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| | | Author: | RobNeptune  | | Posted: | Feb 26, 2018 15:03 | | Subject: | Search Locally | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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| | | | | Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Feb 26, 2018 17:13 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, RobNeptune writes:
| | As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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I'd be happy enough with being able to filter by state, or cluster of states
in the US. Europe has something very similar to this in being able to search
by individual nation, but for US or Canada, that's functionally no different
than being limited to "Europe in general".
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| | | | | | | Author: | leopard37 | | Posted: | Feb 26, 2018 17:20 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, PurpleDave writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobNeptune writes:
| | As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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I'd be happy enough with being able to filter by state, or cluster of states
in the US. Europe has something very similar to this in being able to search
by individual nation, but for US or Canada, that's functionally no different
than being limited to "Europe in general".
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If you navigate through the following you can filter by your own state. It doesn't
help you with what pieces those stores have but you could at least choose the
largest.
SHOP - Stores - Find Stores - choose your country, it then lists all stores
within that country - Filter by your state
Tyson.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | NicoBuma | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 09:08 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I guess that Europe has this option, because Europe is no nation, but a continent
with different countries... We're not a nation with differen states, so shipping
is different for each country and shipping from like Netherlands to Portugal
(both EU countries) can be a different price if I send from The Netherlands to
Portugal, than if I were to send the same from Portugal to The Netherlands. In
the US all shipping is the same (I guess).
I can however see you'd want an option like that.
As a seller I would also like an option to set prices automatically based on
the last 6 months of sales in my country and not worldwide; which I haven't
found yet, or it doesn't exist either.
In Suggestions, leopard37 writes:
| | In Suggestions, PurpleDave writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobNeptune writes:
| | As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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I'd be happy enough with being able to filter by state, or cluster of states
in the US. Europe has something very similar to this in being able to search
by individual nation, but for US or Canada, that's functionally no different
than being limited to "Europe in general".
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If you navigate through the following you can filter by your own state. It doesn't
help you with what pieces those stores have but you could at least choose the
largest.
SHOP - Stores - Find Stores - choose your country, it then lists all stores
within that country - Filter by your state
Tyson.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:29 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, NicoBuma writes:
| | I guess that Europe has this option, because Europe is no nation, but a continent
with different countries... We're not a nation with differen states, so shipping
is different for each country and shipping from like Netherlands to Portugal
(both EU countries) can be a different price if I send from The Netherlands to
Portugal, than if I were to send the same from Portugal to The Netherlands. In
the US all shipping is the same (I guess).
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Some shipping is the same, like first class stamps. Other shipping costs are
based on distance. But the critical thing for me is that shipping _time_ is
based on distance. For instance, our LUG got contacted on short notice to do
a layout for a Harry Potter festival this past weekend. I spent the weekend
before designing a MOC of the Ford Anglia flying car, and spent a few hours building
a Want List and finding stores in nearby states on Sunday night. I sent e-mails
requesting invoices be sent immediately, and paid them at my earliest opportunity.
Out of the eight initial orders, I received five of them by Friday, one of them
on Saturday during the first day of the show, was informed right away that one
of them would be significantly delayed, and I'm still waiting on the eighth.
For the delayed order, I placed two more, neither of which I've received
yet. I'm in Michigan. The two "emergency" orders that have not yet arrived
are from New York state. They may have been significantly delayed by the massive
snowstorm that pounded the area going into the weekend, but even if that weren't
the case one of the initial orders was also from New York, had a full day head
start, and didn't arrive until Friday. So, the best I could have expected
from the other two was apparently arriving on Saturday with the other "late"
order. That order came from North Carolina, which is even farther away than
New York. And the other missing order didn't even get handed off to the
Post Office until today, but coming from Connecticut it should have had a fair
chance of arriving alongside the first New York order. Mostly I try to stick
to Michigan (obviously), Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and maybe expand out into
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin if I need to. Unfortunately, needing a small pile
of assorted Medium Blue parts means I had to go farther afield. Fortunately,
even though I only had half of my orders arrive by Friday, I was able to figure
out some substutions to get the model built well enough that I could display
it for the whole event.
| | I can however see you'd want an option like that.
