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| Author: | MrDrem  | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2017 20:58 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cosy writes:
| | In Suggestions, MrDrem writes:
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was there, it made it so much easier for me to sanity check prices on my orders
that I didn't look elsewhere. Its what kept me shopping within Bricklink.
You want me to keep shopping here, make it easy for me to confirm my deal is
OK.
Even if all you tell me is that my overall order price is below or above the
average price.
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Sorry to edit down your post...
If your goal is just to sanity check prices, BL's built-in Price Guide will
give you a part for part comparison. You can also see the current world stock
as well as the L6MA.
Granted it is less convenient than a built in calculation, but with two windows
side by side you can easily do a sanity check.
If your order is 100 lots obviously this takes some more leg work on your part.
The more complicated option as mentioned would be to use BrickStock side by side
with your cart.
- Download your Wanted List
- import the XML file into BrickStock
- adjust the part quantities (a trick to do is open the xml in a text editor
and replace the "minqty" with "qty")
- set all the prices to L6MA
This will give you both the average sold price per part and the total price of
your cart if you bought at the average for each part. A little more work, but
like many shopping choices you can work harder to save more or work less and
just get what you want now.
Maybe that helps you work with BL.
Feel free to hit me up with questions if you get stuck.
Happy Shopping!
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Got it working  (and wrote and shared a quick guide on how I did it for other
people, since some of the steps seemed a little non-obvious)
Thanks for your help there.
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| Author: | MrDrem | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2017 06:33 | | Subject: | Re: Admins: poll site about major suggestions... | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MathBuilder writes:
| | It seems like admins are starting to look back at the pile of suggestions we
have.
Implementing some discarding some...
However it is not clear if they are basing the decisions on what to implement
or do with the site based on old votes, new votes, by some other parameter or
just plain randomly.
When dealing with major changes like price comparison etc, it would be good to
poll the entire site not just forum users about what to do.
A simple email with a yes/no toggle for a couple important suggestions and the
option to subscribe for future polling.
If the user does not reply they don't get emailed the next round if they
do their vote is counted.
Each poll could be open for say 3 days.
The next poll would come when the admins are ready to implement new changes.
In this way if you don't vote then you have to shut up and stop bickering
in the forum. If you vote but are minority then oh well better luck next time.
I know BL is not a democracy but it could actually help BL to listen to what
the great majority of BL users, buyers and sellers want and not just do random
stuff.
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Mailing out to all users isn't a great idea for this sort of thing to be
honest, but trying to get more representation on suggestions is a good idea.
Maybe putting something on the front page in the announcement space instead,
combined with a longer voting period?
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| Author: | MrDrem | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2017 15:27 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, MrDrem writes:
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Voting doesn't matter. What will count is what BrickLink believes is in their
best interest. Before they created that price comparison feature, they believed
that it would be in their interest to add it. Having added it, presumably they
discovered that it was NOT in their interest, so they have deleted it.
To get them to reverse that decision, you would need to convince BrickLink that
it's better for THEM to have the feature. Since we don't have access
to any of the data that they based their decision on, I believe making a convincing
argument is essentially impossible.
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I'd argue that there is now a discrepancy between sellers, who have access
to tools like BrickStock that automates pricing against 6 month averages, and
buyers, who no longer do.
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Buyers can use BrickStock. (And I believe that most sellers do not.)
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To be honest, I'd not thought of using it as a buyer, seeing it as a sellers
tool, but I can see how I can do so on reflection. Thanks for the suggestion.
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| Author: | MrDrem | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2017 13:46 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Voting doesn't matter. What will count is what BrickLink believes is in their
best interest. Before they created that price comparison feature, they believed
that it would be in their interest to add it. Having added it, presumably they
discovered that it was NOT in their interest, so they have deleted it.
To get them to reverse that decision, you would need to convince BrickLink that
it's better for THEM to have the feature. Since we don't have access
to any of the data that they based their decision on, I believe making a convincing
argument is essentially impossible.
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I'd argue that there is now a discrepancy between sellers, who have access
to tolls like BrickStock that automates pricing against 6 month averages, and
buyers, who no longer do.
If Bricklink want a reason to bring it back, here's one. Whilst the tool
was there, it made it so much easier for me to sanity check prices on my orders
that I didn't look elsewhere. Its what kept me shopping within Bricklink.
There is now no difference in the buying experience between here and BrickOwl
that I can see so far, except that BrickOwl has a nicer interface.
You want me to keep shopping here, make it easy for me to confirm my deal is
OK.
Even if all you tell me is that my overall order price is below or above the
average price.
I don't think that the sellers arguing here would say that they want to participate
in a economy that is rigged for either side, would they?
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| Author: | MrDrem | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2017 11:04 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Suggestions, TokerSays writes:
| | In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, tillmanbalazs writes:
| | few weeks ago when I went to a wanted list, and selected the items which I wanted
to buy, then the shop, it showed what is the price of items in this shop compared
to the average price of the items.
Now this function is not available, can I ask why?
Is it possible to have it back?
Thanks,
Balázs
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Voted no. The part prices should be what you think it's worth, not the Price
Guide' system.
The current average prices of parts are lower and the result of the downward
spiralling price war of the many shops and are not the actual values.
When getting lower, parts would be given away for free.
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Brickwilbo - how can you be so cruel? If I am starving a slice of bread would
be worth $1000 to me. And I'm starving, I need that bread. I would gladly
pay you $1000 for it because I don't have the luxury of surveying 100s of
stores for 100s of pieces. Would you sell me a $1000 dollar slice of bread,
Brickwilbo? Would you feed me for only a day? Would you allow me to starve
until I get my birthday check from Grandma? Change your vote, Brickwilbo. Change
your vote and feed the children!
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Comparing wanting to buy cheaper LEGO to starving children is not the way to
go.
Just for this, I am tempted to vote 'no' as well.
Niek.
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It did make me wonder what he'd been toking.
MrDrem
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