BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

To help reduce the drama and flame wars that infect this forum, I suggest that
Forum moderators be given the ability to block a member from replying to the
posts of another member with whom they do not get along. Kind of like a forum
stoplist. Not a full forum ban; just a ban on posting replies to another member.
And not a forced ignore either. They should still able to read all posts they
want; just not be able to reply to certain ones if they have a history of not
being able to respond appropriately to that member. Furthermore, this feature
should be reciprocal. So, if the mods decide to remove the ability of Member
A to reply to posts by Member B, Member B should also be unable to reply to posts
by Member A. It takes two to tango, and it would be grossly unfair to allow Member
B to post anything they want about Member A if Member A cannot respond. So make
it reciprocal.

I don't ignore anyone in the forum. Even those I personally dislike or
do not get along with. Because regardless how I personally feel about someone,
they often post something interesting or of concern to me or my LEGO business,
and because I can still agree with them on some things. So I don't think
bans or forced ignores are the answer. Just cut off the line of communication
between the two if they cannot communicate with each other properly.

Thor

I suggested something similar but more strict - ignore works both ways like it
does at one site. You ignore someone and you won't be able to read that person
posts - but that person ALSO can't read any of yours.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jun 27, 2014 22:17

Subject:

Re: Show All Fees on Checkout and in Terms Page

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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:

In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

In Suggestions, mabccc writes:

Well throw on a 5 to 10 gram error rate and that'd all be solved. It's
the volume and how different parts fit together that I'm concerned about.
Shipping costs can depend on my packaging skill, and on time you want to spend
fitting parts together in a smart way. I want to have the freedom to choose what
shipping option I pick per order, not have it calculated in advance.. I tell
my customers I do my best to keep it as low as possible, I want that to be up
to me.

Under this suggestion you cannot have the freedom for that.

This is yet another one of your false claims about this suggestion and petty
attempt to sabotage my suggestion because I opposed your previous suggestion.
You are being blatantly intellectually dishonest in this thread.

No I am not, I am pointing out flaws in the suggestion. A seller must automatically
calculate all fees except postage before the order is placed. Therefore the order
needs to know what packaging he will be charging for. He could either charge
everyone the most expensive packaging, or average it and overcharge some and
undercharge others, but this needs to be accounted for before the order is placed,
if it cannot be added on afterwards.

This suggestion is NOT about calculating shipping. It is about calculating FEES.

So again, what is shipping? You have said only what is charged at the post office,
so this excludes packaging. So the seller has no freedom over the costs of packaging
- the fee associated with the packaging material must be calculated automatically
with your suggestion.

Uhh read OP again. He said shipping is NOT included. It would be still TBA as
before. I don't know why you keep doing that to foster. I don't always
agree with him, but I sure as heck don't go around posting and opposing everything
he says, even in expense of reading accuracy.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jun 27, 2014 21:58

Subject:

Re: Show All Fees on Checkout and in Terms Page

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

I don't know if this has been formally suggested before, but I suggest that
BrickLink revise the format of the Store Terms and Checkout pages to more clearly
show any and all fees the seller will charge for that order.

First, the checkout page... BrickLink should automatically calculate and show
any and all fees that will be added to the order. This is NOT about calculating
shipping. It is about calculating only fees. As such, it should be much simpler
to code. In their Store Settings, each seller will be free to set their own parameters
regarding any fees they may or may not charge. If the fee is conditional and
something like a fee of "up to $1.00" for orders "less than $10.00", this can
also be easily coded, input by the seller in their Store Settings and automatically
calculated by the BrickLink system at checkout. If a fee is not shown on the
checkout page, it cannot be charged later by the seller.

So, on checkout, the page could begin by reading something like:

Order Amount: $88.50
Shipping: To be determined
Packing and Handling Fees: $1.00

OPTIONAL additional line items can include State Sales Tax (if any, for US sellers)
and VAT (if not already included in the prices). Although this option is NOT
part of this suggestion and can be discussed and added later.

Second, the Store Terms page... Information about any and all fees should be
required to be clearly stated at the very top of that page with a minimum of
text (maybe 80 characters or less) to explain it. Information about fees should
not be buried deep in the text of long terms and conditions.

Anything that more clearly shows up-front the fees a buyer may have to pay should
be good for everyone. And, as a seller who does not charge fees on most orders,
I like the idea of my checkout page saying: "Packing and Handling Fees: $0.00".

I anticipate someone will ask how BrickLink will be able to code all the different
fees charged by sellers. First, for this suggestion to work, BrickLink needs
to limit the fees that can be charged. I would include the following as permissible
fees:

1. A simple fixed fee on all orders, or on all orders below a certain amount.
E.g. $1.00 fee on all orders, or $1.00 fee on all orders below $10.00.

2. A variable fee *UP TO* a certain amount on all orders, or orders below a
certain amount. E.g. UP TO $1.00 fee on all orders, or UP TO $1.00 fee on orders
below $10.00. The seller will need to set points where this variable fee changes.

