Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2022 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: New NIckname issue | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, macebobo writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Have 2 issues wuth this really. The first is when trying to follow the link in
the eail bl sne I get the below
And the 2nd is I do not wwant my detials at lego.com linked top my Lego id th8ey
are 2 seperate acounts and need to stay that way. One is for personal use and
other is for our store.
They could easily use a lookup table in their code to match the 2 and save all
this Hassle
Sometimes people who believe they are doing something genuinely helpful do not
really take the time to think these things through.
Lookup table BL ID = 1 ;ego id = 2 - Not exactly rocket science.
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Cal, they are already linked due to fingerprinting of browsers, unless you use
two browsers, one each exclusively for each task. Then, using big data, they
have other ways of linking the two. It is the world we live in, but I don't
have to like it or help make their job easier.
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George Orwell and 1984 springs to mind as a reality
Everyone seems to want to know everything about everybody . We are supposed to
have GDPR to help prevent this kind of invasive behaviour.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2022 12:22 | | Subject: | New NIckname issue | | Viewed: | 96 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Have 2 issues wuth this really. The first is when trying to follow the link in
the eail bl sne I get the below
And the 2nd is I do not wwant my detials at lego.com linked top my Lego id th8ey
are 2 seperate acounts and need to stay that way. One is for personal use and
other is for our store.
They could easily use a lookup table in their code to match the 2 and save all
this Hassle
Sometimes people who believe they are doing something genuinely helpful do not
really take the time to think these things through.
Lookup table BL ID = 1 ;ego id = 2 - Not exactly rocket science.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2022 11:56 | | Subject: | New NIckname issue | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Have 2 issues wuth this really. The first is when trying to follow the link in
the eail bl sne I get the below
And the 2nd is I do not wwant my detials at lego.com linked top my Lego id th8ey
are 2 seperate acounts and need to stay that way. One is for personal use and
other is for our store.
They could easily use a lookup table in their code to match the 2 and save all
this Hassle
Sometimes people who believe they are doing something genuinely helpful do not
really take the time to think these things through.
Lookup table BL ID = 1 ;ego id = 2 - Not exactly rocket science.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 26, 2022 12:38 | | Subject: | Re: BL only 3 out of 5 stars @ online review site | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| | I happened to randomly google BrickLink today.
One of the first things to appear was the question,
"Is BrickLink a trusted site?"
And it took me to sitejobber which has a generally unfavorable view of BrickLink.
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/bricklink.com
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To be fair the sample size they are using is totally irrelevant. The site has
over 11k in stores and approaching 1 million in members. To take those review
seriously you need a much larger sample size. .
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 10:27 | | Subject: | Re: Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, peregrinator writes:
| | Have you tried using "Save As PDF" from Chrome? I just tried that (though I'm
running Win 10) and I was able to copy and paste from the PDF produced (I'm
guessing "Print to PDF" produces an image instead of PDF code).
It would at least allow you to rule out the "Save as PDF" driver and place the
blame squarely on Edge
In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Windows 7 and everything was working fine until today (Edge updated itself last
noght)
We understood that xps was Microsoft's effort to counter the dominance of
pdf (And it never worked)
Microsoft print to pdf outside of edge works fine we use it all the time within
edge it is a different story
Up until this morning everythig was fine when we saved to pdf then opened the
pdf in adobe combined it with our order cover sheet If we used the edge print
to pdf command the pdf it created was not editable in other words we could not
copy text and paste it., which we can do when we save as pdf.
From this morning it has adjusted the font size to almost unreadable and that
is even with the scale set to maximum. Like almost everything Microsoft do they
very rarely get it right first time. The office suite has detreated significantly
as they continue to push to do everything via the web.
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Just tried that and it seems to work - which confirms it is an edge issue. Thanks
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 07:19 | | Subject: | Re: Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, hpoort writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | both the save as pdf and print to pdf feature. If you try saving to pdf the text
is minute even scaled up to over 200% and if you print to pdf the text is not
editable as it should be or was.
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Thank you Microsoft yet again - does anyone there know what they are doing ????
They have never been able to accept they lost the universal document battle to
adopbe and pdf's. XPS is totally useless - Come back BIll - all is forgiven
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What version of Windows are you on?
XPS is from the Windows Vista era and is not at all relevant in this context.
