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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| Author: | Cob | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 13:43 | | Subject: | Re: New buyers 0 feedback | | Viewed: | 27 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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Change your setting so that buyers under 5 feedback have to use instant checkout.
It removes a lot of these problems.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 10:43 | | Subject: | Re: New buyers 0 feedback | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | 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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Below each page on the left are links to Buy Help pages.
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 10:35 | | Subject: | Re: New buyers 0 feedback | | Viewed: | 58 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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Below each page on the left are links to Buy Help pages.
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| Author: | tpr | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 09:17 | | Subject: | New buyers 0 feedback | | Viewed: | 198 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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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| Author: | msdobrescu | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 02:14 | | Subject: | Some fixes to be done | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi,
Thanks for this great service!
As customer, buyer only, I salute the fix done to part adding to wishlist, when
chosing some attribute reset other attribute.
Still, there are several things to be corrected according to my flow.
One would be the moving parts to another wishlist, when some part already exists
in the same colour and a message saying already exists prevents that. I would
need a button added to that message to add the number of selected parts to the
list, if I decide so (meaning I did not duplicated an entry by mistake, but I
need more).
Another is the maintenance page. It overrides the browser's history and I
loose the page were I was. Definitely, in each case, I need to go back to it
when the maintenance is done.
Please take into account these suggestions.
Thank you and best regards,
Mike
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| Author: | danielclark | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 00:44 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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] | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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] | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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] | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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] | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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] | |
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| 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| 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.
|
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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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 | |
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| 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.
|
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 | |
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| 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.
|
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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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 | |
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| 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.
|
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: | BrickSwede | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 22:46 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted list in seller store | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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