Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Lord_Barthon  | | Posted: | May 31, 2021 03:38 | | Subject: | New Bricklink (Copy of Post) | | Viewed: | 279 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Dear Bricklink Admins
I am worried and hope you can help me.
I have just visited the new Bricklink R3 Website and I have a few questions about
this future website.
Altough it looks visually very pleasing, I hvae two concerns / questions.
What happenes to the other 3 Categories Gears / Catalogs / Books? Are they going
to be
deleted? Will it be not anymore possible to buy old OFFICIAL Lego catalogs on
Bricklink?
Secondly, are you going to delete the Sub-Themes /Sub-Categories?
There is only castle and all castle sets cannot anymore be divided in sub-categories,
which was very handy in order to find certain sets?
Is this just an early version of the upcoming website or are these the final
changes?
I really hope Bricklink won't lose that much of information, possibilities
and content!
With the kindest regards
Barthon
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| Author: | markwell | | Posted: | May 29, 2021 22:29 | | Subject: | Add multiple copies of the same wanted list | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Forgive if this suggestion has already been made. (I've not had much success
using the search function on this site, to see if it has already been suggested.)
It looks like it is a fairly recent feature to be able to put a checkbox on multiple
wanted lists on the left side at https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/buy.page
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I use some of my wanted lists as a sort of recipe of submodules I build. It
would be good if the checkbox could be augmented to be a count or a multiplier.
Imagine looking at a recipe and wanting to double it or triple it. Instead of
just searching the stores for a combination of List A and B and C, could I search
the stores for a combination of 2 copies of list A and 3 copies of list B and
1 of list C, etc.?
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| Author: | Megaturonu | | Posted: | May 29, 2021 02:08 | | Subject: | Please allow ordering by Item Number | | Viewed: | 96 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello, I love Bricklink, but I'd love to be able to search for a minifigure
and see them in chronological order by release date, or the Bricklink Item
Number. For example, when searching for "Nya" or "Lloyd", and then ordering by
Bricklink Number, it would look like:
njo012
njo054
njo126
njo378
etc. I hope you can add this feature! Thanks for the response.
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| Author: | eddieajau | | Posted: | May 28, 2021 20:29 | | Subject: | Pick-a-Brick Wall/Wanted List Matcher | | Viewed: | 118 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| The Problem:
It currently takes me hours to "plan" my trip to the PAB wall. First, it takes
me a while to research what's on my local wall (which for me is a 6 hour
drive to Auckland), and then it takes some considerable time to match up my Wanted
Lists to what's on the wall. Wouldn't it be great if I can just "hit
a button" and check what's on my local PAB wall that I want? Is it worth
popping into the LEGO store this trip? Wouldn't it be even better if I could
get an email notification that my local PAB has parts I'm interested in?
I could see this feature, which would be a small project in and of itself (in
Scrum speak, this would be the Epic), rolling out in these kinds of steps:
1. Provide a way to submit the local of a PAB for approval to list. (I'm
not sure if all PAB's are LEGO owned or just licensed)
2. Provide a way for either PAB store staff, or community members, to be added
as gardeners of the wall to be able to keep them up to date.
3. The PAB wall is just a register of a part, a colour, a notional quantity(In
Stock|Running Low|Out of Stock), and the date the wall manifest was last updated.
4. When viewing the PAB wall, also show the number of that parts that is on my
wanted list where need qty
5. Add an option to email me when a new item on my wanted list gets listed.
I think this would be a fantastic addition and generate a lot of interest amongst
LUGs as well as generating more interest in BrickLink in general (rather than
it happening off-property on Facebook or other Social Media sites).
I've already written most of the code for this myself (Node.js, SQLite) but
it's extremely cumbersome to keep my wanted lists up to date (would love
a BrickLink API for that). The software itself is not particularly hard to write.
I would be more than happy to code this feature for BrickLink if such a think
was even possible (if so, reach out to me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreweddie/).
Thanks in advance for your thoughtful consideration.
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| Author: | subx | | Posted: | May 25, 2021 09:17 | | Subject: | make a collection of sets and search them | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| This is probably more of an end user thing, rather than something that’s going
to help anyone sell anything, but I’ve always thought it would be handy if I
could create a collection of the sets I own. Then being able to ask things like:
whether I have have a particular part in my current sets, which of my sets does
this piece come from, etc.
I’ve had a search through past suggestions and can’t find anything quite like
this, but can’t imagine this hasn’t been thought of before. Or maybe it’s yet
another feature that’s buried in the interface that I haven’t found!
