BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, JawaBricks writes:

Sometimes events in life do not allow time to process large parts orders, but
filling quick minifig or set orders is quick enough to process. It'd be nice
to be able to partially close specific sections of your store and not all or
nothing...

I suppose running 2 stores is a possibility, but I would rather see this option
installed.

You could move sections of your store to a stockroom for a while.

Author:

UtinniBricks

Posted:

May 21, 2018 22:58

Subject:

Partial/selective inventory store closing?

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Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

May 19, 2018 14:59

Subject:

Re: Apply cart to wanted list

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In Suggestions, IQ1970 writes:

Is there a way to apply a cart to a wanted list?

You can add items in the cart to a Wantlist.

I know there is the option to "Apply Order" to a wanted list. However I want
to play around a bit with my wanted lists to figure out the best prices before
I start the actual ordering.

You can use the Buy tab search option a few times over and over, create a cart
each time, then compare the carts on multiple browser tabs.
Unfortunately the Buy feature doesn't allow to do multiple searches because
after it finds a store and you create a cart you need to go back again and search
again.

Or use the classic view By Shop option to find the stores with the most parts
and to create multiple carts. https://www.bricklink.com/wantedShop.asp?showOld=Y

Author:

Enantiomeer

Posted:

May 19, 2018 14:43

Subject:

Apply cart to wanted list

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Already Exists

Is there a way to apply a cart to a wanted list?

I know there is the option to "Apply Order" to a wanted list. However I want
to play around a bit with my wanted lists to figure out the best prices before
I start the actual ordering.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

May 18, 2018 13:21

Subject:

Re: Blocking a store

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In Suggestions, wolbar writes:

Hi, I have been stopped / blocked by a rather thin skinned seller.

Is there a way I can block the store? I don't want to see the store any longer
or be able to add items from its inventory. I have gone to the store twice now
to add items only to find out I am blocked.

That is annoying me and there should be a way for a buyer to block a seller in
turn.

Here's the link https://www.bricklink.com/searchSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Author:

Dino

Posted:

May 18, 2018 12:58

Subject:

Re: Blocking a store

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In Suggestions, wolbar writes:

Go "My settings" - "My Search Settings". There you can exclude this stores.

Author:

pikachu3

Posted:

May 18, 2018 12:58

Subject:

Re: Blocking a store

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I don't think it's about vengeance so much as hiding a store they can't
order from anyway.

In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:

In Suggestions, wolbar writes:

Don’t be thin skinned your self. Just ignore them.
John P

Author:

legoman77

Posted:

May 18, 2018 12:37

Subject:

Re: Blocking a store

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In Suggestions, wolbar writes:

Don’t be thin skinned your self. Just ignore them.
John P

Author:

wolbar

Posted:

May 18, 2018 12:20

Subject:

Blocking a store

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Implemented

Author:

MontagueBrick

Posted:

May 17, 2018 12:50

Subject:

Re: What happened to the best price button

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In Suggestions, JAFO writes:

What happened to the best buy button when purchasing wanted lists? It a load
of poo that the system takes a much higher price. I had 6 items that came up
to over $35.00 when using auto select. The same items cost me $2.50 all from
one store when searched out manually.

I know what you mean about the auto select button. I had a very complex wanted
list that the auto select was able to narrow down to 7 stores, but the stores
it picked were some of the most expensive stores on Bricklink and the total cost
was around $500. I was able to manually fit my wanted list into 12 stores for
a total of around $270!
So I think what the auto select button does is pick the stores with the most
items that match your wanted list and does not really take prices of items or
shipping cost into consideration.
I hope this helps you out 😀
Rainey

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

May 17, 2018 12:01

Subject:

Re: What happened to the best price button

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In Suggestions, Cob writes:

In Suggestions, JAFO writes:

It went away a while ago, there have been some pretty long threads discussing
the disappearance of the feature.

The three options, “Lowest Price,” “Fewest Stores,” and “Best Price,” were just
heuristical sets of parameters for the approximating algorithm, and they were
given names according to what the results were hoped to be. But:
“Fewest Stores” sometimes gave a lower price than “Lowest Price.”
“Lowest Price” sometimes gave fewer stores than “Fewest Stores.”
No one never knew what “Best Price” meant.
And I’m sure people tried all three every time.

