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 Author: VJBricks View Messages Posted By VJBricks
 Posted: Jan 2, 2022 11:15
 Subject: Re: Allow to add shipment options
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In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  Hi,

It would be great the have the ability to set shipment options. In Switzerland,
Swiss Post can deliver parcels on Saturday. This implies an additional fee that
a buyer should choose at checkout.

For now, the only way to do this is to define a new dedicated shipment method
with the fee incorporated to the shipment prices. The buyer would have a new
option, beside the other methods, only to receive its parcel on saturday.

In my vision, a seller will set an option with a description and additional fees.
The buyer will have a checkbox to enable the option.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey

I see what you mean, but how many shipping methods do you currently have? You
could consider to just, as you say, add separate shipping methods for them. I
don't think it would clutter the customer's interface too much if you
make sure that all the shipping methods that are not relevant are hidden (e.g.
by placing them into the same group so only the cheapest one is displayed, or
by making their specifications mutually exclusive).

I just finish to configure the new methods and this is an abstract of what I've
done :

- Group 1 : Economic shipment (small bubble mailer, oversized small bubble mailer,
big bubble mailer, parcel)
- Group 2 : Priority shipment (small bubble mailer, oversized small bubble mailer,
big bubble mailer, parcel)
- Group 3a : Priority shipment for parcel that can be delivered on Saturdays

- Group 3b : Priority shipment with tracking, for all kind of bubble mailer of
group 2
- Group 4 : Priority shipment with tracking and insurance, for all kind of bubble
mailer of groupe 2

I've setup all this various methods to have constraints on the packaging.
The Swiss Post allow so much options and I tried to apply those options to reduce
the shipping cost.

With options, the buyer would, firstly, choose between Economic and Priority.
And then, if it choose Priority, he will chose the options, like it is able to
do with the tracking and/or insurance.

That sounds very complicated. Not saying you should do the same, but here's
some food for thought: I don't offer any options. I have put all of my 10-or-so
shipping methods into the same group.
Maybe by introducing some of that philosophy into your system you can straighten
things out a bit. Sometimes good service means not "annoying" a buyer with optionss
- they are not as familiar with postal services as you are, so you're in
a fair position to make some of the decisions on their behalf. It's often
not rocket science what buyers want, they usually just want their order in a
decent timeframe at a good price. I would at most offer one rudimentary choice
between very fast expensive shipping and slow cheap shipping if this really is
a meaningful preference that buyers can have.

You are almost right. I aim to charge the less shipping fees than possible. For
example, if I don't propose the "Oversize" method (more than 2cm height but
less than 5cm), shipping Hulk (see below) will cost is almost 260% higher (CHF
7.00 for a parcel and CHF 2.65 for an oversized).

 
Minifig No: sh611  Name: Hulk - Giant, White Jumpsuit
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sh611 (Inv) Hulk - Giant, White Jumpsuit
Minifigures: Super Heroes: Avengers Endgame

By having this "complicated" set of methods, I can charge the lowest shipping
cost to my customers. But it's quite annoying to me to define all these methods,
and I'm not away from mistakes.

By enabling shipping options, I can clearly reduce the amount of methods and
let the buyer choose some options, like being delivered on Saturday.
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Jan 2, 2022 08:42
 Subject: Re: Allow to add shipment options
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In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  Hi,

It would be great the have the ability to set shipment options. In Switzerland,
Swiss Post can deliver parcels on Saturday. This implies an additional fee that
a buyer should choose at checkout.

For now, the only way to do this is to define a new dedicated shipment method
with the fee incorporated to the shipment prices. The buyer would have a new
option, beside the other methods, only to receive its parcel on saturday.

In my vision, a seller will set an option with a description and additional fees.
The buyer will have a checkbox to enable the option.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey

I see what you mean, but how many shipping methods do you currently have? You
could consider to just, as you say, add separate shipping methods for them. I
don't think it would clutter the customer's interface too much if you
make sure that all the shipping methods that are not relevant are hidden (e.g.
by placing them into the same group so only the cheapest one is displayed, or
by making their specifications mutually exclusive).

I just finish to configure the new methods and this is an abstract of what I've
done :

- Group 1 : Economic shipment (small bubble mailer, oversized small bubble mailer,
big bubble mailer, parcel)
- Group 2 : Priority shipment (small bubble mailer, oversized small bubble mailer,
big bubble mailer, parcel)
- Group 3a : Priority shipment for parcel that can be delivered on Saturdays

- Group 3b : Priority shipment with tracking, for all kind of bubble mailer of
group 2
- Group 4 : Priority shipment with tracking and insurance, for all kind of bubble
mailer of groupe 2

I've setup all this various methods to have constraints on the packaging.
The Swiss Post allow so much options and I tried to apply those options to reduce
the shipping cost.

With options, the buyer would, firstly, choose between Economic and Priority.
And then, if it choose Priority, he will chose the options, like it is able to
do with the tracking and/or insurance.

That sounds very complicated. Not saying you should do the same, but here's
some food for thought: I don't offer any options. I have put all of my 10-or-so
shipping methods into the same group.
Maybe by introducing some of that philosophy into your system you can straighten
things out a bit. Sometimes good service means not "annoying" a buyer with optionss
- they are not as familiar with postal services as you are, so you're in
a fair position to make some of the decisions on their behalf. It's often
not rocket science what buyers want, they usually just want their order in a
decent timeframe at a good price. I would at most offer one rudimentary choice
between very fast expensive shipping and slow cheap shipping if this really is
a meaningful preference that buyers can have.
 Author: VJBricks View Messages Posted By VJBricks
 Posted: Jan 2, 2022 08:33
 Subject: Re: Allow to add shipment options
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Location:  Switzerland, Neuchâtel
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In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  Hi,

It would be great the have the ability to set shipment options. In Switzerland,
Swiss Post can deliver parcels on Saturday. This implies an additional fee that
a buyer should choose at checkout.

