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| | | Author: | nfwego  | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2014 23:51 | | Subject: | Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 246 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Just went through trying to buy a few hundred pieces for a project. First...there
really should be a function to be able to show what pieces you need for a certain
part of a set...rather than the whole set. ie...some sets have multiple buildings
and maybe you just want to buy the parts for one building.
Also, once you have selected what pieces you want from that set to add them all
at once to a want list instead of one at a time.
Also...there really should be a function to show you your best buying options.
for example...most of my parts could be bought at one store. the last few pieces
at another. But maybe if I could have split the order differently, it could
have been cheaper. There doesn't seem to be much for shopping search options.
Just some thoughts. If there are already answers to these questions and I have
just overlooked them...feel free to let me know. thanks.
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| | | | | Author: | Nikilyn | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2014 23:58 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Also, once you have selected what pieces you want from that set to add them all
at once to a want list instead of one at a time.
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To do this, can't you just go to a set's main page in the catalog and
then click on the part out under the wanted list area? Then just delete the lots
you don't want and fix your qtys, maybe a bit faster?
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| | | | | | | Author: | nfwego | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:01 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| But how do you know those lots arent a part of your building? And some sets
have lots in both buildings.
In Suggestions, Nikilyn writes:
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Also, once you have selected what pieces you want from that set to add them all
at once to a want list instead of one at a time.
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To do this, can't you just go to a set's main page in the catalog and
then click on the part out under the wanted list area? Then just delete the lots
you don't want and fix your qtys, maybe a bit faster?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Nikilyn | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:11 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | But how do you know those lots arent a part of your building? And some sets
have lots in both buildings.
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Well I don't think there is a site at this time that offers what you are
looking for. You may just have to go though the instructions yourself and write
out what parts you need for a particular building. I have done this before for
some of the buildable items I make and sell. Only I do it for the opposite reason,
so I can pull these items from sets. So I get a paper out that says 3009 dark
red 1 and then make a line for each part and then each time a part is used again
I add the qty so it looks like
3009 dark red 1+2+13+4 then total them up and make my list on brickstore or a
wanted list. Of course you back to doing it lot by lot again, but at least many
of the instruction manuals are available from the Lego website for free.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | nfwego | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:17 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Obviously...thats what I did. wrote down all the parts from the instructions.
This is the suggestions forum right? just a suggestion for 2.0.
In Suggestions, Nikilyn writes:
| | In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | But how do you know those lots arent a part of your building? And some sets
have lots in both buildings.
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Well I don't think there is a site at this time that offers what you are
looking for. You may just have to go though the instructions yourself and write
out what parts you need for a particular building. I have done this before for
some of the buildable items I make and sell. Only I do it for the opposite reason,
so I can pull these items from sets. So I get a paper out that says 3009 dark
red 1 and then make a line for each part and then each time a part is used again
I add the qty so it looks like
3009 dark red 1+2+13+4 then total them up and make my list on brickstore or a
wanted list. Of course you back to doing it lot by lot again, but at least many
of the instruction manuals are available from the Lego website for free.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | bb459958 | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:18 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | Obviously...thats what I did. wrote down all the parts from the instructions.
This is the suggestions forum right? just a suggestion for 2.0.
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Yup. Im pretty sure.
TB
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Nikilyn | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:50 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | Obviously...thats what I did. wrote down all the parts from the instructions.
This is the suggestions forum right? just a suggestion for 2.0.
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Ok... sorry, you did not mention that in your post. There a lot of other things
Bricklink needs to work on before extras like this, so I voted no. As you mentioned
this is the suggestion forum, so maybe they will look into this.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | nfwego | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:22 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| AND...the newer sets instructions show you what pieces you need at each step.
The older ones do not.
In Suggestions, Nikilyn writes:
| | In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | But how do you know those lots arent a part of your building? And some sets
have lots in both buildings.
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Well I don't think there is a site at this time that offers what you are
looking for. You may just have to go though the instructions yourself and write
out what parts you need for a particular building. I have done this before for
some of the buildable items I make and sell. Only I do it for the opposite reason,
so I can pull these items from sets. So I get a paper out that says 3009 dark
red 1 and then make a line for each part and then each time a part is used again
I add the qty so it looks like
3009 dark red 1+2+13+4 then total them up and make my list on brickstore or a
wanted list. Of course you back to doing it lot by lot again, but at least many
of the instruction manuals are available from the Lego website for free.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | bb459958 | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:24 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | AND...the newer sets instructions show you what pieces you need at each step.
The older ones do not.
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That's a point ;0
TB
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| | | | | | | Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 06:03 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Nikilyn writes:
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Also, once you have selected what pieces you want from that set to add them all
at once to a want list instead of one at a time.
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To do this, can't you just go to a set's main page in the catalog and
then click on the part out under the wanted list area? Then just delete the lots
you don't want and fix your qtys, maybe a bit faster?
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Or check at parting out into a wantedlist:
- Set My Minimum Desired Qty for each Item to Qty of Items in Inventory
- Exclude all items from upload by default
Then only select the wanted parts.
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| | | | | Author: | bb459958 | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 00:10 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | Just went through trying to buy a few hundred pieces for a project. First...there
really should be a function to be able to show what pieces you need for a certain
part of a set...rather than the whole set. ie...some sets have multiple buildings
and maybe you just want to buy the parts for one building.
Also, once you have selected what pieces you want from that set to add them all
at once to a want list instead of one at a time.
Also...there really should be a function to show you your best buying options.
for example...most of my parts could be bought at one store. the last few pieces
at another. But maybe if I could have split the order differently, it could
have been cheaper. There doesn't seem to be much for shopping search options.
Just some thoughts. If there are already answers to these questions and I have
just overlooked them...feel free to let me know. thanks.
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Great. I agree to these
TB
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| | | | | Author: | Biodreamer | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 03:34 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | Just went through trying to buy a few hundred pieces for a project. First...there
really should be a function to be able to show what pieces you need for a certain
part of a set...rather than the whole set. ie...some sets have multiple buildings
and maybe you just want to buy the parts for one building.
Also, once you have selected what pieces you want from that set to add them all
at once to a want list instead of one at a time.
Also...there really should be a function to show you your best buying options.
for example...most of my parts could be bought at one store. the last few pieces
at another. But maybe if I could have split the order differently, it could
have been cheaper. There doesn't seem to be much for shopping search options.
Just some thoughts. If there are already answers to these questions and I have
just overlooked them...feel free to let me know. thanks.
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Put your collection up on www.rebrickable.com and you can do that for every set.
You can then export a wishlist to Bricklink.
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| | | | | Author: | Daave | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2014 08:16 | | Subject: | Re: Buying a lot of lots | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I posted an associated topic a few weeks ago.. To be able to enable tickboxes
on any given page and then a droplist of options to manipulate the selected items...
Somehow applying this function to any page on brick link would enable a whole
lot of applications of the function
In Suggestions, nfwego writes:
| | Just went through trying to buy a few hundred pieces for a project. First...there
really should be a function to be able to show what pieces you need for a certain
part of a set...rather than the whole set. ie...some sets have multiple buildings
and maybe you just want to buy the parts for one building.
Also, once you have selected what pieces you want from that set to add them all
at once to a want list instead of one at a time.
Also...there really should be a function to show you your best buying options.
for example...most of my parts could be bought at one store. the last few pieces
at another. But maybe if I could have split the order differently, it could
have been cheaper. There doesn't seem to be much for shopping search options.
Just some thoughts. If there are already answers to these questions and I have
just overlooked them...feel free to let me know. thanks.
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