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| | | Author: | HeinousJones  | | Posted: | Jun 24, 2016 17:16 | | Subject: | BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 132 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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| | | | | Author: | par016 | | Posted: | Jun 24, 2016 17:58 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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| | | | | | | Author: | HeinousJones | | Posted: | Jun 28, 2016 14:14 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, par016 writes:
| | In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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It most certainly did. After completing a purchase, there was a button to "Remove
items from Wanted List". Worked like a charm. I used it (literally) hundreds
of times.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | par016 | | Posted: | Jun 28, 2016 14:46 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, HeinousJones writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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It most certainly did. After completing a purchase, there was a button to "Remove
items from Wanted List". Worked like a charm. I used it (literally) hundreds
of times.
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You mean the "See items in order on wanted list" which would bring up all the
wanted list items in your order and then you could delete them if you wanted?
-Pete
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | par016 | | Posted: | Jun 28, 2016 14:48 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, par016 writes:
| | In General, HeinousJones writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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It most certainly did. After completing a purchase, there was a button to "Remove
items from Wanted List". Worked like a charm. I used it (literally) hundreds
of times.
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You mean the "See items in order on wanted list" which would bring up all the
wanted list items in your order and then you could delete them if you wanted?
-Pete
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Because that can be switched on and off in your settings and can be accessed
on your orders page. See this post: http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=993808
-Pete
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | HeinousJones | | Posted: | Jun 30, 2016 14:32 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, par016 writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In General, HeinousJones writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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It most certainly did. After completing a purchase, there was a button to "Remove
items from Wanted List". Worked like a charm. I used it (literally) hundreds
of times.
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You mean the "See items in order on wanted list" which would bring up all the
wanted list items in your order and then you could delete them if you wanted?
-Pete
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Because that can be switched on and off in your settings and can be accessed
on your orders page. See this post: http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=993808
-Pete
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Thank you for your help, and thank you for having the vintage pieces I needed
to recreate my police boat from 1978. I thought I had dealt with you in the past.
I did have to turn that function on in my settings. It still doesn't do
what I expect it to. I got a chance last night to try it out. I think I'm
throwing an extreme situation at this new BUY function, and my expectations are
way too high. I'm trying to build 5 of the 7 Speed Racer vehicles. I have
them on 4 separate wanted lists. 300+ pieces in 86 lots, with identical lots
on several of them. This is what I had to go through to adjust everything....
Followed the link provided after purchase to the "Search Wanted List" page...
Manually adjusted several quantities (took notes on the partial quantities before
i placed the order). Broke the list into four pages. 100 items per page option
would have come in handy. Had to make sure I saved each individual page.
Then.. apply each of the four wanted lists (will only apply ONE list or ALL,
no option for multiple... check boxes would be handy here). Or at least I thought
so. It doesn't work correctly. I had one list selected, and it showed entries
for ALL of my wanted lists. Not just the ones present in this order. That caught
me by surprise. That wasn't very common (3 lots), but it could have been
very irritating on those future projects. After catching that, and thinking I
had a grasp on this, I realize that I had hit the delete button and had failed
to "un-check" the partial qty lots that I had just adjusted. Went back and fixed
that..
It just seems to me like all the information is there, and it's not being
used efficiently. The quantity’s that I ordered are there. I don't understand
why I can't be done with fewer steps. Not gonna mess with a "have" function.
Have and % of completion are useless to me and will surely irritate me even more.
I don't need Bricklink to keep track of what i have. If I need 20 of something,
and I buy 15 from a vendor, all I need is for the WANT qty to change to 5. I
think that’s pretty simple. I spent a couple of hours last night trying to figure
this out. I feel like I'm spending an extensive amount of time doing something
that BrickLink should be able to do in seconds. That means less time to shop
and spend money.
I do admit, this is the most complicated order I've ever made. I think my
high hopes and expectations for the BUY function coaxed me into it. It wouldn't
be this difficult if I had chosen to purchase ONLY full quantities, AND not had
so many identical lots scattered throughout several wanted lists. Then it would
work pretty similar to old version and I wouldn't be whining.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Classicsmiley | | Posted: | Jun 28, 2016 14:57 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, HeinousJones writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
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It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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It most certainly did. After completing a purchase, there was a button to "Remove
items from Wanted List". Worked like a charm. I used it (literally) hundreds
of times.
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Now, you have the option of applying an order to a wanted list. On the new Wanted
List page, select the wanted list in question, and then click the Apply Order
button at the top of the list.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Jun 28, 2016 15:34 | | Subject: | Re: BUY function woes | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Classicsmiley writes:
| | In General, HeinousJones writes:
| | In General, par016 writes:
| | In Suggestions, HeinousJones writes:
| | Just used the new "BUY" feature. I was so happy with it at first... until I realized
it didn't subtract the ordered quantities from my wanted list. Just the option
of going in and doing it manually. What's the use? I has made WAY more work
than it has saved. VERY misleading.
|
It didn't do it for you on the old BrickLink so I am not sure how it is "WAY
more work." With the new "have" feature, which BrickLink is still fixing a few
bugs on, it's actually WAY easier to keep track of everything.
Pete
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It most certainly did. After completing a purchase, there was a button to "Remove
items from Wanted List". Worked like a charm. I used it (literally) hundreds
of times.
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Now, you have the option of applying an order to a wanted list. On the new Wanted
List page, select the wanted list in question, and then click the Apply Order
button at the top of the list.
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The "Apply Order" button seems to assume that I only order for one wanted list
at a time. Also, for some reason is does not seem to work always but I have not
tested that more.
At the same time the "Items in order on wanted list" has gained a bug and gives
incomplete results.
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