Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Nov 6, 2015 12:03 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10697-1 | Viewed: | 21 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3070b Bright Pink Tile 1 x 1 with Groove (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
6 sets parted out - all had 1 extra 3070b in Bright Pink
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Nov 5, 2015 09:59 | Subject: | Improvements to Price Guide | Viewed: | 161 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Thought I would try this one more time. Currently if you use the price guide
to look at the value of parting out a set you get a figure for its value and
how many new lots will get added to your inventory.
We would like to see a simple little screen or report based result of the work
that Bricklink has done as far as determining which lots are the new one. This
helps us enormously in determining how we approach parting out.
Secondly and equally as important to us is the need to be able to follow the
value of the sets as they are parted out over time. So when the set was launched
it had a higher part out value than 6 months later, in some cases there are also
times when the set is much more valuable later on. This would help us as a store
to determine how long before we part out various sets that we have stock of.
At the moment we have a very crude offline system which gives us the result of
parting out at the date when we did it. Bricklink has all this data in its database
- surely we should be able to get at it as a valuable tool for the stores.
Remember without stores there would be no Bricklink !!! (I know the same applies
to buyers)
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Oct 23, 2015 10:16 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 76022-1 | Viewed: | 19 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 3794 Dark Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Two sets parted out both had the non-groove variant
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Oct 22, 2015 07:27 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 76020-1 | Viewed: | 23 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 3794 Reddish Brown Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Two sets parted out today both had the non-groove version of the plate
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Oct 20, 2015 02:25 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75025-1 | Viewed: | 19 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3794 Black Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 new sets parted out - both had the non-groove version
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Oct 5, 2015 10:17 | Subject: | Change to the way Bricklink Present fees | Viewed: | 158 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Discarded | |
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| For some time now we have had considerable difficulty in reconciling the fees
statement to our accounts system. The fees are always paid - there is no problem
there, but the fact that it is a summary rather than detail and the conversion
rates may or may not be different it makes it a job rather than just a quick
check.
We would like to see each store given the option to receive either the summary
or a detailed breakdown. The detailed breakdown should include each order the
store is being charged for the date and value of that order and the calculated
fee + currency conversion rate.
Those of us who do not deal in dollars would like that information available.
Those who don't require it can remain with the summary.
If the fees program is within the code for Bricklink, this should not be a complicated
change as it has all the info already. If it is in another system that would
have to be looked at but even today's most simple billing programs allow
for this type of information to be presented.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Sep 18, 2015 12:00 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 30244-1 | Viewed: | 18 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3794 Black Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had 3794's instead of 3794b's.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Sep 9, 2015 10:46 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31022-1 | Viewed: | 13 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3713 Red Technic Bush (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 2780 Black Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise WITH Center Slots (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3673 Light Bluish Gray Technic, Pin without Friction Ridges Lengthwise (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out each had one extra of above parts.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Sep 9, 2015 10:14 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31022-1 | Viewed: | 13 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 4073 Black Plate, Round 1 x 1 Straight Side (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 4073 Trans-Clear Plate, Round 1 x 1 Straight Side (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 sets parted out both had 1 extra of each of the above
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Sep 9, 2015 09:03 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31022-1 | Viewed: | 18 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 2436b Light Bluish Gray Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 4 with Rounded Corners (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Two sets parted out both had the b variant.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Sep 9, 2015 02:47 | Subject: | Improvements to Bricklink Messaging | Viewed: | 97 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Would like to suggest several improvements to the messaging system that Bricklink
uses.
1. Enable HTML Mail (rather than just plain text)
2. Allow attachments
3. Provide forward capability
4. Allow CC or BCC addressees
5. Provide default set up so we can have messages of all kinds sent to store
email address, rather than having to mark each individual message to be sent
to our e-mail address.
All of the above are capable within SQL mail but if they are difficult to implement,
consider changing the system - Mail/Messaging is a very valuable tool and in
today's business world we need to have a first class system. The current
system is very old, in many circumstances, not totally reliable and very restrictive.
