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| | | Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2014 16:35 | | Subject: | Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
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| | | | | Author: | bricksahead | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2014 16:40 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
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Your suggestion would be very helpful if implemented. Here is a similar suggestion:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=484973
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| | | | | Author: | jbricks | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2014 20:35 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
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Voted NO
Its is your responsibility to make sure you have the correct parts. Part-out,
is just a way of helping you with that.
i always check if all the pieces are there, and which of the for instance jumperplates
i have.
Really just check it, even Lego makes mistakes and sometimes some parts simply
aren't there.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Made_In_Bricks | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2014 20:37 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| there have been some sets that have had pearl dark grey instead of flat silver
or vice versa
this would be helpful for this since we are depending on someone telling us what
the color is since it can be hard to tell the difference
Thanks,
Ken
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | jbricks | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2014 20:39 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BrickItYourself writes:
| | there have been some sets that have had pearl dark grey instead of flat silver
or vice versa
this would be helpful for this since we are depending on someone telling us what
the color is since it can be hard to tell the difference
Thanks,
Ken
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If you now which of the colours you have from the past, just keep 1 part from
that colour.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 03:23 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
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Voted NO
Its is your responsibility to make sure you have the correct parts. Part-out,
is just a way of helping you with that.
i always check if all the pieces are there, and which of the for instance jumperplates
i have.
Really just check it, even Lego makes mistakes and sometimes some parts simply
aren't there.
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But since you vote NO, what is the DISadvantage of this? Sure it's the sellers
responsability, but what is the advantage to this feature not being there? For
example, you can argue the retail price of a set should not be listed as it affects
sales negatively, but to this I can't think of a negative effect.
Since inventories are sometimes changed only after a while, it means that all
sellers before that have parted them out with a wrong inventory. You can't
ignore or deny that that causes a lot of mislistings, which eventually result
in buyers not getting what they ordered.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 03:25 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
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Voted NO
Its is your responsibility to make sure you have the correct parts. Part-out,
is just a way of helping you with that.
i always check if all the pieces are there, and which of the for instance jumperplates
i have.
Really just check it, even Lego makes mistakes and sometimes some parts simply
aren't there.
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But since you vote NO, what is the DISadvantage of this? Sure it's the sellers
responsability, but what is the advantage to this feature not being there? For
example, you can argue the retail price of a set should not be listed as it affects
sales negatively, but to this I can't think of a negative effect.
Since inventories are sometimes changed only after a while, it means that all
sellers before that have parted them out with a wrong inventory. You can't
ignore or deny that that causes a lot of mislistings, which eventually result
in buyers not getting what they ordered.
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I didn't mean to say though that it's not OK to make mistakes and you're
right, LEGO makes them too. But just because we accept the fact mistakes are
made, doesn't mean we should refrain from trying to improve things around
here.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | jbricks | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 06:39 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
|
Voted NO
Its is your responsibility to make sure you have the correct parts. Part-out,
is just a way of helping you with that.
i always check if all the pieces are there, and which of the for instance jumperplates
i have.
Really just check it, even Lego makes mistakes and sometimes some parts simply
aren't there.
|
But since you vote NO, what is the DISadvantage of this? Sure it's the sellers
responsability, but what is the advantage to this feature not being there? For
example, you can argue the retail price of a set should not be listed as it affects
sales negatively, but to this I can't think of a negative effect.
Since inventories are sometimes changed only after a while, it means that all
sellers before that have parted them out with a wrong inventory. You can't
ignore or deny that that causes a lot of mislistings, which eventually result
in buyers not getting what they ordered.
|
I didn't mean to say though that it's not OK to make mistakes and you're
right, LEGO makes them too. But just because we accept the fact mistakes are
made, doesn't mean we should refrain from trying to improve things around
here.
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then read my comment again,
you have to check them before you sell your parts.
it is the seller that makes that mistake, we always check every part.
as i should be
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 06:58 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
|
Voted NO
Its is your responsibility to make sure you have the correct parts. Part-out,
is just a way of helping you with that.
i always check if all the pieces are there, and which of the for instance jumperplates
i have.
