Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | minifig_75  | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2022 07:00 | | Subject: | forestman torso 6077 - color of collar | | Viewed: | 107 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hi all!
So we've had the 6077 forestman set for a long time.
And, both on the instructions AND the Bricklink description, there is a mistake
on the color RED of colar for torso 973p48c01 : it IS REDDISH BROWN, not RED.
It's certified.
thanks 
best regards
Soon
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 20:07 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | It makes picking easy, cause you don't have to pay very close attention if
the customer ordered a torso from a given location and there is only 1 style
torso in that drawer.
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This^
I thought it was obvious; but apparently people prefer to put all the Minifig
Heads in the same drawer, so they've 99% chances to make a mistake
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I can see how that works for maybe a one-room workplace, but we have a storage
building, a sorting building, and then the listing usually occurs in the house.
When we list heads, for example, it's a lot easier to take one bin with all
the heads in it than a few hundred. But we keep them very organized with bags
and labels.
In fact, I feel this method may be slightly better as it forces the picker to
pay more attention to what they're actually handling and doing.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 19:05 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | It makes picking easy, cause you don't have to pay very close attention if
the customer ordered a torso from a given location and there is only 1 style
torso in that drawer.
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This^
I thought it was obvious; but apparently people prefer to put all the Minifig
Heads in the same drawer, so they've 99% chances to make a mistake
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| Author: | runner.caller | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 17:46 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Catalog, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | Regardless of the fact this new category makes more sense over the old category,
please do think of the consequences for sellers when any item switches categories.
Where item x would be in category 1 and stored in bin 1, all of a sudden the
same item x would be in category 2. But I will not find it in bin 2, because
I didn't move storage locations when an item changed categories in the past.
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The problem is you should NEVER organize your stock by Categories, neither by
Color or Reference.
All this can change, and often changed by BrickLink directly in your Inventory
(worst case scenario).
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Agreed! I specialize in small minifig parts and most of my picking comes from
784 common sized small drawers.
I upload by category and before each upload, I run macros to auto sort my inventory
export so that I put each (lets say "modified head") into the most empty drawer
that doesn't already have a modified head in it. I do this for each category
with the goal being that any given drawer only has 1 minifig lot, 1 head lot,
one headgear lot, etc... as many dissimilar items as possible in each drawer.
It makes picking easy, cause you don't have to pay very close attention if
the customer ordered a torso from a given location and there is only 1 style
torso in that drawer.
I used to put all black torsos in one bin... uhhhhh... yikes... took forever
to find the correct one.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 17:08 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | | | The problem is you should NEVER organize your stock by Categories, neither by
Color or Reference.
All this can change, and often changed by BrickLink directly in your Inventory
(worst case scenario).
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I run a very small shop, with a very limited inventory (although I have tons
to sort ...).
What is your secret to organize stock? By day of the week you purchased the part?
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Spatial? Like "Drawer 056"?
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| Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 14:35 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | | | The problem is you should NEVER organize your stock by Categories, neither by
Color or Reference.
All this can change, and often changed by BrickLink directly in your Inventory
(worst case scenario).
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I run a very small shop, with a very limited inventory (although I have tons
to sort ...).
What is your secret to organize stock? By day of the week you purchased the part?
I'm joking of course, but I am interested in the organization methodologies
of other sellers.
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Controversial opinion here, but I organize my parts by color or by color family
(red, green, blue, etc). It is clear and unambiguous; a tan brick is always a
tan brick no matter what the catmins decide to call the color, whereas categories
often change. Only if I have a lot of one particular color do I divide by category.
Obviously, this only works for a small store with a small number of bricks in
each color, for a larger store a more sophisticated solution is necessary, perhaps
by the part ID or something totally unrelated.
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 14:32 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | | | The problem is you should NEVER organize your stock by Categories, neither by
Color or Reference.
All this can change, and often changed by BrickLink directly in your Inventory
(worst case scenario).
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I run a very small shop, with a very limited inventory (although I have tons
to sort ...).
What is your secret to organize stock? By day of the week you purchased the part?
I'm joking of course, but I am interested in the organization methodologies
of other sellers.
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I organize by category, but also give each container a unique code and put that
code in the remarks of the items in that container. If an item changes category,
I still have the code in the items remark and can still find it just as easy.
Organizing by category makes listing easier; putting codes on the bins and items
makes it easier to find/remember where we put them.
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| Author: | Gaston.La.Brick | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 14:29 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | The problem is you should NEVER organize your stock by Categories, neither by
Color or Reference.
All this can change, and often changed by BrickLink directly in your Inventory
(worst case scenario).
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I run a very small shop, with a very limited inventory (although I have tons
to sort ...).
What is your secret to organize stock? By day of the week you purchased the part?
