Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SezaR  | | Posted: | May 15, 2020 18:58 | | Subject: | Re: shipping cost | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickfox25 writes:
| | I think shipping cost for items should be on this site. Because I love clicking
on an item and expecting to see the shipping cost. ONLY TO SEE NOTHING EXCEPT
A TBD. I WANT TO SPEND MONEY IT IS REALLY THAT HARD TO JUST SHOW WETHER OR NOT
THE SHIPPING PRICE IS ON THE ITEM ????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Yes, it is very hard for some stores, like for most stores in Canada, to add
Instant check-out. This is because the shipping via CanadaPost (and ChitChats)
depends on the weight, on the dimension, on the country and even on the postal
code.
You can check the stores' terms to check the shipping costs.
Some stores, like mine have "request quote" enabled?
See
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2437
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | May 15, 2020 18:07 | | Subject: | Re: shipping cost | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickfox25 writes:
| | I think shipping cost for items should be on this site. Because I love clicking
on an item and expecting to see the shipping cost. ONLY TO SEE NOTHING EXCEPT
A TBD. I WANT TO SPEND MONEY IT IS REALLY THAT HARD TO JUST SHOW WETHER OR NOT
THE SHIPPING PRICE IS ON THE ITEM ????????????????????????????????????????????????
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If the store has a lightning bolt next to their name, that means they offer Instant
Checkout, which will most likely show you the shipping price. The other stores
will most likely tell you what they charge in their store terms.
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| Author: | runner.caller | | Posted: | May 15, 2020 18:02 | | Subject: | Re: shipping cost | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickfox25 writes:
| | I think shipping cost for items should be on this site. Because I love clicking
on an item and expecting to see the shipping cost. ONLY TO SEE NOTHING EXCEPT
A TBD. I WANT TO SPEND MONEY IT IS REALLY THAT HARD TO JUST SHOW WETHER OR NOT
THE SHIPPING PRICE IS ON THE ITEM ?????????????????????????????????????????????
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Narrow your search to only stores that offer instant checkout.
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| Author: | bb1736162 | | Posted: | May 15, 2020 17:54 | | Subject: | shipping cost | | Viewed: | 125 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I think shipping cost for items should be on this site. Because I love clicking
on an item and expecting to see the shipping cost. ONLY TO SEE NOTHING EXCEPT
A TBD. I WANT TO SPEND MONEY IT IS REALLY THAT HARD TO JUST SHOW WETHER OR NOT
THE SHIPPING PRICE IS ON THE ITEM ????????????????????????????????????????????????
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 14, 2020 20:48 | | Subject: | Re: Some interface improvement proposals | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tatane79 writes:
| | 1. It would be great to be able to search for parts in all my orders.
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Did you try https://www.bricklink.com/orderSearch.asp?a=p
Have you tried Bricklink XP? That is what Bricklink thinks you need.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 14, 2020 20:10 | | Subject: | Re: Some interface improvement proposals | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Legoboy_II writes:
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I'm not clear what you're suggesting here? I have my WL's broken
down by projects, and when I shop, I pull up the WL's that I'm working
on. Then on the "Buy Wanted Lists" page, I check or uncheck the other lists when
I need to meet minimums or want to offset S&H.
This is a form of prioritizing?
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Another form: in the Wanted Items tab, you can click on the little lock icon
on each part to make it a required part and only show the stores that have it.
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Asked for many times. I have been told these settings exist, but I either haven't
found them (even when given directions) or they're reset after the page refreshes.
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A lot of things are refreshed spuriously.
Like “keep me logged in”…. 
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The fact that system goes down, every day, strongly suggests
the severs are not redundant, or if they are,
are not properly configured.
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A number of things are computed off-line during the downtime.
It’s more a problem of code written when it was very costly and not useful to
do them on the fly than non-redundant servers (which there weren’t anyway, I
think).
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Also, having an action extend across multiple pages, that aren't in view,
could have serious unintended consequences, I'm not sure I agree on that
point.
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+1
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Okay, I need to research "mosaic". I've seen the term in a few places, but
have no context of what that actually looks like.
