Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bb414973  | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 03:38 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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.
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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.
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| Author: | Addict2Brick | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 02:36 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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.
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| Author: | bb414973 | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 01:24 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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.
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Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track
down and list a single piece.
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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
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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.
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 00:05 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| 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.
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Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track
down and list a single piece.
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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
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2018 21:36 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| 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.
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Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track
down and list a single piece. Then the next one is the same piece, but you have
to list it differently because you want to note differences in condition and
price them accordingly. The only reason I can figure that people can make any
money at all on Used is they can often get hugely undervalued lots on sites like
Craigslist or by hitting up garage sales. Or, you know, you can price it higher
than New and hope people will buy it without paying attention because "Used is
always less expensive".
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2018 21:08 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:
| | Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.
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I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.
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Replace “to inventory” with “to put in your store’s inventory.”
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That definitely changes the meaning, but it still doesn't make sense. Has
there been some change in the way parts are added to a store when they are used?
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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.
I understand a lot of people use BrickStock (or similar) but sellers tools are
scarce on BL.
(And tote that I’m a buyer only  )
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2018 20:52 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:
| | Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.
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I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.
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Replace “to inventory” with “to put in your store’s inventory.”
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That definitely changes the meaning, but it still doesn't make sense. Has
there been some change in the way parts are added to a store when they are used?
David
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2018 20:03 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:
| | Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.
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I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.
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Replace “to inventory” with “to put in your store’s inventory.”
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2018 19:50 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:
| | Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.
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I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.
David
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2018 10:06 | | Subject: | Re: AJAX error while searching for stores | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, xenocryst writes:
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| | The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.
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You keep saying this in all the threads, and maybe I’m just dense, but Classic
is so inscrutable to me that it may as well also be broken.
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(Just in case: You get Classic “By Shop” by clicking “Classic” then “By Shop”
on the menu bar in the WL page.)
It shows the list of stores ordered by the number of lots or items they have.
That’s exactly what you get on the (new) “Buy” page just after loading it (when
it works ).
What Classic doesn’t have:
1. no Auto-Select, no Easy-Buy,
2. no way to select items to look for, it’s whole WLs or nothing,
3. no way to quickly see exactly what items each store has without opening the
store,
4. no way to select a store / preselect items to buy (thus removing the items
from the list of items to look for and updating the list of stores),
5. and undoubtedly other things I don’t remember right now.
Well, at least, you still have a list of stores with items in your WL….
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2018 10:04 | | Subject: | Re: AJAX error while searching for stores | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, xenocryst writes:
| | In General, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, a213jf writes:
| | I am unable to place or search for any stores with my WANTED list. Everytime
I try to search for stores from my wanted list, I get an "AJAX error while searching
for stores. Check you local network." I am sure you have been getting several
complaints, this has been going on for nearly 24 hrs now for me. Looking forward
to a quick fix!
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The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.
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You keep saying this in all the threads, and maybe I’m just dense, but Classic
is so inscrutable to me that it may as well also be broken.
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The Classic view does exactly the same as the New view.
For many it can be helpful enough to know about the existence of the Classic
view.
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| Author: | xenocryst | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2018 09:28 | | Subject: | Re: AJAX error while searching for stores | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, a213jf writes:
| | I am unable to place or search for any stores with my WANTED list. Everytime
I try to search for stores from my wanted list, I get an "AJAX error while searching
for stores. Check you local network." I am sure you have been getting several
complaints, this has been going on for nearly 24 hrs now for me. Looking forward
to a quick fix!
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The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.
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You keep saying this in all the threads, and maybe I’m just dense, but Classic
is so inscrutable to me that it may as well also be broken.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Jan 22, 2018 07:31 | | Subject: | Re: AJAX error while searching for stores | | Viewed: | 121 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In Suggestions, a213jf writes:
| | I am unable to place or search for any stores with my WANTED list. Everytime
I try to search for stores from my wanted list, I get an "AJAX error while searching
for stores. Check you local network." I am sure you have been getting several
complaints, this has been going on for nearly 24 hrs now for me. Looking forward
to a quick fix!