It is time for change.
I am sure there are other capabilities that people want to see - feel free to
add them if you think this is a suggestion that should be carried forward.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Sep 1, 2015 11:59 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75030-1 | Viewed: | 32 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 3794b Light Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud with Groove (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
5 Sets parted out - all 3794b - no 15573's
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Aug 4, 2015 02:23 | Subject: | Improvements to Feedback Summary Page | Viewed: | 84 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently what you see is a summary of feedbacks received over weekly, monthly
and yearly columns as well as a breakdown of 'selling' and 'buying'.
We would like to see two additional columns added one for the number of purchase
orders and one for the number of sales orders.
This would allow an approximate percentage to be calculated for how high or low
the feedbacks to orders relationship is. We have guessed that it is somewhere
around the 60% figure over all - in other words you will get or give feedback
on 60% of your orders be they placed or received.
You can do this manually by going to the store and looking at the banner for
number of orders - but that is only for sales and it means changing between screens.
This would be a welcome and simple improvement to the summary page, which we
use all the time.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jul 25, 2015 05:31 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10681-1 | Viewed: | 19 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 6014b White Wheel 11mm D. x 12mm, Hole Notched for Wheels Holder Pin (Alternate)
* Add 3 Part 3794b Orange Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud with Groove (Jumper) (Alternate)
* Add 2 Part 3794b Tan Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud with Groove (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had the above rather than the standard parts.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jul 22, 2015 11:14 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7662-1 | Viewed: | 23 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 6 Part 4460b Dark Bluish Gray Slope 75 2 x 1 x 3 - Hollow Stud (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had 6 x 4460a' and 6 4450-b's.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jul 11, 2015 10:02 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10682-1 | Viewed: | 14 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3794 Yellow Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
$ sets parted out today. 2 had both Yellow 3794's rather than 3794b
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jul 6, 2015 08:13 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7665-1 | Viewed: | 26 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 4460a White Slope 75 2 x 1 x 3 - Completely Open Stud (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Have now parted out two of this set and both had 4460a's not 4460.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jun 26, 2015 09:42 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10198-1 | Viewed: | 22 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 44375a White Dish 6 x 6 Inverted (Radar) - Hollow Studs (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both with 'a' version
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jun 26, 2015 09:39 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10198-1 | Viewed: | 25 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 44375a Dark Red Dish 6 x 6 Inverted (Radar) - Hollow Studs (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Parted out 2 of these sets and both had the a version of the dish
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | May 22, 2015 04:25 | Subject: | Dealing with orders | Viewed: | 257 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We would like to suggest some changes to the orders pages, both printing and
downloading.
1. The current order printouts are taking up a lot of paper (and toner etc).
If I download the order into Brickstock for example I can reduce the number of
pages by 40 to 50% but I cannot get same sort order. Brickstock is severely limited
on its sorting capabilities at the moment. We have asked Patrick Brans to look
at this as a matter of urgency, but he seems to be quite tied up with his normal
job at present.
2. If we download the order from Bricklink to a spreadsheet file we lose the
images and the quantity remaining - and both of those fields are used in the
picking process - we do not want to lose them. We have tried all the different
download formats and none of them provide or bring either of the fie4lds with
them.
So the suggestions are:
1. Improve the order printing process and allow more flexibility in where we
place the columns etc. This can be done as Allan Smith has produced a great order
template for Brickstock which is how we have been able to reduce the number of
pages per order - we still get everything we had with the Bricklink Order printout
(Except quantity remaining)and it all fits on one A4 Portrait page much better
that the existing printout from Bricklink.
2. Give us a way to incorporate the image and quantity remaining fields and data
in the download capabilities.
Either of these 'solutions' will solve the problem, save money and time
on the printing side and be a significant improvement to the current process.
We are aware that some stores do not print their orders at all any more - they
simply work from a tablet or computer screen - but in our case this isn't
really possible - we need that picking list as our storage and distribution centre
is not in the same location as the rest of the order processing.
