Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 08:53 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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Edge is playing games with the images try this one.
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Something is weird indeed. Are you sure the titles are correct?
Because, as I read the charts, your bricks have more value than your sets: the
average value (value / qty) of your sets is 0.? / 1 (below 1) while the average
value of your bricks is 49.67 / 45 (greater than 1).
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We do not sell sets - only the odd polybag so our bricks, which are in the 100's
of thousands always have much greater value in sales than our sets.
IN other word the 2nd chart shows the % of sales value represented by each product
family. Bricks and plates are 1st and 2bd and so ob,
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, firestar246 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Our inventory is in direct proportion to this little chart and has been for many
years. It will be differnt breakdowns by different regions, store specialisation
etc.
Our product families are our own internal 1 level up from Bricklink categories
e.g Bricks equals all the sub undeer bricks e.g modified, round etc.
Anybody else produce data like this? I am pretty sure qwertyboy does - right
Niek ?
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To make sure I'm reading this right, this is based on "times sold", not "value"?
So if this is based off the sales of a 100 items, 8 of those would be minifigures?
I'd be curious to see how a value pie chart based off of the same sales would
differ from this one. My guess is the minifigure pie slice would be quite bigger.
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You are
Now look at the Value % as below:
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Edge is playing games with the images try this one.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 08:13 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, firestar246 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Our inventory is in direct proportion to this little chart and has been for many
years. It will be differnt breakdowns by different regions, store specialisation
etc.
Our product families are our own internal 1 level up from Bricklink categories
e.g Bricks equals all the sub undeer bricks e.g modified, round etc.
Anybody else produce data like this? I am pretty sure qwertyboy does - right
Niek ?
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To make sure I'm reading this right, this is based on "times sold", not "value"?
So if this is based off the sales of a 100 items, 8 of those would be minifigures?
I'd be curious to see how a value pie chart based off of the same sales would
differ from this one. My guess is the minifigure pie slice would be quite bigger.
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You are
Now look at the Value % as below:
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 07:50 | | Subject: | 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 297 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Our inventory is in direct proportion to this little chart and has been for many
years. It will be differnt breakdowns by different regions, store specialisation
etc.
Our product families are our own internal 1 level up from Bricklink categories
e.g Bricks equals all the sub undeer bricks e.g modified, round etc.
Anybody else produce data like this? I am pretty sure qwertyboy does - right
Niek ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2022 02:54 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ZorBeast writes:
| | It is a far fetched hope but I have worked on multiple ERP systems in many different
roles and most recently an SAP implementation. To be blunt this doesnt come close
to an ERP system, even the DOS based ones had seperate sales and inventory management
databases. A real ERP system like SAP would be nice, looking at you TLG (LEGO
has SAP). Multiple lots per one product, multiple bin locations, cost field for
purchase and one for labor, reporting tools.
In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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If only - we work with Microsoft GP and even their inventory management is leap
years in front of what we have here. Min/Max stock; min max price; ABC analysis,
Product Familes (User defined; Bin no etc., etc
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2022 02:51 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Yo_Yo_Flamingo writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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1. Metrics to display sales figures and what parts/sets are your best sellers.
This is a huge one.
2. Shipping zones for Auto-Checkout that ACTUALLY WORK for us here in the states...
Should have been remedied years ago...
3. The ability to combine duplicate lots in your inventory with a click of a
button.
4. The ability to part out sets at X% of the 6mo average. I love Bricstore, but
would rather be able to do it all in BL.
5. A way to put items that have been in your store for a certain amount of time
on sale, and keep increasing the sale until they sell.
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IN the main agreed, we would also like to see a simp-le click to ensure all prices
are set to x decimal places.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:09 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | Excellent idea !!
I am really often looking at Google Maps, where I copy and paste the address
of a buyer from a received order, to confirm it is exact. I know the region is
always added on the address, but some of them contains symbols, slash... and
my post office only accept letters and numbers, so I am always "translating"
addresses for the shipping form.
Nicolas
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We do something similar
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:08 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, utlf writes:
| | I'd like to see an "active carts" counter, where it tells you how many people
have items in their cart from your store - BrickOwl has this and it's a pretty
good feature imo
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Interesting - that one has not been brought up before.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:07 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ZwarteMagica writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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If orders are payed via Paypal onsite or another onsite payment methode (with
or without taxation) make sure the address from the buyer used in the order matches
the address used with PayPal.
Also start using some kind of standard for addressing. I know there is nothing
official, but for example ISO 19160 for every address in BrickLink/Paypal could
help avoiding mistakes or confusions.
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Lots of people have suggested that one. Agreed.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:06 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, novabrick writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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Basic abbilities to syncronize adresses with shipping services. I mean I'm
used to copy the adresses by hand but it would be nice if some automation was
possible.
I think other sites have at least something like this already.
Christian
novabrick-team
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Ok - I agree with that - the current address validation between BL and Paypal
for onsite is not working properly unless you change the address on the order
to match a Paypal address.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 08:43 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LeeGo73 writes:
| | Automatic removal of an NSS when the buyer has been fully refunded through the
'manage refund' page with payment method 'paypal (onsite)' for
the given order.
At the moment sellers are dependent for removal from either a not-responding
buyer or the not-responding BL helpdesk.
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Interesting point - thanks. We would also like to see a complete revamp of the
problem processes - some are too long winded some are not stiff enough etc.
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In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 08:01 | | Subject: | Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 209 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 14, 2022 02:27 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | NO longer supports windows 7 (all 100 million + of us)
Not the best decision Windows 10 and 11 are two of the most invasive products
Microsoft has ever produced - we won't be changing os just to accommodate
Brickstore
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Software changes.
MacOS no longer supports 32-bit applications.
So, no LEGO Digital Designer, BrickSmith, LPub, etc.
A lot of LDraw tools are broken.
But Studio is being actively maintained/developed and can do many of the things
those old programs can do and more.
I know many are still using older versions of MacOS/Windows, but maintaining
backward compatibility while updating the software to run on current machines
is challenging. Sacrifices must be made.
That being said, BrickStore is still available for many operating systems (Android,
Debian, iOS, Linux, etc.)
Just not Windows 7.
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Yeah all 100+ million of us. Poor decision especially as Microsoft are still
supporting Windows 7 (Those that have paid extra to maintain that support). Sounds
fair doesn't it.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2022 09:22 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, peregrinator writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | We think BS should continue to support windows 7 - they are abandoning over 100
million users (who also continue to use Windows 7)
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Perhaps BrickStore supporting Windows 7 is difficult when there is no official
support from MS?
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Pssibly but the way the notice r4eads it is more to do with an app store.
"This comes with a lot of advantages, but also disadvantages for a few users.
The disadvantages:
Windows 7, 8.1 and macOS 10.13 are no longer supported, as they have been discontinued
by their respective vendors. Support for these platforms will not come back!
32bit Windows (x86) is no longer offered as pre-built package to download. Qt
(the library BrickStore is built upon) doesn't offer an installer for this
platform anymore, because there are too few users left using it. Getting BrickStore
running on a 32bit Windows 10 is technically possible, but you are on your own
here, having to build Qt 6.2.4 plus BrickStore yourself.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2022 09:07 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, Poncke writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | NO longer supports windows 7 (all 100 million + of us)
Not the best decision Windows 10 and 11 are two of the most invasive products
Microsoft has ever produced - we won't be changing os just to accommodate
Brickstore
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Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020
So not only are you putting yourself at risk, but why do you hold it against
Brickstore for not supporting W7 but you are OK with Microsoft not supporting
W7, which is a much bigger issue for you.
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We are not really at risk with windows 7 we have adequate protection - Brickstore
, on the other hand seem to think the world is moving to app stores (which is
not the case for PC applications).
We think BS should continue to support windows 7 - they are abandoning over 100
million users (who also continue to use Windows 7)
We are far from being a Microsoft fan and we have been one of their partners
since 2000.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2022 08:33 | | Subject: | Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 220 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| NO longer supports windows 7 (all 100 million + of us)
Not the best decision Windows 10 and 11 are two of the most invasive products
Microsoft has ever produced - we won't be changing os just to accommodate
Brickstore
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| In Catalog Identification, Ber_i writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, calsbricks writes:
| | Some time ago we parted out 8 Small super hero sets which, in theory gave us
8 sh077 minifigs
They sat in our inventory f0r a while until someone bought 2 of them. We shipped
them out along with some other bits and got a message back from the buyer that
1 of the sh077's had an incorrect hair piece. He included a photo which clearly
shows item 92081 rather than 98726. We could not understand how that happened,
so we went to the other 6 and 2 of those also had what appears to be an alternate
hair piece. No mention of this anywhere that I can find - should there be an
alternate or a note
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Did you partout
This set contains a loose and .
maybe the parts got mixed up in your inventory.
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Hiya and thanks for the thoughts. Actually, it was set 76003 - We thought the
same as y ou
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| Some time ago we parted out 8 Small super hero sets which, in theory gave us
8 sh077 minifigs
They sat in our inventory f0r a while until someone bought 2 of them. We shipped
them out along with some other bits and got a message back from the buyer that
1 of the sh077's had an incorrect hair piece. He included a photo which clearly
shows item 92081 rather than 98726. We could not understand how that happened,
so we went to the other 6 and 2 of those also had what appears to be an alternate
hair piece. No mention of this anywhere that I can find - should there be an
alternate or a note
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 10:05 | | Subject: | Re: 'everything shop' spam | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, bengreen28 writes:
| | I got one as well, someone in India looking at the end of the message, it did
specify certain sets that I had in my store, not sure if anyone else had sets
mentioned but the one they did from my store was the hogwarts express.
In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, alexwilcox writes:
| | I feel so honoured! I finally got the 'everything shop' spam message
that a lot of other members have been getting.
mine was from 'wspam_97raj.fr' - so seems like they're not even trying
very hard - even including spam in the name of the account!
I've obviously reported it but surely bricklink can do something to prevent
all these obvious spam accounts being setup in the first place?
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Must be the UK's day for all this.
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OUrs mentioned sets and polybags. Real pity Bricklink cannot do more about this
kind of thing - it is genuinely a nuisane
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 09:02 | | Subject: | Re: 'everything shop' spam | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, alexwilcox writes:
| | I feel so honoured! I finally got the 'everything shop' spam message
that a lot of other members have been getting.
mine was from 'wspam_97raj.fr' - so seems like they're not even trying
very hard - even including spam in the name of the account!
I've obviously reported it but surely bricklink can do something to prevent
all these obvious spam accounts being setup in the first place?
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Must be the UK's day for all this.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 08:31 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, calsbricks writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, calsbricks writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | you should promote other websites on here more often, everyone loves it
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I just knew someone would react that way. Actually it doesn't offer a link
to any other site so just like mentioning ebay and others it is just a bit of
spam but it came through the bricklink message system
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so...
you recieved this email, reported it as spam & are happy all of the 'members'
involved in sending it have been reported, you thought the best idea was to copy
& paste the exact thing you reported someone else for & publicly post it directly
to the forum...
... absolutely genius..
hope no one reports you for doing the exact same thing .. publicly in the forum
.. that you reported others for doing privately in direct messages..
*facepalm
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If you wish to be pedantic we received this Bricklinnk message and it has been
reported in full. What you make of it is your business not ours. The UK has not
been hit with this yet whereas they have started in the US and Canada, The post,
is a warning as to how these things take shape aned most people, not all, will
take it that way.
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if what we make of it is our business & not yours ..
geez, if only we weren't communicating via the Public Forum you decided to
post this in..
but hey..
you do you..
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And it appears you do you . Lets leave it at that.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 08:24 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, calsbricks writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | you should promote other websites on here more often, everyone loves it
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I just knew someone would react that way. Actually it doesn't offer a link
to any other site so just like mentioning ebay and others it is just a bit of
spam but it came through the bricklink message system
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so...
you recieved this email, reported it as spam & are happy all of the 'members'
involved in sending it have been reported, you thought the best idea was to copy
& paste the exact thing you reported someone else for & publicly post it directly
to the forum...
... absolutely genius..
hope no one reports you for doing the exact same thing .. publicly in the forum
.. that you reported others for doing privately in direct messages..
*facepalm
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If you wish to be pedantic we received this Bricklinnk message and it has been
reported in full. What you make of it is your business not ours. The UK has not
been hit with this yet whereas they have started in the US and Canada, The post,
is a warning as to how these things take shape aned most people, not all, will
take it that way.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 08:00 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | Some of us received exactly the same email.
I think Every "member" has been reported. I reported it
Sincerely,
Nicolas
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Great the more the merrier.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 07:59 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | you should promote other websites on here more often, everyone loves it
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I just knew someone would react that way. Actually it doesn't offer a link
to any other site so just like mentioning ebay and others it is just a bit of
spam but it came through the bricklink message system
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 07:47 | | Subject: | Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 435 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| Hey CalsBricks
I was looking at a few of your products especially Winter Soldier polybag & wanted
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 13:14 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
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Lo and behold BT (our ISP) have just admitted to Microsoft introducing a junk
filter rule that moves anything that has the word invoice in it.Good grief -
there were all the invoices in my online junk folders. Would you credit it.
Tha
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Yeah, there’s lot of “we know better than you what you need and we won’t tell
you when we change things” going around.
I had something similar happen to me a few years back: my ISP decided to add
folders (spam, commercial…) with automatic filtering and without telling me.
Mimicking some bigger guy I guess.
Not a big problem if you use their webmail or IMAP that see/show the folders…
but I use POP (direct download of the e-mails in the inbox to my machine) so
it took me some time to understand that some e-mails didn’t pass by the inbox
(I wasn’t aware there were lost e-mails).
I then checked another e-mail provider… and, of course, same for them.
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. *sigh* All those princes(ses) I could have helped with their money…. *sigh*
The tech support person at BT was not aware of the changes or new rules - it
is only when she spoke to her supervisor that it came out so communications has
a lot to do with it as well. Still one day the world will believe that communications
is vital no matter what is going on
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 13:10 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, MMillere writes:
| | Had the same problem recently.
Mark found that our email provider GoDaddy, switched to Office 365 Mail and 'some'
of the BL mail was going to the spam folder.
Milissa
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Lo and behold BT (our ISP) have just admitted to Microsoft introducing a junk
filter rule that moves anything that has the word invoice in it.Good grief -
there were all the invoices in my online junk folders. Would you credit it.
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Oh God - In a general meaning, avoid the big data companies for your pro e-mail,
as outlook, gmail, hotmail... that DO filter your e-mails on whatever their reason
and without telling you or having a way to set/rest this.
There are tons of reliable free e-mail provider (like gmx), or with a bit of
payment, we're at infomaniak for example.
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Too much invested in curent iSP - both here and our mainline business. To be
fair to them we rarely have any problems but since they moved to office 365 they
haven't been great so it is more a microsoft thing than BT.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 12:27 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, MMillere writes:
| | Had the same problem recently.
Mark found that our email provider GoDaddy, switched to Office 365 Mail and 'some'
of the BL mail was going to the spam folder.
Milissa
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Lo and behold BT (our ISP) have just admitted to Microsoft introducing a junk
filter rule that moves anything that has the word invoice in it.Good grief -
there were all the invoices in my online junk folders. Would you credit it.
Tha
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 06:09 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, brac.brick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
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When you send the invoice, make sure you have this box checked, "E-Mail Me a
Copy"
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Have that and also the setting that says set that as default. Thamls fpr the
thoughts
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Have you cleared your cache and set Bricklink as a safe sender in your email
provider? For a time, I found all mine were going to Spam, so I set up a filter
to send them to my Bricklink folder in my email. Also try unchecking the box
"email me a copy and then rechecking it.
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Tried unchecking the default box and then rechecking but not the specific box
on the invoice. Will try that - also did all the other things - none of which
worked. Contacted isp they are not causing the issue - the messages are not getting
to them. Really odd nearly 11 years and no issues and now ....
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 8, 2022 23:43 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
|
When you send the invoice, make sure you have this box checked, "E-Mail Me a
Copy"
|
Have that and also the setting that says set that as default. Thamls fpr the
thoughts
|
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 8, 2022 23:23 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
|
When you send the invoice, make sure you have this box checked, "E-Mail Me a
Copy"
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Have that and also the setting that says set that as default. Tjamls fpr the
thoughts
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 8, 2022 23:01 | | Subject: | 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 107 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
|
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 11:18 | | Subject: | Re: No copy invoices for several days now | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, peregrinator writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, fritsp writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Anyone else experiencing this. Buyers get their copy but copy to seller is not
arriving.
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Works fine for me. I am using automated immediate invoices.
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Our isp (BT) are not receiving them to forward on. Hmmm
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Possible they're subscribed to a blacklist and BL is on it?
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Get all other emails/messages - just no invoices.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 11:16 | | Subject: | Re: Pleasse explain | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, randyf writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | Just noticed we have a new category under super heroes Super Heroes Girls -
Shouldn't this be Super heroes: Girls not a Top level entry ?
|
Where do you see this?
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https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=M&catString=893
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 09:43 | | Subject: | Re: No copy invoices for several days now | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, fritsp writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Anyone else experiencing this. Buyers get their copy but copy to seller is not
arriving.
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Works fine for me. I am using automated immediate invoices.
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Our isp (BT) are not receiving them to forward on. Hmmm
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 09:24 | | Subject: | Pleasse explain | | Viewed: | 195 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Just noticed we have a new category under super heroes Super Heroes Girls -
Shouldn't this be Super heroes: Girls not a Top level entry ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 09:22 | | Subject: | No copy invoices for several days now | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Anyone else experiencing this. Buyers get their copy but copy to seller is not
arriving.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 09:05 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, popsicle writes:
| | In Technical Issues, calsbricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
|
No one can - thanks for your comments randy. Lots is going on and in time all
wail be revealed, but things do take time especially with the small development
team that is available and the compliance issues which continue to take time.
BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG. Lots has already
changed with the sales tax and vat implementations and more is going to in due
course and after thorough testing has taken place. Patience is a virtue etc etc
etc.
TLG are very much working on lots of good things for all of us.
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Another one, albeit more flowery 
I believe Ole is correct with "on it's fourth owner by now" Didn't Jay
acquired ownership from Dan's parents? Eliska was nonetheless at the helm
as CEO for a time.
btw, not cool correcting another's details to dismiss the more salient
point being made.
-popsicle
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I wont rise to the snide comment -
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, infinibrix writes:
| | In Technical Issues, popsicle writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
|
| | | | There is a lot going on behind the scenes that you have no idea of.
|
Very hush-hush, I'm sure
| | There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't say more for now.
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Highly classified stuff, no doubt: https://youtu.be/MnWSI-PVl1s?t=22
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Yes, yes and its very important that I make you all aware that I know what’s
going on without actually telling you what’s going on as it gives me a huge sense
of importance you see! 
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who me or rnady ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 07:14 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
|
You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
|
No one can - thanks for your comments randy. Lots is going on and in time all
wail be revealed, but things do take time especially with the small development
team that is available and the compliance issues which continue to take time.
BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG. Lots has already
changed with the sales tax and vat implementations and more is going to in due
course and after thorough testing has taken place. Patience is a virtue etc etc
etc.
TLG are very much working on lots of good things for all of us.
|
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2022 11:28 | | Subject: | UK Royal Mail price increase from 04 Apr 2022 | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Prices and new complications added to their pricing structure. Europe now has
zones . Standard large letter up to 100g is now 1.45 rather than 1.29 which
is a 12% + Hike.
Things are going to get very expennsive and complicated/
It wasn't bad enough adding vat onto everything now the surrounding services
are going to go up significantly
Good fun really. Life is always a challenge.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2022 00:34 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Product Family (Bricklink)
The vast number of categories that Bricklink incudes is great In some ways and
not so good in others. If you want to do a category analysis you will need lots
of paper or disk space and quite honestly it doesn’t make that much sense.
What we have done externally is set up groups of categories say for Bricks you
have modified, round, decorated etc. The same for Slopes, Tiles, Technic etc.
Our sales analysis automatically puts stats into each group as we sell items.
We have 10 families which is enough for us. We can drill down in each category
and get to the specifics e.g how many modified bricks did we sell at what value
etc, and from that we can look at individual parts.
Over our 11 years it has worked fine and gives us what we want and need. – In
inventory management terms it is like having a hierarchy where there isn’t one.
This is what we meant in our earlier post ' A Few questions'
|
A similar method was used recently in Studio and XP but people are rather loyal
to the category tree.
However, we have plans for a tag system, which will take the pressure off of
the tree and may eventually replace it as the primary method of searching the
catalog. We still need the tree to help maintain the catalog, but we certainly
need a more flexible system for everyday use.
|
Hi Russell nice to hear from you again
When and if tagging gets added we will see how that helps the situation. Tagging
is in operation in most modern sql based systems and it certainly helps in finding
things but not sure I see how it is going to pull together a members sales analysis
requirements in a way this would.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2022 00:31 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | This is - sorry - old relational database style.
|
There is no reason why a part can't exist in multiple categories even in
a relational database.
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Thanks for adding your comments to the thread, and of course you are correct.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2022 00:30 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | Over our 11 years it has worked fine and gives us what we want and need. – In
inventory management terms it is like having a hierarchy where there isn’t one.
|
Yes, but it's rigid, arbitrary, allows a part to be only in one Category.
This is - sorry - old relational database style.
Is this more a Slope than a Round, more a Tile modified than a Plate modified?
Why is it in this category, I would have seen the opposite!
A Tag system can show any part even in multiple categories.
