Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | CBricks1981  | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2021 10:38 | | Subject: | Adress information clarification | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi,
As a seller I sometimes have trouble with deciphering some buyer adresses. Specifically
with international shipments to foreign countries I often need to contact the
buyer for what is what.
I was wondering if it would be possible if Bricklink could show something like
an adress template in the orders like mentioned below, so that it's clear
what is what instead it shows all the Adress info without clarification.
Jack Brick
Legolane 100b-2
12345 Legocity
Baseplateregion
Legoland
Name:Jack Brick
Street: Legolane
Housenumber: 100b
Appartment:
Floor: 2
Zipcode: 12345
City: Legocity
Region: Baseplateregion
Country: Legoland
Etc.....
With kind regards,
Chris
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2021 20:44 | | Subject: | Refund amount should be seller amounts | | Viewed: | 163 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I just did a partial refund. It worked, but it was not intuitive.
To do the refund correctly, I had to reverse engineer the tax rate that was used
on the order. That tax rate is not currently disclosed, only the calculated
tax.
The seller should have nothing to do with calculating the sales tax to
do a refund. The seller should only enter the net value of items being refunded,
and the net value (if any) of the shipping being refunded. The sales tax calculation
mechanism should then calculate the correct sales tax part of the refund.
This is going to be a much larger concern once BL supports sales tax exemptions.
It will soon be a concern because of the peculiar way that some states (e.g.
Florida) determine when sales tax applies to shipping, and when it does not.
This is knowledge that the system has, and the seller (in a different state)
usually will not have.
Please make this much more seller friendly, and intuitive.
Nita Rae
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| Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2021 14:18 | | Subject: | Separate "New price" from "New tiering price" | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| On the Mass Inventory Upload page, the first dropdown under "Consolidate Lots
By Using:" is:
New Price and New Tier Pricing
Can we get that separated into two dropdowns? I want to set a new price but leave
the old tier pricing.
Or maybe there can be a verify page, like the second page of parting out
a set, where I can see the current tier pricing and make the changes as needed
if the new price is lower than the current tier price?
Seller tool changes please?
Thanks for considering this.
Donna
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| Author: | Thisoldtoyhouse | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2021 12:13 | | Subject: | 30598 | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I am trying to add 30598, which is marked for deletion, due to the colors being
individually assigned part #'s. If you post that an item is going to be
deleted, due to this issue, then please supply the part #'s, on that page...ie:
30598, so that we can simply add the new part #'s to our inventory.
I cannot find the new part #'s assigned to this item in the various colors
that I currently have.
Can you help, please????
harry
ThisOldToyHouse
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2021 10:29 | | Subject: | Sort wanted lists by color after item name | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Gist: I'd like the "Item Name" sort order in the wanted list search to secondary
sort by Color Name, like "Color Name, Item Name" but flipped.
Reasoning: When I'm filling my wanted lists from my collection, I'm doing
it by Item Name because this is how my collection is sorted. However, it's
hard for me to see how many of a part in a single color I need since it seems
the secondary sorting order is by Wanted list name which is pretty random. As
a result, The same Elements (Part + Color) aren't grouped together and it's
somewhat inconvenient.
It's a small change for a small inconvenience.
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| Author: | BrickTobi | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2021 09:25 | | Subject: | Monochrome Minifigures | | Viewed: | 220 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Proposal for extension of the catalog.
I think there is a very big market for monochrome minifigures. So far, these
are considered custom items.
I would like to suggest establishing a separate category for monochrome minifigures
in the "standard version" of all colors.
For example "Minifigure Monochrome - white".
I look forward to your estimation and feedback
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Apr 15, 2021 17:43 | | Subject: | Default shipping option | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi
I don't know if this had been on this forum before, but I really get irritated
by the fact that there is a default shipping (and payment) method preset.
Over and over buyers select the wrong shipping method because this is the default
option. So order a small object for 12 euro and choose parcel track&trace @ 32,50
for shipping. This means I first have to ask them if this is really the option
they want, wait for their answer, correct shipping method etc.
Or in a less extreme example send out the invoice and get buyers who are upset
about the high shipping costs.
Today at least 5 out of ten orders have what looks a not quite logical shipping
method chosen by the buyer. If I make another method default it won't change
this, buyers will select letter untracked for a 2 kg worth 200 euro shipping.
Maybe I do something wrong, so first let me ask if there is a method to let buyers
FORCE to make a choice about shipping (and payment!!) and if this is not possible
PLEASE make it possible to sellers NOT to have the default shipping and payment
method pre-selected in their shop.
As a buyer I also sometimes make the mistake to click to fast and bypass the
option to change the shipping and payment methods. So I understand this happens
and I don't blame my buyers. (but the system...)
So it will be much less frustration for both buyer and seller.
Sorry if this is a silly question for which there is a simple solution, and so
there will be one thanks for telling me how I should change the setting.
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| Author: | tpr | | Posted: | Apr 15, 2021 10:51 | | Subject: | Admins - for your consideration | | Viewed: | 159 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi
is in Wheels - Accessory --- totally understandable
is in Wheels.
It states its a holder, it won't move on its own !! Its not a wheel !!
Should it not be considered in the next batch of items to be moved, and move
it to Wheels Accessories
Thanks
tpr
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Apr 14, 2021 20:57 | | Subject: | Toggle lists from wanted list search page | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I have several wanted lists with separated between a few different purposes and
I would like to be able to search in a subset of them, the same way it's
possible to select all or only some wanted lists in the Buy page.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Apr 14, 2021 15:15 | | Subject: | Normalize item/color sorting across website | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Wanted list and Order lists currently are sorted differently for item name and
color name.
As a result, it's been inconvenient to match parts from order placed to wanted
lists.
Example for item name:
Given a "Plate 1 x 8" and a "Plate 1 x 10":
- In wanted lists, "Plate 1 x 10" will appear before "Plate 1 x 8" (strict alphabetical
order)
- In order lists, "Plate 1 x 8" will appear before "Plate 1 x 12" (correct numerical
order)
Example for color name"
Given a "Reddish Brown" part and a "Pearl Gold" part:
- In wanted lists, the "Reddish Brown" part will appear before the "Pearl Gold"
part (plain colors first like in color selection drop down lists)
- In order lists, the "Pearl Gold" part will appear before the "Reddish Brown"
part (strict alphabetical order)
Now, I don't mind either of these couple of ordering (although I have a personal
preference for correct numerical order for item names and plain colors first)
but I'd like for both ordering to be consistent across the whole BrickLink
website.
Thank you for your consideration!
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| Author: | mpokhylets | | Posted: | Apr 14, 2021 14:46 | | Subject: | Wanted list: sort by missing qty | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I think it would be useful to sort the wanted list by the quantity of items that
still need to be purchased = MAX(MINQTY - QTYFILLED, 0)
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| Author: | Greenbutterfly | | Posted: | Apr 4, 2021 00:48 | | Subject: | Wanted list uploads blocked by custom parts | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I have a very, very large model of a cathedral. I originally designed it in LDD
18 years ago and now updating it in stud.io.
The cathedral has a balcony with railings. I've created a couple of custom
parts for the railings to fit around the columns... the presence of these railings
in my IO file blocks the upload to my wanted list because they are not genuine
parts available through BL.
I'd like to see those parts ignored... or at least an option to do so.
