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 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Jul 9, 2018 19:58
 Subject: Re: P.I.X.A.L. Name Capitalisation/Punctuation
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In Catalog, todeluca writes:
  In Catalog, TheBrickGuys writes:
  If I were doing a search for her I would use the spelling on the box - it is
the quickest and the most simple. Plus, the bio you mentioned is not very easy
to find so most people are only going to know the minifigure as just plain Pixal.

As for a compelling reason not to change it to P.I.X.A.L.? If you do a search
on Lego.com for P.I.X.A.L. you don't even get get any relevant search results
related to her or Ninjago but if you do a search for just plain Pixal then you
get search results that apply.

Jim


As shown in the images above (the second two), a search for “Pixal” yields “P.I.X.A.L.”,
so there would not be any problem for those who search with the non-punctuated
spelling.

If Lego.com refers to her as Pixal on their website and on the set box and in
the set's description then I agree with BL not to change it. The punctuated
form of Pixal is only used by Lego.com in the bio you referred to which is not
even easy to find.

I understand your point and agree with it when looked at from more of a purist
point of view but not even Lego.com deems it important to refer to her using
the punctuated form of her name so again I think BL made the right decision.
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Jul 9, 2018 18:50
 Subject: Re: P.I.X.A.L. Name Capitalisation/Punctuation
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In Catalog, todeluca writes:
  I have submitted changes to Minifig (njo086), wherein I have added the proper
capitalisation and punctuation to P.I.X.A.L.’s name - all of which have been
rejected.
While I understand that the name on the box is “Pixal”, her official bio
on the Ninjago section of LEGO.com has her name as “P.I.X.A.L.” (See images).
Additionally, searches for “Pixal”/“PIXAL” yield both her standard (“Pixal”)
and Samurai X variants (the latter of which has the proper capitalisation/punctuation)
- (See images). Thus, changing the capitalisation/punctuation of (njo086) causes
no search problems, is correct, is accurate to LEGO’s own character bio, and
is consistent with the names of the character’s other variants.

From my perspective, the only reason to retain the current spelling of
(njo086), is because this is what was on the box. If there is some other, possibly
more compelling, reason to retain the current spelling, please let me know.


If I were doing a search for her I would use the spelling on the box - it is
the quickest and the most simple. Plus, the bio you mentioned is not very easy
to find so most people are only going to know the minifigure as just plain Pixal.

As for a compelling reason not to change it to P.I.X.A.L.? If you do a search
on Lego.com for P.I.X.A.L. you don't even get get any relevant search results
related to her or Ninjago but if you do a search for just plain Pixal then you
get search results that apply.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Apr 10, 2018 13:46
 Subject: Re: Price guide rant
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In Suggestions, LaineeP writes:
  I know that this has probably been beat to death, but I have a suggestion. I,
as well as others I'm sure, have complained about the average prices that
are grossly inflated due to very high priced parts. On the used side of the guide
it seems it is always the same 2 stores (ex $39.95 for a $0.20 piece).

Why can't we do what they do in some sporting events - throw out the lowest
and highest and then average. I'm sure there is a way to do this.

Lainee

What do people use the average of the "Current items for sale" info for? I would
think that the 6 month sales average info is much more important. It has been
brought up here many times and I don't understand why people don't use
the 6 month sales average instead?

I am asking this not to be snarky in any way, I am just wondering if maybe I
am not seeing the importance of that information and thus missing out on the
use of it.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Mar 20, 2018 01:12
 Subject: Re: Bricklink: please clean up incomplete sets
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In Suggestions, Brick.Door writes:
  I recently listed another batch of used sets. Once again in reviewing prices
I found in most cases the cheapest one available for sale is listed as "complete"
but missing minifigures.

Bricklink can't you do a sweep of these errant listings and send the seller
a warning? Maybe query sets that are listed as complete but have the word "missing"
or "no minifigs" in the comments

I know you don't want to make changes automatically (the seller could have
written "no missing minifigures" or something) but it is a long and slow process
to find these one by one. And there are thousands of them listed.

Sounds like a lot of work? You are probably losing money too. The average
sold price is lower than it should be because so many incomplete sets are being
sold as complete. If sellers saw the real average price they would set their
prices higher and Bricklink would benefit from the higher commission.

For example I recently listed Star Wars set. The cheapest 3 currently available
(listed as complete) are $15, $20 and $24. None of them are complete according
to the sellers description.

