Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | ash_274  | | Posted: | Jan 12, 2013 17:54 | | Subject: | Re: Lot Limits | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, niemand writes:
| | In Suggestions, pikachu3 writes:
| | Maybe I misunderstand, but I would much rather have the option of paying the
seller's lot fees than not be able to place the order at all.
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I agree. Furthermore I would like better minimum order to disappear and pay handling
fees instead, what I sometimes did...
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Ask the seller. 99% of the time if I had an order below their minimum they would
waive the minimum for me. Only a few times they charged for that "service" but
they were still the best source for what I needed (sometimes the only source)
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Dec 26, 2012 19:50 | | Subject: | Re: Photo or Bag # next to each part | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ScoopShovel writes:
| | Hello,
As a favorite website for both fans and LEGO customers, has it been considered
listing next to each part in Catalog Entry the # of the bag it is in, within
the boxed set? Possibly note if it is within a small bag within a numbered bag.
Helpful when trying to determine if all the pieces are missing out of a bag.
Thank you,
Scoop Shovel
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It's an idea... but:
Not all sets have numbered bags
Some parts appear in more than one numbered bag
Some parts are loose in the box and not bagged and/or are in unnumbered bags
in sets that also use bag numbers
Some sets will have packing variations (especially between NA and EU packaging)
Some bags have more than one inner bag
That's a lot of extra work for inventory creators/verifiers to do and wouldn't
be possible to do retroactively for "retired" sets
I see what you are going for, but remember that the catalog isn't meant to be
a Lego Database. The charter for the site is for buying and selling. I'm not
seeing a clear return for the investment of the time needed to implement and
regulate.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2012 20:49 | | Subject: | Re: Please clearly define "custom" | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, j7r7o7c7k7 writes:
| | I really don't see how there is any fine line or room for interpretation or whatever
other garbage someone wants to throw out there.
If Lego made it, then sell it here.
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If LEGO made it, it's not custom.
There's a long-standing tradition of allowing BLers to sell fan-created items.
Items which fill a gap, not items which replace standard pieces.
3x5 brick? Custom.
2x4, not custom.
See how easy it is? Why make it more difficult?
If somebody is selling home-made recreations of items Lego makes, that's a clone
piece.
Cutting capes from your own material is forbidden. Molding weapons Lego doesn't
use, not forbidden.
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Making leaves (Lego's shape and design) but in a new color: allowed?
Taking a piece Lego made in chrome but taking plain ones and chroming your own
supply of them: allowed?
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2012 19:36 | | Subject: | Re: Please clearly define "custom" | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Rolf writes:
| | In Off Topic, ash_274 writes:
| | MegaBloks has been making minifig packs for Halo for a while now, like Lego's
Collectible Minifigures. K'nex did that with the MarioKart characters, though
they told you which one was inside. Now K'nex has all 8 of their Kart characters
in a "blind" package. However, their character design and packaging makes it
very easy to figure out which one is inside.
-Ash
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Yeah one of Halo packs is what my nephew got. I bought 3 of 4 orginial K'nex
figures. I do like Mario, his bro and that dino one, but it sucks that they cut
numbers on Bowser so hard. I never could find one.
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I was able to get two Bowsers. One is still sealed.
| | That said, K'nex figures is pretty darn low quality. I bought em just because
hey why not. lol
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Very low quality compared to Lego, but I've liked Mario Kart since it was on
the SNES and Boswer was always cool. I also have Diddy, Mario, and Toad (and
the spiney blue shell)
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2012 19:28 | | Subject: | Re: Please clearly define "custom" | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, j7r7o7c7k7 writes:
| | | | Therein lays the problem. We simply cannot draw a perfectly thin line. There
will always be some blur in line. Maybe terms should define few parameters to
draw line as best as they can. Custom parts can be cool.
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Why cant we? If Lego made it, then it can be sold here. If not then it shouldn't
be here. Pretty easy line to draw to me. Maybe im crazy. lol 
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See my other post about Lego licensed items.
| | | | Yeah but then same argument can be sued with megablok. What if seller is selling
megablok as megablok and not as lego? I certainly do not want megablok to be
legit here for any reason period.
