Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Feb 18, 2018 10:30 | | Subject: | Minor improvements to add inventory | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I am sure there are lots of sellers who are waiting to see what enhancements
Bricklink as and when the finally release the sellers tools they hafve talked
about..
We would like to see a small modification done now to help on the 'add inventory
screens'. This would take a programmer less than an hour to accomplish and
it would aid most sellers.
When you manually add an item to your inventory you can do it in one of several
ways. When you go this route some things, which are important are missing.
From the main catalogue page for any given part choose Add to my inventory. This
takes you to the add inventory page and fills in some of the details for you
e.g. part no; colour etc, leaving you to add the quantity, price, condition and
any remarks you wish to make. You then click on the review item button at the
bottom and it takes you to the review item page where you do not see all the
relevant information No part no - no remarks. How can you really review the information
if it isn't all presented to review. Good memory? Maybe if you are only doing
the odd one, but if you are using this in anger it would be very helpful if the
review item page had the part no on it as well as the remarks field.
A similar situation occurs with the mass inventory upload. Once you paste your
xml file into the window you choose verify and all the parts in that file are
listed but instead of displaying the part nos for the items it drops them off
despite being in the xml upload.
Again a very minor programming job which would aid the sellers.
Think about it Bricklink. Make the site easier for us to use.
See images attached.
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| Author: | TenHove | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2018 08:35 | | Subject: | Languages | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
Although Bricklink is an America-based website, is serves a worldwide audiance
now.
My store is base in the Netherlands and I modified the emails from Bricklink
(like the invoice etc.). Now people get these bi-lingual. (Dutch and English)
The only way to make them uni-lingual again is by deleting the non-desired language-text.
It might be an idea to extend the 'List of E-Mail Conditional Block Macro
Tags' with a language-tag. When poeple prefer the text in Dutch, they can
get the Dutch-tekst, if the shop-owner provides it.
If this system is implemented, there should also be a default-tag for the text
that is to be used, if the desired language is not specified in the mail.
This will contribute to a better user-experiance.
As a web-developer, I realize that this is not easely implemented. But it might
be an idea to keep in mind for a next version of Bricklink.
With kind regards,
Carel ten Hove
Fricatho
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| Author: | zimoch | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2018 05:55 | | Subject: | Make shippment rate charts visible or able to | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Could it be an option to show shipment rate charts in shipment policy tab to
buyers in order to avoid making own tables with these prices?
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2018 14:09 | | Subject: | Store logos no longer visible in tabs | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
A couple weeks ago when I had close to ten carts and tabs open (in addition to
several other non-BrickLink tabs), I found the miniature store logos in the tabs
to be very helpful for quick navigation to pertinent shops. (And I consequently
made my own quick logo for shoppers.)
As of about a week ago however, all tabs, including stores, now have the BrickLink
standard logo.
I don't know if this lost distinction is the result of a BrickLink site change
or something else. I use Windows 7 and Firefox 58 by the way.
Thanks for your time, Matthew
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| Author: | JulieK | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2018 11:54 | | Subject: | Add ability to download Part Out Log | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Please add ability to download the list of sets shown on the My Inventory: Part
Out Log.
Thank You.
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2018 00:30 | | Subject: | My-Note-On-User visibility; push-pin colors | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi,
Please make My Note On User notes an icon-hover-view-note option when visiting
a particular store, placed in the upper-right screen corner with the other small
icons, in order to allow customers to easily review any past notes on a particular
store they are visiting.
Recommend using the red push-pin icon as seen in Orders Placed and wherever else,
and recommend allowing for two or three push-pin color options, instead of just
red.
Thank you for your time, Matthew
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2018 09:58 | | Subject: | Wants list: don't suggest stoplisted stores | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| The "buy wanted lists" feature currently suggests stores that have stop listed
the buyer if the other criteria the buyer uses are all met. This seems pointless.
Why does BL suggest a store that refuses to sell to the customer?
Of course, once I go to the store and find out I am stoplisted, I can least favourite
the store and then exclude least favourited stores from the wants list calculation,
but surely it should automatically exclude stores that refuse to sell to me (just
as I can exclude stores that will not ship to me).
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2018 13:13 | | Subject: | Retain color in My Inventory searches | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
The subject problem, or new shortfall, has been going on since the roll-out of
BrickLink 2.0.
When conducting an inventory search using the top-center field on each BrickLink
page, for example a search on "dark bluish gray wedge plate" as pictured, the
color gets dropped from the top-center field once the search results are posted.
This behavior is unlike a store search or Items-For-Sale parts search, where
the color is retained in the search field for possible follow-on searches using
the same color, a highly likely circumstance for many projects.
