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 Author: searme View Messages Posted By searme
 Posted: Nov 26, 2019 04:10
 Subject: "Fast Shipper" badge for Sellers
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searme (1112)

Location:  Poland, w. Mazowieckie
Member Since Contact Type Status
Aug 10, 2008 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: Baba Yaga Inc.
Dear Bricklink,

There are certain dishonest shops that really ruin the BL experience for shoppers.
It's hard to prove, but some sellers apparently sell pieces they don't
have in their stock and only order them from elsewhere when you place an order
with them. Apologies if that sounds like unfounded accusation, but my LUG is
aware of a number of shops whose stock is always suspiciously similar to current
LEGO PaB stock, who delay shipping when PaB runs out of stock, and who generally
take around 3 weeks to ship anything, no matter how common and widely available.
Because I see no reliable way to denounce such sellers, I suggest a different,
easily implemented solution. Just like sellers who offer instant checkout are
marked with a special badge, why not create another badge that marks sellers
who ship e.g. 3 days after payment on average? We as buyers have no access to
sellers' shipping times, we can only look up their feedback and see if people
are complaining about slow service. But your system has dates of all payments
and shipments. Simply calculate days between payment and shipping for all seller's
orders and you can get a nice average. And I'm sure this average is going
to show that certain shops typically ship after 2-3 weeks while others ship after
2-3 days. Hell, I had a seller ship an order 30 minutes after payment once. Quality
service deserves recognition, and we as buyers deserve the right to be informed
whether a particular seller provides such service or not. Transparency is the
name of the game. Right now there in no reliable way to determine that, and picking
a wrong seller can mean that your MOC will get hold up for weeks.
I sincerely hope that you will consider this simple, easy to implement request
that would drastically improve Bricklink's overall transparency for buyers.
 Author: Akhoover View Messages Posted By Akhoover
 Posted: Nov 24, 2019 21:58
 Subject: streamline payment process
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Akhoover (28)

Location:  USA, West Virginia
Member Since Contact Type Status
Feb 11, 2018 Contact Member Buyer
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The process for payment, when buying from multiple vendors should not be so time
consuming. I purchased from 21 vendors, still waiting to hear from one. but the
checkout time was very lengthy, possible look at how amazon checks out.
 Author: normann1974 View Messages Posted By normann1974
 Posted: Nov 23, 2019 09:58
 Subject: Part out value in local currency
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normann1974 (2291)

Location:  Denmark
Member Since Contact Type Status
Oct 4, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Normann1974
BrickLink Inventories Administrator (?)
If I'm not logged in (which I'm not on my phone), the POV page

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogPOV.asp

shows prices in USD. Unlike the price guides on all other pages which show my
local currency (DKK). This means when I'm at a store, I must use a calculator
to convert the POV's to DKK. This is rather annoying. Please fix it.

/Jan
 Author: sonnich View Messages Posted By sonnich
 Posted: Nov 20, 2019 03:25
 Subject: Better time information on maintenance
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sonnich (326)

Location:  Estonia, Harjumaa
Member Since Contact Type Status
Nov 21, 2002 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: Parts from Estonia
Yesterday at the post office I needed some adresses from BL it was under maintenance
- it said
  
  Maintenance Time : Nov 19, 2019 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM EST

When is that according to GMT?

Please add times in GMT at the rest of the world uses - I have no idea what EST
is, not have the majority of the world.
 
 Author: JLvL View Messages Posted By JLvL
 Posted: Nov 15, 2019 11:55
 Subject: Suggestion for extra function in Bricklink
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JLvL (30)

Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
Member Since Contact Type Status
Aug 15, 2018 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: JLbrick
Hello,

Over the las couple of months i have designed some cars in Studio.
Some bricks in the middle may have a different color than the color I am currently
building. So if the color doesn't matter you select 'not applicable'
for that specific brick.

It always takes quite some time to figure out in the wanted list which bricks
should be on not applicable. I think it is much easier to include the 'color'
not applicable in the list.

As an extra function it is then useful to be able to choose the color of the
'not applicable' bricks. For example, if you are building a model in
red, you can set the 'not applicable' bricks to yellow. Because of the
contrast between these two colors you keep the overview on the model.

