Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Made_In_Bricks  | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: Where are our manners gone?! | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WhiteHorseMatt writes:
| | In Suggestions, Made_In_Bricks writes:
| | a little grammar wouldn't hurt either...
Thanks,
Ken
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Do you mean, for example, capital letters at the start of a sentence?
Matt
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I said a little, not a lot.
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Apr 22, 2017 18:23 | | Subject: | Re: Where are our manners gone?! | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| a little grammar wouldn't hurt either...
Thanks,
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2017 20:32 | | Subject: | Re: Better Forum | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| can you please let me know how I have been doing the impossible since I joined
bricklink?
| | And the forum is very poorly implemented, impossible to follow a thread or get
a overview of current topics.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Feb 18, 2017 01:06 | | Subject: | Re: Just one day of the week | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cob writes:
| | In Suggestions, thewolf06 writes:
| | Im not sure which is worse the feedback, or the daily sales. It seems the same
people have a daily HUGE CLEARANCE EVENT.
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Change your discussion forum settings to hide unwanted topics.
http://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
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I didn't say always!
6 out of 7 days is good.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2017 21:38 | | Subject: | Just one day of the week | | Viewed: | 148 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Can the feedback topic be disabled at least ONE day a week?
Thanks,
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Feb 9, 2017 13:49 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of buyer's order comments | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Rule #5 is completely subjective and I have no idea how it would ever actually
be enforced in a legal dispute with no definition of "too high" and as a seller,
Bricklink GIVES me the authority to determine this based on how the order cancellation
process goes. This rule is actually misleading to the buyers.
But I don't sell anymore so I don't care either. (except I might have
some personal items up for sale shortly but I will actually change my terms,
and they are going to be great)
as to the original comment about "Cheapest shipping possible"
If you take the time to write:
"cheapest shipping possible"
with no clear indication of what that means from the buyer to the seller what
this means
Cheapest for you or cheapest for me?
The cheapest shipping for ME is local pick up. Can you imagine if I wrote a
buyer saying, hey, you requested the cheapest shipping. But since you gave no
other indication I assumed you meant cheapest for me, your package is available
for pick up now.
Cheapest for you?
Hey, I will drop off your package sometime in the near future when I am going
by your delivery address. It might be sometime next week, sometime next year,
I don't know, but delivery won't cost you a dime.
I would actually consider ANY buyer comments that aren't some type of feedback
and NOT a complete sentence completely worthless.
Some examples
best parts possible - (I actually had someone say this when they ordered exactly
1 of each item and I had exactly 1 of each in stock)
not in rush - how much not in a rush?
Let's take the "best parts possible" statement
best parts possible - takes about 2 seconds to type
I am working on a used set and needs the best possible used parts from your inventory
please. - takes about 5 seconds to type
If the 3 seconds of your time is too valuable to get me the correct information,
then I will ignore it
because the buyer doesn't want to spend 3 extra seconds to give a clear sentence
on what they want, I should delay their order by writing back, or GUESS what
they want.
I chalk it up to being not that important to begin with.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2017 20:43 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of buyer's order comments | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Jan_K writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | for example, when a buyer puts in the comments:
cheapest shipping possible
I should have made a store term that stated this comment resulted in a 5 dollar
penalty.
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What's wrong with this very plausible (and not that uncommon, by the way)
order comment that you believe it warrants a $5.00 penalty? There are several
stores out there that even specify a shipping option in such a way.
Jan
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it shows they didn't read the store terms and there is a little sarcasm in
there too
ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Feb 7, 2017 22:36 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of buyer's order comments | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| for example, when a buyer puts in the comments:
cheapest shipping possible
I should have made a store term that stated this comment resulted in a 5 dollar
penalty.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2017 13:21 | | Subject: | Re: Show seller's postal code / zip code | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | Please consider showing each seller's postal code next to their state. It
is important information in helping to estimate shipping costs.
