Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Timothy_Smith  | | Posted: | Sep 21, 2013 08:01 | | Subject: | Re: Chat advertisement | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 8 writes:
Chat-that-was is gone forever. There's no way to reinstate it, too many security
holes. Perhaps the new BL 2.0 site will have a chat feature as part of the new
builder-friendly forum structure that has been mentioned.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Sep 15, 2013 11:51 | | Subject: | Re: Idea for Bricklinck 2.0 App | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, furling writes:
| | I've always dreamed about going into a store, scanning a Lego product with
my phone and a Bricklink app, then knowing instantly how much I could get if
I parted that set out. Please make it. I think it would help out all the sellers
here.
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Do I understand you right that you volunteer to enter all the barcodes into the
BL database?
Ronald
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Bar code Admin - Barmin.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 30, 2013 08:35 | | Subject: | Re: Please add a humour section in the forum | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, happygolucky writes:
| | Please add a humour section in the forum topic list.
It would be great when my day needs to be brighten up a little...
Thx for your consideration.
Best regards.
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Jokes, good news and mundane gossip are all appropriate for Off Topic.
Keep it within site content guidelines and you're good to go.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2013 09:49 | | Subject: | Re: To decrement the Wanted List | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, furling writes:
Shoot me a PM or turn contact on, please.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2013 09:35 | | Subject: | Re: To decrement the Wanted List | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SimplyBricks writes:
| | Tim, This idea will sort out 3 problems on Bricklink! 1, making the buyer change
the order status to COMPLETED. 2, Reducing a buyer's wanted list, and 3,
the leaving of feedback both for the buyer and seller, it's a win win situation!
Mike
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Those aren't even three problems.
1) who cares? File it and be done.
2) Not an option that works with how I shop, though I understand others want
it
3) What gives you the right to speak for me?
Feedback is MY opinion of the transaction, not yours or Eric's or the sellers
or Mr Jay's.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2013 09:33 | | Subject: | Re: To decrement the Wanted List | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SimplyBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobErNat writes:
| | In Suggestions, SimplyBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, furling writes:
| | In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, Magikbibi writes:
| | Hello, I have another suggestion.
Is it possible to automatically decrement the Wanted List when buying items?
And why not, when one or more orders are in progress, put an extra line like
"you want to 8 but you are to buy 4 in another shop, you have to buy that four
theoretically"
If this option is I apologize.
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After you order, you will given a link where you can remove items from your list.
IT does not happen automatically.
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I think he means that when you have 8 items on your list and you buy 4 from one
seller, the wanted list should subtract 4 of that item from the 8. I know when
I am ordering with my huge wanted lists I have to make a second list of how much
to deduct from the wanted list for partials. It would be nice and probably an
easy code fix for BL to do this for us. It would also save me untold aggravation
when I accidentally delete the whole itme when I still needed to order 10 more.
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I like the idea of items being subtracted from your wanted list. I would like
to see this done when the buyer changes the order status to completed, also if
the seller has already left feedback, the buyer gets 7 days to leave his /her's
feedback, if not done within 7 days, an automatic feedback is left for the seller.
If the seller hasn't left feedback after another 7 days, then automatic
feedback is left for the buyer.
Mike
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Sorry Mike, but NO to automatic feedback (of any kind).
There might be reasons at any given time for a seller to not leave feedback for
a buyer, even if the buyer left his/her.
As there also reasons buyers sometimes don't wanna give feedback (see my
example below).
I know some sellers are lazy in giving feedback, but the same can be said on
some buyers, but it doesn't warrant autofeedback IMHO
example:
As a buyer I currently have 2 orders I placed in 'completed' status,
I got my parts but wasn't entirely happy with the quality provided, I don't
wanna make a fuss to the sellers, most likely I simply won't shop there anymore,
but for these transactions I also don't wanna give feedback, they don't
deserve positive, but the little issues also do not warrant neutral or worse.
So no feedback is better.
Eric
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Eric, If your not happy with an order, why mark it as 'completed' ??
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A thing is Completed when it's finished.
Doesn't mean I'm happy with the outcome, just that I'm done with
it.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2013 09:14 | | Subject: | Re: To decrement the Wanted List | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, furling writes:
| | In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, furling writes:
| | In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, Magikbibi writes:
| | Hello, I have another suggestion.
Is it possible to automatically decrement the Wanted List when buying items?
And why not, when one or more orders are in progress, put an extra line like
"you want to 8 but you are to buy 4 in another shop, you have to buy that four
theoretically"
If this option is I apologize.
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After you order, you will given a link where you can remove items from your list.
IT does not happen automatically.
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I think he means that when you have 8 items on your list and you buy 4 from one
seller, the wanted list should subtract 4 of that item from the 8. I know when
I am ordering with my huge wanted lists I have to make a second list of how much
to deduct from the wanted list for partials. It would be nice and probably an
easy code fix for BL to do this for us. It would also save me untold aggravation
when I accidentally delete the whole itme when I still needed to order 10 more.
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Nothing on the BL 1.0 site is "an easy code fix". 
Perhaps the new site will have this as an option.
It's not something that works with how I normally shop, but people seem to
want it.
