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In Inventories Requests, maggiec writes:

Please make changes to the following inventory:

4685-1 (Inv) Fork Lift
10 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 2004
Sets: DUPLO: DUPLO, Town: Cargo

* Change 1 Part {Yellow to Dark Yellow} 3011pb05 Duplo, Brick 2 x 4 with Shipping Box with Arrow and Glass Pattern

Comments from Submitter:
New color has been created. The comment at the bottom of the inventory can also be removed. Thanks!

I have

4066 Duplo, Brick 1 x 2 x 2
Parts: DUPLO, Brick

in this color. Any idea what set?

and a 2 x 2 duplo brick is also in this color.
~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Oct 7, 2014 14:17

Subject:

"Mark As Unread" was invented how many years ago?

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It would be nice to mark messages as unread.... Not that anyone at the development
team is gonna see it, but I figured I would bring it up anyways.

(Still 6 month purge is annoying)
~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Sep 4, 2014 23:49

Subject:

Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 8144-2

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In Inventories Requests, starbeanie writes:

In Inventories Requests, jamesuniverse writes:

In Inventories Requests, starbeanie writes:

Please make changes to the following inventory:

8144-2 (Inv) Ferrari 248 F1 Team (Raikkonen Edition)
692 Parts, 8 Minifigures, 2007
Sets: Racers: Ferrari

* Add 1 Minifig rac030bs F1 Ferrari Engineer (8144-2) - with Shell Torso Stickers, White Hands (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Minifig rac032bs F1 Ferrari Engineer 2 - with Shell Torso Stickers (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Minifig rac037bs F1 Ferrari Engineer 3 (8144-2) - with Shell Torso Stickers (Counterpart)
* Add 2 Minifig rac025bs F1 Ferrari Pit Crew Member - with Shell Torso Stickers (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Minifig rac031bs F1 Ferrari Record Keeper - with Shell Torso Stickers (Counterpart)

Comments from Submitter:
completes the stickered counterparts for the set

If you have

8151-1 (Inv) Adrift Sport
52 Parts, 2008
Sets: Racers: Tiny Turbos

or can at least do the requests, I have some parts in
that set that aren't added that have stickers. If adding to the BL catalog
was a little more simple, I would add so much...
~JU

Don't have that set. Looks like there are 4 stickered pieces missing . 2
cheese wedges, a curved slope and the black fender.

This is funny. I meant

8185-1 (Inv) Ferrari Truck
511 Parts, 5 Minifigures, 2009
Sets: Racers: Ferrari

Heh. This one is missing some too...

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Sep 4, 2014 22:50

Subject:

Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 8144-2

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In Inventories Requests, starbeanie writes:

Please make changes to the following inventory:

8144-2 (Inv) Ferrari 248 F1 Team (Raikkonen Edition)
692 Parts, 8 Minifigures, 2007
Sets: Racers: Ferrari

If you have

8151-1 (Inv) Adrift Sport
52 Parts, 2008
Sets: Racers: Tiny Turbos

or can at least do the requests, I have some parts in
that set that aren't added that have stickers. If adding to the BL catalog
was a little more simple, I would add so much...
~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Aug 6, 2014 20:36

Subject:

New forum topic suggestion.

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Not that it matters much, but a "Ranting" thread would be very well used.

That's all I got to say.
~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

May 13, 2014 14:51

Subject:

Search inventory for "Recently Updated"

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When parting out sets, I have a few methods of storage. However, sorting by "Recently
Updated" (Not just listed as listed only shows new lots) would help greatly.
If part A was increased in quantity (From a consolidation of a part out), it
would show up on the "sort by recently updated" function early on compared to
20-30 pages back. Pretty simple addition I would think.

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Apr 22, 2014 00:01

Subject:

Weekly Fix Idea.

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Too long? I'll take care of that: Fix 1 bug or add 1 suggestion a week or
4 a month and BL has a ton of happier sellers and buyers. Plus it shows progress.

Many of us know that there are many problems and suggestions that need fixing
and adding. Please take these debates elsewhere. I just want to publish an idea
that will not only show progress with Bricklink, but slowly make everyone happy.

How hard would it be to fix 1 bug or add one suggestion per week? Here is a couple
really simple ones off the top of my head.

Update the statistics pages. All of them.
Add percentage to feedback like this: jamesuniverse (###) 100%
Fix the download orders function (can't download while ignoring filed orders)

Now please don't use this to list every simple fix. I just listed mine. Even
if the fix was small, imagine how much happier the community would be? Progress!
Who cares if it is so miniscule. It shows 3 things.
Progress
Listening to Members
And most importantly, Communication!

