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View Thread Re: We need protection from postal delay negs - negative (235)
[...] all i see is priority mail is getting scanned and First class is ending [...] I sent a Priority package a few weeks ago that sat in the "In transit to next destination" [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need protection from postal delay negs - brac.brick (1121)
[...] Absolutely YES. Finally, the package I shipped 12 days ago has reached Indiana (from Massachusetts) the tracking just shows the date the label was created and [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need protection from postal delay negs - negative (235)
[...] [...] People buy from BL with the idea that it's the same as ordering from Amazon. "Free" shipping, delivery times of a couple days, no-questions asked returns [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Show Tracking number on Orders list - Emporiosa (5548)
[...] You said "I love it, because when things go missing, I can just politely point them to the USPS and both Tcgplayer and Paypal will have my back." making it sound like [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - WhiteVanMan (10948)
[...] Your suggestion has SOME merit, but in reality, did you actually look at the feedback of the sellers that you bought from? The feedback is a marvellous indicator as to [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - tons_of_bricks (12761)
[...] This, right here. The thing that makes cards easier to grade is that they're all the same size and shape (for the most part). A 2 in. cut down the middle [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - tons_of_bricks (12761)
[...] Well, from what you suggested, you wanted like 5-6 very specific grades. I'm suggesting only one extra condition.
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - Leftoverbricks (2225)
Great suggestion!
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - bje (1577)
As a long time buyer and importer on here, No. I do not want to plough through a million listings in every sellers' store and sit an pick through a thousand parts to make [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - yorbrick (1184)
[...] This is not a grading scale. It is a binary condition. A part is either new or used. There is no scale. [...] It would not be more accurate, as it would be subjective. [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - BrickCompulsion (3009)
These are the 1x2 plates I am about to list. The thought of having to grad each of them to a scale would make me stop selling on BrickLink. I will stick to my own standard that [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - yorbrick (1184)
[...] New vs used is easy to define. If it has been used, it is used. If it has not been used, it is new. Whereas labelling schemes like excellent > very good > good > reasonable [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - yorbrick (1184)
[...] More money - but for how much extra work and storage space? [...] Do sellers on this card site sell 10s or 100s or 1000s of the same card, in multiple grades, for a [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - randyf (442)
[...] This idea has been brought up time and time and time again over the 20 years that this site has existed, and it has never gained a large following or been implemented [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Show Tracking number on Orders list - Teup (6602)
Ok, as long as my customers wouldn't be 'encouraged' to pick it as it can be €10 or even €20 more expensive. And domestic orders arrive the next day so tracking isn't [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - crxefx (2578)
Right. But, we don't have that problem here..... All the other variations are sorted out in a b or c variations. If it's broken, yellowed, faded or incomplete the seller [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - crxefx (2578)
What if you sell me a new piece, that I claim is used. How is that settled? You answered your own question, right? What difference does it make if the piece is graded? If I sold [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
I think people are over complicating what I'm suggesting, perhaps because of terminology. I'm new to lego collecting, I don't sell on here, so I'm not familiar [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - crxefx (2578)
In all fairness you offended me a bit also. I understand the guidelines for used "cards" may be a bit different but, for lego the standard is also set. As a seller I have new [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
Then I fail to see why having a more intuitively labled system is a bad idea? What if you sell me a new piece, that I claim is used. How is that settled? In Suggestions, randyf [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - randyf (442)
[...] I believe BrickLink's definitions of "new" and "used" are quite descriptive and very easy to comprehend: (URL) [...] According to the BrickLink definitions, yes. [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Show Tracking number on Orders list - allstar005317 (381)
[...] I would love to see that field on the buyer side. After becoming a seller I just thought I was missing something to enable that for buying. After some research I discovered [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - calebfishn (2141)
One of the misconceptions behind your suggestion is that "new" and "used" are descriptions of condition. In Bricklink, they are descriptions of history, not condition. Therefore [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 4, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - Macaronis (725)
[...] Dead Horse.... Hasn't happened in the 18 years of my time here, doubt it ever will.
