupees then the system would
have to convert from rupees to gbp as well as any other currency and that would
be a different proposition entirely.
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I would imagine so, as converting a to b to c doesn't always give a to c,
even at xe.com.
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Agreed but the way most multicurrency systems work their is a base currency as
well as a reporting currency as well as individual, currencies. You define what
is the base and you advise how you wish that to be reported. You also have things
like spot rates, rate tables etc, which just about covers all angels. Here it
looks a little bit like a free-for all in trying to accommodate all frequencies.
In fact if this was the case the price guide is almost useless on current items
listed - as for those items sold - you would need to see what rate they were
converting at when they were sold and factor that in. All in all vry messy and
inaccurate. Mixing 37 different currencies into gbp is problematic at the best
of times.
Hmmm.
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For example, right now, 1 USD = 0.878393 EUR and 1 USD = 0.777160 GBP. Also 1
EUR = 0.884895 GBP. (They use six sig figs).
1 USD = 1 USD, so 0.878393 EUR should equal 0.777160 GBP. Yet this gives the
rate as 1 EUR = 0.884752 GBP, different in the fourth figure to the EUR-GBP rate
they quote.
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Sorry if this came up before and I missed it, I just can't spot it right
now.. anyway.. not to be annoying but to me the million dollar question is why
actually do you want to know?
If somehow you need it for tax purposes, for tax agencies it is not required
to be that hardcore precise, and for personal business diagnostics and
stats those tiny fractions of difference probably aren't that interesting,
especially with the prospect of fluctuation in the future anyway.
Anyway, if you are working (partly) with software, what you could always do to
distill the exchange rate is refer to the GBP version and the USD version of
the priceguide, extract the two "current average" numbers and divide one by the
other. That gives you the exchange rate that was used. (Probably best to do it
with an expensive part or add up a couple of parts, to get the decimals more
accurate)
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 14:04 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | Arrives in bond at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.9) 14 days later (VAT and customs calculated
on 8.9 +5%)
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The rate that customs use is actually fixed in advance, and is valid for a month,
and published online usually about 5 days before the end of the month. There
is a small window of ordering time where it won't arrive under next month
and the exchange rate is unknown (like now!). But if you place an order right
at the end of the month after these are published, or in the first couple of
weeks of the next month, you know the customs rate in advance.
See for example here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743999/exrates-monthly-1018.csv/preview
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My apologies, should have checked that your revenue authorities are perhaps less
inclined to milk citizens for all their worth Last time I checked with ours
earlier this year and questioned this practice, I was of course categorically
informed that all countries where VAT is charged, use this system, go figure
The above was an example though, our actual rate is 10% added to the rate of
exchange the day the goods are presented for clearance, not on the day it arrives.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 13:35 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Arrives in bond at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.9) 14 days later (VAT and customs calculated
on 8.9 +5%)
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The rate that customs use is actually fixed in advance, and is valid for a month,
and published online usually about 5 days before the end of the month. There
is a small window of ordering time where it won't arrive under next month
and the exchange rate is unknown (like now!). But if you place an order right
at the end of the month after these are published, or in the first couple of
weeks of the next month, you know the customs rate in advance.
See for example here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743999/exrates-monthly-1018.csv/preview
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 12:40 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| My honest view here is that the indicative values given by Bricklink, is just
that, purely an indication and it is what I have always used it for.
Bricklink's currency conversions are not set, and neither are the values
on xe.com set and neither are the values displayed in the window of your local
forex broker. The reason being, and this is true for all forex conversions, is
that transactions are recorded at spot rate, not at the rate you see or the rate
that may be quoted in an advertisement. Spot rates further is a weighted mean
average, and not a perfect figure, which is why you will find differences in
cross rates. If you were to convert USD to ZK, ZK to GBP and then GBP to USD
you will end up with a difference, irrespective if you do all of the conversions
at the exact same moment simply because of the demand and supply on different
rates.
