Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2020 10:04 | | Subject: | It's a funny old world we live in | | Viewed: | 296 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| For quite some time now there have been discussions on the forum about catalogue
changes as well as other areas of improvement to the site (Performance etc.).
There have been lots of different people involved and Russell has commented on
a couple of occasions but of course nothing is out in the open for plans at present
whilst the Lego takeover completes.
One thing I find strange and that is with all the talent (Programming wise) that
exists on the site, coupled with the technical Lego knowledge that also exists,
no one other than a couple of people have chimed in about getting some senior
analysts involved with a plan to redevelop. This is a very complex site but it
can be broken into segments |(elements) many of which can be handled by existing
software. For example the core processing behind the site is an order processing
system. We are aware of at least two products which could deal with that side
of it easily and have been built with 'linking in' other elements in
mind.
Inventory control, which in our opinion, is an essential element which has been
needed for some time is also out there and fits nicely into either of the two
above products. Again this needs an analyst to look at it and report to the decision
makers what needs to be done. It doesn't, with all due respect, require a
programmer to sit down and write the code first.
The catalogue is a different animal and needs a huge amount of thought. The data
currently held is priceless - not sure even Lego have it all, so that needs some
TLC and a significant amount of time spent to come up with the best way forward.
But, and it is a little word with a great big meaning here, the costs of doing
this are nowhere near outrageous and if libraries of code can be used e,g, order
processing, inventory control etc, then huge amounts of money and time can be
saved in achieving what is required.
The redevelopment of this site will not cost a fortune and it was well within
the means of the former owners to accomplish. They chose, for whatever reason,
not to do that - Lets hope that Lego will look at it differently.
Lets get behind hiring some senior analysts and get the project off the ground.
There was never a better time to start than now. With the strength of Lego and
its marketing machine behind the site who knows where we can go.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2019 11:59 | | Subject: | HP184 onwards | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Inventories | | Status: | Open | |
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| The minifigs in set 75948 do not appear to have been inventoried yet and according
to the catalogue page it is not pending - is there a problem with these?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 27, 2019 05:50 | | Subject: | Helpful but .... | | Viewed: | 233 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Firstly let me say that we know suggestions are not being implemented and according
to MP no work is being done on the classic site however this is a small request
which doesn't require huge amounts of development time and would make life
a bit easier.
Currently the method of manually adding inventory is long winded, provides no
audit trail of what has been done and at best is clumsy.
We use Brickstock for most of our updates to our store. It is much easier, quicker
and provides us with a complete audit trail - the only real snag is what happens
when the file gets to Bricklink, The verify screen drops off the Bricklink part
number for some reason so we are left with an audit trail which, when variants
are involved, isn't really all that helpful, although to be fair we have
used this for some time.
Simply placing the bricklink product code on the verify screen would be very
helpful and this is not a major programming issue. At the same time give us a
print button to print that screen Using the print command from the browser doesn't
work well with the page setup falling short of what is needed.
This is a simple matter and could be resolved in minimal time - please implement.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 00:38 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 40145-1 | | Viewed: | 154 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 4085b Orange Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 2 (thin U clip) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
6 sets parted out 2 had the b variant not d.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 21, 2018 12:03 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 40222-1 | | Viewed: | 225 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 4085b Orange Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 2 (thin U clip) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
5 Sets parted out - all b's not d's
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 21, 2018 09:39 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 40222-1 | | Viewed: | 197 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 44567b Light Bluish Gray Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with 1 Finger on Side without Bottom Groove (Alternate)
* Add 1 Part 44302b Dark Bluish Gray Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with 2 Fingers on End without Bottom Groove (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
5 sets parted out all without groove.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2018 11:39 | | Subject: | Try that again | | Viewed: | 224 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| - Not swure thie is correct in the catalogue. In all 3 sets that
it comes in there is an white rubber band which holds the two halves
together. The instructions show the rubber band being used in each case. Should
there be an inventory for the part?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 5, 2018 03:59 | | Subject: | The 87552/94638/35378 saga | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Good morning
It is now clear from the evidence we have gathered that the catalogue is not
currently correct for these part id's. The part is correct but
should only be used for solid colours, similar to the 3004/3065. Both the 94638
and 353787 are for Transparent colours of the same part - we are in the process
of investigating those two parts to see if there is any difference in them.
