Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Brickwilbo  | | Posted: | Sep 8, 2018 05:22 | | Subject: | Re: Mobile website or app | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, emiel.roumen writes:
| | Can the style sheet of the webpages be modified to allow for better usability
on mobile devices/phones?
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It's in development https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1094209
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| Author: | emiel.roumen | | Posted: | Sep 8, 2018 04:39 | | Subject: | Mobile website or app | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Can the style sheet of the webpages be modified to allow for better usability
on mobile devices/phones?
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| Author: | WhiteVanMan | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2018 10:08 | | Subject: | Re: Dates of parts 'added' to a store. | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | Hi all.
When anyone looks in a store, and selects a certain part, there is in small grey
letters, showing the date that particular item was added to the store's inventory,
but as I have selected the option of having the particular item(s) 'retained'
within my inventory after it has been sold out, I would like to have this feature
removed as it makes it look as if a store is not adding any recent stock, which
is not entirely accurate.
Regards,
Paul
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Any further news upon this issue?
I'm really surprised that this is still here, but surely it can be tweaked
to include the date of the newer additions of the parts have been added to a
store's inventory?
Paul
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2018 09:40 | | Subject: | Re: LBG & DBG abbreviations in searches | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, brisbane_qld writes:
| | Light Bluish Gray and Dark Bluish Gray are very common colours, and LBG and DBG
are common abbreviations for these colours. Could you please consider recognising
LBG and DBG as abbreviations for these colours in searches?
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Even consistency would be good as both are used as descriptors of print. For
example:
* | | 16543pb01 Bear, Brave, Baby Cub, Standing with Medium Azure Eyes, Black Nose and Light Bluish Gray Fur Pattern
Parts: Animal, Land |
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| Author: | brisbane_qld | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2018 07:50 | | Subject: | LBG & DBG abbreviations in searches | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Light Bluish Gray and Dark Bluish Gray are very common colours, and LBG and DBG
are common abbreviations for these colours. Could you please consider recognising
LBG and DBG as abbreviations for these colours in searches?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 3, 2018 14:14 | | Subject: | Re: Request for addition in checkout process | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, StoreToys4Boys writes:
| | Request for addition in checkout process and terms of store at beginning of purchase.
Hello Admins of BrickLink.
I would like to request an addition in the checkout process that will simplify
the way I handle my lot limitation versus $.
I’m sure some sellers would like to add there comment to my request but could
I ask them to restraint themselves to make it official that I’m doing a request
to the admin but I need to receive an answer that will be available to everybody.
I received another order that do not comply with my store terms and I don’t like
to cancel orders since almost all this orders are from new users with 0 feedback
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I think everybody here sometimes received orders like 100 lots for $20 or more.
The way my storage is done, I can say that a 100 lots orders will take me around
100 minutes to fill, pack, print. Even if I run for it, I can maybe done it in
50 minutes.
From a first time user, this is not funny to spend an hour or two and get cancel
at the end because the order done did not respect store terms.
The concept of limitations in orders are widely spread. Even Lego website for
parts have limitations.
I like to suggest a simple way to fix my problem and this will be a great way
for everyone to fix their goal. This is an addition needed but this would not
affect other factors if you want to keep them.
At checkout, can you add a factor of division versus amount in $.
Ex: I would like my store to accept orders with maximum 20 lots for $25
In other terms, I can take orders that will go over 125% of lots versus dollars.
To make it easier to understand we could also go with % calculation.
A 1% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $.20 minimum purchase
A 10% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $2 minimum purchase
A 50% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $10 minimum purchase
A 100% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $20 minimum purchase
A 125% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $25 minimum purchase
So at checkout every order will be calculate by the factor we want. If you don’t
want any limitation on the number of lot just leave it by default to 1%.
That’s easy to control and the buyer will get a message with short explanation
of the limit concept for that store in the beginning of their purchase. I think
it’s a much better way to define every need of different sellers and nothing
is lost or gain for sellers who don’t care about lot limitations.
That will be a great way for buyers to be inform right away and not having deception
at the end of their orders.
If you accept, I will be now removing the $20 minimum purchase in my store and
removing all the bulk minimum that break my head all the time.
Please Admins,can you come up with an detail answer of your views on this .
I would like to thank you for your time and keep on doing the great work.
Toys4boys
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I don't actually understand this suggestion and explanation. Seems it's
about low lot values again, what exactly is not satisfactory about the minimum
order and minimum lot value settings we currently have?
