Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | TheBrickGuys  | | Posted: | Mar 7, 2019 21:22 | | Subject: | Re: How should i name this set? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, popsicle writes:
| | In Catalog, GoudvanOud writes:
| | How should I name this set?
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What’s in a name? That which we call a combo set, by any other name would sell
as sweet!
Sorry, couldn't help it. Had no TV in my apartment when I was young. So it
was come home from work, run the boardwalk, shower, dress, walk to the deli for
takeout and walk across the street to Balboa theater to eat. But the hiccup was
that the theater played Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet for nearly a year straight
before switching movies. To be honest, I didn't mind as a romantic young
idealist. Cried like a baby  
I think I still know most lines of that Shakespeare play
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That's cool, I like stories about life like that.
Years ago when me and a friend rented a house, for entertainment all we had was
a VCR but no TV so we had hook it into my computer screen to use it. When it
came to movies our choices were limited to a wide variety of one movie, 'What
About Bob' starring Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray.
We watched that movie soooo many times that we became really good at memorizing
all the lines and we would play a game where one would say a line or just a word
or two and the other one would guess where in the movie the line or word came
from. We played that game for years after that.
The simplest things in life can create some of the best memories.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Nov 28, 2018 12:55 | | Subject: | Re: Decorated vs. Pattern | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, mhortar writes:
| | I'm not sure that 'Pattern' actually fits.
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The word "design" means "decorative pattern."
If we wanted to be truly accurate and consistent, then every single part title
would have one of the eight following identifiers:
Plain
Printed Design
Stickered Design
Printed/Stickered Design
Molded Design
Molded/Printed Design
Molded/Stickered Design
Molded/Stickered/Printed Design (pretty sure there are none of those)
Have I missed any? Maybe when/if we get tags we can do this. I think it would
be helpful.
But it sounds like "Decorated" is the preferred term so far from all three commentors.
I still think it's quite strange that part categories are the only place
we use that word, but this ain't a one-man show.
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Now that you bought up the subject of stickers.... Is there a possibility of
adding sub categories for each type of patterned part so as to separate printed
parts from applied sticker parts? So that whenever there are stickers applied
by the end user on parts verses patterns applied directly by Lego on the same
type of part then there would be a sub category for the sticker applied parts
to keep them seperate.
This would be extremely helpful for adding used inventory into our stores. A
good example would be printed tiles verses sticker applied tiles. If you know
that a part you are trying to add to your inventor is a Lego printed tile then
it would be so much easier to find it in the catalog if the stickered tiles were
in a separate sub category of the printed tiles.
I know it would be a lot of work but it sure would be nice.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Nov 21, 2018 11:23 | | Subject: | Re: Projectile Launcher | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | Change for the sake of change is often followed by complaints - it rarely serves
any real purpose. Agreed changes often come with compliments and welcoming. There
is a difference.
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That's a reasonable assessment. However, I'm fairly confident that the
changes I've made or coordinated in the catalog so far were all improvements.
Still, I've gotten a number of complaints about nearly all of them.
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How does that go - you can please some of the people all of the time but not
all of the people all of the time
NB - We haven't had reason yet to complain other than taking up the entire
forum with catalogue and inventory change requests ....
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There are certain ones that talk allot about the changes needed yet they disagree
with just about EVERY change made. Hmmmm, makes you wonder.....
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2018 00:39 | | Subject: | Re: Catalog Project Request "Bar" vs. "Weapon" | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | | As far as I can see this part is not a weapon, and I can't find it even once
used as a hollow hammer. It only appears in brick-built weapons where it features
alongside parts that also are not classified as weapons, such as barbs and chains.
Unlike the lightsaber, which really is a weapon the way it is, this part
is not a weapon.
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To me it doesn't really matter which classification is used (bar or weapon)
just so long as both are in it. They share the same characteristics so it would
make sense to have them together in the same category.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2018 20:49 | | Subject: | Re: Second Catalog Project Underway | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| WOW, Lego actually made an ashtray? Who woulda thunk.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2018 22:17 | | Subject: | Help identifying part. | | Viewed: | 125 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| I can not for the life of me figure out what this is or where in the catalog
it exists.
Any ideas?
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2018 16:49 | | Subject: | Re: Request official BrickLink app | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2018 19:58 | | Subject: | Re: P.I.X.A.L. Name Capitalisation/Punctuation | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, todeluca writes:
| | In Catalog, TheBrickGuys writes:
| | If I were doing a search for her I would use the spelling on the box - it is
the quickest and the most simple. Plus, the bio you mentioned is not very easy
to find so most people are only going to know the minifigure as just plain Pixal.
As for a compelling reason not to change it to P.I.X.A.L.? If you do a search
on Lego.com for P.I.X.A.L. you don't even get get any relevant search results
related to her or Ninjago but if you do a search for just plain Pixal then you
get search results that apply.
Jim
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As shown in the images above (the second two), a search for “Pixal” yields “P.I.X.A.L.”,
so there would not be any problem for those who search with the non-punctuated
spelling.
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If Lego.com refers to her as Pixal on their website and on the set box and in
the set's description then I agree with BL not to change it. The punctuated
form of Pixal is only used by Lego.com in the bio you referred to which is not
even easy to find.
I understand your point and agree with it when looked at from more of a purist
point of view but not even Lego.com deems it important to refer to her using
the punctuated form of her name so again I think BL made the right decision.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2018 18:50 | | Subject: | Re: P.I.X.A.L. Name Capitalisation/Punctuation | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, todeluca writes:
| | I have submitted changes to Minifig (njo086), wherein I have added the proper
capitalisation and punctuation to P.I.X.A.L.’s name - all of which have been
rejected.
While I understand that the name on the box is “Pixal”, her official bio
on the Ninjago section of LEGO.com has her name as “P.I.X.A.L.” (See images).