For now, the only way to do this is to define a new dedicated shipment method
with the fee incorporated to the shipment prices. The buyer would have a new
option, beside the other methods, only to receive its parcel on saturday.

In my vision, a seller will set an option with a description and additional fees.
The buyer will have a checkbox to enable the option.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey

I see what you mean, but how many shipping methods do you currently have? You
could consider to just, as you say, add separate shipping methods for them. I
don't think it would clutter the customer's interface too much if you
make sure that all the shipping methods that are not relevant are hidden (e.g.
by placing them into the same group so only the cheapest one is displayed, or
by making their specifications mutually exclusive).

I just finish to configure the new methods and this is an abstract of what I've
done :

- Group 1 : Economic shipment (small bubble mailer, oversized small bubble mailer,
big bubble mailer, parcel)
- Group 2 : Priority shipment (small bubble mailer, oversized small bubble mailer,
big bubble mailer, parcel)
- Group 3a : Priority shipment for parcel that can be delivered on Saturdays

- Group 3b : Priority shipment with tracking, for all kind of bubble mailer of
group 2
- Group 4 : Priority shipment with tracking and insurance, for all kind of bubble
mailer of groupe 2

I've setup all this various methods to have constraints on the packaging.
The Swiss Post allow so much options and I tried to apply those options to reduce
the shipping cost.

With options, the buyer would, firstly, choose between Economic and Priority.
And then, if it choose Priority, he will chose the options, like it is able to
do with the tracking and/or insurance.
 Author: Brick_Qc View Messages Posted By Brick_Qc
 Posted: Jan 2, 2022 08:11
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In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  Hi,

It would be great the have the ability to set shipment options. In Switzerland,
Swiss Post can deliver parcels on Saturday. This implies an additional fee that
a buyer should choose at checkout.

For now, the only way to do this is to define a new dedicated shipment method
with the fee incorporated to the shipment prices. The buyer would have a new
option, beside the other methods, only to receive its parcel on saturday.

In my vision, a seller will set an option with a description and additional fees.
The buyer will have a checkbox to enable the option.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey

It's a great idea. Not all of us can use IC for all orders. So with this
option, we can offer the buyer multiple shipping options.
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 Posted: Jan 2, 2022 07:45
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Location:  Netherlands, Utrecht
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In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  Hi,

It would be great the have the ability to set shipment options. In Switzerland,
Swiss Post can deliver parcels on Saturday. This implies an additional fee that
a buyer should choose at checkout.

For now, the only way to do this is to define a new dedicated shipment method
with the fee incorporated to the shipment prices. The buyer would have a new
option, beside the other methods, only to receive its parcel on saturday.

In my vision, a seller will set an option with a description and additional fees.
The buyer will have a checkbox to enable the option.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey

I see what you mean, but how many shipping methods do you currently have? You
could consider to just, as you say, add separate shipping methods for them. I
don't think it would clutter the customer's interface too much if you
make sure that all the shipping methods that are not relevant are hidden (e.g.
by placing them into the same group so only the cheapest one is displayed, or
by making their specifications mutually exclusive).
 Author: VJBricks View Messages Posted By VJBricks
 Posted: Jan 2, 2022 05:51
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Location:  Switzerland, Neuchâtel
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Hi,

It would be great the have the ability to set shipment options. In Switzerland,
Swiss Post can deliver parcels on Saturday. This implies an additional fee that
a buyer should choose at checkout.

For now, the only way to do this is to define a new dedicated shipment method
with the fee incorporated to the shipment prices. The buyer would have a new
option, beside the other methods, only to receive its parcel on saturday.

In my vision, a seller will set an option with a description and additional fees.
The buyer will have a checkbox to enable the option.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey
 Author: VJBricks View Messages Posted By VJBricks
 Posted: Jan 2, 2022 05:35
 Subject: Re: Order of shipping methods in store settings
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Location:  Switzerland, Neuchâtel
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In Suggestions, jbroman writes:
  In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  Hi,

It would be great to be able to set the display order of the shipping methods.
When adding a new method, it always go at the end of the list. For example, I
want the new method to be in the third position of the list, to group the methods
and to ensure the groups are set correctly.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey

Asked for over a year ago, with no changes:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1233836

Thanks for pointing me, I hope the dev team will do something, it's all about
hope, a new year has arrived
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 Posted: Jan 1, 2022 19:51
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Location:  Canada, British Columbia
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In Suggestions, VJBricks writes:
  Hi,

It would be great to be able to set the display order of the shipping methods.
When adding a new method, it always go at the end of the list. For example, I
want the new method to be in the third position of the list, to group the methods
and to ensure the groups are set correctly.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey

Asked for over a year ago, with no changes:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1233836
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Location:  Switzerland, Neuchâtel
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Hi,

It would be great to be able to set the display order of the shipping methods.
When adding a new method, it always go at the end of the list. For example, I
want the new method to be in the third position of the list, to group the methods
and to ensure the groups are set correctly.

Thanks in advance for your read and I wish you a happy new year.