It would be nice if the color were also retained in the top-center field, given
the likelihood that a user will search their inventory for a different part of
the same color.
This desired trait or attribute or whatever term applies, would alleviate the
need to repeatedly type things like "dark bluish gray" under 2.0, just as it
did under 1.0.
Sincerely, Matthew
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| Author: | alahaka | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2018 13:55 | | Subject: | My Store Carts nixes open-link-in-new-tab | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
My pc needed a memory clearing and restart. Then with a goal of reopening my
present carts in individual tabs, I landed on the new (global) My Store Carts
page.
In the recent past, right-clicking on each listed store name with cart items
allowed me to quickly open a new tab for each different cart. From there, I
could continue to check for and verify parts in each store from tab to tab while
progressing on a rough build design. (I tend to search stores for common items,
and use the Wanted List for less-common ones, since the start-to-finish Wanted
List process is more cumbersome than simply shopping, and since numerous varying
parts are needed to ensure builds work, are solid, and are in desired colors.)
Now I can no longer open new tabs from the My Store Carts page (nor is it possible
from upper-right cart icon drop-down store options, btw). Furthermore after
clicking on View Cart, a new cart page shows up which is vague on how to shop
in the store associated with the new cart page. (This vagueness is different
than the weird "Search in this store" claim made in the store search field --
weird because it's inaccurate when confined to Wanted List items. However
I am reminded of it, since the similarity is that I don't see how newcomers
are supposed to figure out such unclear or absent navigation information.)
Back to the topic:
Prior steps from prior store carts summary page:
1. Right click on store name;
2. Open store cart in new tab
New and maybe "improved" steps since the above process is now not possible from
the My Store Carts page:
1. Open new tab;
2. Type or Copy & Paste "bricklink.com" into address field;
3. Hover over cart icon and click on View Cart in the drop-down options (By
the way, this generates a new page in which the pertinent store name is not readily
evident in the tab when multiple tabs are open. Instead this tab-name space
is now primarily taken up with the less informative word "BrickLink".);
4. In lieu of having a clear option to continue shopping on the newly opened
page, click on the store name to see what happens -- store shopping page
opens
So assuming one does not want to see the different and more familiar shopping
cart view from the shopping page (i.e. Step 5), the new process is twice as long
as the one which existed a few days ago. (And it involves the creation of a
wholly new alternate shopping cart page, which is interesting.)
In and of itself the above comparison shows only two added steps. However cumulatively
over the course of a project and over months, it adds hundreds and thousands
of new steps to individual shopping, and for the community I guess millions or
billions of newly required user steps are added. And such additions are the
norm, which is now not-so-surprisingly accepted by BrickLink the company.
In short, many visualizations have been spread out and many new process steps
added -- these are the two overarching design elements of BrickLink 2.0,
with some but few exceptions. And some processes get broken along the way and
seemingly left in the dust to never be repaired (e.g. My Store Shopping Settings
... more hundreds, thousands, millions, and possibly billions of added navigation
steps ... to now do this formerly-once task over and over and over again).
I suggest that BrickLink (a) never make previous processes longer; (b) stop spreading
out data to minimize customers' need to scroll and page; and (c) focus on
repairing existing problems in lieu of new page roll-outs.
Sincerely, Matthew
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| Author: | blackbaron | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2018 08:43 | | Subject: | Shopping cart (Hidden "View Cart" button) | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
I have noticed several times that the shopping cart is not working properly when
the cart icon is located at the top right browser window. For some reason the
"View Cart" button is hidden and I have no access to jump directly to the shopping
cart of the corresponding brick shop owner.
The cart works with the centered page layout, however when the cart icon is fixed
to the top right browser window, the "View Cart" button is hidden.
Is there a chance to improve this?
Yorh Ekin
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| Author: | CanadaFirst | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 21:28 | | Subject: | Damage Tick Box | | Viewed: | 164 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi, we would like you to add a damage tick box under the used condition that
would work like incomplete set tick box. That would avoid that customers buy
damaged parts without knowing it and will level up the average price to what
is should be.
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| Author: | bb1086932 | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 18:28 | | Subject: | Payment other than paypall | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Please make payment by credit card available so those of us that cant figure
out your payment method can make purchases.
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| Author: | Gaston.La.Brick | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 10:07 | | Subject: | Invoice only by email? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi, I'm not sure if it's actually a suggestion. It might be already in
place, but I'm just missing it?
I'm unsure if I can see my invoices (both for orders I have placed as for
orders I have sold) in BL. For all I know, they only get sent by email. Which
is kind of annoying, since I have to switch back & forth between the website
and my mailbox to complete orders. E.g. for searching out the IBAN number that
was in the invoice.
