Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 11:51 | | Subject: | Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 184 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Product Family (Bricklink)
The vast number of categories that Bricklink incudes is great In some ways and
not so good in others. If you want to do a category analysis you will need lots
of paper or disk space and quite honestly it doesn’t make that much sense.
What we have done externally is set up groups of categories say for Bricks you
have modified, round, decorated etc. The same for Slopes, Tiles, Technic etc.
Our sales analysis automatically puts stats into each group as we sell items.
We have 10 families which is enough for us. We can drill down in each category
and get to the specifics e.g how many modified bricks did we sell at what value
etc, and from that we can look at individual parts.
Over our 11 years it has worked fine and gives us what we want and need. – In
inventory management terms it is like having a hierarchy where there isn’t one.
This is what we meant in our earlier post ' A Few questions'
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 04:30 | | Subject: | A Few questions | | Viewed: | 197 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
2. Unsorted lots
3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
Very interested in comments/thoughts
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:16 | | Subject: | What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 198 times | | Topic: | General | |
| I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2022 08:05 | | Subject: | Simple question - complicated answer ????? | | Viewed: | 156 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Anyone know what has happened to the XP project ? With MP gone, has this died
or is it still simmering on the back burner?
Never see anything on the forum about xp issues so I presume it is either not
being used or is code perfect (I seriously doubt that)
Just some food for thought.
There was a rumour at one stage that it was being rewritten
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2022 10:09 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 76088-1 | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 24 Part 34816 Light Bluish Gray Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Bar Handle on End - Bar Flush with Edge (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out today both with alternate part
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 13:16 | | Subject: | Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 243 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Currently due to Bricklink policy of 'must have onsite payment method enabled'
no store without that function can sell to anywhere in the USA. We would like
to suggest (not a formal suggestion yet) that BL splits the US shipping destinations
to with sales tax and without, so those of us who do not have onsite payments
enabled can still sell to the (9 states currently). We appreciate this will probably
change as everyone tries to get on the bandwagon - but because you cannot currently
remove an individual state this is not possible - we have had half a dozen enquiries
this month for shipping to USA - all from states with sales tax, unfortunately
On the other hand eliminating a large part of the market based purely on payment
method does not make good business sense. You can collect the sales tax in a
more conventional method - like bill us for it., or is that too difficult .
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2022 08:35 | | Subject: | New UK Prices on PAB cups | | Viewed: | 156 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| Effective 1 Jan 2022 large cup prices have increased from £11.24 each to £14.24
each (That is on using returned cups). 30% ish hike
Hmmmm
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2022 06:20 | | Subject: | PAB & B&P Merging | | Viewed: | 190 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| Could it possibly be a good thing for PAB & B&P merging? Currently the TLG Retail
store managers are restricted to an order form which only allows them to choose
a limited number of items from the 1600 that are available to PAB. With the addition
of the B&P elements might they have a wider choice to make available? Is that
good or not so good. Depends on how you want to look at ir really.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 26, 2021 07:46 | | Subject: | Anyone recognise this | | Viewed: | 155 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| Checked 14769* several times and cannot see this. Either the eyes have gone (good
possibility) or it isn't there.
Ot is definitely black and definitely Lego
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2021 02:36 | | Subject: | Does anyone know the answer | | Viewed: | 190 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| Reported a printing bug in Brickstore yesterday. Followed all the guidelines
on Github and the report was acknowledged by the author. Late last night received
an advice that the case was now closed. Bug 'fixed' and matter now over.
No program update to Brickstore and whilst I see a lot of code having been introduced
on Github when does the program get updated?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 15, 2021 00:12 | | Subject: | Brickstock/Brickstore issues - update | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| Further to our original post we are delighted to advise thet with the help and
patience of Beaverbrick we now have a working labels template for Brickstore.
That has also revealed a bug in Brickstore which we are looking at how best to
report that.
The labels work wonderfully, but you can not selectively print them - it is
all or nothing. That happens whether using the label template from the extras
menu or the normal Brickstore print command. It seems to think a document is
the entire list not a selected item. Workaround is simple, copy the individual
item to another document and print from that, but it is a definite bug.