Additionally, searches for “Pixal”/“PIXAL” yield both her standard (“Pixal”)
and Samurai X variants (the latter of which has the proper capitalisation/punctuation)
- (See images). Thus, changing the capitalisation/punctuation of (njo086) causes
no search problems, is correct, is accurate to LEGO’s own character bio, and
is consistent with the names of the character’s other variants.
From my perspective, the only reason to retain the current spelling of
(njo086), is because this is what was on the box. If there is some other, possibly
more compelling, reason to retain the current spelling, please let me know.
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If I were doing a search for her I would use the spelling on the box - it is
the quickest and the most simple. Plus, the bio you mentioned is not very easy
to find so most people are only going to know the minifigure as just plain Pixal.
As for a compelling reason not to change it to P.I.X.A.L.? If you do a search
on Lego.com for P.I.X.A.L. you don't even get get any relevant search results
related to her or Ninjago but if you do a search for just plain Pixal then you
get search results that apply.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2018 13:46 | | Subject: | Re: Price guide rant | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, LaineeP writes:
| | I know that this has probably been beat to death, but I have a suggestion. I,
as well as others I'm sure, have complained about the average prices that
are grossly inflated due to very high priced parts. On the used side of the guide
it seems it is always the same 2 stores (ex $39.95 for a $0.20 piece).
Why can't we do what they do in some sporting events - throw out the lowest
and highest and then average. I'm sure there is a way to do this.
Lainee
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What do people use the average of the "Current items for sale" info for? I would
think that the 6 month sales average info is much more important. It has been
brought up here many times and I don't understand why people don't use
the 6 month sales average instead?
I am asking this not to be snarky in any way, I am just wondering if maybe I
am not seeing the importance of that information and thus missing out on the
use of it.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 01:12 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink: please clean up incomplete sets | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brick.Door writes:
| | I recently listed another batch of used sets. Once again in reviewing prices
I found in most cases the cheapest one available for sale is listed as "complete"
but missing minifigures.
Bricklink can't you do a sweep of these errant listings and send the seller
a warning? Maybe query sets that are listed as complete but have the word "missing"
or "no minifigs" in the comments
I know you don't want to make changes automatically (the seller could have
written "no missing minifigures" or something) but it is a long and slow process
to find these one by one. And there are thousands of them listed.
Sounds like a lot of work? You are probably losing money too. The average
sold price is lower than it should be because so many incomplete sets are being
sold as complete. If sellers saw the real average price they would set their
prices higher and Bricklink would benefit from the higher commission.
For example I recently listed Star Wars set. The cheapest 3 currently available
(listed as complete) are $15, $20 and $24. None of them are complete according
to the sellers description.
The average sold for this set is $22 but since 3 of the sold sets were prices
$15, $15 and $21 they were probably incomplete but sold as complete and now are
polluting the price guide. The correct average sold is about $27
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I hope your not suggestion that BL do a sweep by checking each and every listing
of every set listed by every seller or even just the least expensive listing
of each and every set? If you are then that would take so much time and effort
that it would be, well for lack of a better word, ridiculous. If I have miss
understand you then I apologize.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2018 18:52 | | Subject: | Re: New buyer LOE to tie up inventory for 14 days | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| | And a question (or questions) for a question (not addressed to you), why does
BrickLink not address this decade-old concern?
Is there a bona fide problem with giving sellers & buyers say "only" 6 days to
get something done (like the courtesy of sending of simple message) rather than
the current 14 days?
If yes, what's the problem?
Is instant checkout their one-size-fits-all solution?
Have they told anyone this?
If they have, is there some place to find their positions outside of this needle-in-a-haystack
forum (where I add hay such as this), where administrators' positions are
very low in number and extremely hard to find?
Are they taking the eBay road and discounting the importance of low volume buyers
and sellers?
And did I say "Whoopdeedoo" yet? 
In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | Why not make sure that every buyer has to use the instant checkout? That should
solve your problem.
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You really dont even have to wait one day, just cancel the order and move on.
If you are concerned about getting a negative feedback then just wait the alloted
time.
You have the ability to cancel the order so there is no need to downgrade BrickLink
for their policies (not your first posts, just this one)? And remember, you agreed
to these policies when you signed up to be a seller here on BrickLink as we all
did.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2018 13:39 | | Subject: | Re: Interface improvement | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | I can forgive a lot of incompetence if you're at least working
in my interest.
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"My interest" is very subjective. The problem is that so many feel the same way
as you do so in that when a change or changes are made and it dose not benefit
what they consider 'their interest' then you get this...
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2018 12:13 | | Subject: | Re: Interface improvement | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | Don't forget the typical forum response to ANYTHING that admin tries to do.... |
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 20, 2018 12:18 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers who smoke should let buyers know | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | They did not fit me so I threw them away.
John P
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That gave me a good laugh, it sounds exactly like something you would say.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 20, 2018 12:13 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers who smoke should let buyers know | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| It also helps to put Jet Dry in the rinsing water, not with the small but with
helping the parts to dry water spot free.
When we wash used parts, after spray rinsing, we take a container filled with
water and add a good amount of jet dry to it. We fill up a fine strainer with
lego and dip them into the solution. We then lay them out on a large towel an
point a fan on them. The parts come out beautiful - no water spots at all! We
have very hard water so the difference that the Jet Dry makes is very substantial.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2017 16:37 | | Subject: | Re: So many "incomplete" sets listed wrong | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I think some sellers mistakenly list them as complete but I think most others
list them as complete even though they are incomplete to avoid them from being
filtered out by buyers that have incomplete sets filtered out of their viewed
listings - I will not buy at all from these stores, I view them as already being
a bit shady.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2017 11:52 | | Subject: | Re: Separate email addresses for buying/selling | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, stecre writes:
| | I think it would be very useful to be able to have separate email addresses for
your buying and selling activities.