Spot rates are your responsibility, for the simple fact of the matter is that
spot rates can change in 1/1000th of a second. You set the rate at the time you
do the transaction and that is it. So if Bricklink is showing you a rate when
you list an item or wish to purchase an item, it is your responsibility to
ensure that the spot rate you use is applicable to you at the time you perform
the transaction, including converting for price guide purposes. So if you want
to be precise, you actually need to have xe as well as paypal open at all times,
not forgetting the differences between buying and selling the forex, which you
are seeing as the weighted mean average at any time.
If you are interested in purchasing 10 x 3001 in white from a store that uses
its base currency as USD, you contract in USD, because that is the currency the
invoice will be made out in. Whether you wish to sell the product in GBP, pay
in GBP, carry it in inventory in GBP, or anything to do at all with your currency
is not germane to the spot rate being fixed at the time of the order (this is
why sellers should not take days to do invoices!!!).
To make matters simpler, the spot for Bricklink's purposes is fixed at the
time of the order, not the invoice (this I assume is because of that unique American
oddity where a purchase order is a credit agreement). So the only concern should
be that the currency conversion should be 100% correct at the time the order
is placed. It is improbable that any site such as this will have the capacity
to do this 100% correctly, so I would agree that for recording purposes, the
exchange rate used at the time of the order should be on the order, even if it
is an hour old. The invoice only affects what you will pay in your own currency,
it has nothing to do with the rate at which you purchased.
Would it not be easier to show the time of updating the forex rates at the top
of every page as well clearly state which is the base currency in force site
wide (I think it is USD, since fees are calculated in USD, but I might be wrong)?
In other words, should bricklink not just show us that the rates now in force
for all transactions, was last updated at x time? That way you can either wait
for the next update and fix your spot rate, or proceed at the ruling rate, which
will then automatically become your spot rate for the transaction at the time
you are performing the transaction, which will include the time you view the
price guide. And, of course, you will then be able to see that these rates are
actually updated every hour, not that we do not trust the masters at Bricklink,
but because it makes good sense to disclose transaction issues at all times.
See below for a transaction example. And I do agree - not disclosing the rate
at which you are performing the transaction is not only confusing, but it can
lead to inadvertent losses. This, like much else in life, can also lead to inadvertent
gains, so I think unless you are dealing with hyper-inflation, you will find
that over time things do tend to even out. Besides, anything to do with forex,
whether it is a spot rate, CFD, FEC, spread trade, currency swap, forex hedge
or whatever other fancy term that is the flavour of the month, is nothing more
than institutional gambling.
(And this might all be as worthless as ﷼)
Jean
Example (using simple rates) for 10 x 3001 in white:
View price at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.4)
Order at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.5)
Invoice at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.7) 5 days later;
Pay at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.8) 3 days later
Ship FOB at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.6) 6 days later
Arrives in bond at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.9) 14 days later (VAT and customs calculated
on 8.9 +5%)
Receive at post office at USD10.00 (GBP rate 8.8) 5 days later;
Cost in inventory at GBP8.50 + VAT and customs (unless you claim the VAT back,
then just include customs as cost)
Forex loss for the time between order and pay, gain for the difference between
pay and shipped, and loss between shipped and received;
That is the contractual treatment, and will be the same whether you buy from
Amazon or Bricklink or whether you actually walk into your bank and order USD
in actual notes. Clearly the price guide cannot show all of these variables,
and you would only use 3 figures in the ordinary course of business - the rate
you order at (which is your cost for inventory purposes), the rate you pay at
(which is your financing of the purchase) and the rate you pay VAT and customs
at (which is the consumption tax rate applicable to the transaction as a whole),
everything else is only impacted if you draw a balance sheet at a certain time.
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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 12:21 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, hpoort writes:
| | Reverse engineering and assuming the API provides us with a clue about the underlying
data structure, I would conclude that the price is recorded in the local currency
of the store. This makes sense as this would remove all currency calculation
from the equation when looking at the internals of a store.
The API for the GetPriceGuide says:
"This method returns price in the specified currency code
- If you don't specify this value, price is retrieved in the base currency
of the user profile's"
http://apidev.bricklink.com/redmine/projects/bricklink-api/wiki/CatalogMethod#Get-Price-Guide
The page generator will have to convert from many different currencies to the
currency requested by the viewer. No intermediate conversion through another
currency is needed, although mathematically there will always be any reference
currency in the currency conversion table.