Thanks again Beaverbrick
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2021 03:59 | | Subject: | Change ,oftenbrings chaos | | Viewed: | 181 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Having looked back a long way in the forum (before the current lot of compliance
issues being addressed) I could find no real issues being brought up over sales
tax, vat etc. The stores where it applied were dealing with it with no real issues.
All of a sudden legislates get involved, without thinking things through, as
usual, and we have a degree of chaos here on Bricklink. How odd that the individual
stores, where applicable coped more than adequately, until this load of changes
emerged,
The moral of the story is let well enough alone. Yes they may have missed the
odd amount of tax or vat but things were being dealt with - no pressure on BL
to come up with a total solution and no forum posts raising holy hell.
Still there is no going backwards only forwards and we are all now waiting for
the issues to be dealt with - they are far more complicated than what people
believe but if others have dealt with it I am sure BL will in due course.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 04:13 | | Subject: | What happens next | | Viewed: | 281 times | | Topic: | General | |
| TLG - Bricklink have recently announced a change of leadership at Bricklink
and thanks the previous CEO for all of his efforts. (Sorry to Interrupt the Monthly
Contests), etc.
We have a new gentleman coming on board - who we do not know a great deal about
other than he is a Lego guy. Ok good. Everyone who uses this site since JK's
takeover (2013) knows it needs a major re-write (Not XP) but both a redesign
and rethink. There have been a few (Including one by us) messages on here which
pointed the cost of doing that to be around 2 years in development terms at whatever
cost you wish to put on that.
There are differing views on development here some say use an agile methodology
(write code quickly and then patch, patch and patch.) Others say waterfall (The
old fashioned way) is best here - it takes more time and is less patch, (patch
and patch) . Agile is great when you are in a competitive environment (Can keep
you in front of the competition) but is that really required here? It also needs
2 sprint teams at least. One to write and release and the other to patch. Is
this the right environment for release, patch, patch and patch again (Even if
you have the people?)
Bricklink has several things going for it - e,g market pull, membership and now
the financial clout available through TLG, albeit we say that with tongue in
cheek.
Hire a senior analyst who has strong SQL skills/background and let them spend
some time putting together a decent system spec from which a business overview
can be published which asks all the right questions about direction etc and once
that is put together talk to your panels of advisors e.g Marketplace, Catalogue
and Studio as well as any future ones created. Make sure the spec includes strong
inventory management, and gives sellers the tools they need to operate successful
businesses as well as ease of use for buyers, etc. etc.
Get the spec costed and presented to TLG for approval (Let them worry about the
cost and time tables.)
Then go for it , really - lots of complications to this I am sure but in the
end analysis that is what is needed. Think more than carefully about the design
work- what it looks like is a matter of personal choice but what it does is not.
Design is everything in development4 and always calls for the highest level of
knowledge and experience
There are quite a few of us who would be willing to put time and effort into
this as this is a major project and needs lots of input and discussion. Not everyone
is going to get everything they want but working on the basis of discussion leads
to compromise and ultimately a quality product - this is the real way forward,
isn’t it?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 10, 2021 23:26 | | Subject: | Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 165 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| We have been Brickstock users since Patrick took it on and in many cases worked
closely with him to iron out issues etc, however his main job really does prevent
him from carrying on with developments so the product is slowly but surely heading
for the archives. Current issues include not getting any images of minwfigures
(everything else is okay), and price guide guidelines are also not updating properly.
So we downloaded Brickstore and it 'cures/fixes' the current Brickstock
issues and adds some nice touches but and it is a big but. We cannot use our
print templates. Yes we know about modifying viewws etc but that doesnt work
when we need to print labels for our products - and it works very well in Brickstock.
. We worked with tsrateplayer (Alan) a long time ago to get these templates done
and have shared them with many Brickstock users. We have good documentation on
theme and a how to guide to create or modify them but have not got a clue how
to incorporate them into Brickstore.
Maybe we can actually reach out to Robert via this forum message and ask if he
is willing to incorporate these into Brickstore. (We print delivery notes as
well as product labels via the templates.
