Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Captain_Q  | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2020 15:16 | | Subject: | Re: Labeling | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Stellar writes:
| | In Inventories, Captain_Q writes:
| | Hello everyone,
I am considering printing out labels to upgrade my currently subpar inventory
labels and I was wondering how other sellers have gone about doing that? Is
there a template somewhere provided by Bricklink I am unaware of that would be
good to work off of?
I use a lot of Akro-Mils plastic organizers, I wonder if any other sellers use
those as well?
Thank you for any information you may provide! 
Regards,
Captain Q
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These might be useful: https://brickarchitect.com/labels/
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This is what I am looking for, thank you!
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2020 15:13 | | Subject: | Re: Labeling | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| | | If you're using Avery labels you can download templates from their website.
I'm sure they would work with other labels as well.
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That is a good idea, I will look into it. Thank you!
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2020 10:31 | | Subject: | Labeling | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | Inventories | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hello everyone,
I am considering printing out labels to upgrade my currently subpar inventory
labels and I was wondering how other sellers have gone about doing that? Is
there a template somewhere provided by Bricklink I am unaware of that would be
good to work off of?
I use a lot of Akro-Mils plastic organizers, I wonder if any other sellers use
those as well?
Thank you for any information you may provide!
Regards,
Captain Q
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Mar 22, 2020 03:00 | | Subject: | Re: Clips Ahoy, part three. | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Heartbricker writes:
| | In Catalog, mfav writes:
Wondering what type camera/filters/editing programs you're using?
Your closeup pictures come out amazingly detailed.
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In Catalog, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Mfav (Mark) has been suspended from the forum so we will not know.
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Hopefully not for long. But perhaps I can shed some insight as I have a background
as a photographer/videographer.
I can't say what camera, but for pictures like this a macro lens is required
to get close in shots with tiny objects like Lego. If Mark is using a DSLR of
some kind or comparable then shooting uncompressed photos will retain sharper
images.
I can't say what filters Mark used, but a polarizer filter can help greatly
with reducing reflective / semi-reflective surfaces like Lego.
And Mark is most likely using a light box of some sort or using white surfaces
of some kind to bounce the light for even lighting/softer shadowing.
Hopefully Mark will be back to elaborate but hopefully this information is helpful
in the meantime.
-Quinton
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2020 23:05 | | Subject: | Re: Clips Ahoy, part three. | | Viewed: | 102 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog, popsicle writes:
| | In Catalog, mfav writes:
A very nice site you’re constructing. The detail of information and quality is
amazing!
I’m curious though, why do all of the active links on your fup page, link
to Law’s site, Brick Owl?
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That is a very good and important question.
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I am curious now. Is this allowed? Because the links were not directly shared
of BO but overall this seems like a conflict on interest with the TOS? Yeah,
no?
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2020 21:20 | | Subject: | Re: Persistent issues… | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| | agulus’s input in this thread has reignited a persistent and nagging thought
of mine: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1176265
It’s a valid point made by member agulus, that has unfortunately been ongoing
as an issue, in the face of contrary input towards the feedback policy.
I’ve brought it up in the past, that a neutral should be just that, neutral,
and not effect your feedback percentage number displayed, up or down.
Beyond the obvious reasons, is the fact that there are many newish buyers that
mistakenly see BL’s neutral, as neutral. Silly people  Meanwhile, it continues
to result in an amount of havoc in that arena of BrickLink.
I look forward to reading your honest thoughts
-Cory
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I think Bl's feedback system is somewhat dated. Neutral's should be
more benign rather then similar to negatives.
CURRENT BL FEEDBACK SYSTEM
Positive: accurate
Neutral: overly harsh / may encourage retaliation
Negative: accurate yet may encourage retaliation
I think emulating the eBay model would be a good adaptation. The feedback percentage
is more reflective of a seller's current feedback reputation of the last
12 months vs lifetime like on Bricklink. Meaning a single negative from 6 years
ago doesn't hold the overall feedback percentage down beyond a year, that
is if the seller has cleaned up their act and do no accrue any more negatives/neutrals.