I know there's the workaround of going through the IO file and deleting them
to upload. But my file has over 46000 parts, these custom parts are embedded
several layers deep in multiple sub-sub-sub-models... which means they're
difficult to find because stud.io doesn't have a fully function find-replace
mechanism (I and plenty of others have requested it, and requested that it work
with sub-models as well as main model).
This is still a work in progress, so I'm not really wanting to delete them
because re-instating them is going to be a pain. Plus with the size of the model
stud.io doesn't behave quite as it should anyway because of all the memory
leaks in it (which is going to affect any attempt to copy-paste the file then
delete the custom parts in the copy)...
PS. I'm sure I've requested this before, but for the life of me cannot
find it. stud.io isn't the only thing with memory leaks 
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| Author: | Emporiosa | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2021 09:02 | | Subject: | Add tax inclusive/exempt option on refund | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Had a thought about the previous discussion where it is quite confusing currently
for processing refunds for US states that have collected sales tax. As it stands,
the refund box has us enter an amount, and then below it calculates the amount
that will come from the seller/PayPal, and the amount from the taxes BrickLink
collected, so a seller has to know the rate of tax for the state of the buyer
and also include it in the total.
Suggestion:
-Beside the box where you enter the refund amount, include a "tax inclusive"
and "tax exclusive" radio button where the seller can select it.
This would allow sellers to not have to know the rate of state for the state
and manually calculate it by selecting "tax exclusive", meaning the calculation
below will take that amount, and ADD tax to the total (not as a % of the total
the seller put in).
But this also allows what Niek (qwertyboy) had suggested where if you want to
give a higher total amount, you can check tax inclusive so it'll act the
way that it's currently programmed.
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| Author: | tbbarton | | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 15:09 | | Subject: | Remove spellcheck from key search fields | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Spellcheck loves to tell you the game of a figure, part or code isn’t a word.
I assume the dictionary is local to devices so maybe don’t allow spellcheck to
overwrite key search fields?
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 11:37 | | Subject: | If color image exists add it co Known Colors | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I know that suggesting new features might mean hitting a wall, but here we go.
As the Catalog Admins only accept pictures of items in colors that are not in
inventories if the part is in hand, then update the known colors list with this
data.
Also, this might tie with an update to be able to find parts that have a color
image from this page: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp (now, if they
are not in a inventory they don't show up.)
And even further, show the selected color image not the standard one...
Hope this is read by a BL Dev someday 
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| Author: | jdinklage | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 14:05 | | Subject: | Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 394 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Please stop blocking my access to the parts I need. I am extremely annoyed that
you won't allow me to buy items from so many sellers I need to because they
aren't paying my taxes. They "don't support orders that ship to Massachusetts".
You are literally screwing up my access to rare parts that are only available
on this site. You are hurting part of this hobby for me. STOP IT! I am only
a buyer and not a seller. I understand you must be going through some growing
pains trying to get all the sellers to pay taxes, but don't take it out on
the buyers. Seriously stop blocking my access to the parts I need. Not allowing
me to ship items to my home from sellers who are willing to ship them to me is
a legitimate reason for me to be pissed. You are forcing me to go buy clone
parts off site when I don't really want to as an immediate direct result
of this action.
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 01:09 | | Subject: | Please spend more time on taxes | | Viewed: | 135 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hey BL,
Please spend more time on taxes, that is definitely the one aspect of this site
I care the most about. As a seller, please, please don’t waste your time on developing
seller tools, tools are for dummies. Also, please don’t fix website bugs, they
don’t hurt anyone. And furthermore, please don’t spend any time on catching up
on support desk requests, why bother?
There are only two certainties in life, death and taxes. You can’t develop website
tax implementation when your dead, so please, let’s get these taxes right! From
now on it’s taxes, taxes, taxes! That’s why people visit BL right?
Who’s with me?
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| Author: | wolbar | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 23:35 | | Subject: | Phone numbers for orders | | Viewed: | 106 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| International shipments from Canada have to have the receiver's phone number
for security purposes. Please have users enter their phone numbers along with
their addresses for orders automatically.
Thank you
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| Author: | lcgs13 | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 09:15 | | Subject: | Filter for buying in stores | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi there.
As a buyer I often use the wanted lists filter for buying in stores.
But, annoyingly, I always see all the parts the store has from the selected lists,
instead of only the parts that I am still missing.
Just add the flag of hidding items where wanted quantity
Thank You!
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| Author: | Anthony_NL | | Posted: | Mar 26, 2021 08:01 | | Subject: | Updating ancient Help Center items | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello,
I came accross some old images of how a message alert looks like on https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=125.
But since BrickLink doesn't look like that anymore, my suggestion is to update
the pictures. It is (or at least sounds) very simple and turns these useless
images into helpful ones. Maybe there are other images (or even texts) that ask
for an update too, but I only came accross this one.
Regards,
Anthony.
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| Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2021 21:35 | | Subject: | Color Addition | | Viewed: | 123 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Can we please add Chrome Red to the catalog? It's the only Chrome color missing.
Thanks, Bret
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2021 08:45 | | Subject: | Just a thought | | Viewed: | 146 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| In 13 years on the site I do not believe much as been implemmented that has been
suggested but here is another one to ponder.
Several times a year there are problems on the site regarding e-mails being sent
out. That pertains to either notifies, order notifications, etc. Most recently
there is a problem again with notifies. With orders you can simply check your
order detail page and see if there is something new on there. But with notifies
if you do not receive an email you have nothing. No idea whether the messages
went out nor to how many buyers. And even more importantly you cannot re-do it.
Opportunity lost for both your store and of course, Bricklink. Quite a dilemma
really as apart from your store page (And that is more than limited for this
day and age)there is no other marketing tool available to sellers.
What if the following were implemented
Create a notify log similar to the part out log (which is pretty underwhelming,
but at least it is something).
The notifies log could be created using a query on the SQL transaction log and
it could look something like this in the first instance:
Date No Lots (uniques) No Notifies Status
20/03/2021 333 1257 Success
21/03/2021 158 754 Success
This might take a non-sql person an hour or so to write the code but it would
be worth its weight in gold to sellers. The no of notifies could be a link to
the calendar file which shows the uniques listed and the status, provided it
shows success at least lets you know they were sent out.
Any thoughts?
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| Author: | VJBricks | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2021 12:57 | | Subject: | List the items that have no dimensions | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| Hi,
I've seen a bad situation where BrickLink can told to use a particular shipping
method but the parts does not fit with the method, because on the restriction
on the dimensions. The problem is due to the absence of dimensions of one part
in the catalog.
In the Inventory page, I am able to list all items missing the weight in the
catalog. It would be great to have an identical filter to identify items without
dimensions.
Regards,
porchy
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| Author: | enfurnoh | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2021 05:35 | | Subject: | Part colour matching | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| One thing I would find VERY useful would be the ability to pick a selection of
part and then see what colours they have in common.
I do a lot of MOC's in Studio before I build them in the real. A lot of
times I just want to a colour change but many parts are not available in all
colours. If I could choose the parts I want to check and then see which colours
they all have in common it would save a ton of time. I doubt I'm the only
one who would find this useful.
You already have all the data in your system, it wouldn't be that hard to
code that option.
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| Author: | roguemjr | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2021 15:44 | | Subject: | Choosing stockroom when adding to inventory | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Is it possible to have the box automatically pick add to stockroom when you use
the drop down menu to pick which stockroom you want to put part in. Right now,
if i pick "B" in the drop down menu, I have to make a second click to add it
to stockroom B even after I pick "B."
