So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
its understandable, but the system in place is pretty complicated.
Lego provides a lot of the base data already; however, that data is imperfect
in many ways and needs to be integrated into bricklink, which involves adding
new items to the catalogue, creating good names, creating new minifigures, inventories
for the minifigures and sub inventories for things like torsos, it also requires
lots of photographs that lego dosent have anywhere, they use renders for most
things, however most of the decorated parts on bricklink are actual images. There
is no way for it to be "automated". For LEGO to do something like that,
they would simply have to have a LEGO employee on their end do the same work
that is done on bricklink.
Sites like brickowl do it the (mostly/fully) automated way, it's a mess if
you compare one of their inventories to that of bricklink. Lego "knows"
what is in sets, but only to a point, for example they dont "know" what
minifigures are in sets (just what the legs, torso, head, headgear are), they
dont "know" what extras are in sets (and it varries a little country
to country), they dont "know" what some variations of parts are (sometimes
the same PCC is used for different variatns that bricklink seperates), and they
dont "know" what "base" torsos are (as in no arms).
In short, bricklink inventories take longer, but are much higher quality than
you will find anywhere else, and thats why bricklink is the best, if it was done
in some automated way it would ruin bricklinks reputation of quality.
If you want speed you can export data from Rebrickable to a wanted list, export
the wanted list to XML, make some changes, and import into BL as inventory -
I've done it a couple of times.
So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
its understandable, but the system in place is pretty complicated.
Lego provides a lot of the base data already; however, that data is imperfect
in many ways and needs to be integrated into bricklink, which involves adding
new items to the catalogue, creating good names, creating new minifigures, inventories
for the minifigures and sub inventories for things like torsos, it also requires
lots of photographs that lego dosent have anywhere, they use renders for most
things, however most of the decorated parts on bricklink are actual images. There
is no way for it to be "automated". For LEGO to do something like that,
they would simply have to have a LEGO employee on their end do the same work
that is done on bricklink.
Sites like brickowl do it the (mostly/fully) automated way, it's a mess if
you compare one of their inventories to that of bricklink. Lego "knows"
what is in sets, but only to a point, for example they dont "know" what
minifigures are in sets (just what the legs, torso, head, headgear are), they
dont "know" what extras are in sets (and it varries a little country
to country), they dont "know" what some variations of parts are (sometimes
the same PCC is used for different variatns that bricklink seperates), and they
dont "know" what "base" torsos are (as in no arms).
In short, bricklink inventories take longer, but are much higher quality than
you will find anywhere else, and thats why bricklink is the best, if it was done
in some automated way it would ruin bricklinks reputation of quality.
You bring up a lot of good points that probably many of us never thought about
as to why The Lego Group does not supply inventories for new set to BrickLink
and why they probably never will. Surprisingly well said, considering the 99.9%
of your comments about pizza paint a much different picture of your intellect.
So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
its understandable, but the system in place is pretty complicated.
Lego provides a lot of the base data already; however, that data is imperfect
in many ways and needs to be integrated into bricklink, which involves adding
new items to the catalogue, creating good names, creating new minifigures, inventories
for the minifigures and sub inventories for things like torsos, it also requires
lots of photographs that lego dosent have anywhere, they use renders for most
things, however most of the decorated parts on bricklink are actual images. There
is no way for it to be "automated". For LEGO to do something like that,
they would simply have to have a LEGO employee on their end do the same work
that is done on bricklink.
Sites like brickowl do it the (mostly/fully) automated way, it's a mess if
you compare one of their inventories to that of bricklink. Lego "knows"
what is in sets, but only to a point, for example they dont "know" what
minifigures are in sets (just what the legs, torso, head, headgear are), they
dont "know" what extras are in sets (and it varries a little country
to country), they dont "know" what some variations of parts are (sometimes
the same PCC is used for different variatns that bricklink seperates), and they
dont "know" what "base" torsos are (as in no arms).
In short, bricklink inventories take longer, but are much higher quality than
you will find anywhere else, and thats why bricklink is the best, if it was done
in some automated way it would ruin bricklinks reputation of quality.
You bring up a lot of good points that probably many of us never thought about
as to why The Lego Group does not supply inventories for new set to BrickLink
and why they probably never will. Surprisingly well said, considering the 99.9%
of your comments about pizza paint a much different picture of your intellect.
So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
In short, bricklink inventories take longer, but are much higher quality than
you will find anywhere else, and thats why bricklink is the best, if it was done
in some automated way it would ruin bricklinks reputation of quality.
Yet still far from perfect :c A lot of corners cut on accuracy for the sake of
sellers.
So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
In short, bricklink inventories take longer, but are much higher quality than
you will find anywhere else, and thats why bricklink is the best, if it was done
in some automated way it would ruin bricklinks reputation of quality.
Yet still far from perfect :c A lot of corners cut on accuracy for the sake of
sellers.
Indeed, many part variations unsplit, but still overall the best out there
Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when they come out?
Because there is work to be done to get the Lego inventory into the BL catalogue
system. We could just import the data from Lego (those data are
available when a set is inventoried by a volunteer) but that wouldn't have
minifigures or good descriptions of new parts (especially printed parts) just
as two examples.
Could the process be easier? Yeah, I think it could be. It could also be a lot
worse.
So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
We've had access to the data that LEGO 'knows' for many years now.
BrickLink inventories go way beyond that parts list and include extras, descriptions,
minifigs, mold numbers, images for many things, and variants.
You can part out without all that if you choose with 3rd party software. Otherwise,
someone has to open the set, check everything, take pictures and add the new
items and images.
So, I know most of the answers I'm going to get. I'm not looking for
an argument or debate. Why aren't sets parted out in the inventory when
they come out? Lego owns this now, they know what is in every box. Yet we still
have sets weeks old, even months old not inventoried. I know it's a volunteer
process and my hat is off to each and every one of them. But it doesn't
have to be right? Lego owns this now, they know what's in there. Surely
there is a better way to do this now that Lego owns the site. Just my thoughts,
not looking to offend anyone or argue about it. I can't be the only one
that thinks this as a seller.
We've had access to the data that LEGO 'knows' for many years now.
BrickLink inventories go way beyond that parts list and include extras, descriptions,
minifigs, mold numbers, images for many things, and variants.
You can part out without all that if you choose with 3rd party software. Otherwise,
someone has to open the set, check everything, take pictures and add the new
items and images.
This is the base to start and note with a sealed set what is in there exactly,
as here we need to know what sellers and buyers actually get in a set, not what
LEGO says should be in a set.
USA, West Virginia
Canada, Ontario
Netherlands, Gelderland
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