Thoughts/comments.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2021 00:19 | | Subject: | Not convinved this is correct | | Viewed: | 231 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| Had to place an order on an EU store yesterday knowing full well that we would
have to pay VAT on it. The order was of small value so the VAT wasn't going
to be significant. The store had an onsite payment method (Paypal). Order placed,
shipping costs agreed and normal Bricklink invoice received from store. That
invoice had a link on it to pay via PAYpal onsite which we used - okay fine,
Moments after making the payment a Bricklink VAT invoice arrived - this is where
it gets cloudy, that invoice (BL's) shows an invoice amount fine - but no
where does it show what we paid. Surely this invoice should be a sales receipt
otherwise what proof do I have that we paid the VAT?
It really does not appear that this was all thought through. The customer should
always have proof of payment and by calling the Bricklink invoice which is the
VAT invoice as being paid that would suffice, otherwise C&E have every right
to question it at arrival. They are not interested in an invoice they want to
know the VAT has been paid. .
Are we not reading this right?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 4, 2021 03:18 | | Subject: | Please add Variant poicy to mandatory terms | | Viewed: | 127 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| To avoid issues such as what we mentioned yesterday why not get Bricklink to
add to the stores terms page a variant policy statement from the store. I am
sure we will see everything from no policy to a complete novel, but at least
it is something that can be looked at by potential buyers and it may even add
clarity to the current situation.
We very strongly believe this is a stores responsibility and not the buyers.
A buyer should have confidence in the fact they are getting what they ordered.
or a notice from the store to alert them they aren't.
Of course mistake can and will happen but if a policy statement is at least on
the mind of the store maybe it will help them to focus
I do agree that buyers, if concerned could ask for details but of 6 stores who
were asked none replied is not a good result.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 3, 2021 11:45 | | Subject: | It is just one of those days | | Viewed: | 148 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| Just looked at the major sellers in usa and europe - but to buy from usa I think
I am going to pay sales tax, and import duty and a handling fee and a similar
situation from EU.
I know the lawmakers were after the Amazons of the world but is it really necessary
to clobber the 'bit players' in this way.
This saga has shown us it is no longer viable to buy outside the UK and I am
sure lots of others see it that way as well.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 3, 2021 11:03 | | Subject: | Newish sellers - if not all - take your time | | Viewed: | 254 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| Had an urgent requirement for 50+ 3794b's in white. Our inventory showed
we had enough but when checking there were some which were actually 15573. Went
to replace those and found about 20 suppliers in the UK who had (supposedly)
enough to solve our shortage.
Ordered in 50 - they arrived quickly but they are all 15573's. The moral
of the story is if you are going to list as a variant make sure they are the
variant.
That is why we have a catalogue with comparison photos.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2021 09:25 | | Subject: | Boxes and Bags from Davpack (UK) | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| For those of you who use Davpack for your zip lock bags and boxes,, please note
they are having extreme difficulties in getting items delivered. so much so that
they have cancelled our last order which Tuffnells lost twice and refunded our
payment.
They know about the problems but currently saying they are under contract and
cannot deviate from that . despite the fact they are losing business
Whoever negotiated that contract wants shooting. Tuffnells must be in breach
which should give Davpack options but they are telling us they do not have any
options. We have been using them for over 10 years and up til now have never
had any problems
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2021 10:56 | | Subject: | Add My favourite stores to find stores/find i | | Viewed: | 100 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Could we have ann additional filter on these screens please to restrict the search
to our favorite stores.
Thanks
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 12:08 | | Subject: | They rarely work but ........ | | Viewed: | 209 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Most eCommerce sites we use here in the UK ask us to confirm we have read and
accept the terms and conditions of the site when we are placing an order. Bricklink
currently does not - it just previews those terms,. Should we have a checkbox
which is mandatory so that buyers confirm their acceptance. Might help if and
when there are disputes
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 26, 2021 07:39 | | Subject: | Just a thought | | Viewed: | 225 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| Had an order this morning from a 0 feedback buyer for 400 parts over 140 lots.