Thanks,
Michael
roguemjr
Madstone's Emporium
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| Author: | TechnicBuilt | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2021 14:03 | | Subject: | Forum for new seller testing | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| As a new seller I think it would be nice to have a dedicated forum category where
you can ask people to test your store setup when you first open so they can catch
any issues and provide feedback to ease a new seller into their first few days
of opening.
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| Author: | Swamp_Kryakwa | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2021 14:01 | | Subject: | Constraction categorisation needs fixes | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Constraction series parts (Bionicle, HF, SW buildable figures, Slizer, Chima
buildable figures, Ben 10) has really messy categorisation. ATM, there are 4
categories that contain parts from that series, and the way this categorisation
is done isn't best. First and most obvious thing - "Large Figure Torso Armor
2 Chest Holes" (id 90652), which falls off the whole system (mostly, part is
categorised depending on which series presented it first - HF for HF, Bionicle
for Bionicle, Technic for Slizer and Large Figure for any other), being presented
as HF part it's treated as Large Figure one.
But things don't end there. IMO, the way constraction parts are categorised
is really off for Bricklink. What I suggest? We should have 2 categories which
will contain constraction elements: Bionicle-ish ones (parts before 2011), and
CCBS one (constraction parts from 2011 and latter ones), and maybe keep some
ones like socket parts in Technic, but I'm unsure about that. Also maybe
Ben 10 parts should stay in Large Figures, this one is fine to me. This will
suit Bricklink way better than what we have today, IMO.
P.S. If we need to keep things close to what we have today for any reason (having
parts categories based on figure series), I still suggest moving all CCBS to
one single category, their usage is really wide, we can't say about most
of them that it's HF-only part, and part "Technic, Ball Joint 2 x 7 with
2 Ball Joint" (id 32173) should be moved to Bionicle - despite appearing for
first time Slizer, it's too confusing that this part is separated from all
other Bionicle-like parts.
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| Author: | Doodlebug | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2021 18:41 | | Subject: | Item number changes | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| It would be helpful if Admin would send out a notification when they change an
item number.
How frustrating is it to look for a part in my inventory only to find the number
has been changed.
If a notice is sent out for items marked for deletion, why can't it be done
for changes.
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| Author: | Swamp_Kryakwa | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2021 17:08 | | Subject: | Fix color inconsistency | | Viewed: | 199 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Bricklink is missing lots of colors, and says that parts produced in that colors
have some different ones. Also, Trans-Medium Blue is treated as non-neon color,
which is big mistake. Trans-Medium Blue IS Neon color, and I want such issues
to be fixed
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| Author: | aquarian | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2021 06:08 | | Subject: | Mark wishlist "ordered" | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| If you have multiple wishlists, some older, some newer, some ordered, some not,
it may be difficult to remember what you still need to order. So I'd suggest
a checkbox or something inside a wishlist to mark a whole list or individual
parts as "ordered". They wouldn't appear in your wanted part listing, so
you'd see what parts you're actually still missing.
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| Author: | CPgolfaddict | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2021 02:02 | | Subject: | Add tier price indicator to price guide pages | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Price Guide lots that are part of a super lot have (S) next to the quantity.
Lots with a bulk quantity have (xNN) where NN is the bulk quantity.
Please add (tNN) when a lot has a tier discount. "t" for tier and the number
NN is the smallest quantity tier offered for that lot. For example: if a seller's
lot has tiers of 100 and 500 then show (t100)
Having just (T) or (t) in the price guide would be better than nothing.
Thoughts anyone? If a lot has both tier and bulk how about (x,t) with no quantity?
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| Author: | Ninepartsred | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2021 09:23 | | Subject: | Option to exclude incomplete instructions | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| We have the option to exclude incomplete sets from searches but I'm coming
across a lot of instructions entries that are missing parts and I'd like
to filter them out as I'm looking for complete ones.
I'm not suggesting disallowing individual parts as people may need them to
complete a set.
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2021 07:08 | | Subject: | Colour Abbreviations for Catalog Navigation? | | Viewed: | 205 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Just an idea I’m putting out there for future consideration because with colour
abbreviations it can give you useful options for catalog use/navigation!
For starters I glanced at all the different colours and it didn’t appear to be
too difficult to give each colour a suitable 3 Letter abbreviation though it
goes without saying that a few colours may be forced to have a 4 letter abbreviation
but they will likely be just a very few obscure colours such as Very Light Bluish
Grey (VLBG) or Trans Light Bright Green (TLBG) but even if it became problematic
some colours may not even benefit as much from the need to have an abbreviation
compared to the more widely and commonly used colours
Either way here are just a few quick abbreviation examples:-
Black – BLK
White – WHT
Reddish Brown – RBR
Dark Brown – DBR
Light Bluish Grey – LBG
Dark Bluish Grey – DBG
Dark Grey – DGR
Red – RED
Blue – BLU
Dark Blue – DBL
Green – GRN
Olive Green – OGN
Tan – TAN
Dark Tan – DTN
Orange – ORG
Dark Orange – DOR
Yellow – YEL
It’s also worth mentioning that the idea would be to have these abbreviations
on display wherever we see colour descriptions which is pretty much anywhere
in the catalog and so if we had abbreviations like this I don’t think it would
take long for people to memorize them and put them to good use so that instead
of searching for ‘Dark Tan hair’ they can just search ‘DTN hair’ or instead of
‘Light Bluish Gray Helmets’ they can just search ‘LBG Helmets’. The other benefit
is that where space is limited in descriptions a Torso could contain ‘RBR Belt
Buckle’ instead of ‘Reddish Brown Belt Buckle’
However once you have colour abbreviations in places their uses can be extended
in other ways too for instance if they are combined with a minifigure part to
create a unique combined colour/part reference such as Legs-DBR (Dark Brown Legs)
or Torso-GRN (Green Torso) these combos can be exclusively used to narrow down
search results for minifigures in ways where you barely need to worry about trying
to guess or work out what keywords have been used and in some cases you won’t
even need to know the name of the character!
For Example if I start with this Henry Minifigure description in its most basic
form it would look something like this:-
Henry - Torso-RBR, Hair-DTN, Head-LNO, Legs-OGN
Granted it’s not the most visually pleasing of minifig descriptions and right
now you’re probably thinking it looks a confusing mess but translated it basically
reads ‘Reddish Brown Torso, Dark Tan Hair, Light Nougat Head and Olive Green
Legs
Now even before I add keywords to that description or even if it already had
keywords and I wasn’t sure what keywords to try? If I had that minifig in my
hand and I didn’t know the name of the character I will at least still be reassured
that with a simple search for some or all of those main minifig part colours
it will either bring up what I’m looking for or narrow it down considerably.
For example if I search for say both ‘Hair-DTN Legs-OGN’ that Henry minifig will
be the only minifigure match that comes up because it’s the only minifigure in
the catalog that currently includes both Dark Tan hair and Olive Green Legs.
Now even if I search for both ‘Hair-DTN Head-LNO’ I’m sure I will still only
get a very small page of matches and that’s before I’ve even attempted to narrow
down with character names Like Luke or Han or the colour/description of the torsos/legs
etc etc...
