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 Author: benredstar View Messages Posted By benredstar
 Posted: Jan 27, 2019 15:56
 Subject: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"
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benredstar (306)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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It would be helpful if you could set the colour of items in a Wanted List to
"I don't care" or "any".

Sometimes you want to build something but really don't care what colour the
pieces are; e.g. an internal structure or some sort of technic mechanism; you
just want them to be as cheap as possible.

With this option when you searched stores for parts it would ignore colour, but
still select based on cost and volume etc.

/ben
 Author: brickskipper View Messages Posted By brickskipper
 Posted: Jan 27, 2019 16:11
 Subject: Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"
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Location:  Germany, Schleswig-Holstein
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In Suggestions, benredstar writes:
  It would be helpful if you could set the colour of items in a Wanted List to
"I don't care" or "any".

Sometimes you want to build something but really don't care what colour the
pieces are; e.g. an internal structure or some sort of technic mechanism; you
just want them to be as cheap as possible.

With this option when you searched stores for parts it would ignore colour, but
still select based on cost and volume etc.

/ben

Just set the color to "Not Applicable" will do the trick.

Regards,
Jan
 Author: benredstar View Messages Posted By benredstar
 Posted: Jan 28, 2019 09:28
 Subject: Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"
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benredstar (306)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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  Just set the color to "Not Applicable" will do the trick.

No that doesn't work. It seems to only find parts where the seller has listed
the colour specifically as "Not Applicable".

/ben
 Author: runner.caller View Messages Posted By runner.caller
 Posted: Jan 28, 2019 09:32
 Subject: Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"
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runner.caller (2637)

Location:  USA, South Dakota
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In Suggestions, benredstar writes:
  
  Just set the color to "Not Applicable" will do the trick.

No that doesn't work. It seems to only find parts where the seller has listed
the colour specifically as "Not Applicable".

/ben

It used to work. I once needed about 250 2x4 Bricks as filler and I didn't
care what color they were since they weren't visible in the model.

 
Part No: 3001  Name: Brick 2 x 4
* 
3001 Brick 2 x 4
Parts: Brick

I selected Not Applicable for a color and it found bricks of all sorts of colors
for me to add to my cart.
 Author: runner.caller View Messages Posted By runner.caller
 Posted: Jan 28, 2019 09:38
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Location:  USA, South Dakota
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 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jan 28, 2019 10:24
 Subject: Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"
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In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
  In Suggestions, benredstar writes:
  
  Just set the color to "Not Applicable" will do the trick.

No that doesn't work. It seems to only find parts where the seller has listed
the colour specifically as "Not Applicable".

/ben

It used to work. I once needed about 250 2x4 Bricks as filler and I didn't
care what color they were since they weren't visible in the model.

 
Part No: 3001  Name: Brick 2 x 4
* 
3001 Brick 2 x 4
Parts: Brick

I selected Not Applicable for a color and it found bricks of all sorts of colors
for me to add to my cart.

Still works for me.
 Author: bercik View Messages Posted By bercik
 Posted: Mar 23, 2019 08:50
 Subject: Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"
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bercik (23)

Location:  Poland, w. Mazowieckie
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In Suggestions, brickskipper writes:
  In Suggestions, benredstar writes:
  It would be helpful if you could set the colour of items in a Wanted List to
"I don't care" or "any".

Sometimes you want to build something but really don't care what colour the
pieces are; e.g. an internal structure or some sort of technic mechanism; you
just want them to be as cheap as possible.

With this option when you searched stores for parts it would ignore colour, but
still select based on cost and volume etc.

/ben

Just set the color to "Not Applicable" will do the trick.

Almost - it works for "buy all" / "buy selected" and "wanted list" in shops,
but when you click on link to single item from wanted list (e.g. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=4151b&C=0#T=S&C=0)
you must manually switch color form "Not Applicable" to "All Colors".

Regards,
bercik

  Regards,
Jan
 Author: BricksThatStick View Messages Posted By BricksThatStick
 Posted: Jan 28, 2019 09:59
 Subject: Re: Wanted List Colour "I don't care"
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In Suggestions, benredstar writes:
  It would be helpful if you could set the colour of items in a Wanted List to
"I don't care" or "any".

Sometimes you want to build something but really don't care what colour the
pieces are; e.g. an internal structure or some sort of technic mechanism; you
just want them to be as cheap as possible.

With this option when you searched stores for parts it would ignore colour, but
still select based on cost and volume etc.

/ben

You can still do it from the classic page here:

https://www.bricklink.com/wantedAddDetail.asp?showOld=Y&act=a&a=P