Neither of the above suggestions would take a great deal of coding changes and
we see them as an excellent improvement to the site.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | May 6, 2015 10:42 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 8039-1 | Viewed: | 22 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 4460b Black Slope 75 2 x 1 x 3 - Hollow Stud (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out and both b variant
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Apr 21, 2015 03:35 | Subject: | Changes to the Feedback Page | Viewed: | 130 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would be very nice if we could actually filter this page. Things like lets
only see the feedback from a specific country or lets see the feedback as a buyer.
This would be helpful as it doesn't appear possible any other way at present.
We have had some new customers who have come from countries where we don't
normally receive orders and the customers are showing lower feedback than we
are comfortable with for fairly large orders.
Would be nice to see if anyone else, for example, in the UK has served these
customers, without having to scroll through the feedback until you either recognise
a store or look up each store.
The same also applies to buyers.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Apr 19, 2015 10:26 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7671-1 | Viewed: | 25 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 32064 Dark Bluish Gray Technic, Brick 1 x 2 with Axle Hole (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had Old style
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Apr 15, 2015 10:27 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7671-1 | Viewed: | 20 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 3 Part 44375a Light Bluish Gray Dish 6 x 6 Inverted (Radar) - Hollow Studs (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had Hollow Stud 44375a's
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Apr 15, 2015 08:59 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 30200-1 | Viewed: | 24 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 98313 Dark Bluish Gray Arm Mechanical, Exo-Force / Bionicle, Thick Support (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
9 sets parted out - all 98313's not 53989
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Feb 19, 2015 03:54 | Subject: | Message options | Viewed: | 89 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Would like to see the Bricklink messaging system offer options for plain Text,
Rich Text and html if possible. This would allow the use of formatting where
required or needed.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jan 26, 2015 13:36 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31017-1 | Viewed: | 25 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3673 Light Bluish Gray Technic, Pin without Friction Ridges Lengthwise (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jan 26, 2015 12:22 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31017-1 | Viewed: | 22 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 54200 Orange Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3 (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 54200 Black Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3 (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out today
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jan 26, 2015 12:13 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31017-1 | Viewed: | 20 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 4073 Trans-Orange Plate, Round 1 x 1 Straight Side (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 4073 Trans-Red Plate, Round 1 x 1 Straight Side (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 4073 Yellow Plate, Round 1 x 1 Straight Side (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out today
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jan 26, 2015 12:09 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31017-1 | Viewed: | 24 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 4073 Dark Bluish Gray Plate, Round 1 x 1 Straight Side (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out today.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jan 26, 2015 11:11 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31017-1 | Viewed: | 23 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 48729b Light Bluish Gray Bar 1L with Clip Mechanical Claw, Cut Edges and Hole on One Side (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out today and both had 1 extra of these items. The part is not called for in the Lego Instructions so these are 'extras'
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Dec 29, 2014 10:14 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 76013-1 | Viewed: | 24 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 4085b Light Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 2 (thin U clip) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Two sets parted out both had 4 of the 4085b's and two of the 4085d's.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Dec 26, 2014 11:37 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 76013-1 | Viewed: | 20 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 3 Part 4085a Light Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 1 (thin open O clip) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out, both had 3 4085a's as well as 4085d's
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Dec 26, 2014 11:28 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 76013-1 | Viewed: | 31 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3794b Tan Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud with Groove (Jumper) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out; Both had 1 3794 and 1 3794b
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Dec 7, 2014 05:52 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 41036-1 | Viewed: | 28 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 16981 Lime Plant Vine with Leaves, 16L (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out both had extra
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Dec 7, 2014 04:40 | Subject: | Add Print Feature to Part Out verify page | Viewed: | 71 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Can we please have a print button/feature within the part out function as those
of us who keep records outside of Bricklink have to spend a great deal of time
recording the values set for each of the elements of a set - this is both time
