Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | brikomania  | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2019 06:29 | | Subject: | Aren't these differences ridiculous? | | Viewed: | 331 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| I really like the extensive catalog, and think that most of the differences (like
the jumpers or tiles with groove, etc) are really useful.
But when you get to things like this, with a 1 x 2 x 6 arch, having something
like 4 variants, doesn't it make it too hard for sellers AND buyers?
I get the raised arch difference, that is notable, but this thin/thick thing?
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2019 08:45 | | Subject: | Re: New and Used: more shades of grey are needed | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, JusTiCe8 writes:
| | Hi,
as a buyer, I found having only two choices for parts condition is far too basic
and not useful, mostly for buyers, but also for sellers who seek accuracy and
honesty regarding their inventory.
I mean, for now a seller can only pick new or used, but pretty much everyone
has his/her own standard and I got some used parts which are like new, some others
which are closer to the one way ticket to trash, if you see what I mean  .
It's not good nor practical to force seller to put actual picture(s) of all
the used parts, both hobbyist and professional has better use of their time I
guess.
Plus, asking for every single part before ordering is not good either, some sellers
didn't took time to reply to potential buyer's question already.
And when seller put description, it's quite subjective, one adjective is
far to describe actual shape of a part: "bite marks, yellowish", ok but how many
marks, how deep ?
how much "yellowished" is the brick ?
Some may claims "quite good", some other "I can't send them to trash".
A quality score could be added to a used part. It would be used as well to set
the sell price, as trash-ready used parts can lower the infamous "average 6 months"
and lower ALL prices, which is very unfair for like new parts.
Any thoughts ?
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In another site, there are different used ratings, Used (like new), used (good),
used (acceptable). i think this is a good idea.
Of course any seller can lie, and list a chewed part as like new, but then they
also could list a used set as new sealed if they wish, feedback should reflect
that.
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2019 16:42 | | Subject: | Add optional shipping differences for regions | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello.
In Spain, and in many other countries, there are different regions with different
shipping rates. In spain at least, we have two sets of islands, where shipping
is usually different (more expensive) than to mainland spain.
As for now, I can't set it up for automatic checkout, and i just need to
eat the cost difference if i get an order from there, but it would be nice if
it could be added.
Thank you
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2019 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: New buyers 0 feedback | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| The 'stores' part of BL needs to be redesigned. I think that the site
itself is marvelous in all of the complex things you can do with it, but, the
storefronts need to change. It doesn't look good to new buyers, and you can't
expect all new buyers to go and read 2000 help pages, no one does that! They'll
just say 'this is too hard' and leave the site and forget about lego.
A lof of times I have found interesting things online that I might have purchased
if the site looked legit or was simpler. Buying hundreds of different parts is
difficult as is, we need to try to make it as less of a burden as possible for
a new buyer, so the learning curve is not as steep. You could start easy by buying
and then look into the "darker" parts of the site.
In Suggestions, tpr writes:
| | Hi
It has been quite a while since I joined BrickLink, and for new members is there
any advice/info forwarded when joining (i.e ensure that you read the Sellers
Terms before Buying)
Just had a new member buy 1 part for 50p (UK), for delivery to Slovakia. Didn't
think he would buy once postage etc added.
Just had a message, thought it would be free postage.
Not a problem, as expecting it, but obviously he was not aware or made aware
of how Bricklink works.
Is such a thing in place or could it be added
Thanks
TPR
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2019 12:14 | | Subject: | Re: Tool to determine sets based on inventory | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, peegeelee writes:
| | Fellow Bricklinkers,
I am looking for the easiest way to determine if a set can be built based on
a defined inventory, or, even better, a tool which can automatically determine
what sets can be built from a defined inventory.
Do you guys know of any such toot(s)/ways to do so or I am asking for the moon?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers
Pierre
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I believe rebrickable is just for that!
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2018 11:41 | | Subject: | Allow selecting currency per payment method | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello!
I mainly take payments by three different methods, PayPal, Stripe and IBAN.
I want to be able to accept any currency possible through Stripe, accept only
Euros and USD on paypal and only euros by IBAN. Currently you need to make a
note for all the payment methods, or only acccept some currencies.
For example, for IBAN, I'm sure that no one would pay in any other currency
than Euros, but I wish I would be able to tell buyers that they can pay in any
currency through Stripe, but not paypal. If I allowed all currencies, I'm
sure that a lot of buyers would mistakenly pay by paypal in other currencies,
even if I specified it in the notes. There is no way to really, automatically,
enforce that.
Thanks.
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2018 10:17 | | Subject: | Re: Parting Out - Items We Do Not Have | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MidwestBrick writes:
| | I used Brickstock to Load my stock into the store but the Price Guide that BL
has is a wonderful estimate to what I would do using Brickstock.
However, a piece of the parting out could be pushed to one degree further if
only you were able to have the BL system tell you what the items are that you
do not have.
In the attachment, off of a random set, I have the majority of the lots in my
store, but do not stock 4 of them. This is where it would be wonderful to have
a quick way of knowing what those 4 Lots are. Is there a way this already exists?
The only want I know of to check on this is to run an upload from Brickstock
into BL, take it to the verify screen and review the items that are not being
consolidated. Is there another way that is helpful?
Thank you
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Take a look at a tool named bricksync. You can evaluate an inventory and
see which parts you have and don't have in your inventory in brickstock.
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2018 20:35 | | Subject: | Re: Second Catalog Project Underway | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, WoutR writes:
| | In Catalog, mhortar writes:
| | I think 'Animal - Air' might be better for this, but that's just
a thought.
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Or Minifigure, Utensil
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I considered both of those categories, but I also thought about people who find
this part and have no idea what it is. Where would they look if they didn't
know it was supposed to be a beehive? I think they'd look for a cone, which
is why I ended up there.
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I agree with this. I think we should look at parts, and modify them as LEGO uses
them. If LEGO used this exclusively as a beehive, it should be that, but seeing
that now it has more uses (as food), I think some sort of modified cone would
be a more generic name for this
Same goes for the hilt. The standard hilt is only used as a minifig hilt, right?
However that hilt-looking bar is used for other things so it makes sense for
it to be a bar.
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 11:52 | | Subject: | Re: Where did these come from? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, LearnedBrick writes:
Haha! So I guess that
is for same color hips and legs, and the other items are for when
the hips are of different color than the legs?
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| Author: | brikomania | | Posted: | Oct 25, 2018 11:47 | | Subject: | Where did these come from? | | Viewed: | 152 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Looking through some parts that I have, I've got 8 of these dark red hips
with dark red legs, and according to the catalog, they never came in any set.
Where did these come from?
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