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 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Mar 23, 2014 11:29
 Subject: Sale Opt Out...
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Location:  USA, Missouri
Member Since Contact Type Status
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Mar 11, 2014 17:39
 Subject: Re: System Generated Superlots
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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

Don't they have this feature to some degree with wheels and tires?
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jan 28, 2014 09:51
 Subject: Re: Selling probation.
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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?

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.

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jan 27, 2014 16:20
 Subject: Re: Selling probation.
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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?
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jan 27, 2014 16:15
 Subject: Re: Seller Assistance Program
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jan 23, 2014 20:37
 Subject: Re: Definition of Shipped
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.


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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Sep 22, 2013 07:03
 Subject: Re: Keep the communication lines open...
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Sep 22, 2013 06:59
 Subject: Re: Keep the communication lines open...
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
  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

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jul 21, 2013 13:24
 Subject: Re: BL 2.0 needs media attention
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jul 14, 2013 20:02
 Subject: Re: How to contact the site administrator
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.

Would have suggested going through the help desk if nothing else.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Apr 27, 2013 19:05
 Subject: Re: More text needed for leaving feedback
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.

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

Interesting. Wonder if I should start doing this as well.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Apr 4, 2013 18:26
 Subject: Re: Separate Field for Customs Forms Numbers
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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

Include it in the Drive Thru message.

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

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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 Posted: Apr 4, 2013 18:18
 Subject: Re: Separate Field for Customs Forms Numbers
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Feb 21, 2013 10:35
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.

Think it had more to do with the fight with eBay that then changed the site name
to BrickLink and got rid of auctions.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Dec 13, 2012 14:56
 Subject: Re: Condition to include "smoke smell" as issue
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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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

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Oct 24, 2012 09:20
 Subject: Re: Button Solution Option for All Sellers
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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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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 Posted: Oct 1, 2012 11:33
 Subject: Re: Total and P&P
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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In Suggestions, Paulrosebank18 writes:
  I wish that the grand total including postage and packaging would appear before
you checkout.

Working on that very thing. Hold on...
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 Posted: Sep 4, 2012 22:12
 Subject: Re: SUGGEST: add "OTHER" as payment method
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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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!

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Aug 29, 2012 22:18
 Subject: New Payment Service: WePay
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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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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 Posted: Aug 8, 2012 13:56
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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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 Posted: Aug 7, 2012 02:23
 Subject: Re: For consideration in the new Bricklink (when
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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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?

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: May 24, 2012 00:51
 Subject: Re: Parting Out a Set - "My Cost" Distribution
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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.


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.


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...

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.


--
Marc.

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: May 14, 2012 22:22
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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Store: The Brick Bin
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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 Posted: Mar 26, 2012 16:58
 Subject: Re: Filter out stickered parts from Newest parts
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Location:  USA, Missouri
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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.

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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 Posted: Mar 25, 2012 15:05
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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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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

Mixed feelings on this.
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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

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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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.

Sure but we need to add:
Disagreed with a forum post

Perhaps one simply put as Personal?
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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

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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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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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

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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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

Believe they have this already, it is represented by an asterisk (*)
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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

Clicking on the link will prompt you to login again.
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 Posted: Oct 23, 2011 15:46
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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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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

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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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.

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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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.

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

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

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.

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.

In bigger cities this would be almost impossible.

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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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

If you suspect foul play, you should get in touch with Help Desk and relay your
suspicions.
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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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Depends on what your definition of "IS" is...
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 Posted: Oct 12, 2011 16:54
 Subject: Re: Filling NPB
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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.

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

Plus not many sellers file a NPB when there is good communication.

you send only 7 NPB that is not so bad ?
regards r

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.
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Oct 5, 2011 17:26
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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)

I made suggestion about ignore thread tree ages ago, hope it gets implemented
someday.

Wonder if they'll do a movie about this, The Shunning...
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Oct 5, 2011 16:20
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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)

I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?

*Raises Hand*

sorry forgot to chang the subject line...

Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL

Okie Noodling? where they catch big ole catfish with their bare hands? Awesome.

Fish as big as the dudes catching them! Huge! Using just their hands and a piece
of rope.

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...

Sounds kinda sexy when you say it like that. LOL
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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)

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

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.

I have actually spent time in Bemidji, very nice town.
John P

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.

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

Never seen Lickinghole Creek in Virginia...
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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)

I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?

*Raises Hand*

sorry forgot to chang the subject line...

Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL

Okie Noodling? where they catch big ole catfish with their bare hands? Awesome.

In some countries, it's an illegal sexual act. Woohoo!
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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)

I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?

*Raises Hand*

sorry forgot to chang the subject line...

Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL

Okie Noodling? where they catch big ole catfish with their bare hands? Awesome.

Fish as big as the dudes catching them! Huge! Using just their hands and a piece
of rope.
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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)

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

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.

I have actually spent time in Bemidji, very nice town.
John P

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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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)

I like fishing, does anyone else like fishing?

*Raises Hand*

sorry forgot to chang the subject line...

Speaking of fishing, did anyone catch that tv series on hand fishing in the Ozarks?
Them guys are nuts! LOL
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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

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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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...

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.

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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