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In Suggestions, Rusky456 writes:

Please, please, please give us an option to select a default "Sort By" in the
Wanted Lists.
My preference is "Alphabetical" and I note others have asked for this before.
The reverting to "Newest" every time you leave and return to the page is really
tiresome.
For such a useful and clever website I can't believe this is not a do-able
thing.
Does anybody read these ?

You can sort of do it...
Open your Wanted List.
Change the sort order.
Hit the Edit button (in the group of buttons next to search bar).
Then hit the Save button.

Note: this will change the sort order for all your Wanted Lists.

Author:

Rusky456

Posted:

Apr 12, 2022 23:32

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Wanted list default options

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Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Apr 11, 2022 16:52

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Re: dimensions of objects in brick size

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In Suggestions, thexfile writes:

hi i came to this looking up this item :

93549pb02 Minifigure, Utensil Bottle, Erlenmeyer Flask with Molded Trans-Purple Fluid Pattern
Parts: Minifigure, Utensil, Decorated

and i wanted to know if i could use it in a mock...
yet to my surprises there is no note to how tall or wide this thing is in plate
or bricks etc ....

It’s 5 plates high and almost a brick (= 3 plates) wide (so more than a stud
= 2.5 plates).

it nicely says the actual size but that means nothing to me in my brick maths....

It’s packing dimensions, it’s useful for packing (the height includes the stud…
and a bit more).

Every part doesn’t have a dimension in studs.

And, generally, the complaints are about the stud dimensions:
— the third one is in bricks (so a 1x1 brick is 1x1x1, not 1x1x1.2),
— a DUPLO 2x4 brick and a LEGO 2x4 brick have the same dimensions: 2x4x1.

it would be handy if such items would be expressed in ex : cylinder 1x1x2??

now im stuck guessing before i have it in hand...

i know its a pain to ad this after the fact but it would be handy to have this
info before i buy...

dont know if there are many of these items honestly its the first time im wondering
this after using brick link for years...

sorry if this subject already came up

Author:

wildchicken13

Posted:

Apr 11, 2022 16:45

Subject:

Re: dimensions of objects in brick size

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In Suggestions, thexfile writes:

hi i came to this looking up this item : 93549pb02

and i wanted to know if i could use it in a mock...
yet to my surprises there is no note to how tall or wide this thing is in plate
or bricks etc ....

it nicely says the actual size but that means nothing to me in my brick maths....

it would be handy if such items would be expressed in ex : cylinder 1x1x2??

now im stuck guessing before i have it in hand...

i know its a pain to ad this after the fact but it would be handy to have this
info before i buy...

dont know if there are many of these items honestly its the first time im wondering
this after using brick link for years...

sorry if this subject already came up

Hint:

1 stud is approximately 5/16 inches (7.9375 mm)
1 plate is approximately 1/8 inches (3.175 mm)
1 brick is exactly 3 plates

Most parts on BrickLink are expressed in units of both inches/millimetres and
plates/studs. For example:

87926 Cylinder Half 3 x 6 x 6 with 1 x 2 Cutout
Parts: Cylinder {Dark Purple}

However, since this particular part is a minifigure utensil/accessory, it may
not have standard plate/stud dimensions. It appears to be about 2 bricks tall
and a little bit more than 1 stud in diameter. However, the only way to find
out for sure is to buy a couple, or ask someone who owns some if they can provide
more accurate dimensions.

HTH

Author:

thexfile

Posted:

Apr 11, 2022 16:36

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dimensions of objects in brick size

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Author:

Dino

Posted:

Apr 7, 2022 18:45

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Re: Separate buyer and seller addresses

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In Suggestions, Poncke writes:

In Suggestions, Dino1 writes:

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.

Don't think this is true. You lose seller protection if you ship the order
to a different address than given to you in the transaction details.

I have a paypal account and many times have stuff shipped to my work address,
it is simply possible, and the seller doesnt lose seller protection.

The problem with statements like yours is that people take it for truth and then
vote against the suggestion.

It is still a problem that buyer and seller accounts are linked and my store
closes if I want to have something delivered to a different address.

It really is fecking madness. There is no other word for it. In fact, sellers
have missed out on sales, because of this limitation. Because I simply bought
the set elsewhere.