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So you are OK with one persons brand but not another persons? Not liking a brand
its one thing, bending a rule to allow the brand you do like is playing favorites
and not right. But thats my opinion.
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Megalok is brand designed specifically to be competitor with Lego. Custom items
does not. Problem is blurness in definition of "Custom" and "Clone".
| | What is so bad about mega blocks? I have built with them, they are not that bad.
Yes they are not the same quality as Lego, but there are poor kids out there
that would fall over if you gave them a mega blocks set! After all these are
toys, most meant for kids. Do you want your kids growing up saying we can play
with these friends, but our parents said we cant play with those kids because
there parents don't have as much money as us. Yes kinda extreme, but kinda the
same idea with Lego vs Megablocks.
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Yeah my nephew had megablok. He made few comments on quality, and he was around
10 then. He kept it though as he loves Halo.
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MegaBloks has been making minifig packs for Halo for a while now, like Lego's
Collectible Minifigures. K'nex did that with the MarioKart characters, though
they told you which one was inside. Now K'nex has all 8 of their Kart characters
in a "blind" package. However, their character design and packaging makes it
very easy to figure out which one is inside.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 9, 2012 17:29 | | Subject: | Re: Changes to inventories | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | I'm not sure if this could be implemented or not, but I do think that this would
be a good feature.
You know how it is where a new set gets added to the BL catalogue, with (at the
time) correct inventory, and as some get parted-out, there are several discrepancies
within the inventory and so an inventory change gets submitted?
Well, I have found that if some people part-out a set prior to the inventory
change, they wouldn't know about the differences in the parts/quantity unless
they checked 100% accurately.
Would it not be possible for the BL system send a message to the persons who
had parted-out that set PRIOR to the inventory change request and inform them
of the different items?
(Obviously this would have to be within a time frame of say, 6 months of the
set being first released)
I'm pretty sure that this is the reason for SOME of the inventory differences
in seller's stores.
The most recent issue I found was that the inventory for this
The original inventory stated that the round 1x1 plate was Black.
The 14 sets that I parted-out has Reddish Brown, with the instructions showing
it to be Reddish Brown.
So, if I hadn't checked as I was sorting the parts, I'd have been out of 14 black
1x1 round plates.
Also, there was, in 2 of the sets, the newer version of the Jumper plates (with
the bottom grove)
Could this feature be implemented in the BL2?
Paul
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bump for evening crowd
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I've liked this idea before if the site would send out a notice of inventory
change to sellers that parted-out a set in question, but it could only work if
sellers used Bricklink's part-out mechanism. I and other sellers use 3rd-party
and manual XML uploads to part-out sets and Bricklink couldn't monitor what raw
date coming in means.
-Ash
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Why do you use 3rd party upload data streams?
I've always used the BL one, and I have found it easy to use.
Paul
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I may part-out 2-5 different sets at once and I populate the remarks fields with
drawer ID's to know where everything is physically located in my inventory.
With Bricklink, I have to manually type "P11" for every round 1x1 plate. With
brickstore I can consolidtae lots from all the sets at once, select all the round
1x1 plates and apply "P11" to all of them at once, regardless of color.
Also, once I part out one set that way and later on par out another it's a simple
re-upload of the file and I can skip the other steps AND I can save the remark-field
data to actually put the parts where they go before uploading it and not fear
the Bricklink page refreshing and I lose ALL of that work.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 9, 2012 17:10 | | Subject: | Re: Changes to inventories | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | I'm not sure if this could be implemented or not, but I do think that this would
be a good feature.
You know how it is where a new set gets added to the BL catalogue, with (at the
time) correct inventory, and as some get parted-out, there are several discrepancies
within the inventory and so an inventory change gets submitted?
Well, I have found that if some people part-out a set prior to the inventory
change, they wouldn't know about the differences in the parts/quantity unless
they checked 100% accurately.
Would it not be possible for the BL system send a message to the persons who
had parted-out that set PRIOR to the inventory change request and inform them
of the different items?
(Obviously this would have to be within a time frame of say, 6 months of the
set being first released)
I'm pretty sure that this is the reason for SOME of the inventory differences
in seller's stores.
The most recent issue I found was that the inventory for this
The original inventory stated that the round 1x1 plate was Black.
