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| | | Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 02:07 | | Subject: | Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 219 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
4. The Bricklink fees charges. Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
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| | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 03:35 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
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| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
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What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
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Marc.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Thalain | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 03:47 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
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| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
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What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
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Marc.
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I think I refers to the price guides - some regions of the world tend to have
lower prices than others, a phenomenon I have quite often encountered as a buyer.
Several times, I had to carefully calculate the trade-off between a higher shipping
cost for lower part prices versus the opposite. I can imagine this discrepancy
can be even more frustrating to a seller attempting to price items in a market
that significantly deviates from the worldwide BL average.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | 1977_mauro | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 04:50 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| It is also very hard when I look on the price guide and assume that the Euro
listed prices are from Europeans and the $ prices from non Europeans, but there
are still $ prices from European sellers.
So in such case an option would be great to show ALL European prices and let
the non Europeans away. This was one point he has mentioned.
Mauro
In Suggestions, Thalain writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
...
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
--
Marc.
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I think I refers to the price guides - some regions of the world tend to have
lower prices than others, a phenomenon I have quite often encountered as a buyer.
Several times, I had to carefully calculate the trade-off between a higher shipping
cost for lower part prices versus the opposite. I can imagine this discrepancy
can be even more frustrating to a seller attempting to price items in a market
that significantly deviates from the worldwide BL average.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | BLUSER_124617 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 11:16 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 1977_mauro writes:
| | It is also very hard when I look on the price guide and assume that the Euro
listed prices are from Europeans and the $ prices from non Europeans, but there
are still $ prices from European sellers.
So in such case an option would be great to show ALL European prices and let
the non Europeans away. This was one point he has mentioned.
Mauro
In Suggestions, Thalain writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
...
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
--
Marc.
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I think I refers to the price guides - some regions of the world tend to have
lower prices than others, a phenomenon I have quite often encountered as a buyer.
Several times, I had to carefully calculate the trade-off between a higher shipping
cost for lower part prices versus the opposite. I can imagine this discrepancy
can be even more frustrating to a seller attempting to price items in a market
that significantly deviates from the worldwide BL average.
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But you could sort by nationality?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:04 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Thalain writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
...
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
--
Marc.
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I think I refers to the price guides - some regions of the world tend to have
lower prices than others, a phenomenon I have quite often encountered as a buyer.
Several times, I had to carefully calculate the trade-off between a higher shipping
cost for lower part prices versus the opposite. I can imagine this discrepancy
can be even more frustrating to a seller attempting to price items in a market
that significantly deviates from the worldwide BL average.
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Thank you - that is exactly correct. You don't need to use it as your price guide,
however it might come out very usefull.
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:02 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
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| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
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What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
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Marc
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Not at all. But as you build your inventory in whichever way you do - it would
be useful to know what others in the same region are charging as opposed to pricing
globally.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | gkistemaker | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 16:30 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
...
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
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What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
--
Marc
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Not at all. But as you build your inventory in whichever way you do - it would
be useful to know what others in the same region are charging as opposed to pricing
globally.
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Did you try the last setting on this page:
http://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
Gerrit
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 00:43 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, gkistemaker writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
...
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
What do you mean? Charge your customers different prices for your items depending
on their location?
--
Marc
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Not at all. But as you build your inventory in whichever way you do - it would
be useful to know what others in the same region are charging as opposed to pricing
globally.
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Did you try the last setting on this page:
http://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
Gerrit
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I did but it doesn't seem to work for the price detail on the add inventory page.
We still do not see flags or any reference to local pricing. I do believe Bricklink
could make this much better for all of us. They simply need to add a few more
options or preferences and then save them for each store so they apply each time
you log in.
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| | | | | Author: | maxx3001 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 05:11 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
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Use HTML, problem solved
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
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Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges.
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I believe these are 3%, so it does not matter what currency you use
| | Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
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| | | | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 06:59 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
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Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
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If you sell out of an item, you can have it set up to have the lot move to a
stock-room. This is useful to preserve data like when the lot was added, My Cost,
etc, instead of having the lot deleted.