No problem, however he said in his comments he had placed lots of orders on
Bricklink but was moving from one store to another due to incorrect parts being
sent.
I thought okay but lets do a bit of digging. He only registered on Bricklink
yesterday - so it is unlikely he had placed lots of orders. Dig deeper and it
appears he has changed his username within the last 30 days - warning bells or
he has had multiple accounts merged. More warning bells - might be nothing but
140 lot order takes time to pick and we process first .
I messaged him for more info and unfortunately he did not reply, so I cancelled
the order with a full explanation and left no feedback.
What would have been helpful if when clicking on the little green box after his
name it told you what h is previous username was and or whether or not it was
merging multiple accounts.
I am sure we used to be able to do this but perhaps GDPR has stopped it. Be nice
to have that feature back.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2021 11:01 | | Subject: | Sellers tools - update | | Viewed: | 132 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Just had an interesting PM regarding the above. Feasible ? don't know but
it could deal with lots of the requirements.
Technology has moved on in leaps and bounds since the original B:L was written
- we are all aware of that. One of the tools that lingers around now in a variety
of forms is the use of dashboard. There are a significant number of 3rd party
vendors who produce tools for creation as well as implying their software will
provide dashboards for most database applications
Worth a look Bricklink ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2021 10:31 | | Subject: | Sellers tools - Query by Form (QBF) | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Sellers Tools – Query by Form
Here is an idea which could help both sellers and buyers using a simple Query
by form (qbf)
I am not a software screen or form designer but the fields could be something
like this:
Top half of screen
Lot No/Product Code Lot no brings up product description, clour and condition;
Product
code lets you key in colour and condition
Colour Bricklink colour
Condition Bricklink conditions
Date Range Could include all or various ranges including custom
Sort on Could have default or by any of the array fields
Transaction Type Should show Manual add, order, adjustment; part out; mass upload,
etc
Once those key choices are made the system then goes and finds the transactions
that fit your criteria
The array fields should show at least the following
Qty
Date
TransType
Reference
Unit Value
Total value
Balance
Could make the array a lot more complex with avg value calculated etc, costing
etc but initially this QBF would be of value to sellers and could be used by
buyers to see their buying history by product
If I forgot anything you think might be useful, please feel free to comment/add.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 10:20 | | Subject: | Sellers Tools ????? | | Viewed: | 242 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Sellers tools – what should that Include
We think the following minimum areas of functionality should be included
1. Allow stores to have staff with their own password and levels of access
2. Allow more parameters for stores in all areas on the site, especially store
settings, and templates
3. Inventory management – complex area perhaps split between standard and advanced
4. Sales metrics
a. Ability to see the reality of what is selling and where and of course , for
how much
5. Costing – could be included in advanced inventory management
6. More queries by form
7. Changes to My Inventory page including multidimensional filters and more update
capabilities especially to do with pricing
8. More printing and report options both for the seller, with other filters available
such as country, region, all etc, as well as buyers.
Those items, which are by no means exhaustive, are fine for starters. What could
happen is polls to be run to consolidate the multitude of opinions and suggestions
from which design work could take place, ultimately leading to programming, testing,
documentation and release.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2021 08:48 | | Subject: | Bricklink Part Out feature | | Viewed: | 157 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| The Bricklink part out feature needs work and a revisit
For almost 10 years we have been using Brickstock to do our part outs and then
uploading the xml file to Bricklink. Due to the recent changes to the catalogue
surrounding minifig to minifigure this has become laborious (Minifig images and
price information will not load into Brickstock). I know about Brickstore and
am considering it but the part out in BL is archaic to say the least. No permanent
record of the parting out other than a part out log which says you parted out
this set with no backup information whatsoever. It also causes problems with
pricing because you cannot see your existing prices without a lot of fiddling.
Bricklink needs to combine the features of the 3rd party products to offer a
fully functional part out facility and it needs to store the results of the part
out not just a date in the log.
I wonder if this is in the “sellers tools” functionality that has been talked
about for 8 years now and really has not materialised.
