| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | jayy2121  | | Posted: | Aug 25, 2015 15:12 | | Subject: | Re: Ranking up ideas to slow down potential SCAM | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | I am sure the number of NPB and NSS and scammers would immediately decrease.
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One way or the other....
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| Author: | jayy2121 | | Posted: | Jul 20, 2015 17:20 | | Subject: | Re: Stop purging 6 month old orders | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
| | I agree for the same reason. I often find orders I never got round to unpacking
and would like a quick way to check.
It's also useful to know what you paid for a part 6 months, 1 year, 2 years
ago.
I know you can download and archive your self, but having it searchable is a
bonus.
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I thought about the usefulness of seeing how much you've spent...
But then realized that wouldn't be useful for BL or sellers since if I saw
the total, I might take up collecting Fabrige eggs instead to save money.
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| Author: | jayy2121 | | Posted: | Jul 20, 2015 16:57 | | Subject: | Re: Stop purging 6 month old orders | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Thea writes:
| | In Suggestions, capjls writes:
| | In Suggestions, BuildingOutLoud writes:
| | With the price of storage constantly dropping, I think it's time to put an
end to this practice.
Even if orders were "archived" after 6 months and you had to query them separately
from normal orders, I think that would be preferable to deleting them.
I know this is even more of a long shot, and I don't know what your backup
policy is like, but it would be possible to retrieve old purged orders from any
database backups you have and restore them to the current database.
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| | I would like to see all 6 month histories become 12 month. Not just orders,
but price history (a 6 month sales average and a 12 month sales average). Prices
are cyclical on an annual basis, not semi-annual.
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This sounds like a reasonable compromise.
I'm in the same position as jayy2121 with a 24,000 part MOC. I normally
copy all my orders into a rich-text file, but I missed a few during the time
we were remodeling the house last year.
I do have a possible solution. I have my invoices in my email, but my email
program only searches by individual folder. I am thinking of moving all my invoices
from the individual store folders into one folder for easy searching.
Thea
Always An Adventure!
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Great suggestion Thea!!
My Gmail has all my previous orders archived and searchable.
And they don't purge (unlike some sites we know)
Thanks for the suggestion.
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| Author: | jayy2121 | | Posted: | Jul 20, 2015 16:13 | | Subject: | Re: Stop purging 6 month old orders | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, RobErNat writes:
| | In Suggestions, BuildingOutLoud writes:
| | With the price of storage constantly dropping, I think it's time to put an
end to this practice.
Even if orders were "archived" after 6 months and you had to query them separately
from normal orders, I think that would be preferable to deleting them.
I know this is even more of a long shot, and I don't know what your backup
policy is like, but it would be possible to retrieve old purged orders from any
database backups you have and restore them to the current database.
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Don't see the point honestly, would only clutter up ones overview, with more
data that is rarely usefull.
If you really want a copy, print to PDF or import in brickstock, or both, as
one would serve keeping the buyers details and a general overview, the other
could serve for searches...
I wouldn't mind a small extension like 8 months in stead of 6, but mainly
because the deadline for PP claims and CC claims is 180 days, so a little extra
before they are purged might be good.
Restoring older orders is even more pointless IMHO
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Actually from a buyer perspective this would be really useful.
I've been collecting pieces for a 12,000 part build over the past year. Some
have been sorted away and some have been left in their shipping boxes if most/all
of the pieces can't fit in their storage draws.
When I go to build in a month or so it would be helpful to see what shipment
the part I'm looking for came in, what else it shipped with, or if I ever
ordered it at all (though I swore I did based on the wanted list!!)
By only having the past 6 months of orders to go back and scan through, I've
lost a lot of this useful info.
It would also be nice to see what I bought from someone I'm placing multiple
orders with. I can see I bought from them but not what I bought.
I could probably think of a dozen more uses if I took the time.
Yes, I could have taken the time to download all the info going back to my early
BL orders, but I didn't and it would be so much effort to preserve info that
BL has already captured.
Purging forum posts - debate-able
Purging order history - shouldn't happen
Just my 2c
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| Author: | jayy2121 | | Posted: | Jan 30, 2015 12:12 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted Lists | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I know I am a novice compared to you, but wanted to share my methodology in case
it helps someone out there.
I have 2 places I use for info:
1. Bricklink want lists broken out by project
2. Brickstore which I use to show my total project inventory with a project identifier
in the remarks field. (I know I should transfer to Brickstock but haven't
taken the plunge yet)
When I get an order in, first I check it in to make sure all pieces are there.
Then I can work off the paper invoice for the next steps.
- I open both BL Want list edit screen and Brickstore inventory screen open.
- I take Piece A and adjust my BL Want List to show the remaining need after
receiving the ordered amount or delete it.
- Then add Piece A to my Brickstore inventory with the corresponding project
identifier in the remark field (easily viewable in the Wanted List)
Repeat process for Piece B....
So a 2 step process gets me an accurate updated batch of Wanted lists and an
inventory by project of the pieces I have.