The problem is that when you add additional parts to your inventory and they
get consolidated into that stock-room lot, it stays in the stockroom, even though
it no longer has a zero count.
| | | | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
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I'm still not sure that I understand this suggestion. We just want to be able
to filter the price guide? If we mean for sales that have already completed,
I think the issue is privacy. If we mean for the current listings, aren't the
flags sufficient?
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Marc.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:14 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
|
If you sell out of an item, you can have it set up to have the lot move to a
stock-room. This is useful to preserve data like when the lot was added, My Cost,
etc, instead of having the lot deleted.
The problem is that when you add additional parts to your inventory and they
get consolidated into that stock-room lot, it stays in the stockroom, even though
it no longer has a zero count.
| | | | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
|
I'm still not sure that I understand this suggestion. We just want to be able
to filter the price guide? If we mean for sales that have already completed,
I think the issue is privacy. If we mean for the current listings, aren't the
flags sufficient?
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Marc.
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We have used the update inventory option to move all the storeroom items to store
items when we find a discrepancy between what our inventory says and what the
store says. The storeroom idea is a good one, but it does need some changes.
What flasg are you talking about on the price guide?
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 19:48 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | I'm still not sure that I understand this suggestion. We just want to be able
to filter the price guide? If we mean for sales that have already completed,
I think the issue is privacy. If we mean for the current listings, aren't the
flags sufficient?
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What flasg are you talking about on the price guide?
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http://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
Display Country Flags on Price Guide Detail Current Items for Sale
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Marc.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 00:46 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | I'm still not sure that I understand this suggestion. We just want to be able
to filter the price guide? If we mean for sales that have already completed,
I think the issue is privacy. If we mean for the current listings, aren't the
flags sufficient?
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What flasg are you talking about on the price guide?
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http://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P
Display Country Flags on Price Guide Detail Current Items for Sale
--
Marc.
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Hi Marc - tried that - didn't work cause it only affects the price guide detail
pages which you do not see when adding an individual item to your inventory.
They need to allow that option in both places not just one.
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:10 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
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Use HTML, problem solved
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges.
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I believe these are 3%, so it does not matter what currency you use
| | Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
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Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately using HTML is not an option for me
or my colleagues. We have used Word and published to html, but as usual Microsoft
have their own way of doing things which is making a mockery o9f basic html.
As for uploading directly to the store, that is what we have been trying to do
and each time we do it, we end up with some parts in the storeroom and others
straight into the store - very frustrating.
Glad to see there is a general view that regionlised pricing could be useful.
I hope Bricklink take that on board.
As for their fees yes you are right it is 3% of the order total shown in USD,
not in GBP. They then alter that based on the constantly changing currency conversion
so you end up with not knowing the exact Bricklink cost. Surely a simple statement
showing the order number, order value USD amount and the local currency amount
would be better.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:21 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| The right side of this page http://www.bricklink.com/account.asp
Bret
In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
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Use HTML, problem solved
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges.
|
I believe these are 3%, so it does not matter what currency you use
| | Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
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Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately using HTML is not an option for me
or my colleagues. We have used Word and published to html, but as usual Microsoft
have their own way of doing things which is making a mockery o9f basic html.
As for uploading directly to the store, that is what we have been trying to do
and each time we do it, we end up with some parts in the storeroom and others
straight into the store - very frustrating.
Glad to see there is a general view that regionlised pricing could be useful.
I hope Bricklink take that on board.
As for their fees yes you are right it is 3% of the order total shown in USD,
not in GBP. They then alter that based on the constantly changing currency conversion
so you end up with not knowing the exact Bricklink cost. Surely a simple statement
showing the order number, order value USD amount and the local currency amount
would be better.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:35 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
I don't see it in EURO.
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
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Use HTML, problem solved
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges.
|
I believe these are 3%, so it does not matter what currency you use
| | Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
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Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately using HTML is not an option for me
or my colleagues. We have used Word and published to html, but as usual Microsoft
have their own way of doing things which is making a mockery o9f basic html.
As for uploading directly to the store, that is what we have been trying to do
and each time we do it, we end up with some parts in the storeroom and others
straight into the store - very frustrating.