Regards,

Jey
 Author: pcthurman View Messages Posted By pcthurman
 Posted: Jan 1, 2022 04:19
 Subject: Re: Adding comments to a lot or part in the cart
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In Suggestions, nadav_birger writes:
  It would be very useful as a buyer to add personal comment next to a lot or part
in the cart (it should only be visible to the buyer).

Currently it is possible to add comments only to the whole order after it has
been made but something in higher resolution can be helpful.

Personally, I add pieces to an open order and keep it there for a while until
placing the actual order. Later, when I'm about to finalize the order, I don't
always remember what I needed each lot for...

This would truly be a good idea. I have been using My remarks to keep track of
items on my wanted list, so I do not forget why they are needed. Many times,
I have wanted to know why I had an item in a cart and then have to go into my
wanted list to remind myself why. It is very tedious.
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 Posted: Dec 31, 2021 18:39
 Subject: make it easier to compare wanted list to sale
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A feature that would save me a lot of key strokes, and cause me to actual compare
my wanted list to more of the sale postings, would be a one stroke way to get
from the sale posting to a comparison to my wanted list.

I really dislike the way the featured page, for each store, interrupts my page
navigation. If I am looking for a specific part. I have to go through the featured
page each time I use the back arrow to get back to the page that shows the search
results.
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 Posted: Dec 30, 2021 17:58
 Subject: Re: Widen the default frame
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Bricks_NW_UK (1366)

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Hi Donna

I have always thought this was a crazy layout. when you try and print pages it
is so wasteful of paper and ink. When you try to zoom in on printer page you
loose half of the columns.

It needs a serious look at!

Steve
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Location:  USA, New York
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In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
  Although the options on the Orders Received page are unlimited automatic widening
based on the options picked, the Order Details Page and the Inventory Summary
page are fixed.

+1

I Voted YES.

I experienced the exact scenario today with an order received.

I am also very happy that all the extra stoopid descriptive text from part #
4073 was removed as that caused this error regularly and constantly.

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Location:  USA, Nebraska
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Although the options on the Orders Received page are unlimited automatic widening
based on the options picked, the Order Details Page and the Inventory Summary
page are fixed. Please see the attached photos.

On the Order Details page, the text of the item description wraps to create many
lines and causes printing of the page to run up the number of pages needed to
print. I have tried several settings in my browser to get the frame to widen,
but have been unsuccessful when it comes to the lengthy descriptions like those
shown in my photo.

Related to this: When the "Refund" change was made to this page and caused many
users to have a problem printing this page, I too had problems. When it was
"fixed", it didn't get fixed for me. I reached out to others for a solution,
but I couldn't find something that helped.

On the Inventory Details page, the text also wraps causing Category names to
become difficult to read and lengthening the page.

I am using the Chrome browser on a Win 10 laptop with 16:9 aspect ratio.

This is driving me nuts.

Please consider making these small changes.

To other users: Please comment and support if you are also having the same problem.

Thank You
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In Suggestions, atkk writes:
  Please allow buyers (or sellers) to un-cancel quotes. If parts become unavailable,
the quote could be automatically adjusted with a note.
This way a buyer would not have to start over from scratch.

Thank you for considering this.

It has been said many times in the past but no change.
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Please allow buyers (or sellers) to un-cancel quotes. If parts become unavailable,
the quote could be automatically adjusted with a note.
This way a buyer would not have to start over from scratch.

Thank you for considering this.
 Author: cosmicray View Messages Posted By cosmicray
 Posted: Dec 27, 2021 08:01
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Location:  USA, Florida
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https://postalpro.usps.com/national-zone-charts-matrix/ZoneChartsMatrixTechnicalGuide

The matrix to convert any USPS origination/destination Zip-code pair to a zone
number is 2 MB in size. That's it, for the entire country, plus a very small
exceptions file. This should be easy to implement, and requires no API calls
to make it work.

Nita Rae
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
 Posted: Dec 27, 2021 07:34
 Subject: Re: bricklink global gift cards
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Location:  USA, Washington
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In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
  In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
  A bit off topic, but maybe informative for someone. About 20% of all gift cards
are never redeemed.

That number is skewed somewhat with intentionally restrictive redemption clauses
using among other deplorable methods, unreasonably short expiration dates.

Short expiration dates are no longer legal. In fact, "a gift card cannot expire
until at least five years from the date it was activated" is what the law says.

I assume it's the 2010 FTC rules that you are quoting? To be clear, you’re
referring to Federal Trade Commission rules, not laws. There are more impediments,
or games played by some, beyond expiration dates that skew the numbers.

In any case and staying with your line of thinking, the OP's subject is "bricklink
global gift cards" which rules would a global BrickLink need to adhere to then,
not FTC?

An earnest question, not challenging your input, Donna.

  
  
But yeah, good point. What I tried to publicly sidestep with "larger motivations"
and going to "questions surrounding funding" where the funds might be held

Though I do wonder if issued, what BrickLink's numbers might be? Analogous
to LEGO's? Higher, lower?
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In Suggestions, Llewyn writes:
  In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
  If TLG can’t make them work in all of their own shops, how can they make them
work on BL?

I don't know why TLG don't make them work in all of their own
shops, but I don't necessarily conclude that they can't.

Indeed, I said “TLG can’t” and I might as well have said “TLG doesn’t want to,” but,
as you say, what I should have said and what is important here is that “TLG doesn’t.”

But that doesn’t change the fact that I don’t see how or why TLG would extend
to thousands of tiny BL sellers what it doesn’t do for its own few dozen big
shops.