The 14 sets that I parted-out has Reddish Brown, with the instructions showing
it to be Reddish Brown.
So, if I hadn't checked as I was sorting the parts, I'd have been out of 14 black
1x1 round plates.
Also, there was, in 2 of the sets, the newer version of the Jumper plates (with
the bottom grove)
Could this feature be implemented in the BL2?
Paul
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bump for evening crowd
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I've liked this idea before if the site would send out a notice of inventory
change to sellers that parted-out a set in question, but it could only work if
sellers used Bricklink's part-out mechanism. I and other sellers use 3rd-party
and manual XML uploads to part-out sets and Bricklink couldn't monitor what raw
date coming in means.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2012 11:53 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution (Requirements by German Law) | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DagsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, brasletty writes:
| | In Suggestions, Reki_Lobsheek writes:
| | It's a nice dream, but I'm afraid it's nothing more than that.
When ordering on BL the system uses the weight as mentioned in the catalog.
That weight is supplied by BL users and for new(-er) or very rare items (that
cannot be double-checked) that information might be incorrect or, as in a lot
of cases now, not mentioned at all.
Are you German sellers, by law, obligated to honour the shipping quote mentioned
on the checkout page, even if this price might not even come close to the actual
price paid?
I see a huge window of oportunity for BL users to seriously abuse German seller
by ordering items that do not have the weight added to the catalog (yet).
I could for example order 200 minifigs of which only one lot shows the weight
and then pay the price of 2-3€ for shipment, whereas the seller will pay a multitude
of that.
On Amazon, Ebay and so on the sellers (apparently) weigh the item before putting
it up for sale, thus having reliable figures to base their shipping quotes on
OR they use flat rates for shipment.
Only in that case (using flat rate) I see this proposition have any chance of
actually working (but still with room to abuse).
I am curious how they are going to find solutions for all the issues this proposition
is showing, but am not very optimistic.
Let's say it does work in the end (perhaps on BL 2.0): doesn't that create a
very unfair advantage of professional sellers towards "lay people" sellers as
those people will not be able to use flat rates and thus have very little use
for that system?
I know we're at a very early stage in this and many things have to be thought
through before proceeding, but thus far this "button" seems to raise a lot more
questions than it answers (IMO).
Reki
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ebay sellers use corect shipping rate for every item what you buy ? the problem
is there if you buy 4 sealed boxes of 60 minifigures in 4 auction with one seller
and you like to pay befor the seller change the shipping cost , ebay give the
buyer 4 times the shipping cost ? if the buyer and seller are from germany the
seller can send all 4 auctions in one packaging box for 6.90 euro up to 30 kilo
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my last 2 items what i buy in ebay with one seller have cost me 17 euro shipping
, seller dont like to change the invois ?
regards r
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So the more upstanding sellers will just refund any significant difference after
they post. That's what I would do; bid high on shipping, give back the unused
portion.
Brian
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It's a shame that PayPal keeps 30 cents of any refund, regardless of the amount
refunded. For larger orders it's OK, but for small orders? You could get around
it by, instead of refunding, sending "personal payments" back to the buyer; but
Paypal gets fussy about people sending a lot of "personal payments"
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Aug 3, 2012 20:36 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink fees via PayPal micropayments | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | back story: Some, or many, sellers here have monthly fees due to BL that are
less than $12. For PP payments of less than $12, BL would keep more money by
having a second PP fee payment account for smaller payments.
The BL system could easily look at the amount the seller is sending, and direct
to the PP account with the best fee rate. Please add a second BL PayPal account,
one that uses micropayments.
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What is the fee schedule for SERVICES?
-Ash
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When I paid my BL fees, it said "Ship To address". Doesn't sound like a service
payment to me.
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Maybe Admin should look into that.
-or-
It's intentional to be a check against what the seller has for their registered
address.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Aug 3, 2012 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink fees via PayPal micropayments | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | back story: Some, or many, sellers here have monthly fees due to BL that are
less than $12. For PP payments of less than $12, BL would keep more money by
having a second PP fee payment account for smaller payments.
The BL system could easily look at the amount the seller is sending, and direct
to the PP account with the best fee rate. Please add a second BL PayPal account,
one that uses micropayments.