For the 'items sold' prices, the engine will look up the currency conversion
table of that specific time frame, according to the help.
It seems pretty clear to me how it works.
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Thank you for your thought's and comments they are helpful and it now seems
that several things are obvious. We do not have access to the API so it is not
possible for us to determine the information you have introduced.
A lot of calculations seem to be taking place when the price guide is called
up by an individual member, e,g, UK store looks up a common part which is sold
everywhere in the world and the system is converting all those store held currencies
(Could be 37 of them) to GBP at a rate that is being held in a currency conversion
table. That table gets updated by a link to xe.com on an hour by hour basis,
but the rate used for the page is not shown - this would be clumsy and create
a vastly complicated screen display. Maybe a link could be created against the
currency which would reveal the exchange rate used. Maybe that is not worth it.
Hmm. More to think through now.
Thank you again for adding your comments to this thread. They are helpful.
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Hans-Peter
In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | 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.
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I understand why you'd want it in the price guide, but there are many (37)
exchange rates to GBP, or any other single currency. While many pieces are listed
in USD, plenty are also in EUR, with other currencies also used. That's a
lot of extra information to list. You also wouldn't need to go back and forth,
as if it was set for one hour, you could note down the exchange rates of interest
and you would know they are guaranteed until the next exchange rate update time.
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Interesting point - might need a bit more detail from Bricklink now. We understand
how the currency thing works in certain areas but we thought that the underlying
base currency for all prices was USD which Bricklink converts everything to and
then uses the xe.com exchange rate as and when necessary. So if what you are
saying is correct and the prices being shown for each country on the price guide
are converted directly from their currency to gbp that is a different story and
more thought would have to go into this. Unfortunately the help page isn't
really clear on how they are holding the currency from the outset. What you are
suggesting that if someone in India adds items in rupees then the system would
have to convert from rupees to gbp as well as any other currency and that would
be a different proposition entirely.
I do believe Bricklink should clarify this issue which would be helpful.
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| Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 12:06 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Reverse engineering and assuming the API provides us with a clue about the underlying
data structure, I would conclude that the price is recorded in the local currency
of the store. This makes sense as this would remove all currency calculation
from the equation when looking at the internals of a store.
The API for the GetPriceGuide says:
"This method returns price in the specified currency code
- If you don't specify this value, price is retrieved in the base currency
of the user profile's"
http://apidev.bricklink.com/redmine/projects/bricklink-api/wiki/CatalogMethod#Get-Price-Guide
The page generator will have to convert from many different currencies to the
currency requested by the viewer. No intermediate conversion through another
currency is needed, although mathematically there will always be any reference
currency in the currency conversion table.
For the 'items sold' prices, the engine will look up the currency conversion
table of that specific time frame, according to the help.
It seems pretty clear to me how it works.
Hans-Peter
In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | 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.
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I understand why you'd want it in the price guide, but there are many (37)
exchange rates to GBP, or any other single currency. While many pieces are listed
in USD, plenty are also in EUR, with other currencies also used. That's a
lot of extra information to list. You also wouldn't need to go back and forth,
as if it was set for one hour, you could note down the exchange rates of interest
and you would know they are guaranteed until the next exchange rate update time.
|
Interesting point - might need a bit more detail from Bricklink now. We understand
how the currency thing works in certain areas but we thought that the underlying
base currency for all prices was USD which Bricklink converts everything to and
then uses the xe.com exchange rate as and when necessary. So if what you are
saying is correct and the prices being shown for each country on the price guide
are converted directly from their currency to gbp that is a different story and
more thought would have to go into this. Unfortunately the help page isn't
really clear on how they are holding the currency from the outset. What you are
suggesting that if someone in India adds items in rupees then the system would
have to convert from rupees to gbp as well as any other currency and that would
be a different proposition entirely.