As a seller I would also like an option to set prices automatically based on
the last 6 months of sales in my country and not worldwide; which I haven't
found yet, or it doesn't exist either.
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I have no idea about that, as I've never set up shop as a Seller. But like
the OP wanting to be able to buy locally, and me wanting to be able to buy from
nearby states the way you can from nearby countries, I doubt this is something
they would ever set up without being asked.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:02 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, leopard37 writes:
| | If you navigate through the following you can filter by your own state. It doesn't
help you with what pieces those stores have but you could at least choose the
largest.
SHOP - Stores - Find Stores - choose your country, it then lists all stores
within that country - Filter by your state
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I know how to get a list of all stores in the US split up by state, but that
has zero compatibility with the Want List. So, yeah, you're pretty much
shooting blind with the biggest stores in-state until you either find what you're
looking for or hit the point where you run out of enticing options (about the
point where you go from having a single clear "next" to 1-2 dozen). Or you can
search by Want List, filter by country, and keep opening stores until you find
some that are within striking distance. Even being able to _see_ which state
a store is located in from the Want List result list would be helpful as I could
then quickly scroll through and either select a store or dismiss it.
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| | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 09:15 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, PurpleDave writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobNeptune writes:
| | As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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I'd be happy enough with being able to filter by state, or cluster of states
in the US. Europe has something very similar to this in being able to search
by individual nation, but for US or Canada, that's functionally no different
than being limited to "Europe in general".
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Do you pay the same postage prices for both within and between states?
In Europe, the postage cost within a country is often cheaper (sometimes significantly)
than between European countries.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Addict2Brick | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 16:35 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, PurpleDave writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobNeptune writes:
| | As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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I'd be happy enough with being able to filter by state, or cluster of states
in the US. Europe has something very similar to this in being able to search
by individual nation, but for US or Canada, that's functionally no different
than being limited to "Europe in general".
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Do you pay the same postage prices for both within and between states?
In Europe, the postage cost within a country is often cheaper (sometimes significantly)
than between European countries.
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It's the same no matter the state.
Other than actually picking the item up from someone in person, even same state
shipping isn't much faster than a state that's 1000 miles away. For example:
if I wanted to mail my immediate neighbor a letter, the mail person has to pick
up the letter, bring it back to the mail hub, sorting facility, then back out
for delivery the next day(s).
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 17:07 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Speg writes:
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Other than actually picking the item up from someone in person, even same state
shipping isn't much faster than a state that's 1000 miles away. For example:
if I wanted to mail my immediate neighbor a letter, the mail person has to pick
up the letter, bring it back to the mail hub, sorting facility, then back out
for delivery the next day(s).
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I’ve had same-town mail take a few days while other-corner-of-France mail took
one day 
While English’s “going postal” seems recent, the use of “timbré” (stamped) for
deranged/nuts is quite old in French (before 1570) 
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:41 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Speg writes:
| | Other than actually picking the item up from someone in person, even same state
shipping isn't much faster than a state that's 1000 miles away. For example:
if I wanted to mail my immediate neighbor a letter, the mail person has to pick
up the letter, bring it back to the mail hub, sorting facility, then back out
for delivery the next day(s).
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That's not true in my experience. Yes, there are sorting hubs all over the
US. If the package is shipped from the same region as the destination, it only
has to process through one regional hub (two of my recent shipments only processed
through the Detroit Regional Hub in Allen Park). If it's from another region,
it has to sort through their Regional Hub, which forwards it to your own Regional
Hub, and generally loses at least a day in the process. If it's shipping
from the opposite end of the country, I find it loses a second day just due to
increased drive time. If I'm trying to build something on extremely short
notice, that's the difference between arriving the day before a weekend show,
and the day after.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:32 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Do you pay the same postage prices for both within and between states?
In Europe, the postage cost within a country is often cheaper (sometimes significantly)
than between European countries.
