Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | LaineeP  | | Posted: | Apr 9, 2018 22:42 | | Subject: | Price guide rant | | Viewed: | 317 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I know that this has probably been beat to death, but I have a suggestion. I,
as well as others I'm sure, have complained about the average prices that
are grossly inflated due to very high priced parts. On the used side of the guide
it seems it is always the same 2 stores (ex $39.95 for a $0.20 piece).
Why can't we do what they do in some sporting events - throw out the lowest
and highest and then average. I'm sure there is a way to do this.
Lainee
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| Author: | DeLuca | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2018 04:05 | | Subject: | “Report” Button | | Viewed: | 136 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Due to another spammer having appeared on the Forum, and my having to message
the Admins about it, I now think that Bricklink should have a designated “Report”
button on each Forum post (as is the case on Eurobricks). This would make reporting
spam/problem members/etc much easier, since the Admins could be contacted immediately
upon seeing the offending post and automatically be directed to the specific
post in question.
Is this something that Bricklink can implement?
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Apr 7, 2018 17:07 | | Subject: | After posting feedback "Go Back" Button | | Viewed: | 166 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Please fix this "go back" button to load the orders page not actually go back
a page. This requires me to hit refresh in order to see what order needs feedback
next. It's not an issue when there are only 1 or 2 but more than that and
it can get a little annoying.
This issue was observed on Chrome, it may react differently on other browsers,
if so I would love to hear about which ones if the button works!
Thanks!
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| Author: | az0 | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2018 09:39 | | Subject: | parts colour matt or shiny | | Viewed: | 102 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| To admin,
Regarding parts and colour entry.
It would be good if there were an entry to say whether the colour is matt or
shiny. I have to replace a part on Harry Potter Knight's bus. The original
was shiny black but the part I received as a replacement was matt.
On this particularly set it is rather noticeable so rather than have to email
each seller to ask if they have a shiny black part it would be good if it were
stated. Not sure if Lego make the distinction but it makes a difference to the
look of the set when its a visible part.
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| Author: | sancho10 | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2018 17:51 | | Subject: | Mobile-Friendly Website | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello everyone,
I think it's time to ask Bricklink to make a very simple but very useful
change: a MOBILE-FRIENDLY website!
Nowadays the majority of online worldwide buyers are using the mobile to complete
their purchases.
For example, in China the 83% of customers are buying from a mobile device.
Benefits:
- Buyers are more satisfied and the customer experience would be increased.
- Stores would increase the number of orders received
- Bricklink would have new customers that now are potential customers but, due
to this lack are not customers yet.
The competitor "BrickOwl" has a mobile-friendly website.
But BRICKLINK you are the largest LEGO Marketplace!
Please BRICKLINK, the whole community needs a mobile-friendly site!
Guys please, support my suggestion 
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| Author: | Pazzo | | Posted: | Mar 28, 2018 15:13 | | Subject: | Move header buttons to the left side screen | | Viewed: | 105 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi all,
when I am in my order page...all buttons are centered above the site.
But using an old fashioned 4/3 monitor, half of the buttons are outside my view,
and I need to use the sliding bars everytime I want to select one of them.
If all the buttons can be alligned from the left side of the screeen, this would
improve a lot.
Anybody has the same problem?
Be cool and have fun
Eric
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| Author: | dreambuilder71 | | Posted: | Mar 25, 2018 01:41 | | Subject: | Make POSTING in Forum EASIER! | | Viewed: | 105 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| So I use to post in the forum all the time. About 4 or more years ago before
the new company took over BL and changed things on here.
And it was much easier to find the POST NEW MESSAGE button than it is now. Took
me about 5 minutes to find the damn thing! That is ridiculous!
Why can't I just click on the BIG Community button at the top right on every
BL page and then on that 1st page that comes up is a BIG EASY TO FIND AND READ
button that reads: POST NEW MESSAGE!
NO, what you have to do is look at all the little buttons at the top in the grey
bar that read:
Forum, Messages, Topics, Search, Stats...
Click on Topics, click on one of those topics and in the top right corner of
those pages it says in little size font: Post New Message....
I use to be good at BL. Thanks for the frustration. I was going to post an
announcement sharing that I am only 1 feedback away from the big 5 double 0 after
almost 11 years on BL but I will probably forget how to find the Post New Message
button in the mean time.
(Why do less than half the members on BL leave feedback? I'd be over 1000
if everyone left feedback. lol. It's the same on ebay.)