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| Author: | BrickPhilo | | Posted: | May 24, 2021 18:03 | | Subject: | Grammar: Less -> Fewer | | Viewed: | 180 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I imagine I'm not the only one to be aware of this grammar mistake. When
searching a store's inventory, there's a drop-down menu that says "All
Filters." Once it's been expanded, it can be minimized by clicking "Less
Filters."
Properly, in English grammar, when there is a countable noun, we do not use the
quantitative adjective "less". That's flat-out wrong. We must say "fewer".
We can say "less milk," but not "less cookies." We must say "fewer cookies."
So here, English grammar demands that we say "Fewer Filters."
I do think that correcting this error will enhance the site's professionalism.
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| Author: | grimsbricksuk | | Posted: | May 23, 2021 03:46 | | Subject: | Local time stamp on orders | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Can it be considered to change the date/time stamp placed on orders & messages,
etc. from the system time (US EST) to the users local time, as this would allow
accurate information to be captured for accounting, tax & auditing purposes.
I know that BrickOwl & other platforms already do this.
As an example, I physically receive an order at 3am (BST) on 23rd May in the
UK, but the order itself shows and records that the order was received on 22nd
May at 10pm (EST), some 5 hours behind reality.
Note, the date & time format is not an issue.
Thanks.
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| Author: | bahpstore | | Posted: | May 20, 2021 11:19 | | Subject: | Make the old item # searchable | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| It took me sometime to figure out that bb1153pb01 is now 67156pb01. We had trouble
in the past for a few other parts. Like looking for 28895 after it was sold,
and found in the drawer marked sailbb66.
When I opened my store inventory saved early last month, I got message that "39
outdated item or color references in this file have been updated according to
the Bricklink catalog". So there are a lot other items I don't know yet.
It would be helpful if search of the old item # returns the item with new number.
Thank you.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | May 19, 2021 18:46 | | Subject: | Excluded stoplisting stores from Auto-Select | | Viewed: | 92 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Today I ran a Wanted List Buy Auto-Select search, and I was surprised to see
that it picked a store I know has stoplisted me. It even created the cart, but
then I wouldn't have been able to pay for it because they put me on their
stoplist.
Please exclude from the list of available stores for a given set of parts the
ones that stoplisted the user.
The workaround is to add these stores to the Disliked stores for them to be excluded
with the corresponding option, but in this case I knew in advance I was stoplisted,
which isn't always the case.
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| Author: | BigBBricks | | Posted: | May 18, 2021 22:59 | | Subject: | Send email notification prior to any downtime | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Just adding this suggestion for members to vote on.
I have been told in the past that BrickLink does not like to inundate users with
excess emails so they may be hesitant to overly communicate with members, sellers
specifically with this suggestion. I believe this is false and users would prefer
more communication.
My suggestion is that BrickLink management will message sellers via email directly
prior to any scheduled downtime. If estimates for down time are extended, further
communications should be sent. If there are bugs that are discovered during post-install
testing that effect ecommerce, the API or inventories, it should be openly communicated.
Not a banner on the top of the screen and not a post that will be buried on the
forum. Actual communication that is intended to reach it's audience.
Thank you for your support.
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| Author: | Yo_Yo_Flamingo | | Posted: | May 17, 2021 09:32 | | Subject: | Improvement to Listing and Auto-Checkout | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Preface: I know this is unlikely to be implemented for a long time, but I feel
it is beneficial to get this out for public viewing.
I believe it would be beneficial for all if, during listing, sellers had two
extra fields to choose from (just like the new/used field, and sealed/complete/incomplete
field).
These would be :
Includes box? [Yes|No]
Includes instructions? [Yes|No]
This has two benefits: It removes any ambiguity from listings. Instead of having
to list if the instructions are in a set or not, that information is already
there (and filterable, like you can already filter out incomplete sets).
Second, this will improve auto-checkout. If the box is not included with a set,
the weight of the box can be subtracted from the already known weight of the
set, giving buyers a more accurate quote. Same with instructions.
Please feel free to add any comments or improvements below! I would love to hear
your input!
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| 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: | ProneToDrift | | Posted: | May 9, 2021 03:19 | | Subject: | Kraata Color Specificity | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Bringing this back, since the issue is coming up frequently for me again.