I operate a store but also have wanted lists and buy from time to time and being
able to separate the various emails to different addresses would be helpful.
e.g.
To the "Buying" email address:
Any messages regarding orders you placed e.g. Invoices etc.
Wanted list notifications
To the "Selling" email address:
Any messages regarding orders received e.g. invoices, payments
Emails about Fees
Perhaps there could even be a configuration page for users to select which emails
they would like to go to which address?
Yes you can probably achieve this with filters on your email client if on a PC
but not sure about phones and other devices.
Thanks,
Steve
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+1
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 24, 2017 14:36 | | Subject: | Re: Get shipping costs BEFORE final checkout | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | And is your guess always correct? Or do you guess pessimistically?
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For parts it isn't really guessing but just adding a little bit of weight
and figuring the shipping cost. Envelops are easy to add into the total weight
of the order and so are small boxes for parts, it takes just a couple of seconds
per quote.
Now sets are a different story but not really that much different. For sets,
I will just grab a box that the set will fit into and weigh it. I will add a
little bit more weight for other packing materials like peanuts and the such
and I will have the total weight for a quote figured out in just a matter of
a couple of minutes at most. If I sold more sets then I would just make a chart
of various size boxes and and their weights which would then make it even faster
for figuring out the shipping cost for quotes.
As far as making mistakes, I have made VERY FEW and not enough to affect my bottom
line so I really dont think that is really a valid argument against making quotes
mandatory. At most, I think it just means making ourselves more familiar with
shipping materials and maybe verifying the weights of of sets at the time we
enter them into our inventory and making a note of any discrepancies on the Remarks
line.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2017 21:16 | | Subject: | Re: Where are our manners gone?! | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BRWA writes:
| | I see bill time has come around again from BL.
I note that there is now "please" in the pay now demand.
How do we teach the next generation of people respect when major organisations
refuse to be polite?
Is it so hard to respect people? Is our manners now so obsolete that a little
respect is too much? I am sorry but I come from an age where please and thank
you is standard, hello and good bye is an acknowledgement of another person,
and saying excuse me and sorry when injecting or creating various interferences
to another depending on the case, whether a little harm like crossing in front
of a person, or making a mistake and providing acknowledgement and sympathy to
the person I may have caused harm to!!!
Further this is a family site, can we not just leave the big nasty company behaviour
outside the website? And so BL ADMIN - It is so really so hard to add the words
like?:
PLEASE pay now - THANK YOU and maybe the following something like this:
for trading/using/selling through our service....
After all I give a lot of my time to making the store work, I am happy to pay
for the service/ use the website mostly, but the ride is not free and easy, anyone
who works a busy store will tell you that. So I really believe a drop of kindness
is a slight acknowledgement that BL is not shouldering the load of the site and
that it takes a community, as a whole to give and take for the site to work and
I think that others are also slightly disappointed that BL Admin is not always
acknowledging the effort store owners and buyers put in to make it work!
Please consider!
Thank you for your time,
Kind regards
Dave
Brick Recycling WA
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Hi.
I appreciate your points as I too come from the era where thank you and please
were much more common then they are now.
But I have to say, the gist of your message goes completely contrary to the idea
of showing respect. I don't say this because I am trying to be a jerk or
incite anybody in a negative way but just looking at your message I see allot
of disrespect being shown towards BrickLink.
Here is what I mean....
By saying this:
"Is it so hard to respect people? Is our manners now so obsolete that a little
respect is too much? I am sorry but I come from an age where please and thank
you is standard, hello and good bye is an acknowledgement of another person,
and saying excuse me and sorry when injecting or creating various interferences
to another depending on the case, whether a little harm like crossing in front
of a person, or making a mistake and providing acknowledgement and sympathy to
the person I may have caused harm to!!!"
And then following up with this:
"Further this is a family site, can we not just leave the big nasty company behaviour
outside the website? And so BL ADMIN - It is so really so hard to add the words
like?:
PLEASE pay now - THANK YOU and maybe the following something like this:
for trading/using/selling through our service...."
You are implying that because BL dose not use the words PLEASE or THANK YOU in
their request for money that all the bad things you mentioned in the previous
paragraphs apply to them.
You are even referring to them as a company with "big nasty company behavior"
problems.
To say all this just because they don't use the words PLEASE or THANK YOU
is quite a stretch.
Again, I am not trying to be a jerk and start something. If nobody else here
reads what you said in the same way as I do then I apologize for taking it wrong.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 11:58 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Steineflut writes:
| | In General, TheBrickGuys writes:
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In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.
Jim.
Jim
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Okay, I get how we all love that nothing ever changes and that we love to keep
stuff the way it is but seriously, the guy is absolutely right!!!
And I am sure that this is the reason why there are about 100 people in this
forum when the site is used by thousands!
Even though you can click on a million buttons to make it look like you want
it to, it should look like that from the start and not with clicking links on
the bottom of a page every single time you want to read something.
The studio beta forum is what a normal forum should look like. It's been
invented... probably about 25 years ago!
- Nadine
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All you have to do is set up a page with the setting you like and then save it
as a favorite up on your favorites bar and you wont have to keep clicking on
the options. Just do it once and all is well.
As far as changing the way it looks, I am all for that. I love the changes BL
has done so far. The only reason I kind of got on the guys case was because he
was complaining (with more of an attitude) about things that need to be changed
but was not even willing to see if the options he wanted already existed. He
complained even before he took just a couple of minutes to learn what options
existed.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2017 00:38 | | Subject: | Re: Please give the forum a make over. | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, thiswizard writes:
| | Bricklink's forum is very ugly and hard to read/navigate. Why do I have to
click on the replies (Msgs) one by one? All responses should be displayed on
one screen.
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Already possible. Click the balloon or link below the page 'Show entire thread
on 1 page'.
| | Also what's the point of "RE: what's this?" showing up 17
times in a row on the main page. Each post should only be displayed once.