James
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| Author: | chetzler | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2018 16:22 | | Subject: | Default feedback messages | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| When I leave positive buyer feedback it usually results in one of three basic
messages:
One general message thanking the buyer for the order,
One thanking new buyers and welcoming them to BL,
One thanking repeat customers.
It'd be great if we had some options at the feedback screen to just select
from 4-5 pre-set messages. Something like radio buttons for message A, message
B, message C, etc.
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| Author: | _nstbodensee_ | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2018 14:38 | | Subject: | API access to wantlist | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| | Hello, an API access to the wantlist would be nice. Best regards |
| Author: | misbi | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2018 12:45 | | Subject: | API access to DimX, DimY, DimZ | | Viewed: | 92 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Please could we have API access to seller's own values for DimX, DimY, DimZ.
Currently, none of the below methods return any seller's own dimension data:
UserInventory.GetInventory
UserInventory.CreateInventory
UserInventory.UpdateInventory
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2018 08:56 | | Subject: | How to offer free shipping +coupon suggestion | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I'm trying to give someone who lives near free shipping over a certain order
total but I tried two ways and both fail. First I tried to create a shipping
method for it, but I can't seem to make it conditional on either region or
password to unlock it. Is there any other way that I forgot to think about?
Next I tried to give this guy a coupon that would correspond to the cost of shipping,
but that also didn't work.
See picture. Why is this part blank? That's weird. Why can you only make
a percentage discount conditional and not a fixed discount?
Suggestion: Allow fixed discounts to be conditional as well.
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| Author: | FreezeTile | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 20:04 | | Subject: | How to improve Easy Buy | | Viewed: | 310 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
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| Why not add a feature to the site where you can select multiple models and then
Easy Buy them all at once?
For example, say I upload two small models to the site and I want to buy both.
I could Easy Buy both models at the same time and possibly find one store selling
the parts for both models! 
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| Author: | EmpireBricksNY | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 20:46 | | Subject: | Tax information in order export | | Viewed: | 139 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I'm working on my quarterly tax filing and was hoping to find a column in
the order export information for the tax that was collected on in-state sales.
Alas, it is not.
For those of us that collect sales tax, having that field in the order download
spreadsheet would be extremely helpful, along with the street address and city/zip
code. All of this information is required when filing sales taxes in NY.
Thank you for all you do!
Matt
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| Author: | Brick.Door | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2018 14:39 | | Subject: | Bricklink: please clean up incomplete sets | | Viewed: | 194 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I recently listed another batch of used sets. Once again in reviewing prices
I found in most cases the cheapest one available for sale is listed as "complete"
but missing minifigures.
Bricklink can't you do a sweep of these errant listings and send the seller
a warning? Maybe query sets that are listed as complete but have the word "missing"
or "no minifigs" in the comments
I know you don't want to make changes automatically (the seller could have
written "no missing minifigures" or something) but it is a long and slow process
to find these one by one. And there are thousands of them listed.
Sounds like a lot of work? You are probably losing money too. The average
sold price is lower than it should be because so many incomplete sets are being
sold as complete. If sellers saw the real average price they would set their
prices higher and Bricklink would benefit from the higher commission.
For example I recently listed Star Wars set. The cheapest 3 currently available
(listed as complete) are $15, $20 and $24. None of them are complete according
to the sellers description.
The average sold for this set is $22 but since 3 of the sold sets were prices
$15, $15 and $21 they were probably incomplete but sold as complete and now are
polluting the price guide. The correct average sold is about $27
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2018 21:52 | | Subject: | Save Offsite Paypal! | | Viewed: | 321 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Bricklink famously ground to a halt, twice, because it got hacked. The site
may have been restored to working condition, but a lot of us want nothing to
do with risking exposure of our financial accounts to anyone who may be lurking
behind the scenes. Sellers don't want to give Bricklink the level of control
required to accept payments through Bricklink. Bricklink has announced that
in about a month, they plan to scuttle offsite Paypal as a payment option, without
even taking any input from their core membership. The reason stated was that
new, usually one-time buyers, can't figure out where the payment button is
when they select offsite Paypal as a payment option, so they plan to basically
cut off any buyers and sellers who refuse to use any other form of payment, and
who especially want nothing to do with any onsite Paypal options.
Make offsite Paypal an opt-in payment option. Sellers obviously have to select
up front which payment options they will accept. Make all _buyers_ voluntarily
choose to see offsite Paypal as a payment option when checking out. If a seller
does not accept any other payment options, have them flagged as "does not ship
to you", just like if they were from another country and didn't have your
country enabled for shipping options. If a new buyer signs up, they should be
required to read an explanation of how offsite Paypal works, and confirm that
they want to be able to choose that as a payment option before they even see
it appear in lists.