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The Classic Wanted View By Shop still works.
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Dec 18, 2017 21:53 | | Subject: | Re: 'blservice@bricklink.com' as the sending addr | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In Suggestions, kwmcmillan writes:
| | When I receive messages from members that have been generated via the Contact
Form, my instinct is to hit the 'reply' button and then proceed providing
a response to whatever question has been posed. THis is the way every other email
or messaging system I have ever encountered works.
But doing so yields an unpleasant surprise: my response is sent to a black hole
instead of the actual sending party.
I (now) know that the member address can be found in the body of the email, but
two things:
1 - Would I ever really want to reply to 'blservice@bricklink.com'? (No)
2 - Replying on a mobile device where copying text segments (the email address)
isn't very easy makes this situation worse
I can't think of any good reason that the sending member's address ISN'T
the one provided upon receipt and would respectfully suggest that it be changed.
k.
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It USED to work like you mention. It's been less than a year that it's
been broken.
David
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Oct 22, 2017 00:43 | | Subject: | Re: Clearing should be the same as Paid | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, tEoS writes:
| | It's for split payment status from order status. See picture (It's actually
a gold color text):
In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | I just checked my order received page, and there is no "clearing" status, just
the same 7 options that we've had for a while now.
David
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Interesting...
I've never used that before, but it's good to know.
Thanks,
David
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| Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Oct 21, 2017 23:38 | | Subject: | Re: Clearing should be the same as Paid | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| It's for split payment status from order status. See picture (It's actually
a gold color text):
In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | I just checked my order received page, and there is no "clearing" status, just
the same 7 options that we've had for a while now.
David
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Oct 21, 2017 23:30 | | Subject: | Re: Clearing should be the same as Paid | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I just checked my order received page, and there is no "clearing" status, just
the same 7 options that we've had for a while now.
David
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 11:58 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Steineflut writes:
| | In General, TheBrickGuys writes:
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In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.
Jim.
Jim
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Okay, I get how we all love that nothing ever changes and that we love to keep
stuff the way it is but seriously, the guy is absolutely right!!!
And I am sure that this is the reason why there are about 100 people in this
forum when the site is used by thousands!
Even though you can click on a million buttons to make it look like you want
it to, it should look like that from the start and not with clicking links on
the bottom of a page every single time you want to read something.
The studio beta forum is what a normal forum should look like. It's been
invented... probably about 25 years ago!
- Nadine
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All you have to do is set up a page with the setting you like and then save it
as a favorite up on your favorites bar and you wont have to keep clicking on
the options. Just do it once and all is well.
As far as changing the way it looks, I am all for that. I love the changes BL
has done so far. The only reason I kind of got on the guys case was because he
was complaining (with more of an attitude) about things that need to be changed
but was not even willing to see if the options he wanted already existed. He
complained even before he took just a couple of minutes to learn what options
existed.
Jim
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| Author: | Steineflut | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 05:29 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, TheBrickGuys writes:
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In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.
Jim.
Jim
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Okay, I get how we all love that nothing ever changes and that we love to keep
stuff the way it is but seriously, the guy is absolutely right!!!
And I am sure that this is the reason why there are about 100 people in this
forum when the site is used by thousands!
Even though you can click on a million buttons to make it look like you want
it to, it should look like that from the start and not with clicking links on
the bottom of a page every single time you want to read something.
The studio beta forum is what a normal forum should look like. It's been
invented... probably about 25 years ago!
- Nadine
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| Author: | legoman77 | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 01:00 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, tweegster writes:
I like that.
John P
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| Author: | tweegster | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 00:56 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 00:38 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, thiswizard writes:
| | Bricklink's forum is very ugly and hard to read/navigate. Why do I have to
click on the replies (Msgs) one by one? All responses should be displayed on
one screen.
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Already possible. Click the balloon or link below the page 'Show entire thread
on 1 page'.
| | Also what's the point of "RE: what's this?" showing up 17
times in a row on the main page. Each post should only be displayed once.