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Already there. Click the 'Without repliedls' on top of the page.
| | If it gets a reply, the post should go bold so that readers know there is a new
response. This way the front page isn't spammed to high heaven. Maybe it's
because I'm using my phone?
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Yes it is. Posts change colour when read.
| | I've never tried on a desktop or laptop.
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Try it.
| | Anyway, these forums are gross to look at. I can't imagine ever using this
again.
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In other words, take at least a few minutes to learn the basics. You can not
make it any easier if you don't bother to try to learn it. In the same amount
of time it took you to complain how difficult the forum is to navigate and to
say you will probably never use it again, if instead you took that time and used
it to hit a few buttons, tap a few links, etc, you would have learned that it
already IS EASY to use.
Jim.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2017 13:38 | | Subject: | Re: Ban selling custom parts | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | This is an old argument and it will never be implemented because there is money
to be made off this kind of part.
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I don't know if you are referring to BrickLink as the ones wanting to make
the money off of these parts but if you are I don't think it is true because
the money they make off of them is sooo small that it would hardly affect their
bottom line.
| | There is a lot of parts that have been chromed or have been fabricated
as weapons. Where does the non-official parts stop? Why can I not take a megablock
3x5 plate, grind off the studs, paint it and sell it as a custom part? Why are
individuals allowed to change parts and megablocks are forbidden?
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I think Rick above stated the argument why Meagablock and the like are not allowed
but why custom parts are (including colored Lego parts) when he stated - "I
consider Tyco and Megablock competition with LEGO while customizers and their
parts are not, they accentuate LEGO" - I think this sums up the whole reason
why BrickLink allows custom parts but not Megablock. They want to keep this site
dedicate to Lego but they do allow the custom parts for the sake of the builders
but not for the sake of their bottom line.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2017 20:28 | | Subject: | Re: This will reduce scammers by 95% | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Jamesf077 writes:
| | How about giving some power to the community. Three seperate suspect scam reports
from seperate members and the store is automaticaly suspended until admin have
time to check it out. The rule could be a report has to come from established
users with a minimum positive feeback score.
Say, when you have over 100 feedback you are allowed access to the 'scam
report' button. I'm sure a simple programme could be installed to facilitate
this.
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I agree. That would be a good added safety feature.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2017 14:56 | | Subject: | Re: This will reduce scammers by 95% | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:
| | I believe that if Bricklink will allow new sellers to set up a shop ONLY AFTER
THEY HAVE COMPLETED 10 successful transactions as buyers- the scams by 0 feedback
sellers (that pop everyday) will stop by a high margin.
The beauty of this is that they can't start multiple new seller accounts
to prop up their buying feedbacks too.
I think this will work...
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Putting aside all the posts that say it wont work, I think it is a great idea.
It will not stop 100% of all the scammers but it will stop at least 95% (like
you said). Yes, as one poster said, coming up with an idea that would stop 100%
of the scammers of course would be better but to stop 95% with just one simple
change like this would be great.
Here are just 3 thoughts as to why I think your idea would work great at stopping
95% of the scum scammers:
1, Scammers like to make their money fast and disappear. Needing 10 FB's
would cause them to have to wait until they placed 10 orders, receive invoices
and pay for all 10, and then wait until they receive their needed 10 FB's
from 10 sellers. This would take more time and effort them most scammers would
be willing to spend.
2, Going along with the #1 above, scammers like to set up one fake account take
as many suckers as they can then disappear as that seller and then open up different
fake account, scam some more suckers, etc. They cant do that with out waiting
for those 10 feedbacks for every account they open. Also, for every false account
they open they will need a real address for each fake account or they will not
be getting any of their orders. Some of those orders will be returned which will
also start to raise flags.
3, Scammers DO NOT like to spend their own money, they only want to take ours.
Even if they only place 10 cent orders the postage will still be at least around
lets say $2.50 so times that by 10 equals at least 26.00 bucks.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Oct 28, 2016 11:41 | | Subject: | Re: Add feedback link to order detail screen | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | That wouldn't work well, because it would be exploited by scam sellers --
they would never mark the orders as shipped, so they would not get negative feedback
and could extend their scam. or, for a less extreme example, a seller.who thinks
they might get a negative could avoid it by not marking the order as shipped.
--
Marc.
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Not if the original button is left alone for posting mass feedback.
I do like the idea as long as there was a "Contact Buyer" button right next to
it as already suggested.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Sep 5, 2016 18:17 | | Subject: | Re: Pay Your Fees Now! (please?) | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| You guys have to be kidding me!! The reason it has the word 'Now' is
not for the sake of demanding anything. Think about it guys, the word is part
of the phrase "Pay Your Fees Now" and is attached to a button that directly takes
you to a page to do what?... To pay your fees now, not latter but now.
It is the correct grammar for the situation and to add please to the button would
actually be incorrect because the phrase "Pay Your Fees Now is not asking you
to do anything, it is not a demand, not even a statement - it is a button.
By giving us the button, "Pay Your Fees Now", they are just trying to simplify
the procedure so that we don't have to hunt around to figure out how to pay
our fees.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2016 12:33 | | Subject: | Re: No feedback for cancelled orders | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Shintaku writes:
| | Hello,
Can someone explain me why are feedback allowed for cancelled orders?
Example: I have a buyer, who bought hundreds of euro of stuff from me. After
7 days you can start a NPB. After 14 days you can cancel the order if you are
lucky that they do not reply. If they reply, it needs 21 days to cancel the order.
If you cancel the order BEFORE 21 days, they can leave a negative feedback.
If you cancel the order after those 21 days, they cannot leave a negative feedback.
So I usually wait 21 days (or 14 if I am lucky).
Thus, people can block hundreds of euro worth of lego from your store for 21
days. Yes, they will have a penalty, but it's however a big loss for a seller.