I'm joking of course, but I am interested in the organization methodologies
of other sellers.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 08:28 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, infinibrix writes:
Ha. Yes.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 07:58 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | Regardless of the fact this new category makes more sense over the old category,
please do think of the consequences for sellers when any item switches categories.
Where item x would be in category 1 and stored in bin 1, all of a sudden the
same item x would be in category 2. But I will not find it in bin 2, because
I didn't move storage locations when an item changed categories in the past.
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The problem is you should NEVER organize your stock by Categories, neither by
Color or Reference.
All this can change, and often changed by BrickLink directly in your Inventory
(worst case scenario).
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| Author: | Gaston.La.Brick | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 07:47 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| Regardless of the fact this new category makes more sense over the old category,
please do think of the consequences for sellers when any item switches categories.
Where item x would be in category 1 and stored in bin 1, all of a sudden the
same item x would be in category 2. But I will not find it in bin 2, because
I didn't move storage locations when an item changed categories in the past.
A solution would be to clearly list the former categories on the item detail
page. I'm not sure if category changes are listed in the inventory log, but
that log is long which makes it hard to spot those changes.
Secondly, when trying to determine what part an item is, I usually browse categories
because the search functionality of the site isn't that good. Extending items
with labels or tags (to assign multiple keywords to items) and use those in the
item search, might be a good improvement.
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 07:21 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, infinibrix writes:
| | In Catalog, kreativsnail writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | Does that mean things like this should be moved to the food section along side
carrots, apples and cherries, since it is not a minifigure head and is only ever
used as a food item.
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And of course there are plenty of other head base parts that are used for other
things that might be better placed elsewhere, such as these in animal, water:
The first one is also a named character.
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I feel that the Minifigure head part, no matter what is printed or not printed
on it, should remain in the minifig head category for ease of locating it. I
also feel that the square modified Minecraft head should remain in head modified
for the same reason. It is almost impossible in some cases to tell whether the
printing is for a “person” or an animal or just a decorative pattern.
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I agree and therefore parts should be categorized by their design otherwise you
create wider issues where parts like this printed brick also may end up needing
to be moved being its a cat animal character?
However to me its still just essentially a 1x3 decorated brick! just like those
heads with pineapple and fish are still just heads and so if you really still
felt the need to separate them all the heads would need to have sub categories
something like this...
MINIFIGURE HEAD:-
Plain
Decorated
For Minifigure
But if tags are coming it may not even matter too much whether all these heads
remain bundled in the same category and therefore on the same token those minecraft
heads would be better left together with the other minecraft heads rather than
creating confusion by moving them
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Thank you for your feedback.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 02:44 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, kreativsnail writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | Does that mean things like this should be moved to the food section along side
carrots, apples and cherries, since it is not a minifigure head and is only ever
used as a food item.
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And of course there are plenty of other head base parts that are used for other
things that might be better placed elsewhere, such as these in animal, water:
The first one is also a named character.
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I feel that the Minifigure head part, no matter what is printed or not printed
on it, should remain in the minifig head category for ease of locating it. I
also feel that the square modified Minecraft head should remain in head modified
for the same reason. It is almost impossible in some cases to tell whether the
printing is for a “person” or an animal or just a decorative pattern.
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Indeed, but that is not what us being suggested in the forthcoming moves. The
opposite is. Parts are being (and have already been moved) based on usage rather
than base part. Decorated parts are in different categories to plain parts.
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2022 00:29 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, kreativsnail writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | Does that mean things like this should be moved to the food section along side
carrots, apples and cherries, since it is not a minifigure head and is only ever
used as a food item.
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And of course there are plenty of other head base parts that are used for other
things that might be better placed elsewhere, such as these in animal, water:
The first one is also a named character.
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I feel that the Minifigure head part, no matter what is printed or not printed
on it, should remain in the minifig head category for ease of locating it. I
also feel that the square modified Minecraft head should remain in head modified
for the same reason. It is almost impossible in some cases to tell whether the
printing is for a “person” or an animal or just a decorative pattern.
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I agree and therefore parts should be categorized by their design otherwise you
create wider issues where parts like this printed brick also may end up needing
to be moved being its a cat animal character?
However to me its still just essentially a 1x3 decorated brick! just like those
heads with pineapple and fish are still just heads and so if you really still
felt the need to separate them all the heads would need to have sub categories
something like this...
MINIFIGURE HEAD:-
Plain
Decorated
For Minifigure
But if tags are coming it may not even matter too much whether all these heads
remain bundled in the same category and therefore on the same token those minecraft
heads would be better left together with the other minecraft heads rather than
creating confusion by moving them
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| Author: | kreativsnail | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 20:31 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | Does that mean things like this should be moved to the food section along side
carrots, apples and cherries, since it is not a minifigure head and is only ever
used as a food item.
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And of course there are plenty of other head base parts that are used for other
things that might be better placed elsewhere, such as these in animal, water:
The first one is also a named character.