Really just check it, even Lego makes mistakes and sometimes some parts simply
aren't there.
|
But since you vote NO, what is the DISadvantage of this? Sure it's the sellers
responsability, but what is the advantage to this feature not being there? For
example, you can argue the retail price of a set should not be listed as it affects
sales negatively, but to this I can't think of a negative effect.
Since inventories are sometimes changed only after a while, it means that all
sellers before that have parted them out with a wrong inventory. You can't
ignore or deny that that causes a lot of mislistings, which eventually result
in buyers not getting what they ordered.
|
I didn't mean to say though that it's not OK to make mistakes and you're
right, LEGO makes them too. But just because we accept the fact mistakes are
made, doesn't mean we should refrain from trying to improve things around
here.
|
then read my comment again,
you have to check them before you sell your parts.
it is the seller that makes that mistake, we always check every part.
as i should be
|
Ok, so I am gathering that your point is that implementing this option would
discourage sellers to manually check the inventories, and that would be the disadvantage
of the feature.
However, your opinion may be that it *should* be that way, but the reality is
that that is not what happens. Like I said, notice it can take quite a while
for an inventory to be adjusted. That means that in the meanwhile, plenty of
sellers have already parted out that set plenty of times. It can take tens? hundreds?
of part outs before 1 seller notices the mistake or variation.
Keep in mind we're talking about slight variations in parts. Recently I discovered
a variation of a new kind of part so I submitted the inventory change request.
I am not blaming the other sellers that they didn't discover it and submitted
it before me. We're a community, and we all make our contributions. The variations
are so slight that it would be ridiculous to assert that a seller sit down and
investigate every part to see if it might be a new not yet discovered variation.
That way everyone has to do the exact same tedious work that could easily be
done by just one person.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SimplyBricks | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 08:27 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
|
Voted NO
Its is your responsibility to make sure you have the correct parts. Part-out,
is just a way of helping you with that.
i always check if all the pieces are there, and which of the for instance jumperplates
i have.
Really just check it, even Lego makes mistakes and sometimes some parts simply
aren't there.
|
But since you vote NO, what is the DISadvantage of this? Sure it's the sellers
responsability, but what is the advantage to this feature not being there? For
example, you can argue the retail price of a set should not be listed as it affects
sales negatively, but to this I can't think of a negative effect.
Since inventories are sometimes changed only after a while, it means that all
sellers before that have parted them out with a wrong inventory. You can't
ignore or deny that that causes a lot of mislistings, which eventually result
in buyers not getting what they ordered.
|
I didn't mean to say though that it's not OK to make mistakes and you're
right, LEGO makes them too. But just because we accept the fact mistakes are
made, doesn't mean we should refrain from trying to improve things around
here.
|
then read my comment again,
you have to check them before you sell your parts.
it is the seller that makes that mistake, we always check every part.
as i should be
|
Ok, so I am gathering that your point is that implementing this option would
discourage sellers to manually check the inventories, and that would be the disadvantage
of the feature.
However, your opinion may be that it *should* be that way, but the reality is
that that is not what happens. Like I said, notice it can take quite a while
for an inventory to be adjusted. That means that in the meanwhile, plenty of
sellers have already parted out that set plenty of times. It can take tens? hundreds?
of part outs before 1 seller notices the mistake or variation.
Keep in mind we're talking about slight variations in parts. Recently I discovered
a variation of a new kind of part so I submitted the inventory change request.
I am not blaming the other sellers that they didn't discover it and submitted
it before me. We're a community, and we all make our contributions. The variations
are so slight that it would be ridiculous to assert that a seller sit down and
investigate every part to see if it might be a new not yet discovered variation.
That way everyone has to do the exact same tedious work that could easily be
done by just one person.
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There have been several suggestions for this in the past and my opinion has not
changed insofar that this would not be a good thing.
The number of change requests that can come through for a new inventory, to add
extras, add variants, correct match IDs can be quite a few, also where do you
draw the line in sending change updates? 6 months, 1 year, 2 years after part
out? And how does the system know if you've sold the particular items from
that part out yet?
Some say make this feature optional, but then how long before the flood of email
notifications annoy you and you switch off the feature? Then there is the danger
that BL will get classed as a SPAMMER with the hundreds, maybe thousands of emails
that this would generate.