Essentially if minifigure descriptions were laid out in a format something like
this:-
Minifig Character/Type (*) - Torso/Arms-COLOUR (*), Hair/Headgear-COLOUR(*),
Head-COLOUR (*), Legs/Hips-COLOUR (*), (*Other Keywords)
where the (*) represents where keywords can be added for each core minifigure
component (as/when necessary) it would then mean a revised and more detailed
example of the Henry Minifigure might look something like this even though the
description may not need to be quite as detailed for helping to find this particular
minifig:-
Henry - Torso-RBR, Arms-WHT (Brown Waistcoat, White Tunic), Hair-DTN (Swept Back
Ponytail), Head-LNO (DS, Open Mouth Smile/Worried), Legs-OGN
Its worth mentioning that the ‘DS’ after head represents Double Sided Head (SS
= Single Sided) which would allow you to narrow down even further with just a
couple of extra letters added within search criteria
However one thing to also notice is that you can still search for specific colours
such as the ‘White’ print details found on legs or torsos such as the white tunic
without needing to worry about it bringing up core components in white as they
will only come up if you search ‘Arms-WHT’, Legs-WHT, Torso-WHT, Head-WHT, Hair-WHT
whereas searching for white alone would mean the colour can be set aside for
prints allowing you to be more specific with your overall minifig search results...
Here are a few more examples of how similar minifigs might look:-
Han Solo - Torso-WHT (Shirt), Hair-RBR, Head-LNO (SS, Smirk), Legs-RBR
Han Solo - Torso-WHT (Shirt), Hair-RBR (Wavy), Head-LNO (DS, Closed Eyes), Legs-DBR
Han Solo (Senior) - Torso-DBR (Jacket), Hair-LBG, Head-LNO (DS, Angry), Legs-BLK
(Printed Gunbelt)
Han Solo (Hoth) - Torso-DBL (Jacket), Headgear-DBL (Parka Hood), Head-LNO (SS,
Smirk), Hips-DBL, Legs-TAN (Printed Gunbelt)
Knight (Crusader Lion) - Torso-Red, Arms-BLU, Headgear-DGR (Neck Protector Helmet),
Head-YEL (SS), Hips-BLK, Legs-BLU
I appreciate in might not be to everyone’s liking but it does for the most part
seem to work and I’m pretty sure I could even use it to tackle all those samey
spider-man minifigs without having to worry too much about relying on vague (Web
Pattern) keywords and focusing more on the definitive colours of Torsos, legs,
hips, arms and definitive styles such as printed/legs arms etc…
But again just some ideas for another day perhaps?
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| Author: | PMOman555 | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2021 15:05 | | Subject: | XML files | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| So I want to create an xml file out of a normal bricklink parts list or stud.io
file. Is there any way this is possible without having to manually type each
individual letter to make the xml file?
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| Author: | Family.Bricks | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2021 03:08 | | Subject: | Items with no dimensons - shipping trouble | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello community,
I probably have missed the correct option to select, but heres my problem and
suggestion anyways.
I´ve ran into trouble with instant checkout on my little store, while buyers
have items ordered, which have no dimensions listed.
Since most lego parts are lightweight, for example the letter option (20/75g)
will be used if only weight (or nothing) is , and the restriction for height
(max 5mm for a letter austrian post) does no efect.
So shipping costs for example are set to 1€ for instant checkout, but with the
real dimensions of the item costs will be like 5,60 €.
I guess you get what I mean.
Is there any option already implemented?
"Backup for instant checkout" does not solve my problem
Would it be good to add an option in the settings, if items do not have dimensions
saved, and the buyer has one or more of them in the shopping-cart when checking
out, a warning should be shown and only QUOTE will be available?
I think this would be a great addition for both sellers and buyers. I appreciate
to get the correct shipping costs before I pay myself. And not having a discussion
after, maybe resulting in a bad feedback for no reason.
Thank you in advance for any help or opinions,
Gunny
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| Author: | Hexy | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2021 02:16 | | Subject: | Adding to wanted list image | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| A couple of days ago I looked into some of my wanted lists to find several parts
marked as not applicable. I then went back to the catalogue entries and found
the issue. when adding an item to a wanted list before selecting a colour, the
image that shows is a coloured one, not one asking you to pick a colour. People
who just take a glance are fooled by a coloured image. I think it would be worth
adding a generic image, one that says please pick a colour or something like
that. The image below shows what I mean
Regards,
Theo - The_RealRedHex
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| Author: | MunchMan155 | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2021 23:39 | | Subject: | Price in search results | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I'd really like the see the order total in my Wanted search results. One
store may charge $20 for the parts I need, the one next to it charges $0.20.
I could save a lot of clicking and time by knowing which stores are not worth
clicking on. Sorting by price should come with this. Thanks!
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| Author: | Grosoleil | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2021 08:21 | | Subject: | Image recognition feature | | Viewed: | 150 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| It would be nice to have an image recognition feature for parts, especially minifigure
heads, there are so many!
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| Author: | sylvie08 | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2021 21:51 | | Subject: | Generic payment method options | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Under payment methods can we please have a generic customised option that we
can create.
Ie afterrpay, zip pay, Hume, lay by, etc.
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| Author: | sf_bricks | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2021 06:04 | | Subject: | general store coupon | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello,
it would be nice to have the option to create a general coupon what i can give
to customers for example what they can use the next time. At the moment there
is only the option to create a coupon directly to one user.
Whats your opinion?
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| Author: | StrykerIndustry | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2021 20:25 | | Subject: | Order status options | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| If a buyer pays for an order outside of the Bricklink invoice, there's no
way to mark the order as shipped or complete. We've had several instances
of this in our store and the most we can do is mark the order as "packed". Please
expand these options.
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2021 11:03 | | Subject: | Move Daily Maintenance time: BL office hours | | Viewed: | 161 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Please move the time for the daily maintenance (and any other site updates) to
a time when BrickLink staff are available to troubleshoot and fix problems.
Since BrickLink is global, having the site down for a few minutes will always
inconvenience someone. As your tech support is not 24/7, it makes sense to make
changes to the site when someone is around to fix problems.
It would show us all that you are serious about addressing the issues around
here and that international sellers shouldn't have to bear the brunt of unexpected
errors.
Jen
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Feb 27, 2021 10:07 | | Subject: | Please add Specials category to store lots | | Viewed: | 105 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Why must buyers search for items with marked down prices in a store?
Please make a specials category on the left navigation frame on top of sets which
include items on sale or any other special interest items with the lot count
next to such items as well. So that instead of all the sets a seller has to offer
being the first thing a buyer sees, have a specials and sale items category first
which can be navigated in the same manner as sets, parts or anything else (this
might make it easier to see custom items as well).
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| Author: | CanadaFirst | | Posted: | Feb 26, 2021 14:06 | | Subject: | No longer make NSS default communication | | Viewed: | 136 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| We've had this situaton happen a couple of times in the past:
A new or new-ish user to the site places and order and receives it. There is
either a part missing, something that got broken in transit or any other situation.
The user, not being used to dealing with the platform, goes to the order and
sees the 'report a problem' link. They click it, follow the instructions
and then BLAM! we have an NSS to deal with. When we explain the situation to
them they understand that they should have sent a message and they remove the
NSS but this is counterintuitive.
If someone clicks on the 'report a problem' link the system should work
differently. Example, they click the link, select that a part was missing
or whatever and then they get a popup with two choices. One is contact buyer
and sends a message, the other is create an NSS and it has something like 'I
contacted the buyer and did not receive a response for 24 hours and want to go
ahead with further escalation' or something to that effect.
