Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | danielclark  | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 00:44 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
| | Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.
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You can do this in Brickstock, open two unique files and copy one into another.
you would have multiple sets in a single file to upload.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 20:39 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
| | Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.
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Perhaps you can change the way you work, because in my routine this is absolutely
no problem, and it's unlikely that Bricklink will change or upgrade anything.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 13:12 | | Subject: | Re: Add ability to download Part Out Log | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
| | In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
| | Please add ability to download the list of sets shown on the My Inventory: Part
Out Log.
Thank You.
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Bumping. It would be nice to be able to download this info into an excel sheet.
It would make cross checking my records easier.
Thank You.
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Hi there - voted no but need to explain. The part out log as it stands at present
isn't really much value. It needs to incorporate the transaction detail (which
it holds) before it would be worthwhile downloading it. The only thing it contains
at present is the set id and the date you parted it out.
But, again, unfortunately nothing is going on on the classic site whatsoever
- all development effort is being utilized on Bricklink XP (or whatever they
end up calling it).
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| Author: | JulieK | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 12:05 | | Subject: | Re: Add ability to download Part Out Log | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
| | Please add ability to download the list of sets shown on the My Inventory: Part
Out Log.
Thank You.
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Bumping. It would be nice to be able to download this info into an excel sheet.
It would make cross checking my records easier.
Thank You.
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| Author: | Victorymike18 | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 09:59 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| You can part out multiple of the same set at once by adjusting the quantity of
sets parting out.
However, I don't know of a way (on Bricklink) to part out multiple different
sets in one fell swoop.
In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
| | Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.
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| Author: | superchicken77 | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 09:12 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Well you lived up to your name. Now I'm ROFL.
You can't be serious.
In Suggestions, Mr_Rofl writes:
| | If it would be opt in, why ask BrickLink to implement.
There should be tools out on the internet (i.e. google maps) to maintain a map
with every store willing to share their location to add a pin to there location.
This can be run on the forum here and maintain else were with a link. Like goatleg
used to be.
Maybe you can be administrator to setup such a thing.
In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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| Author: | mfav | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | Privacy issue is solved by it being an opt in feature. I list my postal code
in my terms anyway.
Going back to your suggestion about co-ordinates, maybe that's the easier
way to implement it instead of having to code in zip/postal codes and every other
addressing nomenclature of each country. If you can find your longitude and
latitude on google earth, it should be easy enough to find "near me" stores.
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https://geocoder.ca
Knock yourself out.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 04:10 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| If it would be opt in, why ask BrickLink to implement.
There should be tools out on the internet (i.e. google maps) to maintain a map
with every store willing to share their location to add a pin to there location.
This can be run on the forum here and maintain else were with a link. Like goatleg
used to be.
Maybe you can be administrator to setup such a thing.
In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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| Author: | superchicken77 | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 01:33 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Privacy issue is solved by it being an opt in feature. I list my postal code
in my terms anyway.
Going back to your suggestion about co-ordinates, maybe that's the easier
way to implement it instead of having to code in zip/postal codes and every other
addressing nomenclature of each country. If you can find your longitude and
latitude on google earth, it should be easy enough to find "near me" stores.
In Suggestions, mfav writes:
| | In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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Cool idea, but difficult to implement. And there are privacy issues.
The Canadian zip code database runs over 760,000 records; most of them geolocate
to stationary moose, uninhabited parts of the Yukon, and what have you. I don't
recall exactly, but I think their process was to basically put a grid over the
entire land mass of the country, divide it up into little squares, and assign
a code to each square.
The US zip code database, covering a population several times that of Canada
runs only about 42,000 records and the codes cover arbitrary regions roughly
equivalent to towns, and some post offices that don't offer delivery have
their own code.
Typically these zip codes are associated with a longitude and latitude, and these
data files can be acquired from the post office and maybe other sources.
Then there is some math and code to figure out the "as-the-crow-flies" distance
between two zip codes' associated coordinates.
I don't know that the entire globe...or all the areas serviced by BL...have
these databases. Could be. Just never built one of these things other than US/Canada.
Anyway, bottom line is you need the longitude and latitude of every store...or
something reasonably close. The coding is a bit tricky. And it may have to be
broken into hemispheres because of the math for triangulation over a sphere.
If folks want to publish their longitudes and latitudes, then you can find the
distances with Google Earth or something similar. I'd guess most of the mom-and-pop-hobby-shop
operations aren't going to be enthusiastic about posting their residential
coordinates for the world to see, though.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 00:49 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
| | Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
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I think to avoid errors. The more different sets in one go the more likely to
have errors.
| | For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.
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You can use Brickstock and upload the file.
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| Author: | SchmickBricks | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2019 00:31 | | Subject: | Parting out | | Viewed: | 136 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.
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| Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2019 17:03 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| FYI: they discarded my suggestion to show zip codes so I wouldn't get your
hopes up.
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1021174
In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2019 17:01 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| | In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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I think this is a great suggestion, Mike. Dynamic and pragmatic, with little
to no downside as proposed.
Reoccurring ideas such as this, come to mind when I receive orders with shipping
addresses not much further away from our home than our post office  Receiving
orders with shipping addresses not far from my brother's home in Sweden,
also has brought this to mind.
I assume, given initiator of the site-suggestion has a IT background, it must
be doable?
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I would add that eBay has had something like this in place, for some time now.
I've taken advantage of it a few times.
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2019 16:55 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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I think this is a great suggestion, Mike. Dynamic and pragmatic, with little
to no downside as proposed.
Reoccurring ideas such as this, come to mind when I receive orders with shipping
addresses not much further away from our home than our post office Receiving
orders with shipping addresses not far from my brother's home in Sweden,
also has brought this to mind.
I assume, given initiator of the site-suggestion has a IT background, it must
be doable?
-Cory
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| Author: | mfav | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2019 16:19 | | Subject: | Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
| | I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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Cool idea, but difficult to implement. And there are privacy issues.
The Canadian zip code database runs over 760,000 records; most of them geolocate
to stationary moose, uninhabited parts of the Yukon, and what have you. I don't
recall exactly, but I think their process was to basically put a grid over the
entire land mass of the country, divide it up into little squares, and assign
a code to each square.
The US zip code database, covering a population several times that of Canada
runs only about 42,000 records and the codes cover arbitrary regions roughly
equivalent to towns, and some post offices that don't offer delivery have
their own code.
Typically these zip codes are associated with a longitude and latitude, and these
data files can be acquired from the post office and maybe other sources.
Then there is some math and code to figure out the "as-the-crow-flies" distance
between two zip codes' associated coordinates.
I don't know that the entire globe...or all the areas serviced by BL...have
these databases. Could be. Just never built one of these things other than US/Canada.
Anyway, bottom line is you need the longitude and latitude of every store...or
something reasonably close. The coding is a bit tricky. And it may have to be
broken into hemispheres because of the math for triangulation over a sphere.
If folks want to publish their longitudes and latitudes, then you can find the
distances with Google Earth or something similar. I'd guess most of the mom-and-pop-hobby-shop
operations aren't going to be enthusiastic about posting their residential
coordinates for the world to see, though.
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| Author: | superchicken77 | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2019 15:11 | | Subject: | Search nearby stores by postal or zip code | | Viewed: | 175 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
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| Author: | BUC | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2019 13:50 | | Subject: | Re: Add sales tax column to order downloads | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Tax time, a whole year later and this still hasn't been implemented.
Please BrickLink, this is crucial for filing sales taxes. Thanks!
In Suggestions, CPgolfaddict writes:
| | Please add the sales tax field to order downloads.
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| Author: | Biodreamer | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2019 14:38 | | Subject: | Re: Automated Feedback. | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi all.
Suggestion ….
Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.
One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.
Thanks
Tracy
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No, I usually give feedback but people are a bit harsh when it comes to getting
a neutral so in the cases where I think positive is to good and neutral is a
bit harsh, I usually don't leave any and just archive the order.
Any automatic system would be required to give out neutral votes. and few sellers
would want that on their store feedback %.
The only thing the feedback system need is longer feedback notes. 80 characters
is not enough to give a small review of the order and tell what was good/bad
with it. it's just enough for a positive only review.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2019 08:17 | | Subject: | Re: Automated Feedback. | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi all.
Suggestion ….
Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.
One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.
Thanks
Tracy
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I can see how many orders your store has filled if I need to see it.
I wish we had an automated tool to stop people from obsessing about their feedback
score and customers not leaving feedback. If you are trying to figure out how
to catch up to the 5 digit people, don't forget that they also have customers
not leaving them feedback.
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| Author: | peterab | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2019 05:46 | | Subject: | Re: Automated Feedback. | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi all.
Suggestion ….
Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.
One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.
Thanks
Tracy
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This suggestion would remove the option to not leave feedback which is a middle
ground between leaving positive feedback for a good experience and leaving either
neutral or negative feedback knowing it will penalise a seller. I can't see
any point to this except to pacify those who worry that others don't leave
them feedback. Perhaps those people would be better off not worrying so much
about it or being a bit more introspective.
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| Author: | Rob_and_Shelagh | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2019 05:45 | | Subject: | Re: Automated Feedback. | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi all.
Suggestion ….
Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.
One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.
Thanks
Tracy
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No thanks for this one, sorry but if a buyer (or seller) does not leave FB it
does not mean the transaction was positive. Many choose not to leave FB if they
were not completely satisfied as they are worried about retaliation FB if they
leave non positive.
Overall FB is optional, it is not a requirement that FB is left for every order.
Elsewhere (other shopping sites eg Amazon) I rarely leave FB for purchases unless
the experience was particularly good or bad. On here I only want to receive positive
FB if the buyer chose to leave it otherwise it would mean nothing to me and I'd
have no idea what my customers think of my service.
Robert
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| Author: | manganschlamm | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2019 04:46 | | Subject: | Re: Automated Feedback. | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi all.
Suggestion ….
Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.
One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.
Thanks
Tracy
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If feedback would be posted automatically, then we can abandon the feedback system
right away because it makes no sense at all. How can the system decide / judge
automatically if the customer was satisfied? For example, I am very reluctant
as a buyer to post negative or neutral feedback even when I am not too happy
with an order. In such cases I simply do not leave any feedback.
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| Author: | tpr | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2019 04:02 | | Subject: | Automated Feedback. | | Viewed: | 159 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hi all.
Suggestion ….
Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.
One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.
Thanks
Tracy
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| Author: | Emperor_Penguin | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2019 14:02 | | Subject: | Re: Sort by Country | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, OtherDude writes:
| | Hello,
New uses, sorry if this has already been suggested and/or is available and I
can't figure it out, but I'm wondering if you can sort by county of seller?
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On an item page, click on the 'More Options' button, that will bring
up some options including 'Seller Location'.
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| Author: | OtherDude | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2019 13:55 | | Subject: | Sort by Country | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello,
New uses, sorry if this has already been suggested and/or is available and I
can't figure it out, but I'm wondering if you can sort by county of seller?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2019 16:57 | | Subject: | Re: Request official BrickLink app | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, TheBrickGuys writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, KaanDurak writes:
| | Hi ,
I use my phone alot and I also use Bricklink alot , but the site on phone isn't
that great , so please. Bricklink create a phone app of Bricklink , it would
be easier for phone users.
I hope the staff will see this and an official bricklink app will be created.
Thanks for reading
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It's in development https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1094209
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wow, that post was 5 years old so it is still a work in progress??
jim
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It's still a work in progress I think and it will be released at some point
when Bricklink feels like it.
But until they will add payment methods other than PayPal it's just a gimmic
to me, I am opting out for it and so are some other sellers. Of the remaining
sellers, only a small portion has Instant Checkout, so there is no real reason
using the Bricklink app if you get 10x as many results using a computer. To me
that's easily worth navigating a non mobile friendly Bricklink for.
So I guess the answer is, nope, "proper" Bricklink is not going to be mobile
friendly.
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| Author: | EthansToys | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2019 01:28 | | Subject: | Re: Request official BrickLink app | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, KaanDurak writes:
| | Hi ,
I use my phone alot and I also use Bricklink alot , but the site on phone isn't
that great , so please. Bricklink create a phone app of Bricklink , it would
be easier for phone users.
I hope the staff will see this and an official bricklink app will be created.
Thanks for reading
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This is a great idea! I personally use my phone for shopping and that would make
it much easier for me!
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| Author: | Dutchblockhead | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2019 16:31 | | Subject: | Better use of page titles | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Some pages use page titles specified, some don't (for instance wanted lists).
I wish we could get better pagetitles (in the tags) programmed. If i
open up multiple tabs of bricklink pages (multiple wanted lists or sets, parts
etc) they all look alike and i have no idea which is which because the site does
not use page titles.
Instead of:
Bricklink - Search your wanted list
I would like to see:
SC Scale Porsche 911 GT3 RS - Wanted list - Bricklink
Pushing the sitename to the end of the page title would already be a helping
factor but you could make better titles.
This would also help the sites SEO, but it's just easier to work with and
use multiple tabs.
my 2 cents/wish.
Thanks for listening 
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| Author: | AngrySquirrel | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2019 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: Search inventory remarks in top search bar | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| guess not.  |
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| Author: | robosushi | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2019 12:22 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| All I suggest is that since the data parameter is already in the database, Why
not allow us to search using it? If it's off a bit who cares? It's
still better than nothing.
In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
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With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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I've seen some variations on a decent scale if you take say 10 different
coloured 2x4 bricks. But then there is a similar variation if you weigh 10 of
the same colour ones. This is the problem when it is said that different colours
have different weights.
If you weigh 1 red brick and 1 blue brick, they might weigh a slightly different
amount, lets say red was heavier. That wouldn't mean all red bricks weigh
more than all blue bricks, for example. Just that the red one was taken from
the heavier end of the weight distribution and the blue from the lighter end.
So if you weigh 1000 red bricks and 1000 blue bricks, the difference between
the piles would not be 1000x(random red one - random blue one).
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2019 11:16 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
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With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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I've seen some variations on a decent scale if you take say 10 different
coloured 2x4 bricks. But then there is a similar variation if you weigh 10 of
the same colour ones. This is the problem when it is said that different colours
have different weights.
If you weigh 1 red brick and 1 blue brick, they might weigh a slightly different
amount, lets say red was heavier. That wouldn't mean all red bricks weigh
more than all blue bricks, for example. Just that the red one was taken from
the heavier end of the weight distribution and the blue from the lighter end.
So if you weigh 1000 red bricks and 1000 blue bricks, the difference between
the piles would not be 1000x(random red one - random blue one).
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| Author: | runner.caller | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2019 10:58 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | If you only have a gram scale you simply weigh 100 of the brick and divide.
My point is that it would be a simple and useful search criteria.
In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
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With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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But do the people entering the weights into the database have a 1/100th gram
scale?
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Yeah, but everyone entering the weights might not have the same scale calibration
so you could throw a part on the scale and type the weight into the search, and
it might not come up in the results if your scale's single weight comes back
as different than someone weighing 100 and dividing.
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| Author: | robosushi | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2019 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| If you only have a gram scale you simply weigh 100 of the brick and divide.
My point is that it would be a simple and useful search criteria.
In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
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With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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But do the people entering the weights into the database have a 1/100th gram
scale?
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| Author: | BrickSwede | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 22:46 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted list in seller store | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| You'll find it under the "shop" tag at the top of the store...
In Suggestions, BrickFlipper writes:
| | Firstly love the site.
Been a buyer for a few years now.
And I'm starting to use wanted lists.
And while I'm gooding through a store for a particular part, I'll come
across and item listed in one of my Wanted lists.
If I'm at a large store their maybe a few.
It would be nice to have an option / filter to just list parts in your wanted
list(s).
You may decide to get more parts from that sttore than intended.
Regards
Andrew
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| Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 22:03 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted list in seller store | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Already exists.
In Suggestions, BrickFlipper writes:
| | Firstly love the site.
Been a buyer for a few years now.
And I'm starting to use wanted lists.
And while I'm gooding through a store for a particular part, I'll come
across and item listed in one of my Wanted lists.
If I'm at a large store their maybe a few.
It would be nice to have an option / filter to just list parts in your wanted
list(s).
You may decide to get more parts from that sttore than intended.
Regards
Andrew
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| Author: | BrickFlipper | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 21:42 | | Subject: | Wanted list in seller store | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Firstly love the site.
Been a buyer for a few years now.
And I'm starting to use wanted lists.
And while I'm gooding through a store for a particular part, I'll come
across and item listed in one of my Wanted lists.
If I'm at a large store their maybe a few.
It would be nice to have an option / filter to just list parts in your wanted
list(s).
You may decide to get more parts from that sttore than intended.
Regards
Andrew
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 17:17 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
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With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color.
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There are definitely variations based on color. Especially between parts made
in ABS and those made in PC using the same mold.
Cheers,
Randy
| | Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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| Author: | runner.caller | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 17:09 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
|
If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
|
With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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But do the people entering the weights into the database have a 1/100th gram
scale?
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| Author: | robosushi | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 17:00 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
|
If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
|
With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 12:19 | | Subject: | Re: Filling My Inventory with WANTED Items | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | Your conclusion that it is 'a time-crunching labour-of-love process of comparing
part quantities currently for sales vs. sold in the last 6 months' is probably
right. Items sold versus available is a much more reliable source of information
than the wanted lists which are mostly shielded for privacy.
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Also just because a part sells in large numbers doesn't mean it is necessarily
a good part to stock. It depends what the buy-in vs sale price is.
And even the current stock to items sold ratio might not be so good to look at,
take a fictitious example:
Part A: 0 currently on BL, 10 sold in 6 months.
Part B: 100000 on BL, 20000 sold in 6 months.
A would be ranked highly as currently understocked (they all sold!) whereas for
B there is currently 5x 6 months stock unsold so quite overstocked. But would
you buy into part B, when the sales are actually low?
There would be so many of these to sort through, unless you could set other parameters
such as minimum numbers sold and so on. Even better if you can restrict it to
specific regions too.
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| Author: | littlepb | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 12:11 | | Subject: | Re: Filling My Inventory with WANTED Items | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Happyakrz writes:
| | Hello everyone!
I'm a long-term buyer on Bricklink, but have recently started to sell here
as well, and I've been looking through all of the various areas of data in
the site (which has been an amazing process), and I haven't been able to
find anything that shows the most commonly sought-after parts -- either by
direct request, or by inclusion on member "wanted lists".
Is there an area or process that is already programmed for the calculation and
display of the most wanted parts by the members?
Or is this a time-crunching labour-of-love process of comparing part quantities
currently for sales vs. sold in the last 6 months, etc.?
Just want to make sure that I'm stocking what people really want to get their
hands on -- aren't we all?
Thanks for any info you can offer!
Todd / Happyakrz
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This might help:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogStatsWanted.asp?itemType=P
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 12:09 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | (Has anyone seen a bag in a bag in a bag? I can't remember having seen these)
|
I think a Friends set had a bag of four lipsticks (when only one was needed)
inside a bag of other small parts (in one of those holey type bags), inside a
normal bag.
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| Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 11:07 | | Subject: | Re: Filling My Inventory with WANTED Items | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Happyakrz writes:
| | Hello everyone!
I'm a long-term buyer on Bricklink, but have recently started to sell here
as well, and I've been looking through all of the various areas of data in
the site (which has been an amazing process), and I haven't been able to
find anything that shows the most commonly sought-after parts -- either by
direct request, or by inclusion on member "wanted lists".
Is there an area or process that is already programmed for the calculation and
display of the most wanted parts by the members?
Or is this a time-crunching labour-of-love process of comparing part quantities
currently for sales vs. sold in the last 6 months, etc.?
Just want to make sure that I'm stocking what people really want to get their
hands on -- aren't we all?
Thanks for any info you can offer!
Todd / Happyakrz
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For various reasons the information about what is on people's wanted lists
is not freely accessible. The only information I have come across is the catalog
pages that say 'on how many wanted lists' a part-color combination occurs.
As a buyer I would not want that my action of putting item on my wanted list
would be of influence on the prices.
Whether the information 'on how many wanted lists' an item is, is reliable,
I have doubts about. For me, most of the time what is on my wanted lists does
not correspond to what I intend to buy. It either represents the preparation
of a shopping list or a notebook to remember that someday I might want to buy
these items. I might put an item on my wanted list in many non-existent or rare
colors just to see whether they become more readily available later on.
Your conclusion that it is 'a time-crunching labour-of-love process of comparing
part quantities currently for sales vs. sold in the last 6 months' is probably
right. Items sold versus available is a much more reliable source of information
than the wanted lists which are mostly shielded for privacy.
Hans-Peter
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| Author: | Happyakrz | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 10:57 | | Subject: | Filling My Inventory with WANTED Items | | Viewed: | 117 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Hello everyone!