   There
are quite a number of potential reasons, all of which could be wrong! If I had
to guess I would suspect it's most likely to be either internal accounting
or cross-border taxation, the latter being a somewhat solved problem for Bricklink
as a marketplace.

That only could explain why LEGO’s gift cards can only be used in the country
where they were bought (except for US+CA where they can be used in both US and
CA).
That does not explain why there’s no gift cards programs in France, Italy, Japan….

I also don’t see how this cross-border thing is “somewhat solved” for BL.  What
is “solved” for BL is the taxing buyers for buying (sales tax) or importing (UK
& EU VAT) goods.  That has nothing to do with international financiary
transactions and services (which is what international gift cards would be).

If there’s something there (with international financiary transactions and services),
then:
1. that could indeed be what is limiting TLG from offering international gift
cards,
2. but that still does not explain the EU thing because money and people are
supposed to flow freely inside EU’s borders,
3. more importantly, that would also apply to BL, or, more exactly, to BL sellers.

Whatever the reason, LEGO gift cards are only available in a few countries and
can only be used in one country.  That would be the same if they were redeemable
on BL: they would only work in BL stores in the country where they were bought. 
Or they could even be only redeemable in US+CA as BL is in California.


  In any event, that was a throwaway hypothetical aside to my overall comment.

Sure.  I answered your message because it was the latest to mention using LEGO
gift cards on BL.  An idea / wish that I thought would be worth digging into
a bit in this thread, especially as it also had been made a few times already
on this forum and that’s often answered with a terse “BL is many sellers.”
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In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
  A bit off topic, but maybe informative for someone. About 20% of all gift cards
are never redeemed.

That number is skewed somewhat with intentionally restrictive redemption clauses
using among other deplorable methods, unreasonably short expiration dates.

Short expiration dates are no longer legal. In fact, "a gift card cannot expire
until at least five years from the date it was activated" is what the law says.

  
But yeah, good point. What I tried to publicly sidestep with "larger motivations"
and going to "questions surrounding funding" where the funds might be held

Though I do wonder if issued, what BrickLink's numbers might be? Analogous
to LEGO's? Higher, lower?
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In Suggestions, danielclark writes:
  In Suggestions, tdajos writes:
  over the last several years, my wife would ask me something like "what do you
want?" my response more than often would be, "let me show you my wanted list..."
which would end up getting to be too complicated to answer the question

recently i found that my nephews are really into LEGO as i was/am

what i would like to give them is a bricklink gift card that would be valid over
all the stores, not just the individual store offering it. the reason for this
over a LEGO gift card is that there would be a part, minifig, set ect that is
discontinued but still available in bricklink (do you know how many unitron,
clasic castle of blacktron 1 minifigs i gave away? thats not counting the projectile
parts)

it could work just like amazon giftcards being assigned to an email and login
to recieve

i would like to give the gift that keeps on building


I think there are plenty of prepaid credit/ debit gift card options all ready
out there.

Which is absolutely a true statement, and a +1. The real subject here, without
trying to drag this off-topic, is how to reward buyers for shopping on BL, and
to encourage them to spend more on BL. It is referred to in the industry as building
a moat, to keep your competitors away
. TLG is using VIP points to make that
work. Not everyone who bought a Titanic or AT-AT paid full price. Some of them
cashed in VIP points.

Would that work here ? I don't know, but it's food for thought.

Nita Rae
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In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
  If TLG can’t make them work in all of their own shops, how can they make them
work on BL?

I don't know why TLG don't make them work in all of their own
shops, but I don't necessarily conclude that they can't. There
are quite a number of potential reasons, all of which could be wrong! If I had
to guess I would suspect it's most likely to be either internal accounting
or cross-border taxation, the latter being a somewhat solved problem for Bricklink
as a marketplace.

In any event, that was a throwaway hypothetical aside to my overall comment.
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In Suggestions, Shiny_Stuff writes:
  In Suggestions, Llewyn writes:
  In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  I think some are missing the point here. Gift Cards are foremost a marketing
tool. A method to increase exposure (advertise) while increasing locked in revenue
flow to a marketplace and by extension, it's vendors. Among other larger
motivations. It’s primary purpose is not convenience of payment to the consumer.

Exactly! There's a lot about this that could be useful to Bricklink and sellers,
while having a side effect of convenience for some consumers. It's easy to
see how it might generate a small but worthwhile increase in buyer traffic here.

As dcarmine has just pointed out a significant proportion of gift cards are never
redeemed, making card schemes profitable for the operators. Potentially this
could fund the costs of the scheme itself, allowing BL to offer fee-free payments
(BL transaction fees would presumably still apply) - this alone could provide
enough incentive for a lot of sellers to accept payment through them.

We regularly see posts (perhaps more on Reddit?) from potential customers who
don't have PayPal accounts and want to use other payment methods, which works
for some sellers but not others. A Bricklink/TLG-backed "gift card" payment scheme
could circumvent a lot of these issues without the trust problems of bank transfers
or Stripe's current fraud trend.

Of course there's also a lot to consider around eg refunds, the lack of PayPal
buyer/seller protection) and probably a hundred other things. It's by no
means an obvious trouble-free win.

Who knows though, in a more integrated future, TLG could always potentially extend
Lego gift cards to be valid payment for Bricklink sales...

+1
All good thinking.

