Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Sep 7, 2020 08:40 | | Subject: | Re: Create a Technical Issues forum topic | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jenwick writes:
+1
How about a knowledgebase topic where responses to common (and oft repeated)
threads can be put.
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| Author: | jenwick | | Posted: | Sep 7, 2020 08:38 | | Subject: | Re: Create a Technical Issues forum topic | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | Thanks Russell! |
| Author: | BricksThatStick | | Posted: | Sep 7, 2020 02:17 | | Subject: | Re: Create a Technical Issues forum topic | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, BricksThatStick writes:
| | I think it would be useful to have all 'Technical Issues' posted in one
place (the current 'Problem' topic is not specific enough)
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I agree and will do this. I spend a lot of time fishing around for reports of
problems in the Forum, and it's one of the critical functions of the Forum
to be a resource for this information.
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https://www.bricklink.com/messageList.asp?ID=85
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Nice, thankyou.
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| Author: | jeslego | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 17:01 | | Subject: | Re: Create a Technical Issues forum topic | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BricksThatStick writes:
| | I think it would be useful to have all 'Technical Issues' posted in one
place (the current 'Problem' topic is not specific enough)
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I believe that I know what you mean by "technical", but some of my past beliefs
have turned out to be erroneous assumptions. Can you flesh this out?
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| Author: | BricksThatStick | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 16:52 | | Subject: | Create a Technical Issues forum topic | | Viewed: | 104 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| I think it would be useful to have all 'Technical Issues' posted in one
place (the current 'Problem' topic is not specific enough)
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 16:38 | | Subject: | Re: Please reset variable image | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bje writes:
| | Please reset the variable colour on the part inventory page to an N/A image.
Having Yellow as the variable colour is confusing.
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Since this is the way the site functions by design, I've changed your request
to a site suggestion.
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| Author: | donossi | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 16:29 | | Subject: | Inventory searching malfunction | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
if I search for a set :
-Choose "my inventory" in the drop-down on the top of the bricklink page
-Search for e.g. col07-10 or 6722-1 or another set
-Search result: "No Item(s) Found."
In my inventory overview (https://www.bricklink.com/inventory.asp) I find the
sets.
@bricklink: Please repair the new search overview.
See also the stockroom problem https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1220091.
Kind Regards
Maico
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| Author: | Hygrotus | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 13:46 | | Subject: | Re: Please reset variable image | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Catalog Requests, Hygrotus writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | Please reset the variable colour on the part inventory page to an N/A image.
Having Yellow as the variable colour is confusing.
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Not sure exactly what you're asking for here. Can you post a screenshot
of what you're seeing?
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Sure: When viewed as attached, there should not be a colour with variable or
am I confused with some other section of the price guide?
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There has to be some bug on this page as in this view of inventory image isn't
visible for not applicable
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?P=42511c01
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p.s. and no image for part 42511 in not applicable color exists, there is nothing
to delete from admin side of this page.
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| Author: | Hygrotus | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 13:42 | | Subject: | Re: Please reset variable image | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | Please reset the variable colour on the part inventory page to an N/A image.
Having Yellow as the variable colour is confusing.
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Not sure exactly what you're asking for here. Can you post a screenshot
of what you're seeing?
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Sure: When viewed as attached, there should not be a colour with variable or
am I confused with some other section of the price guide?
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There has to be some bug on this page as in this view of inventory image isn't
visible for not applicable
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?P=42511c01
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 13:23 | | Subject: | Re: Please reset variable image | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | Please reset the variable colour on the part inventory page to an N/A image.
Having Yellow as the variable colour is confusing.
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Not sure exactly what you're asking for here. Can you post a screenshot
of what you're seeing?
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Sure: When viewed as attached, there should not be a colour with variable or
am I confused with some other section of the price guide?
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(Variable color) always shows a color image, it confused me a couple of times
too in toros
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 10:18 | | Subject: | Re: Please reset variable image | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Catalog Requests, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | Please reset the variable colour on the part inventory page to an N/A image.
Having Yellow as the variable colour is confusing.
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Not sure exactly what you're asking for here. Can you post a screenshot
of what you're seeing?
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Sure: When viewed as attached, there should not be a colour with variable or
am I confused with some other section of the price guide?