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OP actually meant “grid view.”
A mosaic is an ancient pixelated stone or faience artwork.
By extension 1 (maybe only in French?): the blurred zone in an image or film
by over-pixelization (generally faces or naughty bits).
By extension 2: an image made of other images.
By abuse (in France French): a special channel where all the channels are shown
in a grid of thumbnails.
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| Author: | Legoboy_II | | Posted: | May 14, 2020 19:38 | | Subject: | Re: Some interface improvement proposals | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tatane79 writes:
| | Hi,
As a BrickLink buyer, I would like to make some suggestions to improve the GUI:
1. It would be great to be able to search for parts in all my orders.
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+1
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2. In the orders, I would like to keep the ID# of each part. Currently,
only the name of the part is kept.
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+1
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3. I would like to "prioritize" my Wanted Lists, maybe in two categories
to keep it simple: "priority" and "non priority". Thus, when I shop, I can focus
on the "priority" lists to buy their missing parts, and then potentially add
additional parts to already ordered parts if common with "non priority" lists
(that's what I do manually, currently).
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I'm not clear what you're suggesting here? I have my WL's broken
down by projects, and when I shop, I pull up the WL's that I'm working
on. Then on the "Buy Wanted Lists" page, I check or uncheck the other lists when
I need to meet minimums or want to offset S&H.
This is a form of prioritizing?
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4. In a Wanted List, in the search options, I would like to be able to save
my usual search parameters, i.e. :
- 100 items per page
- "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty"
Currently, I have to painfully redo this each and every time I browse my Wanted
Lists.
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Asked for many times. I have been told these settings exist, but I either haven't
found them (even when given directions) or they're reset after the page refreshes.
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5. 100 items per page is not enough. 1,000 would be cool, so that there
is a good chance to see all parts in one page (in a Wanted List, in a shop, etc.)
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1,000 is a huge number. I agree 100 can be a small number, I typically like 200.
Given the site's resources, 100 is a fair compromise to work with and doesn't
slow the system down any further.
There is a LOT of data being processed on the servers, and sent to your browser.
I am not sure how many servers are availalble to process all this information,
but I do know they are stressed every now and then. I have seen this, however,
as a buyer, it is a minor inconvenience and almost goes unnoticed most of the
time; truthfully, I am more upset and concerned when the system goes into maintenance
mode every night (which is when I am up and working). The fact that system goes
down, every day, strongly suggests the severs are not redundant, or if they are,
are not properly configured.
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6. In a shop, when you look at a part, BrickLink indicates just below
in a grey line some useful information:
- In which Wanted List this part can be found
- The total wanted and have quantities
a) It would be great to have also an indication of the quantity currently
in orders not yet received.
b) It would be great also to be able to click on or fly over "In XX Wanted Lists"
to see the actual names of the corresponding Wanted Lists.
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+1
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7. a) In a shop, it would be cool to have a "Max" button on the right
hand side of the "Add to cart QTY" field, to directly fill the field with
the max quantity available in the shop. I know there is the "Min/Max" feature
at the top of the page, but they apply to all fields in the page, not part by
part.
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+1
| | b) By the way, it will not apply to other pages of the search, which is a pitty,
because we need to move from page to page in the search to do the operation as
many times as there are pages.
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This is where having 1,000 lines might be useful, but I still worry about the
system impact?
Also, having an action extend across multiple pages, that aren't in view,
could have serious unintended consequences, I'm not sure I agree on that
point.
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8. + and - buttons are way too small in the QTY fields. They are also
too close one from each other, so you can easily erroneously click on the wrong
one. Maybe if possible, make the buttons bigger, and put one on the right of
the cell, and one on the left, for instance. (emp. added)
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+100%
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9. Tab key should go to the next identical field in the page. For instance,
if my cursor is in the HAVE QTY field of a part, typing Tab should send me to
the HAVE QTY field of the next part in the list.
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Would be nice and intuitive, but this is a decision that was made by M$ decades
ago and has become the de facto standard. While it can be coded by the developer,
the confusion it would create, would be counter-productive.