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First Class (letter) postage is flat rate. When you get into packages, I know
weight and even size can come into play. I believe distance is also a factor
with certain classes of postage. But for sure it takes longer to get shipments
from across the US than from within your own district.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Addict2Brick | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2018 00:07 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, PurpleDave writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Do you pay the same postage prices for both within and between states?
In Europe, the postage cost within a country is often cheaper (sometimes significantly)
than between European countries.
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First Class (letter) postage is flat rate. When you get into packages, I know
weight and even size can come into play. I believe distance is also a factor
with certain classes of postage. But for sure it takes longer to get shipments
from across the US than from within your own district.
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One of the biggest factors besides the level of postage is how populated the
area you're sending to is. Less "busy" areas tend to take longer to ship
to.
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| | | | | Author: | Pretty_Pieces | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 23:15 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I would very much like to see a "withing x distance of ..." option. We offer
local pickup or delivery to LUG/AFOL meetings, which saves buyers both time AND
shipping, but unless they know of us already, that option isn't searchable.
Dawn
Pretty_Pieces
In Abbotsford, Alberta, for locals who may want to make note of our store!
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| | | | | | | Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 23:41 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Pretty_Pieces writes:
| | I would very much like to see a "withing x distance of ..." option. We offer
local pickup or delivery to LUG/AFOL meetings, which saves buyers both time AND
shipping, but unless they know of us already, that option isn't searchable.
Dawn
Pretty_Pieces
In Abbotsford, Alberta, for locals who may want to make note of our store!
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Hey! Did we annex Abbotsford?
Niek.
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| | | | | Author: | renhoffman | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 23:39 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, RobNeptune writes:
| | As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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I agree, an option to show sellers within a certain area would be nice, for example,
within 50 miles. When I lived in western NY, I was probably asked twice a year
if I could meet someone in NYC, a 7 hour drive each way.
Darren
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2018 04:39 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ZacharyWathen97 writes:
| | 7 hours? That is what it took for me to move from Kentucky to Kansas City almost
six years ago. I passed through from the south of Illinois to St. Louis, then
straight across the northern part of Missouri.
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Much of that travel time is probably tied up in wading through NYC itself. I
was once in the LA area and suggested getting together some evening with some
friends of mine who were living on the other side of the city. They said it'd
take several hours just to get across town because of how overwhelmed the traffic
grid is there. Parts of NYC can be even worse if you're trying to get around
by car (there's a reason Manhattan's streets are a sea of yellow cars),
and transferring to public transportation would be far more expensive than just
covering the shipping cost. In contrast, Detroit proper is about 1/3 the size
of NYC, but you can skip across it in maybe half an hour if it's not rush
hour due to the more robust freeway system (there being an almost total lack
of useful public transportation in Metro Detroit).
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | renhoffman | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2018 08:09 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ZacharyWathen97 writes:
| | In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
| | In Suggestions, RobNeptune writes:
| | As someone often buys pieces for a project in progress, I wanted to suggest that
the search feature allow you to filter by local sellers. This typically provides
a faster delivery, including occasions where I have been able to meet someone
nearby the same day.
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I agree, an option to show sellers within a certain area would be nice, for example,
within 50 miles. When I lived in western NY, I was probably asked twice a year
if I could meet someone in NYC, a 7 hour drive each way.
Darren
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7 hours? That is what it took for me to move from Kentucky to Kansas City almost
six years ago. I passed through from the south of Illinois to St. Louis, then
straight across the northern part of Missouri.
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Buffalo to NYC is 374 miles, 6 hours 30 minutes right now, according to Google
maps .
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| | | | | | | Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2018 04:44 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
| | I agree, an option to show sellers within a certain area would be nice, for example,
within 50 miles. When I lived in western NY, I was probably asked twice a year
if I could meet someone in NYC, a 7 hour drive each way.
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My favorite example of misunderstood geographic scale in the US (in part because
it shows how full of it foreigners are for griefing us over lack of world geography
knowledge) was a story that a friend of mine from college loved to tell. His
family lives in western Michigan, and had relatives visiting from Germany. They
thought it might make a nice day trip to go check out the Grand Canyon.
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