A partnership of LEGO/BrickLink and Paypal could make this work. If Lego/BrickLink
was the merchant who accepted the funds on behalf of Paypal and the funds resided
with Paypal, then Paypal could simply issue the money to the appropriate seller
at the time of purchase. Thus, it would be a Paypal transaction eligible for
Paypal's Seller Protection.

It would likely have to be restricted to those sellers who use Instant Checkout,
but perhaps not (I would hope NOT as a non-IC seller).

Imagine the increased exposure of BrickLink to the whole Lego buying public if
a BrickLink branded Gift Card were available at all Lego brand retail stores
and maybe even the Legoland Parks. And online at Lego Shop At Home. And someday,
available everywhere that gift cards are sold. This could be a huge increase
in BL sales and revenue, both for Lego/BrickLink and individual BL shops.

Good post. I like the way you think.
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In Suggestions, Llewyn writes:
  In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  I think some are missing the point here. Gift Cards are foremost a marketing
tool. A method to increase exposure (advertise) while increasing locked in revenue
flow to a marketplace and by extension, it's vendors. Among other larger
motivations. It’s primary purpose is not convenience of payment to the consumer.

Exactly! There's a lot about this that could be useful to Bricklink and sellers,
while having a side effect of convenience for some consumers. It's easy to
see how it might generate a small but worthwhile increase in buyer traffic here.

As dcarmine has just pointed out a significant proportion of gift cards are never
redeemed, making card schemes profitable for the operators. Potentially this
could fund the costs of the scheme itself, allowing BL to offer fee-free payments
(BL transaction fees would presumably still apply) - this alone could provide
enough incentive for a lot of sellers to accept payment through them.

We regularly see posts (perhaps more on Reddit?) from potential customers who
don't have PayPal accounts and want to use other payment methods, which works
for some sellers but not others. A Bricklink/TLG-backed "gift card" payment scheme
could circumvent a lot of these issues without the trust problems of bank transfers
or Stripe's current fraud trend.

Of course there's also a lot to consider around eg refunds, the lack of PayPal
buyer/seller protection) and probably a hundred other things. It's by no
means an obvious trouble-free win.

Who knows though, in a more integrated future, TLG could always potentially extend
Lego gift cards to be valid payment for Bricklink sales...

Good points made in a good read. Thanks
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In Suggestions, Shiny_Stuff writes:
  […]
It would likely have to be restricted to those sellers who use Instant Checkout,
but perhaps not (I would hope NOT as a non-IC seller). […]

I don’t see why.
They would certainly have to be restricted to those sellers who use Onsite Payment
though (and you’re one of those ).
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In Suggestions, Llewyn writes:
  […]
Who knows though, in a more integrated future, TLG could always potentially extend
Lego gift cards to be valid payment for Bricklink sales...

AFAICT¹, LEGO gift cards only work in:
1. USA and Canada,
2. Denmark,
3. UK,
4. Germany.
And each limited to their country (or region for US+CA).

If TLG can’t make them work in all of their own shops, how can they make them
work on BL?

———
¹ On the shop’s main page, in the dark violet footpage, on the left, there’s,
top to bottom:
0. the LEGO logo,
1. the Change region button,
2. the Gift Cards link,
3. the link to catalogues.
If you check all the regions/languages, all have 1., most have 3., just the four
listed above have 2.
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In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:
  A bit off topic, but maybe informative for someone. About 20% of all gift cards
are never redeemed.

That number is skewed somewhat with intentionally restrictive redemption clauses
using among other deplorable methods, unreasonably short expiration dates.

But yeah, good point. What I tried to publicly sidestep with "larger motivations"
and going to "questions surrounding funding" where the funds might be held

Though I do wonder if issued, what BrickLink's numbers might be? Analogous
to LEGO's? Higher, lower?
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In Suggestions, Llewyn writes:
  In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  I think some are missing the point here. Gift Cards are foremost a marketing
tool. A method to increase exposure (advertise) while increasing locked in revenue
flow to a marketplace and by extension, it's vendors. Among other larger
motivations. It’s primary purpose is not convenience of payment to the consumer.

Exactly! There's a lot about this that could be useful to Bricklink and sellers,
while having a side effect of convenience for some consumers. It's easy to
see how it might generate a small but worthwhile increase in buyer traffic here.

As dcarmine has just pointed out a significant proportion of gift cards are never
redeemed, making card schemes profitable for the operators. Potentially this
could fund the costs of the scheme itself, allowing BL to offer fee-free payments
(BL transaction fees would presumably still apply) - this alone could provide
enough incentive for a lot of sellers to accept payment through them.

We regularly see posts (perhaps more on Reddit?) from potential customers who
don't have PayPal accounts and want to use other payment methods, which works
for some sellers but not others. A Bricklink/TLG-backed "gift card" payment scheme
could circumvent a lot of these issues without the trust problems of bank transfers
or Stripe's current fraud trend.

Of course there's also a lot to consider around eg refunds, the lack of PayPal
buyer/seller protection) and probably a hundred other things. It's by no
means an obvious trouble-free win.

Who knows though, in a more integrated future, TLG could always potentially extend
Lego gift cards to be valid payment for Bricklink sales...

+1
All good thinking.

A partnership of LEGO/BrickLink and Paypal could make this work. If Lego/BrickLink
was the merchant who accepted the funds on behalf of Paypal and the funds resided
with Paypal, then Paypal could simply issue the money to the appropriate seller
at the time of purchase. Thus, it would be a Paypal transaction eligible for
Paypal's Seller Protection.