Not only that, but sometimes a buyer requests another sending method, which will
alter the price. It would be very useful to have kind of a version history on
the invoices of a single order.
In general, I believe email is fine for notifications, but all data should be
inside BL, including the generated invoices.
If it isn't: it would be very useful to store the invoices.
If it is: can someone tell me where to find them?
Thanks all!
Henri
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2018 04:24 | | Subject: | Please bring Order Download up to date | | Viewed: | 119 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| To Admin/Development
The order download feature is clumsy and nor set out to work in today's IT
environment. Please bring it up to date and provide choice for which columns
that the user wishes to download. Choosing include details is insufficient. More
people would use this feature if the flexibility in design was improved.
Bring the formats up to date as well as even Excel 2010 is unhappy with the MS
excel download. Stop combining the colour field with the description field etc.,
etc etc.
If improvements here are planned for sellers tools, please let us know and provide
an anticipated delivery date for that. We want to download our orders into our
off-line system and at present this is a totally manual exercise.
Those of us who use off-line systems need more flexibility to deal with data
from Bricklink.
We haven't pout this as a suggestion cause quite honestly we do not feel
that route works very well at all.
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| Author: | Majerr | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2018 05:00 | | Subject: | New, previously unsold items, for sale | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
I wonder if it would be useful to have an automated notification option for new
items available for sale, that have not been sold on Bricklink before (newly
released set or previously unsold brick or minifigure). I am not sure if such
cases can be dealt with via the wishlist tool.
Thank you and sorry if I missed something obvious.
Radek
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| Author: | expos1994 | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2018 15:23 | | Subject: | Shopping cart compare function | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
I thought of a suggestion for the shopping cart:
Let's say you're ordering off a wanted list that gets broken up into
4 orders. So you've got 4 carts full of items.
What if... there was a button that could compare the items in your 4 carts against
the other cart's stores to see if the other stores have those items for cheaper.
Then you could have the option to adjust quantities in the carts and buy from
the other seller. I sometimes manually do this.. but it's kind of hard and
time consuming.
For example say you need 5 4x4 plates. And you have them in Cart #1 @ $0.35 each.
But after running the tool it is found that Cart #2's shop has 2 of those
4x4 plates for $0.15 each. Then you could adjust the quantities of cart #1 to
be 3 and then add the 2 @ $0.15 from the cart #2.
Does that make sense? I could explain it better if needed. I love all the tools
bricklink has that make getting the best price possible. I think this would be
a nice feature that would even further help.
Also... I'm a programmer. So if you need to me to implement this feature.
I'll do it.  I've got some other ideas too..
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| Author: | agulus | | Posted: | Feb 1, 2018 22:42 | | Subject: | Order Item Removal Request - PartID/Item No | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I don't see Order PartID/Item No
in "Order Item Removal Request".
It would be very helpful to see it 
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| Author: | minithings4life | | Posted: | Feb 1, 2018 00:44 | | Subject: | API to handle in progress orders | | Viewed: | 106 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently if an order is placed with instant checkout, the order goes into an
in progress state while Bricklink waits for some confirmation of payment from
Paypal. The order stays in that state for 10 minutes according to some other
posts in the forum.
I would like the API to be able to access these orders and the stock that is
tied up on them.
The reason is so that I can get an accurate picture of my inventory even if I
have in progress orders.
After all while the in progress order is there, I still have this inventory on
the shelf, but I don't have an order that it belongs to.
The absence of this feature is the only reason stopping me from turning instant
checkout on.
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| Author: | CanadaFirst | | Posted: | Jan 31, 2018 12:02 | | Subject: | Separate category for damaged items | | Viewed: | 138 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| We currently have some damaged items in our shop. We offer them at a discount
and some buyers enjoy being able to buy very cheap items for filling purposes,
among others.
We add the fact that the lots are damaged in the description so that people know
what they're buying. The problem is that when going through a wish list,
bricklink will select those items seeing as they're cheaper and some buyers
understandably don't want to buy damaged items.
Would there be interest in the community to ask bricklink to add a tick box for
'damaged' when used is selected? This would benefit all involved, buyers
could simply select a tick box to identify damaged items and buyers could choose
whether they want to have damaged items taken in account for a wishlist.
If there is another solution that currently exists, we're obviously interested!
Right now we're at the point where we're wondering if we should open
a second store for just damaged items but that would involve a lot more work
on our part and we're not sure if it would be allowed by bricklink.
