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 Author: danielclark View Messages Posted By danielclark
 Posted: Jan 16, 2019 00:44
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In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
  Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.



You can do this in Brickstock, open two unique files and copy one into another.
you would have multiple sets in a single file to upload.
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 20:39
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In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
  Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.

Perhaps you can change the way you work, because in my routine this is absolutely
no problem, and it's unlikely that Bricklink will change or upgrade anything.
 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 13:12
 Subject: Re: Add ability to download Part Out Log
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In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
  In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
  Please add ability to download the list of sets shown on the My Inventory: Part
Out Log.
Thank You.

Bumping. It would be nice to be able to download this info into an excel sheet.
It would make cross checking my records easier.
Thank You.

Hi there - voted no but need to explain. The part out log as it stands at present
isn't really much value. It needs to incorporate the transaction detail (which
it holds) before it would be worthwhile downloading it. The only thing it contains
at present is the set id and the date you parted it out.

But, again, unfortunately nothing is going on on the classic site whatsoever
- all development effort is being utilized on Bricklink XP (or whatever they
end up calling it).
 Author: JulieK View Messages Posted By JulieK
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 12:05
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In Suggestions, JulieK writes:
  Please add ability to download the list of sets shown on the My Inventory: Part
Out Log.
Thank You.

Bumping. It would be nice to be able to download this info into an excel sheet.
It would make cross checking my records easier.
Thank You.
 Author: Victorymike18 View Messages Posted By Victorymike18
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 09:59
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You can part out multiple of the same set at once by adjusting the quantity of
sets parting out.

However, I don't know of a way (on Bricklink) to part out multiple different
sets in one fell swoop.


In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
  Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.
 Author: superchicken77 View Messages Posted By superchicken77
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 09:12
 Subject: Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code
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Well you lived up to your name. Now I'm ROFL.

You can't be serious.

In Suggestions, Mr_Rofl writes:
  If it would be opt in, why ask BrickLink to implement.
There should be tools out on the internet (i.e. google maps) to maintain a map
with every store willing to share their location to add a pin to there location.
This can be run on the forum here and maintain else were with a link. Like goatleg
used to be.
Maybe you can be administrator to setup such a thing.


In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
 Author: mfav View Messages Posted By mfav
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 08:22
 Subject: Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code
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In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  Privacy issue is solved by it being an opt in feature. I list my postal code
in my terms anyway.

Going back to your suggestion about co-ordinates, maybe that's the easier
way to implement it instead of having to code in zip/postal codes and every other
addressing nomenclature of each country. If you can find your longitude and
latitude on google earth, it should be easy enough to find "near me" stores.



https://geocoder.ca
Knock yourself out.
 Author: Mr_Rofl View Messages Posted By Mr_Rofl
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 04:10
 Subject: Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code
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If it would be opt in, why ask BrickLink to implement.
There should be tools out on the internet (i.e. google maps) to maintain a map
with every store willing to share their location to add a pin to there location.
This can be run on the forum here and maintain else were with a link. Like goatleg
used to be.
Maybe you can be administrator to setup such a thing.


In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
 Author: superchicken77 View Messages Posted By superchicken77
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 01:33
 Subject: Re: Search nearby stores by postal or zip code
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Privacy issue is solved by it being an opt in feature. I list my postal code
in my terms anyway.

Going back to your suggestion about co-ordinates, maybe that's the easier
way to implement it instead of having to code in zip/postal codes and every other
addressing nomenclature of each country. If you can find your longitude and
latitude on google earth, it should be easy enough to find "near me" stores.





In Suggestions, mfav writes:
  In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.

Cool idea, but difficult to implement. And there are privacy issues.

The Canadian zip code database runs over 760,000 records; most of them geolocate
to stationary moose, uninhabited parts of the Yukon, and what have you. I don't
recall exactly, but I think their process was to basically put a grid over the
entire land mass of the country, divide it up into little squares, and assign
a code to each square.

The US zip code database, covering a population several times that of Canada
runs only about 42,000 records and the codes cover arbitrary regions roughly
equivalent to towns, and some post offices that don't offer delivery have
their own code.

Typically these zip codes are associated with a longitude and latitude, and these
data files can be acquired from the post office and maybe other sources.

Then there is some math and code to figure out the "as-the-crow-flies" distance
between two zip codes' associated coordinates.

