Thought I would try this one more time. Currently if you use the price guide
to look at the value of parting out a set you get a figure for its value and
how many new lots will get added to your inventory.
We would like to see a simple little screen or report based result of the work
that Bricklink has done as far as determining which lots are the new one. This
helps us enormously in determining how we approach parting out.
Secondly and equally as important to us is the need to be able to follow the
value of the sets as they are parted out over time. So when the set was launched
it had a higher part out value than 6 months later, in some cases there are also
times when the set is much more valuable later on. This would help us as a store
to determine how long before we part out various sets that we have stock of.
At the moment we have a very crude offline system which gives us the result of
parting out at the date when we did it. Bricklink has all this data in its database
- surely we should be able to get at it as a valuable tool for the stores.
Remember without stores there would be no Bricklink !!! (I know the same applies
to buyers)
I agree that a report telling you about the new lots that you can either save
or print would help enormously when putting items away.
I am not sure that Bricklink does store the part out value of a set historically,
it just presents the value to you at the time.
Hello there and thank you for taking the time to comment on our suggestion. As
Bricklink allows you to group prices by month, it must hold the information somewhere.
If it doesn't it is poor database design.
Perhaps Ryan or someone involved with the scheme could comment on that as it
would be useful to know.
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