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 10:11 | | Subject: | Re: Please reset variable image | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Catalog Requests, bje writes:
| | Please reset the variable colour on the part inventory page to an N/A image.
Having Yellow as the variable colour is confusing.
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Not sure exactly what you're asking for here. Can you post a screenshot
of what you're seeing?
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| Author: | donossi | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 05:59 | | Subject: | Re: Stockroom Update will delete after Submit | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Hello,
after changed to the old Version like it described on your thread, updating with
delete stockroom ist ok!
Many thanks.
Kind Regards
Maico
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 05:13 | | Subject: | Re: Stockroom Update will delete after Submit | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Change your inventory page to the old view, then your changes will stick. Your
suggestion should rather be that Bricklink must check if things work before making
it a new default.
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1220050
The image there will show you where to switch over so that your changes are accepted.
InSuggestions, donossi writes:
| | Hello, I got a problem with the Inventory Update:
-Choose "my inventory" in the drop-down on the top of the bricklink page
-Search for a brick in my inventory.
-Find the brick with qty = 0, Stockroom = true
-Update the brick qty to greater than 0 (for example qty = 10)
-Uncheck Stockroom ( Stockroom = false)
-Submit Changes
-- The delete of the Stockroom Flag is not saved. So the updated bricks
are all in the stockroom.
This is annoying when I update many bricks in one submit.
I think this is a system error.
Another suggestion to bricklink: If on one brick the qty = 0 and stockroom =
false please set at submit the stockroom = true and show a warning instead of
the error message.
Kind Regards
Maico
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| Author: | donossi | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2020 05:02 | | Subject: | Stockroom Update will delete after Submit | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello, I got a problem with the Inventory Update:
-Choose "my inventory" in the drop-down on the top of the bricklink page
-Search for a brick in my inventory.
-Find the brick with qty = 0, Stockroom = true
-Update the brick qty to greater than 0 (for example qty = 10)
-Uncheck Stockroom ( Stockroom = false)
-Submit Changes
-- The delete of the Stockroom Flag is not saved. So the updated bricks
are all in the stockroom.
This is annoying when I update many bricks in one submit.
I think this is a system error.
Another suggestion to bricklink: If on one brick the qty = 0 and stockroom =
false please set at submit the stockroom = true and show a warning instead of
the error message.
Kind Regards
Maico
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Sep 4, 2020 16:46 | | Subject: | Re: Stud.io Instruction Maker Suggestions | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, coreyschaaf writes:
| | I really love how Stud.io and the instructions maker. I would however like to
see a new feature added for creating instructions. I like the ability of adding
outlines to the new parts in each step, however I think an additional option
of ghosting out the previous parts steps would be even better than the outline.
It helps the current parts you are working with stand out even more and their's
less confusion about what part you are working with. This is very true with complex
models.
Thanks again,
Corey Schaaf
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The dedicated forum for Studio is https://forum.bricklink.com/ (red Studio icon
on every page, “Builder Forum”).
There’s a topic for ignoring suggestions there too (that’s a joke, sort of  ).
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| Author: | brickwarsnet | | Posted: | Sep 4, 2020 16:22 | | Subject: | Stud.io Instruction Maker Suggestions | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I really love how Stud.io and the instructions maker. I would however like to
see a new feature added for creating instructions. I like the ability of adding
outlines to the new parts in each step, however I think an additional option
of ghosting out the previous parts steps would be even better than the outline.
It helps the current parts you are working with stand out even more and their's
less confusion about what part you are working with. This is very true with complex
models.
Thanks again,
Corey Schaaf
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| Author: | rankster | | Posted: | Sep 3, 2020 10:58 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic Average Price | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| It could be a mess if prices chaged automatically but I would be happy to see
a function that sets my prices - of the items I choose - to the 6 months avarage
manually by clicking a button.
Sorry for the off topic but how could you do that now? Checking each item's
price guide one by one and setting the actual price? Or using BrickStock which
is a little complicated if your store is not in USD?
In Suggestions, Shintaku writes:
| | I think it would be nice to provide an option to fix the price of an item and
bind it to the actual average price so its price will vary with the average price
fluctuation.