3. PayPal fees (in countries where they are permitted). E.g. 3.9% plus $0.30
for all orders being paid via PayPal. Since most sellers that charge PayPal
fees base it on the total payment amount including shipping, and since shipping
may not be known in advance, sellers will just have to slightly increase the
percentage of the order amount to compensate for the fee portion on shipping.
BL will also need to limit the availability of this fee only to sellers located
in countries where PayPal fees are allowed to be charged to buyers. Thus, this
fee would NOT be available for US sellers.

4. Lot fees. E.g. $1.00 fee if there are 50 or more lots in the order, or $1.00
fee if the average lot amount is less than $1.00, or $0.10 fee per lot for all
lots after the 50th lot.

I know some here do not like lot fees, but BrickLink has allowed them for 14
years now and they do serve a legitimate purpose. I ask that you do not let
your aversion to lot fees (or PayPal fees) cause you to vote against this suggestion.
Instead, consider the entire package and the fact that this suggestion will
make fees more clear and obvious to you and all other buyers.

Thor

Heck yes!

And also ban percent based fees.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jun 15, 2014 17:29

Subject:

Re: More import options for wanted lists

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In Suggestions, mnementh writes:

In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

Yes, please! However it does mean BL needs database of ldraw parts, LDD parts,
so on.

As the original BL Catalog was stolen from...er...copied from LDRAW, most of
that information should already be in the catalog.

It looks like LDD uses the part/color numbers from the back of the instructions
books. BL has been adding those as cross references for some time now, so that
information should also be mostly there.

Troy

Nice!

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jun 14, 2014 19:51

Subject:

Re: More import options for wanted lists

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In Suggestions, mnementh writes:

Today I had a customer at my retail store ask me to source parts for a project
he designed in Lego Digital Designer. There are 3,742 pieces in 209 lots. I
am obviously not going to create a wanted list for this manually.

I figured i'd just import the parts list into BL and go from there, thinking
surely BL is setup to handle such things.

NOPE!

The only format BL is setup to import is BL XML files. The only formats that
LDD exports as are LXF and XLS. I am sure that there is some magic that can
be worked involving BrickStock, but I shouldn't need a third party program
to get this to work.

With people designing all sorts of things in LDD and LDRAW, BL should be able
to import these formats directly so that those people can source their parts
here. Why this wasn't a priority over the MOC Shop is beyond me. People
are going to be more willing o buy their own designs over someone elses.

So, my suggestion is that BL be able to import, at a minimum:

LEGO Digital Designer files
LDRAW files
Excel Spreadsheet parts lists.

For further incentive: This already works at BrickOwl. I was able to import
the LDD file directly, and BO provided me with an estimate of the cost. This
is all that was needed at this point, but I was able to go further and search
stores for the parts.

Would much prefer to buy here, but if my customer decides to proceed with the
project itlooks like i will be shopping at BO.

Troy

Yes, please! However it does mean BL needs database of ldraw parts, LDD parts,
so on.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jun 10, 2014 01:38

Subject:

Re: bad sellers

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In Suggestions, brix4kix writes:

There was a post earlier about bricklink over seeing bad sellers, I cant remember
where. I vote yes to a complaint section to have administrator's review
complaints about poor seller's. I received a order I placed a while back,
well first off I never recieved any messages back from the seller, they mailed
out the package 5days after there store terms sead they do.not usually a problem
since I typically send a message like ( hi just checking in to se if the payment
got to you thanks) the seller always contacts me back with yep got it will be
sending out soon got a little bizzy. That is no problem but from this seller
nothing.

so when the package arrived I was very unhappy now take a look at the packaging(
lack of bubble wrap ore any type of protection. But I did get some religious
propaganda that I didn't order. And yes the parts were just in thin cardboard
with tape around it from post office. I have not left feedback yet was waiting
to calm down. Will update in a bit if you want the name of the seller pm me for
now till I post the feedback.

You forgot to cover your own address.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jun 10, 2014 01:35

Subject:

Re: Minimum order 4 international customers

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In Suggestions, chromeking71 writes:

I suggested this in the past with little to no response but I would like to be
able to have a different minimum order threshold settings for domestic and international
orders. Personally I'm tired of having small value orders that have high
shipping rates eat into my paypal limit. Even the cheapest international shipping
price isn't so cheap anymore. If I get bashed for being a cheapskate so
be it, but I'd like to get everybody else's input on this too.

I made similar suggestion many moons ago. It's even more important now.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

May 18, 2014 10:17

Subject:

Re: Banned from S@H - create BL@H

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

Sorry, but I have to vote no. This is a minefield that BL itself should avoid
at all costs. First, so as not to risk its relationship with TLG. And second,
because BL itself should not be competing with the many BL sellers who already
provide this service. Nor should BL be controlling, limiting or rationing the
types and quantities of LEGO sets, figures or parts that can be sold here. And
I certainly think BL itself should not sell here.