I believe that it would be more useful if no feedback for cancelled order was
allowed.
Please if I am not correct help me to be corrected.
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That is not a good idea. The principle behind the idea is good but in general
it is not a good idea because unscrupulous people can use it to their advantage.
Examples:
1, I am a seller and you purchase some parts from me but one lot the average
price has sky rocketed and I realize that I can actually sell them for allot
more - no problem, I just cancel the order and block you from my store. no explanation
to you, nothing. Now I don't need to worry about any negative feed back.
2, I am a seller (like House Of Logos) and I have become really behind in filling
orders. You contact me about the fact that I have not sent you your order for
over a month - no problem. I just refund you your money, cancel your order and
again, no worries about negative feed backs.
There are allot more examples that could be brought up. The point is that preventing
leaving feed back for canceled orders can be abused.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 5, 2016 11:09 | | Subject: | Re: It would be nice to attach pics to messages | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Upload to My Pics and add the shortlink into the message.
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There are a lot of way around it but I agree, it would be nice to just have a
simple way of sending a pic right thru BL but not of cats, just dogs ONLY.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 16, 2016 13:37 | | Subject: | Re: Negative Feedback: What if? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Thea writes:
| | When the first party in the transaction clicks on the little negative feedback
dot, show a list of reasons for leaving negative feedback, including an Other
with the ability to explain in detail.
The list should include reasons that qualify for NPB, NSS, or NRS. The person
should be advised to use those options first.
Hold the feedback in limbo for a short specified time to give the other party
an opportunity to respond in a way that bricklink can see.
If the first party receives no response during the hold time, the feedback can
be posted. The second party should be able to post their own feedback under
the same method, if they can show a reasonable cause for not responding.
In other words, give the two parties the requirement to communicate through bricklink
first, outside of feedback and the Forum!
Thea
Always An Adventure!
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I think this is the best, well thought out, idea on how to improve the FB system.
Thor made a good point though (in his normal way of non constructiveness on steroids)
about scam scum so I would say that with one adjustment this would be a great
thing for BL to implement. The adjustment I propose would be that anyone buying
from a seller with 20 or less selling FB can leave FB at any time.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 9, 2016 00:32 | | Subject: | Re: Change wording on completion of NPB | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Grego writes:
| | When completing an NPB, please change the wording from "Cancel this order" to
"Complete the NPB process" in order to avoid confusion with completing an OCR
Thank you
Greg
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I agree. I still sometimes get confused when finalizing an NPB and have to then
rethink the procedure to make sure I am not canceling the NPB.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 6, 2016 17:35 | | Subject: | Re: Lego v Bricklink colours | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | I don't think most new users know the official Lego colours any more than
they know BL colours. BL colour names are used widely outside of BL too. Changing
would probably cause more pain than benefit.
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You have misinterpreted my suggestion. I did not suggest changing I asked to
have the Lego colour names added to the colour charts.
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Actually, you didn't really make any suggestions. The closest thing to a
suggestion was: "...could the Bricklink developers not come up with a better
idea than the current colour chart for the catalogue. Perhaps similar to the
very old and outdated Peeron one"
I agree with calsbricks that new customers that come to BL probably don't
know the official Lego colors any more then BL's. I also agree with what
you suggested above that it would be nice to have the Lego official colors added
to the color chart, providing that Lego dose not cause legal issues with the
Lego Group.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2016 12:31 | | Subject: | Re: Please Check Your Forum Posts (Re: No advertising) | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Meh. Is it really a big deal? People misunderstand each other all the time. I
get misunderstood on the forum pretty much every day (including today). I don't
think it's anything to worry about.
--
Marc.
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Just what in the L (replace L with the word of your choice) are you trying to
say??????
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2016 12:29 | | Subject: | Re: Please Check Your Forum Posts (Re: No advertising) | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MouseMotors writes:
| | When I read your post, all I see is huge but.
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I didn't see and pictures of a huge but or even a crack???
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jul 1, 2016 19:28 | | Subject: | Re: No advertising | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Denka writes:
| | Hi
Since the website is now in another hands (since a certain amount of time now),
i am afraid that Bricklink start to capitalize in some weird ways and decide
to show some advertisings (for anything) in one or another corner.
My suggestion is to keep this website clean, for the comfort of all members.
This is a important trait of Bricklink since the beginning.
Thanks
from all members
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You may have some malware on your system.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jun 29, 2016 14:34 | | Subject: | Re: Problem with onsite PayPal: grand totals | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Nearly all of my orders are paid in a different currency to my listed prices
as they are in US$ and I am a UK seller. Mainly GBP but I accept many currencies.
The only price difference I have received different the invoice was for Japanese
Yen. I expected this as (I believe) they cannot pay the .xx part of the amount
but must round up (or down?).
If you are setting your own currency rather than using XE.com then this could
account for the difference. Especially as the markets are so volatile just now
due to Brexit.
Neil
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Just out of curiosity, what is the advantage of listing your inventory in US
dollars instead of your own default currency, especially sense most of your orders
are from your home country?
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2016 11:21 | | Subject: | Re: Part Out Option for Only Extra Pieces | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | So I saw this morning that the inventory was done for the Brick Bank (thanks,
Jennifer!) and I just went through the chore of parting out my extra pieces from
the set, something that I've done early in January for several years. There
are a lot of extra pieces in the set and a lot of non-extras to sort through
while parting out and it just occurred to me that probably a lot of people are
going through that same chore. Wouldn't it be nice to have an option to
just part out your extras from a set?
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An easy way to accomplish the same thing can be done pretty simply using BrickStock.
All you have to do is import the set in question and you will notice that on
the left side of the inventory there is a column that shows what the different
pieces are. The standard parts are represented by a check mark, the extra pieces
are represented by a plus sign and the counter parts are represented by the letters
CP. Just delete all the parts with out the check mark and you will now have the
extra pieces left ready for upload into your inventory.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Oct 26, 2015 12:05 | | Subject: | Re: Customs fraud | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Pokernut writes:
| | There are a lot people out there, it seems, that want sellers to commit customs
fraud.