I see frequent enough comment threads here on Bricklink that have complaints
about a seller or buyer receiving retaliation feedback or expressing fear that
they may receive one if they leave accurate feedback. Negatives are warning signs
for sellers to work harder and make improvements. But if the punishment is too
harsh then message may not be received properly.
This mindset has potential to create a retaliatory like atmosphere.
- Captain Q
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Dec 21, 2019 18:57 | | Subject: | Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL" | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In General, nectara writes:
| | In General, Teup writes:
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It's surprising you're now defending Bricklink as a cash cow because
that would mean they have plenty of budgets to solve their problems, problems
that you often seemed to just accept as the way things are.
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Bricklink it is a cash cow.
Bricklink it's a business who generate profit.
Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim bought Bricklink to make a profit.
Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim didn't want to spend his profit on Bricklink.
Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim take his profit and leave it to Lego to invest.
So, Bricklink it is a cash cow.
Regards
Nectara
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Plus, it's double dipping for Lego.
Everything on Bricklink has already been sold by TLG once.
I think they are really going to expand on that AFOL designer program from around
a half a year ago.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Nov 25, 2019 04:25 | | Subject: | Re: streamline payment process | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Akhoover writes:
| | The process for payment, when buying from multiple vendors should not be so time
consuming. I purchased from 21 vendors, still waiting to hear from one. but the
checkout time was very lengthy, possible look at how amazon checks out.
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As BrainOfTheBrick has stated, Bricklink is not like amazon but, imo, more like
a Lego flea market with thousands of different stores with a lot of different
styles of selling. Amazon can combine all your items into one purchase and potentially
combine shipping for some items, if applicable.
If you are looking for quicker ways to purchase on Bricklink then you could stick
to the Bricklink stores that use "Instant Checkout", signified by having a lightning
bolt. That way you don't have to wait for a store owner to send you a manual
invoice.
Regards,
- CaptainQ
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Aug 18, 2019 22:12 | | Subject: | Re: How much does your pet mean to you? | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| | Just had a stroke of genius (or just a stroke ) while replying to post
I would really like to see more pics of our member’s pet. What do you think about
showing or introduce your animal companion to the BL membership here on the forum?
I suggest a new forum subtopic, under Off Topic: Pets
Anecdotes and/or pics of your pets? Maybe of interrupting your lego work or other
mischief. Or just an introduction of your nonhuman companion, new or old. What
your pet did today
Even though we don't have furry companions (son's allergies) we really
enjoy animal pics and stories. Think most do, evidenced by it's popularity
on youtube.
What do think? Think there is enough interest to warrant a sub-topic in the forum?
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Captain Q approves.
Here are two kittens I am keeping of a 4 kitten litter I saved from living a
life as feral cats; named Tenshi and Quark. I found them while feeding some
feral cats. They were too young to capture right away, around 5 weeks, so I
pre-socialized them on the outside with wet food and playing with a cat favorite
toy, the fake bird on a string and stick. Had to do it at night as apartment
management disapproves of feeding the feral cats. Took some night vision video,
that I have not gotten around to editing yet.
Just noticed that the picture is rotated the wrong way, will leave it as is,
because it amuses me.
Regards,
Captain Q
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 10:31 | | Subject: | Re: Head Category Split | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | If it's not the best idea, then I can always move the three heads back to from where they came and we can pretend this never happened.
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Meh. Gave it some thought and didn't like it and changed it back. I'm
just going to retitle these heads so that they're searchable and they'll
also show up near the top of the list of heads:
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Maybe you could utilize something like ( NON-figure ) or something to that extent.
Or the ones that are not associated with figures could be moved over to ( brick,
round, decorated ) to help differentiate?
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2018 02:49 | | Subject: | Re: Display seller rating a la eBay or Amazon | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, undetected writes:
| | TL;DR: Please display the seller's positive/negative feedback ratio next
to the store name, instead of a flat feedback count.
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The feedback ratio you are requesting already exists in the form of a percentage
as "##% praise".
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2017 13:38 | | Subject: | Re: All sellers should have quote options | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| The Captain Q Bazaar utilizes this feature, and I think it is necessary to in
lieu of Instant checkout. Not every Bricklink store is the same with Policies
and ToS, and because of that it is not always clear from store to store, what
the final cost with fees and shipping prices will be upon checkout.