Thor

Agreed. Only products BL should sell if they want to, should be BrickLink logo
products like shirt or coffee cup. In fact, I made such suggestion ages ago.
lol

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Apr 30, 2014 01:17

Subject:

Re: Ignore Discussion Tree feature...

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In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

I know I (and others) suggested it before, but I really want a feature where
I can just click a link at root of discussion tree and it disappears for me.
I don't care about some discussions.

Yes, this is a reaction to foster's thread being err whats it called again? by
other person.

I hope this suggestion is implemented now that I see others being done.

I
wish to be able to ignore any discussion post and all replies after it! Say if
there is large discussion and one reply had become argumentative, I would click
ignore on beginning of that argument and rest would disappear.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Apr 10, 2014 17:06

Subject:

Re: Core operations or MOC Shop? (a survey)

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In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:

Should BrickLink focus more on restoring BL 1.0 functionality as it was, working,
ugly et al.? (Yes)
Should BrickLink focus more on the MOC Shop (No)

I can't answer the question, the moc website is still very bad design, I
can barely read text and design is nonsensical. I REALLY hope bl 2.0, (real 2.0,
not "plugin" of moc pages) will not like that.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Apr 10, 2014 16:59

Subject:

Re: Option to Honor Competitor Coupons

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In Suggestions, FigBits writes:

In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

In Suggestions, FigBits writes:

In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

As a seller, I would like to have the option of honoring competitor coupons.

You already can. No new functionality is required.

And, with that same logic, since sellers can already give a discount anytime
they want, we might as well do away with all coupons as well. Why automate or
systemize a feature if people can do it manually themselves? Right?

Thor

No automation is needed. When I gi to TRU with a competitor's couppn, there
doesnt need to be any coupon magic to make it work there. They just accept it.

So can you. Your suggestion litterally already exists.

--
Marc.

So far I know, I cannot use any coupons here when it's for other store than
one I'm at.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 27, 2014 19:29

Subject:

Re: More Forum Bans Please

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

In Suggestions, bagelboybugle writes:

In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:

In Suggestions, goshe7 writes:

I have an alternative. (half joking -- in advance) mods can stop (not lock)
specific people from continuing the discussion in a thread..

I think there is some validity in this idea, it is less severe than a ban but
sends a clear message that the individuals contribution is becoming unhelpful
whilst still giving others an opportunity to voice an opinion where locking the
whole thread would prevent that.

Gareth

Wouldn't this make censorship easier and more prevalent? I know the mods
don't want to ban anyone willy nilly; and they may be subject to public criticism
for those bans. This, presumably, makes them hesitant and more careful when deciding
upon bans. But partial bans like this may make it TOO easy for the mods. AND
they would not have to explain themselves or be held accountable. Since no one
beyond the banned person and mods would know.

And what exactly would be the objective guidelines for thread banning? If it
is bad enough to thread ban a poster it is bad enough to forum ban them. Unless
we want lower standards for thread banning. Which, in turn, only means more censorship.

Lastly, will this sort of thread banning depend upon the popularity of a poster
or the topic? Regardless of who the poster may be, there are just some topics
that inevitably become contentious and unpopular.

No, what I really think should be done is that the mods should step in earlier
with public or private warnings for those who first cross the line. Because
if they let it slide, it often leads to what we have seen these past few days
- he said, she said, you did this, no I did not, etc., etc. And furthermore,
if I get a public or private warning from a moderator, I am much more likely
to reassess what I am doing than if it comes from another poster who is engaging
in a heated debate with me. Of course, the problem with this idea is that the
mods can't be everywhere all the time. I don't envy their job.

Thor

They already has powerful tools to do this. Ban and Cancel post/entire thread.
Problem is that those tools sometimes is too powerful for given event. They need
tools that's between mere warning and heavy hammers.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 27, 2014 17:49

Subject:

Re: More Forum Bans Please

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In Suggestions, bagelboybugle writes:

In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:

In Suggestions, goshe7 writes:

I have an alternative. (half joking -- in advance) mods can stop (not lock)
specific people from continuing the discussion in a thread..

I do think it might be helpful yes.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 26, 2014 18:20

Subject:

Re: Forum suggestions-- Ignore Thread ++

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

In Suggestions, AlltRightBricks writes:

Good suggestion. Sounds familiar.

http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=480265

Your tweaks make it better.

Thor

Lol oh yeah forgot about this one. I replied with my version that also allow
just subnode to be ignored too. Very dusty, I had to bring dust buster to read
posts.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 26, 2014 18:16

Subject:

Re: Forum suggestions-- Ignore Thread ++

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In Suggestions, AlltRightBricks writes:

One primary suggestion with a couple of afterthoughts.
I would like the option to ignore a particular thread in the forum. This way
if a thread is taking up way too much space, I can choose to ignore it. It has
nothing to do with wanting to ignore a particular member, just to shrink things
down to what I want to see.

