| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | tinesubic  | | Posted: | Jun 19, 2016 14:52 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted List and "fullfilled" status | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JayBeeOnline writes:
| | Hi Admins.
One *BIG* imrovement to the site would be that the items in the "Wanted List",
which are on status "fullfilled", won't show up using the "Wanted List" feature
during shopping.
For me it is a little bit frustrating that those items show up. I am forced to
manually edit out those items when using the "Auto- Fill" function.
Regards, JB
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I've reported this as a bug a few days ago and I think they're working
on it.
Tine
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| Author: | tinesubic | | Posted: | Jun 15, 2016 15:45 | | Subject: | Re: Price comparison calculation | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Since the exact calculation is unknown, this value is without meaning. We do
not know if it compares to averages sold or offered for sale, nor if those
averages simply take the max/min values of the quantity average. Also, there
are indications that the price calculated when the item condition (used/new)
is set to "all", or if the color is set to "any" that some average between all
those is calculated.
In my opinion, this is VERY misleading.
For example, there are very good reasons why a 30 year old new part is much more
expensive than a used one, or why a MISB set is more expensive than an incomplete
used one, or why a part in a very rare color is more expensive than the same
part in a common color. Comparing these as if they were the same item is wrong.
It will show genuinely valuable items as being overpriced, and common used items
as discounted. This is very unfair to the sellers that bring unique and rare
items to BrickLink. As a buyer, without fair comparison the value shown is meaningless
but that knowledge will be restricted to experienced buyers only. Inexperienced
buyers might feel misguided, cheated and/or scammed. We should not want that.
In making the price comparison the part should be compared to parts that are
actually the same. This means they should have an identical part number (including
version), condition (used/new, complete/incomplete/MISB/etc) and color. The calculation
should also use the quantity average because otherwise the calculation can de
be easily manipulated by listing a single item with a very high price. Finally,
by preference the prices of items sold should be used. Those are a much better
indication of what buyers are actually willing to pay and the actual value of
the item, and also it reduces the effect of items that are priced extremely high
or incorrectly (typing errors, new users testing their store, etc).
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I've actually already raised a bug with this content and gotten the following
response:
"The way the calculations are being done depends upon the setting selected when
adding an item to your wanted list. If the item is set as new or used, the calculation
will be done as such (not combining the averages of the two). However, if you
add an item to the wanted list using the "any" setting for condition, it WILL
calculate an average of used and new prices."
So it's official that using Any will fudge the calculations.
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| Author: | tinesubic | | Posted: | Jun 10, 2016 17:20 | | Subject: | Re: Missing printer- friendly wanted list layout | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JayBeeOnline writes:
| | Dear Admins...
I am missing the printer- friendly layout of the wanted lists, because I would
like save them as PDF file.
Could that be implemented again?
Thank you.
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Honestly, I'd expect them to implement some sort of export functionality
so that we can download nice PDFs, Brickstore/stock files, XML, maybe even CSV
or Excel spreadsheets
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| Author: | tinesubic | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2016 15:07 | | Subject: | Re: WHERE IS THE XML IMPORT OPTION!?! | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tGo_lego writes:
| | Please inform your users OR fix this ASAP, this is the MAIN reason I use your
site...there is NO WAY that a 1000+ part Wanted List is going to get hand-jammed
and will drive me to your competitors!
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Want menu Upload.
You either select a file or paste XML content.
On the bottom, you select Wanted List.
Cheers.
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