Also, if it takes that long to sort an order, I think there are loads of possibilities
for improvements. A 100 lot order should take me less than half an hour for sure.
I have category based storage.
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| Author: | StoreToys4Boys | | Posted: | Sep 3, 2018 12:31 | | Subject: | Request for addition in checkout process | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Request for addition in checkout process and terms of store at beginning of purchase.
Hello Admins of BrickLink.
I would like to request an addition in the checkout process that will simplify
the way I handle my lot limitation versus $.
I’m sure some sellers would like to add there comment to my request but could
I ask them to restraint themselves to make it official that I’m doing a request
to the admin but I need to receive an answer that will be available to everybody.
I received another order that do not comply with my store terms and I don’t like
to cancel orders since almost all this orders are from new users with 0 feedback
.
I think everybody here sometimes received orders like 100 lots for $20 or more.
The way my storage is done, I can say that a 100 lots orders will take me around
100 minutes to fill, pack, print. Even if I run for it, I can maybe done it in
50 minutes.
From a first time user, this is not funny to spend an hour or two and get cancel
at the end because the order done did not respect store terms.
The concept of limitations in orders are widely spread. Even Lego website for
parts have limitations.
I like to suggest a simple way to fix my problem and this will be a great way
for everyone to fix their goal. This is an addition needed but this would not
affect other factors if you want to keep them.
At checkout, can you add a factor of division versus amount in $.
Ex: I would like my store to accept orders with maximum 20 lots for $25
In other terms, I can take orders that will go over 125% of lots versus dollars.
To make it easier to understand we could also go with % calculation.
A 1% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $.20 minimum purchase
A 10% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $2 minimum purchase
A 50% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $10 minimum purchase
A 100% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $20 minimum purchase
A 125% factor will be an order of 20 lots for a purchase of $25 minimum purchase
So at checkout every order will be calculate by the factor we want. If you don’t
want any limitation on the number of lot just leave it by default to 1%.
That’s easy to control and the buyer will get a message with short explanation
of the limit concept for that store in the beginning of their purchase. I think
it’s a much better way to define every need of different sellers and nothing
is lost or gain for sellers who don’t care about lot limitations.
That will be a great way for buyers to be inform right away and not having deception
at the end of their orders.
If you accept, I will be now removing the $20 minimum purchase in my store and
removing all the bulk minimum that break my head all the time.
Please Admins,can you come up with an detail answer of your views on this .
I would like to thank you for your time and keep on doing the great work.
Toys4boys
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| Author: | pitz8008 | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2018 13:02 | | Subject: | Re: Make Special Assemblies easier to find pt 2 | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
| | Suggestion is to give Special Assemblies their own section of
the catalog.
Right now they can be found by going to the parts section.
Giving them their own section would make them stand out. I didn't even know
they existed until the recent forum discussion.
Make the corresponding drop down menu match to the theme the assembly comes from?
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Eggcellent
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| Author: | JulieK | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2018 13:00 | | Subject: | Make Special Assemblies easier to find pt 2 | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Suggestion is to give Special Assemblies their own section of
the catalog.
Right now they can be found by going to the parts section.
Giving them their own section would make them stand out. I didn't even know
they existed until the recent forum discussion.
Make the corresponding drop down menu match to the theme the assembly comes from?
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| Author: | JulieK | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2018 13:00 | | Subject: | Make Special Assemblies easier to find pt 1 | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Suggestion is to add Special Assemblies to the "Items Appears In" section of
the catalog
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2018 15:30 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, hullboxer writes:
| | As a buyer, I would not place an order in a store with this type of restriction.[…]
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You have two ways of seeing this suggestion:
— as a new restriction upon the buyer (like done on S@H),
— or as a stockroom feature for sellers, an automation of what can already be
done manually (i.e. move stock from stockroom to store once an order has emptied
the (s)lot).
What I understand from Teup’s explanations is that the latter is more how he
sees/wants this feature.
In this case, first, there are already stores who do that, manually or with
their own inventory management tools. And, second, the buyer generally doesn’t
know about it unless they come back later, like with this suggestion.
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2018 14:55 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| As a buyer, I would not place an order in a store with this type of restriction.
I would pay more, likely more than an additional orders shipping (which would
be the proposed ‘penalty’ for a full/larger above the restricted size order)
for the items in a store without these restrictions. Further, I would be inclined
not to revisit stores using these restrictions just to reduce my own frustration
with stores penalizing me for ordering more of an item(s).