If I had the time (which I don't), I would probably read all of it, but on
the days that I am really busy, I want to be able to go through and hit the highlights.
I can filter by "without replies", but that won't show me older threads that
have new messages.

So perhaps a ignore button at the top or bottom of each post which when selected
will enable a button at the top of the forum that says show ignored messages.

So a side note on this which would allow this to be a great way for the users
to "police" the forum. Would be to do something like-- if a message gets
10 ignores (or whatever number makes the most sense). It automatically doesn't
show to nonmembers. If a message gets say 50 ignores, it automatically gets ignored
by all users--with a button at the top to view ignored messages. Maybe allow,
in user settings, the option to always show ignored threads. This way the forum
junkies can get their fix, but general users won't be bothered with it unless
they choose to.

Another side suggestion, would be to have a "was this post helpful" at the bottom
of a post, or even just a like button, and where a certain number of votes
will keep that post from archiving forever. We don't need to hang on to everything.
No one is going to care what sale I was running 3 years ago. But helpful buying
and selling advice would be a great asset if it stayed in the archives. And it
really is a shame that some of these great posts that have been lost.

Oh, and before I hit post, one other one that has really been bugging me lately.
It would really be great to have a second set of arrows at the top and bottom
of a thread which would allow you to see the next post in that thread only.
Also, to have the ability to view one branch and all its replies on a single
thread. That way I don't have to load the entire thread if I'm only interested
in reading this little branch, and all the replies related to it. When I'm
reading a branch on a familiar post, but I show up in the middle, I can be a
bit lost. So I load the whole thread so I can read the entire context of that
conversation, but sometimes (especially if the thread is really long) it can
be a bit of a pain to just scroll through and find where that exact branch starts.

Thanks for listening,
Katie

My old suggestion from Jan 2011(!) http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=504242

But yeah I still want it very much. My version does allow for more flexibility
of ignoring just SUB thread.

One part I'm not sure is 50+ ignores so on.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 23, 2014 16:50

Subject:

Re: Sale Opt Out...

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In Suggestions, kzinti writes:

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.

Great idea! Can easily add checkbox on right - under Retain, Stockroom and Del.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 21, 2014 23:56

Subject:

Re: Sellers forum. Let's Keep it in the Family

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In Suggestions, JETTY writes:

To all of you Bircklinkers out there...
And especially the administrators and frequent forum posters.

Bricklink is a wonderful place where we all can enjoy our very different passions
of LEGO. We all enjoy being here, otherwise we would be some where else....

The bricklink community is very committed, and has very strong opinions about
the site that they helped to build and populate.

Times are changing, also in Bricklink, and imho its necessary, to keep BL in
the lead. For everybody's benefit.

The new owners hopefully understand that the users of BL are a very powerful
tool, that put in use the right way can be of great benefit for the site.

But my concern right now is that the very long and passionate forum treads are
harming the reputation of the site, scaring away newcomers.

The debate in the forum are necessary and understandable. But imho they are mostly
for admins and sellers, and not a benefit for the common buyer.

So this is my proposal:
Lets have a closed forum for sellers and admins, where the details of the BL
maschine room can be debated. And a forum for everybody where we can discuss
the joy of lego, help newbies and so on.

Regards Jes

(I'm not so old here, but i really enjoy being here, Its like being at a
family dinner, uncle Maxx as always talking about 3001's, uncle Thor lecturing
about decent and civilised behaviour, Mama Admin is trying to make everybody
feel at home, and behave, and so on (-: one big family..)

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 16, 2014 13:53

Subject:

Re: Glitch? Store closed while items in cart

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, Jilly0722 writes:

Hi, Not sure if this is a system glitch or not, A few months back I had a store
close while I was compiling items in it, I lost my complete shopping cart because
of this and was not able to recover the list. I had to go through all of my items
with the other stores to figure out what items were in this cart. If a seller
closes their store, there should be a warning that a buyer has items in their
cart and they should contact that buyer prior to store closing. Not sure if this
feature exists or not but it would be nice,
Jill

A warning already exists, you've missed it:

If a Seller Closes their Store while a Buyer is Shopping:
A buyer has 30 minutes to complete adding items to their shopping cart and checkout.
While a store is closed, a banner with the number of minutes left is displayed
to a buyer in the detail screen and shopping cart. Here is an example:
http://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=19&q=close

Wow! Eleven years here and I am still learning something new about this place.
I have never seen that notice before. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thor

Indeed. New to me too. It's generally IMPOSSIBLE to know everything about
this huge and complex site.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 14, 2014 19:46

Subject:

Re: Notify Buyers if Store Suspended or Shut Down

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

To better protect buyers from being scammed, please implement a feature whereby
buyers with any non-completed orders can receive a message from BrickLink informing
them if their seller has been suspended or shut down for three completed NSS
claims, "preventive action", "further information" or other suspicious reasons.
The message should inform buyers that payment for such orders should not be made
until the restriction against the seller is lifted; or, if payment has already
been made, that buyers might want to consider contacting PayPal to freeze their
payment.