I would think every store would want to have this feature to make it easier for
a potential buyer to make a purchase.
But...
I will abstain from voting as believe a store should want to use this feature
but I rather they not be forced to do so for reasons I have not foreseen.
Cheers,
Captain Q
In Suggestions, mrbisco writes:
| | I'm tired of not being able to ask for a quote on an item through the system.
Twice in the last day I have sent an email to a seller asking for a quote and
then have then change the price of the item. It's making me want to just
put through the order and then cancel if I don't like the shipping terms.
Bricklink really needs to swings towards the buyers in terms of usage. Take
care of the buyers and things work out better for the sellers. Catering to the
sellers just creates a poor buying environment.
And, of course neither seller will honor the price that I was asking for a quote
on. Of course not. If the thing is in my cart waiting for a shipping quote,
they shouldn't be able to change the price.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Jun 2, 2017 23:00 | | Subject: | Bulk Feedback | | Viewed: | 101 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| LEAVING BULK FEEDBACK:
As a seller, this would be very nice to be able to leave feedback in bulk.
Also, being able to create a few preset feedback message that also can be randomly
assigned would be nice as well.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 17:37 | | Subject: | Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Shipping, QCHUCKA writes:
| | You misunderstood me, I want to change the status of all "paid" orders
with 2 clicks total into "shipped", whether it is 5 orders or 20+ not change
the status per order, one by one . Clicking submit after just one is a little
silly.
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You don't have to click submit after just one. You can pick a new status
for several orders, and then do the one submit click. So not "change status"
- "submit" - "change status" - "submit" etc, but rather "change status" - "change
status" ... - "submit".
Niek.
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"change the 'order status' of multiple orders at once?"
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 17:26 | | Subject: | Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Vegitt writes:
| | Its currently 2 clicks per order - one to select the dropdown, one to select
status.
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This is the problem, this is very slow and inefficient. I have currently sold
over 3000 orders on Bricklink over the past couple of years and those 2 clicks
per order turn out to be 6000 clicks when that could be reduced considerably.
That is a little bit of extra time that can be allocated to more important tasks.
| | I don't see how a different method would save a lot of clicks, you
would still need to select which orders you are changing the status on. Now maybe
if there were hundreds of orders a day needing to be changed I can see how this
would be a benefit, but I'm guessing its not that many.
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I change the status of some orders that I receive payment, one by one. No way
around that with BLs current system, though Paypal Onsite/Stripe cut down on
that considerably, nothing to be done about money orders and checks. But once
I have all my orders that have their status already set to Paid and since I ship
them all at once it would be nice to change the status of all the orders from
paid to shipped. The other websites I sell Lego on, allow for this. Bricklink
does not.
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Maybe I'm just having a bad day and not understanding things.
In Suggestions, Admin_Jaclyn writes:
| | Hi Captain Q,
You can do as Vegitt has suggested but I think you wanted a way to apply a status
to multiple orders without having to use the drop-down for each, saving many
clicks - correct? I changed this post to a suggestion so people can vote.
Thanks!
In Suggestions, QCHUCKA writes:
| | Greetings good citizen of Bricklink forums,
I have been wondering for some time, is there a way to change the "order status"
of multiple orders at once? It would be nice to change all orders that are
packed/paid to "shipped" when the time is right. Is there a way to do this
that I don't see? It gets tedious changing the status one by one.
Thank you! 
Cheers,
Captain Q
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 17:15 | | Subject: | Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| You misunderstood me, I want to change the status of all "paid" orders
with 2 clicks total into "shipped", whether it is 5 orders or 20+ not change
the status per order, one by one . Clicking submit after just one is a little
silly.
In Shipping, Vegitt writes:
| | Just select shipped from the dropdown next to each order you want to change then
press submit, no need to press submit after each order.
In Shipping, QCHUCKA writes:
| | Greetings good citizen of Bricklink forums,
I have been wondering for some time, is there a way to change the "order status"
of multiple orders at once? It would be nice to change all orders that are
packed/paid to "shipped" when the time is right. Is there a way to do this
that I don't see? It gets tedious changing the status one by one.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Captain Q
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 17:10 | | Subject: | Re: ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Thanks for the response.