Since it's a data that BL has, I think it would be easy for programmers to
adjust.
That would prevent a lot of problems, like parting out a set putting the average
price but having problems in selling an item because its average price becomes
much smaller with the time going, for example.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Sep 3, 2020 07:06 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic Average Price | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Shintaku writes:
| | | | I cannot see this working as it is very easy to manipulate. For example, if you
list an item then another user could also list the same item very cheaply and
use another account to buy it and so bring down the average price sold. Your
item gets repriced to the new low average and they buy it, then cancel their
original fake sale. Or if you bind it to the current average listed price, they
just list items very cheaply but do not allow them to be sold.
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At the moment most people I know are parting out sets for the average prices,
so what you say may be already applied.
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No, because once a set is parted out, the prices are fixed - so a seller can
check them at the time of listing and knows what the part will sell for if someone
orders it.
Whereas with an automatic average price, that continually adjusts the price as
the average changes, the seller will have no check on what the price of their
items are sold for. The average can be manipulated with fake orders, the order
placed, then the fake orders cancelled and the seller cannot see why their items
sold so cheaply.
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| Author: | Shintaku | | Posted: | Sep 3, 2020 06:18 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic Average Price | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | I cannot see this working as it is very easy to manipulate. For example, if you
list an item then another user could also list the same item very cheaply and
use another account to buy it and so bring down the average price sold. Your
item gets repriced to the new low average and they buy it, then cancel their
original fake sale. Or if you bind it to the current average listed price, they
just list items very cheaply but do not allow them to be sold.
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At the moment most people I know are parting out sets for the average prices,
so what you say may be already applied.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 23:58 | | Subject: | Re: Get the "Grand order total" in orders placed | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Remko100 writes:
| | Hi,
I want to have the "grand order total" (cannot be marked now in the settings)
in de my orders placed overview. I believe we used to have this. Was it removed
to not confront buyers with the amount of money already spent? So they buy more?
If this is the case Bricklink could allow the option, but turn it off as a standard.
I want it!
Kind regards,
Remko van Rosmalen
Its a Bricky World
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I've been looking for the same feature out of curiosity and couldn't
find it anywhere, although I believe you are right about the reason BL could
have removed it if it ever existed.
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| Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 14:15 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Wanted List Alternates | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| or [p=3626b] vs
[p=3626c]
In a MOC it doesn't matter
In Suggestions, lunchbox17 writes:
| | I have a suggestion for wanted lists: the ability to set a certain part as an
alternate to another part. For instance, if I wanted to get a certain minifig
torso, I could add the torso piece itself to my wanted list, and then I could
set the torso with its arms attached as its alternate (since it doesn't matter
to me if the arms are there or not). This expands the amount of possible items
to purchase without having to add duplicates to the wanted list
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| Author: | lunchbox17 | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 14:11 | | Subject: | Suggestion: Wanted List Alternates | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I have a suggestion for wanted lists: the ability to set a certain part as an
alternate to another part. For instance, if I wanted to get a certain minifig
torso, I could add the torso piece itself to my wanted list, and then I could
set the torso with its arms attached as its alternate (since it doesn't matter
to me if the arms are there or not). This expands the amount of possible items
to purchase without having to add duplicates to the wanted list
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| Author: | iprice | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 12:03 | | Subject: | Re: Why doesn't TLG provide set inventory? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rus_Numis writes:
| | When TLG bought Bricklink my first thought was that finally now we will have
set parts inventory coming directly from them and this will stop delays related
to approvals and all such things. But I don't think this is happening. And
I don't really understand why. TLG has all this data because they created
sets and they know exactly what parts set consists of. Why don't they just
give this information to Bricklink inventory admins on the day of set release
(or even before that)? Is it obvious path to improve Bricklink?
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It's not as simple as that. We have a sealed set standard on BrickLink, which
means that we base the inventory off what actually is in the set rather than
what is supposed to be in the set. This helps with accuracy with variants and
extras.
Also, BrickLink format varies from that used by the LEGO Group. We create and
name minifigs, we have counterparts, and we also recognize multiple versions
of a set.
We actually use LEGO data as a base to create the rough draft of inventories
which puts us most times at about 95% completion. But there's a lot of work
to do beyond that to prepare inventories for our standard.