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What is the fee schedule for SERVICES?
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | May 23, 2012 11:59 | | Subject: | Re: Parting Out a Set - "My Cost" Distribution | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, timhook22 writes:
| | I was wondering if there was a capability of BrickLink to take the amount that
I paid for a set, dividing it up by the number of parts in that set, and automatically
entering that amount in the "My Cost" field. If there isn't I think this would
be a VERY useful feature to track profit margins when selling on BrickLink.
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I've thought about the same thing, but then the math isn't as simple as it seems.
Take a set like
(MSRP + CA sales tax = $64.64)
There are 376 parts and whole minifigs (we'll exclude extra parts for now)
If you split the cost equally across all of the lots the average is a
little over $0.17 each. Now, set the prices to the 6-month sales average:
That's a great profit margin for the Shaak Ti minifigure, but it also makes the
lowest 74 lots (out of 110) selling at a loss.
The better way would be to weight the "cost" of each part relative to the comparative
value to other parts in the same set.
Shaak Ti (avg. price $13.76) would have a 14.89% share of the whole set's part-out
value ($92.44) so its "cost" would be $9.625
The white 1x2 technic brick, listed for $0.051, would have a "cost" of $0.00079;
which beats $.17
That's a lot of math that requires some input from you each time:
What did you pay for the whole set?
Are you excluding any items? (that you are keeping for yourself or just not selling)
What pricing method are pricing the items at? (current inventory avg., sales
avg. etc.)
I like it, but it's a little more complicated than it seems... but not impossible!
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | May 9, 2012 19:53 | | Subject: | Re: Direct link to catalog from YOUR OWN store. | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MathBuilder writes:
| | Hi,
You know how when you are searching a store and click on the small image a larger
image pops out with the name of the set or part but there is no LINK. Yet everywhere
else on the site when you click on the small image the pop out window has a link:
CATALOG ENTRY.
I know that it has been suggested Many times (usually by buyers) that the link
be habilitated on stores. Well I am NOT asking for that, I am only asked that
it gets habilitated when YOU are browsing your OWN store. This will save a lot
of time for sellers to review their items back to back with the catalog. Without
having to go to inventory and possible screwing up something in the process.
I hope what I am asking is clear.
What do you think? Please vote and discuss.
Thank you.
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No, sorry. That's why most browsers let you have multiple tabs.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 19:43 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Higgins writes:
| | All I would add is making the 'system' automagically bold or change the color
of the Insurance: Requested field on the initial invoice when it's requested
by the Buyer. I've almost missed noticing it more than once and have had Sellers
miss it as well. A little pop would draw attention with minimal fuss.
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It already does. When a buyer clicks the insurance box the insurance field is
red on the Orders Received page. Now, if seller enters a number in the box it
goes to normal, even if it is changed back to 0 later.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 14:38 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
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I think the real problem is using MS Word to create HTML pages. Yes, MS does
like to use the most long-winded formatting that causes errors. All the content
on my pages (weith the exception of some color-code-generators) I typed long-hand.
I taught myself when HTML I know and the rest I just searched for, like "HTML
Tables" and used information from several sites. There's a primary tool I recommend:
http://htmledit.squarefree.com so you can see when a change will cause you problems.
Try looking for an alternate for MS Word to create your content. There are
plenty out there and some are free.
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
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I don't use stockrooms, so I won't comment either way
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
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"Region" could be an issue, but "within same country" I can see being useful
for many sellers.
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges. Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
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The fee (or order value) doesn't change from hour to hour as the exchange rates
move. They are locked in at the time the order was placed. You can use 3% of
the GBP total for each order.
-Ash
| | There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2012 10:56 | | Subject: | Re: Way to make stores crazy fee settings easy | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, monkeynut12 writes:
| | I just finished reading a novel, the lot limits conclusion post, and some really
good points were made. In fact, doesn't opening a store and listing every piece
for 1 cent and charging $1 fee per lot seem like a great idea!!!
The first thing I do when I am shopping in other peoples stores is scroll down
to the "Minimum Buy" section. Maybe there needs to be more information, so buyers
can speed shop.
