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In General, Speg writes:

The comment section is great for adding whether or not a piece if mint or has
issues. Honestly, any real universal grading system would result in a nightmare
for both buyers and sellers.

I understand, grading would be difficult if it was on a mandated scale, but each
store should be able to differentiate between Used (Like New), Used (Fine) and
Used (Poor), etc. Vast majority of stores don't add comments so buyers have
no idea of the quality until it's actually received.

Author:

Addict2Brick

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Mar 1, 2018 02:50

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Problem

People talk about leaving all the time. I didn't agree with a recent change
and because of that I reached out and found other selling platforms besides this
one. I never would have even known about the other sites if that change didn't
occur. That said, it's not really any of my business if things change here.
I can only sit back and enjoy or dislike the ride and if I do dislike it enough
then I'll go somewhere else because there ARE options. It's certainly
inconvenient for me to leave, but not impossible.

The only reason I'm saying that is because since you just got here (heck,
me too) I don't want you to think that the end is near and that everybody
is leaving. People will come and go and they'll do that with or without change.

Author:

Addict2Brick

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Mar 1, 2018 02:36

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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The comment section is great for adding whether or not a piece if mint or has
issues. Honestly, any real universal grading system would result in a nightmare
for both buyers and sellers.

Author:

bb414973

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Mar 1, 2018 01:24

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, crazylegoman writes:

In General, PurpleDave writes:

In General, SylvainLS writes:

With New, you can easily part out sets into your inventory. With Used, when
you don’t know which sets the parts are from (and whether they are all there),
it’s more work.

Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track
down and list a single piece.

If you're parting out a new set, yes; the same doesn't hold true for
adding Pick-A-Brick to a store or other parts bought as new for the purpose of
reselling.

It's extremely obvious that you would have to find individual parts in the
catalog here when adding used parts to a store. It's been that way from
the beginning. I just don't understand why OP was getting upset with that
method. What does he expect—a BL scanner to identify used parts?

David

Adding a part to your BO inventory is a 3-click, same-page process once you've
found the part. I get the feeling that BL has a far more convoluted method, but
I use BrickStock and Bricksync so I wouldn't know.

But I read the OP as meaning that all used bricks are treated the same; there's
no grading built in to the system. Everything is binary, either new or used.

Author:

crazylegoman

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Mar 1, 2018 00:05

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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