When I come home after shipping all my orders, I go to Orders Received page
and make sure to only see "Paid" orders or "Not Yet Shipped" being they are
all the orders I just shipped. The current system only allows for changing
one order at a time from "Paid" to "Shipped" when I would like to change all
order statuses at the same time.
(refer to picture)
For example, in Gmail, you can select a toggle on the left side of the screen
to select all emails. Then you may change the status to "unread", "read" etc.
I would like to have some similar functionality to eliminate the tedium.
Cheers,
Captain Q
n Suggestions, Admin_Jaclyn writes:
| | Hi Vegitt,
What I'm thinking of (and possibly what QCHUCKA meant) is something which
would allow you to select all orders in a certain status (for example, all orders
in "Packed" status) and have them update to the next available status (Shipped)
with one click. How it is now, a seller who ships many orders per day has to
manually click the drop-down menu & select the new status for each order individually,
then submit changes at the end.
Let me know if I'm misunderstanding but I think it's a great suggestion!
Thanks!
-Jaclyn
BrickLink Customer Support
In Suggestions, Vegitt writes:
| | Its currently 2 clicks per order - one to select the dropdown, one to select
status. I don't see how a different method would save a lot of clicks, you
would still need to select which orders you are changing the status on. Now maybe
if there were hundreds of orders a day needing to be changed I can see how this
would be a benefit, but I'm guessing its not that many.
Maybe I'm just having a bad day and not understanding things.
In Suggestions, Admin_Jaclyn writes:
| | Hi Captain Q,
You can do as Vegitt has suggested but I think you wanted a way to apply a status
to multiple orders without having to use the drop-down for each, saving many
clicks - correct? I changed this post to a suggestion so people can vote.
Thanks!
In Suggestions, QCHUCKA writes:
| | Greetings good citizen of Bricklink forums,
I have been wondering for some time, is there a way to change the "order status"
of multiple orders at once? It would be nice to change all orders that are
packed/paid to "shipped" when the time is right. Is there a way to do this
that I don't see? It gets tedious changing the status one by one.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Captain Q
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2017 02:38 | | Subject: | ORDER STATUS: change multiple at once | | Viewed: | 124 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Greetings good citizen of Bricklink forums,
I have been wondering for some time, is there a way to change the "order status"
of multiple orders at once? It would be nice to change all orders that are
packed/paid to "shipped" when the time is right. Is there a way to do this
that I don't see? It gets tedious changing the status one by one.
Thank you!
Cheers,
Captain Q
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Oct 26, 2015 20:51 | | Subject: | Re: Customs fraud | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, fosterbengoshI wrote:
| | Like other sellers, buyers
have actually told me that they will order elsewhere if I don't commit customs
fraud for them. These are buyers who places large orders for hundreds of dollars
per order and then want me to declare it as a $10 gift from a friend. Several
couple of hundred dollar orders adds up to be a lot of pizzas every year. And
I am just one seller. Your math is completely made up.
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How often does this happen? I can remember buyers asking for me to under-declare
MAYBE 5 or 6 times in all the time I have been selling on BrickLink. I glanced
through my last 250 orders. 47 of them were for over $100. Of these 250, 1 person
asked for a lower amount on the customs form.
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Marc.
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I use to have this happen to me on several different occasions. The buyer would
request that I declare a significantly lesser value then what they wished to
order and also have me claim it was a gift and state on the custom forms "old
used plastic toys" instead of lego. I refused as I wish to not get in trouble
over such matters with the authorities. After the same request happened several
more times, I noticed a pattern and the pattern was the requests came from the
same handful of countries.
My solution, I no longer ship to these countries as well I made it clear in
my ToS that I will not lie on customs forms. It proved to be good solution as
I have not had a request to lie on customs since December of 2014 and for the
last 800 or so orders I have received.
I ship to most countries, and I use to ship to all countries. Until too many
customers representative of their nation bring problems that give cause to revoke
shipping privileges.
Another problem that became resolved, customers from those same countries would
request shipping quotes for large orders and then rarely would follow through.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2015 12:35 | | Subject: | Re: Marc is a fool | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DadsAFOL writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, DadsAFOL writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, DadsAFOL writes:
| | In Suggestions, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Suggestion: only moderators can change the subject line.
