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| Author: | UtinniBricks  | | Posted: | May 21, 2018 22:58 | | Subject: | Partial/selective inventory store closing? | | Viewed: | 145 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| Sometimes events in life do not allow time to process large parts orders, but
filling quick minifig or set orders is quick enough to process. It'd be nice
to be able to partially close specific sections of your store and not all or
nothing...
I suppose running 2 stores is a possibility, but I would rather see this option
installed.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | May 19, 2018 14:59 | | Subject: | Re: Apply cart to wanted list | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, IQ1970 writes:
| | Is there a way to apply a cart to a wanted list?
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You can add items in the cart to a Wantlist.
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I know there is the option to "Apply Order" to a wanted list. However I want
to play around a bit with my wanted lists to figure out the best prices before
I start the actual ordering.
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You can use the Buy tab search option a few times over and over, create a cart
each time, then compare the carts on multiple browser tabs.
Unfortunately the Buy feature doesn't allow to do multiple searches because
after it finds a store and you create a cart you need to go back again and search
again.
Or use the classic view By Shop option to find the stores with the most parts
and to create multiple carts. https://www.bricklink.com/wantedShop.asp?showOld=Y
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| Author: | Enantiomeer | | Posted: | May 19, 2018 14:43 | | Subject: | Apply cart to wanted list | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
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| Is there a way to apply a cart to a wanted list?
I know there is the option to "Apply Order" to a wanted list. However I want
to play around a bit with my wanted lists to figure out the best prices before
I start the actual ordering.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | May 18, 2018 13:21 | | Subject: | Re: Blocking a store | | Viewed: | 89 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wolbar writes:
| | Hi, I have been stopped / blocked by a rather thin skinned seller.
Is there a way I can block the store? I don't want to see the store any longer
or be able to add items from its inventory. I have gone to the store twice now
to add items only to find out I am blocked.
That is annoying me and there should be a way for a buyer to block a seller in
turn.
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Here's the link https://www.bricklink.com/searchSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
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| Author: | Dino | | Posted: | May 18, 2018 12:58 | | Subject: | Re: Blocking a store | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wolbar writes:
| | Hi, I have been stopped / blocked by a rather thin skinned seller.
Is there a way I can block the store? I don't want to see the store any longer
or be able to add items from its inventory. I have gone to the store twice now
to add items only to find out I am blocked.
That is annoying me and there should be a way for a buyer to block a seller in
turn.
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Go "My settings" - "My Search Settings". There you can exclude this stores.
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| Author: | pikachu3 | | Posted: | May 18, 2018 12:58 | | Subject: | Re: Blocking a store | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I don't think it's about vengeance so much as hiding a store they can't
order from anyway.
In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, wolbar writes:
| | Hi, I have been stopped / blocked by a rather thin skinned seller.
Is there a way I can block the store? I don't want to see the store any longer
or be able to add items from its inventory. I have gone to the store twice now
to add items only to find out I am blocked.
That is annoying me and there should be a way for a buyer to block a seller in
turn.
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Don’t be thin skinned your self. Just ignore them.
John P
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| Author: | legoman77 | | Posted: | May 18, 2018 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: Blocking a store | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wolbar writes:
| | Hi, I have been stopped / blocked by a rather thin skinned seller.
Is there a way I can block the store? I don't want to see the store any longer
or be able to add items from its inventory. I have gone to the store twice now
to add items only to find out I am blocked.
That is annoying me and there should be a way for a buyer to block a seller in
turn.
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Don’t be thin skinned your self. Just ignore them.
John P
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| Author: | wolbar | | Posted: | May 18, 2018 12:20 | | Subject: | Blocking a store | | Viewed: | 252 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Hi, I have been stopped / blocked by a rather thin skinned seller.
Is there a way I can block the store? I don't want to see the store any longer
or be able to add items from its inventory. I have gone to the store twice now
to add items only to find out I am blocked.
That is annoying me and there should be a way for a buyer to block a seller in
turn.