Dear BrickLink admin folks,
It would be greatly appreciated if a different system for listing Kraata (and/or
other dual color molded parts) could be implemented. BIOSector has detailed descriptions
of each Kraata color pairing, which in theory should make it easy to create a
drop down menu based on the head and tail colors.
As an example:
Say I have a stage 1 Kraata that has a metallic green head. I select “Stage 1”,
then “Head Color: Metallic Green/Lemon Metallic.” (Listing the most common name
for the color and then the official LEGO name for that color). Then I click “Tail
Color:” and am presented with a short drop-down list of possible tail colors,
which in this instance are “Lime/Bright Yellowish-Green”, “Dark Green”, “Metallic
Blue/Sand Blue Metallic”, “Red/Bright Red”, and “Dark Grey Metallic”. (These
are the only 5 tail colors that are paired with a metallic green head.)
The final listing title would look like this:
“Stage 1 Kraata: Lemon Metallic Head, Bright Yellowish Green Tail”
Implementing a system like this would ensure that sellers clearly disclose both
colors of the item before posting, rather than being able to list only the stage
and head color and ignore the instruction to “describe the rest.” Many Kraata
listings do not describe the rest of the item; in fact, many of them leave the
description blank, making their listing functionally worthless. Unless I contact
each and every one of those sellers to ask about their one specific item, there
is no way for me to know if it is an item I am interested in.
As a result, a great many items that people have listed in hopes of selling get
passed over and ignored, due primarily to seller error, but it would be really
helpful to us collectors and customers to be able to get a clear and standardized
system in place to help us make informed purchases.
Thank you for reading!
- ProneToDrift
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| Author: | ProneToDrift | | Posted: | May 9, 2021 03:16 | | Subject: | Kraata Color Specificity | | Viewed: | 159 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Bringing this back, since the issue is coming up frequently for me again.
Dear BrickLink admin folks,
It would be greatly appreciated if a different system for listing Kraata (and/or
other dual color molded parts) could be implemented. BIOSector has detailed descriptions
of each Kraata color pairing, which in theory should make it easy to create a
drop down menu based on the head and tail colors.
As an example:
Say I have a stage 1 Kraata that has a metallic green head. I select “Stage 1”,
then “Head Color: Metallic Green/Lemon Metallic.” (Listing the most common name
for the color and then the official LEGO name for that color). Then I click “Tail
Color:” and am presented with a short drop-down list of possible tail colors,
which in this instance are “Lime/Bright Yellowish-Green”, “Dark Green”, “Metallic
Blue/Sand Blue Metallic”, “Red/Bright Red”, and “Dark Grey Metallic”. (These
are the only 5 tail colors that are paired with a metallic green head.)
The final listing title would look like this:
“Stage 1 Kraata: Lemon Metallic Head, Bright Yellowish Green Tail”
Implementing a system like this would ensure that sellers clearly disclose both
colors of the item before posting, rather than being able to list only the stage
and head color and ignore the instruction to “describe the rest.” Many Kraata
listings do not describe the rest of the item; in fact, many of them leave the
description blank, making their listing functionally worthless. Unless I contact
each and every one of those sellers to ask about their one specific item, there
is no way for me to know if it is an item I am interested in.
As a result, a great many items that people have listed in hopes of selling get
passed over and ignored, due primarily to seller error, but it would be really
helpful to us collectors and customers to be able to get a clear and standardized
system in place to help us make informed purchases.
Thank you for reading!
- ProneToDrift
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| Author: | orchidelique | | Posted: | May 1, 2021 15:30 | | Subject: | Wanted List Inventory | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| It would be nice if there was an inventory system that all of your Wanted Lists
could look at. I'm usually working on a few different wanted lists at the
same time. Currently, if I buy 20 of a piece, I have to assign a specific number
of those to specific wanted lists. It would be nice if all of my wanted lists
looked at it and I could see when particular wanted lists reached 100%. You could
then mark that list as "Complete", and it would take those items out of the inventory
pool. Deleting a wanted list would leave the pieces in the pool.
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| Author: | Jax2 | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2021 16:17 | | Subject: | New beta page | | Viewed: | 143 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I'm sorry, but I SINCERELY hope you plan on leaving the original bricklink
site as an option. Come in and change everything. The old design is so much easier.
This isn't Lego.com which is already atrocious and hard to navigate... Please
do NOT take away thd original design!
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2021 11:44 | | Subject: | Spam filtering on Contacts | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Much has been written about spam activity in the Forum, and ways to stamp it
out. Today it became clear to me that some members are spamming (and acting innocent)
via Contact messages (see my other thread concerning picture requests).