I don't know that the entire globe...or all the areas serviced by BL...have
these databases. Could be. Just never built one of these things other than US/Canada.

Anyway, bottom line is you need the longitude and latitude of every store...or
something reasonably close. The coding is a bit tricky. And it may have to be
broken into hemispheres because of the math for triangulation over a sphere.

If folks want to publish their longitudes and latitudes, then you can find the
distances with Google Earth or something similar. I'd guess most of the mom-and-pop-hobby-shop
operations aren't going to be enthusiastic about posting their residential
coordinates for the world to see, though.
 Author: Brickwilbo View Messages Posted By Brickwilbo
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 00:49
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In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:
  Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?

I think to avoid errors. The more different sets in one go the more likely to
have errors.

  For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.

You can use Brickstock and upload the file.
 Author: SchmickBricks View Messages Posted By SchmickBricks
 Posted: Jan 15, 2019 00:31
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Is there any reason why a function to part multiple unique sets can't implemented?
For example it would save a huge amount of time if I could sort all the lots
from three copies of five different sets and pack everything away once, rather
than having to go through the whole part out process five times.
 Author: tEoS View Messages Posted By tEoS
 Posted: Jan 14, 2019 17:03
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FYI: they discarded my suggestion to show zip codes so I wouldn't get your
hopes up.

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1021174

In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
 Posted: Jan 14, 2019 17:01
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In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
  In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.

I think this is a great suggestion, Mike. Dynamic and pragmatic, with little
to no downside as proposed.

Reoccurring ideas such as this, come to mind when I receive orders with shipping
addresses not much further away from our home than our post office Receiving
orders with shipping addresses not far from my brother's home in Sweden,
also has brought this to mind.

I assume, given initiator of the site-suggestion has a IT background, it must
be doable?

I would add that eBay has had something like this in place, for some time now.
I've taken advantage of it a few times.
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
 Posted: Jan 14, 2019 16:55
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In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.

I think this is a great suggestion, Mike. Dynamic and pragmatic, with little
to no downside as proposed.

Reoccurring ideas such as this, come to mind when I receive orders with shipping
addresses not much further away from our home than our post office Receiving
orders with shipping addresses not far from my brother's home in Sweden,
also has brought this to mind.

I assume, given initiator of the site-suggestion has a IT background, it must
be doable?

-Cory
 Author: mfav View Messages Posted By mfav
 Posted: Jan 14, 2019 16:19
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In Suggestions, superchicken77 writes:
  I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.

Cool idea, but difficult to implement. And there are privacy issues.

The Canadian zip code database runs over 760,000 records; most of them geolocate
to stationary moose, uninhabited parts of the Yukon, and what have you. I don't
recall exactly, but I think their process was to basically put a grid over the
entire land mass of the country, divide it up into little squares, and assign
a code to each square.

The US zip code database, covering a population several times that of Canada
runs only about 42,000 records and the codes cover arbitrary regions roughly
equivalent to towns, and some post offices that don't offer delivery have
their own code.

Typically these zip codes are associated with a longitude and latitude, and these
data files can be acquired from the post office and maybe other sources.

Then there is some math and code to figure out the "as-the-crow-flies" distance
between two zip codes' associated coordinates.

I don't know that the entire globe...or all the areas serviced by BL...have
these databases. Could be. Just never built one of these things other than US/Canada.

Anyway, bottom line is you need the longitude and latitude of every store...or
something reasonably close. The coding is a bit tricky. And it may have to be
broken into hemispheres because of the math for triangulation over a sphere.

If folks want to publish their longitudes and latitudes, then you can find the
distances with Google Earth or something similar. I'd guess most of the mom-and-pop-hobby-shop
operations aren't going to be enthusiastic about posting their residential
coordinates for the world to see, though.
 Author: superchicken77 View Messages Posted By superchicken77
 Posted: Jan 14, 2019 15:11
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I'd like to be able to search for stores within a specific range (ie 10km,
20km, 50km) from my postal code. Seeing that a seller is in a given province
(in my case) means they could be around the corner or 12 hours way in Thunder
Bay. Being able to search nearby stores would be a fantastic option. It would
be an option to opt into, whereby a store must enable the feature to show up
in nearby store searches. This would allow stores to disable the feature in
case they are uncomfortable with the feature.
 Author: BUC View Messages Posted By BUC
 Posted: Jan 14, 2019 13:50
 Subject: Re: Add sales tax column to order downloads
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Tax time, a whole year later and this still hasn't been implemented.