Would it be a good idea if BL included " Buyer requested customs fraud " in the
reasons for seller to cancel an order?
Not allowing said alledged fraudster to feedback the seller would prevent retaliatory
actions from the buyer would also be nice in this instance
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Great idea, but Bricklink will not change. They do not care and they do not
have the sellers back on this one. They should try to help the seller as a seller
has enough to do.
John P
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Have they personally told you or someone you know that they dont care or is this
simply an assumption based on your the fact that they dont stop it from hapening?
If the latter is true then your statement is based more on your feelings and
NOT FACTS.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 25, 2015 13:35 | | Subject: | Re: Ranking up ideas to slow down potential SCAM | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Set a limit for a max of $50.00 per item in their store for new stores with 0
to 20 FB's of just selling (the 20 FB's would not include FB's for
buying scene they could place several small orders to build up their FB). This
would be in place for their first 20 orders unless they agree to use an escrow
account set up by BrickLink. If they agree to an escrow account then no limits
or at least higher limits like $500.- to $1500.-.
If they cant wait a week or two to get there money on a high dollar set, well
then, that in itself says something about their character and at that point either
they sell lower dollar items or just not sell here at all.
Personally, I think it would be good for all new sellers to have to use an escrow
account set up by BL.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 23, 2015 00:36 | | Subject: | Re: Changes to catalog part view are terrible. | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | Here:
| | Is there a way to check 'known colors' anymore? I used that a lot.
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I dont understand? Like mentioned above, there is a color tab that shows the
available known colors. Or is this problem related with the glitch talked about
above where there were no tabs available so you cant choose the colors tab (I
know I can see the tabs)?
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jun 23, 2015 22:23 | | Subject: | Re: Display number of orders store is yet to proc | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | well doubt buyer feedback is being honest considering you have sellers who leave
a negative feedback when a buyer leaves a neutral because of slow shipping (6
days for a 1 part order).
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This in itself should dictate to you that these types of stores you should stay
away from which in itself is giving you the information you need to make an informed
decision. FB is always a good indicator of the stores shipping times. Yes, there
are many who may not want to take a chance on retaliatory FB but there are still
always many who wont care and leave appropriate feed back but unfortunately sometimes
we do not look at FB's of stores we shop in until a problem arises.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2014 10:39 | | Subject: | Re: BL Development Team: Test before rollout! | | Viewed: | 106 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, lovaquero writes:
| | Bricklink World Class Programming & Customer Serivce team -
Test before release. This concept is not hard. Perhaps in your eagerness to
pacify the crowd with pitchforks and torches you have forgotten it. Perhaps you
may just not know. Here is how you do it:
For EACH (individual) change to Bricklink:
-----------------------------------------
#1 - Scope your change to know its impact
#2 - Write your test plan to match the requirements for the change
#3 - Recognize that there are at least three (3) internet browsers to support:
Chrome, Firefox & Internet Explorer (IE)
#4 - Make sure that the test plan fails before any change is made
#5 - Implement the change, and only that change, in a development environment
#6 - Execute the test plan (in an isolated environement that matches the live
environment) for Chrome, Firefox and IE
#7 - Repeat steps 5-6 until the test plan passes for all three (3) browsers
#8* - Run the full test plan on the ENTIRE site to ensure everything still works
#9 - If anything fails, return to step #1 and repeat
#10 - Release the change to the live site.
(* Bricklink is written with ancient software that has so many dependencies,
querks, gotchas and 'hidden' features that it is impossible to know what
a change will do to seemingly unrelated features. That is why the software used
to run Bricklink is no longer used nor even supported, not even by the company
that originally created the software...)
Your new mantra must be: "test! Test! TEST! And then test it again!"
Any modern development team worth being paid - especially one that performs
web development - knows this.
Regards,
Rodney
Software Systems Engineer
Solution Infrastructure - Guidance & Machine Automation
John Deere Intelligent Solution Group
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Thats a nice pitchfork and torch you carry.
Can you elaborate on what some of these horrible bad things are that BL has recently
done that now make it impossible for anyone to ever use BL again?
So many scream change CHANGE C H A N G E !! then.... oh wait
I dont like this change. I SAID I D O N T
L I K E T H I S C H A N G E ! !
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jun 29, 2014 18:00 | | Subject: | Re: Remove Ability to Reply to Certain Members | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| |
I suggested something similar but more strict - ignore works both ways like it
does at one site. You ignore someone and you won't be able to read that person
posts - but that person ALSO can't read any of yours.
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Yes, I am familiar with this. The problem I see is that by completely ignoring
someone, you cannot read anything positive, constructive or helpful they may
post to others. Nor can you read anything they propose that may affect your business.
If the problem is that two members cannot communicate in a civil manner, simply
remove their ability to communicate only with each other.
Thor
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That's point of ignore function, remove posts you don't want to read.
My suggestion just makes that person cannot read yours either.
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I understand Rolf. But ignoring a poster hides ALL posts from that poster, even
the good non-offensive ones. Most people who are ignored do not always write
inappropriate posts. In fact, most of their posts are fine. Wouldn't you
still want to read those?
Thor
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Let me see if I understand this... if a good discussion starts up and one of
the parties involved with some of the flame wars start posting on that thread
then that would mean the other could not post a comment on that thread at all?
If so, what about then losing out on the good comments of the other person which
is what you dont want to happen, correct?
I agree with others that the people with problems with each other should not
be able to see the posts of the other person. It would probably be best if that
was done by admin and not done simply by a choice being made by one of the problem
persons, this way no flame wars would even be able to start.
