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In Suggestions, Mistress_Lisa writes:

Whenever I am looking up a stickered part in the catalog to identify, I then
look at past and current sales of this part. So my pet peeve is this: how can
a stickered part possibly be listed as 'new'?? Just by the fact that
you took the sticker off the sheet and attached it to the part makes it, by definition,
USED! It doesn't matter if you never used this part to build the set, it
is still used! Is there any way we can disable the 'new' button when
listing these types of parts?

Lisa

I have made this argument regarding boxes listed as new to no avail. I finally
gave up and listed most of my used boxes as new just like most sellers do.

Author:

popsicle

Posted:

Feb 3, 2019 15:14

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Re: My Pet Peeve of the day

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In Suggestions, Mistress_Lisa writes:

In Suggestions, popsicle writes:

In Suggestions, Mistress_Lisa writes:

"Pet Peeve d'jour"

I'm sure you're not peeved daily, Lisa

We're talking about adopting a dog, as my son has out grown his allergy.
If we do, what do you think about naming our new pet, Peeve?

But seriously, it makes sense what you're proposing

Oh, my gosh. Get a lab! I had German Shepherds for over 30 years, and we finally
let my son, Daniel, have a choice. He wanted a lab, so we found someone with
lab puppies and he chose a yellow one and named him Archer. He has been with
us almost 4 years and he is the happiest dog I know! I take him to the dog park
almost daily (it is very close to the post office!) and I love to watch him play
with other dogs, or just to play with me: he loves tennis ball, frisbee, tug
toys, etc. A really good, friendly family dog! (and doesn't have the double
coat shedding that the German Shepherds have!)

Dogs ARE the best, especially labs

My son, daughter & I like all dogs! But we did grow to LOVE a certain Dachshund
that was in our care while the owners were out of country. Hung with us on all
of our back country hikes in Utah, if you can believe that. So, any dog that
needs a home, but if we stumble upon a Dachshund, well you know...

Author:

Mistress_Lisa

Posted:

Feb 3, 2019 14:49

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Re: My Pet Peeve of the day

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In Suggestions, popsicle writes:

In Suggestions, Mistress_Lisa writes:

"Pet Peeve d'jour"

I'm sure you're not peeved daily, Lisa

We're talking about adopting a dog, as my son has out grown his allergy.
If we do, what do you think about naming our new pet, Peeve?

But seriously, it makes sense what you're proposing

Author:

Emporiosa

Posted:

Feb 3, 2019 14:11

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Re: My Pet Peeve of the day

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I'm 100% in agreement with you that a piece with a sticker on it is considered
used. But for example, say I have a sheet of stickers from a set that are unused
and I cut out each individually and sell the brand new piece with its unused
sticker along with it? It's similar to the Special Assemblies where they
are separated from the complete set and require their stickers to be cut from
the original sheet. I feel that the New option should still exist, but only used
for that specific case (as rare as it may be).

-Sarah

In Suggestions, Mistress_Lisa writes:

Author:

popsicle

Posted:

Feb 3, 2019 13:29

Subject:

Re: My Pet Peeve of the day

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In Suggestions, Mistress_Lisa writes:

"Pet Peeve d'jour"

I'm sure you're not peeved daily, Lisa

We're talking about adopting a dog, as my son has out grown his allergy.
If we do, what do you think about naming our new pet, Peeve?

But seriously, it makes sense what you're proposing

Author:

Mistress_Lisa

Posted:

Feb 3, 2019 12:47

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My Pet Peeve of the day

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Author:

cowboycoder

Posted:

Feb 3, 2019 06:04

Subject:

Show active carts in 'items for sale' list

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When searching for a part, it would be useful if the items for sale list could
highlight, prioritise, or otherwise indicate stores for which I already have
an open cart.

Ideally I'd like stores with open carts to be at the top of the list, with
an 'add to cart' button with a quantity entry box, to just add the item,
without going into the store page.

Author:

BigBBricks

Posted:

Jan 31, 2019 21:18

Subject:

Re: Support Zones for USPS shipping

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In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:

Currently, BrickLink does not support USPS zones, nor has there been any public
indication it is being implemented. Up until now, the ability of Instant Checkout
to calculate correct destination shipping within the USA has been compromised
for Priority Mail (custom packaging), but not for USPS First Class Parcel.

BrickLink has supported the existing USPS First Class Parcel and the existing
"flat rate" Priority Mail boxes (small/medium/large) because zone calculation
was not needed.

With the 27 January 2019 USPS rate change imminent, we (the sellers) have no
automated method of calculating the correct First Class Parcel rates, because
a zone calculation will be needed.

The calculation of zone is documented at DMM 608.9.0 (in it's entirety).
If BL chose not to use the USPS API calls to get the zone number for a given
shipment, it is possible to calculate it based on great circle distances. See
the explanations for more detail.

Since BL has chosen to not use the API callbacks provided by USPS, they have
instead opted for database rate tables (which have to be manually reloaded each
time USPS changes the rates). The current table contains the 2017 rates. It was
never updated to reflect the 2018 rates.

Nita Rae

As a former code monkey, in my experience, this may have been a lazy or inexperienced
programmer who didn't think far enough ahead on their process to realize
that these prices were fluid. IMHO, they should have written a few additional
calls to the USPS API to check prices and make changes periodically but also
to send an email alert to the development group (not individual programmer) if
changes need to made that it could not be done automatically and would need to
be addressed by a human.

Either that or it was a contractor that left it, knowing it would break eventually
and they would get the call, and hours, to come back and update it.

Or they just made a quick shipping chart in 2017 and did absolutely nothing with
the API

Either way it needs to be addressed and automated.

Big B

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Jan 28, 2019 10:24

Subject:

Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"

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In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:

In Suggestions, benredstar writes:

Just set the color to "Not Applicable" will do the trick.

No that doesn't work. It seems to only find parts where the seller has listed
the colour specifically as "Not Applicable".

/ben

It used to work. I once needed about 250 2x4 Bricks as filler and I didn't
care what color they were since they weren't visible in the model.

3001 Brick 2 x 4
Parts: Brick

I selected Not Applicable for a color and it found bricks of all sorts of colors
for me to add to my cart.

Still works for me.

Author:

BricksThatStick

Posted:

Jan 28, 2019 09:59

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Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"

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