Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | OurBricks  | | Posted: | Feb 1, 2024 08:25 | | Subject: | Re: BLS Manager | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, marty33 writes:
| | Hello,
I have recently ran across a link on here for BLS Manager software. I have
downloaded it and trying to figure out all the features. Can anyone recommend
any video or instructional links that may help with learning some of the ins
and outs. Specifically can you download and retain ORDERS PLACED and not just
orders received.
Any other software that anyone recommends would be a great help as well.
Currently I have only been using the new version of Brickstock, now called Brickstore
I believe.
Thanks,
Marty
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Hi Marty,
You might want to check out Brick Seller. It is a web based application to help
BrickLink (and Brick Owl) sellers manage their stores.
Among its many features, it will keep all you received and placed orders and
even allow you to part out your placed orders into your inventory.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
There are several tutorial videos on the home page that will explain the features
of Brick Seller. You can get a 45 day free trial and then subscribe for $4.99
a month if it meets your needs.
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Jan 18, 2024 09:57 | | Subject: | Re: API use | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, romax1989 writes:
| | I have a good friend who is willing to help me code a program to help analysis
sales info for me using the API, but I wanted to make sure that A: it is allowed
and B:if I am able to share my login credentials so that he can access the API
because apparently you need a seller's account to do so.
I've skimmed over the terms and conditions and it seems ok but I wanted to
get confirmation from someone with more authority before I fully commit.
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As the developer of the cloud based Brick Seller software which helps sellers
manage their Brick Link (and Brick Owl) stores, I have extensive experience using
the Brick Link API (as well as the Brick Owl API).
If you are only interested in the analysis of your own sales, you really don't
need to use the API as you can download your order data (including details) directly
from BrickLink.
If you are interested in the sales data for all sellers (only summary/aggregate
data is available across all sellers, no seller specific data), you could use
the API or use some kind of web scraping tool to get the sales data from the
Price Guide (however, the API will give you a bit more detail) You will find
several challenges with either method.
The sheer volume of part/color combinations will take hundreds of thousands of
API calls or scrapes.
Using the API, it would take 2 calls to get all the data that is on the single
Price Guide page (one for used six month sales and one for new six month sales).
With the limitation of the 5000 API calls per day, that would take months.
As far as sharing your login credentials, I think that would be a bad idea and
most likely against BrickLink security policy. Your friend should only need
a set of API keys (which you can create and deleted as needed). However, I don't
think I would have been able to develop Brick Seller without also having access
to the Brick Seller catalog data which I believe your friend can access with
only a buyer BrickLink account.
I hope this helps.
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Dec 25, 2023 17:18 | | Subject: | Re: API to update Status of Placed Order | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| The reason I wanted to use the API to set the status (only Received or Completed)
of an order as a Buyer, is that I'm adding an enhancement to the Brick Seller
software that allows a seller to "Part Out" an order they placed with
a different seller and then set the order status to Completed after the Part
Out is done.
I completely agree that only a seller should be able to update the status for
an order to the other status values, but a buyer that is also a seller should
be able to set the status of a placed order to Received or Completed (as they
can via the BrickLink website).
I assume that the developers of the BrickLink API never thought there would be
a need to update the status of a placed order via the API.
In Related Software, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | Hi Jonathan,
Does this work for you with an order that you placed in another store? What you
describe works, but only for orders that are placed in my store. That is most
likely what OurBricks also experiences. The exact same code for an order I placed
in another store returns a RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND. Sounds like a bug.
Kaat
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If it's confirmed to be the case, and IMHO as it's a Seller API or was
built in this idea (see TOS: Registered sellers of the Website ( "BrickLink
Sellers" ) may register to the API.) then it simply doesn't work
- by design - when you're using it "as a buyer" or for a
Placed order.
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Dec 21, 2023 16:10 | | Subject: | API to update Status of Placed Order | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| Has anyone had success using the Update Order Status API call to update the status
of a Placed order? I'm trying to use almost the exact same code that
I use to update the status of Received orders, but I keep getting a "The
remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found." error.
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2023 10:46 | | Subject: | Re: Keeping track of sales | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I use the Brick Seller app for this. It will keep all your order data. I have
order data from 2016. It also has a number of graphs/charts to analyze order
data over time.