At one time, BL realized the names were a bit too optimistic (not to say misleading),
and they chose to reduce the choice to only one option, which I think can be
dubbed “Best,” whatever that might mean.
And we still don’t know what it does.
And there are still weird, unexplained, uncommented things happening.

Author:

Cob

Posted:

May 17, 2018 11:43

Subject:

Re: What happened to the best price button

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In Suggestions, JAFO writes:

It went away a while ago, there have been some pretty long threads discussing
the disappearance of the feature.

Author:

JAFO

Posted:

May 17, 2018 11:06

Subject:

What happened to the best price button

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Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

bje

Posted:

May 15, 2018 19:23

Subject:

WeChat Pay as an offsite payment option

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Discarded

Please add as an offsite payment option.

Author:

Nordbart

Posted:

May 14, 2018 05:39

Subject:

Re: Bricklink on 4:3 screen or on mobile phone

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In Suggestions, Pazzo writes:

Hi all,

I would like BrickLink to change its layout or the possibility to change it myself
in order to be able to use it better on a 4:3 screen instead of a 14:9 xcreen,
also a better GUI for my mobile Phone would be nice.

I am Always on the road and I am tired of used sliders everytime I need to click
an icon.

What's your opinion?

Be cool and have fun!

Eric

A complete mobile GUI would be nice like on ebay. There is a mobile app in progress
right now created by bricklink. I've heard of some people creating their
own app though.
So yeah, on a mobile it is quite inconvenient to use atm.

nordbart

Author:

Pazzo

Posted:

May 14, 2018 05:28

Subject:

Bricklink on 4:3 screen or on mobile phone

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Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

Gaston.La.Brick

Posted:

May 12, 2018 02:29

Subject:

Re: Negative feedback on orders that are "purged"

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My favoured solution would be feedback rating only calculated on the last 12months
transactions, with the exception of NPB/NSS which I feel should be on permanent
record.

I feel the same way: any feedback (meaning negative, neutral & positive) should
have an expiration date. E.g. last 24 months. I would suggest to take the period
long enough (longer as 12 months). That way when a seller takes some time off
(or has other priorities in his life), it won't have a big effect.
That way, it's a continuous evaluation. Sellers that goofed up in the past
have a horizon for a clean slate and sellers with super positive evaluations
in the past will still be motivated to keep up their good efforts to maintain
their scores.

So my suggestion could be:
* display an absolute numbers of number of sales in all history, to indicate
the seniority of the seller
* a relative number (% satisfaction) of all positive feedback orders vs total
orders, but limited to the orders of the last 24 months
* NPB/NSS should indeed be sticky (or at least for a really long time, e.g. for
48 months)

Author:

axaday

Posted:

May 11, 2018 17:39

Subject:

Search Tool for Sets with Undetermined Pieces

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Implemented

I don't know how hard what I'm asking for is, but I've had some fun
today tracking down "undetermined" variants in sets that I have from childhood.
I'm pretty close to mining it as far as I can go, but I would certainly
consider parting out some sets from eBay with the added interest in finding the
variants. Could we have a tool that would just identify a list of sets that
contain a piece of undetermined variant?

Author:

Admin_Russell

Posted:

May 11, 2018 12:59

Subject:

Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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In Suggestions, Stellar writes:

In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:

In Suggestions, axaday writes:

Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.

That is a good fix, thanks!

OK, this is fixed now. I have tested it on a couple of item types and the form
no longer erases the category when a flag is triggered. Please let us know if
something still needs adjustment.

Also deployed at this time, when conducting an Advanced Catalog Search and using
the additional button pane, upon reversing back to the page after viewing search
results (presumably to tweak a setting) the additional pane will remain in place.

I know these seem little changes, but it would be great if all that is done was
added to the Roadmap: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2453

I like to see this site improving and also it would show everyone that a lot
of work is being done. Thanks

Thanks for the suggestion! We have made dozens of these little improvements over
the last few months and it would undoubtedly encourage people to hear about them.