So far the 94638 comes in 4 transparent colours Trans-Clear, Trans Bright Green,
Trans-Black and Trans-Light Blue. The part also carries a slightly different
description with Lego - incorporating the Letters PC (PolyCarbonite) at the end.
The 35378 is currently only available in Trans-Clear, Trans Light Blue and Trans-Black.
All 3 parts are available through the Lego Bricks & Pieces site as separate items.
What we suggest in the first instance is to separate 87552 and restrict it to
solid colours only. Hopefully in due course we will have the answer on the other
2.
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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: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 20, 2018 13:02 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10258-1 | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 62462 Metallic Silver Technic, Pin Connector Round 2L with Slot (Pin Joiner Round) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 sets parted out both had metallic silver not flat.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2018 10:21 | | Subject: | 71017-1 | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Need a little help here. The above set number is on each of the polybag mingifugres
that we have but of course they are individual figures not a complete set. Have
just tried to replace the catalogue photo with our own image and the system keeps
falling over with an internal resource problem Server 500 error. (Solved this
problem)
The picture of the complete set is confusing and despite the fact that the description
clearly says it is a single random figure from the set, we still get questions
about it.
The price guide for the 71017 is also not very helpful as it shows the price
for the complete set not an individual figure.
Need to understand better what is going on here. Help.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 22, 2018 11:13 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10698-1 | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 15254 Light Bluish Gray Brick, Arch 1 x 6 x 2 - Medium Thick Top without Reinforced Underside (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
4 sets parted out today and all 4 had this alternate
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 12, 2018 07:58 | | Subject: | Improvements needed on My Inventory Page | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Please consider the following:
1. Add colour as an option
2. When using the 'by category filter@ please show sub-totals by category
It would also be a good idea to incorporate the ability to update selected inventory
items into a superlot.
In addition, whilst you can use external tools to work on pricing it would be
far better if that type of tool existed on the MY Inventory page.
We are aware there has been discussion over sellers tools since 2013, and these
things may or may not be in those new tools, however it is now 5 years since
that discussion began and to date, I am not sure anyone is aware of what may
or may not be coming.
We are led to believe that Admin_Jaclyn is project managing the sellers tools
- Could we have an indication as to what is being considered, please?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 28, 2018 07:12 | | Subject: | Improve add item screen | | Viewed: | 96 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Yesterday I added about 6000 dark green 1 x 1 plates to our inventory as we continue
to build up quantities of standard items. I listed them at our standard price
and then later on went to my inventory page, called up that item and added a
tiered price at 1p below our standard price for quantities of 100 or more. Fine
- no problem.
Today additional stock of that particular item came across my desk to be added
and I went to add the item - filled in all information to add the additional
pieces. Lo and behold the system removed my tiered price and set it back to 0.
As it is not really possible to remember all the items we have on tiered pricing,
I believe the system should either show you this or have an option to retain
tiered pricing.
Anyone else - or is there a workaround to ensuring the tiered pricing sticks.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 14:44 | | Subject: | Change the price guide screen | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently there is no way you can determine easily from looking at the price
guide what currency conversion has been used to determine the move from USD to
any other currency. As this figure has to be held/determined (calculated) somewhere,
whether in BL or by xe.xom it is available to be displayed and updated as regularly
as the price guide.
If Bricklink displayed that figure it would be very helpful for everyone's
use whether buying or selling. This is especially relevant for the last 6 months
sales which is a floating figure and is not easily determined - (it can be done,
but is very long winded and takes a lot more time and effort to get right.
As for the changes this would require, they are absolutely minimal from a coding
point of view and it would help to solve the never ending threads about currency
conversion and the price guide.
It would also help with Brickstock, but I am sure that is of no concern to Bricklink.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2018 05:49 | | Subject: | Must have improvements | | Viewed: | 170 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| As there is almost constant changes going on in the catalogue stores need more
features to ensure they are up to date. For example - we received orders over
the weekends for many of our pieces which of course have been changed
to . I had to go to my inventory page for the part and change each and
everyone of these from 3794 to 3794a, That 'dropped 4 or 5 small images -
(we will re-do those photos and submit) but they had photos before we changed
them from 3794 to 3794a.Hmmmm
It is a very simple select and update query in SQL - surely one of the developers
can put together a screen to allow us to update multiple items in our inventory
at once. We are in the dark ages here really.