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| Author: | MontagueBrick | | Posted: | May 17, 2018 12:50 | | Subject: | Re: What happened to the best price button | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JAFO writes:
| | What happened to the best buy button when purchasing wanted lists? It a load
of poo that the system takes a much higher price. I had 6 items that came up
to over $35.00 when using auto select. The same items cost me $2.50 all from
one store when searched out manually.
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I know what you mean about the auto select button. I had a very complex wanted
list that the auto select was able to narrow down to 7 stores, but the stores
it picked were some of the most expensive stores on Bricklink and the total cost
was around $500. I was able to manually fit my wanted list into 12 stores for
a total of around $270!
So I think what the auto select button does is pick the stores with the most
items that match your wanted list and does not really take prices of items or
shipping cost into consideration.
I hope this helps you out 😀
Rainey
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 17, 2018 12:01 | | Subject: | Re: What happened to the best price button | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cob writes:
| | In Suggestions, JAFO writes:
| | What happened to the best buy button when purchasing wanted lists? It a load
of poo that the system takes a much higher price. I had 6 items that came up
to over $35.00 when using auto select. The same items cost me $2.50 all from
one store when searched out manually.
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It went away a while ago, there have been some pretty long threads discussing
the disappearance of the feature.
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The three options, “Lowest Price,” “Fewest Stores,” and “Best Price,” were just
heuristical sets of parameters for the approximating algorithm, and they were
given names according to what the results were hoped to be. But:
“Fewest Stores” sometimes gave a lower price than “Lowest Price.”
“Lowest Price” sometimes gave fewer stores than “Fewest Stores.”
No one never knew what “Best Price” meant.
And I’m sure people tried all three every time.
At one time, BL realized the names were a bit too optimistic (not to say misleading),
and they chose to reduce the choice to only one option, which I think can be
dubbed “Best,” whatever that might mean.
And we still don’t know what it does.
And there are still weird, unexplained, uncommented things happening.
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| Author: | Cob | | Posted: | May 17, 2018 11:43 | | Subject: | Re: What happened to the best price button | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JAFO writes:
| | What happened to the best buy button when purchasing wanted lists? It a load
of poo that the system takes a much higher price. I had 6 items that came up
to over $35.00 when using auto select. The same items cost me $2.50 all from
one store when searched out manually.
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It went away a while ago, there have been some pretty long threads discussing
the disappearance of the feature.
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| Author: | JAFO | | Posted: | May 17, 2018 11:06 | | Subject: | What happened to the best price button | | Viewed: | 150 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| What happened to the best buy button when purchasing wanted lists? It a load
of poo that the system takes a much higher price. I had 6 items that came up
to over $35.00 when using auto select. The same items cost me $2.50 all from
one store when searched out manually.
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 15, 2018 19:23 | | Subject: | WeChat Pay as an offsite payment option | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| | Please add as an offsite payment option. |
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| Author: | Nordbart | | Posted: | May 14, 2018 05:39 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink on 4:3 screen or on mobile phone | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Pazzo writes:
| | Hi all,
I would like BrickLink to change its layout or the possibility to change it myself
in order to be able to use it better on a 4:3 screen instead of a 14:9 xcreen,
also a better GUI for my mobile Phone would be nice.
I am Always on the road and I am tired of used sliders everytime I need to click
an icon.
What's your opinion?
Be cool and have fun!
Eric
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A complete mobile GUI would be nice like on ebay. There is a mobile app in progress
right now created by bricklink. I've heard of some people creating their
own app though.
So yeah, on a mobile it is quite inconvenient to use atm.
nordbart
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| Author: | Pazzo | | Posted: | May 14, 2018 05:28 | | Subject: | Bricklink on 4:3 screen or on mobile phone | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi all,
I would like BrickLink to change its layout or the possibility to change it myself
in order to be able to use it better on a 4:3 screen instead of a 14:9 xcreen,
also a better GUI for my mobile Phone would be nice.
I am Always on the road and I am tired of used sliders everytime I need to click
an icon.
What's your opinion?
Be cool and have fun!