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I feel that the Minifigure head part, no matter what is printed or not printed
on it, should remain in the minifig head category for ease of locating it. I
also feel that the square modified Minecraft head should remain in head modified
for the same reason. It is almost impossible in some cases to tell whether the
printing is for a “person” or an animal or just a decorative pattern.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 15:50 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | I think I'd try to find it as a Minecraft head. They both look like faces.
Currently I'd be OK, but if the get moved to somewhere else and don't
get the keyword head in the name or category then I'd need to do something
else.
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Yeah, hopefully, if the category changes that the items name doesn't change
at all otherwise that might make it difficult to find.
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That's the issue. If this isn’t a head and so head gets removed from the
name (even though the basic part is called a head) then it means we would need
to shift from easy to remember part names to part numbers. Of course it is only
a few extra clicks and searches to find the number but if you have lots of different
parts to look for, little extras add up.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:21 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | That's why we NEED a Tag system, so you could search using tags like:
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Yup! Thankfully they said it started "production" this year
(unless that was in a dream I had last night)
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ETA: Future (c)(tm)(r)
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:19 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | That's why we NEED a Tag system, so you could search using tags like:
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Yup! Thankfully they said it started "production" this year
(unless that was in a dream I had last night)
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"head", "animal", "star wars", "minifigure"
... and you're not bothered with in which Category it appears - said Categories
being arbitrary and capricious (often) ;D
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | I think I'd try to find it as a Minecraft head. They both look like faces.
Currently I'd be OK, but if the get moved to somewhere else and don't
get the keyword head in the name or category then I'd need to do something
else.
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Yeah, hopefully, if the category changes that the items name doesn't change
at all otherwise that might make it difficult to find.
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That's why we NEED a Tag system, so you could search using tags like:
"head", "animal", "star wars", "minifigure"
... and you're not bothered with in which Category it appears - said Categories
being arbitrary and capricious (often) ;D
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:10 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | We do all the head modifieds at once, so we start at the top of the list and
work down, listing them as we come across them. Sometimes we'll use keywords
if we know the name or theme (sw, minecraft, etc.).
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That makes more sense I can understand that view a bit better now.
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:07 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | I think I'd try to find it as a Minecraft head. They both look like faces.
Currently I'd be OK, but if the get moved to somewhere else and don't
get the keyword head in the name or category then I'd need to do something
else.
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Yeah, hopefully, if the category changes that the items name doesn't change
at all otherwise that might make it difficult to find.
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:06 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | Interesting. I'm not sure I'd ever notice what category they're in.
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Same, I don't think I really check item categories when listing items. I
usually only use it to look through different categories when I don't know
exactly what I need or want and just add different things that look interesting
from that category.
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My process would be to go to Steve. Find that his head part number starts with
"19729" and then I'd just go to the main search bar and search "19729*" and
scroll until I found it.
At a future point when there are a lot of minecraft heads this shape, I'd
probably go through the color guide and find my color and search the same thing.
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Or you could even type "trans-bright green" ahead of the part number to find
it even faster
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
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Wouldnt it be a bit faster to type something like "Trans-Bright Green 19729*"
to find the head type or some variation of that as opposed to looking through
the entire head modified category. or just search for "trans-bright green head
modified Minecraft" (assuming only the category changes and not the name of the
part)
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We do all the head modifieds at once, so we start at the top of the list and
work down, listing them as we come across them. Sometimes we'll use keywords
if we know the name or theme (sw, minecraft, etc.).
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 14:02 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | Perhaps, but on the flipside someone who is looking for these probably already
knows what they are called and a simple search of the name is going to bring
it right up regardless of what category it is located in.
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Fair point, But perhaps they went to the animal, land category and typed in Minecraft
and went from there if they could quite remember the name of it.
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Whereas how we do things (and I assume other sellers have a similar method) is
once we have a good amount of heads stocked up we'll then put them on our
store. We'll sort out all the minecraft heads, go the head modified category,
find the minecraft heads, and go through the list, listing each item as we come
across it.
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Wouldnt it be a bit faster to type something like "Trans-Bright Green 19729*"
to find the head type or some variation of that as opposed to looking through
the entire head modified category. or just search for "trans-bright green head
modified Minecraft" (assuming only the category changes and not the name of the
part)
| | The problem is that only 2 of the 53 heads are now in another location.
Unless I do a deeper search, I may very well set those heads aside thinking they
are not on Bricklink yet. I could see listings of these two items dropping as
sellers can't find them. And if sellers can't sell them, buyers can't
buy them.
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Hmmm. I don't think that listing would drop too much unless since its easier
for people to find that it sell better
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 13:13 | | Subject: | Re: moving heads to animal is stupid | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Hopefully you feel better soon!
(Perhaps some pizza would help )
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I feel certain that pizza will help.
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