Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Gaston.La.Brick  | | Posted: | May 12, 2018 02:29 | | Subject: | Re: Negative feedback on orders that are "purged" | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | My favoured solution would be feedback rating only calculated on the last 12months
transactions, with the exception of NPB/NSS which I feel should be on permanent
record.
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I feel the same way: any feedback (meaning negative, neutral & positive) should
have an expiration date. E.g. last 24 months. I would suggest to take the period
long enough (longer as 12 months). That way when a seller takes some time off
(or has other priorities in his life), it won't have a big effect.
That way, it's a continuous evaluation. Sellers that goofed up in the past
have a horizon for a clean slate and sellers with super positive evaluations
in the past will still be motivated to keep up their good efforts to maintain
their scores.
So my suggestion could be:
* display an absolute numbers of number of sales in all history, to indicate
the seniority of the seller
* a relative number (% satisfaction) of all positive feedback orders vs total
orders, but limited to the orders of the last 24 months
* NPB/NSS should indeed be sticky (or at least for a really long time, e.g. for
48 months)
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 11, 2018 17:39 | | Subject: | Search Tool for Sets with Undetermined Pieces | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| I don't know how hard what I'm asking for is, but I've had some fun
today tracking down "undetermined" variants in sets that I have from childhood.
I'm pretty close to mining it as far as I can go, but I would certainly
consider parting out some sets from eBay with the added interest in finding the
variants. Could we have a tool that would just identify a list of sets that
contain a piece of undetermined variant?
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | May 11, 2018 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | | | Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.
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That is a good fix, thanks!
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OK, this is fixed now. I have tested it on a couple of item types and the form
no longer erases the category when a flag is triggered. Please let us know if
something still needs adjustment.
Also deployed at this time, when conducting an Advanced Catalog Search and using
the additional button pane, upon reversing back to the page after viewing search
results (presumably to tweak a setting) the additional pane will remain in place.
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I know these seem little changes, but it would be great if all that is done was
added to the Roadmap: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2453
I like to see this site improving and also it would show everyone that a lot
of work is being done. Thanks
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Thanks for the suggestion! We have made dozens of these little improvements over
the last few months and it would undoubtedly encourage people to hear about them.
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | May 11, 2018 07:45 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | | | Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.
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That is a good fix, thanks!
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OK, this is fixed now. I have tested it on a couple of item types and the form
no longer erases the category when a flag is triggered. Please let us know if
something still needs adjustment.
Also deployed at this time, when conducting an Advanced Catalog Search and using
the additional button pane, upon reversing back to the page after viewing search
results (presumably to tweak a setting) the additional pane will remain in place.
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I know these seem little changes, but it would be great if all that is done was
added to the Roadmap: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2453
I like to see this site improving and also it would show everyone that a lot
of work is being done. Thanks
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 8, 2018 09:18 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
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I totally agree, and suggest BrickLink go one step further and remove the ability
for stores to adjust their prices to the current 6 month average for consolidated
lots when parting out sets as it's only serving to drive prices down either
further.
[…]
Stores would still be able to adjust prices manually of course, but who really
has the time to check the prices of 10,000 lots against the current average price?
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People are already using third party tools (theirs or BrickStock) that can do
that easily.
The more you restrict tools in BL, the more people will use tools outside of
BL (and continue bitching there aren’t enough sellers tools in BL).
| | I would imagine the declining prices would be having a knock on effect with BrickLink's
income, so any steps to address the declining prices are in their best interest
too.
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Price fixing, or limiting people’s ability to set their own prices, isn’t a solution
(apart from being illegal).
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 8, 2018 07:44 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.
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That is a good fix, thanks!
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| Author: | SchmickBricks | | Posted: | May 8, 2018 07:23 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, randyf writes:
| | In Suggestions, qwertyboy writes:
| | If you allow me to take one sentence out of your reply:
| | I had a $50 cart and what I thought was a great deal.
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This is _exactly_ why others would argue to have that feature removed. And if
you allow me to quote another tidbit from a different thread you posted:
| | Because I can't imagine the site administrators would knowingly remove the feature and allow the happy wonderful Lego fans through out the world who have gathered together here in the safe and welcoming site that is Bricklink to be knowingly ripped off. Some dude last week tried to charge me $2.00 for a 35 cent piece. It was an odd piece, I needed it. But I didn't '500% make up' need it. I can't keep track of the average price of 1000s of pieces
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You have to understand that nobody is trying to rip you off by pricing items
in a certain way. That price is there to see and agree with or not.