Eric
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| Author: | Gaston.La.Brick | | Posted: | May 12, 2018 02:29 | | Subject: | Re: Negative feedback on orders that are "purged" | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | My favoured solution would be feedback rating only calculated on the last 12months
transactions, with the exception of NPB/NSS which I feel should be on permanent
record.
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I feel the same way: any feedback (meaning negative, neutral & positive) should
have an expiration date. E.g. last 24 months. I would suggest to take the period
long enough (longer as 12 months). That way when a seller takes some time off
(or has other priorities in his life), it won't have a big effect.
That way, it's a continuous evaluation. Sellers that goofed up in the past
have a horizon for a clean slate and sellers with super positive evaluations
in the past will still be motivated to keep up their good efforts to maintain
their scores.
So my suggestion could be:
* display an absolute numbers of number of sales in all history, to indicate
the seniority of the seller
* a relative number (% satisfaction) of all positive feedback orders vs total
orders, but limited to the orders of the last 24 months
* NPB/NSS should indeed be sticky (or at least for a really long time, e.g. for
48 months)
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 11, 2018 17:39 | | Subject: | Search Tool for Sets with Undetermined Pieces | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| I don't know how hard what I'm asking for is, but I've had some fun
today tracking down "undetermined" variants in sets that I have from childhood.
I'm pretty close to mining it as far as I can go, but I would certainly
consider parting out some sets from eBay with the added interest in finding the
variants. Could we have a tool that would just identify a list of sets that
contain a piece of undetermined variant?
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | May 11, 2018 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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BrickLink
ID CardAdmin_Russell
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Location:  USA, California |
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| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
| | In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | | | Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.
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That is a good fix, thanks!
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OK, this is fixed now. I have tested it on a couple of item types and the form
no longer erases the category when a flag is triggered. Please let us know if
something still needs adjustment.
Also deployed at this time, when conducting an Advanced Catalog Search and using
the additional button pane, upon reversing back to the page after viewing search
results (presumably to tweak a setting) the additional pane will remain in place.
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I know these seem little changes, but it would be great if all that is done was
added to the Roadmap: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2453
I like to see this site improving and also it would show everyone that a lot
of work is being done. Thanks
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Thanks for the suggestion! We have made dozens of these little improvements over
the last few months and it would undoubtedly encourage people to hear about them.
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | May 11, 2018 07:45 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | | | Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.
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That is a good fix, thanks!
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OK, this is fixed now. I have tested it on a couple of item types and the form
no longer erases the category when a flag is triggered. Please let us know if
something still needs adjustment.
Also deployed at this time, when conducting an Advanced Catalog Search and using
the additional button pane, upon reversing back to the page after viewing search
results (presumably to tweak a setting) the additional pane will remain in place.
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I know these seem little changes, but it would be great if all that is done was
added to the Roadmap: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2453
I like to see this site improving and also it would show everyone that a lot
of work is being done. Thanks
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 8, 2018 09:18 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
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I totally agree, and suggest BrickLink go one step further and remove the ability
for stores to adjust their prices to the current 6 month average for consolidated
lots when parting out sets as it's only serving to drive prices down either
further.
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Stores would still be able to adjust prices manually of course, but who really
has the time to check the prices of 10,000 lots against the current average price?
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People are already using third party tools (theirs or BrickStock) that can do
that easily.
The more you restrict tools in BL, the more people will use tools outside of
BL (and continue bitching there aren’t enough sellers tools in BL).
| | I would imagine the declining prices would be having a knock on effect with BrickLink's
income, so any steps to address the declining prices are in their best interest
too.
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Price fixing, or limiting people’s ability to set their own prices, isn’t a solution
(apart from being illegal).
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 8, 2018 07:44 | | Subject: | Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.
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That is a good fix, thanks!
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| Author: | SchmickBricks | | Posted: | May 8, 2018 07:23 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, randyf writes:
| | In Suggestions, qwertyboy writes:
| | If you allow me to take one sentence out of your reply:
| | I had a $50 cart and what I thought was a great deal.