The average sold for this set is $22 but since 3 of the sold sets were prices
$15, $15 and $21 they were probably incomplete but sold as complete and now are
polluting the price guide. The correct average sold is about $27

I hope your not suggestion that BL do a sweep by checking each and every listing
of every set listed by every seller or even just the least expensive listing
of each and every set? If you are then that would take so much time and effort
that it would be, well for lack of a better word, ridiculous. If I have miss
understand you then I apologize.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Mar 16, 2018 18:52
 Subject: Re: New buyer LOE to tie up inventory for 14 days
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In Suggestions, matejo writes:
  And a question (or questions) for a question (not addressed to you), why does
BrickLink not address this decade-old concern?

Is there a bona fide problem with giving sellers & buyers say "only" 6 days to
get something done (like the courtesy of sending of simple message) rather than
the current 14 days?

If yes, what's the problem?

Is instant checkout their one-size-fits-all solution?

Have they told anyone this?

If they have, is there some place to find their positions outside of this needle-in-a-haystack
forum (where I add hay such as this), where administrators' positions are
very low in number and extremely hard to find?

Are they taking the eBay road and discounting the importance of low volume buyers
and sellers?

And did I say "Whoopdeedoo" yet?

In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
  Why not make sure that every buyer has to use the instant checkout? That should
solve your problem.

You really dont even have to wait one day, just cancel the order and move on.
If you are concerned about getting a negative feedback then just wait the alloted
time.

You have the ability to cancel the order so there is no need to downgrade BrickLink
for their policies (not your first posts, just this one)? And remember, you agreed
to these policies when you signed up to be a seller here on BrickLink as we all
did.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Feb 23, 2018 13:39
 Subject: Re: Interface improvement
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  I can forgive a lot of incompetence if you're at least working
in my interest.

"My interest" is very subjective. The problem is that so many feel the same way
as you do so in that when a change or changes are made and it dose not benefit
what they consider 'their interest' then you get this...
 
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Don't forget the typical forum response to ANYTHING that admin tries to do....
 
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 Posted: Jan 20, 2018 12:18
 Subject: Re: Sellers who smoke should let buyers know
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  They did not fit me so I threw them away.
John P

That gave me a good laugh, it sounds exactly like something you would say.

Jim
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It also helps to put Jet Dry in the rinsing water, not with the small but with
helping the parts to dry water spot free.

When we wash used parts, after spray rinsing, we take a container filled with
water and add a good amount of jet dry to it. We fill up a fine strainer with
lego and dip them into the solution. We then lay them out on a large towel an
point a fan on them. The parts come out beautiful - no water spots at all! We
have very hard water so the difference that the Jet Dry makes is very substantial.

Jim
 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Dec 12, 2017 16:37
 Subject: Re: So many "incomplete" sets listed wrong
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I think some sellers mistakenly list them as complete but I think most others
list them as complete even though they are incomplete to avoid them from being
filtered out by buyers that have incomplete sets filtered out of their viewed
listings - I will not buy at all from these stores, I view them as already being
a bit shady.

Jim
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 Posted: Sep 11, 2017 11:52
 Subject: Re: Separate email addresses for buying/selling
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In Suggestions, stecre writes:
  I think it would be very useful to be able to have separate email addresses for
your buying and selling activities.

I operate a store but also have wanted lists and buy from time to time and being
able to separate the various emails to different addresses would be helpful.

e.g.

To the "Buying" email address:

Any messages regarding orders you placed e.g. Invoices etc.
Wanted list notifications

To the "Selling" email address:

Any messages regarding orders received e.g. invoices, payments
Emails about Fees

Perhaps there could even be a configuration page for users to select which emails
they would like to go to which address?

Yes you can probably achieve this with filters on your email client if on a PC
but not sure about phones and other devices.

Thanks,
Steve

+1
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 Posted: Jul 24, 2017 14:36
 Subject: Re: Get shipping costs BEFORE final checkout
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In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  And is your guess always correct? Or do you guess pessimistically?

For parts it isn't really guessing but just adding a little bit of weight
and figuring the shipping cost. Envelops are easy to add into the total weight
of the order and so are small boxes for parts, it takes just a couple of seconds
per quote.

Now sets are a different story but not really that much different. For sets,
I will just grab a box that the set will fit into and weigh it. I will add a
little bit more weight for other packing materials like peanuts and the such
and I will have the total weight for a quote figured out in just a matter of
a couple of minutes at most. If I sold more sets then I would just make a chart
of various size boxes and and their weights which would then make it even faster
for figuring out the shipping cost for quotes.