Lots of development time on conformance – fine that is required but what else
is going on? Please do not tell me it is XP
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2021 10:26 | | Subject: | The nutshell we were referring to | | Viewed: | 203 times | | Topic: | General | |
| | Try this one for size |
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2021 06:15 | | Subject: | In a nutshell | | Viewed: | 286 times | | Topic: | General | |
| OK the EU Marketplace VAT changes are released and in the throes of being examined,
and as pretty much normal, there are things missing. That is not new. We are
still waiting for the sales tax exemption for the US and that was a long time
ago. We are also still waiting on the zip code pricing for the US, as well as
weight and volume based pricing for most of Europe (Lots have workarounds for
this). We must not forget the margin scheme in all of tjhis – yet another complication
All sellers who have not implemented an onsite payment method are not affected
by these changes as Bricklink has limited the payment methods to either Paypal
or Stripe, where they have an arrangement to collect the monies directly before
the seller gets paid.
If you have implemented onsite payments then you are affected one way or the
other. Depends on what country you are in or selling from and also has a dependency
on your cumulative turnover in the EU currently 10k euros, (That hasn’t been
implemented yet either) Seeing a pattern ? we do. Big picture design and programming
works well in some circumstances but not all, the same as agile development
In time maybe the missing features will be added, only Bricklink knows that at
present. In the meantime we have a great deal of sympathy for those that are
caught up in this, both buyers, who are going to pay more and sellers who will
have an additional administrative burden and cost landed on them (You pay Paypal
or Stripe fees based on the total value of the orger (Which includes VAR, where
appropriate. Still that isn’t a lot is it?
I have left out lots of complicated bits here as that was not the point, How
is Bricklink going to know if a sellers turnover reaches 10k in a 12 month period,
for example unless the seller declares it.
Good fun and always, yes always a challenge.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 15, 2021 01:44 | | Subject: | New UK CN22 | | Viewed: | 117 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| If not registered for VAT what should go in the VAT registration box?
Thanks. Not applicable or not registered - are we allowed to do that? or are
the new silly rules about registering overseas now in effect?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 11, 2021 09:08 | | Subject: | Paypal issues | | Viewed: | 149 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| Not affecting everyone it seems but at least 500 of us in the UK have not been
able to log into Paypal since 0700 this morning. First they told us it was a
security issue, then they changed their mind and said it was an issue with one
of the phone companies and just now they said no chance of it getting fixed today
- try tomorrow. What a way to run a business.
Good grief Charlie Brown.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 3, 2021 10:56 | | Subject: | The New Brickstore | | Viewed: | 206 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| | Are print templates created in Ntickstock supported in the new Brickstore? |
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 16, 2021 13:20 | | Subject: | These don't normally get too far but .... | | Viewed: | 321 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Could the programmers take a half hour and add the following information to the
my inventory detail pages as appropriate. It would be a step that would help
in reconciling inventory quantities (It won't do it all but it will help)
The information has to be held somewhere in the system and it only, for the moment,
needs to populate when someone adds to a lot. It can help sellers to back track
to when they last added this item.
It is not a complex programming effort.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 13, 2021 13:00 | | Subject: | Brickstock issuie with laarge lot sets | | Viewed: | 137 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| Today we finished parting out a few large sets (over 550 lots in each) and discovered
a problem with Brickstock. When we went to start our pricing process (Too long
winded to go through here) Brickstock would only update about 500 of the 556
lots, no matter what we did.
We then found we could manually run the update to price guide command against
those individual items and it brought in the price. So we experimented and found
that over 500 lots doesn't work in a single update, but if you split it into
2 halves it works fine.
I have sent a message to the author and asked him to look at this, but at least
there is a workaround.
Lego keep increasing the size of sets so this isn't going to go away.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Apr 22, 2021 10:40 | | Subject: | Brown (Old) 3957 | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| We have 2 of these in stock and were about to submit a photo (none in catalogue)
when we saw that whilst it is listed as a known colour it is not shown in any
sets. I thought that was not the policy - if not in set not a known colour???
Clarification, please.