Here is a link to the Forum post about it: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1437228
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
In Selling, Tdejacob writes:
| | Hello everyone,
I started selling on bricklink in April of this year and am curious how you all
keep track of total sales/sales that are older than 6 months. I have screenshots
of my order screens that are older than 6 months to keep track but was wondering
should I use Excel to keep track or are there any other methods you all use?
Thank you!
-Jake
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2023 13:40 | | Subject: | Brick Seller App - New Order Charts/Graphs | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| I have just release a new feature to Brick Seller that allows you to visualize
your Order data in several Charts/Graphs.
There is a new Charts tab under the main Orders tab containing a dropdown
list to select one of the following:
Monthly Sales
Monthly Sales by Marketplace (BrickLink and Brick Owl)
Monthly Sales by Item Type
Monthly Sales by Condition
These 4 show one bar chart with past 13 months $ amount sold and one bar chart
with past 13 months quantity sold.
Past 12 Months Sales Amount by Marketplace
Past 12 Months Sales Quantity by Marketplace
Past 12 Months Sales Amount by Item Type
Past 12 Months Sales Quantity by Item Type
Past 12 Months Sales Amount by Condition
Past 12 Months Sales Quantity by Condition
Past 12 Months Sales Amount by Category
Past 12 Months Sales Quantity by Category
Past 12 Months Sales Amount by Color
Past 12 Months Sales Quantity by Color
These show one Pie Chart and one Bar chart. By Category and Color show top 10
individually and the rest grouped in "Other".
Some example screen shots attached.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Aug 9, 2023 11:59 | | Subject: | Re: What is the best way to sync your inventory? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Forgot to mention that I have a new Youtube channel (Rix Brix) where I share
some tips and advise for other sellers from over 17 years selling on BrickLink
and Brick Owl along with showing how I use Brick Seller to manage my stores.
Rick
In Help, OurBricks writes:
| | Please take a look at Brick Seller.
It includes a feature to sync your Orders and Inventory between BrickLink and
Brick Owl every 10 minutes.
It also has many more Brick Owl integration features that allow you to manage
your inventory and process orders from BrickLink and Brick Owl at the same time.
It has a unique set part out feature and a continuous price update feature (run
nightly). Brickognize is integrated into the inventory search function.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
You get a 45 day free trial and then an option to subscribe for $4.99 per month.
I you average over $500 in monthly sales, it will be cheaper than Brick Packer
and you get so many more store management features.
Rick
In Help, The_Boyz_Bricks writes:
| | I want to know what the best tool is to use to sync my inventory between Bricklink
and Brickowl. Thanks!
-The_Boyz_Bricks
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Aug 9, 2023 11:55 | | Subject: | Re: What is the best way to sync your inventory? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Please take a look at Brick Seller.
It includes a feature to sync your Orders and Inventory between BrickLink and
Brick Owl every 10 minutes.
It also has many more Brick Owl integration features that allow you to manage
your inventory and process orders from BrickLink and Brick Owl at the same time.
It has a unique set part out feature and a continuous price update feature (run
nightly). Brickognize is integrated into the inventory search function.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
You get a 45 day free trial and then an option to subscribe for $4.99 per month.
I you average over $500 in monthly sales, it will be cheaper than Brick Packer
and you get so many more store management features.
Rick
In Help, The_Boyz_Bricks writes:
| | I want to know what the best tool is to use to sync my inventory between Bricklink
and Brickowl. Thanks!
-The_Boyz_Bricks
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2023 17:30 | | Subject: | Brick Seller App - Brickognize Integration | | Viewed: | 96 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| I have just released an enhancement to Brick Seller that integrates Brickognize
with Brick Seller's Inventory Search functionality.
If you are not familiar with Brickognize, it is an image search app for Lego
parts and sets.
Basically, I've added Brickognize as another way to search for BrickLink
catalog items (along with any inventory lots). You will be taken to the Brick
Seller Inventory Detail tab when you click on one of the items returned from
Brickognize.
Please see the attached screenshots.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2023 17:48 | | Subject: | Brick Seller App - New Charts/Graphs | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| I have just release a new feature to Brick Seller that allows you to visualize
your Inventory data in several Charts/Graphs.