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2018 06:53 | | Subject: | BL Suggestion to raise revenue for BL+Sellers | | Viewed: | 284 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I don't know if this applies to all sellers but I rarely list my entire inventory
for any individual minifig part all at the same time mainly because whenever
I've done this in the past there usally comes a point when someone will buy
out all your stock in one go however many hundreds of the same part you might
have!
This is usually because you've dropped your guard and are suddenly selling
well below the BL average for the current price/demand and of course at that
point its too late for you to adjust your pricing to fit in line with current
market value. The other thing is I like to hold back stock for future minifig
builds as there's nothing worse than having to buy back minifig parts at
double or even tripple the price you once sold them for yourself!
Anyway getting to the point....
This can mean that with the smaller amounts I list in my store at any one time
I can unknowingly sell out of a part for weeks or months at a time before I even
notice and remember to replensih my store inventory again which is not good for
buyers, not good for BL and certainly not good for me!
Therefore I can't help but wonder whether BL should implement a similar system
to Brickowl where as your picking your order you can also see exactly how many
you will have left in your store thereby allowing you to easily re-adjust your
inventory as you go?
Even ebay has now implemented this feature as I think they also recognise that
this helps prompt sellers to replenish or re-purchase stocks before selling out!
I've also noticed that many other BL sellers try to get around this problem
by creating 4 or 5 listings for the same part all with varyig prices so that
as they sell out at the cheapest price they still have the same item listed at
higher prices but this just creates clutter and makes shopping with these sellers
very frustrating as you end up having to search through quadruple the number
of pages seeing the same items come up again and again!
Really not sure why Sellers do this as its not good for business and I've
quite often found myself having to give up with browsing any further through
their stores.
Does anyone share a similar view on this or perhaps theres a different way around
this that I'm missing?
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| Author: | undetected | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2018 20:58 | | Subject: | Display seller rating a la eBay or Amazon | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| TL;DR: Please display the seller's positive/negative feedback ratio next
to the store name, instead of a flat feedback count.
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(My other post goes into too much detail, so I'm pulling out my actual suggestion
into another post.)
I recently purchased from a seller who is now suspended. It turns out, there
were warning signs buried in his feedback about three or four pages back, but
most of his feedback was positive.
I realized after this experience that there is no indication about the seller's
positive or negative ratings, like there is on eBay or Amazon.
There is a number which can indicate the feedback count, but this is not helpful.
If instead of a flat number, it indicates the amount of positive/negative feedback,
I would have dug deeper into the seller's feedback. At least I would have
known that this seller was a risk, and there was a 1 in 50 chance he'll take
3 weeks before he ships.
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| Author: | fors | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2018 08:35 | | Subject: | Pending item removal on order page?! | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Sorry if this has been brought up already or if I have missed something.
I (seller) currently have an order with pending item removal requests that I
have made to the order. There is no indication of this in either the "Order Received"
list or in the individual order page. Because of this it is easy to miss and
invoice with the items still remaining in the order.
Cheers,
/Patrick
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| Author: | undetected | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2018 23:03 | | Subject: | The utter powerlessness of buyers | | Viewed: | 380 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Sometimes one negative feedback is just not enough, especially when you've
been thoroughly abused and belittled by a seller.
I made a big (for me) purchase from a seller - 1288 pcs in 61 lots.
The seller didn't do anything about, act on it, nothing, until a whole week
when I asked him about it. He said he will pack it in a few days and will ship
it the following week. That's two weeks after I paid for it.
The week after, I followed up on it again.
He said he's working on "all orders as we speak" and again promised shipping
it by the end of that week.
I waited again (this was over two weeks from payment), and still no movement.
In the meantime, he kept getting positive reviews multiple times a day from other
buyers.
This means he's been processing and shipping everyone else's orders,
but deliberately ignoring mine.
Day after day.
For over two weeks.
On week 3, I messaged him again.
This time he said he was packing it that day.
At the end of the day, I followed up again, he said he will mail it the day after.
Over three weeks after payment before he shipped my order, and only after I followed
up with him 4 times.
Just to add icing to the cake, the shipment was missing 83 pieces across 8 lots.
After all this, the most I can give him is one lousy negative review, severely
limited by the number of characters, to be drowned out by all the other customers
he dutifully served while persistently and consistently ignoring mine.
It's just nowhere near proportional to the treatment I got.
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| Author: | MMillere | | Posted: | Jan 23, 2018 11:58 | | Subject: | Add total volume to order summary | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi All,
I would like to suggest adding an order "total volume" along with order total
weight that is listed at the bottom of the order summary.
This would go a long way to helping decide what size box is needed and help with
checking/figuring out boxes for instant checkout.
Thanx,
Milissa
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