I think it would be nice, if every store terms page had an area of truth. A very
simple table or place that organized everything fee and restriction related into
a clear concise manner. Maybe in this manner, imagine a required table in every
store terms page of every seller:
Minimum cost to ship: "$X"
Minimum order total: "$X"
Minimum fees: "$X"
Lot limits: "Y"
etc
But actually I would prefer this: A yes/no method.
Lot limits: YES/NO
Additional fees: YES/NO
Other crazy pointless fees: YES/NO
Just to make it easy and less likely for buyers to be surprised. So you see that
there is a lot limit in the store, so now you can begin the search through the
store terms! I mean, yes everyone should read the store terms, but I admit,
I mess up and miss ONE LINE in an entire page of text saying "O yea... I add
$5 to all orders" This is even more difficult when I am looking at a store terms
page in a language other than English, and turns out
"hadsgfhasdg sjaf asfd asdf" Means that all that "Please understand that I add
an additional 1 millions dollars to each order to cover the cost with pulling,
packing, and shipping your order. Thank-you" 
Thoughts?
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My Splash page has that info near the top:
NO Minimum Order!
5-cent orders are OK here!
NO Materials / Handling fees
On orders over $50.00
NO Lot limits or Lot fees
Order as much or as little as you want
Then the terms are kept as simple as possible. Shipping is actual-cost (now
including Commercial Base Price discounts) and the materials fee on orders under
$50 range from 55 cents (75 cents for international orders) to 2 bucks and
that's it.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2012 16:18 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink should remember your cart | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, AlbusDumbledore writes:
| | I would like to suggest that you can choose to 'save' a cart on BL, and that
i kept for, eg a week. At the moment it isn't kept after you log off, so if I
want to place an order tomorrow, I either have to do it today or copy & paste
into word, then go to the trouble of finding all the items again. Thoughts?
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It can remember your cart for a period of time. You can "save" your cart with
Brickstore, but remember that just because items are still in your cart, it doesn't
mean they are still in the store's inventory. Someone can buy them out of "your"
cart.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 3, 2011 18:40 | | Subject: | Re: Please add 'trade' payment option. | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, AlbusDumbledore writes:
| | As discussed here http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=588148 I would like
to make a suggestion to be able to choose a 'trade' payment method, or even a
more advanced trading system where the seller has a drop down list of stuff they'll
swap for. Alternatively, I'd like to suggest the option to make your own payment
method, like with shipping methods. Please reply and vote if you agree.
Matthew
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I've used trades many times. The problem with showing that as a payment method
is there must be a meeting of the minds BEFORE any inventory (from either party)
is taken out of inventory. You wouldn't want a buyer (any buyer) to come into
your store and check out with hundreds of dollars' worth of inventory, pick
"Trade" as the payment then send you an email saying he'll trade you a plain
minifig worth $2.00 for what he ordered. You can cancel, but you stock wasn't
available to other (real) buyers and you risk problematic feedback on top of
it.
Trading is fine; I had one just last week; as long as at least one party was
a "seller" to Bricklink can earn the fees it is entitled to. Trading can only
work if BOTH sides agree to terms before an order is placed.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2011 19:04 | | Subject: | Re: Standardizing shipping terms | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Although I like the idea in concept, I don't like it as a standard for Bricklink
to use.
True, sellers have varying definitions of their shipping policy (or, even no
explanation at all!). However varying local laws govern what buyers' and sellers'
responsibilities are and can change for international shipments and even the
payment methods (Paypal) can have their own definitions and that can vary as
well.
Even though the "common" used responsibility used falls along the lines of "buyers
requests/pays for insurance or seller is not responsible for loss/damage" some
sellers go beyond that (or fall short) and Paypal may have a different opinion.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Jun 13, 2011 15:29 | | Subject: | Re: Macro tags in terms and splash page | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ElLutzo writes:
| | Hi,
would it not be great to be able to use macro tags for buyer location (domestic/other,
whereas I would like to differentiate between EU and other) in your splash page
and terms?
Buyer could be provided only terms and shipping cost information which apply
to him. This would make the pages a lot more friendly to read and find the information
needed.
Im am trying to fit more and more information into my terms but it is more and
more to read or to find which applies to the buyers, so this would help a lot
I think.
