Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | kzinti  | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2014 11:29 | | Subject: | Sale Opt Out... | | Viewed: | 171 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently, when putting on a store wide sale, there are some rare parts lots
that I do not wish to include in the sale. Rather than manually go through and
exclude each one individually every time I want to have a sale, I would like
an option box by each lot that I can check to exclude that lot from sales price
reductions. It would be something that once set, would remain in effect until
deselected.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2014 17:39 | | Subject: | Re: System Generated Superlots | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:
| | Superlots are a great way to list multiple items for sale together. However,
superlots are confusing and difficult for many to bother setting up. To help
increase the usage of superlots and avoid misunderstandings with buyers regarding
what items do or do not go together, I suggest that BrickLink add pre-set
system generated superlots. These superlot templates would be created by contributors
to the BL catalog. Thus, for example, when adding a collectible minifigure to
the BL catalog, the submitter can also have the option to submit a superlot that
others can use to sell that minifigure with accessories as a superlot. Similar
superlots can be proposed for commonly paired items - like windows and glass,
window/door frames and their matching window or door, right and left wedges,
etc. When listing these items for sale in one shop, BL can simply offer sellers
the option of listing in an already existing system generated superlot. Just
fill in the blanks for quantity and price.
Thor
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Don't they have this feature to some degree with wheels and tires?
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2014 09:51 | | Subject: | Re: Selling probation. | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Lonely_Brick_OH writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | Interesting notion. We all started out at Feedback (0), so how would this roll
out, how would Sellers and Buyers redeem themselves when limits are crossed?
What kind of limits would be in place? How would Sellers and Buyers be protected
against unjust feedback? If I leave a Buyer Negative feedback for whatever reason
and they respond with a Negative in return, how does that effect me? Now if you
deal with many New Buyers, how likely are you to get more than average numbers
of Negative feedback? This raises a whole lot of questions as to when intervention
is required, who will intervene and in what way. I understand the goal is to
make BrickLink a safe and reliable venue, but how much oversight is really necessary?
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Considering we currently have at least one person who is openly scamming people,
as well as other stores starting up over and over again to do the same this idea
would create a buffer.
There could be a warning sign to buyers; ON PROBATION that would allow people
to understand secure sellers vs. possible 'fly by night scam artists'.
Currently there is very little warning for people. Many buyers think we are
one big seller vs. many smaller ones.
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Personally, I would prefer to see a $10 deposit for Sellers, which would be credited
towards their fee payments. If it took $10 to open a store, you would see a dramatic
decrease in scammer accounts.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2014 16:20 | | Subject: | Re: Selling probation. | | Viewed: | 100 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Interesting notion. We all started out at Feedback (0), so how would this roll
out, how would Sellers and Buyers redeem themselves when limits are crossed?
What kind of limits would be in place? How would Sellers and Buyers be protected
against unjust feedback? If I leave a Buyer Negative feedback for whatever reason
and they respond with a Negative in return, how does that effect me? Now if you
deal with many New Buyers, how likely are you to get more than average numbers
of Negative feedback? This raises a whole lot of questions as to when intervention
is required, who will intervene and in what way. I understand the goal is to
make BrickLink a safe and reliable venue, but how much oversight is really necessary?
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2014 16:15 | | Subject: | Re: Seller Assistance Program | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| With the varied styles of Sellers out there, implementation would be problematic.
Perhaps Veteran Sellers could volunteer to mentor New Sellers. Email and/or phone
numbers could be exchanged and meeting times arranged to discuss items that come
up. Doing this in a public forum would be too chaotic.
One of the disadvantages to any "Helping Program" is that Bad Sellers who do
not see themselves as Bad Sellers would most likely not ask for help, nor take
any help offered. Unless there is some kind of Peer Review Board initiated by
the New Owner, Bad Sellers have only to fear the three strike rule on completed
NSS cases.
On a side note: Not all Sellers who have a large number of non-positive feedback
are bad Sellers either. Some just deal in items that New Buyers purchase and
these Sellers bear the brunt of those Buyers' newness.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2014 20:37 | | Subject: | Re: Definition of Shipped | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Lonely_Brick_OH writes:
| | Not to be rude but this is not even close to a good idea.
Many times the post office does not scan a package.
I had one that was put up as NSS that was never scanned.
It arrived 8 days later in Russia without a single scan.
If the buyer was not honest they would have said I never dropped it to the post
office.
I did.
Shipped means printing the label and putting it out for shipment.
What happens at the post office, stays at the post office.
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For this reason, when dropping off at the Post Office of late, I have them scan
in the whole batch. You can hear their eyes roll half a State away.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Sep 22, 2013 07:03 | | Subject: | Re: Keep the communication lines open... | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I have advocated for a sort of Stoplist Amnesty Day, whereby everyone would take
a second look at their lists and see if anyone is deserving of a second chance.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Sep 22, 2013 06:59 | | Subject: | Re: Keep the communication lines open... | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Can't stop listed buyers just use your regular email to get in contact with
you. It's on all of the invoices that you have sent. You can also get a hold
of them this way. I choose to leave them alone. I blocked them for a reason.
Hope this helps, James
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What of those who post in the forum and get blocked by Sellers? They have no
way to find out why they were blocked. Some Sellers, like scottrich, have wholesale
blocked everyone who posted on certain forum posts, regardless of what their
comments were. No rhyme or reason, no further communication.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jul 21, 2013 13:24 | | Subject: | Re: BL 2.0 needs media attention | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | A member points out that Google News has one lone link to a BrickLink-related
story.
That story refers to BL as "an eBay for Legos". I believe we can do better than
that.
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Part of the reason is because they set the site off limits to spiders due to
the server load and multi-frame pages. once we get into a new format, this may
go away. Definite need in my opinion for direct advertising. Even eBay has national
TV ads and they've been around longer than we have.
I'm about 30 days behind schedule, but I'm working on a huge marketing/advertising
event for my store. I'll post details when it's ready to kickoff. A lot
of time, effort and money involved. Hope it pays off.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2013 20:02 | | Subject: | Re: How to contact the site administrator | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MidwayPete writes:
| | Whoops, I clipped my message before posting it. Meant to end with:
| | Now, go ahead and point out how the Admin's contact info is at the top of the main page and I am an idiot.
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Would have suggested going through the help desk if nothing else.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2013 19:05 | | Subject: | Re: More text needed for leaving feedback | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DagsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, eileenkeeney writes:
| | When leaving a neutral or negative, there really needs to be enough text to explain
the issue.
I could not even fit in a sentence the mentioned that parts were chipped, dirty,
had ball point pen markings and scotch tape residue, without running out of text.
I could not add that the seller did not respond to my inquiry related to this.
When nothing is wrong, the limited text space is plenty.
But when there is an issue, room to describe the issue is needed.
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I've bypassed this feature by doing Bricklink seller reviews on my blog. Unfortunately
I can't link there from the feedback so it's a little hard to find.
Maybe I should consider guest reviews? 
Brian
http://dagsbricks.blogspot.com
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Interesting. Wonder if I should start doing this as well.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Apr 4, 2013 18:26 | | Subject: | Re: Separate Field for Customs Forms Numbers | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MikeS writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, dee6128 writes:
| | A few members have contacted me and I agree that a seperate field for customs
forms numbers should be included on invoices. Thanks Darren
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Include it in the Drive Thru message.
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True! I have the field show up on my drive thru / thank you. I wish there were
other fields that had variables too ... I use the "my notes on order" field to
put in the package size / information ...
2 oz. 6" x 9" yellow envelope with bagged and bubble wrapped parts
... Unfortunately, there is no variable (macro tag) to have that automatically
placed on the drive thru / thank you form. I just copy / paste it manually.
MikeS
BRICKMART
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I do that with the package description as well. One, it helps keep track of shipping
supplies, two, if you have to talk to a customer or USPS about a package, you
can give them even more info about it. One thing to say your package is lost,
another to say your 6x6x6 box, mailed out to Bob Smith on 3/3/2013 is lost.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Apr 4, 2013 18:18 | | Subject: | Re: Separate Field for Customs Forms Numbers | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, dee6128 writes:
| | A few members have contacted me and I agree that a seperate field for customs
forms numbers should be included on invoices. Thanks Darren
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Since the Customs Number can also be the Tracking Number in some cases, it would
be easier to choose the name of that line to be either "Customs" or "Tracking"
Number by a radio Button perhaps. In most cases, it will be the Tracking Number
by default.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2013 10:35 | | Subject: | Re: Auctions | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | Good morning,
I was wondering if the Auction feature was simply turned off or commented out,
and if so would current administration be willing to re-enable it.
Auctions don't make a lot of money for the site, but it's often 'extra' money.
Auction lots tend to be items that can't be sold as regular lots or won't move
well like that. So an auction makes the seller money and the site too, and in
both cases more quickly than otherwise would have happened.
If the feature is re-enabled, consider that a test as to whether the feature
makes any sense for the new BL 2.0 site. Maybe we really don't need auctions-
but I think they are useful.
Thanks for your time.