This would make things easier on everyone and help educate customers better.
Last time we received such an NSS, the client removed it and said that he had
realized that he had made the mistake himself while ordering, this never should
have been escalated. NSS is a process that requires a lot more work to resolve
than simple messages.
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| Author: | wyvern | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 20:17 | | Subject: | How are catalog colors made? | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| What's the process for color selection when making the little "swatch" next
to every color in the catalog? My guess is taking a picture of a part and eyedropping
the color in Photoshop. For the less straightforward colors like trans, chrome,
speckled, etc. how do you decide what's the best representation of them as
one solid color?
Going along with that, I think it would be cool if those special colors had more
unique swatches. For example, glitter's look like regular colors, so I think
there should be little shiny dots to separate it from the solid colors. Speckled
should be speckled with their respective colors. Obviously it would be a ridiculous
priority for admins, but it would be a nice detail maybe someday.
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| Author: | Pendra38 | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 14:57 | | Subject: | Shipping cost included in auto cart creation | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Many times I run into the problem that the auto cart creating feature creates
unnecessary carts. It does that because that other store has the part a bit cheaper.
So it saves like 0.1 Euro. However, the extra card creates an extra 3-4 Euro
shipping cost.
Would it be possible to add the following features.
Filter not only for seller Country but to seller City/Location. This would facilitate
personal pickup to cut down on the shipping.
Also add an input field for a flat shipping cost figure. In my country, the domestic
shipping cost is about 4 Euro. If I could add that into the equation, I think
Bricklink would cut down on the needless carts and would tend create the optimal
solution with Shipping cost included.
Thank you!
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| Author: | Tracyd | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2021 14:41 | | Subject: | Wanted List streamlining | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| When building a Wanted List if you use the part number we shouldn't have
to pick a part category.
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| Author: | mvfisker | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2021 13:35 | | Subject: | Brexit | | Viewed: | 219 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten
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| Author: | Thebrickaholicu | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2021 13:03 | | Subject: | Better view / functions | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Afternoon everyone!
I was wondering if there is any movement / thoughts towards a better website
experience on mobile /
Tablet.
I find it almost unusable and hard to believe in this day and age.
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| Author: | suzanator | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2021 00:27 | | Subject: | Wanted List Organization | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I have a bunch of wanted lists, and I like to prioritize my lists in order to
keep track of the ones for which I am actively purchasing parts. Can you please
make it so that the organization selection of choice (in my case by "Name") stays?
Currently, when I leave wanted list and come back, the organization reverts
back to the default to arrange by "Newest". TIA!
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| Author: | BrickEmAll | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2021 02:57 | | Subject: | Country flags by usernames, feedback support | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi,
I was wondering if it’s possible to let people see which country they’re from
(little flags). For instance: at the feedback page of a store. So new buyers
can see directly (flag) the feedback posts of fellow countrymen. It would be
more convincing for them to buy from other countries. And with this COVID it
will help to convince them that shipping is ok from other countries.
Just an idea
Greets
Joeri & Belinda
BrickEmAll / BricksNstuff
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| Author: | ThisOneBrick | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2021 10:39 | | Subject: | Wanted Lists: Sublists | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| My number of Wanted Lists has expanded into chaos. I'm working on a big project
and I would really appreciate sublists (or superlists) in the Wanted List section.
What I mean is basically the possibility to have a new list inside of a Wanted
List. For example a regular Wanted List containing a load of items AND another
list called "extra parts". Or a Wanted List called "castle" containing my castle
related lists. I hope you get the idea. Please make this happen!!
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| Author: | Sowhatbricks2.0 | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2021 13:08 | | Subject: | lower the NPB timeframe | | Viewed: | 134 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Can we lower the NPB time from 7 days to 2 days? Giving buyers almost 2 weeks
before a NPB ticket is completed is to long. If they don't respond to Bricklink
invoices, messages or emails directly in the first 5 days they shouldn't
get another 7 days.
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2021 09:04 | | Subject: | Adjusting Colour Names such as Bluish Grey? | | Viewed: | 480 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| It will be known to many that I’ve always favoured the idea of using official
Lego colour names not because I like them better or think they describe the
colours better (Many are very odd choices!) but simply because it creates less
uncertainty about what I’m selling and what the customer thinks they are buying
however I’ve made that argument already and now’s probably the time to accept
that Bricklink colour names are unlikely to match that of the Lego group!
However one thing that has always jarred me somewhat is the use of the term ‘Bluish’
to describe the greys when I’m sure if it was’nt for the need to fit around the
older existing greys already in the catalog both would have no doubt just been
given the simple description Dark/Light Grey instead of Dark/Light Bluish Grey?
The thing is the way I see it Bricklink uses its own colour names for three main
reasons:-
A) Lego never provided a colour name for them to use (at least not in the early
days!)
B) They wanted their colour names to better describe and match the actual shade
of colour!
C) They wanted their colour names to be short and to the point!
However when it comes to those last two points colours like ‘Dark Bluish Grey’
and ‘Light Bluish Grey’ both fail to meet that ideal objective compared to most
of the other colour names that have been created by Bricklink. Both descriptions
are lengthy and somewhat misleading? If anything I see more ‘Bluish Grey’ in
a colour like Sand blue than either of these two greys and when all said and
done they are basically just Light and Dark Grey?
So what does it matter and what to do?
Well because they are both what I would call very common CORE central colours
in Legos colour palette it stands to reason that we should perhaps think about
giving them the most suitably descriptive name for them (Light and Dark grey?)
after all that is what any newbie or anyone else for that matter would define
them as?
Both of these colours are ‘very current’ where as the discontinued greys are
not so current and therefore probably don’t warrant the need for the best descriptive
name for them any longer? In fact if we were to rename the existing Light and
Dark Grey as ‘Old Light Grey’ or ‘Classic Light Grey’ I think this would also
be very helpful to newbies when they are confronted with so many different shades
of grey?
I would also consider using the ‘Old/Classic’ tag for some other discontinued
colours too like Brown i.e ‘Old Brown’ I have less problem with Reddish brown
remaining as that is at least what Lego themselves call it but ‘bluish’ is a
made up bricklink term that has little relevance to the actual colour nor does
Lego use the term? Lego may have added more blue to the actual colour mix than
the old greys but in appearance they are simply intended to be a Light and Dark
Grey in a new and current form hence I feel we should refer to them as such?
Also wherever we use the term ‘Very Light’ can I suggest using the term ‘Pale’.
i.e ‘Pale Grey’ instead of ‘Very Light Bluish Grey’ as shorter names are much
easier for people to read off the site and to label/Inventory their stocks even
if that does mean some initial disruption?
Lastly shouldn’t we at least try and mirror Lego’s reference to Grey and use
‘Grey’ instead of ‘Gray’ in the descriptions?
I hope others will share the same logic in what I’m trying to suggest or perhaps
I’m barking up the wrong tree? Thoughts?
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| Author: | jjprbr | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2021 04:39 | | Subject: | Bigger Image Thumbnails for Easier Browsing | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Browsing is a chore due to the very small thumbnails attached to each
set, item, etc. Please consider a listing format that can take advantage of modern
online retail listing standards. At this point, you're almost better off
browsing elsewhere (Amazon, eBay, etc), then coming here to plug in the item
number. Keep us here.
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| Author: | Littleapple | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2021 11:28 | | Subject: | Pricing for bulk uplaod | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Would be nice if you could have the system put the 6 month average price in when
you upload the XML.