As far as making mistakes, I have made VERY FEW and not enough to affect my bottom
line so I really dont think that is really a valid argument against making quotes
mandatory. At most, I think it just means making ourselves more familiar with
shipping materials and maybe verifying the weights of of sets at the time we
enter them into our inventory and making a note of any discrepancies on the Remarks
line.

Jim
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 Posted: Apr 21, 2017 21:16
 Subject: Re: Where are our manners gone?!
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In Suggestions, BRWA writes:
  I see bill time has come around again from BL.

I note that there is now "please" in the pay now demand.

How do we teach the next generation of people respect when major organisations
refuse to be polite?

Is it so hard to respect people? Is our manners now so obsolete that a little
respect is too much? I am sorry but I come from an age where please and thank
you is standard, hello and good bye is an acknowledgement of another person,
and saying excuse me and sorry when injecting or creating various interferences
to another depending on the case, whether a little harm like crossing in front
of a person, or making a mistake and providing acknowledgement and sympathy to
the person I may have caused harm to!!!

Further this is a family site, can we not just leave the big nasty company behaviour
outside the website? And so BL ADMIN - It is so really so hard to add the words
like?:

PLEASE pay now - THANK YOU and maybe the following something like this:

for trading/using/selling through our service....

After all I give a lot of my time to making the store work, I am happy to pay
for the service/ use the website mostly, but the ride is not free and easy, anyone
who works a busy store will tell you that. So I really believe a drop of kindness
is a slight acknowledgement that BL is not shouldering the load of the site and
that it takes a community, as a whole to give and take for the site to work and
I think that others are also slightly disappointed that BL Admin is not always
acknowledging the effort store owners and buyers put in to make it work!

Please consider!

Thank you for your time,
Kind regards
Dave
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Hi.

I appreciate your points as I too come from the era where thank you and please
were much more common then they are now.

But I have to say, the gist of your message goes completely contrary to the idea
of showing respect. I don't say this because I am trying to be a jerk or
incite anybody in a negative way but just looking at your message I see allot
of disrespect being shown towards BrickLink.

Here is what I mean....

By saying this:

"Is it so hard to respect people? Is our manners now so obsolete that a little
respect is too much? I am sorry but I come from an age where please and thank
you is standard, hello and good bye is an acknowledgement of another person,
and saying excuse me and sorry when injecting or creating various interferences
to another depending on the case, whether a little harm like crossing in front
of a person, or making a mistake and providing acknowledgement and sympathy to
the person I may have caused harm to!!!"

And then following up with this:

"Further this is a family site, can we not just leave the big nasty company behaviour
outside the website? And so BL ADMIN - It is so really so hard to add the words
like?:

PLEASE pay now - THANK YOU and maybe the following something like this:

for trading/using/selling through our service...."

You are implying that because BL dose not use the words PLEASE or THANK YOU in
their request for money that all the bad things you mentioned in the previous
paragraphs apply to them.

You are even referring to them as a company with "big nasty company behavior"
problems.

To say all this just because they don't use the words PLEASE or THANK YOU
is quite a stretch.

Again, I am not trying to be a jerk and start something. If nobody else here
reads what you said in the same way as I do then I apologize for taking it wrong.

Jim
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 Posted: Apr 10, 2017 11:58
 Subject: Re: Please give the forum a make over.
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In General, Steineflut writes:
  In General, TheBrickGuys writes:
  
In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.

Jim.

Jim


Okay, I get how we all love that nothing ever changes and that we love to keep
stuff the way it is but seriously, the guy is absolutely right!!!
And I am sure that this is the reason why there are about 100 people in this
forum when the site is used by thousands!
Even though you can click on a million buttons to make it look like you want
it to, it should look like that from the start and not with clicking links on
the bottom of a page every single time you want to read something.


The studio beta forum is what a normal forum should look like. It's been
invented... probably about 25 years ago!


- Nadine

All you have to do is set up a page with the setting you like and then save it
as a favorite up on your favorites bar and you wont have to keep clicking on
the options. Just do it once and all is well.

As far as changing the way it looks, I am all for that. I love the changes BL
has done so far. The only reason I kind of got on the guys case was because he
was complaining (with more of an attitude) about things that need to be changed
but was not even willing to see if the options he wanted already existed. He
complained even before he took just a couple of minutes to learn what options
existed.