consuming and sorely out of date.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Dec 2, 2014 06:20 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7672-1 | Viewed: | 24 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 6 Part 32064 Dark Bluish Gray Technic, Brick 1 x 2 with Axle Hole (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Parted out 2 of these and found the non-variant instead of the b version
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Nov 28, 2014 08:44 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 8093-1 | Viewed: | 19 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 30237b Light Bluish Gray Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Vertical Clip (thick open O clip) (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out; both contain variant
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Nov 27, 2014 08:51 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 8960-1 | Viewed: | 17 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 48729b Dark Bluish Gray Bar 1L with Clip Mechanical Claw, Cut Edges and Hole on One Side (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out; both had the variant
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Nov 18, 2014 10:17 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7153-1 | Viewed: | 40 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 2609b Black Magnet Holder Tile 2 x 2 - Tall Arms with Deep Notch (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Have now parted out 2 of these and found the b variant to be the correct one.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Oct 23, 2014 14:18 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7778-1 | Viewed: | 23 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 60470b Black Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Clips Horizontal (open O clips) (Alternate)
* Add 1 Part 32064 Red Technic, Brick 1 x 2 with Axle Hole (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
Have parted out 2 of these today and found these to be the parts supplied by Lego.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Oct 5, 2014 02:48 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 79122-1 | Viewed: | 28 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3044c Dark Bluish Gray Slope 45 2 x 1 Double - with Inside Stud Holder (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
3 sealed sets parted out and all contain the 3044c rather than the 3044.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jul 7, 2014 10:15 | Subject: | Improvement to search | Viewed: | 91 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Discarded | |
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| I have a suggestion which would help the search catalogue feature enormously
(from my point of view). If I am searching to identify a part in a easily recognized
colour - say white or black then I am looking at nearly all the categories that
exist to go through and unless I am quite lucky to either remember or guess I
would have to go through all of them. What if instead of just a multi column
list there were check boxes next to each category and you could choose all or
a number of to include in your search. This would cut down the time spe4nt in
trying to find the product.
If you know the category fine then go straight to it and browse the items until
you find it, but if you do not, then finding it becomes quite long winded and
tedious as well as time consuming. Hence mine and a lot of other peoples use
of the forum for identification.
Anybody else agree?
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jun 19, 2014 02:26 | Subject: | When the next release of Bricklink emerges | Viewed: | 200 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Discarded | |
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| We have commented on this on several occasions but events over the last couple
of weeks means it has to be re-stated.
We need a much stronger inventory system on Bricklink. A transaction log of inventory
movements is essential. Too many things keep suggesting there are problems with
the current system.
We have an outside system which helps us to keep track of what we add and what
we remove (a reflection of sales, and purchases, parting-out etc.); hence we
can track individual items by item, colour and condition - where they came from;
who bought them etc. This has yet to balance with our Bricklink inventory and
we cannot understand why. Short of doing a complete inventory (and that on 200k+
parts is very time consuming and problematic), we cannot understand the differences
that continue to happen.
We have turned on all the features that currently exist in the system to help
with the tracking of stock movements and as we process all orders, we double
check the items left and where appropriate make adjustments. But even those adjustments
do not seem to bring things to being correct. Lots and lots of examples of the
problems this has been causing and we are sure others are experiencing this as
well.
A stock movements log/report could help to resolve these issues not only for
us but for all stores. As we have a SQL database behind the UI, this is not a
difficult thing to create or make available. If the development team behind the
work is listening, please ensure this is a very high priority on the list of
required features. As inventories grow and get more complex (wider variety of
parts) it is more than essential to have good controls and systems in place.
When we have posted this as a suggestion in the past, the majority of people
who have commented have agreed that this is an important feature that needs to
be added. We hope that view continues.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | May 26, 2014 02:54 | Subject: | Inventory improvements | Viewed: | 126 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Couple of things which would certainly help us with regards to the set inventories.
1. A by category summary at the end (Make this an option to display/print)
2. A 2nd level sort Sort by part and then colour
There are a wide, no very wide range, of improvements that we would like see
made to inventory and inventory control, but perhaps this isn't the place
to put those forward.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | May 26, 2014 02:33 | Subject: | An improvement to Price Guide Part out | Viewed: | 205 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would be a very helpful improvement if they added the ability to see what
the new lots are that you get when you look at parting out a set. Currently you
get a summary statement of x items in x lots.