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Years ago I tried to get the set numbers and the inventories for the Samsonite
sets. I got no help from Lego. The people I spoke to were unaware of the fact
that Lego was even sold by Lego. I talked to several people that were pretty
high in the food chain. Then I went to Samsonite and no one there had any idea
and they surprised to find out that Samsonite made or sold Lego. I had to send
pictures of the Samsonite sets.
There was also a problem with the early Lego sets that when the were out of a
part the put parts in that they had,sets in the 800 range where almost impossible
to inventory. If they changed parts they used up all the old one first to make
a set.
I even went as far as to call Lego in Billund and they were also surprised at
first that Lego was sold by Samsonite. I person there said that she sort of
remembered that.
I tell this so people know that Lego is as confused as the ones of us that inventory
sets.
John P
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Doesn't surprise me - sometime Lego doesn't know their arse from their
elbow. The left hand really doesn't know what the right hand is doing most
of the time, from my experience of dealing with them directly.
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| Author: | legoman77 | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 11:55 | | Subject: | Re: Why doesn't TLG provide set inventory? | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rus_Numis writes:
| | When TLG bought Bricklink my first thought was that finally now we will have
set parts inventory coming directly from them and this will stop delays related
to approvals and all such things. But I don't think this is happening. And
I don't really understand why. TLG has all this data because they created
sets and they know exactly what parts set consists of. Why don't they just
give this information to Bricklink inventory admins on the day of set release
(or even before that)? Is it obvious path to improve Bricklink?
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It's not as simple as that. We have a sealed set standard on BrickLink, which
means that we base the inventory off what actually is in the set rather than
what is supposed to be in the set. This helps with accuracy with variants and
extras.
Also, BrickLink format varies from that used by the LEGO Group. We create and
name minifigs, we have counterparts, and we also recognize multiple versions
of a set.
We actually use LEGO data as a base to create the rough draft of inventories
which puts us most times at about 95% completion. But there's a lot of work
to do beyond that to prepare inventories for our standard.
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Years ago I tried to get the set numbers and the inventories for the Samsonite
sets. I got no help from Lego. The people I spoke to were unaware of the fact
that Lego was even sold by Lego. I talked to several people that were pretty
high in the food chain. Then I went to Samsonite and no one there had any idea
and they surprised to find out that Samsonite made or sold Lego. I had to send
pictures of the Samsonite sets.
There was also a problem with the early Lego sets that when the were out of a
part the put parts in that they had,sets in the 800 range where almost impossible
to inventory. If they changed parts they used up all the old one first to make
a set.
I even went as far as to call Lego in Billund and they were also surprised at
first that Lego was sold by Samsonite. I person there said that she sort of
remembered that.
I tell this so people know that Lego is as confused as the ones of us that inventory
sets.
John P
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 04:41 | | Subject: | Re: Automatic Average Price | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Shintaku writes:
| | I think it would be nice to provide an option to fix the price of an item and
bind it to the actual average price so its price will vary with the average price
fluctuation.
Since it's a data that BL has, I think it would be easy for programmers to
adjust.
That would prevent a lot of problems, like parting out a set putting the average
price but having problems in selling an item because its average price becomes
much smaller with the time going, for example.
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I cannot see this working as it is very easy to manipulate. For example, if you
list an item then another user could also list the same item very cheaply and
use another account to buy it and so bring down the average price sold. Your
item gets repriced to the new low average and they buy it, then cancel their
original fake sale. Or if you bind it to the current average listed price, they
just list items very cheaply but do not allow them to be sold.
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| Author: | Shintaku | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 02:54 | | Subject: | Automatic Average Price | | Viewed: | 101 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I think it would be nice to provide an option to fix the price of an item and
bind it to the actual average price so its price will vary with the average price
fluctuation.
Since it's a data that BL has, I think it would be easy for programmers to
adjust.
That would prevent a lot of problems, like parting out a set putting the average
price but having problems in selling an item because its average price becomes
much smaller with the time going, for example.
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| Author: | Rus_Numis | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 01:21 | | Subject: | Re: Why doesn't TLG provide set inventory? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Thank you for the clarification. It totally makes sense now.
