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 Author: burghbricks View Messages Posted By burghbricks
 Posted: Apr 29, 2020 21:05
 Subject: Organize Want List
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burghbricks (297)

Location:  USA, Pennsylvania
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If it's feasible, it'd be nice to be able to organize your want lists
into custom categories. For example, I'd like to be able to have categories
for MOCs, Restoration, and so on. That way I could quickly find lists without
having to change the order or toggle categories to hide them what I don't
immediately need.
 Author: Jax2 View Messages Posted By Jax2
 Posted: Apr 29, 2020 18:22
 Subject: Find what set you have based on certain piecs
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Jax2 (16)

Location:  USA, Michigan
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I have no idea if this is something that is doable... (I mean, on this site,
I am sure it CAN be done) but a lot of people who buy large collections often
are faced with an issue of finding a partially built set they cannot identify.

To that end, it would be amazing if there was a search available where you could
pick say, 10 or more pieces (would likely pick the least common pieces you
see on it) and enter those and have the results display only the sets that contain
all of those pieces.

Right now, I am sitting on a large number of partial sets and while some are
much easier than others to identify, others are just impossible.

This would be a massive help!
 Author: infinibrix View Messages Posted By infinibrix
 Posted: Apr 25, 2020 07:35
 Subject: When is a Minifigure a Minifigure?
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infinibrix (5001)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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Personally I don’t think we should lose the term minifigure because it’s very
key to how we and Lego describe the majority of their figures and at the moment
there are talks about Minfigs category being changed to ‘Figure’ and possibly
including everything from Lotso Bear to Baby Groot

I did discuss a solution here:-

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1192727

but I think it may have become a bit lost in the rest of the debate but I would
be interested in others thoughts on this or whether the term minifigure is even
still important or what minifigure should refer to going forward?

Here is my original suggestion:-

“On the subject of categorizing figures in general I think breaking down some
of this stuff might make more sense than renaming Minifigs to Figures and then
piling everything into the same place.

It’s a difficult one but I guess you have to start with defining a minifigure
and at the moment I can only think of two ways of doing this where by you define
it by Size after all a clue is in the word MINIfigure which does unfortunately
leave a lot of ambiguity or better still you define minifig by the fact it usesa
Torso Assembly?

Torso Assembly may be a good clear cut way of defining a minifig because almost
all traditional minifigs from a Dementor to a Lord Garmadon use the all-important
standard Torso design that holds a minifig together and its probably the one
key part that really defines what a minifigure looks like when we think of a
minifigure and with that in mind you could categorise as Follows:-

Minifigure – Anything that uses the Standard Torso Assembly design

Modified Figure – Anything from droids, to brick built Droids, to Skeletons and
stuff like Gollum, Slimer, Unikitty, Scurrier, Scooby etc..

Microfigure – Anything very small consisting of a single or maximum of two parts
such as Baby, Baby Yoda, Palpatine Hologram, Baby Groot, Trophy figures and all
those game figures etc..

You are then left with things like Cave Troll, Big Hulk etc. which can either
go under ‘Modified Figure’ or a separate ‘Large Figure’ Category?

Likewise are animals/creatures separated so that Polar bears, Wargs and Horses
go under ‘Modified Figure’ and stuff like baby dinos, spiders and snakes under
‘Microfigure’ or do they have their own ‘Animal category’?

Lots to think about....”
 Author: bb340324 View Messages Posted By bb340324
 Posted: Apr 24, 2020 12:18
 Subject: Select All option to add parts to wanted
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bb340324 (6)

Location:  USA, Maryland
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I'm trying to replace a large number of missing parts from a single set.
I think it would be helpful if - from the set list - I could select multiple
pieces and add to my wanted for ordering. If there is a way - I must be overlooking
it
 Author: Leftoverbricks View Messages Posted By Leftoverbricks
 Posted: Apr 23, 2020 11:07
 Subject: @Admin: please promote the Stud.io forum
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Leftoverbricks (2225)

Location:  Netherlands, Overijssel
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The last couple of weeks we've seen an increasing number of forum posts from
new members with questions about how to use Stud.io.

@Bricklink: Please take some effort to make it more clear that when working in
Stud.io, there's a special forum dedicated to those questions so we won't
have to deal with it here.