Author:

Stellar

Posted:

May 11, 2018 07:45

Subject:

Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:

In Suggestions, axaday writes:

Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.

That is a good fix, thanks!

Author:

Admin_Russell

Posted:

May 10, 2018 19:07

Subject:

Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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In Suggestions, axaday writes:

Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.

That is a good fix, thanks!

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

May 8, 2018 09:18

Subject:

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list

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In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:

[…]
I totally agree, and suggest BrickLink go one step further and remove the ability
for stores to adjust their prices to the current 6 month average for consolidated
lots when parting out sets as it's only serving to drive prices down either
further.
[…]
Stores would still be able to adjust prices manually of course, but who really
has the time to check the prices of 10,000 lots against the current average price?

People are already using third party tools (theirs or BrickStock) that can do
that easily.
The more you restrict tools in BL, the more people will use tools outside of
BL (and continue bitching there aren’t enough sellers tools in BL).

I would imagine the declining prices would be having a knock on effect with BrickLink's
income, so any steps to address the declining prices are in their best interest
too.

Price fixing, or limiting people’s ability to set their own prices, isn’t a solution
(apart from being illegal).

Author:

axaday

Posted:

May 8, 2018 07:44

Subject:

Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered.

That is a good fix, thanks!

Author:

SchmickBricks

Posted:

May 8, 2018 07:23

Subject:

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list

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In Suggestions, randyf writes:

In Suggestions, qwertyboy writes:

If you allow me to take one sentence out of your reply:

I had a $50 cart and what I thought was a great deal.

This is _exactly_ why others would argue to have that feature removed. And if
you allow me to quote another tidbit from a different thread you posted:

Because I can't imagine the site administrators would knowingly remove the feature and allow the happy wonderful Lego fans through out the world who have gathered together here in the safe and welcoming site that is Bricklink to be knowingly ripped off. Some dude last week tried to charge me $2.00 for a 35 cent piece. It was an odd piece, I needed it. But I didn't '500% make up' need it. I can't keep track of the average price of 1000s of pieces

You have to understand that nobody is trying to rip you off by pricing items
in a certain way. That price is there to see and agree with or not.
I fully understand that automatically comparing prices to the last 6 month average
makes it easier to pick the best deal, but by doing this. BrickLink is actively
helping to push prices down. Shops that have priced items reasonably will see
that over time they will lose out on orders because others will undercut the
prices, and buyers will more and more favor the lower-priced options, thus further
put pressure on the L6MA. Stores that don't constantly adjust their prices
will eventually maybe show 500% above average. That does NOT mean they are ripping
buyers off.

The price comparison feature was introduced some time in the last year. Before
that, people were able to buy their LEGO just fine, but there can't be much
doubt that this feature was helping the downward spiral of item prices. This
is not in the interest of BrickLink, and not in the interest of the sellers.
And if you think about it, in the long run it is also not in the interest of
buyers. Many larger shops are feeling the pressure, and have to think about whether
this is still a market that is worthwhile to pursue. Sure, if they close shop,
others will fill the void, but it will be more and more of the lowest-prices-quick-sale-goodbye
shops. And that is not good for anyone.

Just my $0.02.

Niek.

I totally agree, and suggest BrickLink go one step further and remove the ability
for stores to adjust their prices to the current 6 month average for consolidated
lots when parting out sets as it's only serving to drive prices down either
further.

I choose to retain existing prices for consolidated lots, but it often leaves
me with lots priced more than double the current average which goes to show how
much prices have dropped in the past 6 months.

In Australia many sets are no longer viable to be parted as the purchase price
(Even when heavily discounted from the RRP) is often only a couple dollars less
then the part out value, and on occasion (Star Wars and Minecraft usually) the
part out value is less than the RRP!

Stores would still be able to adjust prices manually of course, but who really
has the time to check the prices of 10,000 lots against the current average price?

I would imagine the declining prices would be having a knock on effect with BrickLink's
income, so any steps to address the declining prices are in their best interest
too.