In addition I noticed yet another quirk which is simple enough to sort out but
untouched
We hold bulk amounts for many standard items (in the thousands of each of them)
and decided to set up a tiered pricing schedule for each of those taking 1p off
at each quantity break. Fine - it was still a manual exercise for over 100 items
but we went through that - only to find that we either had to repeat this each
time we added to that part or we would lose that tiered pricing. The options
on consolidate are far too limited. We need at least another method of new price
and retain old tiered pricing.
Neither of these changes require huge amounts of time or development effort but
both have needed doing for some time.
It may be a question of priorities or design or ????? but surely such simple
mods can be dealt with quickly and efficiently.
It does get exasperating sometimes. And Brickstock will not allow you to make
these changes offline and upload them either. We have tried that and failed.
We have also advised Patrick but he has gone missing at present.
Come on Bricklink - the stores need their tools (just like buyers, if not more
so)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 18, 2018 10:30 | | Subject: | Minor improvements to add inventory | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I am sure there are lots of sellers who are waiting to see what enhancements
Bricklink as and when the finally release the sellers tools they hafve talked
about..
We would like to see a small modification done now to help on the 'add inventory
screens'. This would take a programmer less than an hour to accomplish and
it would aid most sellers.
When you manually add an item to your inventory you can do it in one of several
ways. When you go this route some things, which are important are missing.
From the main catalogue page for any given part choose Add to my inventory. This
takes you to the add inventory page and fills in some of the details for you
e.g. part no; colour etc, leaving you to add the quantity, price, condition and
any remarks you wish to make. You then click on the review item button at the
bottom and it takes you to the review item page where you do not see all the
relevant information No part no - no remarks. How can you really review the information
if it isn't all presented to review. Good memory? Maybe if you are only doing
the odd one, but if you are using this in anger it would be very helpful if the
review item page had the part no on it as well as the remarks field.
A similar situation occurs with the mass inventory upload. Once you paste your
xml file into the window you choose verify and all the parts in that file are
listed but instead of displaying the part nos for the items it drops them off
despite being in the xml upload.
Again a very minor programming job which would aid the sellers.
Think about it Bricklink. Make the site easier for us to use.
See images attached.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 04:24 | | Subject: | Please bring Order Download up to date | | Viewed: | 118 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| To Admin/Development
The order download feature is clumsy and nor set out to work in today's IT
environment. Please bring it up to date and provide choice for which columns
that the user wishes to download. Choosing include details is insufficient. More
people would use this feature if the flexibility in design was improved.
Bring the formats up to date as well as even Excel 2010 is unhappy with the MS
excel download. Stop combining the colour field with the description field etc.,
etc etc.
If improvements here are planned for sellers tools, please let us know and provide
an anticipated delivery date for that. We want to download our orders into our
off-line system and at present this is a totally manual exercise.
Those of us who use off-line systems need more flexibility to deal with data
from Bricklink.
We haven't pout this as a suggestion cause quite honestly we do not feel
that route works very well at all.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 17, 2017 13:19 | | Subject: | A better idea ? | | Viewed: | 145 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Sine the rollout of Instant checkout and various updates there have been a number
of posts regarding the templates BL are forcing users to use.
Would it not be a better idea for the number of templates to be increased so
the stores can have their own choice of how they want it organised and addressed.
This is a simple code change for the programmers and allow some more flexibility
for the stores in addressing the various issues e.g. IBAN and bank details; etc.
Just a thought
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2017 07:56 | | Subject: | Allow stores to modify Order Notifications | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Stores need the ability to modify the 'Subject Header' in the order notification
template. This currently is not available to stores, but it should be.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2017 07:54 | | Subject: | Please include in Sellers tools | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Please include in the release of sellers tools a mechanism to allow stores to
back up not only their stores inventory but also their settings.
There, apparently is now ay to do this at present.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 9, 2017 07:20 | | Subject: | Change Search Results for Find Stores | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I believe it would be very helpful for the collection of statistical data if
the way the search in Find Stores' returned its results was altered to include
a column for Instant checkout enabled/adopted. Use the same Lightning bolt that
is currently being used simply add the column rather than having to go back and
forth betwee the searches - without IC and the 2nd with
The example shown reflects the UK's top 11 stores for no of items. 5 of the
11 have implemented it so far. 6 haven't, for whatever reason.
