BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, iprice writes:

In Suggestions, antant7 writes:

In Suggestions, stasher writes:

Hello. This is my first post. Be patient with me.

I would like to be able to mark a set as in my inventory. I would like to mark
individual bricks as in my inventory. I would like to go to a random set and
then this site lets me know if I have enough pieces in my inventory to build
that set.

(this is implemented on Peeron but not here, from what I can see)

Thank you.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think what you are describing is closer
to the functionality of rebrickable.

Brickset is closer to what the OP wants if I'm not mistaken, although Rebrickable
does offer some of the reuired features I don't think it enables you to store
your sets like Brickset (I most definitely could be wrong though).

I don't think anyone would want Brickset though, it's a site with tons
of advertisements and content taking only the 20/30% of the screen space... One
of the rare web sites that have ridiculous video ads too...

Author:

randyipp

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 17:53

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Re: Separate buyer and seller addresses

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In Suggestions, Dino1 writes:

In Suggestions, wildchicken13 writes:

Step 2 of the checkout process lets you ship to any address without having your
store closed.

You can't change the country.

Right, There was a post made about this very specific situation from Russell:

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1253276

I would reach out and see if any determination on this has been made.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 17:29

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Re: Improve all user experience

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Besides, didn't TLG get rid of Bricks
& Pieces? When I go to LEGO.com I see only Pick-A-Brick now.

They have combined the front ends of the two but they are still separate services.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 17:27

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Re: Improve all user experience

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3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

The day lego starts selling here, competing with sellers that pay fees to sell
here, is the day brickowl gets a sudden increase in seller numbers.

Author:

Fenneke_Jose

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 16:57

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Re: Improve all user experience

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3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

I think it's not a core business for Lego. Otherwhise you wouldn't expect
to wait at least 5-6 week (or more) to get your order from Lego (if you order
from the new bricks and pieces). Even if they would open a Lego BL B&P shop,
they have to speed up their game. Order within the Netherlands I receive within
a couple of days. If Lego does this centralized in Poland, it still takes a week
to reach me (and that's only shipping time). So this means they have to extend
their capacity a lot and people are very expensive, so I don't thing they
want to get more order, then they now allready get. I think it's for Lego
an extra service with which they earn little. For little orders with a lot of
different pieces, sets, minifigs, gear, instructions, etc they have Bricklink!

Kind regards,

José

Author:

Nubs_Select

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:48

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Perhaps a logistical thing. They still get money every time a person buys a (new)
set for resale so they probably figure they wouldn't make much money from
it after it all said and done compared to just selling the sets to resellers
plus maybe they know people like places like Bricklink which have parts from
all eras which promotes the lego brand non-stop which also leads to more sales.
Just a guess tho

Author:

wildchicken13

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:45

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Re: Improve all user experience

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In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:

3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

Yah... No...
Bricklink is different from lego bricks and pieces if lego flooded bricklink
with its on service it would be very bad for sellers

I honestly wonder why TLG doesn't do this to begin with. Is there some sort
of logistical challenge associated with selling individual parts as compared
to sets? I know that this isn't TLG's main business model, but if BrickLink
is any indicator, there is a strong demand for parts.

Author:

wildchicken13

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:40

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In Suggestions, Wishfour writes:

I'm sorry to say that the user experience on Bricklink is terrible. I'd
thought that the acquisition by The Lego Group would bring investment to improve
usability, but nothing has happened. It's immensely disappointing.

1. The search function seems to be geared around buying pieces, not simply searching
the database. Why does it bring up items for sale by default? Why does it order
search results in such a strange way by default?
2. Features for managing parts lists are poor. There's no ability to merge
lists that have parts in common (BL just complains that the parts already exist).
Indeed, it's not even possible to use the 'upload' function to upload
an xml file that has previously been downloaded from Bricklink. Despite that,
it is possible to use an xml file to create a new wanted list. This is obviously
completely unintuitive.
3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

It is definitely possible to order bricks and pieces from BrickLink, just go
to just about any store…

TLG may own BL, but they are still separate companies with separate staff, websites,
etc. When you buy parts on BrickLink, you are buying them from independent sellers
generally not affiliated with TLG, whereas when you buy parts on LEGO.com you
are getting them directly from TLG. Besides, didn't TLG get rid of Bricks
& Pieces? When I go to LEGO.com I see only Pick-A-Brick now.

4. Orders seem to be deleted from the order list after only a few months. Why
is this necessary?
5. It is not possible to automatically mark pieces as bought when they have been
ordered.

Author:

Nubs_Select

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:40

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Re: Improve all user experience

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3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

Yah... No...
Bricklink is different from lego bricks and pieces if lego flooded bricklink
with its on service it would be very bad for sellers

Author:

Wishfour

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:33

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Improve all user experience

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Author:

Dino

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:25

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Re: Separate buyer and seller addresses

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In Suggestions, Poncke writes:

Please please separate buyer and seller addresses on a hybrid account.

Keep one main address set fixed on the account, but let sellers have the option
to use separate shipping addresses that do not have an impact on your store status.

I find it ridiculous that my store gets closed if I want to have something shipped
to another country.

Amazon, eBay, etc all have the option to change a shipping address.

Please implement this!