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WantedItem=WantedItem-OrderedAmtOfWantedItem
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You'd think so. But no.
@Mike: stop shouting, dude.
Forced feedback is a terrible idea, shouting won't make it better.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2013 08:59 | | Subject: | Re: To decrement the Wanted List | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SimplyBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, furling writes:
| | In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, Magikbibi writes:
| | Hello, I have another suggestion.
Is it possible to automatically decrement the Wanted List when buying items?
And why not, when one or more orders are in progress, put an extra line like
"you want to 8 but you are to buy 4 in another shop, you have to buy that four
theoretically"
If this option is I apologize.
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After you order, you will given a link where you can remove items from your list.
IT does not happen automatically.
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I think he means that when you have 8 items on your list and you buy 4 from one
seller, the wanted list should subtract 4 of that item from the 8. I know when
I am ordering with my huge wanted lists I have to make a second list of how much
to deduct from the wanted list for partials. It would be nice and probably an
easy code fix for BL to do this for us. It would also save me untold aggravation
when I accidentally delete the whole itme when I still needed to order 10 more.
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I like the idea of items being subtracted from your wanted list. I would like
to see this done when the buyer changes the order status to completed, also if
the seller has already left feedback, the buyer gets 7 days to leave his /her's
feedback, if not done within 7 days, an automatic feedback is left for the seller.
If the seller hasn't left feedback after another 7 days, then automatic
feedback is left for the buyer.
Mike
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A huge emphatic "NO" to forced feedback, unless it's Neutral.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2013 08:57 | | Subject: | Re: To decrement the Wanted List | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, furling writes:
| | In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, Magikbibi writes:
| | Hello, I have another suggestion.
Is it possible to automatically decrement the Wanted List when buying items?
And why not, when one or more orders are in progress, put an extra line like
"you want to 8 but you are to buy 4 in another shop, you have to buy that four
theoretically"
If this option is I apologize.
|
After you order, you will given a link where you can remove items from your list.
IT does not happen automatically.
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I think he means that when you have 8 items on your list and you buy 4 from one
seller, the wanted list should subtract 4 of that item from the 8. I know when
I am ordering with my huge wanted lists I have to make a second list of how much
to deduct from the wanted list for partials. It would be nice and probably an
easy code fix for BL to do this for us. It would also save me untold aggravation
when I accidentally delete the whole itme when I still needed to order 10 more.
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Nothing on the BL 1.0 site is "an easy code fix".
Perhaps the new site will have this as an option.
It's not something that works with how I normally shop, but people seem to
want it.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2013 07:27 | | Subject: | Re: To decrement the Wanted List | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Magikbibi writes:
| | Hello, I have another suggestion.
Is it possible to automatically decrement the Wanted List when buying items?
And why not, when one or more orders are in progress, put an extra line like
"you want to 8 but you are to buy 4 in another shop, you have to buy that four
theoretically"
If this option is I apologize.
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After you order, you will given a link where you can remove items from your list.
IT does not happen automatically.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 16, 2013 08:51 | | Subject: | Re: Improve Wanted List / Shop By | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mathematical writes:
| | Well...
If the program also factored in minimum buy (to reduce unneeded parts bought)
and shipping charges, the problem is actually a version of the traveling salesman
problem and is NP-hard, (Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard) (You
can look both of those up on Wikipedia or something!). So, it is possible
for an implementation, but the time to solution cannot be solved in polynomial
time (read: reasonable time), unless P=NP (which has not been shown to be true,
but neither has P~=NP).
I don't mean to be mean or to burst your bubble or anything, but there's
just no way Bricklink would have enough computing power to accomplish this.
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As a general problem yes- but for the specifically limited case of real wanted
lists against BL's actual inventory, it might be feasible using massively
parallel computing. Run it a distributed app across the network of folks who
have signed up for the service, like SETI@Home.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 14, 2013 14:55 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted suggestions | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, shawnxyz writes:
| | A few suggestions that might not be too hard:
* I'd like the option to see/buy stuff from a seller even if the quantity
is too low.
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I think you can search that way within a shop- I think that's what the link
titled All Items is for.
| | * It'd be nice if when I buy it from a seller it was removed from my wanted
list  (Or if I buy 10 and wanted 25, my wanted is reduced to 25). Clearly
an option per wanted list
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When you place an order you get a link to remove items from your wanted list.
As you say, it's got to be an option, not everybody shops like that.
| | * When sellers have bajillions of lots of the same part, only Auto-Fill enough
to reach the wanted amount, if I want 70, don't do 70 3x just because they
have 3 lots available with 125, 92 and 73 of some part.
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Wanted amounts are minimums, not exact quantities.