Don’t care for it at Lego store either and have left before and purchased here
or other retail outlets. Just my 2 cents but can’t imagine many buyers seeing
this in a positive light.
Lois
Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2018 05:19 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Yes, that is correct. In a world with unlimited stock everyone could buy as much
as they like without limitations  When I upload a part-out there are always
a few lots that I just know will not survive it through a month. I had some ninjago
quivers and armor parts that could've served several buyers but someone bought
all of them right the day after I uploaded the part-out, even though it was listed
at current average price. I don't really complain, because it's nice
to sell.. but still, I will never encounter these parts again and only had them
in my store for 1 day. Not a disaster but it would have been nice to feature
them a bit longer without overpricing.
I guess a big reason why this would be useful is the existence of this tipping
point. Either you list at a normal price and you sell all at once because you're
a high quantity seller, OR you price them slightly higher but that makes you
end up alot lower in the search results so buyers pick other shops instead and
leave you alone entirely. Ideally you'd sell more gradually but for some
parts that seems hard..
In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
| | It seems like this proposal is not to aid buyer(s) but to overcome a limitation
as seller.
Just thinking outloud:
Selling new items, and as seller you want availability of all items/colors in
your store all the time for all buyers? Correct? So I would say just add more
stock. But your own resources (to add more stock) are likely limited, as seller
you cannot add indefinitely. So, to overcome this limited resources issue, the
solution is to shove the limitation on to the buyer(s)... somehow...
I guess in a way this is always the case, either by limiting lots, or raising
prices, or other means 
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Funny you should say that, I logged on to BO just now and found that a Chinese
guy has bought out 2 lots Now my store offers round 1x1 plates in all colours
except trans clear 
I don't have a proper workaround, because the remarks option makes my inventory
appear smaller than it is. That's not good for my administration and inventory
management. You could list separate lots, but I don't know, seems rather
tedious to me. There could be some alternatives I haven't thought of, if
you have any let me know
In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
| | First of all: be my guest, if you want to use this option go ahead it's your
store and your items to sell. No problem at all.
But.. just for arguments sake... what would be the buyer experience of this?
It's all psychology, so think it through I would say, place yourself in a
buyer shoes.
Also... technically, wouldn't there be many easy ways to simply go around
this 'restriction'? I don't know... just a thought... aren't
you just trying to influence something which is just an idea in your head but
has nothing to do with reality?
I think I would not use this option.
Enjoy,
Arnoud
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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| Author: | leggodtshop | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2018 04:51 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| It seems like this proposal is not to aid buyer(s) but to overcome a limitation
as seller.
Just thinking outloud:
Selling new items, and as seller you want availability of all items/colors in
your store all the time for all buyers? Correct? So I would say just add more
stock. But your own resources (to add more stock) are likely limited, as seller
you cannot add indefinitely. So, to overcome this limited resources issue, the
solution is to shove the limitation on to the buyer(s)... somehow...
I guess in a way this is always the case, either by limiting lots, or raising
prices, or other means
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Funny you should say that, I logged on to BO just now and found that a Chinese
guy has bought out 2 lots Now my store offers round 1x1 plates in all colours
except trans clear
I don't have a proper workaround, because the remarks option makes my inventory
appear smaller than it is. That's not good for my administration and inventory
management. You could list separate lots, but I don't know, seems rather
tedious to me. There could be some alternatives I haven't thought of, if
you have any let me know
In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
| | First of all: be my guest, if you want to use this option go ahead it's your
store and your items to sell. No problem at all.
But.. just for arguments sake... what would be the buyer experience of this?
It's all psychology, so think it through I would say, place yourself in a
buyer shoes.
Also... technically, wouldn't there be many easy ways to simply go around
this 'restriction'? I don't know... just a thought... aren't
you just trying to influence something which is just an idea in your head but
has nothing to do with reality?
I think I would not use this option.
Enjoy,
Arnoud
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2018 04:03 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, DeLuca writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, danielclark writes:
| | I'd be less inclined to shop in a store that restricts how much of an item
I could buy, especially if I could see they had more. When I search for parts
it's by highest quantity for my most desired elements. If a store is going
to retain some inventory then it's going to show further down on that list.
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I agree, you should not see it. It would work exactly the same as the stockroom
currently works: You don't see what's back there that you cannot order.
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The full quantity of a given item would not be visible on the item's Catalog
entry, but would it be visible on the item's entry in the store? It
is my understanding that it would, hence my concerns.