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Think it had more to do with the fight with eBay that then changed the site name
to BrickLink and got rid of auctions.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Dec 13, 2012 14:56 | | Subject: | Re: Condition to include "smoke smell" as issue | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, VMAJ writes:
| | I believe the used parts condition in the terms of service area should include
"smoke smell" as an abnormal issue that would need to be acknowledged by the
seller at point of listing. As we all dislike nicks, and wear that show up when
not expected I certainly do not like the odor of what another does with their
time either. Smoke smell is difficult to remove, and is sometimes impossible
to lift if it has been layered on for an extended period.
Common sense should dictate whether you sell something that stinks or not, but
we live in a world where everything needs to be spelled out, so I believe this
would be wise to implement to hold sellers accountable.
Jim
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It would be nice to see this, but not sure on the logistics of how to pull this
one off. As said, you would hope that smokey bricks would not be an issue, but
it is.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 24, 2012 09:20 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution Option for All Sellers | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| This would be a good idea from both Buyer and Seller standpoints. Buyer can order,
know what he has to pay in advance and make payment immediately. Seller can do
away with majority of cancellations due to shipping costs too high, "oops, didn't
mean to order that" and other cancellations. Not to mention this offers the potential
to get paid a lot sooner. Only problem would be that there needs to be not only
weight taken into account, but physical dimension of parts too.
Be interesting to see how this all turns out.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2012 11:33 | | Subject: | Re: Total and P&P | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Paulrosebank18 writes:
| | I wish that the grand total including postage and packaging would appear before
you checkout.
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Working on that very thing. Hold on...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Sep 4, 2012 22:12 | | Subject: | Re: SUGGEST: add "OTHER" as payment method | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BUC writes:
| | Would like another payment method added - "Other" - or something to that effect.
Ran into this scenerio: We only accept PayPal as payment method but agreed to
bypass and accept money order at the request of a buyer. Problem is, when checking
out, their only option is PayPal.
Thanks!
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Does not matter what the payment method checked, as long as payment is made.
They can check Paypal and pick up with cash, as long as the Buyer and Seller
are in agreement, not an issue. BrickLink does not use that data in any manner
in the database.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 29, 2012 22:18 | | Subject: | New Payment Service: WePay | | Viewed: | 225 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Has anyone suggested www.wepay.com as a new payment service? If not, I'd like
to throw it out there as a Paypal replacement. They charge 3.5%, minimum of $0.50,
so the sweet spot falls between $6 and $50 to beat Paypal on price. Up to $100
will run about $0.30 more than Paypal's 2.9% and $0.30 fees. From what I've read,
very similar to Paypal, except they will process Buyer payments direct from bank
accounts (ACH), still just $0.50. Check it out and let me know if you spot anything
outside normal or may be a problem.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2012 13:56 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution (Requirements by German Law) | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| You'd also need to have a setting for a part based upon the size of the part.
Some parts are light, but flat, like baseplates and can only fit in a certain
size flat box. Others, like 1x1 plates, can fit thousands in a 4x4x4 box. Something
to think about too.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 7, 2012 02:23 | | Subject: | Re: For consideration in the new Bricklink (when | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | It would be very helpful if the Bricklink inventory allowed for a level above
category. For example there are several types of Bricks, e.g. arch, modified,
etc. These still remain as Bricks, however, the same as slopes, technic etc.
Having a level above current category e.g. Inventory family Bricks contains all
the categries/sub categories of bricks and so on.
This would be helpful for storage, reporting, searching etc. As I assume we are
sticking with a SQL backend for the new product, this isn't a major change to
the schema nor functionality - but it would certainly help us out
Anybody agree?
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There should probably be some sort of panel and surveys set up for discussion
on this. I know this isn't a Democracy, but it might provide very useful insight
for the next system. I'm sure a lot of the suggestions are being looked at, but
there are basic, fundamental things that could use tweaking to make it easier,
simpler.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | May 24, 2012 00:51 | | Subject: | Re: Parting Out a Set - "My Cost" Distribution | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, paulorenato writes:
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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 use BrickStore for this.
When I get a new set, or if I have a BrickLink order that I've placed specifically
to resell, I upload it all in to BrickStore, part-out everything that I need
to, then set the prices of everything to the average sales prices. I sometimes
do some manual adjusting, mostly by lowering the prices on torsos.
I then apply a % adjustment to everything, so that it matches the price that
I paid. The resulting prices are thus my actual costs for each part, proportionally
determined based on BrickLink average prices.
I then export the BrickStore file and use a text editor to change Price to MyCost,
and upload.
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Ingenious And the very same simple-rule-of-three Ash and I exposed above. It's
a shame one has to use Brickstore for this though...
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What's also annoying is that BrickStore doesn't directly support MyCost, so there
are annoying extra steps involved. Simplifying this process was at the top of
my list when I was thinking of developing some BL-assistant software a little
while back.
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Marc.
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I do pretty much the same but I use Excel for a lot of stuff. It can be set with
visual basic to web-scrape the info off BrickLink similar to Brickstore, but
fully customizable.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | May 14, 2012 22:22 | | Subject: | Lockable Inventory... | | Viewed: | 141 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I would like the ability to manually lock pricing on certain inventory items.
For example, if I bought some sets that have a high draw value, they bring customers
in to my store. However, the cost of the sets was such that I do not make much
if anything on them. If I put an additional sale on at my store, I would have
to go through and adjust the pricing of those sets so that the sale would not
lower it less than my cost. By being able to lock that lot of sets, it would
make it so that the pricing could only be adjusted manually. I could reduce the
rest of my inventory by 10% and not have to worry about forgetting to adjust
the pricing on those sets.
Much like the other check boxes currently utilized, this one would remove the
item(s) from the being enacted upon by most things in the pricing action items
list. Perhaps even have it's own searchable function for all items with this
box ticked. Please share your thoughts on this.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Mar 26, 2012 16:58 | | Subject: | Re: Filter out stickered parts from Newest parts | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, firefly writes:
| | I'd like to be able to Search for "Newest parts added to the catalog" *minus*
all the stickered parts that are showing up in droves. I'm not looking for pages
of decorated parts, I'm looking for the new kinds of parts I haven't seen before
(except by examining LEGO catalog pictures or whatever).
There's no option for "Newest parts added to the catalog" on the Advanced search
page, where presumably I could filter them out with "-sticker" or somesuch.
And there's no option for filtering text where I can do the search for newest
parts added to the catalog.
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You can try this link:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?sortBy=D&sortAsc=D&viewInv=Y&catType=P
and then search with the "-sticker*"
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Mar 25, 2012 15:05 | | Subject: | "Report This Item" Button... | | Viewed: | 279 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Currently, when shopping, if you run across an item that needs to be reported
for one problem or another, it is a multi-step process to do so. I would like
to propose a simple "report this item" button be implemented so that simply clicking
it will take you to the "problem with item for sale" section, bring with it the
lot number from the item and when you have submitted the item, have a button
to bring you right back to where you left off so you can finish shopping.
Too often things do not get reported due to the current reporting process. A
one click reporting button with a simple return to previous page button would
be wonderful.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2012 12:56 | | Subject: | Re: Remove 3 digit pricing for prices over $0.10 | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mnementh writes:
| | Please remove the ability to set prices with 3 digits after the decimal point
for items priced over 10 cents.
3 digit pricing was implemented to allow for price differentiation of ultra-cheap
parts, some of which actually sell for half of a cent.
Above the 10 cent point 3 digit pricing becomes less meaningful, devolving in
to sellers splitting hairs to move their listings up in the sort order. There
is no effective difference between $29.989 and $29.99 and they really should
sort together.
Troy
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Mixed feelings on this.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2012 12:00 | | Subject: | Re: Favorite - Least Favorite... | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, poobaloo writes:
| | These are tools to help the buyer keep track of what he likes and doesnt like,
not for sellers to use to further sales... If a buyer wants to share this info
w you he will.
What you're basically saying w this suggestion is that a buyer must be required
to tell you a reason he doesnt like your store, in order to not like your store?
That is a bit... well... it's prying to say the least.
In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | There have been several previous discussions on Favorite - Least Favorite status
in the past. One of the points raised was regarding the current inability to
receive some sort of comment from someone who has Favorited or Least Favorited
your store. As a Seller, I must always be looking for ways to improve, so how
can I do that when I don't know why someone has placed me as a Least Favorite.
I know the commenting was disabled due to abuse of the system, so what I would
like to propose is a predefined set of choices and checkboxes so a Buyer can
simply check the box on High Shipping Cost, Slow Shipment or any number of problems
encountered. This would be done anonymously, unless a checkbox for Contact Buyer
was checked, which would reveal your UserID to the Seller. The difficult part
would be to put together a short list of reasons to make checkboxes for. The
most common seem to be:
Store Terms: Confusing, Fees, Other
Customer Service: Communication, Resolution
Shipping: High, Slow, Packaging
Quality: Condition, Correct, Packaging
Other: Other
These are all things that would point the Seller in the right direction to effect
changes. Store Terms, are they confusing, do they outline excessive fees, or
is there something else about them that needs to be examined. Customer Service,
is the Seller communicationg with their customer, do they satisfactorily resolve
issues. Shipping, is the cost too high, are they slow to get orders out and is
the packaging sufficient to protect orders. Quality, are the items in the stated
condition, is the order correct and was there sufficient packaging or were items
all thrown into one bag. Other would be just that, anything other than those
reasons. It may not tell you much by itself, but at least all the other items
not selected can probably be ruled out.