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
I know sellers already grade parts, I'm asking for that information in a way thats easier to use for purchases then the current "notes" method. If that was implemented for [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
How is that any different then what I'm asking? functionally, New, Used, Used Damaged, would just be 3 different "grades". In Suggestions, firestar246 writes: [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
If you read my post you would see that I called for a "clear cut visual guide". if the conditions are clearly defined you remove disputes because you're not allowing for [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
My point is that a system based on "new/used" is not a very good descriptive system for the condition of lego. If I buy a set, and it sits in a box for 10 years, and I pull it [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
I have 10's of thousands of cards listed, I have an idea. I really did not anticipate such negative, unproductive responses to a simple suggestions. Asking for a better [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
How do you build orders with 100+ items, from many different sellers efficiently? In Suggestions, WoutR writes: [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Show Tracking number on Orders list - revfds (36)
Nowhere did I say it should be required. Even in the part that you quoted, I said to create incentives to encourage its use. How does the site currently handle packages lost [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Show Tracking number on Orders list - revfds (36)
1.) I didn't say require it, I said to incentivize it. Those words mean different things. 2.) I don't get what your point is about customer service? Nowhere did [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - revfds (36)
Thanks for the replies, even if some of you didn't seem to read or grab my intention, or made snide remarks. If you have a clearly defined grading scale, it will not create [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - steelwoolghandi (2611)
[...] And does that mean any parts bought from the Pick-A-Brick wall they are used as they did not come in a set? If that's the case then Should Lego Change the Wall to [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - Adjour (2463)
I dunno. I wouldn't be heart broken if you couldn't sell them, but lots of vintage parts still have a market even if broken. I would like a third catagory to put them [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - Adjour (2463)
[...] Sorry, SHOULD NOT have to do this is they don't want to.
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - Adjour (2463)
My vote is no, simply because it would be very hard to implement this. I grade all my parts to some extent. Down to the cheap ones. It takes a massive amount of time to do [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - nathan84 (2174)
[...] even with a grading system you will still find problems as some sellers will view thier items as a better grade than what you the buyer would.
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - yorbrick (1184)
[...] Very true, and of course some already do grade parts. When you look at many of the boxes, instructions, sticker sheets, etc that get graded, they tend to be the valuable [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Show Tracking number on Orders list - Teup (6602)
[...] Hmm you have a point, the tracking number field can be switched on and off for the seller's Orders Received, but oddly it cannot be switched on for the buyer's [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - jeslego (1050)
[...] It is a free market. If the idea made economic sense ( ie the profit from additional orders attracted was greater than the cost of grading, sellers would do it without [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - yorbrick (1184)
[...] A big downside of this is that used parts then need 5x the number of locations for storage and, being a continuous scale, there will still be disputes. I don't know [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - electricbaer (9209)
[...] Indeed it would, I, myself have used it before if a part seemed exceptional from the norm and had barely any wear. Especially on older parts that usually have more time [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - electricbaer (9209)
[...] [...] And a lot of the "used, with light playwear' comments I often see, which IMO leaves the condition ambiguous.
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - yorbrick (1184)
[...] It would also weed out all the ones where a seller says that the parts are excellent condition, and eventually lead to all sellers saying nothing about condition if it [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - tons_of_bricks (12761)
I would be apposed to a grading system; but wouldn't be apposed to maybe one more condition: "Used, damaged" or something of that nature.
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - Crafteewon (1500)
[...] Excluded based on comments would also remove items that say “excellent used condition”.
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - electricbaer (9209)
[...] Correct me if I'm wrong, but currently there isn't a way to do advanced catalog search to omit items with comments/remarks added? That would weed out entries [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - Heartbricker (18165)
[...] Can you clarify please; if i'm reading this correctly: you believe that when a seller buys 10 sets from the LEGO store and opens them up in order to sort and sell [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Implement an enforced grading scale - william1066 (103)
[...] This would only lead to more disputes, everyone’s opinion of what grade an item is would be different. Sellers would ship a grade 1 item only for the buyer to complain [...]
(48 months ago, Jun 3, 2020, to Suggestions)

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