It would likely have to be restricted to those sellers who use Instant Checkout,
but perhaps not (I would hope NOT as a non-IC seller).

Imagine the increased exposure of BrickLink to the whole Lego buying public if
a BrickLink branded Gift Card were available at all Lego brand retail stores
and maybe even the Legoland Parks. And online at Lego Shop At Home. And someday,
available everywhere that gift cards are sold. This could be a huge increase
in BL sales and revenue, both for Lego/BrickLink and individual BL shops.

____
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In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  I think some are missing the point here. Gift Cards are foremost a marketing
tool. A method to increase exposure (advertise) while increasing locked in revenue
flow to a marketplace and by extension, it's vendors. Among other larger
motivations. It’s primary purpose is not convenience of payment to the consumer.

Exactly! There's a lot about this that could be useful to Bricklink and sellers,
while having a side effect of convenience for some consumers. It's easy to
see how it might generate a small but worthwhile increase in buyer traffic here.

As dcarmine has just pointed out a significant proportion of gift cards are never
redeemed, making card schemes profitable for the operators. Potentially this
could fund the costs of the scheme itself, allowing BL to offer fee-free payments
(BL transaction fees would presumably still apply) - this alone could provide
enough incentive for a lot of sellers to accept payment through them.

We regularly see posts (perhaps more on Reddit?) from potential customers who
don't have PayPal accounts and want to use other payment methods, which works
for some sellers but not others. A Bricklink/TLG-backed "gift card" payment scheme
could circumvent a lot of these issues without the trust problems of bank transfers
or Stripe's current fraud trend.

Of course there's also a lot to consider around eg refunds, the lack of PayPal
buyer/seller protection) and probably a hundred other things. It's by no
means an obvious trouble-free win.

Who knows though, in a more integrated future, TLG could always potentially extend
Lego gift cards to be valid payment for Bricklink sales...
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A bit off topic, but maybe informative for someone. About 20% of all gift cards
are never redeemed.
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In Suggestions, danielclark writes:
  In Suggestions, tdajos writes:
  over the last several years, my wife would ask me something like "what do you
want?" my response more than often would be, "let me show you my wanted list..."
which would end up getting to be too complicated to answer the question

recently i found that my nephews are really into LEGO as i was/am

what i would like to give them is a bricklink gift card that would be valid over
all the stores, not just the individual store offering it. the reason for this
over a LEGO gift card is that there would be a part, minifig, set ect that is
discontinued but still available in bricklink (do you know how many unitron,
clasic castle of blacktron 1 minifigs i gave away? thats not counting the projectile
parts)

it could work just like amazon giftcards being assigned to an email and login
to recieve

i would like to give the gift that keeps on building


I think there are plenty of prepaid credit/ debit gift card options all ready
out there.

I think some are missing the point here. Gift Cards are foremost a marketing
tool. A method to increase exposure (advertise) while increasing locked in revenue
flow to a marketplace and by extension, it's vendors. Among other larger
motivations. It’s primary purpose is not convenience of payment to the consumer.
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In Suggestions, tdajos writes:
  over the last several years, my wife would ask me something like "what do you
want?" my response more than often would be, "let me show you my wanted list..."
which would end up getting to be too complicated to answer the question

recently i found that my nephews are really into LEGO as i was/am

what i would like to give them is a bricklink gift card that would be valid over
all the stores, not just the individual store offering it. the reason for this
over a LEGO gift card is that there would be a part, minifig, set ect that is
discontinued but still available in bricklink (do you know how many unitron,
clasic castle of blacktron 1 minifigs i gave away? thats not counting the projectile
parts)

it could work just like amazon giftcards being assigned to an email and login
to recieve

i would like to give the gift that keeps on building


I think there are plenty of prepaid credit/ debit gift card options all ready
out there.
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I don’t believe I’ve heard this idea presented here before. Seems reasonable
and just might be one of those functions that become more broadly appreciated
as a buyer-tool, the more it’s used.

As long as it’s only seen by the buyer and therefore can’t be used to further
complicate orders for sellers, why not. We sellers do have our Remarks
function: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1304731

-popsicle


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  It would be very useful as a buyer to add personal comment next to a lot or part
in the cart (it should only be visible to the buyer).

Currently it is possible to add comments only to the whole order after it has
been made but something in higher resolution can be helpful.

Personally, I add pieces to an open order and keep it there for a while until
placing the actual order. Later, when I'm about to finalize the order I don't
always remember what I needed each lot for...
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It would be very useful as a buyer to add personal comment next to a lot or part
in the cart (it should only be visible to the buyer).

Currently it is possible to add comments only to the whole order after it has
been made but something in higher resolution can be helpful.

Personally, I add pieces to an open order and keep it there for a while until
placing the actual order. Later, when I'm about to finalize the order I don't
always remember what I needed each lot for...
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In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
  In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  A fundamentally good idea, contingent to the obvious questions surrounding funding.
Otherwise, you make a good case for what seems to be a win-win suggestion.

With the added proviso that it be noncompulsory for the individual seller. Something
a vendor might elect to join (perhaps in an effort to booster sales) and not
require initial proactive disengage from. In other words, not launched as default
member-participation, as can occur here

If BL took over managing payments - or introduced it as an option - that would
be one way of enabling this.

Yes, that's one way. Though that route would come with it's own set of
concerns, as it did with eBay's implementation. Less so if, as you say, it's
implemented as an option, or is offered.
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In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  A fundamentally good idea, contingent to the obvious questions surrounding funding.
Otherwise, you make a good case for what seems to be a win-win suggestion.

