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| | | Author: | Blitzbrick  | | Posted: | Jun 21, 2021 15:58 | | Subject: | Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 94 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Dear everybody,
I have added a lot of parts to the store, but I am only able to send notifications
for brand new lots. For the old lots, of which have some been empty and refilled
numerous times, I can't send this notification.
Since Blitzbrick grew quite a bit I would go through the hassle to delete all
and upload it again. Is this move allowed? Can it be repeated once every 4 month
or every year?
I don't want to bother people, on the other hand I want to spread the news
 (classical commercial dilemma...)
Best regards
Stella from Blitzbrick ⚡🧱
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| | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Jun 21, 2021 16:05 | | Subject: | Re: Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Blitzbrick writes:
| | Dear everybody,
I have added a lot of parts to the store, but I am only able to send notifications
for brand new lots. For the old lots, of which have some been empty and refilled
numerous times, I can't send this notification.
Since Blitzbrick grew quite a bit I would go through the hassle to delete all
and upload it again. Is this move allowed? Can it be repeated once every 4 month
or every year?
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Is it allowed? I don't see anything in the terms of service that say that
it isn't. I don't see a problem doing it once every four months or once
every year, but with a store of that size, I think you would be doing a lot of
work for relatively little gain. Not everyone uses the wanted list notification
feature, and among them, even fewer are prompted to actually buy by the notifications.
| | I don't want to bother people, on the other hand I want to spread the news
(classical commercial dilemma...)
Best regards
Stella from Blitzbrick ⚡🧱
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| | | | | Author: | EmblaRonja | | Posted: | Jun 22, 2021 03:25 | | Subject: | Re: Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Hello,
I have a different view on this topic. I've stopped sending notifications
a couple of years ago and don't think I will ever do again. I also use the
"retain" function and are re filling almost everyday about 50 lots - only a handful
shows up as "New items".
My view:
When sending notification you hit the "treasure-hunters" that scan BrickLink
for uncommon and rare parts. They will sell quicker but in the same time drain
your store from those parts leaving you with a less attractive inventory probably
without selling much of your common parts.
Keep in mind that most of the sales anyone gets on BrickLink is through the Wanted
list function. Trust that feature!
Without sending notifications your buyer will land in your store and have more
possibilities to make nice findings. Or to put it in another way: Your shop will
look greater to more people - more buyers will favorite your store and more of
them will come back to look again.
We all sellers have periods when we think "right now I have a great inventory"
and those periods will be longer without notifications sent. That's just
more fun isn't it?
And last - as a buyer - I love to search a store and find piece after piece that
I'm looking for or to get multiple hits of great findings when using the
wanted list search. This occasions drop significantly when the Treasure hunters
gets first chance to clean the market before hand.
Just my way to operate.
/Niclas
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| | | | | | | Author: | Hurt | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 09:07 | | Subject: | Re: Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| | Interesting point of view, thanks for sharing! |
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Jun 22, 2021 14:41 | | Subject: | Re: Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Blitzbrick writes:
| | Dear everybody,
I have added a lot of parts to the store, but I am only able to send notifications
for brand new lots. For the old lots, of which have some been empty and refilled
numerous times, I can't send this notification.
Since Blitzbrick grew quite a bit I would go through the hassle to delete all
and upload it again. Is this move allowed? Can it be repeated once every 4 month
or every year?
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You are correct, adding an an existing lot does not trigger notification. I have
some old moldy java code that generates the correct XML files to both delete
the old lots (with the original quantities) and upload new lots (with updated
quantities). It's not publicly available, but I'll put it on my list
of things to do this summer.
Doing it like this is preferable to reloading your entire store.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 08:24 | | Subject: | Re: Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Blitzbrick writes:
| | Dear everybody,
I have added a lot of parts to the store, but I am only able to send notifications
for brand new lots. For the old lots, of which have some been empty and refilled
numerous times, I can't send this notification.
Since Blitzbrick grew quite a bit I would go through the hassle to delete all
and upload it again. Is this move allowed? Can it be repeated once every 4 month
or every year?
I don't want to bother people, on the other hand I want to spread the news
(classical commercial dilemma...)
Best regards
Stella from Blitzbrick ⚡🧱
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There is also a big negative feature of emptying and reloading a store that I
just come across - it messes up current carts. I had an £80 or so cart with
a store that I have been slowly building every so often over about two months.
This was manually rather than through a wants list as it was more adding through
browsing than parts actually needed. Looking at the dates items were uploaded
to their store, a little while ago they emptied their entire store then uploaded
it all again. The result? All the lots in my cart are now out of stock, even
though it looks like the vast majority of the parts that were in my cart are
still in their store just with different lot numbers. So that cart has had to
be dumped and I'm not doing the work again.
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 09:04 | | Subject: | Re: Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, yorbrick writes:
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There is also a big negative feature of emptying and reloading a store that I
just come across - it messes up current carts. I had an £80 or so cart with
a store that I have been slowly building every so often over about two months.
This was manually rather than through a wants list as it was more adding through
browsing than parts actually needed. Looking at the dates items were uploaded
to their store, a little while ago they emptied their entire store then uploaded
it all again. The result? All the lots in my cart are now out of stock, even
though it looks like the vast majority of the parts that were in my cart are
still in their store just with different lot numbers. So that cart has had to
be dumped and I'm not doing the work again.
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At the bottom of the cart, you can save it as a Wanted List.
Then empty your cart, and search for this WL in the shop.
IOW, WL can serve as backup for a cart.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 09:55 | | Subject: | Re: Sending a new notification for added parts | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Selling, yorbrick writes:
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There is also a big negative feature of emptying and reloading a store that I
just come across - it messes up current carts. I had an £80 or so cart with
a store that I have been slowly building every so often over about two months.
This was manually rather than through a wants list as it was more adding through
browsing than parts actually needed. Looking at the dates items were uploaded
to their store, a little while ago they emptied their entire store then uploaded
it all again. The result? All the lots in my cart are now out of stock, even
though it looks like the vast majority of the parts that were in my cart are
still in their store just with different lot numbers. So that cart has had to
be dumped and I'm not doing the work again.
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At the bottom of the cart, you can save it as a Wanted List.
Then empty your cart, and search for this WL in the shop.
IOW, WL can serve as backup for a cart.
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Thanks, I didn't know that. Too late for this card and store though.
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