This could be done weekly. 1 week to fix 1 small bug or idea? I find that reasonable.
If not, how about 4 per monthly cycle! Of course you can do more, but seeing
progress would:
Open many stores again.
Lessen the forum debates
Probably get BL a better name (as in reputation)

Please don't let this be a debate again, but I feel this could be helpful.
You don't need to build BL 2,3,4,5+.0 to replace 1.0. Just fix a couple things
every once in a while and boom. Happy members, yet you can still do whatever
admins do. :p
I try to stay out of the debates, riots, suggestions, etc. But from what I have
heard. Not much is good.

Hope this doesn't get me stop listed. :p Just trying to be realistic and
have a little peace around here.
~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Apr 18, 2014 11:12

Subject:

Re: Price and Sale Trends

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In Suggestions, Stragus writes:

In Suggestions, Loremonger writes:

A useful Price Guide feature would be price and sale trends in a graph. Similar
to what you find on Swappa (see attached).

This would be especially useful for new parts and minifigs as they settle into
their natural supply-and-demand averages. It would also be helpful to have a
visual on how prices for old parts behave when new sets hit the market containing
parts that haven't been available retail for a while.

Would love that feature. It's possible to get the information for the past
6 months by parsing the whole price guide page (catalogPG.asp, not priceGuide.asp),
but this generates far more traffic than necessary...

Looking back 2-3 years would be interesting too.

More than just that. How about not purge data 7 months old..... Is it really
that big of a deal to extend to a year or two?

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Apr 18, 2014 09:35

Subject:

Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 21105-1

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In Inventories Requests, starbeanie writes:

Please make changes to the following inventory:

21105-1 (Inv) Minecraft Micro World - The Village
454 Parts, 3 Minifigures, 2013
Sets: Minecraft

* Add 1 Minifig min003 Minecraft Figure Micromob Pig (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Minifig min004 Minecraft Figure Micromob Villager (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Minifig min005 Minecraft Figure Micromob Zombie (Counterpart)

Thank you for doing this! I may actually part out these sets now.

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Feb 2, 2014 15:42

Subject:

Re: Part out suggestions

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In Suggestions, ScootersBricks writes:

In Suggestions, jamesuniverse writes:

Now most of you probably have Brickstore or nifty tricks to parting out sets.
While I am hoping to learn BrickStock (Mac Brickstore), I am still using the
old method and man. This is annoying.

Few requests.

Checkbox to show what would consolidate on the modify prices and values page.
Automatically/Checkbox for showing the OLD remarks IF they consolidate on BOTH
Values and Verify page.

It is practically impossible for me to part out a set that consolidates a lot
of lots in which I use a storage system that demands the remarks system.

Now I guess I need to learn Brickstore/Brickstock.

~JU

I buy Sterilite bins from Kroger. $1 for a shoebox size, or $3 for a 16 quart
size. On the side I have the category it's in: Bricks, Technic, Modified
Plate, etc.

I started with just the $1 bins. Then got so much stuff in bins that I had to
move the contents of a bin into a larger one. Then I started "fragmenting" the
bins. So now as my store has grown, the "Bricks" became a "1x1 bricks," "1x2+
bricks," "2x2 & 2x3 bricks," "2x4 bricks," and "2x6+ bricks". If I get a ton
of 2x2 bricks, I'd separate the 2x2-2x3 bin, and so on. Basically once a
bin gets so full that it takes me more than 30 seconds to find a lot in that
bin, it's time to fragment. That way the storage option grows as the store
grows.

Edit: I go to the craft section of walmart and buy the clear baggies they have
there--they sell in packs of 100, $1 for the small bags, and $2 for medium
or large. Lots are separate by bag and then put into those bins to make it easier
to find all of a specific part--no parts are just freely lying there.

Although this is a great system, my storage system incorporates this along with
other methods in which I have maximized efficiency. I have less room for error
and picking time is cut in half. I can pull, pack, and weigh some 30 lot (let's
say average 3 parts per lot?) orders in less than 6 minutes.

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Feb 2, 2014 14:05

Subject:

Re: Part out suggestions

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In Suggestions, tamadrummer88 writes:

In Suggestions, jamesuniverse writes:

~JU

A seller on this website posts videos about selling lego here on bricklink and
here is his tutorial for brickstore. After watching the series you will know
pretty much everything you need to know about the program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCvRMNVoUYE

Yup! I have watched his videos since the beginning almost. Just haven't watched
those as I haven't had 25 minutes to watched them

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Feb 2, 2014 11:49

Subject:

Part out suggestions

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~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Jan 16, 2014 13:47

Subject:

Re: Restrictions on forum posts

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

Voted no. If anything, we should do more to ENCOURAGE new buyers to post in the
Forum. It will help them learn BL faster, add fresh ideas and viewpoints to the
Forum, and people active in the Forum generally tend to place more orders on
BrickLink. Sounds like a win-win-win for everyone.

Thor

In Suggestions, budgetkids writes:

After the recent restrictions on new members to send messages, now they scamers
are going to the forums!