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Already there. Click the 'Without repliedls' on top of the page.
| | If it gets a reply, the post should go bold so that readers know there is a new
response. This way the front page isn't spammed to high heaven. Maybe it's
because I'm using my phone?
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Yes it is. Posts change colour when read.
| | I've never tried on a desktop or laptop.
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Try it.
| | Anyway, these forums are gross to look at. I can't imagine ever using this
again.
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In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.
Jim.
Jim
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 00:03 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In Suggestions, thiswizard writes:
| | Bricklink's forum is very ugly and hard to read/navigate. Why do I have to
click on the replies (Msgs) one by one? All responses should be displayed on
one screen.
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Already possible. Click the balloon or link below the page 'Show entire thread
on 1 page'.
| | Also what's the point of "RE: what's this?" showing up 17
times in a row on the main page. Each post should only be displayed once.
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Already there. Click the 'Without repliedls' on top of the page.
| | If it gets a reply, the post should go bold so that readers know there is a new
response. This way the front page isn't spammed to high heaven. Maybe it's
because I'm using my phone?
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Yes it is. Posts change colour when read.
| | I've never tried on a desktop or laptop.
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Try it.
| | Anyway, these forums are gross to look at. I can't imagine ever using this
again.
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Sep 5, 2016 17:39 | | Subject: | Re: Pay Your Fees Now! (please?) | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I totally agree. I've always thought that it was worded rudely.
David
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| Author: | HeinousJones | | Posted: | Jun 30, 2016 14:32 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, par016 writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In General, HeinousJones writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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It most certainly did. After completing a purchase, there was a button to "Remove
items from Wanted List". Worked like a charm. I used it (literally) hundreds
of times.
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You mean the "See items in order on wanted list" which would bring up all the
wanted list items in your order and then you could delete them if you wanted?
-Pete
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Because that can be switched on and off in your settings and can be accessed
on your orders page. See this post: http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=993808
-Pete
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Thank you for your help, and thank you for having the vintage pieces I needed
to recreate my police boat from 1978. I thought I had dealt with you in the past.
I did have to turn that function on in my settings. It still doesn't do
what I expect it to. I got a chance last night to try it out. I think I'm
throwing an extreme situation at this new BUY function, and my expectations are
way too high. I'm trying to build 5 of the 7 Speed Racer vehicles. I have
them on 4 separate wanted lists. 300+ pieces in 86 lots, with identical lots
on several of them. This is what I had to go through to adjust everything....
Followed the link provided after purchase to the "Search Wanted List" page...
Manually adjusted several quantities (took notes on the partial quantities before
i placed the order). Broke the list into four pages. 100 items per page option
would have come in handy. Had to make sure I saved each individual page.
Then.. apply each of the four wanted lists (will only apply ONE list or ALL,
no option for multiple... check boxes would be handy here). Or at least I thought
so. It doesn't work correctly. I had one list selected, and it showed entries
for ALL of my wanted lists. Not just the ones present in this order. That caught
me by surprise. That wasn't very common (3 lots), but it could have been
very irritating on those future projects. After catching that, and thinking I
had a grasp on this, I realize that I had hit the delete button and had failed
to "un-check" the partial qty lots that I had just adjusted. Went back and fixed
that..
It just seems to me like all the information is there, and it's not being
used efficiently. The quantity’s that I ordered are there. I don't understand
why I can't be done with fewer steps. Not gonna mess with a "have" function.
Have and % of completion are useless to me and will surely irritate me even more.
I don't need Bricklink to keep track of what i have. If I need 20 of something,
and I buy 15 from a vendor, all I need is for the WANT qty to change to 5. I
think that’s pretty simple. I spent a couple of hours last night trying to figure
this out. I feel like I'm spending an extensive amount of time doing something
that BrickLink should be able to do in seconds. That means less time to shop
and spend money.
I do admit, this is the most complicated order I've ever made. I think my
high hopes and expectations for the BUY function coaxed me into it. It wouldn't
be this difficult if I had chosen to purchase ONLY full quantities, AND not had
so many identical lots scattered throughout several wanted lists. Then it would
work pretty similar to old version and I wouldn't be whining.
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