There is a new Charts tab under the main Inventory tab containing a dropdown
list to select one of the following:
Lots by Item Type
Qty by Item Type
Lots by Condition
Qty by Condition
Part Lots by Color
Part Qty by Color
Part Lots by Category
Part Qty by Category
Set Lots by Category
Set Qty by Category
Minifig Lots by Category
Minifig Qty by Category
Monthly Additions (Qty and $ Amount)
Monthly Additions By Item Type (Qty and $ Amount)
Monthly Ending Inventory (Qty and $ Amount)
Some example screen shots attached.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2023 14:10 | | Subject: | New Brick Seller Instruction Video | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| Just added a new instruction video to the Brick Seller home page that demonstrates
how to setup the Royal Mail Click & Drop integration features of Brick Seller.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2023 12:58 | | Subject: | New Brick Seller Instruction Video | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| Just added a new instruction video to the Brick Seller home page that demonstrates
how to setup the Brick Owl integration features of Brick Seller.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2023 14:33 | | Subject: | New Brick Seller Demonstration Videos | | Viewed: | 109 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| New and improved demonstration videos are now available from the Brick Seller
home page. These new videos have been updated to show the many enhancements
that have been made to Brick Seller since the original videos were created.
There are videos for the following features of Brick Seller.
Getting Started
Inventory Management
Parting Out Sets
Order Management
Options and Settings
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links page here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2022 09:32 | | Subject: | Brick Seller App - Order List Change | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| I have just released a new enhancement to Brick Seller.
Orders from BrickLink and Brick Owl will now show in a single list (no longer
in separate lists that you need to toggle between) with the source marketplace
showing in the first column (BL or BO). This enhancement was made due to feedback
I received from several long time Brick Seller users.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Also, below is an overview of some of the main features of Brick Seller:
Brick Seller is a cloud based application. You access Brick Seller from your
web browser (https://www.brickseller.net). There is no need to download and install
anything. The advantages of hosting Brick Seller in the cloud is that you can
access your data from anywhere and when enhancements and bug fixes are ready
to be released, they will available to everyone immediately.
Brick Seller uses a SPA (Single Page Application) design to keep the data moving
back and forth between your browser and the server to a minimum and also eliminates
the whole page refresh problem you see with some browser based applications.
Brick Seller uses the BrickLink API, this allows Brick Seller to have a custom
user interface for working with your data. The data you see in Brick Seller
is current with what is in BrickLink. Changes that you make to your data will
be immediately updated on BrickLink. There is no need to export XML files and
import them using the BrickLink website.
When you register for Brick Seller, your inventory and recent order data will
be downloaded from BrickLink and put into your own Brick Seller database. This
is needed to make the Brick Seller search functions fast and to limit the number
of API calls. If you make all you inventory updates through Brick Seller, your
inventory data will always be in sync with BrickLink. If you happen to make
some inventory updates directly in BrickLink, you can quickly sync your inventory
data back up with Brick Seller.
Brick Seller will maintain an up to date database of all items in the
BrickLink catalog. Again, this is needed to make the Brick Seller search functions
fast and to limit the number of API calls.
When searching for items, your inventory data and the catalog data is searched
at the same time. This way, you can update the items you already have in your
inventory and add items to your inventory at the same time.
Brick Seller records all your inventory transactions in one or more Batches.
This allow you to view the history of your inventory changes. But the best
thing about Batches is that it let's you track the cost of the inventory
you add. For instance, let's say you purchased a large unsorted lot of used
parts. You can create a Batch providing a description and the cost of that unsorted
lot. As you add those parts to your inventory, those inventory transactions
(including your current price for those parts) will be captured in that Batch
so at any point you can see what your "yield" is from the unsorted lot. When
parting out sets, the cost of those sets is automatically captured in a Batch
along with all the inventory transactions.
Brick Seller assumes that you use the Remarks field in BrickLink to capture your
inventory locations. When parting out sets and picking orders, Brick Seller
will only show items in one inventory location at a time and in the order of
your inventory locations. This helps to keep your inventory data and picked
orders more accurate. This also helps to make the process of putting items away
in your inventory and picking orders more efficient.
There have been many enhancements to Brick Seller since it was first released
and the demonstration videos were created. Here are some links to the BrickLink
Forum posts announcing some of the major enhancements.
Brick Seller Continuous Price Updates 02/11/2022 - https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1251957
Brick Seller App - New Feature 02/28/2021 - https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1255814
Brick Seller Updates 11/29/2020 - https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1236231
Brick Seller & Brick Owl Integration Phase 3 - https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1194613
Brick Seller App - New Feature 10/02/2019 - https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1159512
Brick Seller - New Features 01/03/2019 - https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1122629
If you have any questions, problems, or comments about using Brick Seller, please
contact me at BrickSeller1@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Rick
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Jun 30, 2022 12:19 | | Subject: | Re: Setting up a Power BI Community | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| Hi Thomas,
This sounds great. I also have experience with Power BI.