I'm sure there are others, so feel free to discuss
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Like feedback, it would not be required, but when you go to add someone to your
least favorite, having those checkbox choices available would certainly help
a store to improve. I would not say it should be mandatory, but anything is better
than the option we currently have, which is none. Even one piece of data is still
data.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2012 11:29 | | Subject: | Re: Favorite - Least Favorite... | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Tracyd writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | There have been several previous discussions on Favorite - Least Favorite status
in the past. One of the points raised was regarding the current inability to
receive some sort of comment from someone who has Favorited or Least Favorited
your store. As a Seller, I must always be looking for ways to improve, so how
can I do that when I don't know why someone has placed me as a Least Favorite.
I know the commenting was disabled due to abuse of the system, so what I would
like to propose is a predefined set of choices and checkboxes so a Buyer can
simply check the box on High Shipping Cost, Slow Shipment or any number of problems
encountered. This would be done anonymously, unless a checkbox for Contact Buyer
was checked, which would reveal your UserID to the Seller. The difficult part
would be to put together a short list of reasons to make checkboxes for. The
most common seem to be:
Store Terms: Confusing, Fees, Other
Customer Service: Communication, Resolution
Shipping: High, Slow, Packaging
Quality: Condition, Correct, Packaging
Other: Other
These are all things that would point the Seller in the right direction to effect
changes. Store Terms, are they confusing, do they outline excessive fees, or
is there something else about them that needs to be examined. Customer Service,
is the Seller communicationg with their customer, do they satisfactorily resolve
issues. Shipping, is the cost too high, are they slow to get orders out and is
the packaging sufficient to protect orders. Quality, are the items in the stated
condition, is the order correct and was there sufficient packaging or were items
all thrown into one bag. Other would be just that, anything other than those
reasons. It may not tell you much by itself, but at least all the other items
not selected can probably be ruled out.
I'm sure there are others, so feel free to discuss.
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Sure but we need to add:
Disagreed with a forum post
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Perhaps one simply put as Personal?
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 19:01 | | Subject: | Re: Favorite - Least Favorite... | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, istokg writes:
| | I nominate myself as the least fast shipper in Bricklink... but also the one
who adds the most freebies (guilt LEGO).
I'm not happy about it... there's a ton of freebies I keep giving away! 
Gary Istok
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Jon has been doing better, so you may have slipped to #1. It doesn't make it
any easier that I keep piling stuff up on the original order. Like just now...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 18:06 | | Subject: | Favorite - Least Favorite... | | Viewed: | 282 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| There have been several previous discussions on Favorite - Least Favorite status
in the past. One of the points raised was regarding the current inability to
receive some sort of comment from someone who has Favorited or Least Favorited
your store. As a Seller, I must always be looking for ways to improve, so how
can I do that when I don't know why someone has placed me as a Least Favorite.
I know the commenting was disabled due to abuse of the system, so what I would
like to propose is a predefined set of choices and checkboxes so a Buyer can
simply check the box on High Shipping Cost, Slow Shipment or any number of problems
encountered. This would be done anonymously, unless a checkbox for Contact Buyer
was checked, which would reveal your UserID to the Seller. The difficult part
would be to put together a short list of reasons to make checkboxes for. The
most common seem to be:
Store Terms: Confusing, Fees, Other
Customer Service: Communication, Resolution
Shipping: High, Slow, Packaging
Quality: Condition, Correct, Packaging
Other: Other
These are all things that would point the Seller in the right direction to effect
changes. Store Terms, are they confusing, do they outline excessive fees, or
is there something else about them that needs to be examined. Customer Service,
is the Seller communicationg with their customer, do they satisfactorily resolve
issues. Shipping, is the cost too high, are they slow to get orders out and is
the packaging sufficient to protect orders. Quality, are the items in the stated
condition, is the order correct and was there sufficient packaging or were items
all thrown into one bag. Other would be just that, anything other than those
reasons. It may not tell you much by itself, but at least all the other items
not selected can probably be ruled out.
I'm sure there are others, so feel free to discuss.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2012 13:06 | | Subject: | Re: Save Shopping Cart Feature | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Templehill4 writes:
| | Hi Guys.
Today I suggest a Save Shopping Cart feature because if you are shopping about
and want to buy something but cant afford it now, you would want to keep that
shopping cart for later. Give some comments and vote please
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If you do not close your browser, it will keep your items in the cart for a few
days I believe. If you need longer than that, the items may be sold by then.
Best to create a wanted list for those items. You can then name the wanted list
the store name.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Feb 7, 2012 19:23 | | Subject: | Re: Tiered pricing symbol in Price Guide | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bdag writes:
| | The (S) superlot symbol is great visual reference in the Price Guide. You instantly
know that you'll have to buy other parts to get that one. I would like to also
see a (T) tiered pricing visual reference as well. This way I would know at
a glance that if I bought several, I could possibly get said item cheaper in
bulk. Tiered prices would not need to be shown in the price guide.
Sure beats checking every store.
Brian
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Believe they have this already, it is represented by an asterisk (*)
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2012 14:20 | | Subject: | Re: Logging out and then | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, sonnich writes:
| | Somethings are kept - I can see 2 messages.
I did that some time ago, and I cannot remember whether I could read any messages
when clicking on the link
Sonnich
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Clicking on the link will prompt you to login again.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 23, 2011 15:46 | | Subject: | Secondary wanted list notifications | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I would like the ability to set up secondary wanted list notifications. Currently,
when you set up a wanted list notification, the default option is to have it
sent to your primary email address. As I am on the go a lot, I would welcome
the opportunity to receive them via text message to my cell phone, a secondary
email address (which I could then have auto-forwarded to my cell phone) or other
device capable of receiving notifications via the internet.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2011 12:03 | | Subject: | Re: currency free choice | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tomte writes:
| | Dear Admin,
please make it possible for the seller to change the selected currency again
as it was before.
I use the currency to separate between EU and non-EU. It is a headache when the
buyer selects the wrong currency and I have to cancel the order.
kind regards,
stefan
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Could you please explain how you use the different currencies to separate EU
and Non-EU orders and why? It might help your suggestion out.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2011 10:46 | | Subject: | Re: Differnt Item to sell in same colour. | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Templehill writes:
| | I am wondering whether a button giving you a choice of listing a differnt item
in the same colour as the item you listed before. Give your thoughts.
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Thought that option already existed. At the bottom, when you have listed your
item, there are four or so options, one of them is exactly that.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2011 19:27 | | Subject: | Re: Filling NPB | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, jlmcgivney writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, change writes:
| | Implementing a 3 days filing for NPB will be a nice feature.
7 days was good when people used Money Orders, Personal Checks or even cash.
For those who still use them , marking as payment when place the order give the
seller option to wait more.
Why the seller must be penalized for someone who is just playing games?
The 7 days waiting for finalizing the NPB(canceling the order) is again a penalty
for sellers.
The worst part here is the buyer responds to NPB filling but without any intention
to pay for the order and the waiting time for cancellation is doubled to 2 weeks.
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Voted NO.
I guess you also would like to get a payment reminder when you're 3 days due
to pay your electricity bill and have your electricity cut off another 3 days
later?
Sorry, by all means, to wait less than 7 days before sending an official reminder
(NPB) is simply unprofessional.
In addition to all completed NPBs we had at least 10 on which the buyer paid
after getting NPB'd, and only one so far who played the "I will pay" game and
never paid.
Btw. although we pack and seal at least 99,9% of the orders after invoicing,
we only had to unpack less than 5 (small orders) so far. Most of our NPBs where
never picked/packed...
Ronald
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Oh, and please realize that many buyers paying by PayPal don't pay by credit
card but have to transfer money from their bank account to PayPal first. It's
not always possible to get the money to PayPal within 3 days. Also e-checks take
much longer to clear.
Btw. do you mean 3 days after ordering or after invoicing? The latter would require
a completely new feature for BrickLink which actually counts the days after ordering.
Ronald
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I think he means the amount of time you have to wait to compete the NPB process
is to long since it can take up to 14 days once you file the NPB if they play
the "I will pay" game as you put it.
I to think that process is a bit long and should only take 8 days total even
when the buyer plays the "I will pay" game to complete an NPB.
Losing sales due to having your inventory tied up for 3 weeks is a bit much in
my option. I've had an order or two where I'm 70% sure it might have been another
seller tying up my inventory because it was cheaper then theirs. But their is
no way to say for sure it was or know who it might have been in order to report
it.
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You could always track IP Addresses. Unless they have a hookup like mine, they
will show from the same base address or range of addresses from the same provider.