For example, I just made a purchase from a store in Missouri, so I Googled zip
codes for that state. The zip code that I selected told me that shipping would
be zone 4. However, had I known the exact zip code or city, I would have discovered
that it was zone 5.
The difference was only about $1.50, but that amount could add up fast when you've
placed as many orders as I have (1,472).
* Or the name of the city, if that is preferable.
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It would be a lot more on a 50-60 pound order too
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Aug 3, 2016 13:42 | | Subject: | Re: Replace merge with FB to a negative | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | As it is now when a seller uses two accounts to create fake sales and fluff their
feedback score the merge completely wipes out any evidence of the poor behavior*.
This means that potential buyers won't likely know of it to avoid shopping
in that particular store.
My suggestion is that when such a merge includes feedback that it becomes a negative
with a standardized BL comment.
* Sure you can see the merge history though it does not necessarily mean poor
intentions.
P.S. My only concern is that it may be pointless as the member would just create
a different account to sell under. Thoughts?
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people who implore such business practices should be outright banned and account
deleted. Period, end of story.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Not using the feature will not matter. By inviting offers in some stores it will
lead to more and more people expecting those who do not want to receive offers
being bothered with offers anyway. Just like ebay (fleabay) currently.
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allow for this to be displayed on the message screen
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:56 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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I see no need to turn BL into a flea market type of site. I get more inquiries
already (without inviting them) than I care for begging for discounts. If sellers
want to take less, just lower the price.
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I currently have an item for sale:
[p=598pb01]
cheapest available at about the same price as the last one sold. However it
will probably sit there for a while.
However, if I had a BINDING Offer and I could accept or deny, I would have a
hard time not accepting anything over $100 on a binding offer for this part.
I get money, bricklink gets money, buyer gets part for cheaper
alternative, it sits on the shelf for longer and no one gets anything.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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I see no need to turn BL into a flea market type of site. I get more inquiries
already (without inviting them) than I care for begging for discounts. If sellers
want to take less, just lower the price.
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If you don't want the inquiries, don't use the feature.
I don't like getting spam messages about offers as it is, does this mean
I don't want perspective buyers to contact me? No, I just have to take good
with the bad.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:47 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented,...
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They are. Some were added a couple of weeks ago. One was marked as "already implemented"
yesterday.
--
Marc.
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Just giving a little hyperbole Marc...
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 10:46 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Voted no - wouldn't really like to see Bricklink become an auction site.
Far to many problems associated with that - if people wish to auction their inventory
there are lots of sites both on this side of the pond and that side to deal with
it.
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It wouldn't make it an auction site, it would allow buyers to put in binding
offers
Those auction sites also charge a lot more in fees, one of the tenants of creating
this site was to NOT sell lego on those sites and to reduce fees for sellers
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2016 09:35 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JayBeeOnline writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
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I don't like it...
| | Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
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FALSE. Have a look at the list again...
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Hyperbole...
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 20:27 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | I'll pass (but won't vote). Whenever I offered best offer on an ebay
listing I often received offers that were quite unacceptable. I'm not talking
about 10-20% off, but 50-60% lower than fair market price. My items were always
priced to sell to begin with.
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Miro,
On junkbay you can set an auto reject up to a certain amount, this deters low
balling
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Freudian slip, that is Miroslav's moc right?
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 20:26 | | Subject: | Re: Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | I'll pass (but won't vote). Whenever I offered best offer on an ebay
listing I often received offers that were quite unacceptable. I'm not talking
about 10-20% off, but 50-60% lower than fair market price. My items were always
priced to sell to begin with.
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Miro,
On junkbay you can set an auto reject up to a certain amount, this deters low
balling
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2016 15:44 | | Subject: | Best Offer Feature | | Viewed: | 194 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
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| How would buyers and sellers feel about a best offer feature?
Of course I know no suggestions are ever implemented, but let's have fund
discussing the topic.
First the concept in general:
Buyers could submit offers to sellers for items they have on sale.