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No, it should not be visible anywhere, just like a stockroom items is not visible.
If I have a lot of 5000 but limit it to 500 per buyer, it should show as a 500
size lot everywhere on Bricklink.
I intended it as a more automated version of the current way to do the same thing,
listing 500, switching on "retain" and writing "4500 left" in the remarks.
I agree it would be annoying to see things you couldn't buy.
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There is a small downside that if a buyer places an order for 500, then happens
to browse the store again while not logged in, then they see that more stock
is available. So they log in and the stock is no longer available to them as
they have a current order.
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It would take more than just a few changes. For instance, if you set a max of
100 per customer, and someone buys 100, when would your shop show 100 in inventory
again? If it gets shown right away (assuming you have enough set up), the customer
would see another 100, and could potentially add them to his existing order.
If you expect BL to block this particular customer from seeing the new lot, when
would this "lock" be lifted? At payment time? After shipping? Maybe never? Or
do you accept them being able to see the new 100 and do an order addition, thus
being able to buy them all in several order additions?
There would be quite a few checks etc needed, with many options for fringe cases
messing things up.
I do appreciate the idea, but I don't think it would be easy to implement.
Niek.
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You're right it would take a bit of extra infrastructure. But I think if
items would be hidden (or quantity substracted) to buyers who have an order that
has not yet reached "packed", that should be fairly unambiguous. That would suit
my purposes and I hope that to the others who voted yes that's good as well.
That should be enough to solve the buyout issue.
So yes, it would take for users to see something else when they log on than when
they log off. But I think this should be easy to make and it's already the
case with user blocks, currency conversions and VAT calculations that apply as
soon as a user logs in. Though I just hope that putting all displayed quantities
through this extra bit of code would not slow the website in any way, otherwise
it wouldn't be worth it.
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| Author: | DeLuca | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 16:37 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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One additional concern that I have with this idea, is that buyers may start assuming
that stores have far more items available than are showing up (particularly if
the store is large, and the item in question is relatively common). This assumption
may lead prospective buyers to contact stores in an attempt to circumvent the
limit (which places the sellers in a difficult position), or simply to look elsewhere.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 15:53 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, DeLuca writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, danielclark writes:
| | I'd be less inclined to shop in a store that restricts how much of an item
I could buy, especially if I could see they had more. When I search for parts
it's by highest quantity for my most desired elements. If a store is going
to retain some inventory then it's going to show further down on that list.
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I agree, you should not see it. It would work exactly the same as the stockroom
currently works: You don't see what's back there that you cannot order.
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The full quantity of a given item would not be visible on the item's Catalog
entry, but would it be visible on the item's entry in the store? It
is my understanding that it would, hence my concerns.
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No, it should not be visible anywhere, just like a stockroom items is not visible.
If I have a lot of 5000 but limit it to 500 per buyer, it should show as a 500
size lot everywhere on Bricklink.
I intended it as a more automated version of the current way to do the same thing,
listing 500, switching on "retain" and writing "4500 left" in the remarks.
I agree it would be annoying to see things you couldn't buy.
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There is a small downside that if a buyer places an order for 500, then happens
to browse the store again while not logged in, then they see that more stock
is available. So they log in and the stock is no longer available to them as
they have a current order.
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It would take more than just a few changes. For instance, if you set a max of
100 per customer, and someone buys 100, when would your shop show 100 in inventory
again? If it gets shown right away (assuming you have enough set up), the customer
would see another 100, and could potentially add them to his existing order.
If you expect BL to block this particular customer from seeing the new lot, when
would this "lock" be lifted? At payment time? After shipping? Maybe never? Or
do you accept them being able to see the new 100 and do an order addition, thus
being able to buy them all in several order additions?
There would be quite a few checks etc needed, with many options for fringe cases
messing things up.
I do appreciate the idea, but I don't think it would be easy to implement.
Niek.
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It isn't my idea. But I think teup has replied to the same question already
- I think he wrote once the order is marked as shipped or packed or similar.
Presumably once the order cannot be added to, so that any new purchase comes
in as a second order.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 13:56 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, DeLuca writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, danielclark writes:
| | I'd be less inclined to shop in a store that restricts how much of an item
I could buy, especially if I could see they had more. When I search for parts
it's by highest quantity for my most desired elements. If a store is going
to retain some inventory then it's going to show further down on that list.
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I agree, you should not see it. It would work exactly the same as the stockroom
currently works: You don't see what's back there that you cannot order.