I know SilvainS is happy to respond to the questions but the BL forum is not
really the place for it.
Thanks.
 Author: atkk View Messages Posted By atkk
 Posted: Apr 20, 2020 13:16
 Subject: Order Item Removal Request
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atkk (8627)

Location:  Canada, Ontario
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Hello,
Can a link for "Order Item Removal Request" please be added to the page for when
a seller view's an order, so that it can be found much easier.
Thanks
Andre
 Author: JWBDolphins View Messages Posted By JWBDolphins
 Posted: Apr 19, 2020 22:25
 Subject: Stud.io panning suggestion
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JWBDolphins (211)

Location:  USA, Ohio
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One preference that I think might be useful to add to Studio is the ability to
have the Viewpoint move towards where the Mouse is located as you Zoom In or
Zoom Out (using the mouse roller for example.)

Panning the screen does not work very well for me (my mouse roller button is
twitchy) which makes me have to Pan the screen using 2 hands. There may be a
good CAD reason Not to do this, but if you could move the mouse over an area
and have zooming in and out zero in on the location of the mouse, having that
preference I think that would be handy. Basically Mimic the way the big online
Map programs work.
 Author: JWBDolphins View Messages Posted By JWBDolphins
 Posted: Apr 19, 2020 22:04
 Subject: A few more Preference options
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JWBDolphins (211)

Location:  USA, Ohio
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Here are a couple Preference options I'm suggesting be considered.

First, when I open one of my Wanted Lists, it Always defaults to 25 items per
page. Most of my Wanted Lists are larger than that and I have to Change the
default size every time (so that I can see everything on 1 screen). With internet
speeds the way they are today, 100 items pop up quickly. I would like to see
the number of items per page be an option that is remembered. (In fact, in general
I would like to see number of items per page be a preference saved across Bricklink.)

Secondly, along these lines, I would like to see a few more preferences saved
when I select a part. Specifically, a lot of times I have to click "More Options"
and I always have to select "Seller Location". I would like to see both of those
as saved options so I don't have to select them every time I bring up a new
part.

Thanks for your consideration!
 Author: Ctbyrne View Messages Posted By Ctbyrne
 Posted: Apr 17, 2020 13:21
 Subject: Merge unshipped orders
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Ctbyrne (27280)

Location:  USA, Pennsylvania
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At least once each day, I have a buyer who either places a second order and pays
for shipping a second time or emails about needing to make an addition to their
paid order.

I'd like to suggest a new feature be worked into the checkout process. If
a buyer places an order in a store which they currently have another order that
is not in the Packed, Shipped, Received, or Completed status, the orders either
be combined or flagged in some way to alert the seller. If would also be helpful
if the checkout of the second order took into consideration any postage already
paid on the first order.

I keep my domestic shipping simple. Spend up to $50, pay $5 postage. Spend $50-$100,
pay $10 postage. Spend over $100, get free shipping. On a system like mine, it
would be very easy to recognize if the buyer needs to pay more in postage, has
already paid enough, or would potentially get a discount back from postage already
paid.

The buyer shouldn't have to do any extra work if they want to order more
from a store that hasn't yet shipped their order. And I'm getting a little
tired of issuing duplicate postage refunds and checking to see if a buyer has
another order. What may be a few hours later for a buyer could be another page
for the seller.

Chris
 Author: Wolffe72 View Messages Posted By Wolffe72
 Posted: Apr 16, 2020 09:18
 Subject: Buyer Lock In
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Wolffe72 (11)

Location:  Canada, Ontario
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I'm relatively new here, but I have about 10 purchase orders completed and
on-the-go right now. I'm not finding Bricklink overly intuitive to be honest
but I haven't goofed since my first order.

So I understand committing to a purchase. As soon as I place an order I take
the seller's item off the market which means a potential lost sale (or more
likely a delayed sale) if I don't follow through.

However, as a buyer, I now find myself in a position where I've committed
to purchase something from a non-responding seller. It has been a week and I
haven't heard a single response. The store's terms do not mention anything
about possible slow response times. I'll consider this my second goof because
I didn't pay attention to the fact that the store also had no selling history
(only purchase history). Fine.

So now I can post an NRS in an attempt to cancel my order -- but now my understanding
is that I have to wait another 2 weeks for it to be truly cancelled! There is
a really good chance that I'll miss out on picking up this item at a reasonable
price from another store during that time. If the seller doesn't come through,
I might now have to spend a lot more to get this item. On the other hand, if
I choose to buy from someone else the original seller could come in at the 11th-hour
and still ding me as a non-paying buyer (at least that's my assumption on
how this works). Right now, I'm thinking I should just take that chance.
Unlike the store who has potentially limitless buyers, item availability is
*definitely* limited and prices just tend to go up over time.

Personally, I think that if a seller doesn't respond within a minimum time
(and I think a week is plenty) a buyer should be given the option to simply cancel.
Maybe it's something the store could configure so buyers can be made aware
of stores that are not managed frequently. If the seller has at least acknowledged
the buyer during that time, then perhaps different rules could apply.

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