In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rus_Numis writes:
| | When TLG bought Bricklink my first thought was that finally now we will have
set parts inventory coming directly from them and this will stop delays related
to approvals and all such things. But I don't think this is happening. And
I don't really understand why. TLG has all this data because they created
sets and they know exactly what parts set consists of. Why don't they just
give this information to Bricklink inventory admins on the day of set release
(or even before that)? Is it obvious path to improve Bricklink?
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It's not as simple as that. We have a sealed set standard on BrickLink, which
means that we base the inventory off what actually is in the set rather than
what is supposed to be in the set. This helps with accuracy with variants and
extras.
Also, BrickLink format varies from that used by the LEGO Group. We create and
name minifigs, we have counterparts, and we also recognize multiple versions
of a set.
We actually use LEGO data as a base to create the rough draft of inventories
which puts us most times at about 95% completion. But there's a lot of work
to do beyond that to prepare inventories for our standard.
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| Author: | Rus_Numis | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 01:20 | | Subject: | Re: Why doesn't TLG provide set inventory? | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Thanks. Now it is clear.
In Suggestions, randyf writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rus_Numis writes:
| | When TLG bought Bricklink my first thought was that finally now we will have
set parts inventory coming directly from them and this will stop delays related
to approvals and all such things. But I don't think this is happening. And
I don't really understand why. TLG has all this data because they created
sets and they know exactly what parts set consists of. Why don't they just
give this information to Bricklink inventory admins on the day of set release
(or even before that)? Is it obvious path to improve Bricklink?
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One simple reason: The data from LEGO is not accurate.
BrickLink sellers require accurate inventories, and the work that is done by
BrickLink contributors to detail what comes in actual packaged sets is often
not the same as what LEGO thinks they put into those sets. Not to mention that
the BrickLink inventories contain lots of information that LEGO does not provide
at all. Extra parts and complete minifigures are two of those that many sellers
absolutely require to have on hand to use once an inventory is available.
Another reason that the inventories cannot be instantly available is due to the
fact that all of the new parts for sets must be added to the BrickLink catalog
first before the inventories can even know about them.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 00:47 | | Subject: | Re: Why doesn't TLG provide set inventory? | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rus_Numis writes:
| | When TLG bought Bricklink my first thought was that finally now we will have
set parts inventory coming directly from them and this will stop delays related
to approvals and all such things. But I don't think this is happening. And
I don't really understand why. TLG has all this data because they created
sets and they know exactly what parts set consists of. Why don't they just
give this information to Bricklink inventory admins on the day of set release
(or even before that)? Is it obvious path to improve Bricklink?
|
One simple reason: The data from LEGO is not accurate.
BrickLink sellers require accurate inventories, and the work that is done by
BrickLink contributors to detail what comes in actual packaged sets is often
not the same as what LEGO thinks they put into those sets. Not to mention that
the BrickLink inventories contain lots of information that LEGO does not provide
at all. Extra parts and complete minifigures are two of those that many sellers
absolutely require to have on hand to use once an inventory is available.
Another reason that the inventories cannot be instantly available is due to the
fact that all of the new parts for sets must be added to the BrickLink catalog
first before the inventories can even know about them.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | Rus_Numis | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 00:21 | | Subject: | Why doesn't TLG provide set inventory? | | Viewed: | 136 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| When TLG bought Bricklink my first thought was that finally now we will have
set parts inventory coming directly from them and this will stop delays related
to approvals and all such things. But I don't think this is happening. And
I don't really understand why. TLG has all this data because they created
sets and they know exactly what parts set consists of. Why don't they just
give this information to Bricklink inventory admins on the day of set release
(or even before that)? Is it obvious path to improve Bricklink?
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| Author: | DanialR | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2020 22:14 | | Subject: | Re: Auto-select is awful. A different solution. | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | I have attached an image of a piece of software that was written by BobDeQuatre
in 2013. It would load your wanted list, then you could give it stores you wanted
to buy from and it would cross reference the prices of all the parts between
the stores. You could then select which parts to buy from each and create the
relevant wanted lists. (if this was built in to BL you could of course just create
carts).
Sadly the software soon broke due to changes on BLs end before it ever had time
to gain traction, and the author did not care to work on the project any longer.