With the added proviso that it be noncompulsory for the individual seller. Something
a vendor might elect to join (perhaps in an effort to booster sales) and not
require initial proactive disengage from. In other words, not launched as default
member-participation, as can occur here

If BL took over managing payments - or introduced it as an option - that would
be one way of enabling this.
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Store: Yorbricks
In Suggestions, tdajos writes:
  over the last several years, my wife would ask me something like "what do you
want?" my response more than often would be, "let me show you my wanted list..."
which would end up getting to be too complicated to answer the question

recently i found that my nephews are really into LEGO as i was/am

what i would like to give them is a bricklink gift card that would be valid over
all the stores, not just the individual store offering it. the reason for this
over a LEGO gift card is that there would be a part, minifig, set ect that is
discontinued but still available in bricklink (do you know how many unitron,
clasic castle of blacktron 1 minifigs i gave away? thats not counting the projectile
parts)

it could work just like amazon giftcards being assigned to an email and login
to recieve

i would like to give the gift that keeps on building

Give cash. It can then be spent on LEGO here, there, and anywhere or something
else they want.
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 Posted: Dec 26, 2021 13:16
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popsicle (6661)

Location:  USA, Washington
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A fundamentally good idea, contingent to the obvious questions surrounding funding.
Otherwise, you make a good case for what seems to be a win-win suggestion.

With the added proviso that it be noncompulsory for the individual seller. Something
a vendor might elect to join (perhaps in an effort to booster sales) and not
require initial proactive disengage from. In other words, not launched as default
member-participation, as can occur here

-popsicle



In Suggestions, tdajos writes:
  over the last several years, my wife would ask me something like "what do you
want?" my response more than often would be, "let me show you my wanted list..."
which would end up getting to be too complicated to answer the question

recently i found that my nephews are really into LEGO as i was/am

what i would like to give them is a bricklink gift card that would be valid over
all the stores, not just the individual store offering it. the reason for this
over a LEGO gift card is that there would be a part, minifig, set ect that is
discontinued but still available in bricklink (do you know how many unitron,
clasic castle of blacktron 1 minifigs i gave away? thats not counting the projectile
parts)

it could work just like amazon giftcards being assigned to an email and login
to recieve

i would like to give the gift that keeps on building
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 Posted: Dec 26, 2021 12:18
 Subject: Re: bricklink global gift cards
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Brickwilbo (1534)

Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
Member Since Contact Type Status Collage
Oct 24, 2007 Contact Member Seller
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In Suggestions, tdajos writes:
  over the last several years, my wife would ask me something like "what do you
want?" my response more than often would be, "let me show you my wanted list..."
which would end up getting to be too complicated to answer the question

recently i found that my nephews are really into LEGO as i was/am

what i would like to give them is a bricklink gift card that would be valid over
all the stores, not just the individual store offering it. the reason for this
over a LEGO gift card is that there would be a part, minifig, set ect that is
discontinued but still available in bricklink (do you know how many unitron,
clasic castle of blacktron 1 minifigs i gave away? thats not counting the projectile
parts)

it could work just like amazon giftcards being assigned to an email and login
to recieve

i would like to give the gift that keeps on building

Besides the question about who keeps the funds, Bricklink isn't 1 store but
contains thousands of stores which all would need to accept the card.

You can send money to anyone as gift by PayPal to spend in Bricklink.
 Author: tdajos View Messages Posted By tdajos
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tdajos (65)

Location:  USA, Michigan
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over the last several years, my wife would ask me something like "what do you
want?" my response more than often would be, "let me show you my wanted list..."
which would end up getting to be too complicated to answer the question

recently i found that my nephews are really into LEGO as i was/am

what i would like to give them is a bricklink gift card that would be valid over
all the stores, not just the individual store offering it. the reason for this
over a LEGO gift card is that there would be a part, minifig, set ect that is
discontinued but still available in bricklink (do you know how many unitron,
clasic castle of blacktron 1 minifigs i gave away? thats not counting the projectile
parts)

it could work just like amazon giftcards being assigned to an email and login
to recieve

i would like to give the gift that keeps on building
 Author: CE_Tanja View Messages Posted By CE_Tanja
 Posted: Dec 21, 2021 20:44
 Subject: Re: Help Center - Reasons for suspension
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CE_Tanja

Location:  USA, California
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Thank you cosmicray and DVectored1,

Yes, let’s update the help page for this area (among others) asap, it is in progress
and we should be able to update this withon a couple of weeks.



In Suggestions, DVectored1 writes:
  In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
  Please create a Help Center page that enumerates the reasons (as displayed on
the store front) for suspension, and helps sellers to determine what needs to
be addressed.

Some reasons are rather obvious, but others appear to be a generic suspension
(without any specificity). Please help to pull back the curtain so that sellers
can see what the problem is. It may be that the reason needs to be made more
explicit on the seller's dashboard.

thank you, Nita Rae

Based upon my own experience, the non-obvious reasons may include something particularly
uncommon, meriting an admin to actually sit down with you to explain the unique
circumstances that led to the suspension. The problem then however seems to be
resolving the issue because (for whatever reason) it seems to be either left
floating in a queue or passed around multiple admins, to which a situation that
probably could've been resolved in a matter of days or weeks ends up taking
an egregious amount of months. (I'd name names but I don't even know
who's still there or who left.) This could become upsetting if one admin
succinctly explained the problem AND solution, yet there has been no follow-through
despite your following their instructions.