I fully understand that automatically comparing prices to the last 6 month average
makes it easier to pick the best deal, but by doing this. BrickLink is actively
helping to push prices down. Shops that have priced items reasonably will see
that over time they will lose out on orders because others will undercut the
prices, and buyers will more and more favor the lower-priced options, thus further
put pressure on the L6MA. Stores that don't constantly adjust their prices
will eventually maybe show 500% above average. That does NOT mean they are ripping
buyers off.
The price comparison feature was introduced some time in the last year. Before
that, people were able to buy their LEGO just fine, but there can't be much
doubt that this feature was helping the downward spiral of item prices. This
is not in the interest of BrickLink, and not in the interest of the sellers.
And if you think about it, in the long run it is also not in the interest of
buyers. Many larger shops are feeling the pressure, and have to think about whether
this is still a market that is worthwhile to pursue. Sure, if they close shop,
others will fill the void, but it will be more and more of the lowest-prices-quick-sale-goodbye
shops. And that is not good for anyone.
Just my $0.02.
Niek.
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+1
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I totally agree, and suggest BrickLink go one step further and remove the ability
for stores to adjust their prices to the current 6 month average for consolidated
lots when parting out sets as it's only serving to drive prices down either
further.
I choose to retain existing prices for consolidated lots, but it often leaves
me with lots priced more than double the current average which goes to show how
much prices have dropped in the past 6 months.
In Australia many sets are no longer viable to be parted as the purchase price
(Even when heavily discounted from the RRP) is often only a couple dollars less
then the part out value, and on occasion (Star Wars and Minecraft usually) the
part out value is less than the RRP!
Stores would still be able to adjust prices manually of course, but who really
has the time to check the prices of 10,000 lots against the current average price?
I would imagine the declining prices would be having a knock on effect with BrickLink's
income, so any steps to address the declining prices are in their best interest
too.
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | May 7, 2018 20:37 | | Subject: | Re: Could We Add PCCs and Inventory Pending Items | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | We can add pics of a pending item. Obviously that is a necessity. I inventory
a lot of minifigs and that means I am always adding items with new PCCs and torsos
that need to be inventoried and sometimes adding the minifig and its pieces to
the catalog. The catmins do a great job of moving things through, but obviously
there isn't always one at the desk! I have this routine for adding them
and I have another routine after they get approved and I try to do it promptly,
but things happen. This might not be something that generates a lot of interest
because most people don't do this stuff, but it would really streamline for
me if I could add the PCCs to pending pieces, inventory pending torso assemblies
with pending torsos, and even add the pending pieces to pending minifig inventories.
The same basic things would also help the people who tackle the sets (which
I don't usually do myself). Then when the pieces were approved everything
would just fall into place and it would be done.
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Regarding PCCs, definitely. There is no reason these cannot be included on the
primary form.
Adding pending items to inventories, etc is a little trickier though. I discussed
at length with our developers the possibility of adding "provisional" entries
to the catalog. These could be added by certain well known contributors and could
later be merged with existing entries if an identical item was found. The purpose
of provisional entries would be to shift the approval process into hyperdrive
to get new items onto the market ASAP.
The question remains, though, whether we need to be that efficient in order to
reasonably satisfy the needs of the site. At this point there are a number of
things we would do *before* provisional entries to increase efficiency. So that
part of your request we will need to move to the back burner.
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | May 7, 2018 20:08 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog.
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I used to get quite frustrated with that, too, until I discovered that any one
of these scrolling menus can be navigated by typing in what you're looking
for.
So just click on the menu and type in what you need. The menu will go there.
Makes everything much quicker and easier. 
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!!!
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Because we are generally not going in the direction of users entering codes,
I have discarded this request. However, the helpful comment from StormChaser
I believe will partially solve your frustration.
Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered. And we will likely add a "Verify
Item Number" feature to that page as well.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 6, 2018 07:56 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:
| | In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog.
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I used to get quite frustrated with that, too, until I discovered that any one
of these scrolling menus can be navigated by typing in what you're looking
for.
So just click on the menu and type in what you need. The menu will go there.
Makes everything much quicker and easier.
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!!!
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | May 6, 2018 04:01 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog.
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I used to get quite frustrated with that, too, until I discovered that any one
of these scrolling menus can be navigated by typing in what you're looking
for.
So just click on the menu and type in what you need. The menu will go there.