I hope this is helpful to someone but I love your suggestions as well Pete. Just
not sure they'll ever be able to happen at this rate.
Jason
In Suggestions, par016 writes:
| | Maybe it's just me but there are a few features I would like to see added/changed
on Wanted Lists. I am not a big fan of making suggestions for problems that
could be considered small "inconveniences." I would rather have BrickLink work
on more complex issues. Sometimes there are workarounds I don't know about
and maybe someone has an easy solution here but I find I spend way too much time
organizing my wanted list after placing an order. There are some features that
could really make it easier.
To give you an idea of why I am suggesting this let me walk you through how I
organize my wanted lists. If you want to skip right to the suggestions just
go down to the bold text below.
When I set up my wanted lists I generally make a new list for each major project
I am working on. I also have 1 wanted list for sets and 1 for all the pieces
on projects where I am just missing a few pieces. On every item though I place
a remark that says what project the item is for. As an example I am working on
BrickLinking a Grand Carrousel and on all of those pieces I put "GC" in the remark
section.
After placing an order in a store the first thing I do is pull up the “items
in order on wanted list” page and also the order detail page. This is where
I spend all my time because I now have to go through these pages line by line
THREE times (at least most of the time it is 3 times, sometimes less):
1st time through - I mark which lots I bought that completed ALL the pieces
in that lot on my wanted list and then MOVE them to my "On Order" wanted list.
So if I had 20 pieces in 1 lot on my wanted list and bought all 20 from that
store I would mark the "move" checkbox on the wanted list and move them to "On
Order." For those that I didn't buy all the parts in the lot it gets more
complicated. For those I have to check the box on the order page to remind myself
to come back to those the 2nd time through.
2nd time through - I now have to go back through the list again and mark
all of those items where the whole lot wasn’t bought at once, and COPY them to
my on order wanted list. So if I bought 12 of the 20 items in one lot I still
need 8 to be in the original wanted list and 12 to be in the on order wanted
list. However, just copying isn't enough, because now it says I have 20
pieces on my wanted list and 20 pieces on order which we know isn’t true.
3rd time through – Once again I have to go through the lists and now change
the numbers on the copied lots to reflect what was actually purchased and what
still remains. Using the same example above, I now need to change the lot on
my wanted list to show I need 8 and my on order list to show I have 8 coming.
On top of all of this there are multiple situations that make this even more
difficult and easy to mess up:
-Sometimes I have already bought some items from a lot and I have to change the
numbers on each wanted list. Say I had bought 12 of the 20 items from one lot
and then I buy 5 more from another store. When going through I now have to pay
attention to this and change the 12 to 17 and the 8 to 3.
-What about when the same part is on multiple wanted lists? Well say I had 20
of an item on wanted list A and 13 of that item on wanted list B and bought 30
from a store because that's all they have; well now when I go through the
lists I have to copy one of the lots over to the on order wanted list (can’t
do both because, you can’t have the same lot on a wanted list twice). From there
I now have to change the quantity to reflect how many I have purchased, but I
also have to change the remark to reflect that 20 go with Wanted List A and 13
go with Wanted List B. If I don’t do this I won’t have any idea where these
pieces go when I get them.
-Also it gets more complicated with only a certain number of items fitting on
a wanted list page at a time. I believe the limit is 50. When copying and moving
lots between wanted lists this gets very confusing and easy to lose track of
lots.
I have spent hours organizing wanted lists. Depending on the order size, this
can be a simple process or a very complex one. But I think that the time
spent here warrants some modification to the way wanted lists work. I explain
all of this simply to show you the complexity associated with keeping an organized
wanted list when working on multiple projects at the same time. Like I said before,
maybe there is an easy workaround and I would love to know it if there is but
if there isn’t there are a few changes I would love to see implemented that could
greatly simplify this process.
I am not sure what the easiest solution would be but these are some suggestions
I think would work help greatly:
- Make it so you can add a lot onto a wanted list that already has that lot.
Right now you get an error when you try to do that but if you could do it anyways
and have the option of consolidating the lots / remarks that would be great AND/OR
just allow a lot to be on a wanted list more than once. This way I can have
two of the same lot with different remarks because they go to different projects.
- Make wanted lists capable of showing more than 50 items at once. If an orders
page can contain all lots I think that a wanted list should be capable of it
as well.
-Create some move/copy function that can split the lot. I have 10 items on Wanted
List A and I want to move 6 of them to Wanted List B and keep 4 on Wanted List
A.
-Separate the Move function and the Copy function. This would
at the very least allow steps 1 and 2 to be combined.
-Update the "Show Items In Order on Wanted List" to include the quantity instead
of just the lot. That way it could actually do much of what I am explaining
already. This one would probably require a large change to though. Wishful
thinking here.
Maybe not all of these suggestions are necessary, I am just trying to give some
ideas.
Thanks to anybody that made it through that rambling mess, I guess that's
what I feel Wanted Lists are A Mess.
Thanks,
Pete
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