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 Author: waltzking View Messages Posted By waltzking
 Posted: Mar 20, 2020 18:55
 Subject: Fix the NPB and Cancellation Process
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waltzking (8739)

Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: A *Deal* 4 U
I think BrickLink has a broken order process now due to the ever changing online
buying experience. For me I have seen an influx of buyers since the LEGO takeover
of BL, most new, but many clearly aware of the site though having limited use
of it in the past.

These buyers are often of the mindset that they are the ones calling the shots
on cancellations, payment time frames, etc. all while having no regard for the
BL or my store terms regarding such. Anything from unilateral ability to
cancel, expectations of free shipping, allowance to pay 10-days after ordering,
etc. and just the general "buyer rules" attitude that other selling sites (need
I name them?) have allowed buyers to abuse sellers with. These other sites have
taken some steps to protect sellers and buyer alike, but BL has fallen behind
the times.

Granted, these buyers are often new to BL which has a major learning curve, but
when you sell the exact same item 3 times in one week, and all 3 buyers want
to cancel after accurate shipping is invoiced for, it gets annoying. Why not
ask for a quote? And why only ask to cancel after days of the invoice being
sent? This and the increase in NPB buyers tying up stock have left me convinced
payment time-frame allowances need to be changed. The following is my view of
the changes this site needs to consider to move forward in a all-parties friendly
way:

Suggested Changes
1a: NPB should be changed to allowable to be filed 3-days from invoice (not
the order date).
This would be similar to other online selling sites. Not
auto-started, but optional so situations and agreements allowing additions, extended
payment, etc. can all still run as before.

1b: NPB should be allowed to complete after 7-days from the invoice date (4
days of being opened).
14 days (21 if buyer responds) is a ludicrous amount
of time to send payment or tie up a sellers stock. 7-days is actually really
long, but much better than 14-21.

Most all decent buyers pay well before 3-days, and a NPB started is simply a
reminder to pay as it cannot be completed unless the buyer fails to ever pay.
So I can only see this as a positive change making bad situations end sooner
than later and keeping stock available on the marketplace.

2: Additionally I would suggest that a feature be added to protect sellers
WHILE allowing unconditional buyer requested cancellations.
However, if
a cancellation is buyer requested the buyer should not be allowed to leave a
review (or an auto-positive given by default), and they should by default be
given a feedback showing an "Order Was Canceled By Buyer" message with a neutral
rating by default. Like an NPB's three-times-and-you're-out policy,
the buyer cancel option should be limited to 2, maybe 3 in a 6-month period,
or something reasonable. This allows buyers a true out when needed, and protects
the seller who after a customer gets pushy or rude the ability to safely allow
cancellation (when the buyer initiates) without needing the NPB and now current
2-3 weeks to prevent an unwarranted negative feedback. As is the system turns
good sellers into captive sellers, needing a NPB to save them from nightmare
feedback, but at the extremely high cost of wasted time and tying up their items
for weeks. No buyer needs 7, 14 or 21 days to pay and should not be granted
an ability to push payment back this far.

The current system for cancellations and NPB simply needs reformed. Buyers need
to be able to cancel in select situations such as a pushy seller trying to gouge
them on handling/shipping or holding the order hostage refusing to cancel, a
threat of pay or get an NPB. Sellers likewise need protection from the long
tied up inventory, or negative despite granting buyer an unwarranted cancellation.
The above should reduce 90% of all problem orders to being resolved in days,
not weeks, and all parties moving on largely unaffected. Bad sellers and buyers
will still get weeded out, and good ones will thrive.

Thanks for considering,
Jonathan
 Author: StormChaser View Messages Posted By StormChaser
 Posted: Mar 18, 2020 13:13
 Subject: Re: Decorated categories
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StormChaser (566)

Location:  USA, Oklahoma
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In Suggestions, athornberg writes:
  Replace "decorated" categories with 2 new categories, "printed" and "with stickers".

This idea was tossed around between administrators (including Dan) in 2007/2008.
It was deemed at the time to be an interesting idea with some positives, but
ultimately not preferable.