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| | Unfortunately I am not a programmer, nor do I have the funds that it would take
to hire one, but I think this solution is worth something. I can offer up a token
£100 to anyone that would like a bit of a coding project to dabble with that
could be very beneficial for buyers and sellers alike.
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This might fit in with anther pet software project of mine. How much info do
you have on the software and whether BobDeQuatre is willing to let others run
with something he spent time building?
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| Author: | wasp_sting | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2020 02:43 | | Subject: | Seller Location Default | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would so much improve the searching/buying experience if the seller's
location (under the 'More options' drop-down) could be saved as a default
preference. It really bugs me to have to change it with each part I'm costing.
Anyone else agree?
Unless I'm overlooking a setting, in which case, please illuminate me 
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 30, 2020 10:04 | | Subject: | Re: Auto-select is awful. A different solution. | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | It has long been a problem, and nobody (users) really knows what the algorithm
is to select stores.
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I’m not sure non-users know either 
| | Is it IC, size of store, number of lots they have (even
if this includes duplicates), location, feedback, ...
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It would be conforting to know but would it really help predict or be happier
with the results?
With a multi-criterion valuation, especially when some criteria are “soft” (not
originally a number), you’ll always want to tinker with the weights.
| | Also it does not know about shipping costs from stores without IC, or anything
like 5% fees for PayPal and so on.
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AKAIK, it doesn’t directly know about any shipping cost, not even IC.
It’s all estimation, an “average” of the “recent” shipping costs between seller’s
address/country (how precise?) to buyer’s.
| | Whenever I want to buy from a wants list, I always go for the expensive parts
first, find a (typically) UK store that has them at a reasonable price then check
if they have other parts at a reasonable cost. Manually takes time, but is often
way better than any solution BL comes up with.
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I’d say you’re right but are you sure or is it just a feeling? I mean, do you
spend even more time checking every time or do you just always go for the manual
option and never bother with Auto-select?
Or is it not really possible to check because you ended up buying things that
were not on you WL (so, do you now count them as wanted?).
And how much do you value your time?
Auto-select results vary from simple to double ( https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1218711
) but, if you try multiple times and add a bit of manual optimization, in the
end, is not Auto-select “good-enough” for many people?
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 30, 2020 08:38 | | Subject: | Re: Auto-select is awful. A different solution. | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| It has long been a problem, and nobody (users) really knows what the algorithm
is to select stores. Is it IC, size of store, number of lots they have (even
if this includes duplicates), location, feedback, ...
Also it does not know about shipping costs from stores without IC, or anything
like 5% fees for PayPal and so on.
Whenever I want to buy from a wants list, I always go for the expensive parts
first, find a (typically) UK store that has them at a reasonable price then check
if they have other parts at a reasonable cost. Manually takes time, but is often
way better than any solution BL comes up with.
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| Author: | Rakali | | Posted: | Aug 30, 2020 06:00 | | Subject: | Auto-select is awful. A different solution. | | Viewed: | 145 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Long post incoming.
As someone who does like to put together the occasional MOC from purchased instructions
as well as sell, I am having a hard time understanding how anyone manages to
buy parts these days.
Here are a few of my results from using the auto-select feature on a wanted list
of ~2500 parts in 374 lots.
UK ONLY, straight auto-select:
369/374 lots, 16 stores, £290.88
UK ONLY, manually filling from my own store first, then hitting auto-select:
369/374 lots, 14 stores, £270.19
I also tried the same list from a different account with the same results, so
it isn't just excluding my own store from my own search results.
I understand it's a very difficult programming task especially for such a
large wanted list, however with just one store manually selected, I was able
to reduce the number of stores by 2, and therefore shipping costs, as well as
the parts price by 7%, so why was my store not recommended to me in the first
place?
Let's try something else, and expand our search to EU stores.
EU ONLY, straight auto-select:
369/369 lots, 4 stores, £319.71
To keep it fair I removed the 5 pieces I could not get from UK sellers from the
query.
Now we are at 10 less stores than my optimized UK result, but for £50 more. UK
shipping is not going to be anywhere close to £5 per store, so we have given
the finder more choice, and somehow came away with a worse result.