So it's working correctly, more or less.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2013 10:14 | | Subject: | Re: Sharing wanted lists | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jamesuniverse writes:
| | In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, RecycledBricks writes:
| | I would like to see the ability for users to display an itemized list of their
wanted items, rather than a non-specific category list. Further, it would really
nice to be able to share the list with another user by a link, and have the
list be printer-friendly. I envision this list to include descriptive text with
quantity, color and a thumbnail image of the desired items. It seems that the
data is already there since one can go to a store and see a list of items on
one's wanted list within that store's inventory. This would be great
for buyers and sellers. If you're a buyer, you could send the list to a store
that advertises "if you don't see it, ask me". You could also print the list
and take along when you shop around LEGO conventions, yard sales, meet someone
and want to trade parts, etc. For sellers, it could remind you of things you
want to purchase for your store, let's say from a LEGO PAB wall, a store
that has kits on sale that you're buying for inventory, etc. I'd appreciate
that functionality. Thanks for considering it.
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This is unlikely to be implemented, because it would make fee avoidance incredibly
easy. But there's a third-party program, BrickStore, that can be used to
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| | ;create lists like that. You can make your own too, using XML.
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If that statement wasn't so incredibly true about fee avoidance, that feature
would be awesome....
Brickstore needs a upgrade or something.... I use a MAC.
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There's a Mac version, Linux too. I don't know any more than that.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2013 09:42 | | Subject: | Re: Sharing wanted lists | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, RecycledBricks writes:
| | I would like to see the ability for users to display an itemized list of their
wanted items, rather than a non-specific category list. Further, it would really
nice to be able to share the list with another user by a link, and have the
list be printer-friendly. I envision this list to include descriptive text with
quantity, color and a thumbnail image of the desired items. It seems that the
data is already there since one can go to a store and see a list of items on
one's wanted list within that store's inventory. This would be great
for buyers and sellers. If you're a buyer, you could send the list to a store
that advertises "if you don't see it, ask me". You could also print the list
and take along when you shop around LEGO conventions, yard sales, meet someone
and want to trade parts, etc. For sellers, it could remind you of things you
want to purchase for your store, let's say from a LEGO PAB wall, a store
that has kits on sale that you're buying for inventory, etc. I'd appreciate
that functionality. Thanks for considering it.
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This is unlikely to be implemented, because it would make fee avoidance incredibly
easy. But there's a third-party program, BrickStore, that can be used to
create lists like that. You can make your own too, using XML.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Jul 31, 2013 14:34 | | Subject: | Re: Alert seller if items in store are in cart | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Miro78 writes:
| | Good point Bret. Maybe this change can be implemented with BL 2.0, by storing
the cart contents on the server so that one can start shopping on a mobile device,
take a break then continue shopping on a computer. It would useful, because I
doubt I am the only one that often switches between different computers/devices.
Miro
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Email your cookie to yourself on your other device.
As for the Suggestion, meh. I frequently fill carts but seldom buy.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Jul 21, 2013 13:09 | | Subject: | BL 2.0 needs media attention | | Viewed: | 204 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| A member points out that Google News has one lone link to a BrickLink-related
story.
That story refers to BL as "an eBay for Legos". I believe we can do better than
that.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2013 09:24 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory change button fix for Chrome/FF? | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, sir_eldren writes:
| | (I was prompted to post this in here because, well, it might solve an issue on
the site.)
I may have found the culprit behind the non-working inventory change form in
browsers outside of IE.
Upon much looking, I'm wondering if the code doesn't work in the more strict
browsers because the form tags are not nested correctly. I'm noticing that the
opening form tag for the inventory update form is enclosed inside the table with
the inventory categories. The table then closes, and then there are two new
tables below that contain the rest of the form for updating the inventory. Those
tables close, the submit and reset buttons are there, and then the form's closing
tag comes. In most browsers, they close tags inside block-level elements once
the block-level element is closed--the table is closing the form, rendering the
submit button at the bottom of the page a useless button without an action.
Thus, the extreme importance of properly nesting your tags. If a form is larger
than the table it's contained within, then the opening and ending form tags should
be outside of the element, not inside.
-Craig
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Bumping this because it's an easy fix to an annoying error.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2013 07:59 | | Subject: | Re: Fair competition pt1 | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, enig writes:
| | Seems that many people have very different understanding of what is cheating/fair/taking
unfair advantage etc
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Yes, I believe this is the issue. It's a cultural difference.
I see the current situation as quite fair, more so than other online retailers.
I find the Price Guide to be useful, though imperfect.
I enjoy the freedom to buy and sell as best suits me.
I believe the free market is the solution to this issue, not regulation.
I know for a fact that adding more rules creates more loopholes.
Anyway, it's all moot.
None of this applies to BL 2.0 at all.
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2013 07:19 | | Subject: | Re: Fair competition pt1 | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, enig writes:
| | As I wrote above - without calculating fees into their listing prices those sellers
are essentially cheating the Price Guide, generating traffic and sales in an
unfair way.
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So are you mad that your prices are being undercut?
Are you mad that you paid a fee because you didn't read store terms?
Or are you mad because the Price Guide is just a guide?
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| Author: | Timothy_Smith | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2013 19:39 | | Subject: | Re: Fair competition pt1 | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Sigh.
"No fees!"
but no fees means high minimum orders
"No outrageous fees!"
define outrageous
"No hidden fees!"
it's right there in the T&C
"I want to shop without reading, thinking or exercising responsibility"
try Amazon
"I want a better shipping price than Amazon gives me, and a more personal experience"
and now the circle has been jerked all the way around
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