Glad to see there is a general view that regionlised pricing could be useful.
I hope Bricklink take that on board.
As for their fees yes you are right it is 3% of the order total shown in USD,
not in GBP. They then alter that based on the constantly changing currency conversion
so you end up with not knowing the exact Bricklink cost. Surely a simple statement
showing the order number, order value USD amount and the local currency amount
would be better.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | starbeanie | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 14:47 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| No, but it is the exact amount you will be paying. It doesn't matter what the
exchange rate is when they order since it will be different on the day you pay.
Bret
In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
I don't see it in EURO.
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
|
Use HTML, problem solved
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges.
|
I believe these are 3%, so it does not matter what currency you use
| | Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
|
|
Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately using HTML is not an option for me
or my colleagues. We have used Word and published to html, but as usual Microsoft
have their own way of doing things which is making a mockery o9f basic html.
As for uploading directly to the store, that is what we have been trying to do
and each time we do it, we end up with some parts in the storeroom and others
straight into the store - very frustrating.
Glad to see there is a general view that regionlised pricing could be useful.
I hope Bricklink take that on board.
As for their fees yes you are right it is 3% of the order total shown in USD,
not in GBP. They then alter that based on the constantly changing currency conversion
so you end up with not knowing the exact Bricklink cost. Surely a simple statement
showing the order number, order value USD amount and the local currency amount
would be better.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 00:40 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | No, but it is the exact amount you will be paying. It doesn't matter what the
exchange rate is when they order since it will be different on the day you pay.
Bret
In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
I don't see it in EURO.
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
|
Use HTML, problem solved
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges.
|
I believe these are 3%, so it does not matter what currency you use
| | Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
|
|
Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately using HTML is not an option for me
or my colleagues. We have used Word and published to html, but as usual Microsoft
have their own way of doing things which is making a mockery o9f basic html.
As for uploading directly to the store, that is what we have been trying to do
and each time we do it, we end up with some parts in the storeroom and others
straight into the store - very frustrating.
Glad to see there is a general view that regionlised pricing could be useful.
I hope Bricklink take that on board.
As for their fees yes you are right it is 3% of the order total shown in USD,
not in GBP. They then alter that based on the constantly changing currency conversion
so you end up with not knowing the exact Bricklink cost. Surely a simple statement
showing the order number, order value USD amount and the local currency amount
would be better.
|
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Hi Bret - you are right - you do not know the exact amount until you pay and
then you have paypal costs to factor in. Nothin in life is simple.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 00:31 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, starbeanie writes:
| | The right side of this page http://www.bricklink.com/account.asp
Bret
In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
|
Use HTML, problem solved
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
Why have parts in your store room, simply upload them into your store?
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
I agree, LEGO in the US is far cheaper than here, yet this is not clear in the
price guide.
This makes for lower European prices and thus higher profits for US sellers
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges.
|
I believe these are 3%, so it does not matter what currency you use
| | Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
|
|
Thank you for your comments. Unfortunately using HTML is not an option for me
or my colleagues. We have used Word and published to html, but as usual Microsoft
have their own way of doing things which is making a mockery o9f basic html.
As for uploading directly to the store, that is what we have been trying to do
and each time we do it, we end up with some parts in the storeroom and others
straight into the store - very frustrating.
Glad to see there is a general view that regionlised pricing could be useful.
I hope Bricklink take that on board.
As for their fees yes you are right it is 3% of the order total shown in USD,
not in GBP. They then alter that based on the constantly changing currency conversion
so you end up with not knowing the exact Bricklink cost. Surely a simple statement
showing the order number, order value USD amount and the local currency amount
would be better.
|
|
Brett - Hi - thanks for commenting. I know about the right hand side of that
page, but it still doesn't give me what I want. Those prices are shown in USD
and need to be converted to GBP. Not sure we are going to get anywhere with this.
I think I will have to simply approximate.
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| | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 06:52 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Voted no
All these things, except the programming part, come with time learning BL. HTML
is a skill which some of us have and others don't. Everything on my page I had
to find out for myself. There is a thing called the internet it is wonderful
for finding bits of information on html.