Thirteen years later, I can't tell that anything's changed.
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Mar 18, 2020 12:06
 Subject: Re: Decorated categories
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yorbrick (1182)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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In Suggestions, athornberg writes:
  Replace "decorated" categories with 2 new categories, "printed" and "with stickers".

I think for now learning to use search terms would be easier than adding loads
of new categories.
 Author: tonnic View Messages Posted By tonnic
 Posted: Mar 18, 2020 11:57
 Subject: Re: Decorated categories
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tonnic (4348)

Location:  Netherlands, Noord-Holland
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In Suggestions, axaday writes:
  In Suggestions, athornberg writes:
  Replace "decorated" categories with 2 new categories, "printed" and "with stickers".

I think there are so many categories right now that they are very averse to creating
more. I'm doubtful that a suggestion that would add more than a dozen new
categories is going anywhere.

I would rather have more categories with less entries per categorie so for me
the suggestion would work.
Categories are more easily to be found than subcategories/entries or whatever
they are named.
 Author: jennnifer View Messages Posted By jennnifer
 Posted: Mar 18, 2020 10:45
 Subject: Re: Decorated categories
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jennnifer (3532)

Location:  USA, Illinois
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In Suggestions, athornberg writes:
  Replace "decorated" categories with 2 new categories, "printed" and "with stickers".

You can achieve much the same thing by searching -sticker in the decorated category.

Jen
 Author: axaday View Messages Posted By axaday
 Posted: Mar 18, 2020 09:59
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axaday (7301)

Location:  USA, Oklahoma
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In Suggestions, athornberg writes:
  Replace "decorated" categories with 2 new categories, "printed" and "with stickers".

I think there are so many categories right now that they are very averse to creating
more. I'm doubtful that a suggestion that would add more than a dozen new
categories is going anywhere.
 Author: athornberg View Messages Posted By athornberg
 Posted: Mar 18, 2020 09:51
 Subject: Decorated categories
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athornberg (345)

Location:  Sweden, Uppsala
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Replace "decorated" categories with 2 new categories, "printed" and "with stickers".
 Author: samsam2 View Messages Posted By samsam2
 Posted: Mar 17, 2020 17:15
 Subject: Re: adding new inventory then edit
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samsam2 (2366)

Location:  Canada, Ontario
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Store: Stratford Bricks
In Inventories, samsam2 writes:
  is it just my browser settings causing all input to be lost when going back to
edit an inventory before submission? When I'm changing an existing inventory,
that page seems to let you go back and edit your work and even add extra rows
and you don't lose your work, but I do lose all my work when I have to correct
a new inventory I'm trying to add.

I finally realized that once I submitted a new inventory, it is relatively easy
to edit it.... this is not obvious to a new inventory submitter.

Every time I went back to make a change in the submission form I lost all my
work, which is frustrating even for a little polybag, I can't imagine how
disappointing it would be when submitting a large set.

Maybe a warning on the form not to go back, but instead to submit the inventory
and then edit it would be helpful....
 Author: samsam2 View Messages Posted By samsam2
 Posted: Mar 17, 2020 15:27
 Subject: adding new inventory then edit
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samsam2 (2366)

Location:  Canada, Ontario
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Store: Stratford Bricks
is it just my browser settings causing all input to be lost when going back to
edit an inventory before submission? When I'm changing an existing inventory,
that page seems to let you go back and edit your work and even add extra rows
and you don't lose your work, but I do lose all my work when I have to correct
a new inventory I'm trying to add.
 Author: miskox View Messages Posted By miskox
 Posted: Mar 17, 2020 05:38
 Subject: Quotes
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miskox (627)

Location:  Slovenia
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Store Closed Store: Cookie's Brick Shop
BrickLink Translated Help Editor (?) - Slovene
I would really like to delete/file... quotes. If I hover over 'my store'
icon I see 13 Quotes. They have all been filed so I would prefer not to see this
number there. Please change something (maybe display only not filed quotes?).

Thanks.
Saso
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Mar 15, 2020 11:18
 Subject: Re: Promocode Functionality
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TheBrickGuys (13267)

Location:  USA, California
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In Suggestions, J_Keter writes:
  Hi all!