This would save having to make 2 searches (and less calls on the server) apart
from making it easier to gather the data.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 22, 2017 04:51 | | Subject: | Please add new item to Activity Page | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Please add new Non-Commercial Activity category to the My activity section to
cover add Packaging Dimensions to Catalogue Items. Include Pending, approved
and disapproved.
This will allow individuals to identify what is happening with their submissions.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2017 11:49 | | Subject: | Improvements to part descriptions | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would be very helpful if in the part descriptions submitters were required
to put colours where appropriate. For example and especially for minifig torso
assemblies.
If someone submits a new minifig torso or legs assembly they should fill in a
short form for Hip colours, leg colour(s) as well as torso colour, arm colour
and hand colour.
If we could get this as a requirement it would make life much easier especially
when using tools like goatleg.
If the description doesn't include all this information then Goatleg doesn't
always find it and that makes identifying some of these parts much harder than
it needs to be.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 15, 2017 10:09 | | Subject: | Change to information held in Catalogue | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| The Bricklink catalogue has the perfect base for this change but it is a question
of whether the developers feel they can do it with minimum effort. Each item
in the catalogue has a PCC as well as its mould or design id number associated
with it. The PCC code is Lego's element id and it is what they print in their
instructions.
There have been lots of comments both in and out of the forum concerning part
weights and how there is a variance between colours of the same part number.
We have also experienced this. The simple way to deal with this is to add a weight
field against the PCC in the catalogue. This would allow the system to hold the
individual weights for each colour part and could be used to more accurately
provide cart weights for instant checkout when it comes out of preview.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2017 12:12 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 60012-1 | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 4865b Trans-Light Blue Panel 1 x 2 x 1 with Rounded Corners (Alternate)
* Add 2 Part 92409 Black Tire 17.5mm D. x 6mm with Shallow Staggered Treads - Band Around Center of Tread (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 sets parted out today both with alternates as above
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 22, 2017 10:57 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 21019-1 | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 8 Part 3794b Light Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud with Groove (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 sets parted out today both had the b variant.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 9, 2017 14:13 | | Subject: | Improvements to Find Stores | | Viewed: | 125 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We would like to see the following additional sorts added to the find stores
screen.
Please see images - the first two are what we have now. The 3rd image is what
we would like to see as an improvement/enhancement.
This would very much help to gauge where you were as a store in comparison to
others. The current sorts are okay, but adding these will give the stores a real
opportunity to compare themselves with stores of similar size etc.
This is not a massive code change - the query that gest the underlying data for
all existing sorts simply have an "ORDER BY" command associated with them.
Please note we are well aware how frequently that data changes but that really
doesn't matter for the purposes this serves.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 8, 2017 09:25 | | Subject: | Another thought | | Viewed: | 172 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| As mentioned in the previous suggestion - we are all waiting on either details
of the sales tools in the next update or the launch of that update, whichever
BL decide to provide. Yesterday I put a suggestion forward for a different type
of view on the price guide which would make our lives much easier. Hopefully
that will garnish enough support to at least get noticed.
Today we want to talk about another very nice addition to the price guide when
trying to use it to determine what you wish to part out.
Currently if you visit Brickset you can find on their full screen inventory view
a summary of the items in each set by category and colour. Unfortunately they
are not the Bricklink categories nor colours, so it takes a little while to convert
that. Please see their summary of set 75030 (image 1).
I have converted that to a Bricklink summary (image 2), which is already in the
system as data and just needs a new view or query set up for us to see it and
use it.
In addition it would be really helpful if when you ask it to part out a set to
determine its value and how many of the items you already have in your inventory
if it not only told you the totals, but to be able to click on that link to see
what individual parts you would be adding or need to complete that set. This
is shown in red in image 3. Make it clickable.
Hope all of this is clear. If not please add your thoughts. Lets get the most
we can out of the catalogue -a fter all we all contribute to it.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 7, 2017 10:34 | | Subject: | Just a thought | | Viewed: | 203 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We would like to see some changes to the way the price guide can be viewed whilst
waiting for the site update to take place for this area. Currently for those
that use the guide to check prices on items you have to go back and forth between
the 'choose page' and the detail page. So, if you have or want a variety
of say part 2420 in different colours you can spend some time going through the
process to see all the data and then once you have seen it all, unless you write
it down you cannot remember all the info you had to take in.
