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:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | 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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