In addition, a store that is suspended for any of these reasons should not be
allowed to send out BrickLink invoices or change/update their Orders Received
page and their splash and shop terms pages.

Thor

Nice idea.

Yes.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 11, 2014 20:38

Subject:

Re: System Generated Superlots

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In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

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

I made similar suggestion ages ago, it probably pre-dated non-expiring suggestions
change though.

Apparently not. http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=537426 2011 lol

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Mar 11, 2014 20:37

Subject:

Re: System Generated Superlots

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

I made similar suggestion ages ago, it probably pre-dated non-expiring suggestions
change though.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Feb 22, 2014 19:54

Subject:

Re: Currency Conversion Box for Tax Purposes

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

On the Orders Placed page, please give buyers the option of adding a box where
they can input the equivalent amount in their home currency for orders that were
paid for in another currency. AND make this box part of the download file so
that the amounts can be automatically totaled for tax and accounting purposes.
Sorry if this is unclear, but let me give an example:

My shop is run as a business and, as such, I have to file federal and state income
tax returns every year. I purchase a substantial amount of inventory from overseas
sellers to relist in my shop and sell to US and other buyers. Many of these overseas
sellers require payment in Euros or other non-US dollar currencies. When I
send payment via PayPal, PayPal does the currency conversion and deducts the
dollar equivalent from my PayPal balance. I always write in the comments for
the order the amount I paid in US dollars. HOWEVER, when I download my year's
orders in an HTML, Excel or other file, the numbers written in the order comments
are not totaled. Instead, each currency is listed and totaled separatedly, and
there is no grand total in my home currency for the total purchases I made that
year. I would like to have a separate box next to the order grand total where
I can input the equivalent dollar amount I actually paid at then-existing exchange
rates so it can be automatically totaled on these downloads.

Last year, I purchased 39 orders with overseas sellers where I paid in seven
different foreign currencies other than the US dollar (including 30 orders for
a total of 5,390.80 Euros, all made at different times at different currency
exchange rates). When doing my taxes, I have to manually hand write on the printout
next to each such order the equivalent amount I paid in US dollars. It is a tedious
process, requiring me to consult my order details and/or PayPal year-end balance
sheet (which was 125 pages long for me last year).

Please. I can see how complex it can be. It should not be too hard to add this
feature.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Feb 22, 2014 19:53

Subject:

Re: Inventory Cost: Beginning & Year End Totals

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

Another request to make bookkeeping and tax filing easier. Please automatically
save total inventory cost figures as of 12:00:01 a.m. on January 1st and 11:59:59
p.m. as of December 31st for each year (or a different tax year for those who
don't use the calendar year basis). Proper reporting, calculation and payment
of taxes often requires a determination of one's tax-year starting and ending
totals for cost of inventory. Unfortunately, as new orders come in, these totals
are changed and lost, making it difficult to go back and calculate the cost at
the required starting and ending points.

So, on this page here:

http://www.bricklink.com/inventory.asp

please just add another line or two that saves/freezes the starting and ending
totals.

Thor

Voted yes. I don't really need this at this point, but if I ever get there,
I would need it.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Feb 19, 2014 19:01

Subject:

Re: Minifigures (assembled or loose)

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In Suggestions, ERICSPEEd writes:

NEW (unassembled)
ASSEMBLED (not played with)
USED (played with or shows play wear)

There's another complication - minifig could have been displayed for a while.
You specify "played with". It means minifig on display for years and are dusty
and possibly smelly like ones I got "new", avoid bad seller I left neg to while
ago.

So yeah I like how terms define it now, and it's good enough for me.

(I know, I replied before but wanted to add one issue with text as it stands)

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Feb 19, 2014 00:57

Subject:

Re: Minifigures (assembled or loose)

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

Sorry, but I voted no. Two conditions - new and used - are plenty. Keep it simple.
It is too late in the game to add new conditions that will only add complexity
to the Price Guide and make things more confusing for buyers. BrickLink has functioned
quite well for 13 years with the current two conditions. We don't need to
fix what isn't broken.

If it is so important to you, ask your seller before placing an order. And read
their terms. Some sellers note in their terms whether the sell minifigures assembled
or unassembled. If they don't say, ask. Simple.

Thor

Agreed. I don't want overly complicated list of new to used.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 27, 2014 15:32

Subject:

Re: Seller Assistance Program

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In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

I agree with Brett. Selling here is not rocket science. It is pretty simple,
and common sense for the most part. List what you sell correctly, promptly ship
what you buyers pay for, and politely communicate and work out any problems with
your buyers. Most sellers who have problems don't seem to care enough about
one or more of these basics.

Personally, IMO any seller who can't maintain at least a 95% positive SELLING
feedback rating should have their selling privileges suspended. Maybe your suggested
Mentor Program could be one way for such sellers to have their selling privileges
restored on a probationary basis.

