Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bb314137  | | Posted: | Jun 16, 2013 17:05 | | Subject: | Thoughts on instant checkout & postage... | | Viewed: | 292 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| I was the kind of person that never wanted instant checkout to be implemented
here in BL. I thought it would bring problems, overpaying or underpaying,
and also would stop a way of communication with my buyers. I really like to communicate
with them.
However, I was recently invited to test out another Lego selling website that
is under production. This site in particular has instant checkout implemented.
Well, after receiving an order today... I was thoroughly impressed by how well
it worked.
When setting up your store, it requires you to add your shipping methods, either
by weight bands or price bands. On countries where you have dimension limits,
that could be hard to implement. Anyways, after some thinking, this would be
my solution.
First, the simplest things would be to add weight ranges from the cart (you'd
need to weight your envelopes/boxes) and add the price. In example, if my bubble
envelopes weight less than 20 grams, I'd add a shipping band from 0-75 grams,
and put the price for under 100 grams. Or, if my boxes weight about 150 grams,
I'd put another band from 450 grams to... 750 grams, for under 1 KG!
That is the simple part, now let's get to restrictions or special needs.
I'm not sure about restrictions on other countries, but here the restrictions
are not too harsh. For them, and special bulky items, my solution would be to
have a special intern mark in the catalog, so the system knows they are bulky.
For example, let's say I'm adding a raised baseplate to the catalog,
another field could be if it's bulky or not. Bulky could be considered over
2 centimeters high on all three dimensions, or something like that. Yes, it
would
require some work to be implemented in the actual catalog items, but with this
community's help, it would be easily done. You could also make differences
between big bulky items, such as raised baseplates, or semi-bulky items, such
as some panels. A raised baseplate would make a difference in my shipping costs,
but not a panel, normally.
Now, with the mark, what it would happen is, you get a special option on your
shipping methods to see if your store "cares" for bulky items. I mean, when the
system is making the shipping price to give it to the buyer, it would detect
that his order has bulky items, and then, predefined by the seller, you could
get two different options. Either the seller could establish new rates for bulky
items, or the make the buyer request a regular invoice, so the seller can calculate
the shipping cost.
Solved the restrictions problem. Now on to fees. All fees should be noted up
front, anyways. It's easy to automatize lot limits/fees, packing fees, etc.
The seller would be required to add them, and the system would add them to the
order and show them to the buyer along with shipping prices, before checkout.
Lastly, I would make automatic checkout, at least in the beginning, an option,
not a must. I'm sure many, many sellers would implemented, and those that
feel that they can't, just would not. Probably the former would be small
stores who cannot afford to loose 2$ on shipping and that. That way, you'd
make everyone happy.
On another note, I would automatize fees as a priority, and that cost should
be noted up front before checkout, even if you don't have instant checkout,
as you don't need postage to calculate them.
After this, and having all fees noted up front, postage should always be real
PO cost.
I hope you made it to the bottom of the page, as it was hard for me to write
this long thing.
I you have any more ideas, I'd love you to post them, or to refute my ideas,
that is what the forum is for. I posted is as a suggestion as it is how I'd
like the system to work, or how I think it would work the best. Lots of ideas
in my head!
Cheers,
Gerald
(Minor but huge typos in the other one  )
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Mar 25, 2012 15:05 | | Subject: | "Report This Item" Button... | | Viewed: | 278 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| Currently, when shopping, if you run across an item that needs to be reported
for one problem or another, it is a multi-step process to do so. I would like
to propose a simple "report this item" button be implemented so that simply clicking
it will take you to the "problem with item for sale" section, bring with it the
lot number from the item and when you have submitted the item, have a button
to bring you right back to where you left off so you can finish shopping.
Too often things do not get reported due to the current reporting process. A
one click reporting button with a simple return to previous page button would
be wonderful.
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| Author: | renhoffman | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2014 19:07 | | Subject: | Make reporting bad listings easier | | Viewed: | 188 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| The only way I know of to report offending items is as follows...
1) find listing
2) roll mouse over picture of the listing
3) write the number down
4) find the problem report page, and enter the number
Please find a way to make this process easier. This is even more annoying when
after all that, the item has already been reported  .
Darren
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| Author: | TorontoLego | | Posted: | Dec 15, 2010 09:49 | | Subject: | Incomplete Minifigs | | Viewed: | 445 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| Rant:
I am tired of looking in stores to find Minifigs that are missing parts -- Particularly
Feathers and Plumes from Castle Minifigs -- frequently the most expensive part.