Makes everything much quicker and easier.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 5, 2018 20:30 | | Subject: | Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 96 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Not enough space on the subject line! When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog. I mostly add minifig pieces,
halfway down the list. And it is especially frustrating when the item number
I choose is already pending in the catalog and I have to scroll through it all
again. All of these categories have a number and I have considered just changing
my routine to adding the number on the pending items screen. I just haven't
done that because it feels improper to submit it without the category and I might
forget. If it were an option, that is the option I would use.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 5, 2018 20:26 | | Subject: | Could We Add PCCs and Inventory Pending Items | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We can add pics of a pending item. Obviously that is a necessity. I inventory
a lot of minifigs and that means I am always adding items with new PCCs and torsos
that need to be inventoried and sometimes adding the minifig and its pieces to
the catalog. The catmins do a great job of moving things through, but obviously
there isn't always one at the desk! I have this routine for adding them
and I have another routine after they get approved and I try to do it promptly,
but things happen. This might not be something that generates a lot of interest
because most people don't do this stuff, but it would really streamline for
me if I could add the PCCs to pending pieces, inventory pending torso assemblies
with pending torsos, and even add the pending pieces to pending minifig inventories.
The same basic things would also help the people who tackle the sets (which
I don't usually do myself). Then when the pieces were approved everything
would just fall into place and it would be done.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 5, 2018 16:46 | | Subject: | Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
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Thanks Again! definitely not ignoring you! you've been a great resource and
help today and in the past!
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Thanks. I was just joking: suggestions are always triggered by recent events,
so the people having participated in the last dispute could think you were bored
with them 
By the way, you can see how many people ignore you in your My Activity page (just
above the defunct Chat subsection at the bottom), but you can’t know who they
are.
I’m of the grumbling and sarcastic but helping sort, I like to think the helping
part explains why I’m only on 7 ignore lists 
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| Author: | chetzler | | Posted: | May 5, 2018 16:09 | | Subject: | Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature? | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
| | is there an option screen/ignore/mute or picking members i don't wish to
see forum posts from?
Kind of like a stop list but only for forum?
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Bottom of this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
| | I used to be more active here but feel like in recent years some people have
been spamming or have consistently been posting topics i don't wish to see.
if there's nothing like that i might make a suggestion to add this feature.
if such feature doesn't exist- i'd like to see one implemented, would
like the feature to be anonymous since while i might not want to see certain
people's posts- i certainly do NOT wish to offend them.
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Too late?
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😄 I was about to make a smiliar light-hearted post!
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| Author: | Heartbricker | | Posted: | May 5, 2018 16:04 | | Subject: | Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature? | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
| | is there an option screen/ignore/mute or picking members i don't wish to
see forum posts from?
Kind of like a stop list but only for forum?
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Bottom of this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
| | I used to be more active here but feel like in recent years some people have
been spamming or have consistently been posting topics i don't wish to see.
if there's nothing like that i might make a suggestion to add this feature.
if such feature doesn't exist- i'd like to see one implemented, would
like the feature to be anonymous since while i might not want to see certain
people's posts- i certainly do NOT wish to offend them.
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Too late?
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Thanks Again! definitely not ignoring you! you've been a great resource and
help today and in the past!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 5, 2018 15:48 | | Subject: | Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature? | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
| | is there an option screen/ignore/mute or picking members i don't wish to
see forum posts from?
Kind of like a stop list but only for forum?
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Bottom of this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
| | I used to be more active here but feel like in recent years some people have
been spamming or have consistently been posting topics i don't wish to see.
if there's nothing like that i might make a suggestion to add this feature.
if such feature doesn't exist- i'd like to see one implemented, would
like the feature to be anonymous since while i might not want to see certain
people's posts- i certainly do NOT wish to offend them.
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Too late?
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | May 4, 2018 09:56 | | Subject: | Re: Put existing remarks onto 1st Part Out Page | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| This feature already exists in Brick Seller. When parting out sets, the remarks
field will be automatically filled in with the remarks from other lots that you
have in inventory for the same part. If you have different remarks for the different
colors of the same part (let's say you have many in Black and you store them
in a different inventory location), the remarks field will be filled with the
remarks from lots that have the most colors stored in it.
In Suggestions, andrewyoung0811 writes:
| | When I go to part out a set, especially a large set, I would like to have this
specifically:
On page 1 where I input the number of sets etc. - A tick box for something along
the lines of "auto add pre-existing remarks to items".
I am aware this is shown on the confirmation page but here is why this is a problem.
Some of my parts don't have any remarks because I have never had them in
my inventory. I and many others use the remarks box to input the a reference
number to their place of storage. If I have the item in my inventory I have to
either click onto a new page or wait until I go to the inventory page.
If I had this tick box on the first page, that I am suggesting, here is what
would happen.
The remarks would be filled in automatically for parts with your "default" remark.
This would occur on the same page where you can alter pricing, quantities, add
notes, etc. This would mean I can go through the part out list, add remarks easily
to new parts, store parts in their rightful places, alter quantities, etc. all
in one page.
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| Author: | capcreations | | Posted: | May 4, 2018 06:49 | | Subject: | Put existing remarks onto 1st Part Out Page | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| When I go to part out a set, especially a large set, I would like to have this
specifically:
On page 1 where I input the number of sets etc. - A tick box for something along
the lines of "auto add pre-existing remarks to items".
