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Re: BrickLink you are losing business - FigBits (3560)

[...] All that needs to happen is to make the Shipping Cost Estimator face the customer. That would already work for a majority of sellers, no matter the country. -- [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 22, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] You're right. I was wrong about that. I was thinking of re-pricing existing inventory to the 6-month average. -- Marc.
(87 months ago, Mar 22, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] For those of us whose BrickLink stores are trying to support us as a full-time job, that a part being too cool doesn't factor into it. It's a business. I try [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 22, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] But tools like this enourage sellers to continue listing their parts cheaper than everyone else. That's part of the problem. And I'm not sure what you mean my [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 21, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] Having such a tool encourages sellers to implement deceptive practices. Imagine two stores: One has average prices, honest shipping costs, and no hidden fees. The other [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 21, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] Community Overseer: Mnementh (19666) - Oct 31, 2005 - Dec 27, 2013 (URL)
(87 months ago, Mar 21, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Counterfiet Set Reporting - FigBits (3560)

[...] This would be the first that I have heard of clones actually having LEGO on the studs. Do you have a photo that highlights the differences ("minor differences in [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 21, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: BrickLink you are losing business - FigBits (3560)

[...] I am not ignoring any of it. Nothing that you have written above addresses what I wrote below, but I will answer your questions anyway. I am not only shipping as parcels. [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 20, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: BrickLink you are losing business - FigBits (3560)

[...] This is 100% false. I don't know why it keeps coming up. We know with absolute certainty that automato shipping calculation need not result in overcharging for shipping. [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 20, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: BrickLink you are losing business - FigBits (3560)

[...] Actually, it already exists on BrickLink as well. It just isn't customer-facing. -- Marc.
(87 months ago, Mar 20, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: BrickLink you are losing business - FigBits (3560)

[...] BL doesn't need to. The sellers would. The solution ALREADY EXISTS on other sites, so we know that it is possible. -- Marc.
(87 months ago, Mar 20, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] Keep human nature in mind. I have mentioned that I am on the fence about this issue. But your annoying campaigning convinced me to vote No. -- Marc. (Also [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 15, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Better Forum - FigBits (3560)

[...] I very much disagree there, at least compared to a flat view. Having a branching tree is a huge benefit. One improvement would be to be able to collapse a branch (as [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 15, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] You are really not helping your case with statements like that. It makes it clear that you have no idea what a free market is. So, people reading this could easily think [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 14, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: DO AWAY WITH PRICE GUIDE....... - FigBits (3560)

[...] I don't think it's a nonsense suggestion. It may not be a good idea, and it might not even have been serious, but I do think that it is an idea worth considering. [...]
(87 months ago, Mar 14, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] As I mentioned, the votes don't matter. BrickLink created this feature because they thought it would be a good thing overall. Lots of people complained about it [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 13, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] It's complicated. In the short term, it benefits some sellers and not others. (Sellers who have been racing to the bottom for prices will likely see fewer orders [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 13, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] Buyers can use BrickStock. (And I believe that most sellers do not.) [...] I have long argued that BL's policies have favored sellers over buyers, and [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 13, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] I'm not really sure what that means. BrickLink's presumed motive is to be successful. That usually translates into being profitable (though the owner is [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 13, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: price overview when buying a wanted list - FigBits (3560)

[...] From the sounds of your previous post, that's not what would happen. Rather, you would find the best price for the item you need, and then add some extra stuff from [...]
(88 months ago, Mar 13, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Another anti-scam idea - FigBits (3560)

[...] The people who would need to read it wouldn't read it. We are trying to protect people who naively jump at the chance to send unsecured payments to strangers who [...]
(89 months ago, Feb 3, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: This will reduce scammers by 95% - FigBits (3560)

[...] I'm pretty sure it is, actually. If the purchase qualifies for buyer protection, the buyer is protected (regardless of whether Paypal can successfully recover [...]
(89 months ago, Feb 2, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: This will reduce scammers by 95% - FigBits (3560)

[...] The risk is that for the scammers who put in that extra work, their account now looks a lot more trustworthy, so when they move on to the scam, they are a lot more likely [...]
(89 months ago, Feb 2, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Orders Placed page - add horizontal lines - FigBits (3560)

[...] I do also see the alternating shades for each line. However, this doesn't do a lot to avoid the issue of having to scroll horizontally (and potentially losing [...]
(89 months ago, Feb 2, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Date of parts listed within a store - FigBits (3560)

[...] You can (see screenshot below). I'm not really sure of the intended use, but I've used it once in a while. If I notice someone has a bunch of an item [...]
(89 months ago, Jan 31, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Warn about non-vetted new sellers - FigBits (3560)

[...] It should simply be included in an automated message when someone makes a purchase from a new store. They immediately get an email that includes something like: The [...]
(89 months ago, Jan 31, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Stop Wanted List Spamming for Minifigs - FigBits (3560)

[...] That should be done with the inventories. (Can the inventory of a minifig contain a minifig?) -- Marc.
(89 months ago, Jan 23, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Auto-ban Users That Request Custom Form Fraud - FigBits (3560)