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| Author: | hend0833 | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2021 15:43 | | Subject: | Avarage price near the items | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I am not sure ifthis has already been asked,but would it not be nice to have
the avarage priceofanitem in the lists? Just to compare?
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| Author: | 0to60 | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2021 10:58 | | Subject: | Put items on sale then round to two decimals | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I wish there was an option to put items on sale and then round to a set number
of decimal places.
You can make sales prices the base price and it gives you an option to round
there, but I would like to see an option to round at the put items on % sale
button.
Thanks
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| Author: | 0to60 | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2021 22:24 | | Subject: | Search filter within store | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| There is a search filter to assist in searching for pieces within a store.
One filter option is "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty"
I would love to see another filter option "Hide items if asking price max price"
You are able to set max price on wanted list items, but aren't able to do
much with that once you are shopping in a store.
Thanks
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| Author: | Afol1985 | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2021 16:17 | | Subject: | Box dimensions not just a text but option | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi
When you listing sets there is box dimensions presented as test . A x B x C cm
Is there any chance to make this as interactive ?
That I'll be able to easily find boxes in same or dimensions. Sometimes you
can buy outer box and later possibly you can but internal tray. With box dimensions
as selectable or some other way interactive maybe other users will be able to
use inner box from totally other different set to complete box what currently
missing of this.
For this moment it's totally manual process to find similar boxes
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| Author: | antant7 | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2021 13:12 | | Subject: | Shipping address stop list | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi all,
For the second time in a week I got an order from what appears to be a scam account.
Different names and email addresses but the shipping address is the same.
The first time, the bogus feedback was removed by the admins but I was left with
the transaction costs. I guess the bogus feedback will be removed again and thankfully
this time they didn't use instant checkout so no transaction costs.
In an ideal world, I would like to be able to place the shipping address on a
stop list so that the problem is stopped at the source and I don't have to
deal with any part of it at all.
Even better, BL could maintain such a stop list and require manual verification
before buying privileges are granted again after an account is closed as bogus.
Something similar to what sellers need to do before opening a store.
For now, I've solved at least the transaction costs problem by excluding
the country from instant checkout shipping methods but I can imagine that's
not a solution for everyone, especially when such an account is domestic.
Looking forward to your thoughts,
Ant
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| Author: | renaatdemuynck | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2021 10:12 | | Subject: | Make Studio Gallery designs versionable | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| It would be a great feature to be able to update a design with a newer, improved
version. This way, you don't have to publish multiple designs that look the
same, but with only some improvements. Also, this way you can keep the comments,
views, likes, etc...
It should also be possible to calculate the difference to the original (number
of parts added, deleted, moved or changed color). This way you can check if the
new version is not too far from the original (A house can't suddenly become
a car, can't it?)
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| Author: | ecobee | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2021 14:03 | | Subject: | including est. ship fees for auto-select | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi Bricklink,
I would like to propose a UI option for buying parts with auto-select.
Everytime I purchase my parts, I try to minimize the number of stores due to
the additional shipping fees. Therefore, it would be good to have an option to
include the estimated shipping fees per store (for example $5 per store not necessary
to be exact) so that auto-select considers the shipping cost while still minimizing
the total cost.
Regards,
ecobee
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| Author: | imre.i.horvath | | Posted: | Feb 5, 2021 19:13 | | Subject: | Wanted list custom import | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi!
My son has several custom lego building books with a list of materials. It is
very difficult to add this list to wanted lists one by one manually.
The import function would make it much easier to order these items.
A simple import with only 2 columns: part code, quantity (csv, xls, etc.) will
be perfect for this task.
Best regards,
Imre
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| Author: | Emporiosa | | Posted: | Feb 3, 2021 17:28 | | Subject: | Quote cancellation advises buyer | | Viewed: | 142 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Suggestion in regards to automatic quote cancellations:
I've never received a quote cancellation myself, but assuming it doesn't
already say so, it would be beneficial that when a quote cancellation is automatically
sent by the BrickLink system due to an item being sold out, that an automated
message to the buyer is sent out and indicating which item caused the quote cancellation
trigger.
I just received yet another message from a newer buyer asking why their quote
was cancelled and they wanted to accept it. To the buyer, it looks like sellers
are cancelling their quotes, when it's simply that a part that they ordered
is no longer available.
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| Author: | bajman | | Posted: | Jan 31, 2021 18:27 | | Subject: | Wanted List percent formula error | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| The formula for the Wanted List Percentage does not properly calculate the percentage
of "HAVE" parts compared to the "TOTAL" Parts. Should the % shown be the amount
of "Have" pieces vs the total number of "Wanted" pieces, or is it intended to
provide some other detail? It's not showing the percent of LOTS completed,
and its not showing the percent of Parts with Have qty equaling the Want qty.
The formula seems to be working is a convoluted way, combining the percentage
for Want/Have and the percentage of Lots with any Have parts, and the total number
of lots.
Example #1 to illustrate the issue:
Wanted list with TWO lots.
Lot #1, Want 100, Have 10 (This is 10% of the want value)
Lot #2, Want 900, Have 0 (This is 0% of the want value)
The Percentage bar should show 1% (10 of 1,000), but the formula produces 5%.
Example #2 to illustrate the issue:
Lot #1, Want 100, Have 0 (This is 0% of the want value)
Lot #2, Want 900, Have 900 (This is 100% of the want value)
The percentage bar should show 90% (900 of 1,000), but the formula produces 50%.
Example #3 to illustrate the issue:
Lot #1, Want 100, Have 0 (This is 0% of the want value)
Lot #2, Want 450, Have 900 (This is 50% of the want value)
The percentage bar should show 45% (450 of 1,000), but the formula produces 25%.
In all examples, the percentage shown does not equate to anything tangible, real
or useful, and if very misleading
Unfortunately, this misinformation has led to many, many lost hours and much
frustration.
Please work to correct the formula, so that the percentage bar is a real, actual,
useful representation of the data.
If by some odd situation, the bar is performing as intended, please clarify its
intended function.
Thank you,
Brandon
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| Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | Jan 30, 2021 12:39 | | Subject: | Clarification on (xBulk) Lots. | | Viewed: | 111 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Been getting a lot of inquiries recently from newer buyers asking about our bulk
lots that are sold in multiples of x10, x50, x100.
Was thinking that maybe the text i.e (x50) or (x100) on such bulk lots could
have a blue text with a link that explains that these lots have to be purchased
in the multiples that are inside bracketed amount and a clarification that the
price is per piece and not for a lot that contain 100 pieces (yes, we get buyers
who ask if we sell a bag of 100 pins for 2 cents per bag.)
While it seems intuitive to some of us, it might be a nice gesture toward new
users.
Obviously not a priority project.
"Here's a sample (anonymous of course) of a message we got this week:
Hello. Trying to figure out pricing on some items. For example "Black Technic,
Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise, Staggered, with or without Center Slots"
item 2780 it lists as QTY: 42,200 (x100) and says its a bag of 100. The price
is $0.02. If I want 150 is the quantity 150 or 2? I.e. is it 0.02 per bag or
per piece?"
Thanks for considering.
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| Author: | alfa30 | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2021 16:12 | | Subject: | wnated list ' whatsapp | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| hi
1.if you can please change when you press on part and click on add to my wanted
list , and you need to pick your list name from a lot of names in the list its
market with light yellow sign bar that you not able to see is very fade '
can you make it in gray or red is will be batter .
