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 Author: renhoffman View Messages Posted By renhoffman
 Posted: Jun 29, 2016 21:39
 Subject: Highlighted stores
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renhoffman (7658)

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Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren
 Author: Badlove View Messages Posted By Badlove
 Posted: Jun 29, 2016 22:14
 Subject: Re: Highlighted stores
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In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren


Thumbs up on this for me. I occasionally close my store for any vacation more
than a week but now it seems it would be better to leave it open and just message
buyers when order comes in that it will be delayed. Not optimal for me since
I try to always send out within 24 hours but if it means more of a chance to
be highlighted than so be it. (Of course this is assuming I make it into the
reputable store category)
James
 Author: maninblack View Messages Posted By maninblack
 Posted: Jun 30, 2016 05:54
 Subject: Re: Highlighted stores
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In Suggestions, Badlove writes:
  In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren


Thumbs up on this for me. I occasionally close my store for any vacation more
than a week but now it seems it would be better to leave it open and just message
buyers when order comes in that it will be delayed. Not optimal for me since
I try to always send out within 24 hours but if it means more of a chance to
be highlighted than so be it. (Of course this is assuming I make it into the
reputable store category)
James

Rather than close, someone suggested changing the countries you ship to.
You won't get too many orders from Outer Mongolia (etc) if there are no buyers
registered there

Smash the system!
Neil
 Author: tEoS View Messages Posted By tEoS
 Posted: Jun 29, 2016 22:52
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In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren
 Author: Id View Messages Posted By Id
 Posted: Jun 29, 2016 23:59
 Subject: Re: Highlighted stores
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In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
  +1

In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren

The page that Bricklink shows me has had the same 4 stores on it, day after day.
Bricklink states "Shop from a dedicated LEGO community" and then shows those
4 stores. In all of Bricklink there are no other dedicated stores worthy of shopping
at?
 Author: pdr507 View Messages Posted By pdr507
 Posted: Jun 30, 2016 09:27
 Subject: Re: Highlighted stores
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pdr507 (1768)

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In Suggestions, Id writes:
  In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
  +1

In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren

The page that Bricklink shows me has had the same 4 stores on it, day after day.
Bricklink states "Shop from a dedicated LEGO community" and then shows those
4 stores. In all of Bricklink there are no other dedicated stores worthy of shopping
at?

I am seeing this as well, the same four stores every single day, none of which
have a logo which is supposedly a requirement. So much for "all BrickLink visitors
will see a different set of Stores on the homepage each day."
 Author: Brickwilbo View Messages Posted By Brickwilbo
 Posted: Jun 30, 2016 11:01
 Subject: Re: Highlighted stores
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Brickwilbo (1534)

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In Suggestions, pdr507 writes:
  In Suggestions, Id writes:
  In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
  +1

In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren

The page that Bricklink shows me has had the same 4 stores on it, day after day.
Bricklink states "Shop from a dedicated LEGO community" and then shows those
4 stores. In all of Bricklink there are no other dedicated stores worthy of shopping
at?

I am seeing this as well, the same four stores every single day, none of which
have a logo which is supposedly a requirement. So much for "all BrickLink visitors
will see a different set of Stores on the homepage each day."

Each day you see 4 different stores than I see, though each day the same.
 Author: pdr507 View Messages Posted By pdr507
 Posted: Jun 30, 2016 11:25
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Location:  USA, Virginia
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Store: Rauch Bricks
In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
  In Suggestions, pdr507 writes:
  In Suggestions, Id writes:
  In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
  +1

In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren

The page that Bricklink shows me has had the same 4 stores on it, day after day.
Bricklink states "Shop from a dedicated LEGO community" and then shows those
4 stores. In all of Bricklink there are no other dedicated stores worthy of shopping
at?

I am seeing this as well, the same four stores every single day, none of which
have a logo which is supposedly a requirement. So much for "all BrickLink visitors
will see a different set of Stores on the homepage each day."

Each day you see 4 different stores than I see, though each day the same.

Ah, so I've been reading it wrong this whole time!
 Author: Pher View Messages Posted By Pher
 Posted: Jun 30, 2016 04:45
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In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren

+1
 Author: renhoffman View Messages Posted By renhoffman
 Posted: Jul 12, 2016 20:19
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renhoffman (7658)

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Bump...

In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren
 Author: pdr507 View Messages Posted By pdr507
 Posted: Sep 6, 2016 12:37
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pdr507 (1768)

Location:  USA, Virginia
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Jul 8, 2010 Contact Member Seller
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Store: Rauch Bricks
In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
  Please show sellers whether or not they are currently eligible and showing up
as a highlighted store. Also, please be more specific in the description as to
how sellers are eligible or not, and maybe reduce the 6 month ban if they close
their store. Many reputable sellers close their stores from time to time, or
even daily, 6 months is a long time not to be eligible, just because they closed
their store for a day or two.

Thank you for considering this,

Darren

So I'm going on vacation soon and was looking through the forum to see if
more information had been provided regarding this and could not find anything.
Out of curiosity, I went to the help page (last updated July 28) and saw that
the policy had changed to: "Be open. Your store needs to be in current Open status.
If you close your store for any reason, you will be eligible starting from the
day you reopen."

Just thought I'd share in case anyone else had missed this. Secondarily,
does anyone recall if this change was ever actually communicated and I just could
not find it or missed it?