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In bigger cities this would be almost impossible.
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Well, if they logged in with the SAME IP, that would be dead fishy, granted.
But, same provider, same town? Still just a little bit fishy.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2011 19:21 | | Subject: | Re: Filling NPB | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jlmcgivney writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, jlmcgivney writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, change writes:
| | Implementing a 3 days filing for NPB will be a nice feature.
7 days was good when people used Money Orders, Personal Checks or even cash.
For those who still use them , marking as payment when place the order give the
seller option to wait more.
Why the seller must be penalized for someone who is just playing games?
The 7 days waiting for finalizing the NPB(canceling the order) is again a penalty
for sellers.
The worst part here is the buyer responds to NPB filling but without any intention
to pay for the order and the waiting time for cancellation is doubled to 2 weeks.
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Voted NO.
I guess you also would like to get a payment reminder when you're 3 days due
to pay your electricity bill and have your electricity cut off another 3 days
later?
Sorry, by all means, to wait less than 7 days before sending an official reminder
(NPB) is simply unprofessional.
In addition to all completed NPBs we had at least 10 on which the buyer paid
after getting NPB'd, and only one so far who played the "I will pay" game and
never paid.
Btw. although we pack and seal at least 99,9% of the orders after invoicing,
we only had to unpack less than 5 (small orders) so far. Most of our NPBs where
never picked/packed...
Ronald
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Oh, and please realize that many buyers paying by PayPal don't pay by credit
card but have to transfer money from their bank account to PayPal first. It's
not always possible to get the money to PayPal within 3 days. Also e-checks take
much longer to clear.
Btw. do you mean 3 days after ordering or after invoicing? The latter would require
a completely new feature for BrickLink which actually counts the days after ordering.
Ronald
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I think he means the amount of time you have to wait to compete the NPB process
is to long since it can take up to 14 days once you file the NPB if they play
the "I will pay" game as you put it.
I to think that process is a bit long and should only take 8 days total even
when the buyer plays the "I will pay" game to complete an NPB.
Losing sales due to having your inventory tied up for 3 weeks is a bit much in
my option. I've had an order or two where I'm 70% sure it might have been another
seller tying up my inventory because it was cheaper then theirs. But their is
no way to say for sure it was or know who it might have been in order to report
it.
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You could always track IP Addresses. Unless they have a hookup like mine, they
will show from the same base address or range of addresses from the same provider.
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Is there a way for me to do that from my end or is it something I have to send
an email to an admin to look into?
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If you suspect foul play, you should get in touch with Help Desk and relay your
suspicions.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2011 18:36 | | Subject: | Re: Filling NPB | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jlmcgivney writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, change writes:
| | Implementing a 3 days filing for NPB will be a nice feature.
7 days was good when people used Money Orders, Personal Checks or even cash.
For those who still use them , marking as payment when place the order give the
seller option to wait more.
Why the seller must be penalized for someone who is just playing games?
The 7 days waiting for finalizing the NPB(canceling the order) is again a penalty
for sellers.
The worst part here is the buyer responds to NPB filling but without any intention
to pay for the order and the waiting time for cancellation is doubled to 2 weeks.
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Voted NO.
I guess you also would like to get a payment reminder when you're 3 days due
to pay your electricity bill and have your electricity cut off another 3 days
later?
Sorry, by all means, to wait less than 7 days before sending an official reminder
(NPB) is simply unprofessional.
In addition to all completed NPBs we had at least 10 on which the buyer paid
after getting NPB'd, and only one so far who played the "I will pay" game and
never paid.
Btw. although we pack and seal at least 99,9% of the orders after invoicing,
we only had to unpack less than 5 (small orders) so far. Most of our NPBs where
never picked/packed...
Ronald
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Oh, and please realize that many buyers paying by PayPal don't pay by credit
card but have to transfer money from their bank account to PayPal first. It's
not always possible to get the money to PayPal within 3 days. Also e-checks take
much longer to clear.
Btw. do you mean 3 days after ordering or after invoicing? The latter would require
a completely new feature for BrickLink which actually counts the days after ordering.
Ronald
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I think he means the amount of time you have to wait to compete the NPB process
is to long since it can take up to 14 days once you file the NPB if they play
the "I will pay" game as you put it.
I to think that process is a bit long and should only take 8 days total even
when the buyer plays the "I will pay" game to complete an NPB.
Losing sales due to having your inventory tied up for 3 weeks is a bit much in
my option. I've had an order or two where I'm 70% sure it might have been another
seller tying up my inventory because it was cheaper then theirs. But their is
no way to say for sure it was or know who it might have been in order to report
it.
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You could always track IP Addresses. Unless they have a hookup like mine, they
will show from the same base address or range of addresses from the same provider.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2011 17:34 | | Subject: | Re: Filling NPB | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, change writes:
| | Implementing a 3 days filing for NPB will be a nice feature.
7 days was good when people used Money Orders, Personal Checks or even cash.
For those who still use them , marking as payment when place the order give the
seller option to wait more.
Why the seller must be penalized for someone who is just playing games?
The 7 days waiting for finalizing the NPB(canceling the order) is again a penalty
for sellers.
The worst part here is the buyer responds to NPB filling but without any intention
to pay for the order and the waiting time for cancellation is doubled to 2 weeks.
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Voted NO.
I guess you also would like to get a payment reminder when you're 3 days due
to pay your electricity bill and have your electricity cut off another 3 days
later?
Sorry, by all means, to wait less than 7 days before sending an official reminder
(NPB) is simply unprofessional.
In addition to all completed NPBs we had at least 10 on which the buyer paid
after getting NPB'd, and only one so far who played the "I will pay" game and
never paid.
Btw. although we pack and seal at least 99,9% of the orders after invoicing,
we only had to unpack less than 5 (small orders) so far. Most of our NPBs where
never picked/packed...
Ronald
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Oh, and please realize that many buyers paying by PayPal don't pay by credit
card but have to transfer money from their bank account to PayPal first. It's
not always possible to get the money to PayPal within 3 days. Also e-checks take
much longer to clear.
Btw. do you mean 3 days after ordering or after invoicing? The latter would require
a completely new feature for BrickLink which actually counts the days after ordering.
Ronald
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Depends on what your definition of "IS" is...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2011 16:54 | | Subject: | Re: Filling NPB | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, brasletty writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobErNat writes:
| | In Suggestions, change writes:
| | Implementing a 3 days filing for NPB will be a nice feature.
7 days was good when people used Money Orders, Personal Checks or even cash.
For those who still use them , marking as payment when place the order give the
seller option to wait more.
Why the seller must be penalized for someone who is just playing games?
The 7 days waiting for finalizing the NPB(canceling the order) is again a penalty
for sellers.
The worst part here is the buyer responds to NPB filling but without any intention
to pay for the order and the waiting time for cancellation is doubled to 2 weeks.
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Sorry, voted NO.
In Europe people offently use Iban/Bic (banktransfer), that kind of money transaction
usually takes 2,3 or 4 days, sometimes even 5 or 6 if there is a weekend in between.
If the time is reduced to 3 days, it will simply not be possible for a buyer
to send the payment within that timeframe.
If a buyer responds within the seven days, he also should still have the possibility
to make the transfer.
So far, on all the NPB's I ran through, none responded, so all got completed
after the 1 week. I do wonder what would be the % of NPB buyers who do respond
to the NPB filing.
Maybe Admin could gives a % on that?
Eric
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Plus not many sellers file a NPB when there is good communication.
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you send only 7 NPB that is not so bad ?
regards r
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Just checked my feedbacks left and I've had 4 NPBs and two brand new users who
wanted to cancel orders and were firmly, yet politely, schooled on the BrickLink
buying process instead of receiving an NPB.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 17:26 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
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I made suggestion about ignore thread tree ages ago, hope it gets implemented
someday.
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Wonder if they'll do a movie about this, The Shunning...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 16:20 | | Subject: | Re: Noodling | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, okelnard writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, okelnard writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
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I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
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*Raises Hand*
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sorry forgot to chang the subject line...
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Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL
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Okie Noodling? where they catch big ole catfish with their bare hands? Awesome.
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Fish as big as the dudes catching them! Huge! Using just their hands and a piece
of rope.
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It's crazy, but hey, so is meth and some people do that too.
no amount of cheap beer would get me under water sticking my arm into some dark
crevice with a huge fish clomped on my arm...
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Sounds kinda sexy when you say it like that. LOL
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:54 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickAThon writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
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I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
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I loved fishing as a kid, but would never eat the fish I caught (I always caught
the biggest ones, and my folks REALLY loved that!).
Tracy
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A friend of mine used to be a fish and game warden up in Bemidji, Minnesota.
He knew all the right places to go fishing.
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I have actually spent time in Bemidji, very nice town.
John P
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We used to go up to Dorset and hit up the string of small but quaint restaurants
there. Done quite a bit of fishing on 11th Crow Wing and Potato Lake.