If you don't have a clue, you should shut up.
I don't know how Amazon does it, because I don't use it. As far as I
know they don't accept paypal.
If you buy something on Ebay, you can change the shipping address. However, only
on Ebay and not on Paypal. This dates back to when paypal was part of Ebay. Apparently
this rule was kept when Paypal was sold.
I don't really care what you do, but any seller should be warned if they
ship to an address other than the one on file with Paypal.

Author:

Poncke

Posted:

Apr 7, 2022 17:48

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Re: Separate buyer and seller addresses

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In Suggestions, Dino1 writes:

In Suggestions, Poncke writes:

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:

donossi

Posted:

Apr 3, 2022 00:59

Subject:

Number of orders at the Download side

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Hello,

can you put numbers of the selected orders at the bottom of the "Order Download"
site.

Kind Regards
Maico

Author:

donossi

Posted:

Apr 3, 2022 00:56

Subject:

Prefill Button for Date in "Download order"

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Hello,

if i will download my orders, i must set the from and the to date.

Can you please put some prefill Buttons at the dates with "last month", "this
month", this year", "Last year". If enough space, this and last week is also
ok.

Kind regards
Maico

Author:

cosmicray

Posted:

Apr 1, 2022 10:12

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
Or a geographical setting, 50 km/miles from me, same country, postal code,

whatever. Narrow down the options a bit. I find myself wanting someone within
50 miles, because I know the post office MIGHT get things here quicker than say,
1,000 miles and thirteen Postal hops in between.

You dreamer.

Couple of weeks back I ordered some stamps by mail from USPS. They were sent
to me from Kansas City via Priority Mail, and dispatched on a Monday. I received
them on a Friday. That’s 4 days for USPS PM from Kansas to Florida. And this
was a small light baggy with two rolls of stamps in it. Go figure.

Nita Rae

Author:

hugibricks

Posted:

Apr 1, 2022 10:02

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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Yes sorry for any confusion, this is exactly what I'm referring too. It seems
like a simple setting to have.

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

Hello there.

I'd be shocked if this hasn't been requested. But why can't we have
a default setting for Items for Sale and set the seller location.

I'm not interested in "anywhere" and every time change this to my local region
australia. It's never not annoying to do this every time.

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

That's only for the price guide, not for when you are searching for or raking
prices on an items page.

I think the question is why isn't there an option to set the default seller
location on item pages (for example, this one https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3001
) to be the buyer's country.

It has been asked for multiple times in the past but ignored.

Author:

jennnifer

Posted:

Mar 31, 2022 14:58

Subject:

Re: Messages.

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In Suggestions, Audioanemone writes:

Who thinks bricklink should have a more advnaced messaging system?

Like messgae drafts because it is very frustrating when you acciedentally click
outside the message think or click backspacce it deletes ur whole message.

I think you might need a spell-checker too!

The only message system that works poorly is the one accessed through the storefront.
Use the old message system for better results. You can get there by clicking
on the little envelope on anyone's feedback card.

Good luck!
Jen

Author:

1001bricks

Posted:

Mar 31, 2022 13:57

Subject:

Re: Messages.

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In Suggestions, Audioanemone writes:

Who thinks bricklink should have a more advnaced messaging system?

I guess everyone?
Except I prefer e-mail and reply (almost) only using e-mail.

Like messgae drafts because it is very frustrating when you acciedentally click
outside the message think or click backspacce it deletes ur whole message.

For Firefox anyway there was an Add on that would memorise the form fields you
entered, and can fill them back after you used the history back, closed the page
- or simply want to retype the same thing...

Author:

Audioanemone

Posted:

Mar 31, 2022 12:33

Subject:

Messages.

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Author:

popsicle

Posted:

Mar 30, 2022 13:19

Subject:

Re: What do you think?

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Thanks for taking the time, Jeff.

Much appreciated input

-Cory

In Suggestions, kantorj writes:

Replying to an old thread:

I LOVE the idea of a donations topic for the forum. I have a fair amount of
items in my store I could donate. Pieces that take up a lot of space, are older,
probably won't sell... this is a great idea.

If an Admin is listening- add my name to the list of supporters.

Jeff

In Suggestions, popsicle writes:

I’ve mentioned this before, but not as a site suggestion.

Add a Donation topic to the forum.

