BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, LegoLDK writes:

Ha, ha! You got me. And, I spell the Gray my own way too. Nothing but trouble
here.

Jen

By your own way you mean in proper English English?

Pip pip, cheerio: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/gray-grey/

Author:

LegoLDK

Posted:

Feb 17, 2021 14:25

Subject:

Re: Adjusting Colour Names such as Bluish Grey?

Viewed:

40 times

Topic:

Ha, ha! You got me. And, I spell the Gray my own way too. Nothing but trouble
here.

Jen

By your own way you mean in proper English english?

Author:

DeLuca

Posted:

Feb 17, 2021 11:36

Subject:

Re: Wanted Lists: Sublists

Viewed:

29 times

Topic:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, TheOneDavid writes:

My number of Wanted Lists has expanded into chaos. I'm working on a big project
and I would really appreciate sublists (or superlists) in the Wanted List section.
What I mean is basically the possibility to have a new list inside of a Wanted
List. For example a regular Wanted List containing a load of items AND another
list called "extra parts". Or a Wanted List called "castle" containing my castle
related lists. I hope you get the idea. Please make this happen!!

Can't you just use multiple lists to do almost the same thing, with systematic
naming.

So for example call them

Castle Main Keep
Castle Main Keep extra parts
Castle Hideout cave
Castle Forest shelter
Castle Minifigs

You can, but the downside is that if you use the same part in the same
colour across multiple lists, you will not be able to merge the lists into a
single one when purchasing the parts. The only way around this is to put the
entire quantity of a desired part into one list (leaving it out of the
others), but this would quickly become difficult-to-impossible in the case of
a large project that (presumably) reuses many of the same pieces. 😕

Author:

infinibrix

Posted:

Feb 17, 2021 11:30

Subject:

Re: Adjusting Colour Names such as Bluish Grey?

Viewed:

39 times

Topic:

In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:

In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:

In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:

In Suggestions, gogogovro writes:

In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:

Well as someone who buys and sells accross multiple platforms I can tell you
it creates immense confusion not just for me but no doubt my customers also.
To start with should I label my own stocks/inventory as per Legos Colour Names
(Medium Stone Grey) or Bricklinks (Light Bluish Grey) and then how should
I list them for sale on other sites like ebay? should I just play it safe and
call it (Light Grey) and hope that an inexpereinced parent buying for kids can
make sense of it all or should I be concerned that an expereinced buyer is going
to quiz me on the fact that I've sold them Light Bluish grey instead of the
described Light Grey? Either way it seems I already have three different reference
names in use for the same colour depending on where I'm buying or where I'm
selling, who I'm picking for or how I'm labelling my inverntory!? Not
confusing enough?

I think this paragraph helps us understand more of why you are requesting this
colour name change. I assume you want more uniformity in colour names that will
spread to other platforms that you sell lego on like eBay. Frankly, I don't
think that's a valid reason to be pushing this change on BL. BL colour designations
were designed for reselling, not LEGO brand continuity. If you are using eBay,
then you are selling to the wild west since they are obviously not lego specific.
People will buy grey megabloks as much as grey lego on eBay, so why should that
concern BL users or the way BL labels colours?

Because I have Bricklink users that shop with me on all three platforms be that
ebay, BL or BO and is that so surprising? Either way it does'nt surprise
me that a minor point I make gets inflated on the forum as this huge Single reason
I'm seeking to have sensible colour names. If you read my other posts in
this thread then you may start to understand my reasoning more clearly?

I don't see how it is in BrickLink's best interest to make it easier
to sell on other websites. We want both buyers and sellers to come to OUR website
with their business.

The color names we have are there because they describe the color for what it
is. The new grays definitely have a bluish tint, and the new brown has a lot
of red in it. There is something written about the history here:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2500

Russell it would be naive to assume sellers here don't sell on other platforms?
Remember sellers that sell elsewhere probably also buy stocks here besides which
if I predominiently already make most of my sales elsewhere you could use that
same train of thought to make it easier for me or atleast encourage me to sell
more here on Bricklink?

also with regards to the colour definitions at what point do you have to go back
to using the basic colour names such as Ligth grey and Dark Grey again? because
if Lego do indeed keep releasing new shades for all colours there is only so
many times you can keep using terms like reddish or bluish to describe what people
see as a simple light or dark shades of greys or browns and there will come a
point when colours need to be defined in their simple forms again! I'm only
pointing out the inevitable where it will become increasingly difficult to define
colours using meaningful descriptions when all the good sensible colour names
have been used already to accomodate discontinued colours?

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Feb 17, 2021 11:12

Subject:

Re: Wanted Lists: Sublists

Viewed:

32 times

Topic: