Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Jan 20, 2019 00:09 | | Subject: | Re: Affiliate fees for custom sets | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JusTiCe8 writes:
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But I'm afraid long time sellers here will not agree MOC gives them some
cash as Studio is not very welcome as far as I understand. Too bad. Gathering
parts for a nice sets available in the gallery could be exhausting and boring.
Having a bag pf ârts ready to buy will be nice. […]
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I’d rather say that:
1. Sellers saw how the MOC Shop faired.
2. Sellers understand that MOCs are a niche market. Best-sellers are very rare.
Even MOCs-that-sell are rare.
3. Sellers understand that MOCs require much work (as you yourself noticed) and
they prefer buyers to do it themselves.
As for the prices, look at the constraints on parts for the “AFOL Design Contest.”
Even with a partnership with TLG, the sets will be around 10¢/part. More than
TLG’s sets when you consider there won’t be (new) prints nor recolouring nor
new parts nor expensive licences.
(Curious to see how many of the finalists will reach the crowd funding limit.)
And about Studio:
1. Most sellers don’t see what it could bring them as sellers (see MOC Shop,
see Mosaick).
2. Some (many?) think the efforts put to make Studio would have been better spent
of the main website.
(At least, Studio can compete (and win) with similar programs on many points.
That was not the case with Mosaick  )
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| Author: | JusTiCe8 | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2019 16:03 | | Subject: | Re: Affiliate fees for custom sets | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I forgot one important detail: it also hold the risk of people being motivated
by money only  .
IMHO, it's a hobby and a relaxing activity to create some new things out
of random parts and I will not like seeing tons of poor designs or other by greedy
people who don't really care, especially it could be easy to copy/steal someone's
else work and get money for just bringing it here.
Of course Lego official sets are easy to spot, but who really knows about all
3rd party Lego Magazines sets (polybags) or even old Lego Idea books ?
Same apply for commercial books about Lego like Crazy Contraptions, Chain reactions,
LEGO Micro Cities: Build Your Own Mini Metropolis!, the Lego Book and many others.
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| Author: | Emperor_Penguin | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2019 15:58 | | Subject: | Re: Affiliate fees for custom sets | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, fantapop writes:
| | I'm new to the Bricklink community. Probably like many, I was into legos
when I was growing up, then stopped when I reached high school and now have kids
of the right age so I'm getting back into them.
I've bought a few sets of missing pieces so far on Bricklink. What was built
here never ceases to amaze me. It strikes me that one thing that's missing
is a way for creators to make money on their own custom sets. There is a very
old discussion topic on Affiliate Marketing which doesn't look like it went
anywhere. This idea is tangentially related.
It would be great if a builder could encode their design into a bricklink shopping
cart and then when people purchase the legos from the shopping cart or custom
set, the creator of the set could get some referral cost of the legos purchased.
This could give a huge boost to the lego community by empowering creators to
design and sell their own designs and could help increase cost per brick for
the sellers. At the same time, it would allow the common builder access to a
much wider array of sets to build.
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I know some sellers have MOCS that they release what pieces are needed, and then
sell the instructions for that MOC.
That way they get some money off their creations.
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| Author: | JusTiCe8 | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2019 15:57 | | Subject: | Re: Affiliate fees for custom sets | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Hi,
like many of people around here I guess, I have played with many Lego sets when
I was younger, then get back to it just a while back, awesomeness still as fresh
as before  .
That could be a good idea, there is also MOCshop or something similar but there,
prices are ridiculously high (higher than Lego sets, yes that's possible
!)
But I'm afraid long time sellers here will not agree MOC gives them some
cash as Studio is not very welcome as far as I understand. Too bad. Gathering
parts for a nice sets available in the gallery could be exhausting and boring.
Having a bag pf ârts ready to buy will be nice.
On the other hand, there is no official reference for gallery item so it is just
impossible to exactly match a design unless using the internal model ID
(ex: https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/model.page?idModel=71193).
I'll looking forward to what people think about this.
In Suggestions, fantapop writes:
| | I'm new to the Bricklink community. Probably like many, I was into legos
when I was growing up, then stopped when I reached high school and now have kids
of the right age so I'm getting back into them.
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| Author: | fantapop | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2019 15:45 | | Subject: | Affiliate fees for custom sets | | Viewed: | 120 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I'm new to the Bricklink community. Probably like many, I was into legos
when I was growing up, then stopped when I reached high school and now have kids
of the right age so I'm getting back into them.
I've bought a few sets of missing pieces so far on Bricklink. What was built
here never ceases to amaze me. It strikes me that one thing that's missing
is a way for creators to make money on their own custom sets. There is a very
old discussion topic on Affiliate Marketing which doesn't look like it went
anywhere. This idea is tangentially related.
It would be great if a builder could encode their design into a bricklink shopping
cart and then when people purchase the legos from the shopping cart or custom
set, the creator of the set could get some referral cost of the legos purchased.
This could give a huge boost to the lego community by empowering creators to
design and sell their own designs and could help increase cost per brick for
the sellers. At the same time, it would allow the common builder access to a
much wider array of sets to build.
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| Author: | ilovelegostoo | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2019 12:16 | | Subject: | Re: Support Zones for USPS shipping | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Agreed. This would be a great thing for the admins to get in front of instead
of reacting to all the people turning off the automated payment feature. The
other option is the change to the highest postage rate from your location, however,
that's not the way I want to do business.
I am planning to close my store for a week or two until after the new rates go
into effect and see if someone comes up with a rate card that will work.
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2019 12:28 | | Subject: | Support Zones for USPS shipping | | Viewed: | 330 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently, BrickLink does not support USPS zones, nor has there been any public
indication it is being implemented. Up until now, the ability of Instant Checkout
to calculate correct destination shipping within the USA has been compromised
for Priority Mail (custom packaging), but not for USPS First Class Parcel.
BrickLink has supported the existing USPS First Class Parcel and the existing
"flat rate" Priority Mail boxes (small/medium/large) because zone calculation
was not needed.
With the 27 January 2019 USPS rate change imminent, we (the sellers) have no
automated method of calculating the correct First Class Parcel rates, because
a zone calculation will be needed.
The calculation of zone is documented at DMM 608.9.0 (in it's entirety).
If BL chose not to use the USPS API calls to get the zone number for a given
shipment, it is possible to calculate it based on great circle distances. See
the explanations for more detail.
Since BL has chosen to not use the API callbacks provided by USPS, they have
instead opted for database rate tables (which have to be manually reloaded each
time USPS changes the rates). The current table contains the 2017 rates. It was
never updated to reflect the 2018 rates.
Nita Rae
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| Author: | JusTiCe8 | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2019 08:31 | | Subject: | Re: Shopping cart compare function | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Hi,
it's a pretty good idea, I'm facing another annoying concern as I have
a wanted list, pick some parts here, some parts there, then I got a few carts
with most probably duplicate parts on them with various prices and status.
The only way I found to deal with this is to open tabs on brower and compare
carts lot by lot, very very time consuming and error prone.
It would be great to get the benefit of using a DB like this:
pick cart A, B, D, F, G
click on a compare button
get a report page (like cart/wnated list) with parts quantity, price differences,
... then
choose in which cart we want to get parts then a single update (on each row or
global for all carts) to get super optimized carts .
In Suggestions, expos1994 writes:
| | Hello,
I thought of a suggestion for the shopping cart:
Let's say you're ordering off a wanted list that gets broken up into
4 orders. So you've got 4 carts full of items.
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 15:30 | | Subject: | Re: New buyers 0 feedback | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi
It has been quite a while since I joined BrickLink, and for new members is there
any advice/info forwarded when joining (i.e ensure that you read the Sellers
Terms before Buying)
Just had a new member buy 1 part for 50p (UK), for delivery to Slovakia. Didn't
think he would buy once postage etc added.
Just had a message, thought it would be free postage.
Not a problem, as expecting it, but obviously he was not aware or made aware
of how Bricklink works.
Is such a thing in place or could it be added
Thanks
TPR
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I've added some large, bold, all caps, very blunt wording to avoid this.
I was having lots of issues with newer international buyers not understanding
rates.
Now I rarely have an issue.
I'm not sure BL is willing to be so blunt about it. ::shrug::
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: New buyers 0 feedback | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| The 'stores' part of BL needs to be redesigned. I think that the site
itself is marvelous in all of the complex things you can do with it, but, the
storefronts need to change. It doesn't look good to new buyers, and you can't
expect all new buyers to go and read 2000 help pages, no one does that! They'll
just say 'this is too hard' and leave the site and forget about lego.
A lof of times I have found interesting things online that I might have purchased
if the site looked legit or was simpler. Buying hundreds of different parts is
difficult as is, we need to try to make it as less of a burden as possible for
a new buyer, so the learning curve is not as steep. You could start easy by buying
and then look into the "darker" parts of the site.
In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi
It has been quite a while since I joined BrickLink, and for new members is there
any advice/info forwarded when joining (i.e ensure that you read the Sellers
Terms before Buying)
Just had a new member buy 1 part for 50p (UK), for delivery to Slovakia. Didn't
think he would buy once postage etc added.
Just had a message, thought it would be free postage.
Not a problem, as expecting it, but obviously he was not aware or made aware
of how Bricklink works.
Is such a thing in place or could it be added
Thanks
TPR
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