[...] I'm sorry to hear that. It's really too bad when one side of a discussion has no interest in hearing from the other side. Oh well. In any case, I voted "No" [...]
(89 months ago, Jan 23, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Auto-ban Users That Request Custom Form Fraud - FigBits (3560)

[...] They would not be taking away a sale from an honest seller, because that sale was NEVER going to be placed with the honest seller, according to your own argument. With [...]
(89 months ago, Jan 23, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Auto-ban Users That Request Custom Form Fraud - FigBits (3560)

[...] Which will result in more lost in a particular store: 1) Banning all buyers who request customs form falsifications, and therefore can never place any more orders [...]
(89 months ago, Jan 23, 2017, to Suggestions)

Re: Pls create a kind of watch list for items - FigBits (3560)

[...] Or just add them to a cart. -- Marc.
(91 months ago, Dec 10, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: ADVANCED Minimal buy ammount override button - FigBits (3560)

[...] Can't they just add other small but expensive parts to come up to the minimum? There used to be a few stores that had lots for sale that consisted of nothing. So, [...]
(91 months ago, Nov 26, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Median Price with or instead of Avg Price - FigBits (3560)

[...] It would be useful. It's been suggested before. -- Marc.
(92 months ago, Nov 4, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Add feedback link to order detail screen - FigBits (3560)

[...] That wouldn't work well, because it would be exploited by scam sellers -- they would never mark the orders as shipped, so they would not get negative feedback [...]
(92 months ago, Oct 28, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Add feedback link to order detail screen - FigBits (3560)

[...] There are plenty of simple solutions. 1) Make it so that non-positive feedback cannot be left until the seller has been contacted about the order. 2) Make the [...]
(92 months ago, Oct 28, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Add feedback link to order detail screen - FigBits (3560)

[...] Yes, please. And more. Right now, when I finish up an order, I click Back from the Order Detail screen, find that order again on the list, and click the feedback link [...]
(92 months ago, Oct 28, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Add checkboxes for "no additional fees" - FigBits (3560)

[...] I don't think we need yet another way-point on the road to auto-checkout. We just need to skip to the finish line. Once auto-checkout exists, all those problems [...]
(93 months ago, Sep 17, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: PLEASE enable Payment at checkout - FigBits (3560)

[...] 2cm in Canada. But BL does not need to provide that information. Nor do they need to wait until the community has provided it. The sellers can set it for their own store. [...]
(93 months ago, Sep 16, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: PLEASE enable Payment at checkout - FigBits (3560)

[...] What do you mean? That's what Paypal Onsite is. -- Marc.
(93 months ago, Sep 15, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: PLEASE enable Payment at checkout - FigBits (3560)

[...] All of that is true. Nonetheless, BL could roll out Instant Checkout using its existing system tomorrow, and I would use it in my store. [...] Very true. -- [...]
(93 months ago, Sep 15, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: PLEASE enable Payment at checkout - FigBits (3560)

[...] That is not the Shipping Cost Suggestion tool. (It doesn't auto-invoice). I don't know what would have caused what you are describing. [...] I'm [...]
(93 months ago, Sep 15, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: PLEASE enable Payment at checkout - FigBits (3560)

[...] It works fine for me. (And for many others.) Yes, there is plenty of room for improvement. But that doesn't change the fact that auto-checkout tomorrow, [...]
(93 months ago, Sep 15, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: PLEASE enable Payment at checkout - FigBits (3560)

[...] It is already solved. ON BRICKLINK! It just isn't implemented yet. Right now, hundreds of stores already use the Shipping Cost Suggestion tool. All that needs to [...]
(93 months ago, Sep 15, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Quote improvements - FigBits (3560)

[...] But Quote requests should work the same way across the whole site. Otherwise it would be too confusing for buyers. -- Marc.
(94 months ago, Sep 10, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Quote improvements - FigBits (3560)

[...] It does not, you are correct. A simple way for the buyer to reserve the items for themselves is to place an order for them. (Instead of a quote) -- Marc.
(94 months ago, Sep 10, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Please add an Echeck Pending order status - FigBits (3560)

[...] Separate the payment status from the order status, and you will have "Clearing" as an option for payments. -- Marc.
(94 months ago, Sep 1, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: (Cancelled) - FigBits (3560)

[...] You are suggesting that they roll back the changes, and the suggestion is being discarded (since there is no intention to do so). -- Marc.
(94 months ago, Aug 31, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Replace merge with FB to a negative - FigBits (3560)

[...] Is that what happens? I thought that both the feedbacks stayed, and the seller ended up with 2 positives (from themselves). That is what used to happen. (And, [...]
(95 months ago, Aug 3, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Best Offer Feature - FigBits (3560)

[...] Fair enough. But a lot of people believe it to be true. -- Marc.
(95 months ago, Jul 30, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Best Offer Feature - FigBits (3560)

[...] They are. Some were added a couple of weeks ago. One was marked as "already implemented" yesterday. -- Marc.
(95 months ago, Jul 29, 2016, to Suggestions)

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