Author:

Admin_Russell

Posted:

May 7, 2018 20:37

Subject:

Re: Could We Add PCCs and Inventory Pending Items

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In Suggestions, axaday writes:

We can add pics of a pending item. Obviously that is a necessity. I inventory
a lot of minifigs and that means I am always adding items with new PCCs and torsos
that need to be inventoried and sometimes adding the minifig and its pieces to
the catalog. The catmins do a great job of moving things through, but obviously
there isn't always one at the desk! I have this routine for adding them
and I have another routine after they get approved and I try to do it promptly,
but things happen. This might not be something that generates a lot of interest
because most people don't do this stuff, but it would really streamline for
me if I could add the PCCs to pending pieces, inventory pending torso assemblies
with pending torsos, and even add the pending pieces to pending minifig inventories.
The same basic things would also help the people who tackle the sets (which
I don't usually do myself). Then when the pieces were approved everything
would just fall into place and it would be done.

Regarding PCCs, definitely. There is no reason these cannot be included on the
primary form.

Adding pending items to inventories, etc is a little trickier though. I discussed
at length with our developers the possibility of adding "provisional" entries
to the catalog. These could be added by certain well known contributors and could
later be merged with existing entries if an identical item was found. The purpose
of provisional entries would be to shift the approval process into hyperdrive
to get new items onto the market ASAP.

The question remains, though, whether we need to be that efficient in order to
reasonably satisfy the needs of the site. At this point there are a number of
things we would do *before* provisional entries to increase efficiency. So that
part of your request we will need to move to the back burner.

Author:

Admin_Russell

Posted:

May 7, 2018 20:08

Subject:

Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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In Suggestions, axaday writes:

In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:

In Suggestions, axaday writes:

When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog.

I used to get quite frustrated with that, too, until I discovered that any one
of these scrolling menus can be navigated by typing in what you're looking
for.

So just click on the menu and type in what you need. The menu will go there.
Makes everything much quicker and easier.

!!!

Because we are generally not going in the direction of users entering codes,
I have discarded this request. However, the helpful comment from StormChaser
I believe will partially solve your frustration.

Also, I have filed a bug report for the category field getting reset when the
"Item Number is being used" flag is triggered. And we will likely add a "Verify
Item Number" feature to that page as well.

Author:

axaday

Posted:

May 6, 2018 07:56

Subject:

Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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In Suggestions, StormChaser writes:

In Suggestions, axaday writes:

When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog.

!!!

Author:

StormChaser

Posted:

May 6, 2018 04:01

Subject:

Re: Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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In Suggestions, axaday writes:

When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog.

Author:

axaday

Posted:

May 5, 2018 20:30

Subject:

Can I have this option on Add Item Page?

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Discarded

Not enough space on the subject line! When adding a part to the catalog, we
have to scroll through every catagory in the catalog. I mostly add minifig pieces,
halfway down the list. And it is especially frustrating when the item number
I choose is already pending in the catalog and I have to scroll through it all
again. All of these categories have a number and I have considered just changing
my routine to adding the number on the pending items screen. I just haven't
done that because it feels improper to submit it without the category and I might
forget. If it were an option, that is the option I would use.

Author:

axaday

Posted:

May 5, 2018 20:26

Subject:

Could We Add PCCs and Inventory Pending Items

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Status:

Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

May 5, 2018 16:46

Subject:

Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature?

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In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:

[…]
Thanks Again! definitely not ignoring you! you've been a great resource and
help today and in the past!

Thanks. I was just joking: suggestions are always triggered by recent events,
so the people having participated in the last dispute could think you were bored
with them

By the way, you can see how many people ignore you in your My Activity page (just
above the defunct Chat subsection at the bottom), but you can’t know who they
are.

I’m of the grumbling and sarcastic but helping sort, I like to think the helping
part explains why I’m only on 7 ignore lists

Author:

chetzler

Posted:

May 5, 2018 16:09

Subject:

Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature?

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In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:

In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:

is there an option screen/ignore/mute or picking members i don't wish to
see forum posts from?

Kind of like a stop list but only for forum?