Just under my post you will see about 15 cancelled messages. How about considering
blocking new buyers to so many posts per day in the forums too? Maybe not, if
someone is in need of a fake passport

That was ridiculous.
Chris

All we need is a delay in how fast they can post a new topic. Even at 30 Seconds,
that would delay spammers a lot.

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Nov 19, 2013 20:02

Subject:

Re: BL 2.0 and it's information.

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I am not saying there is no work to be done,, just don't scrap what is working.

Basically don't turn this into what happened to YouTube. (If you don't
know, it is basically getting taken over with google plus.)

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Nov 17, 2013 09:19

Subject:

Re: Add a marbled color choice...

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In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:

I would like to see a marbled color choice added to the colorchart when you sell
parts.

That way buyers could search on marbled bricks.
Now it's a part without color while marbled would be a good color description.

The real colors can then be added in the comments, like normal.

I think this would be a simple addition to the known colors, just add a tick
box saying marbled and add your own color description and picture

Maybe add this next to the color not applicable tick box?

Maxx

I love hate this idea....
Love it because I could buy marbled bricks!
Hate it because well.... My wallet will hate it. :p

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Sep 21, 2013 12:13

Subject:

Re: And another suggestion

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In Suggestions, dcarmine writes:

In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:

Like the country flags that show on the orders page, could a state flag also
be shown, especially the home flag of the seller to alert the seller that sales
tax needs to be added when required.

Jim

That would require BL to know which states are required to charge sales tax and
which do not.

Maybe add a check box in the sellers settings page to enable it if needed? Like
VAT?

Donna

More flags would make it more confusing... I know like 2 of the 50 state flags
well.

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Sep 15, 2013 11:32

Subject:

Re: Idea for Bricklinck 2.0 App

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In Suggestions, furling writes:

I've always dreamed about going into a store, scanning a Lego product with
my phone and a Bricklink app, then knowing instantly how much I could get if
I parted that set out. Please make it. I think it would help out all the sellers
here.

m.bricklink.com works quite well IMO.

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Aug 8, 2013 10:03

Subject:

Re: Sharing wanted lists

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In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:

In Suggestions, RecycledBricks writes:

I would like to see the ability for users to display an itemized list of their
wanted items, rather than a non-specific category list. Further, it would really
nice to be able to share the list with another user by a link, and have the
list be printer-friendly. I envision this list to include descriptive text with
quantity, color and a thumbnail image of the desired items. It seems that the
data is already there since one can go to a store and see a list of items on
one's wanted list within that store's inventory. This would be great
for buyers and sellers. If you're a buyer, you could send the list to a store
that advertises "if you don't see it, ask me". You could also print the list
and take along when you shop around LEGO conventions, yard sales, meet someone
and want to trade parts, etc. For sellers, it could remind you of things you
want to purchase for your store, let's say from a LEGO PAB wall, a store
that has kits on sale that you're buying for inventory, etc. I'd appreciate
that functionality. Thanks for considering it.

This is unlikely to be implemented, because it would make fee avoidance incredibly
easy. But there's a third-party program, BrickStore, that can be used to

>;create lists like that. You can make your own too, using XML.

If that statement wasn't so incredibly true about fee avoidance, that feature
would be awesome....

Brickstore needs a upgrade or something.... I use a MAC.

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Jun 12, 2013 14:57

Subject:

Messaging system

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Well I think this would be extremely helpful for at least me.

Most forums I am on (I know all of BL is a whole lot different than a forum,
but that's not the point.) have a messaging system. When I send a message
to 123XYZ they get a Email. How about forcing people to use a BL internal message
system so email "fishers" don't have any dinner.

(Basically they reply
through BL only and get no access to a email.) I probably worded this horribly,
but I think someone will understand it and it would be very helpful. You could
still get these messages sent to your/their email, but a "To reply, Click Here"
could be embedded in the message.

Just ideas so no one has to say "No I don't have 100 2 x 3 bricks" (Anyone
remember that message?)

~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Jun 6, 2013 10:39

Subject:

Re: Probably has already been suggested but...

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In Suggestions, tkkemp writes:

I really like the part out value in the price guide, but I would love that same
feature where you could not count the minifigs.

I am (slowly) working on collecting the sw line of minifigs, and in the adventure
will part out many sw sets. It would be advantageous to know a part out value
without the minifigs in.

Another place where this would come in handy is if you were considering parting
out a set where the minifigs are a huge part of the value...

Has this been discussed before? (or is it available and i just don't know
how?)

Thanks all.

There IS a way to do it, but it isn't as convient as just typing in a set
number.

Find XYZ set in catalog. Click "part out" into inventory. Make sure you only
are using one set and base your prices off what you like to base them off of.
Click submit. Delete the figures. Click verify. Scroll to the bottom and see
the value. Then go to a new tab (like "My Bricklink") so you don't actually
put them in your store.

Like I said. Ain't convient, but it does the job.
~JU

Author:

jamesuniverse

Posted:

Jul 19, 2012 20:21

Subject:

Currency conversion in cart

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