| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | yorbrick  | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2019 06:19 | | Subject: | Re: how to? - hypothetical inventory from a haul | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, MichiKen writes:
| | I am looking for a tool that will help me identify inventory bulk lot purchase
of Bionicles.
There were about 2 cubic feet of Bionicles that I would like to sell. There were
only 3 instruction sets in the lot. Traditionally I would find the sets on BL,
then print them to check off those sets I have, and what on the lot is found.
I put these into bags, and work my way through the lot until I have complete
sets, or know just some small parts to replace/purchase.
This appears very old-school. What I would like is a like a "hypothetical" inventory,
that I can add a complete set, then click on the items as "found". This would
be nice if I could tag this to a lot for when I buy things off eBay or Facebook
Marketplace.BL to do this?
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Use this tool to identify sets:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogIn.asp?viewMulti=Y
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| Author: | MichiKen | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2019 05:57 | | Subject: | how to? - hypothetical inventory from a haul | | Viewed: | 129 times | | Topic: | Inventories | | Status: | Open | |
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| I am looking for a tool that will help me identify inventory bulk lot purchase
of Bionicles.
There were about 2 cubic feet of Bionicles that I would like to sell. There were
only 3 instruction sets in the lot. Traditionally I would find the sets on BL,
then print them to check off those sets I have, and what on the lot is found.
I put these into bags, and work my way through the lot until I have complete
sets, or know just some small parts to replace/purchase.
This appears very old-school. What I would like is a like a "hypothetical" inventory,
that I can add a complete set, then click on the items as "found". This would
be nice if I could tag this to a lot for when I buy things off eBay or Facebook
Marketplace.BL to do this?
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2019 19:39 | | Subject: | Re: Deleting purchased items from wanted list | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, lorivanderbilt writes:
| | New to this. I just ordered over 200 bricks from a seller. I want to place
another order but need to eliminate the purchased ones. How do I easily do this?
Any way besides doing it one by one?
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The easiest way to manage is to enable the 'Items in order on Wantlist'
icon in the settings of the orders Placed page. A little scroll will appear.
It takes you to all bought items in that order.
Select the bought items and move all bought items into a new Bought Wantlist.
Then you can do a new search for the remaining items.
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| Author: | lorivanderbilt | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2019 18:37 | | Subject: | Deleting purchased items from wanted list | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Inventories | | Status: | Open | |
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| New to this. I just ordered over 200 bricks from a seller. I want to place
another order but need to eliminate the purchased ones. How do I easily do this?
Any way besides doing it one by one?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2019 10:01 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock questions | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Teup writes:
| | In Inventories, calsbricks writes:
| | In Inventories, Teup writes:
| | In Inventories, calsbricks writes:
| | In Inventories, wilton1975 writes:
| | Guys,
Appreciate both your responses as they shed some much needed light. It is a little
strange that BrickStock doesn't seem to have a Help section explaining all
this.
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HI there sorry I missed this thread earlier
Please bear in mind that Teup's comments do not really apply to the UK.
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Well.... it does. I'm just saying that the averge price that you see here
in Bricklink is not equal to the average price in Brickstock. These do not match.
Parting out a set at average price on Bricklink will result in you having higher
priced items than parting out that same set at average price in Brickstock.
Whether you wish to match the price of other stores including VAT, or whether
you want to compare yourself to their prices ex VAT... yeah, here you're
right, those are all your own business decisions.
But the fact is that the Bricklink priceguide does not match the Brickstock priceguide.
It's important to be aware of this. Pricing at the Brickstock average is
pricing below the Bricklink average.
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As I said or at least implied - average pricing in the UK includes VAT and once
you adjust the downloaded price in Brickstock it matches as close as can be expected.
Nothing is perfect and Brickstock could use work on this but so could Bricklink.
The currency conversion is a bigger issue than vat as it applies to all apart
from the USA. Bricklink could do a lot more there and haven't.
Do USA prices include sales tax ? That differs depending on whether you ship
in state or out of state. So the whole pricing scenario based on Bricklink is
a bit shaky - it should be used as a guideline only not a 'real figure'.
Do the last 6 months sales prices include tzes of any kind or is it net. If something
sells at 10p that is the price that should be reflected. If you are vat registered
and can claim back the vat go for it - but for the majority of UK sellers that
is not the position - what you see is what you pay and that is what your cost
is. Pricing needs to be based on cost + not some weird price guide which no one
fully understands. They can tell you how it works but when you look at it you
only see a single figure not how that figures has been made up.
Again for example 1000 units sold at 8p one month but 10p the next month so average
is 9p, but that is not remotely accurate. If the currency conversion rate has
fluctuated then they might be selling at a totally different price, or the same
price.
The price guide needs major re-working and I do not believe that is going to
happen. It currently is a very crude tool which has to be manipulated to get
anywhere near reality.
If the design of the system is anywhere near what it should be there is only
one table with prices and those are converted from an exchange rate table each
time they are displayed, Somehow I doubt that.
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Well, I guess that's all true enough. Some take the priceguide as just a
guide, some ignore it, some take it as some holy prescription. I tend to be kind
of the latter type... but that's not because I think these numbers are inherently
all so correct (you pointed out some of its shortcomings) but I just remember
that when I was a buyer I'd check the priceguide on everything and buy things
depending on them being at or below average. So it's more a presentation
matter that I want my prices to line up with that reference than that I give
that reference any "scientific" credit. So the priceguide is my starting point
and from there I decide what to buy. Instead of first buying, and then based
on what I spent deciding what my prices should be.
But that's just a personal decision of course. You could invent any kind
of pricing policy for yourself and there are good arguments for all of them.
Maybe in some of them it is actually a blessing that Brickstock downloads the
ex.VAT value.
But in what ever case, no matter what your pricing policy is, and no matter whether
you are VAT registered, no matter if you're a buyer or a seller, if you live
in the area where Bricklink displays prices including VAT for, for all these
people, it is just important to know this difference: priceguide on BL includes
VAT, priceguide downloaded through Brickstock excludes VAT. Then you can do whatever
you want with that information. But knowing it is important as it prevents us
from sleepwalking into a race to the bottom.
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Ah what a grand place to start re-developing 
(I think something might freeze over before that happens) 
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