Bottom of this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P

I used to be more active here but feel like in recent years some people have
been spamming or have consistently been posting topics i don't wish to see.
if there's nothing like that i might make a suggestion to add this feature.

if such feature doesn't exist- i'd like to see one implemented, would
like the feature to be anonymous since while i might not want to see certain
people's posts- i certainly do NOT wish to offend them.

Too late?

😄 I was about to make a smiliar light-hearted post!

Thank you.

Author:

Heartbricker

Posted:

May 5, 2018 16:04

Subject:

Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature?

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In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:

In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:

is there an option screen/ignore/mute or picking members i don't wish to
see forum posts from?

Kind of like a stop list but only for forum?

Bottom of this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P

Too late?

Thank you.

Thanks Again! definitely not ignoring you! you've been a great resource and
help today and in the past!

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

May 5, 2018 15:48

Subject:

Re: Muting/ignoring forum member feature?

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In Suggestions, Heartbricker writes:

is there an option screen/ignore/mute or picking members i don't wish to
see forum posts from?

Kind of like a stop list but only for forum?

Bottom of this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P

Too late?

Thank you.

Author:

OurBricks

Posted:

May 4, 2018 09:56

Subject:

Re: Put existing remarks onto 1st Part Out Page

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This feature already exists in Brick Seller. When parting out sets, the remarks
field will be automatically filled in with the remarks from other lots that you
have in inventory for the same part. If you have different remarks for the different
colors of the same part (let's say you have many in Black and you store them
in a different inventory location), the remarks field will be filled with the
remarks from lots that have the most colors stored in it.

In Suggestions, andrewyoung0811 writes:

When I go to part out a set, especially a large set, I would like to have this
specifically:

On page 1 where I input the number of sets etc. - A tick box for something along
the lines of "auto add pre-existing remarks to items".

I am aware this is shown on the confirmation page but here is why this is a problem.

Some of my parts don't have any remarks because I have never had them in
my inventory. I and many others use the remarks box to input the a reference
number to their place of storage. If I have the item in my inventory I have to
either click onto a new page or wait until I go to the inventory page.

If I had this tick box on the first page, that I am suggesting, here is what
would happen.

The remarks would be filled in automatically for parts with your "default" remark.
This would occur on the same page where you can alter pricing, quantities, add
notes, etc. This would mean I can go through the part out list, add remarks easily
to new parts, store parts in their rightful places, alter quantities, etc. all
in one page.

Author:

capcreations

Posted:

May 4, 2018 06:49

Subject:

Put existing remarks onto 1st Part Out Page

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Status:

Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

brickerking

Posted:

May 1, 2018 21:17

Subject:

Re: Onsite PayPal Payment Notification

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Topic:

In Suggestions, gogogovro writes:

Hi Bricklink,

After switching to PayPal marketplace for onsite PayPal, I no longer receive
email alerts from PayPal that I have been paid. PayPal tells me that all those
notifications now go to Bricklink. I think it Bricklink's responsibility
to pass on those notifications to your sellers. Can you please create an option
to receive payment notifications by email when a buyer has paid for their order?
This could be an option in my account settings that I either turn on or off.
I would think this would not be a huge undertaking and would make the transition
a lot smoother. Especially considering the fact that I did not read anything
about email notifications no longer working in Bricklink's communication
about enabling PayPal marketplace.

Thank you!

No really Bricklink... can you please do this, like yesterday?

Author:

bobbykevin

Posted:

Apr 30, 2018 09:39

Subject:

Re: Consolidated Items

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In Suggestions, Pippyblocks writes:

What I do is make sure the tick box is ticked to consolidate, on the last screen
before I click upload I save the page to pdf, upload and then use the pdf to
put parts away. If that makes sense.

That is a great idea. Then I don't have to do so much because I am always
afraid it will log me out or something before I am done. It is so simply no wonder
I didn't think of that.

Author:

Pippysblocks

Posted:

Apr 29, 2018 14:20

Subject:

Re: Consolidated Items

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What I do is make sure the tick box is ticked to consolidate, on the last screen
before I click upload I save the page to pdf, upload and then use the pdf to
put parts away. If that makes sense.