Microsoft Print to PDF has been a standard print driver for ages.
Microsoft has joint forces with Adobe for developing the font formats.
So where do you see any resentment?
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Windows 7 and everything was working fine until today (Edge updated itself last
noght)
We understood that xps was Microsoft's effort to counter the dominance of
pdf (And it never worked)
Microsoft print to pdf outside of edge works fine we use it all the time within
edge it is a different story
Up until this morning everythig was fine when we saved to pdf then opened the
pdf in adobe combined it with our order cover sheet If we used the edge print
to pdf command the pdf it created was not editable in other words we could not
copy text and paste it., which we can do when we save as pdf.
From this morning it has adjusted the font size to almost unreadable and that
is even with the scale set to maximum. Like almost everything Microsoft do they
very rarely get it right first time. The office suite has detreated significantly
as they continue to push to do everything via the web.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 06:44 | | Subject: | Re: Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | both the save as pdf and print to pdf feature. If you try saving to pdf the text
is minute even scaled up to over 200% and if you print to pdf the text is not
editable as it should be or was.
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Thank you Microsoft yet again - does anyone there know what they are doing ????
They have never been able to accept they lost the universal document battle to
adopbe and pdf's. XPS is totally useless - Come back BIll - all is forgiven
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I use Edge but never "Save as PDF". I always use "Print to PDF", which is still
there (in my version at least).
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When we use print to we are not allowed to copy and paste - can you
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 06:04 | | Subject: | Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 121 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| both the save as pdf and print to pdf feature. If you try saving to pdf the text
is minute even scaled up to over 200% and if you print to pdf the text is not
editable as it should be or was.
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Thank you Microsoft yet again - does anyone there know what they are doing ????
They have never been able to accept they lost the universal document battle to
adopbe and pdf's. XPS is totally useless - Come back BIll - all is forgiven
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2022 12:30 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | 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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It does, considering that there are 1+ billion people using Windows 10.
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Yes some of my employees use it but not w11 - I have a special application running
on my machine which will not work on windows 10 so I will stay with 7 as long
as possible (Along with the other part of the 100 million plus.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2022 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Gone through the figures with a fine tooth comb and they are 100% correct. Ours
are actual -
yours are hypothetical and the correlation is somewhat vague.
Remember chart 1 is based on no of total units broken down into those families
whilst chart 2 is based on total value again, broken down by family. There really
is no correlation between the two only to show that bricks are selling more and
bringing in more money than any of the other families.
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But Sylvain is talking about averages rather than totals.
Let's put it this way: Bricks make up a greater proportion of your sales
by value than they do by quantity. However, sets make up a smaller proportion
of your sales by value than they do by quantity. Therefore, the average sale
value of a single brick is greater than the average sale value of a single set.
Let's do the maths: At the time of writing, you've 183,047 bricks for
sale, for a total value of £12,465.97. That's an average price of approximately
£0.07 per brick. Meanwhile, you've 150 sets for sale, for a total value of
£1,639.99. That's an average price of approximately £10.93 per set.
Even when lots are considered instead of quantity, sets are still worth more.
Now, I realize there may be a bit of a survivorship bias here: The items for
sale in your store, are items that have not sold, not items that have. But I'm
skeptical that a single brick is worth more than a single set, unless you've
sold several hundred of these:
And even then, this item is technically categorized as a gear, not a brick.
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We are not really interested in averages only totals. As for sets - ours are
almost all polybags which are classed as sets by Bricklink but are not really
sets. We sell 10's of thousands of bricks every month, when we can get our
hands on them and maybe one or 2 polybags every 6 months so I know where our
emphasis should be.
So for sure there are numerous ways to look at stats. Ours were presented in
our way which hopefully were understood. The averages have no real meaning to
us.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2022 03:19 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | I tried making stats on my store… but my computer is broken, it only says ”NaN”
over and over 
I fear it’s shorthand for “Sorry, ̶D̶a̶v̶e̶ Sylvain, I can’t do that.”
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Gone through the figures with a fine tooth comb and they are 100% correct. Ours
are actual -
yours are hypothetical and the correlation is somewhat vague.