Quick example: Seller has set A, set A sits on the shelf for a while and buyer
comes along and offers 10% under the asking price for Set A and will see if the
seller will part for that price knowing it sells right then and there. When
seller accepts offer, it is a binding sale.
Of course there are all kinds of problems from offers, spam, lowballers etc.
So some obvious programming features to include or consider:
Make Best Offer optional
Make it only allowed for sets, minifigures or some combination and leave out
parts or include all
Limit the number of offers a seller can make per hour/day/week, etc, throttle
them
Allow sellers to report buyers abusing the new feature
I think BL admin should be implementing any features that can increase buying
or selling.
I would like a feature like this instead of messaging, which can be a total waste
of time.
Buyers could enter in shipping prices in their offer helping buyers know what
they will pay ahead of time.
So what does the community think?
Good idea/bad idea?
Any other programming/implementation features to be including for buyer/seller
protection?
Would you use the feature?
Thanks,
Happy Weekend,
Ken
Brick It Yourself
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 20, 2016 11:19 | | Subject: | Re: standard deviation on price indices | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| voted no - better suggestion, allow users to program how they want the price
guide displayed via their own settings, if users could define the rules they
want everyone would be satisfied with their concerns over the price guide.
Go back and look at my thread on price guide manipulation. I pointed out that
any jerk can manipulate this to where it causes more work for others (and actually
caused it to try and prove a point), basically one can sabotage other sellers
here by listing crazy prices in common parts, they could further manipulate it
by setting up a second account and then buy such listings and drive people nuts.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2016 23:12 | | Subject: | Re: Negative Feedback: What if? | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| No, I posted some of the auto negative behaviors and insulting me, using profanity
and asking me to break the law are all reasons for auto negatives, I think people
should be warned about these activities on this site.
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2016 13:09 | | Subject: | Re: Personal Collection Inventory | | Viewed: | 127 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, par016 writes:
| | Maybe not a priority at this point, but it would be nice to see BrickLink add
features so that you can keep track of your own personal lego collection. Obviously
you can use a stockroom right now, but it's not optimal and it would be nice
to have it separate from your store so that nothing gets mixed up by accident.
It would also be really nice if when this was implemented, you can go in another
user's store and see what you already have in your personal collection.
That way you can see if you are low on a certain part and need to order more,
etc.
-Pete
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Pete,
What is wrong with using Brickstock for this? My son keeps track of his minifig
collections and all his sets he has stored away after building using brickstock.
It works great.
I personally do not want the powers to be at Bricklink to know what is in my
personal collection.
Thanks,
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2016 17:04 | | Subject: | Re: Feedback Removal for Unhappiness with Customs | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ToriHada writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
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So this gets implemented and buyers just leave feedback that doesn't mention
the VAT or other import duties...
They could just leave a neutral that says "seller did not disclose all fees"
Then how does this get changed?
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It is not intended to fix everything or read buyers' minds. But if the non-positive
feedback itself complains about having to pay VAT and customs, I think it is
safe to say that is the main reason for such feedback. If buyers want to hide
their displeasure with paying VAT and customs behind some other reason, so be
it. But I don't think that will happen often enough to make this suggestion
worthless.
Thor
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So isn't better to have feedback where a potential new buyer could see that
the non-positive feedback was because the buyer had beef with customs and not
the seller instead of a buyer seeing bogus feedback?
Thanks,
Ken
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2016 14:01 | | Subject: | Re: Feedback Removal for Unhappiness with Customs | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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So this gets implemented and buyers just leave feedback that doesn't mention
the VAT or other import duties...
They could just leave a neutral that says "seller did not disclose all fees"
Then how does this get changed?
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| Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | May 26, 2016 09:12 | | Subject: | Re: Open Bids and Purchase Requests | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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I disagree. Overall, I think it could result in less sales (especially impulse
buys when browsing). And rather than increasing overall sales, I think it would
also just divert or shuffle sales from one seller to another.
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Sales as in # of orders or volume of items sold?
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