Sorry for my bad english, but this idea I really want to share with you

I think that Bricklink need functionality for sellers to offer Promocode additionaly
to coupons.
Coupons can be used just by registered users and mostly work with returned buyers
But promocode functionality is a reason for seller to grow up his social network
auditory and could help to bring more new users to bricklink.

I think it should work this way:

Seller can set up many promocodes at the settings.
He can chose the % or fixed ammount for each promocode.
He can set up it same way as coupon (for parts or sets / new or used / additionaly
to current discounts or not / how long it will work for buyers (should be possible
to set up permanent promocode))

On the forum should be special Topic for promocodes. It will work instead of
forum messages like "coupon for each who write me here"

Promocodes are realy good working strategy for social marketing and also can
be added to the bussiness cards or to the store page or many other places.

How do you think about it?

I think that is a great idea and I would think that it would be quite easy to
implement at the checkout page.

Great idea!

Jim
 Author: Kuboteka View Messages Posted By Kuboteka
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 20:29
 Subject: Promocode Functionality
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Kuboteka (17319)

Location:  Lithuania, Vilnius
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Hi all!

Sorry for my bad english, but this idea I really want to share with you

I think that Bricklink need functionality for sellers to offer Promocode additionaly
to coupons.
Coupons can be used just by registered users and mostly work with returned buyers
But promocode functionality is a reason for seller to grow up his social network
auditory and could help to bring more new users to bricklink.

I think it should work this way:

Seller can set up many promocodes at the settings.
He can chose the % or fixed ammount for each promocode.
He can set up it same way as coupon (for parts or sets / new or used / additionaly
to current discounts or not / how long it will work for buyers (should be possible
to set up permanent promocode))

On the forum should be special Topic for promocodes. It will work instead of
forum messages like "coupon for each who write me here"

Promocodes are realy good working strategy for social marketing and also can
be added to the bussiness cards or to the store page or many other places.

How do you think about it?
 Author: Brickwilbo View Messages Posted By Brickwilbo
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 15:30
 Subject: Re: Bulk Coupon Create Functionality
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Brickwilbo (1534)

Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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In Suggestions, Surplus writes:
  I think that an option to create coupons in bulk would be very useful.

The submission form could include the basic coupon parameters and then have some
way of selecting the members that will receive the coupon. This could be filtering
options such as everybody over x number of orders, or it could be a text box
where the usernames could be copied and pasted in bulk.

The bulk coupons feature has been terminated because of spamming.
 Author: BrickenbergNC View Messages Posted By BrickenbergNC
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 15:01
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BrickenbergNC (2041)

Location:  USA, North Carolina
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I think that an option to create coupons in bulk would be very useful.

The submission form could include the basic coupon parameters and then have some
way of selecting the members that will receive the coupon. This could be filtering
options such as everybody over x number of orders, or it could be a text box
where the usernames could be copied and pasted in bulk.
 Author: NelisSolis View Messages Posted By NelisSolis
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 10:16
 Subject: Re: Item cost auto worked out when parting out
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NelisSolis (3753)

Location:  Netherlands, Zuid-Holland
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In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  In Suggestions, ErwinNL writes:
  In Suggestions, CaseyAF writes:
  Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.

This will only work if parts always have the same cost price in each set, else
you would have to make separate lots for the same part (there is only one mycost
field per inventory item).

Then it could offer 3 options, a bit similar to remarks:

Old mycost
New mycost
Average mycost

Those options are already provided during part-out, except it is not average
but quantity_average: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1109&q=my+cost

The option is only shown if you have the "mycost" input fields enabled in your
store settings.
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 09:21
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Teup (6595)

Location:  Netherlands, Utrecht
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Store: BLOKJESKONING
In Suggestions, ErwinNL writes:
  In Suggestions, CaseyAF writes:
  Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.

This will only work if parts always have the same cost price in each set, else
you would have to make separate lots for the same part (there is only one mycost
field per inventory item).

Then it could offer 3 options, a bit similar to remarks:

Old mycost
New mycost
Average mycost
 Author: ErwinNL View Messages Posted By ErwinNL
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 09:09
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Location:  Netherlands, Overijssel
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In Suggestions, CaseyAF writes:
  Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.