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10. In the Wanted Lists, I would like to be able to "lock" the "Want" fields,
so that I cannot erroneously modify them while I modify the "Have" field just
below. Maybe a simple tickbox in the preferences of the Wanted List to protect
this field would be great.
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I think the larger and saddled +/- buttons would solve this issue.
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11. It would be great to be able to present the parts in a "mosaic" view,
like what ReBrickable does. This would be convenient to print in a condense way
the list of parts we are looking for, and maybe keep it with us while going to
the Pick-a-Brick Wall in a Lego shop, for instance.
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Okay, I need to research "mosaic". I've seen the term in a few places, but
have no context of what that actually looks like.
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12. Export functions could be improved:
a) put the full name of the parts with its color name in REMARK XML field, for
instance
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+1
| | b) allow to export all or a selection of Wanted Lists at once, adding the names
of Wanted Lists in the REMARK XML field, for instance.
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+1
| | c) add export functions to orders
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This already exists, however I'd like to see a format added that Brickstock
could import directly, without having to use three different sites to get there.
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What do you think?
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Kind regards,
Jonathan
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That's my 2 cents,
James
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| Author: | Legoboy_II | | Posted: | May 14, 2020 18:33 | | Subject: | Re: Matching of ordered parts with Wanted Lists | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tatane79 writes:
| | Hi,
I'm using BrickLink as a Lego builder, buying regularly missing parts to
complete two dozens of sets in the form of Wanted Lists.
A great improvement to the tools provided by BrickLink web site would be to be
able to match ordered parts with my Wanted Lists.
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This feature already exists, though it's not very efficient or intuitive.
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For instance, we could imagine to list below each ordered part in an order the
same part wanted in all my Wanted Lists, with integer fields (with +/- buttons)
to allocated the ordered parts to the Wanted Lists.
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On the "Orders Placed" page, there is an icon of a scroll, "Items in Order in
Wanted List". When you click that button, it starts a very convoluted process
that allows you to see what WL's those parts are in, then you can go to each
list and apply those parts to the WL.
Be careful, though, if you lose track of your progress, you can post duplicate
entries and it will severely mess up your WL accounting (it can be manually reversed
with effort). You can specify a quantity, but there are no tallies to track what
WL's have been "updated" or the quantities allocated.
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Thus, once I've allocated ordered parts to my Wanted Lists, I will be able
to shop again without buying parts already ordered.
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When you are shopping, there are fields that shows the quantity wanted and a
number "Have", which the "Buy Wanted Lists" page uses. The application subtracts
"Have" from "Wanted" and only looks for the resulting quantity.
If you open up the left hand pane to "Wanted Items" and expand the appropriate
WL, there is a field under each item that shows how many the system is looking
for, and then if you select a store, that field will reflect how many are wanted
and how many that particular store has of that item.
As you move stores to the "Selected Stores" list, the fields are updated.
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In addition, it could be even greater to make a distinction between ordered
parts allocated to Wanted Lists (not yet received) from actually received parts.
It means that for a part added to "Have" in a Wanted List, we could add a status
"ordered" or "received".
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This would be a nice feature to have while posting ordered parts to your WL's.
A third field could be added called "On Order", and could be controlled by the
order status?
I use the feature as it exists, and have flubbed it a couple of times, but it
is helpful. I believe, though, that the whole process needs competent review
and a complete re-coding to make it less onerous and more usable.
James
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | May 14, 2020 08:55 | | Subject: | Re: can't change order status | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MADking1999 writes:
| | I have verified payments from buyers in PayPal, but the order status has not
updated to "paid", and I can't manually change it. I used to be able to do
this. Did you guys change this feature. Also can't change to shipped once
I do, please advise.
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Don't know if your issue correlates here, but have a look at the help offered,
if it does: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1197217
-Cory
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| Author: | MADking1999 | | Posted: | May 14, 2020 08:42 | | Subject: | can't change order status | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I have verified payments from buyers in PayPal, but the order status has not
updated to "paid", and I can't manually change it. I used to be able to do
this. Did you guys change this feature. Also can't change to shipped once
I do, please advise.
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