Thor

That looks good on paper but with numbers it's bit of a problem. At small
number of orders, say, 10, if there happen to be some random problem and seller
gets a bad feedback, he or she suddenly got only 90% positive feedback. However
at 20 positives, it's 95% if one of feedback is negative. It gets much worse
at smaller numbers, say 2, one of em being negative. boom 50% positive!

I would agree if say first 30 feedbacks would be defined as trial period, if
this person gets over 30 feedbacks and still below 95%, stop, it's hammertime.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 26, 2014 13:52

Subject:

Re: Verification of new seller for possible fraud

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In Suggestions, therobo writes:

In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

In Suggestions, therobo writes:

Someone else with a Paypal account can pay the fees for you.

Not when you have credit card.

Even when you have a credit card, someone else can pay your fees

You can pay anyone via paypal without even having
an account in paypal. You need account just to GET payments.

Lol that's true too.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 26, 2014 13:44

Subject:

Re: Verification of new seller for possible fraud

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In Suggestions, therobo writes:

Someone else with a Paypal account can pay the fees for you.

Not when you have credit card. You can pay anyone via paypal without even having
an account in paypal. You need account just to GET payments.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 23, 2014 22:06

Subject:

Re: Definition of Shipped

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Topic:

In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:

In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:

In Suggestions, Lonely_Brick_OH writes:

In "your world" our shipping area would be called "getting ready to leave the
building area but not yet shipped area". Too long.

Simple. In the world of normal people, we call that "packed" - not shipped. As
long as the package is still in your possession, it has not been shipped. Slapping
a shipping label on the box on Friday afternoon and having it sit on your desk
all weekend is most definitely NOT shipped. Not by any legal, contractual or
common sense understanding of the word.

Thor

Yes, and this is why many sellers wanted the "packed" status to block order additions.
When I mark an order as "packed", it is sealed with a label on it. I mark it
"shipped" when it leaves my property.

Darren

Agreed to both, I use packed for "package at home" and shipped as "package at
USPS".

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 6, 2014 19:53

Subject:

Re: 3 strikes you are out(dated)...

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In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:

The current event got me thinking the rules are a bit outdated.

The 3 strikes you are out sounds good, but not if it's calculated over years.
At some point old NPB's and NSS's etc should stay on your record as feedback.
But not count towards you getting booted.

It's not about how much money you spend or how many feedback you have.
The % sounds like a good rule, because it's the same for everyone.
A 100 feedbacker can have maximum 3 strikes, but the 1000 may get 5? before they
are out.

I think Dan did not think people would get 1000, 2000, 3000 or 10,000 feedback.
So the system works for 10 feedback, 100 and even 500 feedback.

But at some point it fails...

Maybe a good idea to have this rule updated for 2.0

Maxx

Agreed. I was discussing it with someone else (hi! can reply if want) and this
is what we agreed to be good idea:

Only way to get NPB (and maybe nss?) to fall off is have 100 successful transcriptions
AND wait for it to age one year. It makes it recoverable AND very hard to abuse.

Say if there was 2 NPBs. This person would have in least 100 successful orders
AND wait one year for one npb to fall off record, then again 100 successful orders
other year for second and last one to fall off.

Successful order: Marked complete, not npb or cancelled. Or it expired at shipped
after 6 months with no problem.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Dec 6, 2013 16:09

Subject:

Re: Allow CSS features

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Topic:

In Suggestions, pwpeter writes:

In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

In Suggestions, pwpeter writes:

Hello,

i have read the post about blocking every command to modify your splash page
because of security risks.

but what is the problem with allowing css command to modify the appearence of
your page ?
with these codes it's not possible to hack anything and you cant run any
scripts either ?

greetings
peter

Even pre-hack days you can't use CSS. Splash pages isn't designed for
it.

Thats why i use css code in my splash page from day one

So what you are saying is not true !
it is a frame so i do not see why i couldn't use it before the hack day

Hmm either feature was removed or I used it wrong way. how did you do css thing?

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Dec 6, 2013 09:31

Subject:

Re: mega blocks, kre-o, best lock etc.

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Prismiad writes:

I would like to see some other brands of bricks available on the site, obviously
they would have to have a seperate category because no one wants a mega block
when they thought they were getting lego. Lego is obviously the best but the
other brands have certain parts that are very useful, wheels and weapons being
the best examples.

Suggestion--;

10 echo Heck no!
20 goto 10

Seriously this is built ground up to be LEGO marketplace. If this place starts
selling other stuff I may consider moving on to other marketplaces.

Adding megablok would make catalog admins cry, there is so many one off parts!!