Suggestion:
A) Add complete/incomplete to minifig listings -- this might be too large of
a change - not sure how hard this would be.
OR
B) Make a rule that ALL minifigs MUST be complete as inventoried. Otherwise
they should be listed as their component parts.
OR
C) Make a rule that ALL incomplete minifigs must have the phrase INCOMPLETE included
in the comments so that they can be excluded from searches somehow.
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| Author: | ToddWebb | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2011 07:56 | | Subject: | to to to | | Viewed: | 236 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| Above the [Submit Order] button, when placing an order in a store, is the "legally
binding contract" clause. It states in part, "...Failure to to follow..."
Funny, I wonder how long it's been there?
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2016 03:09 | | Subject: | Please Allow Alternate Item Numbers for Books | | Viewed: | 110 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| I looked through the open catalog requests and there doesn't seem to be one
for this. It could be a site development issue, but I'm not sure so I'm
making it a catalog request.
Currently BrickLink uses an unholy mix of the following numbers for books:
BL numbers:
13-digit ISBNs:
10-digit ISBNs:
TLG website numbers:
LEGO Education website/catalog numbers:
Item numbers printed on the item:
TLG identifying item numbers:
and Thor knows what else I've missed. This makes the Books section of the
BrickLink catalog confusing and difficult to navigate or work on (as evidenced
by someone recently submitting several books which already had catalog entries).
I've been told that alternate item numbers aren't allowed for books.
Fine, let's change that. Some books have alternate item numbers and should
be searchable and findable by any of those numbers.
There are 3,000 books in the catalog and volunteers willing to do a little work
to make those entries more complete. It won't be so easy if we wait to add
the alternate item number field until we have two or three times that many books
(or more) in the catalog.
Thank you for considering this request.
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Jun 10, 2016 10:55 | | Subject: | Passing color to listing page | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| When examining a part on a catalog page, in a specific color, and then clicking
on "Add to My Inventory", pass the previously selected color to the add page
as the initial setting.
If you are looking at a specific color, odds are that is the same color you wish
to list, and will save one step on many many part listing specifications. Doing
this in no way prevents changing to a different color.
Thank You
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| Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Jun 15, 2016 15:23 | | Subject: | Price comparison calculation | | Viewed: | 183 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| When shopping using the auto-finder, the result shows a percentage indicating
how much the part is cheaper or more expensive than some unknown average.
Since the exact calculation is unknown, this value is without meaning. We do
not know if it compares to averages sold or offered for sale, nor if those
averages simply take the max/min values of the quantity average. Also, there
are indications that the price calculated when the item condition (used/new)
is set to "all", or if the color is set to "any" that some average between all
those is calculated.
In my opinion, this is VERY misleading.
For example, there are very good reasons why a 30 year old new part is much more
expensive than a used one, or why a MISB set is more expensive than an incomplete
used one, or why a part in a very rare color is more expensive than the same
part in a common color. Comparing these as if they were the same item is wrong.
It will show genuinely valuable items as being overpriced, and common used items
as discounted. This is very unfair to the sellers that bring unique and rare
items to BrickLink. As a buyer, without fair comparison the value shown is meaningless
but that knowledge will be restricted to experienced buyers only. Inexperienced
buyers might feel misguided, cheated and/or scammed. We should not want that.
In making the price comparison the part should be compared to parts that are
actually the same. This means they should have an identical part number (including
version), condition (used/new, complete/incomplete/MISB/etc) and color. The calculation
should also use the quantity average because otherwise the calculation can de
be easily manipulated by listing a single item with a very high price. Finally,
by preference the prices of items sold should be used. Those are a much better
indication of what buyers are actually willing to pay and the actual value of
the item, and also it reduces the effect of items that are priced extremely high
or incorrectly (typing errors, new users testing their store, etc).
Please update the calculation where needed,
and provide a description of the formula in the help files.
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| Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2011 18:30 | | Subject: | Suggestion: Simpler URL for stores | | Viewed: | 222 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| Right now, my store's URL is www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits
It should be www.bricklink.com/FigBits
(or even figbits.bricklink.com)
The suggestion won't really help me at this point, since I have a much simpler
URL than either of those (figbits.com), but I think it would be good for others.
--
Marc.
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| Author: | JulieK | | Posted: | Jun 20, 2016 20:22 | | Subject: | Customize Order Invoice | | Viewed: | 123 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
| BL team - Can you please put back the link to Customize Order Invoice somewhere
on the orders placed page?
I think we used to be able to click on settings to get to that page from the
orders placed page, but now clicking on settings does not go to the Customize
Order Invoice.
Thanks
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