In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
4. The Bricklink fees charges. Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
|
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| | | | | | | Author: | BLUSER_124617 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 11:20 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | Voted no
All these things, except the programming part, come with time learning BL. HTML
is a skill which some of us have and others don't. Everything on my page I had
to find out for myself. There is a thing called the internet it is wonderful
for finding bits of information on html.
|
HTML is rather easy. The are many good tutorials on the web.
This is a particularly good one:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
Here is a quick reference from that same site:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:17 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Monorail6991 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | Voted no
All these things, except the programming part, come with time learning BL. HTML
is a skill which some of us have and others don't. Everything on my page I had
to find out for myself. There is a thing called the internet it is wonderful
for finding bits of information on html.
|
HTML is rather easy. The are many good tutorials on the web.
This is a particularly good one:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
Here is a quick reference from that same site:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
|
I have always found that some people have an aptitude for programming and others
don't. I am one of the dont's. It is all gibberish to me. I thought it would
be very simple, just put together what you wanted in Word, then publish it to
html and upload that file. I guess that was when I had been up all night and
had too much mellow wine.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | FigBits | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 19:51 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, Monorail6991 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | Voted no
All these things, except the programming part, come with time learning BL. HTML
is a skill which some of us have and others don't. Everything on my page I had
to find out for myself. There is a thing called the internet it is wonderful
for finding bits of information on html.
|
HTML is rather easy. The are many good tutorials on the web.
This is a particularly good one:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
Here is a quick reference from that same site:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
|
I have always found that some people have an aptitude for programming and others
don't. I am one of the dont's. It is all gibberish to me. I thought it would
be very simple, just put together what you wanted in Word, then publish it to
html and upload that file. I guess that was when I had been up all night and
had too much mellow wine.
|
HTML isn't programming, it's just markup.
If you can understand something like this:
(the following should be in italics) Lookit me! I'm in italics (the preceding
should be in italics)
... then you can master basic HTML.
--
Marc.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | BLUSER_124617 | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 01:31 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | In Suggestions, Monorail6991 writes:
| | In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | Voted no
All these things, except the programming part, come with time learning BL. HTML
is a skill which some of us have and others don't. Everything on my page I had
to find out for myself. There is a thing called the internet it is wonderful
for finding bits of information on html.
|
HTML is rather easy. The are many good tutorials on the web.
This is a particularly good one:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
Here is a quick reference from that same site:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
|
I have always found that some people have an aptitude for programming and others
don't. I am one of the dont's. It is all gibberish to me. I thought it would
be very simple, just put together what you wanted in Word, then publish it to
html and upload that file. I guess that was when I had been up all night and
had too much mellow wine.
|
HTML isn't programming, it's just markup.
If you can understand something like this:
(the following should be in italics) Lookit me! I'm in italics (the preceding
should be in italics)
... then you can master basic HTML.
--
Marc.
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That is exactly what it is. HTML-Hypertext Markup Language
When you get into JavaScript on webpages, now that is programming....
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 13:11 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, kanownik writes:
| | Voted no
All these things, except the programming part, come with time learning BL. HTML
is a skill which some of us have and others don't. Everything on my page I had
to find out for myself. There is a thing called the internet it is wonderful
for finding bits of information on html.
In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
4. The Bricklink fees charges. Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
|
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You are of course correct. We have learned an enormous amount both from the Internet
and using Bricklink as a seller, but I still think they could make it easier,
especially in this day and age.
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| | | | | Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 14:38 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
|
I think the real problem is using MS Word to create HTML pages. Yes, MS does
like to use the most long-winded formatting that causes errors. All the content
on my pages (weith the exception of some color-code-generators) I typed long-hand.
I taught myself when HTML I know and the rest I just searched for, like "HTML
Tables" and used information from several sites. There's a primary tool I recommend:
http://htmledit.squarefree.com so you can see when a change will cause you problems.
Try looking for an alternate for MS Word to create your content. There are
plenty out there and some are free.
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
I don't use stockrooms, so I won't comment either way
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
"Region" could be an issue, but "within same country" I can see being useful
for many sellers.