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Dec 5, 2013 20:43

Subject:

Re: Allow CSS features

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Topic:

In Suggestions, pwpeter writes:

Even pre-hack days you can't use CSS. Splash pages isn't designed for
it.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Dec 1, 2013 00:37

Subject:

Re: Inter Brick Link Money system

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In Suggestions, LegoXman writes:

Hi,
I think it would be cool/helpful to have a system in Brick Link where you keep
your money, so Person A could buy something from person B, send him money, it
goes in Person B's BL Account, and BAM!

What do YOU think?

Heck no. There is plenty of solutions out there.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Nov 5, 2013 18:39

Subject:

Re: remove old link to chat room

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

In Suggestions, Chickaroo writes:

In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

In Suggestions, Cirrusbreeze writes:

In Suggestions, WILYKAT writes:

Click MyBrickLink tab
click My Activity
scroll down to the bottom

If you have been in the chat room before it was killed over a year ago, it'd
show the time spent in char room. Oddly the link still "works" even though it
leads to error page since the chat no longer exists.

Suggestion: remove link tag, convert "Minutes in Chat" to plain text for us old
people.

Or remove all members who ever participated in chat

With over 400k minutes in chat, I would have to be removed many times.

I'm trying to remember if our time in chat ran into weeks or months

Mine shows as 3/4 of a year

410,485 mins = ~6841.4 hours = ~285 days = ~0.781 year, assuming 365 days in
year lol

Assuming average 30 days, it's 9.5 months or more exact, but over 40 weeks.
Way too much.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Nov 5, 2013 18:37

Subject:

Re: remove old link to chat room

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Chickaroo writes:

In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

In Suggestions, Cirrusbreeze writes:

In Suggestions, WILYKAT writes:

Or remove all members who ever participated in chat

With over 400k minutes in chat, I would have to be removed many times.

I'm trying to remember if our time in chat ran into weeks or months

Mine shows as 3/4 of a year

410,485 mins = ~6841.4 hours = ~285 days = ~0.781 year, assuming 365 days in
year lol

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Oct 15, 2013 13:15

Subject:

Re: remove old link to chat room

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Cirrusbreeze writes:

In Suggestions, WILYKAT writes:

Or remove all members who ever participated in chat

With over 400k minutes in chat, I would have to be removed many times.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Oct 14, 2013 15:13

Subject:

Re: ADMIN: for BL 2.0 suggestion

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Topic:

In Suggestions, LordSkylark writes:

For the 'original box' entries -- please rename these to 'ORIGINAL
EMPTY BOX' - or 'ORIGINAL EMPTY PACKAGING' (and possibly even include
a small 'footnote' link where someone can click and read that these do
not include ANY pieces.)

Each year, I have probably 5-10 people that purchase these thinking they are
sets.
And I always have to ask the person ahead of time if they understand this.
And probably 90% of them don't, and they want the order cancelled.

Thanks,
Andy

Nice idea. Workaround would be in comments like other said.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Sep 21, 2013 00:40

Subject:

Re: Another BL 2.0 suggestion

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Miro78 writes:

Don't have a clue if anyone has brought this up ever before for a website
suggestion, but here it goes:

How about a Price Guide much like the one that exists (example: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3001),
but with multi-toggle option to display the following options next to each color
for that part:
Average list price
Average sale price (6mo, last month)
Quantities for sale in your store ~ my favorite

Quantities sold last month / last 6 months
Average Quantities sold last month / last 6 months

I think this would help and prevent having to open bunch of windows and look
up these stats, as well as helping buyers find the cheapest color brick if color
is not that important

Feel free to add your own favorite/useful stats for each item.

I am not a programmer, so I don't know if this would be too tasking on the
site/server, but even if the page took 3 more seconds to load, it would still
be worth it and it would save lots of time to a buyer or a seller.

Miro

That's nice idea!

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Feb 21, 2013 12:24

Subject:

Re: Auctions

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Topic:

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.

Guys saying multi-currency support was what finally killed auction aspect, but
it was only part of what really happened... Basically auctions covered around
less than 1% of orders, yet it took more work than standard ordering system to
add or fix features. It was just such massive work that Dan decided to nix it
as multi-currency was last straw.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Feb 5, 2013 23:51

Subject:

Re: Separate Minimum for International Orders

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Rbobo writes:

Spurred by the recent USPS rate increase for international orders it no longer
makes sense (for either buyer or seller) to allow inexpensive international orders
in my store. I am tired of canceling every international order after the buyer
balks at the shipping cost but I don't feel as though I should have to limit
my domestic buyers. Having a separate minimum for international orders would
meet this need. For now, I'm probably going to have to disable international
orders entirely.

I made similar suggestion before, but it was before suggestion purge was removed.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 28, 2013 13:29

Subject:

Re: REAL photos near the sets for sale:

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Falconian writes:

Hello dear LEGO Colleagues,

Now, I will try to come up right to the point. -
________________________________________________

It would be just great - if Administrators, of this great site, came up for the
the permanent rule for all the sellers, to add ACTUALL photos, especially for
the LEGO sets!