I am aware this is shown on the confirmation page but here is why this is a problem.
Some of my parts don't have any remarks because I have never had them in
my inventory. I and many others use the remarks box to input the a reference
number to their place of storage. If I have the item in my inventory I have to
either click onto a new page or wait until I go to the inventory page.
If I had this tick box on the first page, that I am suggesting, here is what
would happen.
The remarks would be filled in automatically for parts with your "default" remark.
This would occur on the same page where you can alter pricing, quantities, add
notes, etc. This would mean I can go through the part out list, add remarks easily
to new parts, store parts in their rightful places, alter quantities, etc. all
in one page.
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| Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | May 1, 2018 21:17 | | Subject: | Re: Onsite PayPal Payment Notification | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, gogogovro writes:
| | Hi Bricklink,
After switching to PayPal marketplace for onsite PayPal, I no longer receive
email alerts from PayPal that I have been paid. PayPal tells me that all those
notifications now go to Bricklink. I think it Bricklink's responsibility
to pass on those notifications to your sellers. Can you please create an option
to receive payment notifications by email when a buyer has paid for their order?
This could be an option in my account settings that I either turn on or off.
I would think this would not be a huge undertaking and would make the transition
a lot smoother. Especially considering the fact that I did not read anything
about email notifications no longer working in Bricklink's communication
about enabling PayPal marketplace.
Thank you!
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No really Bricklink... can you please do this, like yesterday?
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| Author: | bobbykevin | | Posted: | Apr 30, 2018 09:39 | | Subject: | Re: Consolidated Items | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Pippyblocks writes:
| | What I do is make sure the tick box is ticked to consolidate, on the last screen
before I click upload I save the page to pdf, upload and then use the pdf to
put parts away. If that makes sense.
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That is a great idea. Then I don't have to do so much because I am always
afraid it will log me out or something before I am done. It is so simply no wonder
I didn't think of that.
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| Author: | Pippysblocks | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2018 14:20 | | Subject: | Re: Consolidated Items | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| What I do is make sure the tick box is ticked to consolidate, on the last screen
before I click upload I save the page to pdf, upload and then use the pdf to
put parts away. If that makes sense.
In Suggestions, bobbykevin writes:
| | I don't know if this is a thing or not since I am new to the site. When I
upload a bricked out set and it consolidates parts I all ready have it should
show the remarks for them instead of having to click part detail. Would make
it easier to put away parts without having to click it. If this can happen please
let me know if not they should have the remarks listed on this page.
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| Author: | GlassLama | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2018 14:08 | | Subject: | Re: Consolidated Items | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bobbykevin writes:
| | I don't know if this is a thing or not since I am new to the site. When I
upload a bricked out set and it consolidates parts I all ready have it should
show the remarks for them instead of having to click part detail. Would make
it easier to put away parts without having to click it. If this can happen please
let me know if not they should have the remarks listed on this page.
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I agree! On step 3 it does show your current remarks and what you are consolidating
but it could work a bit better I believe.
I think they should have the step 2 remarks box show your current remark for
that piece and give you the freedom to change it at that point, say you need
to change the piece from a small drawer 'S109' to a free large drawer
'L82', then on step 3 it can show you if you have made a change or the
current remark if you haven't.
(My Remarks: S109) - No change
(My Remarks: S109 changed to L82) - Change to remark
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2018 11:35 | | Subject: | Re: Classic Wanted List Unavailable on June 5th | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Administrative, moscu writes:
| | How I am supposed to set prices and quantities once I place item in a list?
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Depends.
If you put it from the item’s page, there are fields in the dialog.
If you want to change / add something when looking at or searching in your WLs,
you just click on the field you want to change and the WL goes in edit mode.
You go out of edit mode by clicking the “Save Changes” button that appeared
in the blue line at the bottom of the screen or by hitting the Enter key.
Or you can do batch changes with the leftmost checkboxes and the menu just above
the header (move, copy, apply colour, condition…).
| | How can I see what the lowest prices for a piece in a list?
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Use the price guide.
Or you can show a few stores for each item if you click “More Options” (near
the “Search Wanted List” field) and then click “Show” in the rightmost column.
Don’t forget to change the sort option (stupidly defaults to store name) and
to click “Apply.”
| | I never have use the new one I always click on classic because it is much easier
to navigate and do what I need.
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Remember when you learned how to use the “classic” one? Go the same way: try.
If you never try, you never learn.
| | This change remind me of Microsoft changing the
search features in the "File Explorer" or removing the Program Menu. It was never
a good Idea.
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I don’t remember MS ever having had a good idea for its users.
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