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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: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2020 09:46 | | Subject: | One last thought for today | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Currently when an order is placed there is an original order date on that order
however when someone updates the order, say with another batch, the order date
changes to the date of the change and we lose the original order date. It would
be better if the original order date was held - that way the orders would stay
in chronological order rather than orders jumping all over the place.
No more for today but we might be back over the weekend. Lots going on at present.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2020 09:25 | | Subject: | Another one for the sellers | | Viewed: | 122 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Those of us who still use the order detail page would like the following changes
to make our lives easier and us more productive
Instead of a single filter line at the top please add an 'and/or' to
allow multiple conditions to restrict the lines you are working on. For example
we use this filter to switch to all orders packed to alter the status to shipped
but if we could add another condition we could do packed to shipped - mass drive
thru and feedback all in one'ish operation
Secondly please make the column headings on the orders themselves clickable to
allow sorting by any of the columns (as you have done on the inventory front
page)
And lastly, please add color on the inventory front page as one of the filters
(a drop down list box would be fine). I am aware that you may already be able
to do this with the keyword field but why does it need to be so complicated -
just give us a chance to choose the colors.
Thank you
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 17, 2020 10:18 | | Subject: | Please allow stores to order shipping methods | | Viewed: | 116 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Currently there is not an easy way for a store to order their shipping methods.
The system appears to take the last one created and make that the default. This
is not helpful. Please ask your development team to take a few minutes and add
a list order to this feature so stores can choose a default or an order.
We appreciate development is extremely busy at present with the tax changes and
correcting issues (Order status changes, refund (altering print order detail
screen, my inventory pages, etc so we believe you are busy, however this has
long been needed and should not take a developer long to add).
Thanks.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2020 10:19 | | Subject: | Reasons for | | Viewed: | 139 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| | being moved to slopes - surely this is more appropriate in Bricks, arch |
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 14, 2020 11:49 | | Subject: | Bricklink admin - please help us out here | | Viewed: | 264 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| We, along with others, are investigating payment methods as an alternative to
Paypal who are going through a raft of changes to do with new EU regulations
(PSD2 and SCA).
One such method being looked at is Stripe, however we can find no real information
about its penetration into our UK market/stores as there is no current capability
to set that as a payment method in the find store search page.
One suggestion, and a good one, has been to ask Bricklink to do a one off query
to show some facts and figures of payments processed by which methods (By region)
This might even help you convince people online payment methods are worth looking
at.
Can you, or are you willing to help here? I know it can be done.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 10, 2020 08:44 | | Subject: | We know these don't work but ..... | | Viewed: | 216 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Suggestions have not worked on the site for quite a period of time, however we
have yet another one which is becoming pressing.
The part-out log. ~It really does need looking at. You cannot search to find
sets that you think you have parted out without walking through all pages - boring
and tedious,
once you find what you are looking for all you get is the date instead of a copy
of what was done. - boring and not very helpful
Please look at this as an area that needs a rethink.
We certainly should be able to search and once you find it you need to be able
to see what was done - e.g. which parts - at what price etc. etc.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 13, 2020 06:17 | | Subject: | Please add the following features as appropri | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I wish Bricklink would take a closer look at Brickstock and incorporate at least
some of the features that exist there.
For example the use of multiple filter capabilities would be superb for the order
detail page as well as lots of other areas e.g. part identification etc.
If you look at the image I have attached you will see what I mean. It is a natural
element of SQL and when we had goatleg and miniconfigurator that is how both
of them worked (with some modifications)
It really is not a difficult feature to add and would save hundreds if not thousands
of hours work on behalf of the stores for a small amount of time for developers.
Anyone else feel the same?
The 'and/or' filter is a great tool - is easy to learn and use and with
the catalogue getting more and more complex and populated with data this is really
a must.
BTW - we would have expected something like this in the long delayed (and probably
forgotten about) sellers tools
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 3, 2020 06:05 | | Subject: | Please add new Forum Topic | | Viewed: | 170 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| To save the almost constant threads that come up in the forum for things like
dealing with shipping to , as well as sales history as well as .... Please add
a new topic to the forum for Knowledgebase items.
