| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bricksinbins  | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2020 08:37 | | Subject: | Re: Do not default new parts as weight bound | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | Hmm, I never really understood these "volume bound" and "weight bound" concepts
very well, so I'm not an expert, but I feel like parts that don't have
packing measurements entered should just have some kind of default large size.
If parts are going to disqualify IC entirely, it means they cannot be bought
in my store, and that's not a good user experience either. Someone pointed
out a set to me that IC didn't accept and it has been taking up space for
several years because it was impossible to buy it, and all that time I had no
idea.
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Or maybe what you suggest is OK but then there should at least be
| | a warning for the seller or something like that.
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The root of the problem here is that the BL people came up with this idea that
volume/dimensions don't really matter. That every part can basically conform
to a sheet/pile of sand. They don't seem to understand that dimensions AND
weight matters in most of the world when it comes to shipping things. BO does
not have this problem, there it "just works".
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| Author: | bricksinbins | | Posted: | Apr 13, 2020 09:06 | | Subject: | Re: Just an idea about Neutral Feedback! | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| | The topic of Neutral feedback and how they are seen as minor negatives comes
up
quite a lot and although I’m sure this idea may not go down well with some....
I think one interesting concept could be to make it so that after 3 months any
feedback
that has not been left automatically turns into a Neutral which would probably
mean about 30% of any sellers feedback will no doubt be made up of Neutrals which
might then make leaving a manual Neutral seem less Negative and more acceptable
for a buyer to submit and for a seller to receive?
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And same should apply to buyers too, right? Sellers stop leaving feedback and
every buyer ends up with all neutrals. That oughta be fair.
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| Author: | bricksinbins | | Posted: | Feb 3, 2020 08:19 | | Subject: | Re: Nougat is the new Flesh | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| I think the point here is that any changes, big or small, should be communicated
better than a post on the forum that most will never see.
Very glad about the color changes though. Calling something Medium Dark is an
abomination. As if there's a light dark and a dark dark too?!?
Ken
In Colors, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Colors, BigBBricks writes:
| | In Colors, Admin_Russell writes:
| | For those who may have missed this recent change, we have decided to change the
name "Flesh" to another color name in the BrickLink catalog. I'm not going
to get into the reasons why this was done - the purpose here is to inform you
of what the changes were and how they may affect your BrickLink user experience.
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Russell, is there any way in the future we can be alerted to major changes like
this through the new email alert system we were asked to sign up for?
For many of us adding or changing a color is important to know about since it
concerns inventory for sale and the forum is difficult to track if it is not
kept up with.
Thank you for the consideration,
Big B
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We have talked about a notification system for years where not only would you
be altered to major changes but also small changes that might affect you as a
seller of "X" in a big way. Sellers of course would be able to opt in / opt out
of notifications on several levels, including whether they had a given item (or
color) in stock.
However, one of our goals in any catalog work (which by its nature involves change)
is to minimize the impact that the changes will have on sellers. So in regard
to this change, the effects of it were weighed up. We had two major colors that
got a name adjustment that shouldn't have caused any serious seller any trouble.
And the other changes (though major) affected a relatively small number of listings.
If we decided to call the new colors Light Gray, Dark Gray, and Brown, and put
the distinguishing terms on the old colors (Light Yellowish Gray, Dark Yellowish
Gray, Stately Brown), THAT would be a huge process that involved an extensive
notification procedure.
But if we changed all "Gray" to "Grey", it would almost be worth not mentioning.
The "Flesh" name we handled today is somewhere between the two in actual effect
on sellers, but I would say much closer to Gray / Grey in scale.
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| Author: | bricksinbins | | Posted: | Aug 28, 2018 08:48 | | Subject: | Re: The plight of part 44567 | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, mockingbird writes:
| | I think it is not wise to put some meaning to an itemID. So the change of the
a and b version should not have happened, in my opinion. Even if in other parts
the itemIDs were assigned chronologically.
Also I think the catalog should keep the 'undetermined' versions of parts.
Because: -not all set inventories have the specified mold varients
-not all sellers want to differentiate between small mold varients, and they
should be able to (or must) list as undetermined.
-not all buyers care about the mold varient, they should be able to buy 'undetermined'.
(Ideally if you choose undetermined all versions would show up)
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This ^^
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| Author: | bricksinbins | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2018 11:44 | | Subject: | Re: Not happy with instant checkout GUI at all | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| There is definitely room for a lot of improvements. Much of the site is plagued
with "developer UI". Things work (mostly) but it's all very inefficient to
use and far from practical. This is usually the result of the developers not
actually using what they make. I have seen this in other fields of software development
also.
BL management overall seem very disinterested in improving things. New half baked
stuff is being added and then mostly left like that. IC, as an example, still
needs many fixes and improvements but no sign from BL that they will address
the problems.
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No responses yet? I find it a small but crucial point. Even just now I was staring
at my list of received orders for 10 sec to make sure that there is nothing I
need to do for an order in the list that I overlooked. Things used to be much
clearer before instant checkout. Just spot anything "pending" and "updated",
sort it, put it on ready. Instead of checking out which "ready"-order really
is ready and requires action from the buyers side and, and which "ready" order
isn't actually ready and requires me to sort it.
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