The past couple of weeks I noticed that some posters in the forum frequently
change the subject line. This is not a good thing. For instance:
The original post was: "Does this qualify for an NSS". But then somebody changed
it to "Seller does not respond".
This is very confusing for anybody and especially for new users.
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+1
I agree. "Instant Checkout" started as something else as well. Don't we
have forum moderators any more?
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I don't understand what makes it confusing.
If the topic of a new message is different than it was before, it makes sense
to change the subject line. And if a message is a reply to a previous message,
it makes sense for it to be threaded properly.
--
Marc.
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For an innocent derailment, sure. But most of the time that "feature" is used
by someone to argue their point. Better to let a mod keep an eye on things and
change the title when relevant.
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Okay. That's a different reason than "It's confusing".
The fact that someone can reply to this message and change the subject line to
"Marc is a fool" doesn't particularly bother me.
--
Marc.
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Sorry, had to be done.
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+1
Lol
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2015 12:31 | | Subject: | Hamster Vs Gerbil: Gladiator fight to death Part 2 | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobErNat writes:
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Wait untill someone changes the topic, the you'll be lost 
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Or if the new subject were to cross threads.
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Marc.
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Crossing threads? As long as it is not as dangerous as crossing streams.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2015 12:17 | | Subject: | Re: Re: Bacon Obstacle course for Gerbils - Party | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, Stragus writes:
| | In Suggestions, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Suggestion: only moderators can change the subject line.
The past couple of weeks I noticed that some posters in the forum frequently
change the subject line. This is not a good thing. For instance:
The original post was: "Does this qualify for an NSS". But then somebody changed
it to "Seller does not respond".
This is very confusing for anybody and especially for new users.
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Agreed, it's harder to keep track of replies even if you know how the system
works.
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Lol. This thread is almost guaranteed to end up with the most subject changes
of any discussion in BrickLink history.
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Marc.
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Point has been made. Voted Yes.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2015 12:03 | | Subject: | Re: Allow changing the subject line? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Suggestion: only moderators can change the subject line.
The past couple of weeks I noticed that some posters in the forum frequently
change the subject line. This is not a good thing. For instance:
The original post was: "Does this qualify for an NSS". But then somebody changed
it to "Seller does not respond".
This is very confusing for anybody and especially for new users.
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Fair suggestion.
Sorry I felt it was ironically funny to change the subject title for this thread.
It seems strange that even the "Re:" component can be removed from a title if
it is still a response to another message.
Why not just make a completely different thread if you want to change the subject?
That is why I sort of agree with this.
Only sort of because it becomes its on subthread that is still related to the
main thread and people can enter that new related subthread if they like to or
not.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2015 18:26 | | Subject: | Re: A Suggestion to Help Prevent New Scam Stores | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
| | There are two problems:
1. new sellers have to start somewhere, if they can't sell, they cannot get selling feedback.
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They can earn feedback from experienced buyers ( the majority of the current
users I would say) who would toggle the setting to off.
and
also from buying. A scammer won't waste time to buy.
| | 2. If BL refers to a user as a trusted seller, then a user that is later scammed may have a claim against BL, for indicating
that the seller was to be trusted.
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Ok change the label to something different - "Sellers with Feedback of 5 or
more"
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Sep 6, 2015 17:39 | | Subject: | Re: A Suggestion to Help Prevent New Scam Stores | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| TRUSTED SELLERS SETTING:
The admins should create a new setting for everybody that only items from trusted
sellers are visible. A trusted seller being a person with at least 5, maybe 10
positive feedback.
They could create a toggle setting for on or off with default set to on. So
newbies wont know about it till they look around and so scammers can't prey
on them initially.
It can be turned off by an experienced buyer who knows what to look out for.
Hopefully this will at least turn away the lazy scammers not willing to build
up feedback.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Aug 27, 2015 16:49 | | Subject: | Re: Prohibit Vigilante Orders | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, prairie writes:
| | In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:
| | For one thing, the vigilante may turn out to be incorrect in believing a new
seller to be a scammer. By placing his bogus order, the vigilante harms the new
seller, buyers who might otherwise order from such seller, and the vigilante
himself who now risks an NPB or legal action for breach of contract.