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There are a lot of interesting names of cities in ND and MN. I remember Thief
River Falls, Devils Lake, there is the Bad Lands, and of course the cities of
Moorehead and Climax MN.
John P
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Never seen Lickinghole Creek in Virginia...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:48 | | Subject: | Re: Noodling | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | Is 'noodling' like 'needleing' which is a synonym of 'heckling'?
JUST KIDDING!!!
LM
In Suggestions, okelnard writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
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I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
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*Raises Hand*
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sorry forgot to chang the subject line...
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Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL
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Okie Noodling? where they catch big ole catfish with their bare hands? Awesome.
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In some countries, it's an illegal sexual act. Woohoo!
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:43 | | Subject: | Re: Noodling | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, okelnard writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
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I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
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*Raises Hand*
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sorry forgot to chang the subject line...
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Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL
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Okie Noodling? where they catch big ole catfish with their bare hands? Awesome.
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Fish as big as the dudes catching them! Huge! Using just their hands and a piece
of rope.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:41 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, BrickAThon writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
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I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
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I loved fishing as a kid, but would never eat the fish I caught (I always caught
the biggest ones, and my folks REALLY loved that!).
Tracy
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A friend of mine used to be a fish and game warden up in Bemidji, Minnesota.
He knew all the right places to go fishing.
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I have actually spent time in Bemidji, very nice town.
John P
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We used to go up to Dorset and hit up the string of small but quaint restaurants
there. Done quite a bit of fishing on 11th Crow Wing and Potato Lake.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:20 | | Subject: | Re: Noodling | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
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I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
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*Raises Hand*
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sorry forgot to chang the subject line...
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Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:18 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, BrickAThon writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
|
I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
|
I loved fishing as a kid, but would never eat the fish I caught (I always caught
the biggest ones, and my folks REALLY loved that!).
Tracy
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A friend of mine used to be a fish and game warden up in Bemidji, Minnesota.
He knew all the right places to go fishing.
|
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:15 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | HOW IRONIC!!!
I have JUST been accused of the very same!!!...and it was 'out-of-the-blue'...as
in when the OP's suggestion fell apart and I think he took it personally so decided
to say I was a 'heckler' just to change (hyjack?) the thread etc...
Hmmmmmmm
LM
In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | Agreed...and too many "wannabee" forum moderators....or "BL Police"...
I have people that have blocked me from their stores...who cares? Just because
he/she did not like my comments in the forum? Please...childish playground behaviour...they
lose because I won't/can't purchase from them...and based upon my feedback, I
am a darn good buyer.
LM
In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
|
I voted no, those are the ones I want to read.
John P
|
That's why not "Ignored" but in red, so you know which ones you want to read,
or not... 
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Yeah, I've already got two people ignoring me, so anything I type makes no difference
to them as it stands now. But if it gave them the option to read or not read,
depending on the subject, that might be helpful. Don't we have enough watchlists
as it is nowadays?
|
|
Yeah, I have a few of those too. One from simply stating that I wasn't a heckler.
Evidently it was easier to stoplist a bunch of people. C'est la vie.
|
|
Irony is ok, sarcasm is borderline to banishment. Ask John P.
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It wasn't sarcasm that got me banned for a week, but it was being snide. I do
not think the powers that be can handle either very well.
John P
|
So what is the definition of sarcastic and what is the definition of snide? Surely
tehre must be a ruler in place to measure such things...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:14 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
|
I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?
|
*Raises Hand*
|
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:13 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, dvsntt writes:
| | In Suggestions, bje writes:
| | In Suggestions, dvsntt writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
|
I voted no, those are the ones I want to read.
John P
|
That's why not "Ignored" but in red, so you know which ones you want to read,
or not...
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Yeah, I've already got two people ignoring me, so anything I type makes no difference
to them as it stands now. But if it gave them the option to read or not read,
depending on the subject, that might be helpful. Don't we have enough watchlists
as it is nowadays?
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How do I know if I'm on someones ignore list?
|
Go to "my Bricklink", click on "My Activity" and scroll down to "My community
activity", you'll see it there
|
I don't have the honor of being on anyone's ignore list, but 1 person has listed
me as a least favorite store. Why would they do that?
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That is a million dollar question. there is no way to get feedback from anyone
listing you as least favorite store and therefore no way to learn from any possible
mistakes that led to that happening
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:11 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | I vote no too...plus, how do you know the BL user (in general) is 'he'?
Besides...critcize in private-PRAISE in public....send him/her a PM...
LM
|
Silly Human... Trix are for Kids!
-R
|
Speaking of cereal, I did see that BooBerry is back in the market again. Awesome!
|
I can get you that and frankenberry, contact me if you are serious!
|
Saw all three, FrankenBerry, BooBerry and Count Chocula all in the same display.
Simply awesome.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 14:50 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | HOW IRONIC!!!
I have JUST been accused of the very same!!!...and it was 'out-of-the-blue'...as
in when the OP's suggestion fell apart and I think he took it personally so decided
to say I was a 'heckler' just to change (hyjack?) the thread etc...
Hmmmmmmm
LM
In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | Agreed...and too many "wannabee" forum moderators....or "BL Police"...
I have people that have blocked me from their stores...who cares? Just because
he/she did not like my comments in the forum? Please...childish playground behaviour...they
lose because I won't/can't purchase from them...and based upon my feedback, I
am a darn good buyer.
LM
In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
|
I voted no, those are the ones I want to read.
John P
|
That's why not "Ignored" but in red, so you know which ones you want to read,
or not...
|
Yeah, I've already got two people ignoring me, so anything I type makes no difference
to them as it stands now. But if it gave them the option to read or not read,
depending on the subject, that might be helpful. Don't we have enough watchlists
as it is nowadays?
|
|
Yeah, I have a few of those too. One from simply stating that I wasn't a heckler.
Evidently it was easier to stoplist a bunch of people. C'est la vie.
|
|
Irony is ok, sarcasm is borderline to banishment. Ask John P.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 14:49 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | Yes, it is! I bought 2 boxes and gave one to my "older" (43) brother....we were
only allowed 'sweet cereal' as kids when we went on vacation once a year...and
this was the cereal I picked....probably just because all the artificial colors
and flavors drove my mom nuts! (that or Cookie Crisp!)
LM
PS...ya know, mom was right though-almost 41 and still no tooth decay/cavities!
In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | I vote no too...plus, how do you know the BL user (in general) is 'he'?
Besides...critcize in private-PRAISE in public....send him/her a PM...
LM
|
Silly Human... Trix are for Kids!
-R
|
Speaking of cereal, I did see that BooBerry is back in the market again. Awesome!
|
|
We used to get ours at Christmas in our stockings. My brother would wolf his
down in a day. Mine would still be around in Februaury.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 14:47 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | Agreed...and too many "wannabee" forum moderators....or "BL Police"...
I have people that have blocked me from their stores...who cares? Just because
he/she did not like my comments in the forum? Please...childish playground behaviour...they
lose because I won't/can't purchase from them...and based upon my feedback, I
am a darn good buyer.
LM
In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
|
I voted no, those are the ones I want to read.
John P
|
That's why not "Ignored" but in red, so you know which ones you want to read,
or not...
|
Yeah, I've already got two people ignoring me, so anything I type makes no difference
to them as it stands now. But if it gave them the option to read or not read,
depending on the subject, that might be helpful. Don't we have enough watchlists
as it is nowadays?
|
|
Yeah, I have a few of those too. One from simply stating that I wasn't a heckler.
Evidently it was easier to stoplist a bunch of people. C'est la vie.
|
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 14:40 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | I vote no too...plus, how do you know the BL user (in general) is 'he'?
Besides...critcize in private-PRAISE in public....send him/her a PM...
LM
|
Silly Human... Trix are for Kids!
-R
|
Speaking of cereal, I did see that BooBerry is back in the market again. Awesome!
|
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 14:37 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many 's)
|
I voted no, those are the ones I want to read.
John P
|
That's why not "Ignored" but in red, so you know which ones you want to read,
or not...
|
Yeah, I've already got two people ignoring me, so anything I type makes no difference
to them as it stands now. But if it gave them the option to read or not read,
depending on the subject, that might be helpful. Don't we have enough watchlists
as it is nowadays?
|
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 14:23 | | Subject: | Re: Box condition should remai "New or Used" | | Viewed: | 16 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, rikitikitaviguy writes:
| | OK...following your reasoning...
If you took Barbie out of the box then she is USED...(sorry John)...you 'handled'
her but did not 'build' with her....how can we know for sure? 
So she must be listed as used....according to all this banter here!
LM
In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
Someone pointed this out by PM to me:
what it comes down to is if you have to cut tape on the box, or
rip glue or tape off it to open the box, this clearly makes the box used.
the very fact of the tape or glue which is very much part of the box when shipped
from LEGO makes them part of the condition, if they are damaged or removed it
effects the condition of the box.
put it this way if you took the clothes off of Barbie, can they be considered
new?
good points
John P
|
|
Well, if John handled Barbie, she would definitely have been Used... *snicker*
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 21, 2011 16:15 | | Subject: | Re: One way to make performance better | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, JasonsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, JasonsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, oasis writes:
| | we all know that server equipment and maintenance can cost.. I, for one, would
welcome a small bump in the fees if I knew it was gonna make the sytem work better!
|
Knowing a bit about infrastructure and networking, there are a few things that
should come before a vote for a fee hike.