As far as losing out on the value of other good posts when you said "The problem
I see is that by completely ignoring someone, you cannot read anything positive,
constructive or helpful they may post to others". I really dont see that as being
much of a possibility considering the feelings both parties have toward one another
and besides, would not the community at large be better off by not seeing any
flame wars erupt at all by doing away with the ability of warring parties not
being able to see any posts by others they have an ongoing war with?
I do not mention all of this because I think that your posts are the ones that
cause the problems by being inflammatory, actually, just the opposite. When a
flame war starts between you and someone else I always find that your posts are
more often based on reason and not on emotions. But regardless who is to blame,
if you cannot see their posts and they cannot see yours then that is a small
price to pay for the good of the community.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2014 11:39 | | Subject: | Re: Show All Fees on Checkout and in Terms Page | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | |
Excellent suggestion. Not sure that they will do that, BL resists any attempt
to show the full amount charged for an invoice before the order is submitted.
John P
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I dont think BL "resists" showing the full amount charged it is just in the programing
and that makes it sound like BL dosent care which is untrue.
But anyway, I agree, the suggestions are spot on and hopefully they will include
them in near future.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Jun 10, 2014 01:00 | | Subject: | Re: Minimum order 4 international customers | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, chromeking71 writes:
| | I suggested this in the past with little to no response but I would like to be
able to have a different minimum order threshold settings for domestic and international
orders. Personally I'm tired of having small value orders that have high
shipping rates eat into my paypal limit. Even the cheapest international shipping
price isn't so cheap anymore. If I get bashed for being a cheapskate so
be it, but I'd like to get everybody else's input on this too.
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One way to help make up for the cost of shipping on smaller orders is to charge
a fee for all international orders under a certain amount. We charge $1.25 off
all domestic orders under $5.00 and the same charge for all international orders
under $10.00.
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | May 26, 2014 12:08 | | Subject: | Re: Order sheet order by remarks? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | YMMD
Thank you so much
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I have been doing it this way for a long time - you will love it.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | May 2, 2014 01:44 | | Subject: | Re: Chargebacks: Immediately Suspend Buying Privs | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Thank you. This is one example of many. The most common example I have seen is
where a buyer claims someone hacked into their PayPal and/or BrickLink account
and is making purchases and spending their money without their authorization.
In such cases, the buyer would obviously benefit if BrickLink at least temporarily
made it impossible for the hacker to continue using the buyer's card or account.
If a card or account has been hacked and is being illegally used without the
owner's authorization, we should not have to wait for multiple claims or
further criminal acts before taking preventive action.
Thor
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What benefit is there for the hacker under your scenario? If he places an order
using a hacked BL account and then hacks the persons PayPal account to pay for
it then wont the order just go the persons address that was hacked? Not that
would be good in any way, but I just don't see this actually happening unless
the hacker has the order sent to his address which I don't think he would
because this would give a direct link to him.
What am I missing?
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2014 01:40 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: REMOVE SUGGESTIONS | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | But if BL tomorrow decided to delete the Suggestions topic, and posted "Hey,
all! We decided that it's better to just not let you think you have any influence
over the direction the company takes anymore." Well... that would be much much
worse.
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Not to mention that most of the people who would agree to remove it would probably
also be the same ones who would then complain the loudest that it is no longer
there.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2014 16:21 | | Subject: | Re: Automate Costs When Parting Out | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Your right. I was being an idiot and obviously did not read it close enough to
see that he was taking about HIS COST that he paid for each part.
Ummm, never mind.
Jim, an idiot.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2014 11:29 | | Subject: | Re: Automate Costs When Parting Out | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| The way I accomplish close to the same thing you are looking for is quite simple...
I like to have all our parts in our store to be between 23% and 29% off the 6
month sales average depending on the type of part (such as, more off for wedge
plates and less for bricks) so I just choose the setting to automatically set
the price at the 6 month sales average. Then I go into my inventory and put the
different categories of parts up on sale for the 23% to 29% off.
I have my inventory marked to save all my listings after they are sold out so
that when I part out new sets I dont have to re-apply the sales off percentage
- the only exception is when adding new parts or new part colors which only means
going into my inventory once in a while to reset the percentages off.
If there are certain individual parts I want at less or more then I only need
to set that percentage off once.
The added benefit is that my inventory always reflects the changing 6 month sales
average.
If nothing else, this is a good work around in the interim.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Oct 22, 2012 19:12 | | Subject: | Re: Order additions when packed | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | You would have gotten the % based fee regardless, but the transaction fee of
30 cents (or pence), you're right, you'd pay that twice. You could invoice with
30 p added.
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I agree. You have to charge a more for shipping sense the second order will increase
the weight so you can just add fee to that.
I wouldn't fret too much about it and I definitely would not make a big deal
of it with my customer. The $0.30 fee is just not really worth losing sleep over,
at least to me.
And as mentioned above in a previous post, I too never change the order status
until it is paid for and I have never had a problem with a customer paying. Have
you actually had customers complain that you dont have their order packed before
they pay?
Jim.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2012 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thought | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Just knowing that someone who received an email placed an order shortly there
after I think could help statistically to see if the emails actually help to
bring in customers. Especially if you start to see a pattern of shoppers who
just received an email now placing an order.
To me, just knowing that they placed an order after receiving an email would
be great.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2012 11:01 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution (Requirements by German Law) | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | I could for example order 200 mini-figs of which only one lot shows the weight
and then pay the price of 2-3€ for shipment, whereas the seller will pay a multitude
of that.
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One easy way around that is for BL to have all mini-figs that do not have the
weight verified yet to be given a generic weight (until the true weight is supplied).
Most mini-figs weigh close enough to the same that a generic weight should work
just fine. This would at least help with mini-figs which is a big percentage
of items with missing weights.
Jim
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2011 16:48 | | Subject: | Re: One way to make performance better | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, oasis writes:
| | we all know that server equipment and maintenance can cost.. I, for one, would
welcome a small bump in the fees if I knew it was gonna make the sytem work better!