Please BrickLink, this is crucial for filing sales taxes. Thanks!

In Suggestions, CPgolfaddict writes:
  Please add the sales tax field to order downloads.
 Author: Biodreamer View Messages Posted By Biodreamer
 Posted: Jan 13, 2019 14:38
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In Suggestions, tpr writes:
  Hi all.

Suggestion ….

Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.

One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.

Thanks

Tracy

No, I usually give feedback but people are a bit harsh when it comes to getting
a neutral so in the cases where I think positive is to good and neutral is a
bit harsh, I usually don't leave any and just archive the order.

Any automatic system would be required to give out neutral votes. and few sellers
would want that on their store feedback %.

The only thing the feedback system need is longer feedback notes. 80 characters
is not enough to give a small review of the order and tell what was good/bad
with it. it's just enough for a positive only review.
 Author: axaday View Messages Posted By axaday
 Posted: Jan 13, 2019 08:17
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In Suggestions, tpr writes:
  Hi all.

Suggestion ….

Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.

One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.

Thanks

Tracy

I can see how many orders your store has filled if I need to see it.

I wish we had an automated tool to stop people from obsessing about their feedback
score and customers not leaving feedback. If you are trying to figure out how
to catch up to the 5 digit people, don't forget that they also have customers
not leaving them feedback.
 Author: peterab View Messages Posted By peterab
 Posted: Jan 13, 2019 05:46
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In Suggestions, tpr writes:
  Hi all.

Suggestion ….

Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.

One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.

Thanks

Tracy

This suggestion would remove the option to not leave feedback which is a middle
ground between leaving positive feedback for a good experience and leaving either
neutral or negative feedback knowing it will penalise a seller. I can't see
any point to this except to pacify those who worry that others don't leave
them feedback. Perhaps those people would be better off not worrying so much
about it or being a bit more introspective.
 Author: Rob_and_Shelagh View Messages Posted By Rob_and_Shelagh
 Posted: Jan 13, 2019 05:45
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In Suggestions, tpr writes:
  Hi all.

Suggestion ….

Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.

One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.

Thanks

Tracy


No thanks for this one, sorry but if a buyer (or seller) does not leave FB it
does not mean the transaction was positive. Many choose not to leave FB if they
were not completely satisfied as they are worried about retaliation FB if they
leave non positive.

Overall FB is optional, it is not a requirement that FB is left for every order.
Elsewhere (other shopping sites eg Amazon) I rarely leave FB for purchases unless
the experience was particularly good or bad. On here I only want to receive positive
FB if the buyer chose to leave it otherwise it would mean nothing to me and I'd
have no idea what my customers think of my service.

Robert
 Author: manganschlamm View Messages Posted By manganschlamm
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In Suggestions, tpr writes:
  Hi all.

Suggestion ….

Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.

One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.

Thanks

Tracy



If feedback would be posted automatically, then we can abandon the feedback system
right away because it makes no sense at all. How can the system decide / judge
automatically if the customer was satisfied? For example, I am very reluctant
as a buyer to post negative or neutral feedback even when I am not too happy
with an order. In such cases I simply do not leave any feedback.
 Author: tpr View Messages Posted By tpr
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Hi all.

Suggestion ….

Feedback is not always left by the customer. Positive is left most times, and
a customer will always leave negative or neutral if there is something wrong.

One assumes that if nothing is heard from the customer, it must have been delivered
and was ok. Therefore - Can we have an automated positive feedback say after
2 months(or whatever length of time is felt suitable) of order being delivered
for all orders still showing as shipped. It could also be implemented if the
seller has not given feedback.

Thanks

Tracy
 Author: brickerking View Messages Posted By brickerking
 Posted: Jan 11, 2019 13:40
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Can Bricklink please update their "Sales by Year" page?
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1304

2013 was like 6 years ago.

Thanks!
 Author: Emperor_Penguin View Messages Posted By Emperor_Penguin
 Posted: Jan 10, 2019 14:02
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In Suggestions, OtherDude writes:
  Hello,

New uses, sorry if this has already been suggested and/or is available and I
can't figure it out, but I'm wondering if you can sort by county of seller?

On an item page, click on the 'More Options' button, that will bring
up some options including 'Seller Location'.
 

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