First, a detailed server process mapping should take place and then a complete
system hardware, software and network analysis to determine where and what the
bottlenecks are. Second should be developing the future state map that shows
ideally how the system should operate. Then comes the technical planning stage
where Admin sits down with various techies and lays out the scope of work and
gets pricing for each segment. Then, when everything is down on paper, the decision
can be made as to which of the improvements are cost effective to implement.
I think Admin understands the scope of the project before him, being the Head
IT Guru in Charge, but I do wish that he would share a bit with us as to where
they are in their timeline. Is a complete re-write of the software necessary?
Will additional hardware help (front end or back end)? Is the firewall helping
or hindering network flow? And even further beyond the hardware, software and
network issues, when are we going to be able to opt in for BrickLink co-op advertising?
Have secure login features and better verification functions. I for one would
be more than interested to hear what the proposed direction BrickLink will take
in the future.
While I know that BrickLink is a privately held company and they really owe us
little in the way of this type of information, it would be a great public relations
gesture to at least acknowledge that someone is listening and actively seeking
solutions to the current problems, that they are indeed looking into future upgrades
to the system and even perhaps some sort of timeline for improvements to ease
our current worries.
|
BrickLink should forget about trying to manage their own hardware. I am sure
most of the time, resources and money is spent managing and maintaining these
antiquated systems. The volume of traffic keeps growing and it doesn't seem to
be able to cope with it. Take it to the cloud, go with Windows Azure ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/),
then BrickLink can actually focus on making the site better as there have been
zero improvements since the founders passing. The way I see it, the door is wide
open for a competitor to come in and stomp out BrickLink pretty quickly if they
can provide a modern, stable, fast and secure app, something that BrickLink is
really starting to fail at.
|
Basically it in a nutshell, change or die. I however, would not put anything
on SQL, having seen the differences in performance between Oracle and SQL. Just
my personal beef with MS I guess. Indeed, if BrickLink expects to remain a viable
platform, it simply comes down to the law of survival, change or die.
|
Coke vs Pepsi 
The nice thing with Azure is it is a global network, so content is served up
fast and it is infinitely scalable.
|
Until the blue screen of death and then they have to reboot the server. 
|
|
| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 21, 2011 16:04 | | Subject: | Re: One way to make performance better | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, JasonsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, oasis writes:
| | we all know that server equipment and maintenance can cost.. I, for one, would
welcome a small bump in the fees if I knew it was gonna make the sytem work better!
|
Knowing a bit about infrastructure and networking, there are a few things that
should come before a vote for a fee hike.
First, a detailed server process mapping should take place and then a complete
system hardware, software and network analysis to determine where and what the
bottlenecks are. Second should be developing the future state map that shows
ideally how the system should operate. Then comes the technical planning stage
where Admin sits down with various techies and lays out the scope of work and
gets pricing for each segment. Then, when everything is down on paper, the decision
can be made as to which of the improvements are cost effective to implement.
I think Admin understands the scope of the project before him, being the Head
IT Guru in Charge, but I do wish that he would share a bit with us as to where
they are in their timeline. Is a complete re-write of the software necessary?
Will additional hardware help (front end or back end)? Is the firewall helping
or hindering network flow? And even further beyond the hardware, software and
network issues, when are we going to be able to opt in for BrickLink co-op advertising?
Have secure login features and better verification functions. I for one would
be more than interested to hear what the proposed direction BrickLink will take
in the future.
While I know that BrickLink is a privately held company and they really owe us
little in the way of this type of information, it would be a great public relations
gesture to at least acknowledge that someone is listening and actively seeking
solutions to the current problems, that they are indeed looking into future upgrades
to the system and even perhaps some sort of timeline for improvements to ease
our current worries.
|
BrickLink should forget about trying to manage their own hardware. I am sure
most of the time, resources and money is spent managing and maintaining these
antiquated systems. The volume of traffic keeps growing and it doesn't seem to
be able to cope with it. Take it to the cloud, go with Windows Azure ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/),
then BrickLink can actually focus on making the site better as there have been
zero improvements since the founders passing. The way I see it, the door is wide
open for a competitor to come in and stomp out BrickLink pretty quickly if they
can provide a modern, stable, fast and secure app, something that BrickLink is
really starting to fail at.
|
Basically it in a nutshell, change or die. I however, would not put anything
on SQL, having seen the differences in performance between Oracle and SQL. Just
my personal beef with MS I guess. Indeed, if BrickLink expects to remain a viable
platform, it simply comes down to the law of survival, change or die.
|
|
| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 21, 2011 15:20 | | Subject: | Re: One way to make performance better | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, bricksahead writes:
| | In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, oasis writes:
| | | | it would be nice if someone would share something, anything,
as I feel like things are in limbo lately.
|
agreed.. unfortunately, lack of communication of this nature often means lack
of interest..
|
Maybe there IS no interest in improving the site?
|
I actually think there is an interest in improving the site but it conflicts
with a wise saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Just imagine having to
maintain a one man's huge piece of software let alone adding new features or
improving performance ...
|
I live that nightmare every day at work. LOLOL
|
|
| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 21, 2011 14:30 | | Subject: | Re: One way to make performance better | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, therobo writes:
| | In Suggestions, oasis writes:
| | | | it would be nice if someone would share something, anything,
as I feel like things are in limbo lately.
|
agreed.. unfortunately, lack of communication of this nature often means lack
of interest..
|
Maybe there IS no interest in improving the site?
|
Doubt that. I believe that they are having troubles at the moment mapping out
all the procedures and interlinked work that was done to make BrickLink because
it was programmed over time, by one individual, who basically added and subtracted
stuff as it made sense to him. Now, without any real prior knowledge of the system
other than taking care of the hardware aspects, people are having to not only
maintain the current system (through some pretty hectic stuff I must admit),
but also perform a sort of forensic analysis on it to understand the intricacy
of it and from that, map out the future of the system. I think it comes down
to a simple choice, does it make sense to keep it going as is or get people involved
to do a complete rewrite of everything from the ground up to make it more modular
and allow for easier, simpler infrastructure changes. Just the programming behind
the exchange rate stuff is mind boggling, imagine the coding for the whole site.
|
|
| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 21, 2011 10:47 | | Subject: | Re: One way to make performance better | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, oasis writes:
| | | | Knowing a bit about infrastructure and networking, there are a few things that
should come before a vote for a fee hike.
|
yes, I know all of these things, too, but it's great that you broke out many
of the details here, because most folks probably don't see all the things that
come into play, to make a decision like this..
but I do want to point that I was just saying that I'm in favor of the idea,
if the "informed decision" is made..
|
Often times, people think it's just something simple like adding memory or upgrading
a processor to run better. Not so with large scale web operations. I would support
decisions made that make the site more secure, user friendly, stable and any
advertising activity that reaches out to the world wide community to help drive
sales. As I said before, it would be nice if someone would share something, anything,
as I feel like things are in limbo lately.
|
|
| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 20, 2011 18:03 | | Subject: | Re: One way to make performance better | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, oasis writes:
| | we all know that server equipment and maintenance can cost.. I, for one, would
welcome a small bump in the fees if I knew it was gonna make the sytem work better!
|
Knowing a bit about infrastructure and networking, there are a few things that
should come before a vote for a fee hike.
First, a detailed server process mapping should take place and then a complete
system hardware, software and network analysis to determine where and what the
bottlenecks are. Second should be developing the future state map that shows
ideally how the system should operate. Then comes the technical planning stage
where Admin sits down with various techies and lays out the scope of work and
gets pricing for each segment. Then, when everything is down on paper, the decision
can be made as to which of the improvements are cost effective to implement.
I think Admin understands the scope of the project before him, being the Head
IT Guru in Charge, but I do wish that he would share a bit with us as to where
they are in their timeline. Is a complete re-write of the software necessary?
Will additional hardware help (front end or back end)? Is the firewall helping
or hindering network flow? And even further beyond the hardware, software and
network issues, when are we going to be able to opt in for BrickLink co-op advertising?
Have secure login features and better verification functions. I for one would
be more than interested to hear what the proposed direction BrickLink will take
in the future.
While I know that BrickLink is a privately held company and they really owe us
little in the way of this type of information, it would be a great public relations
gesture to at least acknowledge that someone is listening and actively seeking
solutions to the current problems, that they are indeed looking into future upgrades
to the system and even perhaps some sort of timeline for improvements to ease
our current worries.
|
|
| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2011 19:28 | | Subject: | Re: Is this a feature on Bricklink? | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, brasletty writes:
| | In Suggestions, Rockys writes:
| | Can you search for shops that sell Lego from a smoke and pet free home?
If it isn't a feature, do you think it can be a future possibility?