But seriously, don't chase away a bunch of your regular customers in the
hope that you might be able to "grow your business" on the bank accounts of people
who just get sent here to buy a replacement part that LEGO Consumer Affairs can't
provide, or who are looking for just one retired set, and will never log in again
after they receive their shipment.
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2018 15:30 | | Subject: | Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell | | Viewed: | 343 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Mentioned in other posts, I am submitting this as a separate suggestion.
The goal of the $1 payment is to preclude new members from making false orders
and thereby avoid time wasted on pulling order items, attaining packing supplies,
calculating shipping, etc.
Perhaps there is also a benefit with regard to new sellers. Not sure.
I recognize there will be process, payment, and accounting challenges for BrickLink
administrators, along with maybe an undesired initial action to become a member,
however this proposal would screen out false buyers, and benefit the integrity
and positive experiences of the entire new member, buyer, and seller community
-- which for my part is a key reason I'm here.
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2018 15:05 | | Subject: | Seller checkout approval for <X new buyers | | Viewed: | 115 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Whether X = 0 or some short optional range between say -3 and +3, I suggest
that any seller be able to approve of new zero-or-low-feedback members before
they are allowed to check out.
As a heads-up courtesy, new buyers can be advised by BrickLink, via a notice
both near the cart symbol while shopping and in the cart, that checking out will
require the seller's approval.
Attaining approval would require a BrickLink message from the prospective buyer
to the seller requesting to check out. In lieu of a better indicator, this message,
or perhaps more importantly the simple effort to send it, would allow a seller
to make an approval or disapproval decision.
The seller makes a decision, with ideally everything being on the up & up, and
a bona fide order and purchase follow.
However the rule and process is set up, it can be deconflicted with the "Disallow
members with negative feedback" rule.
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A better solution that what's above, to minimize time-wasting
fake orders, is to have all buyers pay BrickLink a dollar or euro before being
allowed to order.
I for one am happy to pay a dollar, although I cannot speak for anyone else.
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I've welcomed several new buyers to BrickLink, and I hope to welcome more.
On the flip side, I spent an hour-and-a-half pulling eight sets last Thursday
night, in order to identify a good shipping box (which to free up involved shifting
around several more sets) and to attain an accurate overseas shipping quote on
behalf of the customer, assuming the best with regard to their intentions. I
did this promptly within three hours of order receipt, in order to set up a timely
invoice.
I almost took everything to the post office the next day, in order to get a better
weight since the big box covered my small scale. Thankfully the member's
first negative arrived before that, and I decided to estimate the weight.
This morning, I spent another hour getting these sets back to their storage places.
I did all this on behalf of someone who is playing a mean game with several BrickLink
sellers ... ... ... simply because he can as a new member. Furthermore,
he's now at -4 and has the BrickLink greenlight to order from unsuspecting
sellers. The wasted-time toll of this false buyer round remains TBD.
My sets are safely stored wherever they fit throughout my place; I do not have
a crystal ball to store them in some purchase and ease-of-access order; and I
do not have a warehouse facility.
In light of such service efforts, extensive or otherwise, sellers should be able
to screen new buyers, even if such an evaluation is limited to interpreting a
message.
Or have everyone pay BrickLink a token amount before receiving buyer privileges.
Probably not easy given payment means and currencies, but it would likely alleviate
an ongoing and possibly growing issue.
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| Author: | fegged | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2018 10:01 | | Subject: | Picture recognition for searches | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I don’t know how easy this would be to do, but picture recognition for searches.
Basically you would use a picture/ active camera on your device to search for
an item.
I had an issue trying to find a couple of bits recently because I can’t describe
the bit in a way that the search would show me similar items to what I was looking
for.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 14:44 | | Subject: | Change the price guide screen | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently there is no way you can determine easily from looking at the price
guide what currency conversion has been used to determine the move from USD to
any other currency. As this figure has to be held/determined (calculated) somewhere,
whether in BL or by xe.xom it is available to be displayed and updated as regularly
as the price guide.
If Bricklink displayed that figure it would be very helpful for everyone's
use whether buying or selling. This is especially relevant for the last 6 months
sales which is a floating figure and is not easily determined - (it can be done,
but is very long winded and takes a lot more time and effort to get right.
As for the changes this would require, they are absolutely minimal from a coding
point of view and it would help to solve the never ending threads about currency
conversion and the price guide.
It would also help with Brickstock, but I am sure that is of no concern to Bricklink.
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