As this is very anoing, when You contact member, asking for some real photos,
and seller, says something like this: " .... hey man, look at my feedback, its
100% nice, dont be afraid ....." or " .... legos is unasabled..." or something
from this point.

So, here You go - how can You buy lego set for like 70+ EU then cant see the
actuall item!?
________________________________________________

Would be nice, to hear some other opinions from other BL members.

( sory for my English )
Regards

Own pictures, yes, as a rule? No.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 22, 2013 17:08

Subject:

Re: Aall Caps - Forum Rule Please

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, kanownik writes:

Please make a forum rule that posts in all caps will be removed. This shoud
be considered because it is a known mannerism that all caps is shouting.

I sometimes love theoatmeal and this time is one of em.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 22, 2013 14:27

Subject:

Re: Aall Caps - Forum Rule Please

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In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:

In Suggestions, Rolf writes:

In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:

In Suggestions, smokking writes:

My mother types in all caps because it's too difficult for her to see the print
on the screen in lower case. It's a personal opinion, not a rule, to not use
caps.

Buy your mum a big flatscreen monitor. And new glasses.
It should be easy and comfortable to read a computer screen.

Well not everyone is as rich as you are.

You don't need to be rich to be comfortable.

Yeah but problem is sometimes people view of "rich" is different. If my main
screen ever died I will be unable to replace it at all. I would be stuck on tiny
screen till then. Its lights is dying for well over a year now. I really don't
want to know how long its been on lol.

And vision is important, if she can't see the computer she probably can't drive
or do other tasks. Seriously, would you ride with somebody who couldn't see a
PC screen?

I wouldn't, but who knows she may have been retired from driving a while ago.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 22, 2013 14:18

Subject:

Re: Aall Caps - Forum Rule Please

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In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:

In Suggestions, kanownik writes:

Please make a forum rule that posts in all caps will be removed. This shoud
be considered because it is a known mannerism that all caps is shouting. Posts
by users in all caps should be taken as rude as many requests to those users
are ignored.

Perhaps if those people are reminded by admin that their manners are rude to
other people (since they are clearly ignoring requests from other users) by their
posts being deleted people will stop shouting (by using caps lock)

Thanks

Ken

I dO NoT tHiNk A rUlE LiKe ThAt In NeCeSsaRy. If ThAt WaS a RuLe, ThEn ThIs WoUlD
nOt QuAlIfY tO Be ReMoVeD.

jOhN p

Heyy I Like Cut Of Your Jib! You Are Hired For Transcribing L337 Hacker Chats
Yo!

You Savvy?

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 22, 2013 14:16

Subject:

Re: Aall Caps - Forum Rule Please

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In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:

In Suggestions, smokking writes:

My mother types in all caps because it's too difficult for her to see the print
on the screen in lower case. It's a personal opinion, not a rule, to not use
caps.

Buy your mum a big flatscreen monitor. And new glasses.
It should be easy and comfortable to read a computer screen.

Well not everyone is as rich as you are.

Smok, Alternate (and free) way is to use cntl and mouse wheel up/down as necessary.
Pure keyboard method is cntl + or -

I just noticed that my apple keyboard has "Control" not cntl. Okay.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Jan 22, 2013 14:06

Subject:

Re: Aall Caps - Forum Rule Please

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In Suggestions, kanownik writes:

New rule just to block rare annoying "persona" posters?

No.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Dec 19, 2012 18:23

Subject:

Re: Hidden fees

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Marisuda writes:

Yep the solution is VERY easy: don't buy at stores with fees.

If everyone does so, my prognosis is that fees will VERY soon be history.

At the very least we'll then have an honest price guide.

Richard

Yeah I have very heavy bias against percentage or per lot based fees. Once a
while I have to order from those store as there is large savings even with those,
AND large order at once. It'd have to be pretty HUGE savings. I did only once
(or twice?) so far.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Dec 19, 2012 13:09

Subject:

Re: Hidden fees

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Topic:

In Suggestions, Brettj666 writes:

In Suggestions, Daz_Hoo writes:

In Suggestions, randyf writes:

This "No Surcharges" rule only applies to those of us in North America (i.e.
United States and Canada).

Randy

I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out.

Someone else also pointed me that it is, by law, illegal in some countries to
charge fees for using a particular payment method.

Nonetheless, my point stands: if Bricklink implemented a system where sellers
could indicate fees for using Paypal, that would sort of encourage North American
sellers (and sellers in countries where it is forbidden by law) to charge fees
for Paypal users when they actually can't do that.

I don't think it would encourage North American sellers to do that at all, bricklink
doesn't forbid it, it has to be adhered to based on an independent agreement
with paypal.

Now, I can increase prices by 4% and discount non-paypal transactions, which
is the same thing, but not against paypal's agreement.

While I'm not really happy with that, it does help me avoid mentally calculating
% fee so that is something in least.

Author:

Rolf

Posted:

Dec 18, 2012 04:38

Subject:

Re: Hidden fees

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