That way Brickwilbo and others can refer people to the knowledgebase area for
their answers - it will save a lot of time and effort on everyone's part.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2020 06:18 | | Subject: | Add to Community Experts group | | Viewed: | 284 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Suggestions over the past 6 years have not been very successful, however we now
have a new 'kid on the block' in charge. Let's see what happens with
this one.
We are all aware of the new Community Expert program that has been introduced
aimed at the technical side of the site e.g. catalogue, inventories etc.
How about adding to that group with a community advisory panel, whose members
could help with the usability testing of new features as well as offering advice
on both direction and functionality for the site.
These would also be volunteers and a method for rotation could be put in place
to ensure no one individual dominated that side.
You could even have regional representation say USA, UK, Europe (or Germany,
France Netherlands, etc). This would help enormously on the variations that are
both desirable and needed for the site, as well as the legal requirements, postal
systems, etc.
It would, of course also help communications and community spirit.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2020 10:04 | | Subject: | It's a funny old world we live in | | Viewed: | 296 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| For quite some time now there have been discussions on the forum about catalogue
changes as well as other areas of improvement to the site (Performance etc.).
There have been lots of different people involved and Russell has commented on
a couple of occasions but of course nothing is out in the open for plans at present
whilst the Lego takeover completes.
One thing I find strange and that is with all the talent (Programming wise) that
exists on the site, coupled with the technical Lego knowledge that also exists,
no one other than a couple of people have chimed in about getting some senior
analysts involved with a plan to redevelop. This is a very complex site but it
can be broken into segments |(elements) many of which can be handled by existing
software. For example the core processing behind the site is an order processing
system. We are aware of at least two products which could deal with that side
of it easily and have been built with 'linking in' other elements in
mind.
Inventory control, which in our opinion, is an essential element which has been
needed for some time is also out there and fits nicely into either of the two
above products. Again this needs an analyst to look at it and report to the decision
makers what needs to be done. It doesn't, with all due respect, require a
programmer to sit down and write the code first.
The catalogue is a different animal and needs a huge amount of thought. The data
currently held is priceless - not sure even Lego have it all, so that needs some
TLC and a significant amount of time spent to come up with the best way forward.
But, and it is a little word with a great big meaning here, the costs of doing
this are nowhere near outrageous and if libraries of code can be used e,g, order
processing, inventory control etc, then huge amounts of money and time can be
saved in achieving what is required.
The redevelopment of this site will not cost a fortune and it was well within
the means of the former owners to accomplish. They chose, for whatever reason,
not to do that - Lets hope that Lego will look at it differently.
Lets get behind hiring some senior analysts and get the project off the ground.
There was never a better time to start than now. With the strength of Lego and
its marketing machine behind the site who knows where we can go.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2019 11:59 | | Subject: | HP184 onwards | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Inventories | | Status: | Open | |
| The minifigs in set 75948 do not appear to have been inventoried yet and according
to the catalogue page it is not pending - is there a problem with these?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 27, 2019 05:50 | | Subject: | Helpful but .... | | Viewed: | 233 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Firstly let me say that we know suggestions are not being implemented and according
to MP no work is being done on the classic site however this is a small request
which doesn't require huge amounts of development time and would make life
a bit easier.
Currently the method of manually adding inventory is long winded, provides no
audit trail of what has been done and at best is clumsy.
We use Brickstock for most of our updates to our store. It is much easier, quicker
and provides us with a complete audit trail - the only real snag is what happens
when the file gets to Bricklink, The verify screen drops off the Bricklink part
number for some reason so we are left with an audit trail which, when variants
are involved, isn't really all that helpful, although to be fair we have
used this for some time.
Simply placing the bricklink product code on the verify screen would be very
helpful and this is not a major programming issue. At the same time give us a
print button to print that screen Using the print command from the browser doesn't
work well with the page setup falling short of what is needed.
This is a simple matter and could be resolved in minimal time - please implement.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 00:38 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 40145-1 | | Viewed: | 154 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 4085b Orange Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 2 (thin U clip) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
6 sets parted out 2 had the b variant not d.
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