Then, if you need basic arbitrary categories - just like right now, it's
not a problem.
|
I think you have misunderstood. The product family is not arbitrary it is defined
by each store to suit their reporting requirements and it is flexible enough
to accommodate everyone and anyone who wish to analyse their sales by category.
Far from being old relational database technique this is a standard feature in
most modern inventory management suites.
I apologise if I did not explain it thoroughly enough.
Hope this helps
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 11:51 | | Subject: | Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 184 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| Product Family (Bricklink)
The vast number of categories that Bricklink incudes is great In some ways and
not so good in others. If you want to do a category analysis you will need lots
of paper or disk space and quite honestly it doesn’t make that much sense.
What we have done externally is set up groups of categories say for Bricks you
have modified, round, decorated etc. The same for Slopes, Tiles, Technic etc.
Our sales analysis automatically puts stats into each group as we sell items.
We have 10 families which is enough for us. We can drill down in each category
and get to the specifics e.g how many modified bricks did we sell at what value
etc, and from that we can look at individual parts.
Over our 11 years it has worked fine and gives us what we want and need. – In
inventory management terms it is like having a hierarchy where there isn’t one.
This is what we meant in our earlier post ' A Few questions'
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 11:30 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
|
I mainly use the superlot feature to sell parts together that are paired as right
and left halves.
David
|
Fortunately some progress has been made here, where there are parts that sometimes
you don't want to sell individually as it leaves you with the other half
that on its own is fairly useless. I remember doing a superlot for these parts:
as I didn't want to sell one side and get stuck with the other.
Whereas some years later this was added to the catalogue:
so now it can be sold as a whole.
I also used to try to superlot leg and torso assemblies where the print meant
the legs part was a bit useless without the torso but since superlots don't
show by default any more, stopped doing that.
|
The entire superlot feature needs revisiting. Dan based Bricklink on an auction
house system - that is not what it is any more. There does need to be a way to
bind product together but the best way eludes us at present. I look at it this
way. if two or more parts need to go together e.g hinges, wedge plates etc then
there should be away of doing that which also satisfies pricing guidelines and
appears for sale. Counter parts are another good example - two or more parts
going together get a unique part number ane are listed for price guide purposes.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 11:05 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
2. Unsorted lots
3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
|
No for both; we do detailed orders for generic parts, end users.
| | 4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
|
Yes, but we do it internally, asking the buyer a manual invoicing we provide
him with specific discussed rate.
| | 5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
|
No.
| | 6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
|
No.
Better prefer a Tag system, like "Brick", "Modified", "Star Wars", "Technic"
- this way combining tags in search you can find the part.
|
Or a smarter "google-like" search, including auto-correction and statistical
| | analysis. Like searching for "Minifig Head Beard Red" will probably be more for
finding a red beard than a red head...
| | 7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
|
Some may, I guess.
| | 8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
|
Some may, I guess.
Sylvain
|
Thanks for taking the time to add your thoughts. I should have explained the
product family thing better. More on that at another time.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
|
I used a superlot once for an assembly that was missing a piece (the forklift
from LL924, missing the spring) that I did not want to disassemble.
Never used it.
| | 3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
|
I've used it a couple of times. If I could recommend a different approach,
it would be tiered pricing for multiples.
| | 4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
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Like a promotional code?
| | 5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
|
I personally can't see a need for it.
| | 6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
|
Possibly, my concern is that it would look terrible.
| | 7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
|
No - I don't even use remarks for this.
| | 8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
|
Weighted average
|
Thanks for taking the time to add your thoughts. Interesting
|
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 10:53 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
|
I used them for the accessory bags before they were added to the catalog.
I use them to list Used items I don't want to take apart.
I use them to keep some decorated items together to avoid difficult-to-sell orphans.
I use these to sell my filler bricks and pieces.
| | 3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
|
Just one tier for technic pins. I don't have enough quantity of anything
else to matter.
| | 4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
|
No
| | 5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
|
No
| | 6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
|
No
| | 7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
|
Sounds intriguing, but I wouldn't want to add any additional lines or formatting
to the order and inventory pages. There is already too much wasted space.
| | 8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
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I don't use BL to track inventory costs.
| | Very interested in comments/thoughts
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There ya go,
Jen
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Thanks Jem/ All replies are helfpul. Getting a few pms as well which is beginning
to show a distinct difference between hobby and non hobby (which I expected)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
|
I mainly use the superlot feature to sell parts together that are paired as right
and left halves.
David
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Understand - kind of like the old hinge pieces and pairs of arms etc. Hmmm
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