Lutz
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Novel idea and good reasoning for it, but I don't think it's really possible
to implement. Among the issue with having to attempt to combine HTML and BL
code, the problem is that the system doesn't know you buyer's location until
after they click the checkout button. ANYone can view store terms before buying,
logging in to Bricklink, or even registering for the membership and I think the
potential buyer's ability to see the "contract" before committing to it
is the top priority.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2011 15:09 | | Subject: | Re: Find sets containing those parts | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | Got a idea on how to find sets that best fits partial list of parts... it's fairly
simple idea but might be bit hard to make...
Basically first you add parts that you are pretty sure are all from same set.
the page look somewhat like wanted parts page.'
Any any time, you could hit "find sets containing all those parts" and it finds
and lists sets.
For example I'm pretty sure that red 1x2 arrow brick, green 2x4 brick, and blue
2x3 plate is part of a single set. I add those to list, then click "find sets".
The list shows that one of those 3 sets probably is what I have. The parts list
remains so I can refine search with more parts if I find more parts I'm sure
are part of set.
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Actually, this already exists!
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogIn.asp?viewMulti=Y
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | May 25, 2011 15:54 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted List Filter... | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bsohn writes:
| | In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | | | In Suggestions, bsohn writes:
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| | | | | | ... while shopping in a store..
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-Ash
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Nothing on either of those pages is what I am suggesting.. This would not be
a tool for buying but a tool for organizing to buy...
So here is how I work.. If I am trying to work up different projects I have one
Wanted list that has all of my wants and one wanted list that has all of my ordered
or have. Get about 10 projects and I now have 20 different wanted lists..
What I want to be able to do is to be able to show the wanted parts from say
5 of those lists grouped together (such as can be done in stores when you search
fro items on your wanted list). Right now you can only separate one list at a
time and show it singularly or you have to show the parts for every list by using
the show all after selecting the list or all..
You currently cannot pick and choose which of your lists to show all from you
can only do it One or All...
Brion Sohn
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This is confusing 
WHERE do you want to be able to see (selectable) multiple lists at once:
While editing the lists:
http://www.bricklink.com/wantedView.asp
Where you currently can ONLY look at "all" or "one specific wanted list"
At the "By Shop" tab:
http://www.bricklink.com/wantedShop.asp
Where you can select which lists are reviewed for stores that have the most on
them
In a specific store
Which is where I thought you meant yesterday.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | May 24, 2011 19:33 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted List Filter... | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | | | In Suggestions, bsohn writes:
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| | | | | | ... while shopping in a store..
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-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | May 24, 2011 18:40 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted List Filter... | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bsohn writes:
| | Suggestion....
Be able to filter your own wanted list like you can while shopping in a store..
(ie show multiple wanted lists together while being able to turn off others)
This is to allow those of us with multiple wanted lists (ie completed, seraching
for, unordered) to only look at the lists needed.. right now you can only look
at the contents of one list at a time or all not 2 of 5 or 6 of 25...
Brion Sohn
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This already exists: Look here
http://www.bricklink.com/wantedSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
"how Multiple Wanted Selection Lists as Multiple Options in Stores and My Wanted
Items By Shop"
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | May 21, 2011 17:21 | | Subject: | Re: Religion vs. NON Religion news. | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, NEW_WAREHOUSE writes:
| | I would like to suggest that when there is an event, like todays prediction that
people can post about it.
I am sure the MODs have MUCH more to do with their lives then trying to kill
all of the news posts.
I agree, no religion.
But news is news.
So here is an addition to the rule;
If CNN is running it more then 2x per hour, people will be allowed to talk about
it in the forum for THAT DAY ONLY.
hehe.
Have a great day!
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So far the posts from everyone have stayed clear of the spiritual implications
and kept toward the informational/historical/analytical/ and humorous parts of
the story. Threads have remained unlocked.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | May 18, 2011 19:18 | | Subject: | Re: Make Wanted list Public | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, The_Mimed_One writes:
| | We need publicly visible Wanted lists!
I think that would be better for the trading on here, so that you don't have
to poke around trying to find what someone wants...
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This has been suggested several times every year since wanted lists were incorporated.
It will not be created.
-Ash
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