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges. Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
|
The fee (or order value) doesn't change from hour to hour as the exchange rates
move. They are locked in at the time the order was placed. You can use 3% of
the GBP total for each order.
-Ash
| | There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
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| | | | | | | Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2012 00:39 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, billduge writes:
| | Good morning
We have been using Bricklink for many years now and in December of last year
opened a store. As a result of that and all the work that has gone into that
we would like to make a few suggestions to help new and existing stores.
1. Make it easier to customize your stores pages. We are not programmers, but
we would like good marketing material on our store pages. Each time we create
something in Microsoft word and publish it to html, we get consistent errors
about use of Iframes, etc. We also get a constant barrage of item too large,
hence our rather non-marketing store pages.
|
I think the real problem is using MS Word to create HTML pages. Yes, MS does
like to use the most long-winded formatting that causes errors. All the content
on my pages (weith the exception of some color-code-generators) I typed long-hand.
I taught myself when HTML I know and the rest I just searched for, like "HTML
Tables" and used information from several sites. There's a primary tool I recommend:
http://htmledit.squarefree.com so you can see when a change will cause you problems.
Try looking for an alternate for MS Word to create your content. There are
plenty out there and some are free.
| | 2. When adding stock/inventory, we would also like the save settings to be in
place, whether we leave the site or not. We would like to see the storeroom option
re-worked so that when an existing part which has gone to zero is increased,
the item goes back into the store, without having to run an inventory update
to achieve this.
|
I don't use stockrooms, so I won't comment either way
| | 3. It would also be nice if possible to have regionlised pricing. We appreciate
that Bricklink is 'worldwide' and many of ths stores accomodate that, however
having the ability to look at your regions pricing would be very useful.
|
"Region" could be an issue, but "within same country" I can see being useful
for many sellers.
| | 4. The Bricklink fees charges. Due to the fact that this is in USD, converting
on an almost constant basis, it is very difficult to pin down an exact cost for
Bricklink per order. It would help if this were in the local currency that the
store sets as its own and/or if there were a statement produced at the end of
each billing period which showed order by order what the fee was in USD and the
local currency that the store uses. This would also be ideal for the stores accounting
records.
|
The fee (or order value) doesn't change from hour to hour as the exchange rates
move. They are locked in at the time the order was placed. You can use 3% of
the GBP total for each order.
-Ash
| | There probably are many other issues to comment on however I will leave this
as it is for the time being to see what the reaction is.
|
|
Hi Ash - thanks for commenting. We are going to leave the html to guys who know
what they are doing - it simply isn't for us - almost like learning a foreign
language. Word is awful for it and so are the rest of the Microsoft products.
We have a workaround for the storeroom issue but it is longwinded and means you
constantly have to check that your store invenoty figures match your 'my inventory
figures'.
On the fees - we are different here in the UK - please see below:
Fees for sellers with store prices in currency other than US Dollar - The system
calculates the fee in US dollar using the Exchange Rate of the latest order batch.
When an existing order is added to, the fee is recalculated using the most recent
exchange rate at the time the order batch is submitted. Tier discounts are based
on totals in US Dollar.
This does make it more difficult to reconcile the charges to individual orders.
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| | | | | Author: | Higgins | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 19:40 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| All I would add is making the 'system' automagically bold or change the color
of the Insurance: Requested field on the initial invoice when it's requested
by the Buyer. I've almost missed noticing it more than once and have had Sellers
miss it as well. A little pop would draw attention with minimal fuss.
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| | | | | | | Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2012 19:43 | | Subject: | Re: Variety of issues to make it easier to use | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Higgins writes:
| | All I would add is making the 'system' automagically bold or change the color
of the Insurance: Requested field on the initial invoice when it's requested
by the Buyer. I've almost missed noticing it more than once and have had Sellers
miss it as well. A little pop would draw attention with minimal fuss.
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It already does. When a buyer clicks the insurance box the insurance field is
red on the Orders Received page. Now, if seller enters a number in the box it
goes to normal, even if it is changed back to 0 later.
-Ash
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