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It'd only be fair to hold the buyer to their commitment, or if they made
a knowingly fraudulent offer to buy everything, show them the door just as they
wanted done for the alleged scammer.
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I am the person in question. And if the items were legitimate I would have definitely
bought some of them since the prices were absurdly good. I would have requested
to change my order to be quite a bit less.
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| Author: | Captain_Q | | Posted: | Aug 27, 2015 15:50 | | Subject: | Re: Prohibit Vigilante Orders | | Viewed: | 104 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:
| | BrickLink should prohibit vigilante orders like the one noted in this thread:
http://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=193629
Vigilante orders are bogus orders members place with a store they believe to
be a scammer with the intent to protect other members from being scammed before
BrickLink has time to act on any complaints about such a store. While vigilantes
may claim their intentions are good, I believe there are too many risks and potential
problems with self-appointing oneself as cop, prosecutor, judge and jury in such
a manner.
For one thing, the vigilante may turn out to be incorrect in believing a new
seller to be a scammer. By placing his bogus order, the vigilante harms the new
seller, buyers who might otherwise order from such seller, and the vigilante
himself who now risks an NPB or legal action for breach of contract.
Second, these vigilante orders mess up the Price Guide by validating the bogus
prices to the detriment of others who rely on the Price Guide later.
As others said, two wrongs don't make a right. Placing an order is a binding
contract and, regardless of your reasons, it is just plain wrong to place an
order without any intent of following through with it.
Allowing these vigilante orders will create further problems down the road. If
you justify vigilante orders for new sellers who are thought to be scammers,
someone later on will justify them for not-so-new sellers whose terms they subjectively
believe are invalid, or for seller they think take too long to ship, or for sellers
they believe don't honor PayPal's terms, etc., etc. Once you allow these
vigilante orders, where do you draw the line?
BrickLink should never delegate to any member the power to shut down a store.
Allowing these vigilante orders would effectively make every member an Admin
with the ability to shut down any store they want if they subjectively feel they
are helping other members by doing so. This is a dangerous slippery slope that
should stay exclusively within BrickLink's power.
As such, any member caught making a vigilante order should receive an automatic
NPB.
Thor
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Yes, you make some valid points I agree that my action was not necessarily the
best choice to take. But I saw what I perceived as a live grenade with it's
pinned pulled. I chose to land on that grenade so other buyers would not potentially
be hit with the explosive fallout and thankfully it was a dud and the admins
saw that and combined his current store into his previous suspended store.
But I didn't do it without consideration. I saw a multitude of flags that
screamed out that this guy was a scammer.
The Facts
1. - he has zero feedback (doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it does
not help his case)
2. - he has an awful lot of inventory value for someone that is new (always suspicious)
3. - someone found that he was associated with several other stores that have
been closed/suspended
4. - I have emailed the said scammer back and forth before and after my "purchase".
I have caught him in several lies in regards to the suspension, about having
multiple accounts, etc.
5. - he claims "I'm a supplier of Ed Padol ( brick dudes ) and Vincent from
Asia." (which seem a highly dubious claim considering he has multiple suspended
stores)
Perhaps I should be punished with an NPB or something of the sort, I took the
risk and I will take any punishment that fits. I have no marks on my account
at this point, so it would be my first.
I think your energy is misplaced tbh. To me, this is a cry out for a restructuring
of how anybody can create a store. I think there needs to be some preventative
measure put in place, because this scammer has created multiple stores before
and will most likely do it again. Because clearly he has made some money doing
it and has been basically slapped on the wrist over and over.
The important question is what can be done to prevent these people from creating
new stores? I don't have a solution
I ask another question. If you see someone getting mugged in the street, do
you sit back and call the cops and wait for them to help, even though they are
most likely minutes away? Or would you perhaps intervene? This is clearly not
the same situation, but similarly injustice is taking place.
Thankfully the admins were prompt, but lets say that they were not and his store
remained open for any number of more days. I would have felt bad if even one
person was scammed, knowing I could have done something to stop it.
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