We’ve (my kids and I) have donated quite a few Lego items over the years, and
would like to choose a more specific topic when doing so here on BL. When I go
to give-away Lego, I’m compelled to use the contest mechanism in the forum, as
they’re is no other relative topics to just give away Lego.

Expand your thinking on this: It would not generate income for the site directly
(in fact can be viewed as pulling potential sellable inventory off the market)
but I think indirectly, the site revenue would increase.

In any case, wouldn’t it be fun? Add more excitement to the community? As well
as show the other relative sites, that we are more than about the $

-Cory, Jazz & Gavin

Author:

kantorj

Posted:

Mar 30, 2022 11:55

Subject:

Re: What do you think?

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Author:

CapemHamSolo

Posted:

Mar 29, 2022 05:41

Subject:

Re: Change order status to Completed

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In Suggestions, CapemHamSolo writes:

In Suggestions, TakeAbricK writes:

In my opinion the only one that knows if an order is 100% completed is the Buyer,
not the Seller. Only the buyer can change status to received, but both buyer
and seller can change status to completed.

Status Received:
Package has been received but the buyer has not yet verified the contents on
the package.

As a buyer I Always use this, until I verified the contents, which can take a
while, depending on how many orders I receive at once, how big the orders are
and if I can find time to check.

I like it to have this great reminder to do so:
... Orders received, change status when completed

Now I experienced several times, that the seller changed status to completed.
Which is not correct, because I still didn't check the order yet. Besides
I now lost my reminder which tells me I still have to verify this order and leave
feedback.

As a seller I understand that it's nice to know when an order is completed
and that buyer's do change order status, but it's not up to the seller
to decide if an order is received and 100% correct.

My Suggestion:

Only allow the Buyer to change status to Completed.

Diana

Late to the party but had a seller do this to me when I had a large number of
orders with various statuses. Seems status cannot be changed after a certain
period of time so by that logic a seller could set an order to completed and
if you do not realise and change it back in time it could get locked like that
despite never being received. Thankfully I was able to identify and change the
status back to shipped after reviewing a bunch of orders.

I use the statuses to mark off orders received and know which I am still waiting
for to arrive. Definitely if after a reasonable amount of time a buyer has not
updated the status but has not indicated the order was not received then the
status should automatically be set to completed and/or allow the seller to do
so. At the very least a seller should not be allowed to set it to completed after
1 day of marking it as shipped for an international order over a weekend! This
is what happened to me and it really annoyed me to the point I left neutral feedback
(was debating leaving negative as it was seemingly marked completed on a Sunday
after being shipped on the Saturday).

Just to add, it was a relatively expensive order too and has shaken my trust
in the seller and BrickLink processes in general.

Author:

CapemHamSolo

Posted:

Mar 29, 2022 05:38

Subject:

Re: Change order status to Completed

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In Suggestions, TakeAbricK writes:

Author:

kzinti

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 17:02

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Or a geographical setting, 50 km/miles from me, same country, postal code,
whatever. Narrow down the options a bit. I find myself wanting someone within
50 miles, because I know the post office MIGHT get things here quicker than say,
1,000 miles and thirteen Postal hops in between.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 04:50

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 04:12

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Author:

hugibricks

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 03:51

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Items for sale - Seller Location

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Author:

1001bricks

Posted:

Mar 22, 2022 10:41

Subject:

Re: Coupons

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In Suggestions, crimson30 writes:

Any chance on improving the interface when it comes to coupons? Not only are
there regular forum questions on how to use them, I miss using them all the time
because of how the dropdown is not visible without me scrolling down on the Payment
page (and why would I even scroll down on that page?).

Why not streamline it like on Amazon? Make it automatic, but visible in the
checkout calculation on the right-hand side so that if you *don't* want to
use the coupon for whatever reason, it will be obvious that one is being applied.

Make it CLEAR, BIG and AUTOMATIC, yes.

80% of my Coupons simply expire.

I personnaly lost 100€ or more in Coupons from others I never used for this reason.
It's stupid coupons are at the last page, small, and inactive by default.

It should be on top right:
Items: 100€
Shipping: 5€
Coupon: -2€
Total: 103€

There should be a way to change this, or pick another coupon of course.

But activated by default, clearly, bold!

Author:

crimson30

Posted:

Mar 22, 2022 09:53

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Coupons

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