2. when will the wattsapp send wanted list will be avilible?
thanks
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| Author: | jek | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2021 03:12 | | Subject: | Not include UK in EU search | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi.
When I select "EU" as Seller-location search-filter, it still includes UK shops,
even thought they are no longer part of the EU.
I know there are suggestions and discussions before regarding VAT handling, which
I understand might be slightly more complicated to implement. But simply excluding
UK as part of the EU selection for filtering seems like a simple fix to me...
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| Author: | bb2068057 | | Posted: | Jan 26, 2021 01:32 | | Subject: | Making it clear you're about to order | | Viewed: | 189 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi
I have just accidentally ordered a set from a seller, because it wasn't clear
that I was about to place the order.
On Amazon, there is a final page which lists the total order amount including
shipping fees. I was trying to get to the Bricklink equivalent of this page so
that I could see how much delivery would cost, but before I knew it I had an
order confirmation number and so-on.
The fact that the order was about to be placed should be made a *lot* clearer,
especially for new users such as myself.
I managed to send a cancellation request about one minute after placing the order
- let's hope the seller is ok with it
Thanks in advance
Richiethom
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| Author: | BrickNotBombs | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2021 06:54 | | Subject: | Basket Prioritising | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| First Forum post! Be kind...
I don't know if this idea has been floated about before, but I'm a bit
of a 'wishlist basketeer', meaning I often build baskets based on what
I feel will come in useful, or what I want, and leave it to sit. I do this with
all sorts of stores to find the best pricing and shipping costs, which can, needless
to say, get quite messy.
What I do right now is have prioritised baskets in tabs, but it's not very
tidy or efficient.
I reckon it would be useful, not just to me, but to everyone, if we could arrange
our baskets in priority order; like a drag and drop list of baskets, or a rating
system or something.
What do y'all think?
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| Author: | atkk | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2021 20:27 | | Subject: | Please add more specific shipping methods | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Can you please add the ability for shipping methods to be specific to provinces
(not just countries)?
Shipping rates within Canada vary depending on the destination, so a specific
shipping method would automatically generate the correct cost depending on the
buyer's location.
Thank you!!
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| Author: | bb1610246 | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2021 09:36 | | Subject: | Completion bars color codes in Wanted List | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi,
I have a suggestion for the wanted list in order to be a little more visual.
What about adding color codes for the completion bar of each wanted list?
If you have several wanted lists for several items, it would be good to see them
in green only when they reach 100% so you instantly see which one you can start
building.
Then, you could have yellow for anything less than 100% and red for anything
les than 50%.
It is just my opinion, but it would give a better look at the wanted list page.
Thanks,
Regards,
Mrco
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| Author: | leggodtshop | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2021 04:16 | | Subject: | Macro Tags for country and language | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Please add (conditional) macro tags for a member's country and language.
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=662
There are a lot of tags but none for country or language. E.g. it would be nice
to send buyers messages in their own language i.c. the language they specified
to be communicated with. E.g. buyers in The Netherlands and part of Belgium could
specifiy as language Dutch. As seller it is then possible to create message templates
in different languages.
Thank you
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| Author: | DaanS | | Posted: | Jan 20, 2021 16:44 | | Subject: | Give buyer a warning when buying | | Viewed: | 182 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi there everyone,
I have recently bought my first parts from BrickLink, everything went smoothly
and i even got some parts in home!
However i just realised, that some parts in my XML list, why i bought and then
uploaded, contain some items with their color tagged as "(not applicable)", aka
the color isnt defined yet. However since this is my first buy i didnt notice
that these parts would be appointed a colour at random.
A great suggestion to prevent this from happening to me, or any new buyer is
maybe to add a small warning that you have some parts which do not have a colour
appointed.
Regards,
Daan
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| Author: | leggodtshop | | Posted: | Jan 20, 2021 15:02 | | Subject: | Editable Email subject for Invoice message | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Message Templates: Edit Order Invoice
Email subject
"Invoice for BrickLink Order #"
The Email subject is fixed / not modifiable, and I would like it to be editable
to suit my store's needs. E.g. replace the word 'Invoice' with something
else.
So I suggest to make this editable, including support for the macro's
in order to be able to match the email subject better with the contents of the
invoice template.
It is located on this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/message_templates.page#/1
Thx,
Arnoud
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| Author: | legouneed | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2021 07:07 | | Subject: | monthly maintenance downtime | | Viewed: | 117 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| The site will be down during the monthly maintenance
scheduled at 01/20 from 01:00 AM to 02:00 EST.
What is EST? It means nothing to me.
Can the time also be shown as GMT??
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| Author: | liquidroyl | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2021 18:26 | | Subject: | Search excluding color | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I'd love to have more advanced tools to search by groups of colors or excluding
colors -- my understanding is I currently can only browse looking at 1 color
or all colors as the element's color field is not searched
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| Author: | Fizyx | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2021 16:09 | | Subject: | Allow Wanted Lists to be 'Deactivated' | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I have a few different wanted lists, and I am often building wanted lists that
I am not quite ready for yet. It would be very useful if there was a setting
on those lists that could be set like 'hidden' or 'active' or
something similar that would allow me to keep certain lists from being checked
by default when browsing stores and similar. Basically, making the wanted list
not effect views in other areas of the platform until I'm ready for it and
'activate' it or turn it on.
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| Author: | Fizyx | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2021 16:03 | | Subject: | Filter Seller by Payment Types accepted | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hell! It would be super useful if I could filter sellers on an item page by
what payment times they accept. For instance, there have been a number of seller
that I have looked at and gotten to the point of checking out with only to find
out that they only accept IBAN payments. If I had known at the beginning that
was the case, I never would have visited the seller's page in the first place.
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2021 22:15 | | Subject: | Change Part Dimensions to Metric | | Viewed: | 131 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hey Bricklink,
I would love to add dimensions to my parts that don't have them, but unfortunately
they don't sell rulers that measure by studs and bricks at the hardware store.
Also, I didn't take the brick-ometry class in high school. Can you please
change the dimensions of parts to an international standard? Metric, Imperial,
I don't care, as long as more than just the users of this site know what
they mean and I can buy a ruler at the dollar store that measures them.
It would be a great help for shipping, especially when parts over a certain dimension
can't be shipped via a certain package size. I know, I can't believe
Canada Post doesn't convert bricks to centimetres, what snobs.
I hate to say this but brick owl is good for one thing, they list their measurements
in cm. Guess where I go most of the time for part dimensions? I won't spoil
it.
So in conclusion, please, please, please change the way parts are measured in
Bricklink from studs and bricks to centimetres, millimetres, or even inches (counting
by twelves - shudder).
Thanks for your consideration!
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| Author: | jonwil | | Posted: | Jan 12, 2021 16:09 | | Subject: | Sales tax suggestion | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Given all the posts about "why cant I ship to the US" and etc regarding the new
sales tax system, I think Bricklink should send a notice to all sellers (or all
sellers who ship to the USA and don't have onsite payment if that's possible)
telling them what they need to do regarding sales tax and onsite payment. I suspect
a lot of sellers just don't realize they need to use onsite payment because
of the new sales tax rules.
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| Author: | Grosoleil | | Posted: | Jan 11, 2021 12:49 | | Subject: | Stores located near by | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I would like to see which stores are close to me where I could maybe pick up
bigger pieces.