But you are aware that the seller loses his seller protection if the payment
is made via Paypal and the shipping address does not match the Paypal address?
With Stripe it should be the same.

Author:

Dino

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Mar 5, 2022 15:19

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In Suggestions, wildchicken13 writes:

In Suggestions, Poncke writes:

Step 2 of the checkout process lets you ship to any address without having your
store closed.

You can't change the country.

Author:

wildchicken13

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:09

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In Suggestions, Poncke writes:

Step 2 of the checkout process lets you ship to any address without having your
store closed.

Author:

Poncke

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 14:52

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Separate buyer and seller addresses

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Author:

iprice

Posted:

Mar 2, 2022 16:40

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Re: My inventory (non-seller)

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In Suggestions, antant7 writes:

In Suggestions, stasher writes:

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think what you are describing is closer
to the functionality of rebrickable.

Author:

antant7

Posted:

Mar 2, 2022 16:30

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Re: My inventory (non-seller)

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In Suggestions, stasher writes:

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think what you are describing is closer
to the functionality of rebrickable.

Author:

stasher

Posted:

Mar 2, 2022 16:02

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My inventory (non-seller)

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Author:

wildchicken13

Posted:

Feb 28, 2022 15:07

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Re: wanted list orders

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In Suggestions, tbohlsen writes:

Would be nice once a order is set to completed it would up date the wanted list

Use the "apply order" button. Be careful not to apply the same order twice!

Author:

tbohlsen

Posted:

Feb 28, 2022 15:04

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wanted list orders

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Would be nice once a order is set to completed it would up date the wanted list

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Feb 25, 2022 08:18

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Re: Sort by seller on Items for sale tab on part

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In Suggestions, biker72 writes:

Hi all,

Is it possible to add a sort option on seller in the Items For Sale tab on the
parts page?
At this point of time each color is seperately shown as intended.

As I am often looking for more colors of the same part it is convenient if I
can sort on seller. So I can easily see if a certain seller has more than one
color available.

Regards,
Dennis

If this became an option, then user names and/or store names would become things
like "AAAAAAAA Bricks" or "A1 Bricks" as sellers manipulate names to appear higher
in the list.

Author:

Andrsv

Posted:

Feb 25, 2022 08:11

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Re: Sort by seller on Items for sale tab on part

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In Suggestions, biker72 writes:

Sounds like you should create a wanted list and add all needed parts there

then you can search for sellers who has all parts you need, much more convinient

Author:

biker72

Posted:

Feb 25, 2022 08:04

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Sort by seller on Items for sale tab on part

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Author:

patrickgill

Posted:

Feb 23, 2022 16:32

Subject:

Display part notes when shopping wanted list

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I was rather disappointed when on a recent order I received a number of broken,
heavily damaged, and heavily discoloured parts, and was even more surprised when
the order showed that those parts were listed as such. Somehow I had purchased
a number of parts that I am quite literally going to throw straight in the bin.
I suspect I am not the first person this has happened to, and that I won't
be the last.

As far as I can tell, this happened because there is no visibility of the part
notes when shopping a wanted list. In my case, I shopped my wanted list with
~300 parts, and used the auto-select option. The store selection - both in the
confirm and edit views - doesn't show the part notes. To make matters worse,
the auto-select option will favour damaged parts because they are cheaper.

I then created the carts. When viewing the carts, notes are visible, but this
stage is too late to find out about bad parts, because rejecting them here means
having to re-select these from elsewhere. In other words, going back to store
selection, and potentially having to exclude stores or set a desired "new" condition
on those parts. It becomes a very manual process, and I probably don't want
new parts as they will stand out in a second hand set. Note also that the notes
are not highlighted in the cart view - the dimmer grey colour means its easy
to gloss over those.

It would be great if part notes where shown in the "confirm selection" and "edit
selection" modals when shopping a wanted list.

While we're at it, it would be great if there was a "damaged" part state,
to go with "new" and "used", as I definitely do not want damaged parts. Or perhaps
a grading?

Author:

WoutR

Posted:

Feb 23, 2022 05:18

Subject:

Re: Visable last sold price, even after long time

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In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, jarrovlissingen writes:

I woud like to see the last known sellingprice for an item, no matter how long
ago it sold.
Now we can only see the sales from last 6 months and the items for sale.

But sometimes an item is no longer for sale and it has been more than 6 months
since a sale, I would still like to know what it was sold for.
Why? For my insurrance policy...

Is it an good idea to change it to what I suggest? How do I make it happen??

Obviously the price guide is just a guide anyway, but there is the downside that
something that sold for example seven years ago will have changed in value. The
idea of the price guide is that it is current. Under your plan if a part sold
765 days ago for $60 and a broken one sold for $10 760 days ago, then only the
last price would show. Whereas if they both sold within six months then both
would show in the price guide indicating one was likely defective.

Keeping single out of date data points is not necessarily better than no current
data. Perhaps keeping the last 10 sales if older than six months and the number
of current points us less than 10 is better.

Always retaining the last 10 sales has been discussed in the past. I thought
that had already voted YES PLEASE on that one, but I don't see it so I guess
that it was discussed only...

So yes, I would like to see the last 10 sales if there were few sales in the
last 6 months.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Feb 23, 2022 03:07

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Re: Visable last sold price, even after long time

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