This should not be a complicated modification as SQL is gathering the data to
summarize.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jan 31, 2014 22:49 | Subject: | A nuce touch for Bricklink 2.0 ???? | Viewed: | 216 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Discarded | |
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| It would be very useful/helpful if within the inventory lists, we could see a
summary of Bricklink categories and colours. This is now available at Brickset,
but they are not using the Bricklink cats or colours.
It would help people when they are looking at parting out sets or for that matter
buying them.
Comments?
You can do this yourself by downloading an inventory and working on it in Excel
or something similar but it would be better and simpler to do it at source. It
is quite a simple process in SQL.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Dec 26, 2013 08:56 | Subject: | An idea for next release of Bricklink | Viewed: | 152 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would be helpful if when we want to go to a specific item in our inventory
we could use the element id for that part to go right there rather than paging
through many pages looking for the item.
Example - Use 4211415 to go to Tile 1 x 2 in Light Bluish Gray.
It would also be useful if, when using the inventory page, you could choose specific
items to update:
Example - Want to go in and update all 3001 (Brick, 2 x 4) with a tiered pricing
structure. Can't seem to find a way to do that at present, other than manually.
Just a couple of post Christmas thoughts.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Aug 16, 2013 03:43 | Subject: | Ingventory improvements for BL 2 | Viewed: | 86 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Have noticed other posts for this subject recently and would like to re-iterate
one we tabled a long time ago.
There needs to be an audit trail of inventory movements for each store, showing
ins/outs, date, quantity, colour, condition and price set. This will help inventory
control enormously. Currently if you have a 'lot' (Unique part no, colour
and condition) it stays as that lot forever. If you sell out of that particular
item and then add another one you get a new lot. The only information that appears
to be available from that is lot specific e.g. when you added it and when you
last sold it. It doesn't tell you the last time you added additional ones
or give any kind of transactional movement for that item.
In simple terms this is 'stock movements' and despite the3 complications
both progamming and otherwise, it should be an essential part of the new system.
If we are going to put all our eggs for inventory control into one basket (e.g.
Bricklink), then there should be a much stronger inventory management system
behind it.
These features go beyond Brickstore and any other system we have looked at since
opening our store, but they would certainly help to control inventories, or at
least be able to trace something.
As we understand the existing database uses SQL server to hold its data and a
very old (progamming language) for its front end, we hope the new development
retains the SQL back end and uses a much more modern web based language for the
front end.
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Author: | calsbricks | Posted: | Jul 19, 2013 03:25 | Subject: | For Bricklink 2.0 | Viewed: | 180 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Discarded | |
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| I am not sure these have all been covered completely before or it may have
been in several different items/issues, but we would like to see the following
improvements in the next release of Bricklink.
1. Improve the colour samples to include larger swatches, Lego Colour Name; Pantone;
CMYK, RGB. It might even help to include the Peeron Colour name. Colours are
very important to lots of people and they also have a direct bearing on pricing
(unlike Lego)
2. Improve the images in the catalogue both small and large. Remove sketches
and where there are subtle differences between parts e.g. ....a and ....b make
it clear what those are (in photos of course).
3. Major issue with tire and wheel identifications. The relationship idea helps
somewhat as does the visual wheel thing, but neither are complete and they are
not kept up to date. Where Lego has a part number fine, but many do not or it
is impossible to read. Considering Lego are the world's largest tire manufacturer
we should do better here.
4. Our age old - please allow multiple users to have access to the stores. The
larger the store, the more likely there is more than one person dealing with
it and all of the individuals need to be able to get in with different permissions,
as required. We are based in two locations and share access to the store at both.
That is not ideal, as you can imagine, and of course with only one login everyone
can do everything.
There are many. many more itmes to be dealt with but the suggestion forum does
not seem to be the best place to get things moving.
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