Jim
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In General, Brickwilbo writes:
  In Suggestions, thiswizard writes:
  Bricklink's forum is very ugly and hard to read/navigate. Why do I have to
click on the replies (Msgs) one by one? All responses should be displayed on
one screen.

Already possible. Click the balloon or link below the page 'Show entire thread
on 1 page'.

   Also what's the point of "RE: what's this?" showing up 17
times in a row on the main page. Each post should only be displayed once.

Already there. Click the 'Without repliedls' on top of the page.

  If it gets a reply, the post should go bold so that readers know there is a new
response. This way the front page isn't spammed to high heaven. Maybe it's
because I'm using my phone?

Yes it is. Posts change colour when read.

   I've never tried on a desktop or laptop.

Try it.

  Anyway, these forums are gross to look at. I can't imagine ever using this
again.

In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.

Jim.

Jim
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 Posted: Apr 3, 2017 13:38
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  This is an old argument and it will never be implemented because there is money
to be made off this kind of part.

I don't know if you are referring to BrickLink as the ones wanting to make
the money off of these parts but if you are I don't think it is true because
the money they make off of them is sooo small that it would hardly affect their
bottom line.

  There is a lot of parts that have been chromed or have been fabricated
as weapons. Where does the non-official parts stop? Why can I not take a megablock
3x5 plate, grind off the studs, paint it and sell it as a custom part? Why are
individuals allowed to change parts and megablocks are forbidden?

I think Rick above stated the argument why Meagablock and the like are not allowed
but why custom parts are (including colored Lego parts) when he stated - "I
consider Tyco and Megablock competition with LEGO while customizers and their
parts are not, they accentuate LEGO" - I think this sums up the whole reason
why BrickLink allows custom parts but not Megablock. They want to keep this site
dedicate to Lego but they do allow the custom parts for the sake of the builders
but not for the sake of their bottom line.

Jim
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 Posted: Feb 2, 2017 20:28
 Subject: Re: This will reduce scammers by 95%
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In Suggestions, Jamesf077 writes:
  How about giving some power to the community. Three seperate suspect scam reports
from seperate members and the store is automaticaly suspended until admin have
time to check it out. The rule could be a report has to come from established
users with a minimum positive feeback score.
Say, when you have over 100 feedback you are allowed access to the 'scam
report' button. I'm sure a simple programme could be installed to facilitate
this.

I agree. That would be a good added safety feature.

Jim
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In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
  I believe that if Bricklink will allow new sellers to set up a shop ONLY AFTER
THEY HAVE COMPLETED 10 successful transactions as buyers- the scams by 0 feedback
sellers (that pop everyday) will stop by a high margin.

The beauty of this is that they can't start multiple new seller accounts
to prop up their buying feedbacks too.

I think this will work...

Putting aside all the posts that say it wont work, I think it is a great idea.
It will not stop 100% of all the scammers but it will stop at least 95% (like
you said). Yes, as one poster said, coming up with an idea that would stop 100%
of the scammers of course would be better but to stop 95% with just one simple
change like this would be great.

Here are just 3 thoughts as to why I think your idea would work great at stopping
95% of the scum scammers:


1, Scammers like to make their money fast and disappear. Needing 10 FB's
would cause them to have to wait until they placed 10 orders, receive invoices
and pay for all 10, and then wait until they receive their needed 10 FB's
from 10 sellers. This would take more time and effort them most scammers would
be willing to spend.

2, Going along with the #1 above, scammers like to set up one fake account take
as many suckers as they can then disappear as that seller and then open up different
fake account, scam some more suckers, etc. They cant do that with out waiting
for those 10 feedbacks for every account they open. Also, for every false account
they open they will need a real address for each fake account or they will not
be getting any of their orders. Some of those orders will be returned which will
also start to raise flags.

3, Scammers DO NOT like to spend their own money, they only want to take ours.
Even if they only place 10 cent orders the postage will still be at least around
lets say $2.50 so times that by 10 equals at least 26.00 bucks.


Jim
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 Subject: Re: Add feedback link to order detail screen
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  That wouldn't work well, because it would be exploited by scam sellers --
they would never mark the orders as shipped, so they would not get negative feedback
and could extend their scam. or, for a less extreme example, a seller.who thinks
they might get a negative could avoid it by not marking the order as shipped.


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Marc.

Not if the original button is left alone for posting mass feedback.



I do like the idea as long as there was a "Contact Buyer" button right next to
it as already suggested.