If an option was available to view 'all colours, for example' you could
have all the information you need in one place. See example. The link at the
end of the table would provide the demographic date for the colour chosen, if
, again for example you wanted to see the prices in the UK for example.
Comments?
(The figures in the example are all fictitious).
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2017 12:03 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10232-1 | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 92409 Black Tire 17.5mm D. x 6mm with Shallow Staggered Treads - Band Around Center of Tread (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Two 10232's parted out today and both had 92409 tires rather than the older version 51011u.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2017 05:04 | | Subject: | Bricklink Drive through messages | | Viewed: | 153 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently there is no copy of this attached to the order it refers to. In order
to strengthen the audit trail on each order, we would like to see a copy of this
attached to the order as other messages are.
Please implement.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 18, 2016 09:14 | | Subject: | Make pop-ups one time events | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Please alter the way you are handling pop-ups on the site. It is very irritating
and time consuming to constantly have to remove pop up windows such as the one
attached to this suggestion. A simple command to acknowledge you have seen it
is more than sufficient.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 4, 2016 11:25 | | Subject: | Please add BL part no to xml verify page | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| This is now causing some problems as it does not appear on the page after the
initial paste into the file box. Please add the BL part number to aid reconciliation.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2016 08:29 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75043-1 | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 14769 Black Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Bottom Stud Holder (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 sets parted out today both had the alternate listed above.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 10, 2016 11:05 | | Subject: | Please add to My Inventory page | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Please add a colour filter to the my inventory page either below or above condition.
This will allow an easy way to find a specific piece in a specified colour. At
present the only way that we know of to do this is by knowing the element ID
(PCC) and that is not known to most, without looking it up.
It might also be useful when you choose a part no say 3001 to get not only a
lot count but a summary of the total no of items (broken into new and used).
Again the only way this can be done now is to manually add these up. (That is
what we have computers for, especially ones with SQL databases)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2016 09:55 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75037-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 13591 Black Minifig, Weapon Spear Gun with Squared Trigger and Thick Spear Base (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had the above variant
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2016 14:12 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75024-1 | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 4497 Pearl Dark Gray Minifig, Weapon Pike / Spear - Round End (Alternate)
* Add 1 Part 3794 Reddish Brown Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out today - both had the above as variants to the current inventory
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 10, 2016 11:25 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75012-1 | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 13591 Black Minifig, Weapon Spear Gun with Squared Trigger and Thick Spear Base (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 sets parted out today both had the newer version of this item rather than the 30088
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 5, 2016 09:26 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 79017-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 95673 Pearl Gold Minifig, Weapon Sword, Roman Gladius with Thin Crossguard (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Two 79017's parted out today and both had this sword rather than the 18034 as currently listed
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2016 07:58 | | Subject: | Making the order audit trail more complete | | Viewed: | 120 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We are aware of many stores who use the order audit trail for a 'history'
of the total transaction. We do this as well, except there are currently some
holes that could be filled with a few simple changes.
1. Provide the option for the seller to attach the drive-thru message to the
order
2. Provide a 'link' to the invoice (not just a date invoiced)
3. Allow sellers to 'attach' any PM's that have been sent
4. Maintain transactions dates for the order rather than simply changing the
date when an event takes place. If someone adds a batch - that is a separate
date from the original order date. In the same way if there is a item removal
done etc., etc.
Sellers could then have a completed audit trail of events surrounding the order
(if they wished).
In reality this would help not only the seller but the buyer as well.
Please consider.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 13, 2016 10:44 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10226-1 | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part x127c41 Black String with End Studs 41L Overall (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had 2 extra of this item.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 5, 2016 03:21 | | Subject: | Lego v Bricklink colours | | Viewed: | 188 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| I am aware that this has been suggested many times before by various people and
unfortunately nothing has ever been done about it but perhaps now is the time
to bring it back up.
When a new used comes to Bricklink they are faced with lots of hurdles - they
will not recognise the Bricklink part numbering system; and in lots of cases
the colours as many of them have totally different names.
The Lego stores also call colours differently e.g. Dark Blue to them is their
standard blue brick and if you ask for Earth Blue - they often look at you with
a puzzled look, even though that is an official Lego Colour name. The same with
Green etc.
So, with that in mind could the Bricklink developers not come up with a better
idea than the current colour chart for the catalogue. Perhaps similar to the
very old and outdated Peeron one.