Remember chart 1 is based on no of total units broken down into those families
whilst chart 2 is based on total value again, broken down by family. There really
is no correlation between the two only to show that bricks are selling more and
bringing in more money than any of the other families.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 10:04 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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Not really sure I agree with your analysis/interpretation. The first chart, to
us, shows the percentage of each family's sales against total sales. In other
words of all the items sold over 11 years Bricks makes up 45% of that total -using
your figures of 1,000,000 tptal items sold 0 bricks woul represent 450,000 of
those and so on. The 2nd chart says that if the total value of sakes is £2,000,000
the bricks would have been £980,000
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That’s exactly how I interpret your charts 
But, using your numbers: 450,000 bricks for £980,000 means one brick is £2.27
on average.
Same reasoning with sets and it means you sold 10,000 sets and they represent
less than 1% of £2,000,000, so less than £20,000, so less than £2 per set on
average.
Same reasoning with minifigures and it means you sold 80,000 minifigures and
they represent 4% of £2,000,00, so £80,000, so £1 per minifigure on average.
Doesn’t make sense.
| | Hope that is clearer. Makes perfect sense to us and the figures are quite accurate.
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Understand what you are sayibg - will relook at actuals figures - hypothetical
figures do not make sense.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 09:39 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | So the average price for a brick is way more than the average price for a set.
Doesn’t make sense.
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Maybe the average price of a lot of bricks (e.g. 500 red 3001s) is more
than that for a set.
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The average price of our sets is under £10 (Small polybags - nothing more really).
We get an odd one worth more than that but in the main we do not sell sets. We
are a oarts store - we leave sets to those who are into sets.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 09:30 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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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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Here’s my reasoning in more details:
The first chart says you’re selling 1% in sets in qty. If you sell 1,000,000
items, that means 10,000 sets sold.
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Not really sure I agree with your analysis/interpretation. The first chart, to
us, shows the percentage of each family's sales against total sales. In other
words of all the items sold over 11 years Bricks makes up 45% of that total -using
your figures of 1,000,000 tptal items sold bricks would represent 450,000 of
those and so on. The 2nd chart says that if the total value of sales is £2,000,000
the bricks would have been £980,000
Hope that is clearer. Makes perfect sense to us and the figures are quite accurate.
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The second chart says the sets account for less than 1% in value (not visible
on the chart, so say 0.s%). If the total value is 1,000,000 × X (where X is
the average value of one item), then the total value for sets is around s,000
× X.
That means that the average value of a set is s,000 x X / 10,000 = 0.s × X.
Same reasonning for bricks means the average value of a brick is 49.67/45 = 1.1
× X.
So the average price for a brick is way more than the average price for a set.
Doesn’t make sense.
The only way it makes sense is if by ‘value,’ you mean ‘profits’ or if the charts
are swapped .
If the charts are swapped, the average values would respectively be X / 0.s and
X / 1.1, making the average set more expensive than the average brick.
And the same applies to minifigs (8% qty, 4.04% value).
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 09:27 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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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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Here’s my reasoning in more details:
The first chart says you’re selling 1% in sets in qty. If you sell 1,000,000
items, that means 10,000 sets sold.
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Not really sure I agree with your analysis/interpretation. The first chart, to
us, shows the percentage of each family's sales against total sales. In other
words of all the items sold over 11 years Bricks makes up 45% of that total -using
your figures of 1,000,000 tptal items sold 0 bricks woul represent 450,000 of
those and so on. The 2nd chart says that if the total value of sakes is £2,000,000
the bricks would have been £980,000
Hope that is clearer. Makes perfect sense to us and the figures are quite accurate.
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The second chart says the sets account for less than 1% in value (not visible
on the chart, so say 0.s%). If the total value is 1,000,000 × X (where X is
the average value of one item), then the total value for sets is around s,000
× X.
That means that the average value of a set is s,000 x X / 10,000 = 0.s × X.
Same reasonning for bricks means the average value of a brick is 49.67/45 = 1.1
× X.
So the average price for a brick is way more than the average price for a set.
Doesn’t make sense.
The only way it makes sense is if by ‘value,’ you mean ‘profits’ or if the charts
are swapped .
If the charts are swapped, the average values would respectively be X / 0.s and
X / 1.1, making the average set more expensive than the average brick.
And the same applies to minifigs (8% qty, 4.04% value).
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| 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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