This will only work if parts always have the same cost price in each set, else
you would have to make separate lots for the same part (there is only one mycost
field per inventory item).
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 08:29
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Location:  Netherlands, Utrecht
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Store: BLOKJESKONING
In Suggestions, CaseyAF writes:
  Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.

Yep, I proposed this several times. It should let you enter what you bought it
for, then it can calculate a profit ratio, and with that profit ratio it can
calculate your selling prices for all parts back to their cost prices. In order
words: If you bought a set for 10 and the part out uploads 20, you know that
50% is profit, so if a part is uploaded for a selling price of 0.32, the MyCost
for that part should be 0.16.

The MyCost field seems to be a feature that was never fleshed out, just the field
was added but it doesn't really do anything. Under the previous management
it wasn't developed but maybe now that LEGO runs the show they might actually
look into it
 Author: Brickwilbo View Messages Posted By Brickwilbo
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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In Suggestions, NelisSolis writes:
  In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
  In Suggestions, CaseyAF writes:
  Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.

Use Brickstock to do that.

BrickStock doesn't have an option to calculate / add the MyCost per item.

I've read it's easier to add the costs on Brickstock and upload the file
than entering the costs one by one on Bricklink.
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In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
  In Suggestions, CaseyAF writes:
  Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.

Use Brickstock to do that.

BrickStock doesn't have an option to calculate / add the MyCost per item.
 Author: Brickwilbo View Messages Posted By Brickwilbo
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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In Suggestions, CaseyAF writes:
  Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.

Use Brickstock to do that.
 Author: KCFBricks View Messages Posted By KCFBricks
 Posted: Mar 14, 2020 05:21
 Subject: Item cost auto worked out when parting out
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KCFBricks (2053)

Location:  New Zealand, Waikato
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Hi there,

Do you think a feature will be added in which when you part out a set you can
add in how much the set cost and then the system would calculate how much was
paid per piece? It's a pain adding it in individually especially when you
have over 300 items! It would be nice if a feature like this also worked out
how much each part cost based on how much they sell for (depending on if you
picked current average/6 month average etc). For example if you bought a set
for $20 and it had 4 parts equally the cost would be $5, however if two of the
parts average was $10 each and the other two were $1 each having a cost of $5
for each part wouldn't make sense. Having to work that out for each part
by hand is just way too time consuming, but if the system did it on part out
entry it would be awesome.
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 Posted: Mar 13, 2020 16:32
 Subject: Re: Purist Custom Figures
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mfav (174)

Location:  USA, Vermont
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http://v4ei.com/mocfig/index.php

there's a proof-of-concept for you
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 Posted: Mar 12, 2020 15:51
 Subject: Re: Dealing with orders
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Acorn04 (10725)

Location:  USA, Illinois
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Store: Great Brick Lab (GBL)
Is there an updated location for the BrickStock templates?

In Suggestions, tsrplatelayer writes:
  In Suggestions, billduge writes:
   This can be done as Allan Smith has produced a great order
template for Brickstock which is how we have been able to reduce the number of
pages per order -

The templates Bill refers to can be downloaded here
http://www.avalon-family-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BrickStock_Templates.zip

Allan
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 Posted: Mar 12, 2020 10:28
 Subject: Re: Problem/bug with shipping minimum order
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Teup (6595)

Location:  Netherlands, Utrecht
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Hey BL team, any update on this? It's quite annoying and I would still really
like it to get fixed sometime. Let me know if you need more details.

In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  I've never quite understood why you are not allowed to set the minimum order
of a shipping method lower than the minimum order of your store. It's annoying
because if you have 10 shipping methods, then anytime you want to change your
minimum order, you need to also change it 10x in your shipping methods, for no
real reason, because the "master setting", the store minimum order value, should
determine it already.

However, it seems it's also causing another problem: Buyers can use the bypass
password to get around the minimum order, but it does not help them go
around the minimum order of the shipping methods. The result is that anytime
a buyer used the bypass password, they are able to order but unable to select
any shipping methods. So there will need to be a manual invoice.

I'd propose removing the restriction for shipping methods to have a minimum
order value that is higher than or equal to the store minimum order value - in
fact, I'd propose for shipping methods not to need a minimum value at all.
That should solve everything I described without any side effects.

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