There are change logs available which can be checked manually and sellers are
the ones responsible for the content of their store inventory, and set inventories
are available with the understanding that they are a GUIDE to the contents of
the set as we can never be 100% certain that every issue of that is the same.
If sellers don't check the contents as they part out then they take the risk
with their store inventory and, as a seller, I've found that most buyers
don't really care about which variant they get as long as it functions the
same. The variants only really are important to collectors.
While your suggestion may sound like a great feature, I think it would only ever
be used for a short time before the avalanche of emails begin to annoy people
and then it would rapidly fall into non-use.
Maybe the developers can come up with something smart for BL3
Emma
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 08:43 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SimplyBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, jbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I'm not even sure if this already exists in some form or shape, since it's
so extremely logical.
But anyway, I think it'd be very useful if I could receive an (e-mail) notification
if a change to a set inventory has been approved when I have parted out that
set in my inventory in the past. A notification that would tell me: hey, for
this set, this part with quantity X has been changed into this part, and you
have parted out Y number of these at date Z.
Even better if there's some option to automatically patch the inventory (this
is tricky), but just a notification to recommend manual adjustment would also
help a great deal. This would probably reduce my inventory errors by 50%, and
that benefits both seller and especially the buyer.
Since sellers already have a part out log, this shouldn't require very extensive
coding to implement.
If this already exists, sorry, please point it out to me :$
|
Voted NO
Its is your responsibility to make sure you have the correct parts. Part-out,
is just a way of helping you with that.
i always check if all the pieces are there, and which of the for instance jumperplates
i have.
Really just check it, even Lego makes mistakes and sometimes some parts simply
aren't there.
|
But since you vote NO, what is the DISadvantage of this? Sure it's the sellers
responsability, but what is the advantage to this feature not being there? For
example, you can argue the retail price of a set should not be listed as it affects
sales negatively, but to this I can't think of a negative effect.
Since inventories are sometimes changed only after a while, it means that all
sellers before that have parted them out with a wrong inventory. You can't
ignore or deny that that causes a lot of mislistings, which eventually result
in buyers not getting what they ordered.
|
I didn't mean to say though that it's not OK to make mistakes and you're
right, LEGO makes them too. But just because we accept the fact mistakes are
made, doesn't mean we should refrain from trying to improve things around
here.
|
then read my comment again,
you have to check them before you sell your parts.
it is the seller that makes that mistake, we always check every part.
as i should be
|
Ok, so I am gathering that your point is that implementing this option would
discourage sellers to manually check the inventories, and that would be the disadvantage
of the feature.
However, your opinion may be that it *should* be that way, but the reality is
that that is not what happens. Like I said, notice it can take quite a while
for an inventory to be adjusted. That means that in the meanwhile, plenty of
sellers have already parted out that set plenty of times. It can take tens? hundreds?
of part outs before 1 seller notices the mistake or variation.
Keep in mind we're talking about slight variations in parts. Recently I discovered
a variation of a new kind of part so I submitted the inventory change request.
I am not blaming the other sellers that they didn't discover it and submitted
it before me. We're a community, and we all make our contributions. The variations
are so slight that it would be ridiculous to assert that a seller sit down and
investigate every part to see if it might be a new not yet discovered variation.
That way everyone has to do the exact same tedious work that could easily be
done by just one person.
|
There have been several suggestions for this in the past and my opinion has not
changed insofar that this would not be a good thing.
The number of change requests that can come through for a new inventory, to add
extras, add variants, correct match IDs can be quite a few, also where do you
draw the line in sending change updates? 6 months, 1 year, 2 years after part
out? And how does the system know if you've sold the particular items from
that part out yet?
Some say make this feature optional, but then how long before the flood of email
notifications annoy you and you switch off the feature? Then there is the danger
that BL will get classed as a SPAMMER with the hundreds, maybe thousands of emails
that this would generate.
There are change logs available which can be checked manually and sellers are
the ones responsible for the content of their store inventory, and set inventories
are available with the understanding that they are a GUIDE to the contents of
the set as we can never be 100% certain that every issue of that is the same.
If sellers don't check the contents as they part out then they take the risk
with their store inventory and, as a seller, I've found that most buyers
don't really care about which variant they get as long as it functions the
same. The variants only really are important to collectors.