This isn't even accounting for the fact that most EU stores charge a 5% Paypal
fee that the auto-buy can't see, and also the increased shipping cost for
international transactions.
Let's try and find those hard to find pieces.
UK ONLY, straight auto-select, then EU for the missing 5 parts:
374/374 lots, 20 stores, £332.33
EU ONLY, straight auto-select:
374/374 lots, 4 stores, £438.67
Now of course with 16 less stores, I am saving a considerable amount of shipping,
however we are not accounting for the additional 5% Paypal fees from most EU
stores. So average £2 shipping across the UK stores, add 5% to the EU store prices,
and I am still saving £100 by giving the auto-select LESS choice.
Maybe it is just not designed for such a large number of lots, but my list was
just the parts for two medium sized Star Wars models from Brickvault. That seems
like it would be a popular use case.
So what is the solution?
Work backwards. Start with the stores, then find the parts.
With so many stores having a whole myriad of different fees and limits these
days, it makes more sense to start with stores you are comfortable buying from,
and work from there.
I have attached an image of a piece of software that was written by BobDeQuatre
in 2013. It would load your wanted list, then you could give it stores you wanted
to buy from and it would cross reference the prices of all the parts between
the stores. You could then select which parts to buy from each and create the
relevant wanted lists. (if this was built in to BL you could of course just create
carts).
Sadly the software soon broke due to changes on BLs end before it ever had time
to gain traction, and the author did not care to work on the project any longer.
I used this to put together this MOC:
https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-6703/thire5/ucs-arc-170-starfighter/#comments
It was by far the easiest buying experience I have ever had as well as being
the largest MOC I have put together with parts from BL.
You can use the current features to find some stores with a lot of parts you
need with fair prices and terms that an auto finder cannot account for, put them
into this software and cross reference.
Need a rare part? Find a store manually that has it, put that into your table.
That store also had a few of your other parts cheaper than your other chosen
stores? Accounted for.
Unfortunately I am not a programmer, nor do I have the funds that it would take
to hire one, but I think this solution is worth something. I can offer up a token
£100 to anyone that would like a bit of a coding project to dabble with that
could be very beneficial for buyers and sellers alike.
Sorry for the ramble. Any thoughts?
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| Author: | zzed | | Posted: | Aug 29, 2020 12:39 | | Subject: | Re: Please give notice before deleting a listing | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | It shouldn't happen with minifigures either. If a fig is incomplete, it should
be listed as parts or listed in the custom items section. Otherwise you are watering
down the price guide.
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Thank you Russell for staying that. It is frustrating when the "buy all" tool
selects minifigures which are missing part of their body. I've had to dislike
those shops so the tool will work properly.
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| Author: | bwbwings | | Posted: | Aug 29, 2020 09:46 | | Subject: | Re: Find sets based on pieces | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | So cool, thanks for the update |
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| Author: | PaulOfBricks | | Posted: | Aug 29, 2020 01:43 | | Subject: | Re: Please give notice before deleting a listing | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Agree.
1st point. My 10179 sticker is new the main plaque is new and unused. Some of
the tiny stickers that nobody really even uses are gone. It would be better to
have the option of new/incomplete.
2. Main thread is relevant.
When deleting please give warning it will be delete or move to stockroom.
Important information I use for tax purposes was lost.
I keep accounting and pay taxes on my sales. My inventory value is also important
in these calculations the item cost data was lost when it was deleted. And this
information was not included in the deletion email.
Paul
In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | Minifigs have different rules than parts. Stickers are classified as parts. When
you remove a sticker from the sheet, you have used it. The Sheet itself is no
longer New. This was discussed way back when.
And no I don't agree with how mini-figures are listed.
In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, mockingbird writes:
| | Before deleting an item listed for sale, please give a notice to the seller.
That way the seller can change the listing to comply with the rules (instead
of having to enter everything again).
The e-mail does not give the full listing details, so it is not always clear
what is wrong with the listed item. Also the reason given is not clear.
I just recieved an e-mail stating that a few stickers I listed are deleted.
Reason given: "Item is incorrectly defined as New/Used or Complete/Incomplete/Sealed"
It concerns a few incomplete sticker sheets. I have more incomplete sheets listed
and they are not deleted or mentioned in the e-mail.