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This is _exactly_ why others would argue to have that feature removed. And if
you allow me to quote another tidbit from a different thread you posted:
| | Because I can't imagine the site administrators would knowingly remove the feature and allow the happy wonderful Lego fans through out the world who have gathered together here in the safe and welcoming site that is Bricklink to be knowingly ripped off. Some dude last week tried to charge me $2.00 for a 35 cent piece. It was an odd piece, I needed it. But I didn't '500% make up' need it. I can't keep track of the average price of 1000s of pieces
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You have to understand that nobody is trying to rip you off by pricing items
in a certain way. That price is there to see and agree with or not.
I fully understand that automatically comparing prices to the last 6 month average
makes it easier to pick the best deal, but by doing this. BrickLink is actively
helping to push prices down. Shops that have priced items reasonably will see
that over time they will lose out on orders because others will undercut the
prices, and buyers will more and more favor the lower-priced options, thus further
put pressure on the L6MA. Stores that don't constantly adjust their prices
will eventually maybe show 500% above average. That does NOT mean they are ripping
buyers off.
The price comparison feature was introduced some time in the last year. Before
that, people were able to buy their LEGO just fine, but there can't be much
doubt that this feature was helping the downward spiral of item prices. This
is not in the interest of BrickLink, and not in the interest of the sellers.
And if you think about it, in the long run it is also not in the interest of
buyers. Many larger shops are feeling the pressure, and have to think about whether
this is still a market that is worthwhile to pursue. Sure, if they close shop,
others will fill the void, but it will be more and more of the lowest-prices-quick-sale-goodbye
shops. And that is not good for anyone.
Just my $0.02.
Niek.
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+1
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I totally agree, and suggest BrickLink go one step further and remove the ability
for stores to adjust their prices to the current 6 month average for consolidated
lots when parting out sets as it's only serving to drive prices down either
further.
I choose to retain existing prices for consolidated lots, but it often leaves
me with lots priced more than double the current average which goes to show how
much prices have dropped in the past 6 months.
In Australia many sets are no longer viable to be parted as the purchase price
(Even when heavily discounted from the RRP) is often only a couple dollars less
then the part out value, and on occasion (Star Wars and Minecraft usually) the
part out value is less than the RRP!
Stores would still be able to adjust prices manually of course, but who really
has the time to check the prices of 10,000 lots against the current average price?
I would imagine the declining prices would be having a knock on effect with BrickLink's
income, so any steps to address the declining prices are in their best interest
too.
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | May 7, 2018 20:37 | | Subject: | Re: Could We Add PCCs and Inventory Pending Items | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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BrickLink
ID CardAdmin_Russell
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| Location: USA, California |
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| In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | We can add pics of a pending item. Obviously that is a necessity. I inventory
a lot of minifigs and that means I am always adding items with new PCCs and torsos
that need to be inventoried and sometimes adding the minifig and its pieces to
the catalog. The catmins do a great job of moving things through, but obviously
there isn't always one at the desk! I have this routine for adding them
and I have another routine after they get approved and I try to do it promptly,
but things happen. This might not be something that generates a lot of interest
because most people don't do this stuff, but it would really streamline for
me if I could add the PCCs to pending pieces, inventory pending torso assemblies
with pending torsos, and even add the pending pieces to pending minifig inventories.
The same basic things would also help the people who tackle the sets (which
I don't usually do myself). Then when the pieces were approved everything
would just fall into place and it would be done.
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Regarding PCCs, definitely. There is no reason these cannot be included on the
primary form.
Adding pending items to inventories, etc is a little trickier though. I discussed
at length with our developers the possibility of adding "provisional" entries
to the catalog. These could be added by certain well known contributors and could
later be merged with existing entries if an identical item was found. The purpose
of provisional entries would be to shift the approval process into hyperdrive
to get new items onto the market ASAP.
The question remains, though, whether we need to be that efficient in order to
reasonably satisfy the needs of the site. At this point there are a number of
things we would do *before* provisional entries to increase efficiency. So that
part of your request we will need to move to the back burner.
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