I'm a long-term buyer on Bricklink, but have recently started to sell here
as well, and I've been looking through all of the various areas of data in
the site (which has been an amazing process), and I haven't been able to
find anything that shows the most commonly sought-after parts -- either by
direct request, or by inclusion on member "wanted lists".
Is there an area or process that is already programmed for the calculation and
display of the most wanted parts by the members?
Or is this a time-crunching labour-of-love process of comparing part quantities
currently for sales vs. sold in the last 6 months, etc.?
Just want to make sure that I'm stocking what people really want to get their
hands on -- aren't we all?
Thanks for any info you can offer!
Todd / Happyakrz
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| Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 10:57 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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The idea is nice to have such an intelligent scale, but this is not feasible.
The weights of parts vary not only per mold variation, but also per color. And
for each weight (plus or minus a few percent) you would find thousands of parts.
However, there is something to say for the idea of using weight to discriminate
between parts:
During production of sets, TLC does use weighing to identify sets that may have
the improper number of parts in it. These are tossed out and supposedly checked
and corrected manually.
For bigger sets, LEGO carefully composes the contents of each of the numbered
bags, to minimize the number of possible mistakes and to maximize the efficiency
of the weighing test. Big and small parts are kept separate, small parts are
mixed with small parts so the relative accuracy is greater, but rarely with the
same part in another color. That is one of the reasons you may find a bag of
mixed small parts in a bag of bigger parts.
(Has anyone seen a bag in a bag in a bag? I can't remember having seen these)
Other reasons of this separation may be to be prevent damage, to distribute the
work load over multiple counting machines, to prevent tiles being caught up in
2x-bricks and so on.
Hans-Peter
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| Author: | jethroo | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 10:16 | | Subject: | Customizable Place Order Button | | Viewed: | 142 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| As german seller in order to follow german law I want to be able to customize
the button displayed on the final checkout page (currently "Place Order") so
that it can be localized as needed by the shop owner.
Some background for emphasize the need (german only though sorry!): https://www.haendlerbund.de/de/downloads/whitepaper-button-loesung.pdf
This setting should be implemented in an optional way (when not defined default
BL text will be displayed). Furthermore a checkbox for displaying it to domestic
buyers only might be helpful.
To any other (german) seller: Please add to this idea / feature request so that
we can use BL again 
sincerely
Carsten
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| Author: | runner.caller | | Posted: | Jan 2, 2019 16:27 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
|
If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
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| Author: | robosushi | | Posted: | Jan 2, 2019 15:46 | | Subject: | Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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| Author: | Leut | | Posted: | Jan 2, 2019 14:30 | | Subject: | Re: Add HTML functionality to shipping message | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Leut writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Leut writes:
| | When I ship an order with a courier and I get a track-and-trace code, I also
add a URL to the message with which the buyer can easily keep an eye on the courier's
website and the status of the parcel.
This URL however can only be inserted as plain text and looks rather old school
and not quite professional as I would like to see. An image is attached to show
what I mean.
Is it a possibility there's some kind of HTML options added to the shipment
message with which we -the sellers- are able to create good looking messages?
If something like this already exists or if there are any other options I might
have overlooked, please do inform so.
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Hi there - very strange
We add the tracking url to our drive through messages and it works fine.
This is the URL that we use, replacing the [TRACKING NUMBVER] field with the
Post Office tracking number.
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/track?trackNumber=[TRACKING NUMBER]
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That already looks better than mine.
But wouldn’t it be more nicer to mention the tracking number only in the drive
through message, and this tracking number is a hyperlink, on which the buyer
can click to get routed to the courier’s statuspage?
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That above URL is pasted into our drive-thru messages with the appropriate number
in it (replacing the word tracking number) and over 5000 orders later we have
never had a problem other than they click on the link and the post office haven't
updated the information yet but that always goes away after a day or so.
Go to your postal service or courier web site and I am sure in their support
section they will have a list of the URL's to use with examples. That is
what we did
We still agree with you about smartening up the message capabilities so it can
be more of a marketing tool but at least you should be able to do this without
any problems.
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I guess that’ll be the most easiest solution for the time being. I’ll look into
the default message section and add some standardized URL’s with the tracking
number then added by the system.
Thanks anyway for your input!
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