While your suggestion may sound like a great feature, I think it would only ever
be used for a short time before the avalanche of emails begin to annoy people
and then it would rapidly fall into non-use.
Maybe the developers can come up with something smart for BL3
Emma
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Good points  I think if it's just a notification and the seller can adjust
when/how it is sent, it is still possible to turn this into something useful.
Nothing major, like something that automatically changes inventory or anything,
but some simple notification sent according to the restraints you set personally.
Of course, it's up to the seller to work out whether s/he is affected by
it, whether it has already been sold, etc.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | ToriHada | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 09:03 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| These "problems" were addressed here:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=803959
My above suggestion does away with the need for automated notices. Instead, the
seller goes to a page and enters the set numbers he has parted out since his
last visit to that page. The system will then tell him if the inventories for
any of those sets have changed since his last visit AND list the changes and
the current lots in the seller's store that may be affected by such changes.
Very simple.
Thor
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2014 23:40 | | Subject: | Re: Notification of set inv change after part-out | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SimplyBricks writes:
| | There have been several suggestions for this in the past and my opinion has not
changed insofar that this would not be a good thing.
The number of change requests that can come through for a new inventory, to add
extras, add variants, correct match IDs can be quite a few, also where do you
draw the line in sending change updates? 6 months, 1 year, 2 years after part
out? And how does the system know if you've sold the particular items from
that part out yet?
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Extras, variants & match ID changes can be filtered out. Please read this message
for further filtering options:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=529738
| | Some say make this feature optional, but then how long before the flood of email
notifications annoy you and you switch off the feature? Then there is the danger
that BL will get classed as a SPAMMER with the hundreds, maybe thousands of emails
that this would generate.
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My calculations from the above message run at 12 per day for the whole site.
This is insignificant compared to the number of wanted list notifications that
go out all the time. In fact they could (and should) be combined with wanted
notifications if possible. This reason of there being too many emails is simply
unfounded, and it gets thrown out into the Forum every time this issue comes
up.
| | There are change logs available which can be checked manually and sellers are
the ones responsible for the content of their store inventory, and set inventories
are available with the understanding that they are a GUIDE to the contents of
the set as we can never be 100% certain that every issue of that is the same.
If sellers don't check the contents as they part out then they take the risk
with their store inventory and, as a seller, I've found that most buyers
don't really care about which variant they get as long as it functions the
same. The variants only really are important to collectors.
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If most people really don't care about variants, then what risk are sellers
taking? But the fact is that many, many people DO care about variants - otherwise
they wouldn't be in the catalog. The CA's on this site do an excellent
job at determining the level of variation necessary to attain fairness in the
BL marketplace, and I think it is high time that the Inv "dept" show some solidarity
with their work.
Also, this suggestion isn't only about variants, it's about errors in
general that occur during the inventory compilation, submission, and approval
process.
Also, this statement: "The variants only really are important to collectors"
is the kind of thing I never want to hear from an Admin. Aside from the simplistic
notion that people are either "collectors" or "builders", please acknowledge
the fact that this site wouldn't be a shadow of what it has become without
the "collectors". If indeed variants are important to "collectors", that means
variants should also be important to the site, because "collectors" are important
to the site.
| | While your suggestion may sound like a great feature, I think it would only ever
be used for a short time before the avalanche of emails begin to annoy people
and then it would rapidly fall into non-use.
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Emma, I think the real concern you have over this feature is that it would focus
more public attention on the decisions that Inv Admins make. Instead of the changes
passing quietly onto the log, there would for sure be more people raising objections,
giving suggestions, and in general, creating a lot more work for the Inv Admins.
I once suggested that the inv system needs notifications to keep "crazy" things
from happening to inventories. It was not meant to say that you as an Admin are
unable to do your job, but that despite whatever heroic effort you might exert
in your position, there is no way that one person (or even a team of people)
can protect the inventory data from harm. When you have a large, unverified group
of people making submissions, you need an equally large group to keep things
in check, and inventory change notifications would be a big step in developing
and maintaining that group.
| | Maybe the developers can come up with something smart for BL3
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My suggestion for BL 3.0 is to end the artificial division between the administration
of the catalog and the inventory systems.
Russell
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