In Suggestions, bobbykevin writes:

I don't know if this is a thing or not since I am new to the site. When I
upload a bricked out set and it consolidates parts I all ready have it should
show the remarks for them instead of having to click part detail. Would make
it easier to put away parts without having to click it. If this can happen please
let me know if not they should have the remarks listed on this page.

Author:

GlassLama

Posted:

Apr 29, 2018 14:08

Subject:

Re: Consolidated Items

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In Suggestions, bobbykevin writes:

I agree! On step 3 it does show your current remarks and what you are consolidating
but it could work a bit better I believe.

I think they should have the step 2 remarks box show your current remark for
that piece and give you the freedom to change it at that point, say you need
to change the piece from a small drawer 'S109' to a free large drawer
'L82', then on step 3 it can show you if you have made a change or the
current remark if you haven't.

(My Remarks: S109) - No change
(My Remarks: S109 changed to L82) - Change to remark

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Apr 29, 2018 11:35

Subject:

Re: Classic Wanted List Unavailable on June 5th

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In Administrative, moscu writes:

How I am supposed to set prices and quantities once I place item in a list?

Depends.
If you put it from the item’s page, there are fields in the dialog.
If you want to change / add something when looking at or searching in your WLs,
you just click on the field you want to change and the WL goes in edit mode.
You go out of edit mode by clicking the “Save Changes” button that appeared
in the blue line at the bottom of the screen or by hitting the Enter key.
Or you can do batch changes with the leftmost checkboxes and the menu just above
the header (move, copy, apply colour, condition…).

How can I see what the lowest prices for a piece in a list?

Use the price guide.
Or you can show a few stores for each item if you click “More Options” (near
the “Search Wanted List” field) and then click “Show” in the rightmost column.
Don’t forget to change the sort option (stupidly defaults to store name) and
to click “Apply.”

I never have use the new one I always click on classic because it is much easier
to navigate and do what I need.

Remember when you learned how to use the “classic” one? Go the same way: try.
If you never try, you never learn.

This change remind me of Microsoft changing the
search features in the "File Explorer" or removing the Program Menu. It was never
a good Idea.

I don’t remember MS ever having had a good idea for its users.

Author:

moscu

Posted:

Apr 29, 2018 10:50

Subject:

Re: Classic Wanted List Unavailable on June 5th

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How I am supposed to set prices and quantities once I place item in a list?
How can I see what the lowest prices for a piece in a list?
I never have use the new one I always click on classic because it is much easier
to navigate and do what I need. This change remind me of Microsoft changing the
search features in the "File Explorer" or removing the Program Menu. It was never
a good Idea.

Author:

bobbykevin

Posted:

Apr 26, 2018 20:44

Subject:

Consolidated Items

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Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

bb770489

Posted:

Apr 26, 2018 20:10

Subject:

Re: Bring back above/below market average note

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In Suggestions, _djm writes:

In Suggestions, MastersOfBuild writes:

Subject pretty much says it. When buying parts, as you were adding them to your
cart from a store, there was a little thing that would tell you if their price
was above or below market average, and by how much of a percent. I just went
to buy some parts, and noticed that is now gone. It would be great if that was
brought back. It is much easier than trying to go piece by piece and check multiple
stores before buying one, especially when buying lots of parts.

Perhaps refer to discussion thread https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=217888&nID=1031088.
The feature was removed and the suggestion to reenable it was discarded.

Regards,

David

Thanks for the link. I couldn't find a related topic, but new to the board,
and didn't know how to properly browse.

It's kind of stupid they got rid of it, even worse that they won't bring
it back.

Author:

Admin_Russell

Posted:

Apr 25, 2018 20:59

Subject:

Re: Minifig head graphics reduce visual info

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In Suggestions, matejo writes:

Hi,

I guess default photographs of Minifig Heads (specifically their expressions
and facial features) are being replaced with graphics.

That is not the case. For a somewhat detailed expression of the current catalog
image policy, please see here:

https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=87

As stated under Preferences:

"For decorated parts (both printed and stickered) photos are preferable to renders."