Greetings,

JL
 Author: Ethan1701 View Messages Posted By Ethan1701
 Posted: Nov 14, 2019 06:52
 Subject: Daily and monthly downtime - I'd like to help
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Ethan1701 (5)

Location:  Israel, Mehoz Tel Aviv
Member Since Contact Type Status
Oct 16, 2017 Contact Member Buyer
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Hey,
I'm a database administrator (Business intelligence specifically), and I'd
like to help eliminate the daily and monthly downtimes. The way I see it, if
Facebook can have an uptime of 99.9999% while rolling out new features, so can
BL.

Hit me up, I'd love to know what the downtimes are for, and help see if we
can design a better solution for those needs.
 Author: Nathan123 View Messages Posted By Nathan123
 Posted: Nov 7, 2019 21:43
 Subject: Forum Reforms
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Nathan123 (590)

Location:  USA, Minnesota
Member Since Contact Type Status
Aug 1, 2011 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: System Bricks
It seems the forum isn't getting the same kind of community involvement as
it once did. It is fairly common to see less than 100 messages per day and I
had to go back to July to find a day that had over 200. The way the forum works
right now it can be very frustrating and time consuming finding posts of interest
as even new posts get buried quickly under 2 or 3 more active posts and that
makes it difficult to participate in the forum if you do not have the time to
browse or search through it. In terms of utility the bricklink forum is not as
easy to use and enjoy as say brickset forum. There are a lot of good parts of
the BL forum but I feel it is largely being ruined.

My suggestion is that when a post is responded to the post itself moves to the
top but it doesn't show up as a new message, so if a post is made and has
10 replies it will still just look like one post on the forum. I would also like
to recommend that certain categories get put into a different area apart from
the forum so maybe for example buying and selling, inventory change requests,
and sales posts could be seperated from the rest so they don't bury the rest
of the posts out there and stagnate the forum.

The goal would be to allow more people and ideas to participate in the community.
 Author: xboxnissan View Messages Posted By xboxnissan
 Posted: Nov 5, 2019 17:45
 Subject: Personal Inventory, Shareable
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xboxnissan (20)

Location:  Canada, Quebec
Member Since Contact Type Status
Oct 15, 2019 Contact Member Buyer
Buying Privileges - OK
Just like Discogs where you can put into an inventory what you have (they name
it collection), it would be interesting to have such a feature.

It's basically a display without having to sell (i.e. right now you have
to be a seller to have an inventory).

I'm using currently wish list of the set I got at the moment and transfered
them into another wish list once I was done rebuilding it... I mean it works
but it's not exactly what wish lists are for!
 Author: phinto View Messages Posted By phinto
 Posted: Nov 4, 2019 15:23
 Subject: florecent trans-colors
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phinto (0)

Location:  USA, Indiana
Member Since Contact Type Status
May 30, 2018 Contact Member Buyer
Buying Privileges - OK
we are working on a new generation of creativity
the first image are the kanohi custom i made for Bionicle kanoko.
we love to have new florescent trans-colors.
we have red-orange, neon-lime, florescent-medium-blue. the rarest of all are
neon-bright-yellow and hot-dark-pink that needs work because its not like the
one I remember. because its too dark, and the real deal really pink. described
in the 2nd image.
plus, we need new florescent colors
like... different colors that glow under UVlight. as described in the 3nd image
I got from google.

so the new colors we want/need to try are

neon-turquoise = (neon-green & medium-blue)

florescent-lavender = (hot-pink & medium-blue)

bright-coral = (hot-pink & red-orange)

I hope you like my ideas.
 




 Author: mzehnder View Messages Posted By mzehnder
 Posted: Oct 31, 2019 09:23
 Subject: part condition "damaged"
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mzehnder (24)

Location:  Switzerland, Aargau
Member Since Contact Type Status
Nov 6, 2016 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: mStore
It would be nice not only to have a "new" and "used" condition but also a "damaged"
for parts. E.g. the 2490px2 often has broken clips and is still sold. But searching
for intact parts is a bit time consuming.

I didn't find out if someone else already asked for this feature.

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