| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | robosushi  | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2019 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| If you only have a gram scale you simply weigh 100 of the brick and divide.
My point is that it would be a simple and useful search criteria.
In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
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If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
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With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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But do the people entering the weights into the database have a 1/100th gram
scale?
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| Author: | BrickSwede | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 22:46 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted list in seller store | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| You'll find it under the "shop" tag at the top of the store...
In Suggestions, BrickFlipper writes:
| | Firstly love the site.
Been a buyer for a few years now.
And I'm starting to use wanted lists.
And while I'm gooding through a store for a particular part, I'll come
across and item listed in one of my Wanted lists.
If I'm at a large store their maybe a few.
It would be nice to have an option / filter to just list parts in your wanted
list(s).
You may decide to get more parts from that sttore than intended.
Regards
Andrew
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| Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 22:03 | | Subject: | Re: Wanted list in seller store | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Already exists.
In Suggestions, BrickFlipper writes:
| | Firstly love the site.
Been a buyer for a few years now.
And I'm starting to use wanted lists.
And while I'm gooding through a store for a particular part, I'll come
across and item listed in one of my Wanted lists.
If I'm at a large store their maybe a few.
It would be nice to have an option / filter to just list parts in your wanted
list(s).
You may decide to get more parts from that sttore than intended.
Regards
Andrew
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| Author: | BrickFlipper | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 21:42 | | Subject: | Wanted list in seller store | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Firstly love the site.
Been a buyer for a few years now.
And I'm starting to use wanted lists.
And while I'm gooding through a store for a particular part, I'll come
across and item listed in one of my Wanted lists.
If I'm at a large store their maybe a few.
It would be nice to have an option / filter to just list parts in your wanted
list(s).
You may decide to get more parts from that sttore than intended.
Regards
Andrew
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 17:17 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
|
If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
|
With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color.
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There are definitely variations based on color. Especially between parts made
in ABS and those made in PC using the same mold.
Cheers,
Randy
| | Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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| Author: | runner.caller | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 17:09 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
|
If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
|
With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
|
But do the people entering the weights into the database have a 1/100th gram
scale?
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| Author: | robosushi | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 17:00 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, robosushi writes:
| | Could the weight of an item be added as one of the search options? It would
really speed up finding unusual parts if I could just plug in the weight and
bring it up.
|
If the item is big enough for it's weight to be unique, I would think that
typically the element ID is molded somewhere on there large enough to see and
read without too much effort and type in to easily find with the search bar.
|
With a 1/100th-gram scale, lego pieces have very unique weights. Sure a dozen
pieces might have the same weight but it's easy to spot the one your holding
in your hand by looking at the results. I've weighed many bricks and have
not seen variations based on color. Some of the really old bricks vary from mold
to mold. But I don't get to many of those anyways. Usually, a single brick
type will only vary a few hundredths of a gram.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 12:19 | | Subject: | Re: Filling My Inventory with WANTED Items | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | Your conclusion that it is 'a time-crunching labour-of-love process of comparing
part quantities currently for sales vs. sold in the last 6 months' is probably
right. Items sold versus available is a much more reliable source of information
than the wanted lists which are mostly shielded for privacy.
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Also just because a part sells in large numbers doesn't mean it is necessarily
a good part to stock. It depends what the buy-in vs sale price is.
And even the current stock to items sold ratio might not be so good to look at,
take a fictitious example:
Part A: 0 currently on BL, 10 sold in 6 months.
Part B: 100000 on BL, 20000 sold in 6 months.
A would be ranked highly as currently understocked (they all sold!) whereas for
B there is currently 5x 6 months stock unsold so quite overstocked. But would
you buy into part B, when the sales are actually low?
There would be so many of these to sort through, unless you could set other parameters
such as minimum numbers sold and so on. Even better if you can restrict it to
specific regions too.
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| Author: | littlepb | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 12:11 | | Subject: | Re: Filling My Inventory with WANTED Items | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Happyakrz writes:
| | Hello everyone!
I'm a long-term buyer on Bricklink, but have recently started to sell here
as well, and I've been looking through all of the various areas of data in
the site (which has been an amazing process), and I haven't been able to
find anything that shows the most commonly sought-after parts -- either by
direct request, or by inclusion on member "wanted lists".
Is there an area or process that is already programmed for the calculation and
display of the most wanted parts by the members?
Or is this a time-crunching labour-of-love process of comparing part quantities
currently for sales vs. sold in the last 6 months, etc.?
Just want to make sure that I'm stocking what people really want to get their
hands on -- aren't we all? 
Thanks for any info you can offer!
Todd / Happyakrz
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This might help:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogStatsWanted.asp?itemType=P
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2019 12:09 | | Subject: | Re: Add weight as a search parameter. | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | | (Has anyone seen a bag in a bag in a bag? I can't remember having seen these)
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I think a Friends set had a bag of four lipsticks (when only one was needed)
inside a bag of other small parts (in one of those holey type bags), inside a
normal bag.
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