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The full quantity of a given item would not be visible on the item's Catalog
entry, but would it be visible on the item's entry in the store? It
is my understanding that it would, hence my concerns.
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No, it should not be visible anywhere, just like a stockroom items is not visible.
If I have a lot of 5000 but limit it to 500 per buyer, it should show as a 500
size lot everywhere on Bricklink.
I intended it as a more automated version of the current way to do the same thing,
listing 500, switching on "retain" and writing "4500 left" in the remarks.
I agree it would be annoying to see things you couldn't buy.
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There is a small downside that if a buyer places an order for 500, then happens
to browse the store again while not logged in, then they see that more stock
is available. So they log in and the stock is no longer available to them as
they have a current order.
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It would take more than just a few changes. For instance, if you set a max of
100 per customer, and someone buys 100, when would your shop show 100 in inventory
again? If it gets shown right away (assuming you have enough set up), the customer
would see another 100, and could potentially add them to his existing order.
If you expect BL to block this particular customer from seeing the new lot, when
would this "lock" be lifted? At payment time? After shipping? Maybe never? Or
do you accept them being able to see the new 100 and do an order addition, thus
being able to buy them all in several order additions?
There would be quite a few checks etc needed, with many options for fringe cases
messing things up.
I do appreciate the idea, but I don't think it would be easy to implement.
Niek.
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| Author: | Bricklord | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 12:55 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I fully support this; it is years overdue as an option for a seller to have in
their store.
What also needs to be implemented is the option for a seller to refuse to allow
buyers to add to an existing order. No more batches, any further ordering comes
in as a separate order. Far, far simpler and easier for sellers to process and
fill. Shipping multiple orders together is not a problem, it is the filling and
process of the orders that requires these to be implemented. The current lack
of is a gross deficiency that must be rectified.
Bricklord
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 06:31 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | You're right about that. Though I don't think it's really a problem
that the quanitity would change - right now prices also change when you log in,
because of currencies and taxes.
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Yes, I don't mind prices changing as the base currency does that. But here,
a buyer would see a store has been and still is purposely stopping a buyer from
buying something in their inventory. I'd find that annoying, especially if
I originally wanted to buy more and end up having to place another order with
either the same seller or a different seller when it could have been possible
beforehand if the seller had not hidden that inventory.
Of course, exactly the same can happen now, it is just not so instant that the
extra inventory appears available to others as soon as you checkout but not available
to you via a second batch.
If a seller wants to stop buyers from buying all their inventory, I think I prefer
it when they list say 100 at their real price and the rest of their inventory
of that part at a higher price. At least that way a buyer can decide to pay a
bit more if they are after a lot of the item. Although I know some people hate
this and complain that a seller has two different prices for the same part.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 05:32 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, enig writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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I like the idea. I really do and it would be super useful. But just as with many
things - it works well if sellers use it for the actual purpose that you have
outlined here. If it starts to be abused it would have a potential to ruin many
things.
What would stop sellers from creating a new lot for every single item they sell
and set it to 0.01 , (higher for the more expensive stuff ofc) to work as a form
of an advertisement. Now they have all the listings at the top. Imagine 15 sellers
doing that. 50 sellers?
That would also mess up the avg listed prices, as well as 6 month avg since some
of these would actually sell.
Just look at the superlot listings of CMF's. Averages become useless. Average
prices for the most part actually are useless anyway.. but try explaining
that to a customer.
Would this trick actually help and generate some sales for these sellers? Probably
not a lot, of at all. A little more elaborate usage, however, probably would.
Heck, I myself would gladly give away a couple EUR worth of cheap parts for free
that every single seller has an over-stock of anyway, if it also helped to make
a sale of other items that are priced well.
Ever went to a supermarket just to get that awesome deal that you saw
in an advertisement? And came back with a trunk-full of stuff? Oh yes.
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You have some good points and I agree they need to be addressed in some way should
this feature ever make it to implementation. You're right the priceguide
for current listings would appear lower but maybe the by-quantity priceguide
would be OK. Maybe there should also be a minimum quantity, although then it
quickly becomes tricky where to draw the line, and expensive items like minifigs
should be OK to list just 1 of.
However, while these issues are real, do keep in mind it's already possible
to do this, but just manually by using remarks and retain. So it won't be
a 100% new mechanic, just something that exists but will become more prominent.
And people who are blessed with understanding of the obscure BL API or who are
developing third party tools may already make this feature available by supporting
certain tags in the remarks field.