It would help the new buyers - and after all we give them the option to key in
the number at the back of the Lego instructions to find a part (and little do
they know by using that number they get the part in the correct colour).
Bricklink want to encourage new buyers and as a store we want that as well -
but let us give them the tools do make it easier for them not more complicated.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 5, 2016 02:21 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7188-1 | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 89522 Flat Silver Horn (Unicorn) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Lego and Brickset inventory show this item to be Flat Silver, not Pearl Light Gary. Visual inspection of items also confirms Flat Silver.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 16, 2016 00:11 | | Subject: | One last thought | | Viewed: | 178 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Improvements to the invoicing capabilities from within Bricklink. When the development
team are evaluating the things they wish to include in their next release e.g.
tools for the stores, inventory management etc, please do not ignore the invoice.
We need the ability to include graphics (e.g. store logo) and provide the ability
to use attachments as well as design our own. Almost all modern systems allow
for this.
It is a marketing tool and needs to be used as such - not what we currently have.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2016 03:47 | | Subject: | Improvements to Search Stores feataure | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| One of the ways to see where your store is in regards to others is to compare
the weekly/monthly and yearly feedback figures. Currently this is a long winded
process of clicking on each stores feedback and looking at the summary table.
We would think it would be far easier to add a sort method which reflects either
the weekly/monthly or annual feedback figures. This way you could easily see
where your store sits in the overall scheme of things.
Whilst this may not be an urgent development requirement with all the other things
that are going on in development, this might be a useful addition to the stores
update which has been mentioned as 'coming' by the Bricklink admin.
Just a thought .....
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 27, 2016 05:35 | | Subject: | Following on from 'A Preview Update' | | Viewed: | 124 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| As the topic has now done it's usual - off on a tangent' we would like
to pick up on one of admin's comments early on the discussion. They said
their next project was to help the sellers (why that is lower in priority than
the buyers - I am not sure)
We would like to ensure the following items are addressed in this next development
and would like to gauge the reaction of other stores to this:
1. Inventory management tools
2. Sales analysis tools
3. Multi-user logins to stores with security permissions
4. Significant improvements to the NPB process which is currently too long winded
5. Improvements to the Bricklink messaging system to allow graphics as well as
attachments
6. Multi level minimum values e.g. 1 for Domestic and 1 for non-domestic for
example
7. Shipping policies per country as appropriate. We only shipped on a tracked
basis to some countries.
8. Much more flexibility in how we deal with orders from the printing/downloading
etc point of view. Stores organise their parts differently. It is unlikely that
any two stores are identical and we now have over 10000 live ones.
9. Quicker turnarounds on new inventories/parts and colours.
10. A much more up to date forum capability - bring it into the 21st/22nd century.
Please feel absolutely free to comment or add to this list if you have other
points as well.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2016 04:17 | | Subject: | Price guide and average pricing | | Viewed: | 178 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Something simple that the developers could add quite quickly to the price guide
which would help those who use it and are shocked when someone has a non-appropriate
price against an item. In the totals column they could put a total value as well
as total lots and total quantity. If that figure was there, you could easily
subtract the non appropriate value and work your own average price (if that is
how you set your pricing).
There was an example of this this morning. part number 11477 in Dark Purple.
According to the price guide the average price for a used piece should be 1.09,
but when you look at the list of prices for each country this cannot be right.
Then you see an entry for a seller in the USA who has obviously made a mistake
at £45+ which sways the actual average from around 9p to the 1.09. Knowing what
the total value is you could subtract the high value (and quantity, of course)
and easily calculate the real average.
Whilst we believe the entire price guide needs rethinking this could help in
the short term and quite honestly producing the total figure in the query that
brings back the results is less than two lines of code.
Comments?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2016 07:15 | | Subject: | Anyone elses think this might be useful | | Viewed: | 159 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We think this might be a helpful way to use the price guide feature (for those
that use it)
It would allow stores to look at pricing across their range of items and it would
allow buyers to choose a cost factor on a part where colour isn't too important.
You would choose the part no and then from a drop down or combo box, you could
choose one or more elements that you wanted to compare or look at.
It is, of course just another way of looking at the data in the system.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2016 11:35 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75096-1 | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 95747pb02 Black Minifig, Headgear Head Top, SW Zabrak Horns, Darth Maul Pattern (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
Two sets parted out both with 'extras' of the above part - in addition to the pieces for the minifigure
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