I find the angled, turned-away graphics (example (a) below) notably less visually
informative than straight-on great photographs of a Minifig Head's expression
and facial features (example (b)).

Everyone is in agreement on that point. The rendered image below was contributed
in 2011 by the contributor of the original entry. If someone were to upload a
good photo of that head today, it would be replaced.

Please retain good photographs as the default image for shoppers.

If a large effort is underway to create angled, turned-away, less clear heads,
I do not understand how this loss of immediate (i.e. default) visual presentation
data constitutes a site improvement. In addition to, for example beard/brow/cheek/glasses
alignment details, a straight-on photograph also informs the shopper of a Lego
paint scheme's older or newer production art quality.

Even if the great photographs are retained as alternates to the default graphics,
BrickLink administrators are adding more process steps to get to the best information
available, which is more time-consuming for users and illogical beyond uniformity.

I can obsess by the way, and love nice shiny rows of similar thingies, but not
if such uniformity is going to make any customer process more difficult.

Lastly the type of stud is no big deal for my uses, so I do not need a partial
top-down view. I suspect this is true for most shoppers.

Apologies if my overall image transition guess is mistaken.

Thanks for listening, Matthew

Admittedly there has not been much explanation of the large scale image project
that is underway. But that will change very soon.

Author:

axaday

Posted:

Apr 25, 2018 05:57

Subject:

Re: Minifig head graphics reduce visual info

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In Suggestions, matejo writes:

Hi,

I guess default photographs of Minifig Heads (specifically their expressions
and facial features) are being replaced with graphics.

I find the angled, turned-away graphics (example (a) below) notably less visually
informative than straight-on great photographs of a Minifig Head's expression
and facial features (example (b)).

Please retain good photographs as the default image for shoppers.

If a large effort is underway to create angled, turned-away, less clear heads,
I do not understand how this loss of immediate (i.e. default) visual presentation
data constitutes a site improvement. In addition to, for example beard/brow/cheek/glasses
alignment details, a straight-on photograph also informs the shopper of a Lego
paint scheme's older or newer production art quality.

Even if the great photographs are retained as alternates to the default graphics,
BrickLink administrators are adding more process steps to get to the best information
available, which is more time-consuming for users and illogical beyond uniformity.

I can obsess by the way, and love nice shiny rows of similar thingies, but not
if such uniformity is going to make any customer process more difficult.

Lastly the type of stud is no big deal for my uses, so I do not need a partial
top-down view. I suspect this is true for most shoppers.

Apologies if my overall image transition guess is mistaken.

Thanks for listening, Matthew

You can monitor new pictures coming into the catalog and see that there is no
effort going on to replace head pics with lower quality pics. While there is
an effort to replace pics of real pieces with renders, actual piece pics seem
to be preferred for minifig parts. Where you see renders on them it is because
the submitter did the easiest thing and pulled the pic from Lego.com. The catmins
accept that to get a piece in the catalog, but I often submit pics of real pieces
before long and they always replace the renders.

Author:

alahaka

Posted:

Apr 25, 2018 02:15

Subject:

Minifig head graphics reduce visual info

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Topic:

Status:

Already Exists

Author:

sancho10

Posted:

Apr 20, 2018 07:57

Subject:

Where are our Paypal notifications?

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Status:

Implemented

Please, Bricklink give us back the Paypal notifications.
Or please notify us in any way that the payment is done.

Those who have switched to Paypal Marketplace are not receiving the notifications.
Many users are complaining about that in other posts.

Author:

DEREKFST

Posted:

Apr 18, 2018 23:56

Subject:

Re: Onsite PayPal Payment Notification

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In Suggestions, gogogovro writes:

Yes this needs to be done.

I contacted Paypal to confirm that the emails are being sent and that Bricklink
is receiving them. I then contacted Admin about 5 days ago but of course that
contact has not been answered.

Author:

DoubleEagle

Posted:

Apr 18, 2018 19:00

Subject:

Re: Onsite PayPal Payment Notification

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