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what if the bricklink store owner dont smoke and is pat free and he have buy
sam sets or parts from a garage sale where they have pets and smoke 100 sigerets
a day for yaers?
regards rohnny
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Exactly. Have received several lots from Fleabay that ended up going to Craigslist
because of that very reason...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2011 02:25 | | Subject: | Re: *Question- add items w/ same description? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, vampyr66213 writes:
| | This may be a question, or a suggestion, not sure. I really could use the help
with it, either knowledge of system, or hopefully something that could be implemented.
So, as an example, I have a buyer right now, who's order is at over 10,000 pieces,
over 2,000 lots and more than 100+ batches. The issue I am having is if the buyer
buys the same type of item, each time it gets listed (example: DBG 1x1 slopes),
and has over 20 lots of the exact item and color, is there not a way to combine
them when I print it out, for ease in pulling the order?
I know you can group by batch, by color, etc. But it seems no matter what, I
will still have to manually add up every lot of like items anyway, meaning no
way to combine for just one qty total. If anyone knows a way around this, please
let me know. Otherwise, I am making a suggestion: for the order settings page,
have a checkbox that can be selected, so the seller may have the full qty listed
in one spot (or lot) of like items. I am not asking for it to change the total
lots count on the order, but just somewhere have it shown the total qty of an
item bought. Kind of how it is now where it shows the qty they order, and next
to it can show qty you have left in stock. Maybe just have one more that shows
"total qty" next to that item.
Thanks, Melissa
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I know! You could import the order into Brickstore and do a merge there!
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 10, 2011 15:28 | | Subject: | Re: Shop Name - additional field | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, susanmary writes:
| | Hi Admin
Currently the shop set up has a main Name field which shows up in various places,
and a secondary field that only shows up in the shop.
Sellers have in the past, and still do add to their shop name when having a sale
or promotion.
Recently a shop did this and someone created a shop with their original name
as it wasn't taken (due to the member adding extra wording)
Would it be possible to have an extra field - that say you could put in up to
10 characters that could be added to the shop name to promote various sales without
the shop name changing
i.e.
In set up:-
Shop Name : THIS SHOP
Additional details : - SALE 40%
Combined shop name :- THIS SHOP - SALE 40%
Hope this makes sense
Susan
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Good idea!
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2011 14:33 | | Subject: | Re: Notification about Forum post replies | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MassBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Jan_K writes:
| | Basically, the subject already says it:
I would like to get email notifications whenever a Forum post of mine gets a
reply.
A desirable optional setting: email and/or BL message notification - including
the text of the reply (just like a facebook notification) and a link to the thread/post.
Various other optional features I can think of:
- notify for all new posts in threads I started
- notify for all new posts in threads I contributed to (like facebook)
- notify for all new (direct) replies to posts of mine
- notify for all new posts in the reply tree of posts of mine
- individual selection (by checkbox when posting) if I want any of the notifications
above for the very post I submit only.
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Anyone else here familiar with reddit? Instead of having email or bl message
notifications, simply have a little icon appear at the top of the page when someone
has replied to a message you posted, clicking the icon will show you the list
of replies to your post which you have not yet read. On the UI end, this could
be something as simple as making the "!" on the forum tab red if a post was a
reply to you. On reddit, this only goes one level deep i.e. it shows up only
when a message is a direct reply to your message, not a reply to a reply, and
I think this works well.
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Or they could setup any standard forum software package that does all that stuff
and more. Cheap, if not free.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2011 23:51 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Feedback-Smileys! | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | I miss them!
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Uh, maybe. Can I think on this a bit?
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jul 28, 2011 23:49 | | Subject: | Re: Reinstate Auctions! | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
Um, already brought this up many times and every time, they keep saying no, no
and heck no. Maybe in BrickLink II...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jul 13, 2011 21:27 | | Subject: | Re: On a lighter note...emoticons? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WILYKAT writes:
| | In Suggestions, The_Mimed_One writes:
| | We sell and buy LEGO products here, yes?
YES WE DO!!
Anyway, why are our emoticons not LEGO
emoticons?     
I suggest that we use these. Someone
can contact this guy about using some of
these!!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/865261@N22/pool/
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Only if there's an animated barfing icon for those extra nasty situation.
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I did not see one in there for beating a dead horse...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 29, 2011 10:48 | | Subject: | Re: This just came up again...................... | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, NEW_WAREHOUSE writes:
| | Morning Brick Link buyers and sellers.
This came up again today.
We were told this policy is an "attitude" when it is just a plan to keep our
prices down.
I would again like to suggest that the system allow the seller to set the lot
limits for purchases.
People just do not read the splash page!
Then when they are informed of the information, they say we have a bad attitude
or worse leave negative feedback.
We have no choice in the matter. We cannot afford to get 1.00 20+ page orders.
We are barely making it now with the current lot limit/discount in place.
Thank you for understanding, and I hope that this gets put in place soon!
Have a great week.
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I certainly understand your need for such a feature. I have a 1,400+ item, 200+
lot order I'm filling. In my case, simply informing the Buyer that it may take
a few days to pull such a massive order, communicating the delay, worked well
and they were very understanding. Perhaps, as has been suggested, you should
up your lot quantities so that minimum amounts of product are being moved every
time you have to touch a bin.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2011 08:01 | | Subject: | Re: Remove Top 10 Forum Posters League Table | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, brickcounter writes:
| | Increasingly, I've been wondering if the ambitions of some members to achieve
a position on this list are at the root of many of the problems we've been seeing
in the forums lately.
I'd like to suggest that the Top 10 Forum Posters League Table be removed, as
it serves little constructive purpose other than to provide an incentive to those
members who, for whatever reason, are motivated to appear on it.
Please note that I do not mean to imply that all of those who currently appear
on the list desired to be so.
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Big thumbs up!
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 24, 2011 04:45 | | Subject: | Re: Store Most/Least Favorite Communication | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, LEGOMASTER writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | When someone Most or Least favorites a store, it would be nice to have some sort
of feedback mechanism to the store so they can understnad why people like or
dislike their store. Perhaps a text box to type in why you selected the store
as most or least favorite, the contents of which would then be sent in an anonymous
system message format to the Seller. It would give them an opportunity to better
understand what customers find important and they could then drive for increased
customer satisfaction.
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I vote no.
This would created more problems, debates, abuse, and MORE work for the Mods
and Admin. Bricklink should not deal with people who hide anonymous to either
hurt or force some one to change their store terms.
You either 'really' want the part/set or move to the next store.
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This idea is about finding what your customer likes/dislikes. The change or lack
thereof is always in your hands as the Seller. If they don't like your store
because you sell parts for more than a penny, you don't have to implement that
change. It is entirely up to you. It is a growth, development and learning tool.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 24, 2011 04:37 | | Subject: | Re: Store Most/Least Favorite Communication | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, RobErNat writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | When someone Most or Least favorites a store, it would be nice to have some sort
of feedback mechanism to the store so they can understnad why people like or
dislike their store. Perhaps a text box to type in why you selected the store
as most or least favorite, the contents of which would then be sent in an anonymous
system message format to the Seller. It would give them an opportunity to better
understand what customers find important and they could then drive for increased
customer satisfaction.
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Sorry, no...
I care for my buyers and my orders in the best way possible, so as all sellers,I
end up with feedbacks for that...
But I couldn't care less to know why someone would put me on their 'least' favorite
list...
If someone does, for any reason, it means they would probably not place an order,
so what? I consider it 'their' loss...
When it comes down to the 'most favorite' list, I see that number increase mounthly,
probably related to shipped orders/quality provided, so for me it means I'm on
the right track...
What customers find important: read your feedbacks, you can find some hints
Eric
PS BTW this kind of thread and the other one, is 'stiring the pot', make the
wrong answer and you get some extra 'least favorite'
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I hadn't really considered this or the other post as stirring the pot, just noting
some menu items that I never really look at often. My objective is to get some
sort of feedback on why people choose to most or least favorite you as a store,
in case there was something you could do to fix that. Such as: Minimum buy is
too high, you might reconsider lowering it if enough people least favorited you
for it.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 24, 2011 04:33 | | Subject: | Re: Store Most/Least Favorite Communication | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, LEGOMASTER writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, dvsntt writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | When someone Most or Least favorites a store, it would be nice to have some sort
of feedback mechanism to the store so they can understnad why people like or
dislike their store. Perhaps a text box to type in why you selected the store
as most or least favorite, the contents of which would then be sent in an anonymous
system message format to the Seller. It would give them an opportunity to better
understand what customers find important and they could then drive for increased
customer satisfaction.
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I voted yes. It may be someone is concerned about retaliatory feedback, or for
some other reason does not wish to be identified, and I would really value that
persons opinion.
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It may not be someone who has ever ordered from you. What if the reason given
is something offensive? What if it's about religion or politics?
I see this causing some problems.
--
Marc.
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If it is something outside of your control, then there is nothing you could do
anyway. But if somoene least favorites you because of shipping costs or slow
shipping, those are things you can have a look at and control.