What would be the data source?
Rick
In Related Software, tgm84 writes:
| | Hi LEGO fans!
I would like to contribute to the community with a Power BI Report.
I am a professional Power BI Developer, and if of interest let me know and I
will start to develop a first version. It will be a free of charge and available
for the community 
Best Regard
Thomas Grubbe Møller
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2022 14:24 | | Subject: | Re: Entering Inventory Shortcuts | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Translation | |
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| Try Brick Seller. It has many nice features for maintaining your inventory.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
In Translation, tnbrrobinson writes:
| | Any shortcuts for entering inventory? I am a new Brinklink store owner and painstakingly
entered one color of my inventory 1 part at a time using Brinklink's interface.
I had hoped there was a way to download what I have entered and get it into
Excel and then update it for my other color parts and then upload back to bricklink.
Is there software to help one do this? XML file is useless to me as my programming
skills are pretty rusty.
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2022 14:23 | | Subject: | Re: 504 timeout when parting large set | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| Maybe try Brick Seller. The Part Out feature has many options and the process
is designed to refresh the page every 5 seconds to provide feedback on the progress
so there is no limit to the size of the set that can be parted out.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
In Technical Issues, dakingtm writes:
| | For two days now, I've been trying to part out a large set to my store inventory,
but it keeps failing. I am unable to list these parts.
The set is 71741 Ninjago City Gardens. A very large set with almost 1150 lots.
After clicking "Verify items", nothing happens for 10 minutes and then I get
a 504 connection time-out.
Please help, because I am losing business not having these parts listed.
Regards,
Matijs
- TurboBricks
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2022 16:32 | | Subject: | Re: Brick Seller | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| Hi Phil,
I'm the developer of Brick Seller. I've been using it since 2017 to
manage my BrickLink store and more recently, to also manage my Brick Owl store.
There are currently 37 active subscription users of Brick Seller and 14 users
registered for the free 45 day trial.
There are some demo videos available on the home page which are a bit out of
date but still show the main features of Brick Seller (new updated videos will
be available soon).
I would also be willing to have a Zoom call with you so that I could demonstrate
all the features and answer any questions that you have along the way. Please
let me know if you would be interested.
Rick
In Related Software, Phil_BrickRoom writes:
| | So I haven't really heard much about this. (just happened to stumble upon
this) So does anyone use Brick Seller? I am currently using Brick Freedom but
it charges 1% on the order total which I think is a little to much for me an
so was thinking about swiching over to Brick Seller. thoughts anyone.
-Phil
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2022 16:23 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out sets by color | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I will part out by color when I buy a large quantity of the Classic Creator sets
like 11717 where everything is bagged by color groups.
Brick Seller has a nice feature within it Part Out processing that allows you
to part out only items with the selected color into your inventory one color
at a time will keeping all the data in one Batch (Batches are unique to Brick
Seller keeping all inventory transactions grouped together).
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
In Selling, BrickAndStone writes:
| | Does anyone else part out sets in their store by color ? Curious to hear from
the big boys and girls
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| Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2022 10:09 | | Subject: | Re: Updating Prices with Software | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| You can do this if you use the Brick Seller online app. It has a "Continuous
Price Update" feature(up to 200 lots per day) and allows you to set your prices
based on a percentage of the Past 6 Month Average, Highest, or Lowest or based
on a percentage of the Current Items for Sale Average, Highest, or Lowest. You
can limit the Price Guide data to Stores in a selected country. You can prevent
the price from being set lower than the Current Items for Sale Lowest price.
You can also set the price to allow for a discount percentage that you will
have in BrickLink and optionally Brick Owl.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
In Help, Kefir101Awesome writes:
| | Hello there,
I'm trying to make my prices cheaper, but selecting by currency on the price
guide gives a different price (basically US vs non-US), so I want to price based
on US prices. All I have available currently is the min/max/average for the entire
world. If possible, could I also filter the stores selling by quantity? For example,
I would not want to undercut another seller when they offer far less quantity
than I have.
Note: I'm currently using Brickstore/Brickstock, but there may be some other
software that is capable of doing this.
Thank you!
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