I'd assume common situations are handled faster than uncommon situations,
but as of now I don't exactly have evidence to back this up.
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 Posted: Dec 21, 2021 20:36
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DVectored1 (1713)

Location:  USA, New York
Member Since Contact Type Status
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Store Closed Store: Vector City Bricks
In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
  Please create a Help Center page that enumerates the reasons (as displayed on
the store front) for suspension, and helps sellers to determine what needs to
be addressed.

Some reasons are rather obvious, but others appear to be a generic suspension
(without any specificity). Please help to pull back the curtain so that sellers
can see what the problem is. It may be that the reason needs to be made more
explicit on the seller's dashboard.

thank you, Nita Rae

Based upon my own experience, the non-obvious reasons may include something particularly
uncommon, meriting an admin to actually sit down with you to explain the unique
circumstances that led to the suspension. The problem then however seems to be
resolving the issue because (for whatever reason) it seems to be either left
floating in a queue or passed around multiple admins, to which a situation that
probably could've been resolved in a matter of days or weeks ends up taking
an egregious amount of months. (I'd name names but I don't even know
who's still there or who left.) This could become upsetting if one admin
succinctly explained the problem AND solution, yet there has been no follow-through
despite your following their instructions.

I'd assume common situations are handled faster than uncommon situations,
but as of now I don't exactly have evidence to back this up.
 Author: fire6113 View Messages Posted By fire6113
 Posted: Dec 19, 2021 01:35
 Subject: Re: help desk shortcut
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fire6113 (2)

Location:  Australia, Victoria
Member Since Contact Type Status
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In Suggestions, fire6113 writes:
  hi guys

just a suggestion as a newer member I have been trying to get seller verified.
And has done all the steps well over a month ago. When I went looking for how
to get help it did not jump out where to find it on the site. there a message
box on the verified page that appeared no one look at as there been an un answered
question there for 3 weeks. Even thrown up a couple posts in the forum in the
help section.

On reading the help section and others posting re the same issue and being told
to post to the help area. I thought 1st this is insane that we been pointed
to a public forum that no one from the site is responding to from the site.

On further looking around the site I came across the HELP DESK hidden in the
help centre which took a few clicks to get too. From what I can see there is
NO clear and easy way to get to the HELP DESK to rise an issue ticket etc.

So my suggestion is to ADD a short cut to the TICKET HELP DESK up at the top
of the page with other short cuts with the icons...

Or even put the HELP CENTER up there and maybe look at dropping the forum help
option of the top icons as it very misleading as when you click HELP you are
thinking you are getting help from the site owners NOT the forum....
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Location:  Australia, Victoria
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hi guys

just a suggestion as a newer member I have been trying to get seller verified.
And has done all the steps well over a month ago. When I went looking for how
to get help it did not jump out where to find it on the site. there a message
box on the verified page that appeared no one look at as there been an un answered
question there for 3 weeks. Even thrown up a couple posts in the forum in the
help section.

On reading the help section and others posting re the same issue and being told
to post to the help area. I thought 1st this is insane that we been pointed
to a public forum that no one from the site is responding to from the site.

On further looking around the site I came across the HELP DESK hidden in the
help centre which took a few clicks to get too. From what I can see there is
NO clear and easy way to get to the HELP DESK to rise an issue ticket etc.

So my suggestion is to ADD a short cut to the TICKET HELP DESK up at the top
of the page with other short cuts with the icons...
 Author: TheBrickResort View Messages Posted By TheBrickResort
 Posted: Dec 18, 2021 15:47
 Subject: Re: Seller should be able to change order status
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TheBrickResort (2496)

Location:  USA, Wisconsin
Member Since Contact Type Status
Feb 19, 2019 Contact Member Seller
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Store: The Brick Resort
Could received be changed to delivered, and available to the seller
and buyer?
Or add delivered as a status available to both?
Right now shipped could mean in transit, delivered, lost, or stolen. Knowing
sooner is almost always better.
 Author: WhiteHorseMatt View Messages Posted By WhiteHorseMatt
 Posted: Dec 18, 2021 15:05
 Subject: Re: Tired of typing "light/dark bluish gray" ...
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WhiteHorseMatt (1432)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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Store: White Horse Bricks
In Suggestions, LackBrain writes:
  It would be really nice if you could just type "lbg" or "dbg" instead of "light
bluish gray" or "dark bluish gray". Saves a lot of typing time ...

Aren't there any shortcuts for colors??

That would be really useful, if only to remove my mental doubt about whether
'grey' is spelt the English or American way every single time I type
it in.
 Author: TheBrickResort View Messages Posted By TheBrickResort
 Posted: Dec 18, 2021 14:42
 Subject: Re: Tired of typing "light/dark bluish gray" ...
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TheBrickResort (2496)

Location:  USA, Wisconsin
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Store: The Brick Resort
Could the color name Light Bluish Gray be modified to Light Bluish
Gray LBG
?
The letter combinations lbg and dbg don't happen organically
in English - not sure about other languages.
If you search lbg or dbg you get 15 and 12 result, respectively.
 Author: stecre View Messages Posted By stecre
 Posted: Dec 18, 2021 06:43
 Subject: Increase length "Slogan" and "Announcement"
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stecre (2002)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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Store: Brickingham Palace
Hardly a priority development item but it would be great to get the maximum length
of the "Slogan" and "Announcement" fields in Store Settings increased from the
meagre 50 & 80 characters to something a bit more useful like 200 characters.

Thanks

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