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1/2 of 1% increase in fees paid by the sellers would mean about a 17% increase
in revenue for BrickLink which could be used to update the system and that would
only mean an increase of our fees by $0.05 for every $10.00 we sell - Well Worth
It to see the speed, security and overall experience improve dramatically.
Jim -of- TheBrickGuys
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | May 1, 2011 05:50 | | Subject: | Re: I yield my vote to Admin. | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BigBrickDaddy writes:
| | Protection of our buyers is paramount.
I yield my opinion, my vote, and ANY stance I may have to Admin.
My suggestion is;
"A small fee to become a seller. This fee can be returned in a set time period
to the seller, or applied towards future fees"
"Probation period for NEW SELLERS with less then 10 selling feedback"
I suggest a ONE TIME FEE to standing sellers to put some money into a SEPERATE
ACCOUNT to help Admin pay for this service! He can buy some help and use that
fee to make bricklink a safer buying "LEGO HAVEN".
Take this idea and make it grow. DO NOT bash it. Improve upon it. But stop
talking about it and do something.
Have a nice night.
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I vote Yes. I think it is a fine idea. The deposit would not have to be big
and burdensome. It could even be refunded if the seller never sells anything.
If he chooses to close his store before any sales then the deposit could be refunded
thru PayPal.
I think it could even help give the privilege of being able to sell on this site
a value, something worth the deposit.
To make it where the deposit is not a burden, the size of the deposit could also
relate to the maximum sale total of each order during that period. As an example,
if someone could only afford a small deposit of $10.00 then a cap of $25.00 total
(or something like that) for each order could temporarily be put in place. If
the person is willing to put a larger deposit down of, lets say, $50.00 then
the cap could be higher.
I have been selling on here for a little short of 3 months and have had a great
experience so far. I would not have minded putting down a deposit even as high
as a $100.00. In fact, I was quite surprised just how easy it was to be to
go from a being a buyer to also being a seller - with almost no restrictions.
As far as having to be retroactive, I don't think that would be necessary for
those who have proven themselves to already be trustworthy.
Just a thought.
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2011 23:40 | | Subject: | Re: Multiple stores, ONE ACCOUNT | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BigBrickDaddy writes:
| | I would like to be able to list my new and used inventory in 2 seperate stores!
We have well over 500,000 used items that we have not been able to sell here
due to the massive amount of hassle we would have trying to keep the new and
used away from each other.
We would like to list these used items in their own store with their own stockroom!
This would increase Brick Link and would increase our bottom line.
We DO NOT want used orders mixed with new orders!
That would be horrible!
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Now dont you wish you never asked??
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2011 17:05 | | Subject: | Re: Multiple stores, ONE ACCOUNT | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DragonAlex writes:
| | In Suggestions, BigBrickDaddy writes:
| | We have not been able to make it work.
We tried. It was a nightmare.
Trying to define used/new of the same element started to be a very large hassle
for us. The pickers would see pull from the wrong bin, wrong room, or wrong
storage area creating a nightmare for the next buyer.
We pulled all the used inventory and dumped it in large storage bins (around
200 of them). They have been sitting there ever since with another 100-200 bins
of Duplo Items.
We cannot sell them, cannot list them, cannot get the system to bend to the new/used
combo.
So we gave up!
Again, it would be nothing but a $$ maker for the site.
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I think he means that he will sell all his used stuff on ebay as bulk lots and
not as individuale parts.
Ebay, I think, is better suited for bulk lots, thats what people like over there.
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As for myself, I do not care. I am about 1/2 way through creation of an Ebay
store to sell that inventory off.
I would much rather pay fees to Brick Link then Ebay.
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Your post makes no sense. If you can sell them on feebay you can sell them here.
You claim your problem lies with your pickers, will they suddenly become smarter
because the invoice comes through feebay?
If taking the used lego off site is your solution to the picker fiasco you should
have no problem integrating them into your BL store. You can then pack the order
from both locations & merge them at the end of the day or whenever is convenient.
Make a note that buying new and used lego will add a day to the transaction time
- whats the big deal?
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| Author: | TheBrickGuys | | Posted: | Apr 29, 2011 15:53 | | Subject: | Re: Multiple stores, ONE ACCOUNT | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Not quite everyone. I like to know that if I am in someone's shop, this is it,
and I don't have to wonder whether there's something else in another shop of
theirs that I also want at the same time. I also don't like the possibility
that one seller might have more than one shop on the spotlighted / featured store
page. And plenty of people do fine selling both new and used items. What if
someone decides they want a shop strictly for gear, one for sets, one for new
parts, another for used parts... you get the picture. Why complicate things
for users (especially newer ones) as well as use up more of BL's resources unnecessarily?
I think it works fine the way it is.
Maggie
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I have to agree.
The main problem I would say is that it then could start even more of a trend
for others to open multiple stores as Maggie stated.
The reason I say this because where do you draw the line? 500,000 parts? 50,000?
5,000? Or some may feel that.....
"If someone can open up 2 stores for new and used parts, then why cant I open
1 store for parts and one for sets? One for each could help my bottom line because
people will know that my store named 'Billy Bobs Great New Sets R Us', is just
for sets and my other store, 'Billy Bobs Great New Parts R We', is just for parts."
"And if I had a third store named, 'Billy Bobs Great Almost New But Used Parts',
would be really great".
I know this example may be a bit unrealistic (at least the store names), but
once you open up that door it becomes harder and harder to control and it could
help lead to more and more dishonest abuse.
I would say a better solution would be to change the format so that people could
have one category for new parts and one category for used parts. That way you
can completely keep them separate. You could then set up your orders to sort
first by condition of the parts. This would allow you to have a good amount of
separation and also allow people to place orders with a combination of new and
used parts with out having to pay for separate shipping charges.
Jim
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