Please implement a way for members to filter Contacts, so that Contacts can be
left enabled, but problematic ones can be routed directly to the Trash. This
is similar to how gmail does filtering.
Right now, I would put between 10 and 20 keywords into a filter, to suppress
traffic which does nothing but waste my time and energy, and produces no sales
on BL.
thank you.
Nita Rae
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2021 10:55 | | Subject: | Keep wanted list search params after deletion | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| After deleting one or more items in a wanted list, the list asynchronously refreshes
with default search options, disregarding at least a checked "Hide Items if Have
Qty is ≥ Want Qty" option.
Steps to reproduce:
- Create a list with two items
- Mark the first item as have = want
- Check the "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty" option, only the other item
show
- Delete the remaining item
- The first item shows again
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| Author: | mpokhylets | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2021 15:58 | | Subject: | Feature suggestion: Apply Set | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I'm reusing purchased lego sets for new projects. So when sourcing parts
for the wanted list, some of them are reused from the existing sets. Currently
I need to manually go through the inventory of the set and increase the number
of the available parts, which tedious and error-prone.
Would be nice if there would be an 'Apply Set' feature, similar to Apply
Order. Manually entering the set number would be ok.
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| Author: | CBricks1981 | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2021 10:38 | | Subject: | Adress information clarification | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi,
As a seller I sometimes have trouble with deciphering some buyer adresses. Specifically
with international shipments to foreign countries I often need to contact the
buyer for what is what.
I was wondering if it would be possible if Bricklink could show something like
an adress template in the orders like mentioned below, so that it's clear
what is what instead it shows all the Adress info without clarification.
Jack Brick
Legolane 100b-2
12345 Legocity
Baseplateregion
Legoland
Name:Jack Brick
Street: Legolane
Housenumber: 100b
Appartment:
Floor: 2
Zipcode: 12345
City: Legocity
Region: Baseplateregion
Country: Legoland
Etc.....
With kind regards,
Chris
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2021 20:44 | | Subject: | Refund amount should be seller amounts | | Viewed: | 163 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I just did a partial refund. It worked, but it was not intuitive.
To do the refund correctly, I had to reverse engineer the tax rate that was used
on the order. That tax rate is not currently disclosed, only the calculated
tax.
The seller should have nothing to do with calculating the sales tax to
do a refund. The seller should only enter the net value of items being refunded,
and the net value (if any) of the shipping being refunded. The sales tax calculation
mechanism should then calculate the correct sales tax part of the refund.
This is going to be a much larger concern once BL supports sales tax exemptions.
It will soon be a concern because of the peculiar way that some states (e.g.
Florida) determine when sales tax applies to shipping, and when it does not.
This is knowledge that the system has, and the seller (in a different state)
usually will not have.
Please make this much more seller friendly, and intuitive.
Nita Rae
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| Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2021 14:18 | | Subject: | Separate "New price" from "New tiering price" | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| On the Mass Inventory Upload page, the first dropdown under "Consolidate Lots
By Using:" is:
New Price and New Tier Pricing
Can we get that separated into two dropdowns? I want to set a new price but leave
the old tier pricing.
Or maybe there can be a verify page, like the second page of parting out
a set, where I can see the current tier pricing and make the changes as needed
if the new price is lower than the current tier price?
Seller tool changes please?
Thanks for considering this.
Donna
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| Author: | Thisoldtoyhouse | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2021 12:13 | | Subject: | 30598 | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I am trying to add 30598, which is marked for deletion, due to the colors being
individually assigned part #'s. If you post that an item is going to be
deleted, due to this issue, then please supply the part #'s, on that page...ie:
30598, so that we can simply add the new part #'s to our inventory.
I cannot find the new part #'s assigned to this item in the various colors
that I currently have.
Can you help, please????
harry
ThisOldToyHouse
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2021 10:29 | | Subject: | Sort wanted lists by color after item name | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Gist: I'd like the "Item Name" sort order in the wanted list search to secondary
sort by Color Name, like "Color Name, Item Name" but flipped.
Reasoning: When I'm filling my wanted lists from my collection, I'm doing
it by Item Name because this is how my collection is sorted. However, it's
hard for me to see how many of a part in a single color I need since it seems
the secondary sorting order is by Wanted list name which is pretty random. As
a result, The same Elements (Part + Color) aren't grouped together and it's
somewhat inconvenient.
It's a small change for a small inconvenience.
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