I do believe Bricklink should clarify this issue which would be helpful.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 10:16 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | Interesting point - might need a bit more detail from Bricklink now. We understand
how the currency thing works in certain areas but we thought that the underlying
base currency for all prices was USD which Bricklink converts everything to and
then uses the xe.com exchange rate as and when necessary. So if what you are
saying is correct and the prices being shown for each country on the price guide
are converted directly from their currency to gbp that is a different story and
more thought would have to go into this. Unfortunately the help page isn't
really clear on how they are holding the currency from the outset. What you are
suggesting that if someone in India adds items in rupees then the system would
have to convert from rupees to gbp as well as any other currency and that would
be a different proposition entirely.
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I would imagine so, as converting a to b to c doesn't always give a to c,
even at xe.com.
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Agreed but the way most multicurrency systems work their is a base currency as
well as a reporting currency as well as individual, currencies. You define what
is the base and you advise how you wish that to be reported. You also have things
like spot rates, rate tables etc, which just about covers all angels. Here it
looks a little bit like a free-for all in trying to accommodate all frequencies.
In fact if this was the case the price guide is almost useless on current items
listed - as for those items sold - you would need to see what rate they were
converting at when they were sold and factor that in. All in all vry messy and
inaccurate. Mixing 37 different currencies into gbp is problematic at the best
of times.
Hmmm.
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For example, right now, 1 USD = 0.878393 EUR and 1 USD = 0.777160 GBP. Also 1
EUR = 0.884895 GBP. (They use six sig figs).
1 USD = 1 USD, so 0.878393 EUR should equal 0.777160 GBP. Yet this gives the
rate as 1 EUR = 0.884752 GBP, different in the fourth figure to the EUR-GBP rate
they quote.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 09:46 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Interesting point - might need a bit more detail from Bricklink now. We understand
how the currency thing works in certain areas but we thought that the underlying
base currency for all prices was USD which Bricklink converts everything to and
then uses the xe.com exchange rate as and when necessary. So if what you are
saying is correct and the prices being shown for each country on the price guide
are converted directly from their currency to gbp that is a different story and
more thought would have to go into this. Unfortunately the help page isn't
really clear on how they are holding the currency from the outset. What you are
suggesting that if someone in India adds items in rupees then the system would
have to convert from rupees to gbp as well as any other currency and that would
be a different proposition entirely.
|
I would imagine so, as converting a to b to c doesn't always give a to c,
even at xe.com.
For example, right now, 1 USD = 0.878393 EUR and 1 USD = 0.777160 GBP. Also 1
EUR = 0.884895 GBP. (They use six sig figs).
1 USD = 1 USD, so 0.878393 EUR should equal 0.777160 GBP. Yet this gives the
rate as 1 EUR = 0.884752 GBP, different in the fourth figure to the EUR-GBP rate
they quote.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 09:29 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | 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.
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I understand why you'd want it in the price guide, but there are many (37)
exchange rates to GBP, or any other single currency. While many pieces are listed
in USD, plenty are also in EUR, with other currencies also used. That's a
lot of extra information to list. You also wouldn't need to go back and forth,
as if it was set for one hour, you could note down the exchange rates of interest
and you would know they are guaranteed until the next exchange rate update time.
|
Interesting point - might need a bit more detail from Bricklink now. We understand
how the currency thing works in certain areas but we thought that the underlying
base currency for all prices was USD which Bricklink converts everything to and
then uses the xe.com exchange rate as and when necessary. So if what you are
saying is correct and the prices being shown for each country on the price guide
are converted directly from their currency to gbp that is a different story and
more thought would have to go into this. Unfortunately the help page isn't
really clear on how they are holding the currency from the outset. What you are
suggesting that if someone in India adds items in rupees then the system would
have to convert from rupees to gbp as well as any other currency and that would
be a different proposition entirely.
I do believe Bricklink should clarify this issue which would be helpful.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 08:08 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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.
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I understand why you'd want it in the price guide, but there are many (37)
exchange rates to GBP, or any other single currency. While many pieces are listed
in USD, plenty are also in EUR, with other currencies also used. That's a
lot of extra information to list. You also wouldn't need to go back and forth,
as if it was set for one hour, you could note down the exchange rates of interest
and you would know they are guaranteed until the next exchange rate update time.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 07:01 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide improvement | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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.