Is it wrong to list incomplete sticker sheets as 'new' (with a picture
of the actual sheet and clearly stated in the comments that it is incomplete)?
The stickers still on the sheet are new (never used).
Just to be save I changed the remaining incomplete sticker sheets to 'used'.
And I will re-list the deleted items as 'used'. Hopefully I can still
fing the pictures of the deleted items.
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Sticker sheets missing stickers must be listed as Used.
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Why can't partial sheets be sold as new, but indicating incomplete? After
all, it happens a lot with minifigures, even though parts are missing and there
is no formal incomplete setting.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 23:54 | | Subject: | Re: Please give notice before deleting a listing | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, mockingbird writes:
| | Before deleting an item listed for sale, please give a notice to the seller.
That way the seller can change the listing to comply with the rules (instead
of having to enter everything again).
The e-mail does not give the full listing details, so it is not always clear
what is wrong with the listed item. Also the reason given is not clear.
I just recieved an e-mail stating that a few stickers I listed are deleted.
Reason given: "Item is incorrectly defined as New/Used or Complete/Incomplete/Sealed"
It concerns a few incomplete sticker sheets. I have more incomplete sheets listed
and they are not deleted or mentioned in the e-mail.
Is it wrong to list incomplete sticker sheets as 'new' (with a picture
of the actual sheet and clearly stated in the comments that it is incomplete)?
The stickers still on the sheet are new (never used).
Just to be save I changed the remaining incomplete sticker sheets to 'used'.
And I will re-list the deleted items as 'used'. Hopefully I can still
fing the pictures of the deleted items.
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Sticker sheets missing stickers must be listed as Used.
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Why can't partial sheets be sold as new, but indicating incomplete?
After
all, it happens a lot with minifigures, even though parts are missing and there
is no formal incomplete setting.
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It shouldn't happen with minifigures either. If a fig is incomplete, it should
be listed as parts or listed in the custom items section. Otherwise you are watering
down the price guide.
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It does happen and if reported partial figures (such as head and torso only)
are not always removed.
If it shouldn't happen then there needs to be an enforced rule plus a reason
not to do it repeatedly.
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| Author: | FlyingEugene | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 19:02 | | Subject: | Re: My Collection Page | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I would like some sort of feature like this that could also show what you own
when browsing stores. As of now, I have to use the wanted lists to document
what I own. That way, when I browse a store, I can see what I own. However,
this makes me have about 30 wanted lists so I can keep track of different categories
of things I own plus my actual wanted lists for things I am looking to buy.
I just don't search my "owned" wanted lists when buying.
In Suggestions, redrabbit72 writes:
| | Make a My Collection Page.
For sets and minifigures only. Have it so when browsing sets and minifigures
you could check that set or minifigure as "My Collection". Kind of how you do
MY Wanted List.
The user could then view their collection and see:
1) what the average price of the set or collection is and over all total.
2) Give multiple views including the normal Category Tree.
3) have an option to see what figures you are missing with in that drilled down
Category Tree, would it then make it easier to search and buy the ones you are
missing.
4) Bonus if you could also list how many you have of each set/minifigure, with
an option to sell a number of them if you don't need.
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| Author: | redrabbit72 | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 18:11 | | Subject: | My Collection Page | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Make a My Collection Page.
For sets and minifigures only. Have it so when browsing sets and minifigures
you could check that set or minifigure as "My Collection". Kind of how you do
MY Wanted List.
The user could then view their collection and see:
1) what the average price of the set or collection is and over all total.
2) Give multiple views including the normal Category Tree.
3) have an option to see what figures you are missing with in that drilled down
Category Tree, would it then make it easier to search and buy the ones you are
missing.
4) Bonus if you could also list how many you have of each set/minifigure, with
an option to sell a number of them if you don't need.
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| Author: | chetzler | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2020 18:08 | | Subject: | Re: Please give notice before deleting a listing | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, chetzler writes:
| | | | It shouldn't happen with minifigures either. If a fig is incomplete, it should
be listed as parts or listed in the custom items section. Otherwise you are watering
down the price guide.
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And yet nothing was done, and nary a soul even seemed to care when I pointed
this out earlier this month:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1216364
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You are always free to submit a problem report.
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I believe I just did.
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