Maybe a map in the search store window
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| Author: | Graham. | | Posted: | Jan 11, 2021 09:03 | | Subject: | Show customer location by order IP address | | Viewed: | 104 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Would you please consider adding customer IP address country in order detail.
I've had a good number of orders going to freight forwarders usually in Delaware,
Florida and Oregon
I'd like to know what country the order is actually going to, showing the
customers geographic location based on where they ordered from would be helpful
Thanks
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| Author: | Graham. | | Posted: | Jan 11, 2021 08:56 | | Subject: | Allow a refunded order to be filed | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I had to refund an order in full, due to missing sticker sheet.
Customer preferred full refund over partial refund.
The "check box" to file disappeared so it seems I'll never be able to remove
the refunded order from current orders.
Thanks
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2021 23:11 | | Subject: | What do you think? | | Viewed: | 450 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| Would it be beneficial to have a dedicated forum topic Taxes, with the
charter of discussing all things related to transactional taxes collected via
BrickLink, VAT and Sales tax?
A go-to forum space specific to the charter. The topic could be umbrellaed as
a subtopic by the more general Help. Perhaps giving the Admin another
and specific place to post updates on what is still a fairly new and complicated
implementation, and to find the opportune question and broadly-held concerns.
It might be worth doing, if only provisionally?
-popsicle
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| Author: | bb1507813 | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2021 23:07 | | Subject: | Having US zones for shipping | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Could we have USPS zones for US shipping? This would make shipping more precise.
Brick Owl already has this feature.
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| Author: | BrickBuilderAG | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2021 10:15 | | Subject: | Please add a Condition "Broken" to Parts | | Viewed: | 182 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Please add a condition "Broken" to parts so that the when someone searches for
used parts broken parts don't come up in the search.
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| Author: | newfie675 | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2021 12:00 | | Subject: | search parameter to the inventory page | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Would it be possible to add a search parameter that can search for items that
have sold in a number of days at the bottom of the store inventory page.
Right now there is the option to search for:
update items which are ____ days old or [older/newer]
I would like to search for:
update items which have sold in the past ______ days or [older/newer]
Thanks
Chris
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Jan 7, 2021 04:51 | | Subject: | Implement notice box in the profile | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Consider implementing a box to inform users of important changes coming or recently
done.
I made a mockup, check the image attached.
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| Author: | waltzking | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2021 17:21 | | Subject: | BrickLink is BROKEN (minifig subcondition) | | Viewed: | 398 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
| 1) If: "Sets" are a specific collection of parts.
2) And: Such collections of parts are still considered "sets" whether complete
or incomplete.
3) And: "Minifigures" are a specific collection of parts.
4) Then by logic: Such collections of parts are still considered "minifigures"
whether complete or incomplete.
Ergo, BrickLink is broken. One currently cannot list an incomplete minifigure.
They must instead be broken to their basic components and listed as single parts.....and
this makes no sense from both a logical standpoint or a buyer-friendly standpoint.
We NEED "incomplete/complete" definitions for minifigures (and for all inventoried
items for that matter) to keep this marketplace competitive. A $20 11-piece
minifigure missing an inconsequential part should be possible to list as "incomplete"
and defining the missing item. To have to break this nearly complete collection
composing the minifigure down to individual parts, pieces a seller likely does
not want to break apart given it is more desirable or worth more as a whole instead
of pieces, makes eBay a better marketplace for the item. eBay should NEVER be
a better option than BrickLink on the ability to list and sell LEGO. Something
is wrong with this site when this is the case.
PLEASE correct this and add the same complete/incomplete definitions for minifigures.
It certainly cannot hurt the marketplace and will actually improve it by helping
to eliminate the ever so common "missing ----" descriptions sellers often
currently use (though shouldn't) under the same catalog entry for the undefined
figure. Buyers shop specific figures, and as such should have the option to
buyer complete or incomplete as meets their needs.
Jonathan
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| Author: | dosenfant | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2021 03:44 | | Subject: | Country of user in forum message list | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi there,
It would be great if the country of a user could be displayed in the forum's
message lists - along with the other user information like feedback, etc. Especially
in the "Sales" forum you could then quickly deduce whether the offer might be
interesting for you or not.
As an example I'm from Germany, but many offers are from the US which are
usually not interesting to me due to high shipping costs.
Best regards
Daniel
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| Author: | my2ndone | | Posted: | Jan 5, 2021 11:33 | | Subject: | package tracking # | | Viewed: | 102 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello there,
Due to USPS's precedented volume, I wonder if you can add a column under
the Order page to include the tracking # so the buyer can track after the order
is shipped? Thank you.
Best, Annie
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| Author: | Cysoth | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:00 | | Subject: | Know store's city | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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| Author: | bwk4s | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 09:15 | | Subject: | Include Shipping Costs | | Viewed: | 89 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| This is an international market and each store has their own shipping rules.
PLEASE find a way to automatically include shipping costs before we request to
buy. You have our zip codes. Automate it. I don't like wasting sellers time
when shipping is outlandish
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| Author: | 0to60 | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 00:18 | | Subject: | auto-fill [min | max] | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| When you are in a store and filter by items on your wanted list the auto-fill
[min | max] option appears. However, it seems as both of these options are useless
in their current state and a different option would be useful.
auto-fill max automatically adds all pieces a seller has available to your cart.
If you want 1 and the seller has 14,000 you get 14,000 added. I'm not sure
how that is useful. You have to manually adjust every lot to the correct qty.
auto-fill min automatically selects the number you have set in your wanted list
but ignores price, so if a seller has a $.01 piece listed for $400 you get that
in your cart. You again have to manually adjust every lot.
A much more useful feature would be an autofill like the autofill min that fills
in the correct qty, but one that also accounts for the max price that you have
set in your wanted list and does not add pieces to your cart that are more than
you want to pay.
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| Author: | Yiboneh | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2020 16:04 | | Subject: | "Submit changes" button on the orders page | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi can you please add a "Submit changes" button on the top of the page as well,
so that I don't have to scroll down the entire page each time I make a change?
Thank you for doing all that you do.
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| Author: | Brick_Qc | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2020 13:08 | | Subject: | Option of "median" price instead of average | | Viewed: | 197 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi, I don't know about you, but I'm mad about those sellers that destroy
the sale price average with sky high prices.
Easy remedy, kick them out or change the rules. But since that won't happen,
I thought of something else, a median price in the price guide.
A median price average removes the higher and lower values and gives a more realistic
or typical price for an item.
We could have and option between average or median, or have the two displayed
in the price guide. I think it should be pretty easy to code and add to Bricklink.
And a much needed improvement.
Any thoughts ?
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| Author: | bengreen28 | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2020 06:42 | | Subject: | Item delete request back into inventory | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I have just had to remove a large part of an order as the buyer did not want
them, he asked to cancel the whole of a batch.
As the seller I initialised the request and the buyer approved all bar 2 of the
items.
I have now got the task of adding all the items back into my inventory by hand
as the function for re-adding them automatically can only happen if the buyer
carries out the item removal request first.
Can we as sellers have the option to review and upload them automatically even
if we instigated the request.
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| Author: | ric79 | | Posted: | Dec 26, 2020 04:26 | | Subject: | Missing features | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello,
- on wanted list a 'wanted - have' filter makes easier finding missing
pieces.
- on apply order window: there are two columns (wanted and present in order):
the 'have' column here is missing.
Riccardo
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