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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 | |
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| 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: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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] | |
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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 ?
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| Author: | burghbricks | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2018 17:35 | | Subject: | Re: Archive completed wanted lists | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | 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 | |
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| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | Please implement a testing framework for Instant Checkout such that …
|
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 | |
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| 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] | |
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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
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2018 17:41 | | Subject: | Re: Physical dimensions on Catalog pages | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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] | |
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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
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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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| |
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
|
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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| |
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 | |
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| 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: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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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
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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 | |
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| 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
|
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.
|
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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| In Suggestions, bricksahead writes:
| | .. How do you know that you've never missed a message?
|
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 | |
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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
|
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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| Author: | bricksahead | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2018 19:08 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup 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
|
You mean just as a "regarding order ..." message and not attached to the order
itself? In that case, no!
I don't process orders and read messages at the same time. I always read
the attached notes and never missed one. But if it's troublesome to others,
maybe change placement, font, something in the interface. But definitely, for
bricks sake, doooon't detach it from the order page... :o
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I agree with you that the message shouldn't be detached from the order page.
When a buyer sends a message from the order page it is appears on the order page,
in the buyer's outbox as well as in the seller's inbox. When a seller
sends a message from the order page it appears on the order page, in the seller's
outbox as well as the buyer's inbox. I think it should work the same way
with a message that is attached to the order when the order is placed. A seller
would then be reminded at log in to Bricklink if there are any unread messages.
.. How do you know that you've never missed a message?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2018 18:14 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 57 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
|
You mean just as a "regarding order ..." message and not attached to the order
itself? In that case, no!
I don't process orders and read messages at the same time. I always read
the attached notes and never missed one. But if it's troublesome to others,
maybe change placement, font, something in the interface. But definitely, for
bricks sake, doooon't detach it from the order page... :o
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| Author: | jenwick | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2018 17:25 | | Subject: | Re: Note to seller is not very good | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Randy,
I totally agree! Voted yes.
Jennifer
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2018 13:41 | | Subject: | Re: Block buyers with a different country email p | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| |
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?
|
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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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2018 13:22 | | Subject: | Re: Block buyers with a different country email p | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| | Attempting to associate emails with countries sounds messy, however it seems
that BrickLink could verify member's country addresses against their IP address
location.
I know this is imperfect, not to mention a little big brother-ish, however it
would clean up the accuracy of members' locations and probably reduce order
problems.
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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?
| | Do IBAN transfers use a particular service? I guess I need to conduct such a
transaction to see how they work. If they can decrease fraud with greater payee
control over funds, that sounds nice.
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So-called “IBAN transfers” are just bank transfers.
When you do a bank transfer, you need to identify the accounts (more precisely,
the banks and the accounts within the banks), so that the banks can talk to each
other. IBAN (International Bank Account Number), is just a scheme to identify
accounts, it’s an international standard, ISO 13616.
One other identifier that’s often used is BIC (Business Identifier Code), which
identifies the bank in the Swift network (an agreement network between banks).
In the olden times (and in remote locations), transfers were (still are) a PITA,
involving letters and faxes to correctly identify and verify who’s who. When
it’s at all possible.
In the modern times (and enlightened countries  ), you just need an IBAN.
There are services that proxies for the banks, like iDEAL (NL-based), making
bank transfers a bit easier than from the bank’s own website, and “instant” (meaning
they can immediately tell the receiver the transfer has been entered).
What’s great in EU is that we created an(other) agreement: SEPA, which states,
among other things, that any payment in Euro in the SEP-Area has to be treated
the same way as a local payment. And as local bank transfers have mostly become
free in the past decades (especially online), that means they are mostly free
for the whole SEP-Area
So, see if you have an IBAN somewhere in your bank papers, or ask your bank if
you can easily (and cheaply) receive or send international bank transfers with
just an IBAN.
And if your bank can’t or won’t, you can still see if another one does. Opening
an account shouldn’t be expensive, even in the USA. (Don’t you get a free toaster
when you do? That’s what I learned watching US shows )
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