I agree with you that these are issues that need to be remedied somehow, either
by accomodating to the effects it causes or by limiting excessive use. Either
way I think it's really worth solving that, because the benefits can be pretty
great - sellers could get more sales and buyers could find more complete inventories
as well as lower prices, if the lots are protected against instant buy-outs.
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Another downside is that it would be a good way of hiding how much inventory
is really out there. Someone could have a lot of an apparently rare part and
would crash the market if they listed it all. Yet if they list it with a maximum
of 10, then there appears to be little stock available. Of course, this can be
done manually but have an automatic tool to do it will make it much more simple.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 05:31 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, DeLuca writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, danielclark writes:
| | I'd be less inclined to shop in a store that restricts how much of an item
I could buy, especially if I could see they had more. When I search for parts
it's by highest quantity for my most desired elements. If a store is going
to retain some inventory then it's going to show further down on that list.
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I agree, you should not see it. It would work exactly the same as the stockroom
currently works: You don't see what's back there that you cannot order.
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The full quantity of a given item would not be visible on the item's Catalog
entry, but would it be visible on the item's entry in the store? It
is my understanding that it would, hence my concerns.
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No, it should not be visible anywhere, just like a stockroom items is not visible.
If I have a lot of 5000 but limit it to 500 per buyer, it should show as a 500
size lot everywhere on Bricklink.
I intended it as a more automated version of the current way to do the same thing,
listing 500, switching on "retain" and writing "4500 left" in the remarks.
I agree it would be annoying to see things you couldn't buy.
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There is a small downside that if a buyer places an order for 500, then happens
to browse the store again while not logged in, then they see that more stock
is available. So they log in and the stock is no longer available to them as
they have a current order.
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You're right about that. Though I don't think it's really a problem
that the quanitity would change - right now prices also change when you log in,
because of currencies and taxes.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 05:26 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, DeLuca writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, danielclark writes:
| | I'd be less inclined to shop in a store that restricts how much of an item
I could buy, especially if I could see they had more. When I search for parts
it's by highest quantity for my most desired elements. If a store is going
to retain some inventory then it's going to show further down on that list.
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I agree, you should not see it. It would work exactly the same as the stockroom
currently works: You don't see what's back there that you cannot order.
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The full quantity of a given item would not be visible on the item's Catalog
entry, but would it be visible on the item's entry in the store? It
is my understanding that it would, hence my concerns.
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No, it should not be visible anywhere, just like a stockroom items is not visible.
If I have a lot of 5000 but limit it to 500 per buyer, it should show as a 500
size lot everywhere on Bricklink.
I intended it as a more automated version of the current way to do the same thing,
listing 500, switching on "retain" and writing "4500 left" in the remarks.
I agree it would be annoying to see things you couldn't buy.
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There is a small downside that if a buyer places an order for 500, then happens
to browse the store again while not logged in, then they see that more stock
is available. So they log in and the stock is no longer available to them as
they have a current order.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 05:21 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Funny you should say that, I logged on to BO just now and found that a Chinese
guy has bought out 2 lots Now my store offers round 1x1 plates in all colours
except trans clear
I don't have a proper workaround, because the remarks option makes my inventory
appear smaller than it is. That's not good for my administration and inventory
management. You could list separate lots, but I don't know, seems rather
tedious to me. There could be some alternatives I haven't thought of, if
you have any let me know
In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
| | First of all: be my guest, if you want to use this option go ahead it's your
store and your items to sell. No problem at all.
But.. just for arguments sake... what would be the buyer experience of this?
It's all psychology, so think it through I would say, place yourself in a
buyer shoes.
Also... technically, wouldn't there be many easy ways to simply go around
this 'restriction'? I don't know... just a thought... aren't
you just trying to influence something which is just an idea in your head but
has nothing to do with reality?
I think I would not use this option.
Enjoy,
Arnoud
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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| Author: | leggodtshop | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2018 05:12 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| First of all: be my guest, if you want to use this option go ahead it's your
store and your items to sell. No problem at all.
But.. just for arguments sake... what would be the buyer experience of this?
It's all psychology, so think it through I would say, place yourself in a
buyer shoes.
Also... technically, wouldn't there be many easy ways to simply go around
this 'restriction'? I don't know... just a thought... aren't
you just trying to influence something which is just an idea in your head but
has nothing to do with reality?
I think I would not use this option.
Enjoy,
Arnoud
In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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