Jim
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You guys have to be kidding me!! The reason it has the word 'Now' is
not for the sake of demanding anything. Think about it guys, the word is part
of the phrase "Pay Your Fees Now" and is attached to a button that directly takes
you to a page to do what?... To pay your fees now, not latter but now.

It is the correct grammar for the situation and to add please to the button would
actually be incorrect because the phrase "Pay Your Fees Now is not asking you
to do anything, it is not a demand, not even a statement - it is a button.

By giving us the button, "Pay Your Fees Now", they are just trying to simplify
the procedure so that we don't have to hunt around to figure out how to pay
our fees.

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In Suggestions, Shintaku writes:
  Hello,

Can someone explain me why are feedback allowed for cancelled orders?

Example: I have a buyer, who bought hundreds of euro of stuff from me. After
7 days you can start a NPB. After 14 days you can cancel the order if you are
lucky that they do not reply. If they reply, it needs 21 days to cancel the order.

If you cancel the order BEFORE 21 days, they can leave a negative feedback.
If you cancel the order after those 21 days, they cannot leave a negative feedback.

So I usually wait 21 days (or 14 if I am lucky).

Thus, people can block hundreds of euro worth of lego from your store for 21
days. Yes, they will have a penalty, but it's however a big loss for a seller.

I believe that it would be more useful if no feedback for cancelled order was
allowed.

Please if I am not correct help me to be corrected.

That is not a good idea. The principle behind the idea is good but in general
it is not a good idea because unscrupulous people can use it to their advantage.
Examples:

1, I am a seller and you purchase some parts from me but one lot the average
price has sky rocketed and I realize that I can actually sell them for allot
more - no problem, I just cancel the order and block you from my store. no explanation
to you, nothing. Now I don't need to worry about any negative feed back.

2, I am a seller (like House Of Logos) and I have become really behind in filling
orders. You contact me about the fact that I have not sent you your order for
over a month - no problem. I just refund you your money, cancel your order and
again, no worries about negative feed backs.

There are allot more examples that could be brought up. The point is that preventing
leaving feed back for canceled orders can be abused.

Jim
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  Upload to My Pics and add the shortlink into the message.

There are a lot of way around it but I agree, it would be nice to just have a
simple way of sending a pic right thru BL but not of cats, just dogs ONLY.

Jim
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In Suggestions, Thea writes:
  When the first party in the transaction clicks on the little negative feedback
dot, show a list of reasons for leaving negative feedback, including an Other
with the ability to explain in detail.

The list should include reasons that qualify for NPB, NSS, or NRS. The person
should be advised to use those options first.

Hold the feedback in limbo for a short specified time to give the other party
an opportunity to respond in a way that bricklink can see.

If the first party receives no response during the hold time, the feedback can
be posted. The second party should be able to post their own feedback under
the same method, if they can show a reasonable cause for not responding.

In other words, give the two parties the requirement to communicate through bricklink
first, outside of feedback and the Forum!

Thea
Always An Adventure!

I think this is the best, well thought out, idea on how to improve the FB system.
Thor made a good point though (in his normal way of non constructiveness on steroids)
about scam scum so I would say that with one adjustment this would be a great
thing for BL to implement. The adjustment I propose would be that anyone buying
from a seller with 20 or less selling FB can leave FB at any time.

Jim.
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In Suggestions, Grego writes:
  When completing an NPB, please change the wording from "Cancel this order" to
"Complete the NPB process" in order to avoid confusion with completing an OCR

Thank you

Greg

I agree. I still sometimes get confused when finalizing an NPB and have to then
rethink the procedure to make sure I am not canceling the NPB.

Jim
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In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
  In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
  I don't think most new users know the official Lego colours any more than
they know BL colours. BL colour names are used widely outside of BL too. Changing
would probably cause more pain than benefit.

You have misinterpreted my suggestion. I did not suggest changing I asked to
have the Lego colour names added to the colour charts.

Actually, you didn't really make any suggestions. The closest thing to a
suggestion was: "...could the Bricklink developers not come up with a better
idea than the current colour chart for the catalogue. Perhaps similar to the
very old and outdated Peeron one"


I agree with calsbricks that new customers that come to BL probably don't
know the official Lego colors any more then BL's. I also agree with what
you suggested above that it would be nice to have the Lego official colors added
to the color chart, providing that Lego dose not cause legal issues with the
Lego Group.

Jim

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