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I vote no. Just more problems and headache for the Admin and the Mods.
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Yet, if it was a simple, it would not be any hassle after implementation.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 23, 2011 17:01 | | Subject: | Re: Store Most/Least Favorite Communication | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tomsmith writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | When someone Most or Least favorites a store, it would be nice to have some sort
of feedback mechanism to the store so they can understnad why people like or
dislike their store. Perhaps a text box to type in why you selected the store
as most or least favorite, the contents of which would then be sent in an anonymous
system message format to the Seller. It would give them an opportunity to better
understand what customers find important and they could then drive for increased
customer satisfaction.
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There was a system in place for this in the past with the Stop List feature.
It was abused by people wanting to get a last word in and then was removed.
-Tommy Smith
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I can see where that would have been a problem, but an anonymous note that says,
"Hey, I most favorited you because of your great prices" or "I least favorited
your store because of your terms page being too hard to understand", those would
be helpful. If someone simply said, "I don't like you", well, not much you can
do there.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 23, 2011 16:57 | | Subject: | Re: Store Most/Least Favorite Communication | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, dvsntt writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | When someone Most or Least favorites a store, it would be nice to have some sort
of feedback mechanism to the store so they can understnad why people like or
dislike their store. Perhaps a text box to type in why you selected the store
as most or least favorite, the contents of which would then be sent in an anonymous
system message format to the Seller. It would give them an opportunity to better
understand what customers find important and they could then drive for increased
customer satisfaction.
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I voted yes. It may be someone is concerned about retaliatory feedback, or for
some other reason does not wish to be identified, and I would really value that
persons opinion.
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It may not be someone who has ever ordered from you. What if the reason given
is something offensive? What if it's about religion or politics?
I see this causing some problems.
--
Marc.
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If it is something outside of your control, then there is nothing you could do
anyway. But if somoene least favorites you because of shipping costs or slow
shipping, those are things you can have a look at and control.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 23, 2011 16:38 | | Subject: | Store Most/Least Favorite Communication | | Viewed: | 299 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| When someone Most or Least favorites a store, it would be nice to have some sort
of feedback mechanism to the store so they can understnad why people like or
dislike their store. Perhaps a text box to type in why you selected the store
as most or least favorite, the contents of which would then be sent in an anonymous
system message format to the Seller. It would give them an opportunity to better
understand what customers find important and they could then drive for increased
customer satisfaction.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jun 8, 2011 17:20 | | Subject: | Re: Add "Pending Payment" to Order Status | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, waltzking writes:
| | It would be nice to have this status for payments that have been sent, but not
yet received (ie. Money Order, PayPal eCheck, etc.).
The intent is to prevent order additions to an order once payment is initiated
by the buyer as well as correctly define the current status of the order.
In essence it would work the same as the "packed" or "paid" status, but with
a new, more appropriate, and descriptive name.
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There's a payment status for "clearing".
This doesn't block additional batches?
--
Marc.
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Good question, anyone know if this blocks additions?
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2011 19:47 | | Subject: | Re: Locked forum for ADULTS ONLY. | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | Can we beat dead horses there? How about dead hookers? |
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2011 22:32 | | Subject: | Re: Save a thousand clicks | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, TheHawkins writes:
| | Please change the redirect after sending an invoice to a buyer:
After sending an invoice to a buyer, the system should return the user to the
"Orders Received" page, which is where they were before sending the invoice.
Currently, the user is redirected to a screen with one field so you can type
in an invoice number and see any invoice. I don't remember invoice numbers.
It would be much better to redirect to the "Orders Received" screen where I
can see all orders and use the user friendly controls on that screen to access
orders.
A simple change which makes a common sense improvement to Bricklink.
David
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And can we do that for the feedback as well?
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2011 21:27 | | Subject: | Re: Forced Consolidation-Multiple Identical Lots | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| You have Packing Minions? Sooo jealous right now...
In Suggestions, fwlynch writes:
| | In Suggestions, bsohn writes:
| | I suggest that the admin create a system for forced consolidation of multiple
identical lots.
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FAIL! I may list common parts (i.e. 2x2 bricks) multiple times (2) on purpose.
One listing may be for bricks sold individually and another for bricks sold in
bulk lots (x100). These are stored in physically separate locations and have
separate remarks. The remarks tell the packing minion where to pull the bricks
from. Forced consolidation like this would be problematic for me.
But I am in general agreement that sellers don't need 7 different listings of
the same item.
-Billy
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 15, 2011 19:25 | | Subject: | Re: Addition to the screen choices! | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Normally, I pull orders as they come in. If an order is on Hold, I keep that
order bin aside and as they update the order, I will pull the updates. This keeps
me from having to pull the entire order when they signify they are done.
In Suggestions, AlltRightBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Perterz writes:
| | In Suggestions, AlltRightBricks writes:
| |
I think this would be great. It would also be nice if there was a feature by
which the buyer could select hold order open, and then select order is now complete.
This way the feature might read :
1.) 2 Orders Held Open
2.) 1 Open Order Now Complete
Actually I think it would be great if buyers had to select if they want the order
held open before they can submit it. This would eliminate getting additions after
an order has been invoiced (that's the hope anyway)
Katie
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For now the 'open order' option is a shipping option in my store.
On checkout buyers can make a choice that way and I immediatly see if this buyer
has intentions to add to their order.
Only 'problem' is to close an open order, I communicate to let the buyer know
I'm aware of his order and I state that processing the order only begins when
I have received a comment from them stating they're finished with shopping.
I ask for this comment with the last added batch. All communication is attached
to the order so emails/communication normally can't get lost or mixed up.
So far, no issues with this, it works.
But a direct option for the buyer to choose to keep the order open AND close
it would be very nice, less hassle, more effective.
YES for me
Kevin
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I have just implemented this in my store.
It's nice to be able to add items to cart in your own store and "checkout" to
see how everything looks from the side of the buyer, although I can't help but
wonder if such an order would actually go through.
I have implemented both Hold Order Open, and Order is Now Complete. This way
they will hopefully select one or the other.
I'm excited to see how well this works.
But yes I think it would be nice to eliminate the step of having to double check
with the buyer every time to see if they are done shopping. Communicating back
and forth is nice, but it can slow processing the order down unneccessarily.
Katie
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2011 15:31 | | Subject: | Re: Password for Buyers to Unlock Stockroom | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I like that idea, a VIP lounge...
In Suggestions, brickcounter writes:
| | Could be useful, but since I already use all 3 stockrooms extensively, I wouldn't
want to give one up in order to use the feature. If there were to be an additional/special
stockroom or "showroom" for the purpose, that would be ideal.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Jan 1, 2011 14:40 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted list notification time out, solution 1 | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| When I have large numbers of lots and it times out, I usually just hit refresh
and it continues on it's merry way to completion.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2010 08:49 | | Subject: | Re: Notify member of reserved lot. | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, elias3 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | I've reserved lots for customers and they were under the notify tab, waiting
to be notified, same as if you add a new lot to inventory.
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Yes but only if you add new lots, not if the lot already is in your inv. and
that's just what BigBrickDaddy will have.
Stefaan
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Ahh...
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2010 08:08 | | Subject: | Re: Notify member of reserved lot. | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I've reserved lots for customers and they were under the notify tab, waiting
to be notified, same as if you add a new lot to inventory.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2010 17:53 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion for parted out sets | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I use the Brickstore program to do this function. I pull up a set inventory in
Brickstore, then pick parts from stock and make a note of how many of what in
the remark fields. When done, I copy and paste those with remarks onto a new
sheet, change the values to negative the number shown in the remarks column,
remove the remarks and export that to my inventory. It automatically updates
the amounts in my store, subtracting what I've taken out.
In Suggestions, chickin2332 writes:
| | I would really like a "un-part set" button on either the sell or 'my inventory'
pages. It would help a lot for the bigger sets. I just had to go through and
delete a whole lot of my inventory and it took me a long time to do so. I probably
missed some of it also.
This button would help for people who decide they would like to keep the set
they parted or for people who type in the wrong numbers like me.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2010 19:16 | | Subject: | Re: Suggest: adding % off when parting set | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I'd go for it if you had the option to go plus or minus and then a percent. Sometimes,
you have a really hot set to part out and want to go a bit higher.
In Suggestions, BUC writes:
| | Jumping on Fost ... err ... Thor's suggestion bandwagon...
When parting out a set, I would like to be able to input one "% off" for all
items that are being parted out instead of having to do it manually for each
part in the detailed parted-out screen.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2010 21:45 | | Subject: | Re: Bring old forum posts back (suggestion) | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| How about a BrickLink FAQ repository that houses just the pertinent parts of
the posted questions and answers. Instead of a 200 post thread, one question
and it's succint answer are added to the FAQ. Same kind of deal for set inventory
changes and stuff. Some sort of changelog that can be archivally data mined.
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| Author: | kzinti | | Posted: | Sep 24, 2010 23:56 | | Subject: | Re: Speed Up Shopping - Pictures Next to Prices | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | Price, then image, then description? |
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