| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Admin_Russell  | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2019 15:02 | | Subject: | Re: Status of Friends Central Perk 21319 | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, chetzler writes:
| | | | There is also no set-in-stone amount of time for completion of an inventory.
Therefore, this new contributor will be given a chance to correct things. As
I said before, if they are unwilling to complete the inventory or fail to do
it in an appropriate amount of time after having been notified, then the inventory
will be discarded.
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I hope "appropriate" means "short". Also, discarding it seems like a waste,
if the current user cannot finish it, just leave it as is for someone else--if
the new person wants to start from scratch it is easy enough to so.
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The biggest bottleneck when doing inventories is adding new items to the catalog.
If there are items not in the catalog yet, you could speed up the approval process
by adding them.
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2019 13:53 | | Subject: | Re: Status of Friends Central Perk 21319 | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, chetzler writes:
| | Agreed, but perhaps new people should not start with brand new, high-demand sets.
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We do not dictate what people should or should not inventory. If someone wants
to contribute to BrickLink, we are not going to discourage them.
| | I wonder how this new user is going to recall his first inventory--it seems
like it may have been a little overwhelming.
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After looking through the credits log, this user is not a new inventory submitter
after all, so I believe that the inventory will eventually be completed to everyone's
satisfaction.
| | I'm usually pretty patient with this stuff, but if I had known this inventory
was going to languish for so long I would have just reserved it myself--despite
my reservations about working for BL for free in its current state.
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The inventory was first submitted on September 13 and last updated 2 days ago.
In my time as an Inventories Admin (almost a year), the amount of time this set
has been worked on is right on par with the amount of time the majority of new
sets are in the process of being inventoried. There is nothing at all that stands
out to me in this case as far as time is concerned.
| | I hope "appropriate" means "short".
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"Appropriate" means two weeks without any additions or changes to the inventory
once notified.
I believe your impatience is getting the best of you. You are free to use the
other tools that BrickLink provides to part out the set manually if you cannot
wait.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | Turez | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2019 13:43 | | Subject: | Re: Status of Friends Central Perk 21319 | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, chetzler writes:
| | In Inventories, randyf writes:
| | It is in BrickLink's best interest (as well as the job of the volunteer admins)
to let new people have a chance to gain knowledge in how to contribute to BrickLink.
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Agreed, but perhaps new people should not start with brand new, high-demand sets.
I wonder how this new user is going to recall his first inventory--it seems
like it may have been a little overwhelming.
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It is not the first inventory from this user.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=S&itemInvUserID=570886
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| Author: | chetzler | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2019 13:31 | | Subject: | Re: Status of Friends Central Perk 21319 | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, randyf writes:
| | In Inventories, chetzler writes:
| | Do we really need to give this person more time after there has been little-to-no
progress for a week? Surely I'm not the only seller waiting to part out
this set. I could have had it ready by now but unfortunately the rest of my
week looks busy so hopefully someone else can take over it.
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It is in BrickLink's best interest (as well as the job of the volunteer admins)
to let new people have a chance to gain knowledge in how to contribute to BrickLink.
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Agreed, but perhaps new people should not start with brand new, high-demand sets.
I wonder how this new user is going to recall his first inventory--it seems
like it may have been a little overwhelming. The first few inventories I did
were for small sets and figures that had been sitting for a while, so I didn't
feel any pressure while I was learning the process. After I was comfortable,
I had no problem turning around some larger sets (with new parts) in just a couple
of days.
I'm usually pretty patient with this stuff, but if I had known this inventory
was going to languish for so long I would have just reserved it myself--despite
my reservations about working for BL for free in its current state.
| | There is also no set-in-stone amount of time for completion of an inventory.
Therefore, this new contributor will be given a chance to correct things. As
I said before, if they are unwilling to complete the inventory or fail to do
it in an appropriate amount of time after having been notified, then the inventory
will be discarded.
|
I hope "appropriate" means "short". Also, discarding it seems like a waste,
if the current user cannot finish it, just leave it as is for someone else--if
the new person wants to start from scratch it is easy enough to so.
| |
| | I thought inventories for new, in-production sets were supposed to be completed
using a new, sealed set (not instructions like is indicated for this set). Maybe
my recall is fuzzy but I thought I read that here.
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They are. However, many new contributors do not understand the process and do
not realize that using the instruction manual along with a sealed set constitutes
selecting "Sealed Set Contents" as the source. This is not the first time or
last time that someone has done or will do this.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2019 12:13 | | Subject: | Re: Status of Friends Central Perk 21319 | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, randyf writes:
| | In Inventories, chetzler writes:
| | Do we really need to give this person more time after there has been little-to-no
progress for a week? Surely I'm not the only seller waiting to part out
this set. I could have had it ready by now but unfortunately the rest of my
week looks busy so hopefully someone else can take over it.
|
It is in BrickLink's best interest (as well as the job of the volunteer admins)
to let new people have a chance to gain knowledge in how to contribute to BrickLink.
There is also no set-in-stone amount of time for completion of an inventory.
Therefore, this new contributor will be given a chance to correct things. As
I said before, if they are unwilling to complete the inventory or fail to do
it in an appropriate amount of time after having been notified, then the inventory
will be discarded.
| | I thought inventories for new, in-production sets were supposed to be completed
using a new, sealed set (not instructions like is indicated for this set). Maybe
my recall is fuzzy but I thought I read that here.
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They are. However, many new contributors do not understand the process and do
not realize that using the instruction manual along with a sealed set constitutes
selecting "Sealed Set Contents" as the source. This is not the first time or
last time that someone has done or will do this.
Cheers,
Randy
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Maybe Bricklink should have a bounty system where anyone who wants something
inventoried can donate a dollar or two that will be paid to the person who does
the set. When there are dozens of people waiting to part it out, it wouldn't
be long before someone would want to snatch that money.
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