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| | | Author: | mgiglio  | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2019 20:56 | | Subject: | Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 310 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would be great if I could make purchases from my own store, in a ghost mode
that doesn't allow for feedback and doesn't charge fees.
Often when I'm restoring a batch of used sets, I have a wanted list for each
one of them to figure out what I'm missing. Then, once I go through my unlisted
bulk LEGO, I find that have parts in my store that I need to complete these sets.
The only way I can figure to get those parts is to use the inventory search tool
to select items on my wanted list, pull them from my drawers, and then adjust
my inventory quantities appropriately for each item.
It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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| | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2019 21:35 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | The only way I can figure to get those parts is to use the inventory search tool
to select items on my wanted list, pull them from my drawers, and then adjust
my inventory quantities appropriately for each item.
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That seems plenty close enough to pulling like an order to me. Do you have a
tablet?
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| | | | | | | Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2019 22:47 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Not even close. Having an order with a record of the transaction would be easier
and more ideal.
Regardless, it doesn't really matter, as I fought for this feature at least
twice in the past and had little in the way of support. I doubt it will ever
be possible.
The forum is a tough crowd to win over. Add that to the 'new' administration
and you'll see why so many have lost faith that BL will ever reach its potential.
| | That seems plenty close enough to pulling like an order to me. Do you have a
tablet?
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| | | | | | | Author: | mgiglio | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2019 23:20 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| It’s close but here’s the thing. It’s double work. The wanted list exists. It’s
easy to buy your wanted list from a store. It’s another matter to adjust your
inventory item by item, checking the wanted quantity for each one, all on one
screen in one shot without screwing it up before hitting submit.
A store buy is also a reversible transaction, meaning if an order is cancelled,
you can just add it right back to your inventory. If I go and adjust my inventory
there’s no walking that back. That means I have to physically pull it first,
without the benefit of an order summary, and then adjust the inventory. Adjusting
the inventory first would mean I have no idea what I just removed from my store
digitally, making it impossible to then do it physically.
On top of all that, the code base exists. I won’t make light of the work the
BL coders do, but the store order tools work really well, and it’s all coded.
Im just asking for some tweaks to let it be used on my own store. Shit, I’d even
pay BL the fees if they’d let me order from my own shop.
In Suggestions, axaday writes:
| | In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | The only way I can figure to get those parts is to use the inventory search tool
to select items on my wanted list, pull them from my drawers, and then adjust
my inventory quantities appropriately for each item.
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That seems plenty close enough to pulling like an order to me. Do you have a
tablet?
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| | | | | Author: | RecycledBrick | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 01:38 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | | | Author: | Bricks_NW_UK | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 06:29 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, RecycledBrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | It would be great if I could make purchases from my own store, in a ghost mode
that doesn't allow for feedback and doesn't charge fees.
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Also doesn't affect the price guide since this could be abused but I have
wanted this option in the past to have a way to quickly pull from your own store.
If it doesn't affect the price guide because it isn't a real order I
don't know what would be the reasons to not allow it. I vote for it every
time this is brought up but I also know those votes don't count towards anything
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If you do a "partout" on the "My Store" page, it tells you there if you already
have the pieces in you store - will this do the same job?
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | RecycledBrick | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 14:28 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | | | Author: | mgiglio | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Agree 100% with this, it should be ghosted from the Price Guide as well to prevent
gaming the guide.
In Suggestions, RecycledBrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | It would be great if I could make purchases from my own store, in a ghost mode
that doesn't allow for feedback and doesn't charge fees.
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Also doesn't affect the price guide since this could be abused but I have
wanted this option in the past to have a way to quickly pull from your own store.
If it doesn't affect the price guide because it isn't a real order I
don't know what would be the reasons to not allow it. I vote for it every
time this is brought up but I also know those votes don't count towards anything
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| | | | | Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 07:16 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | It would be great if I could make purchases from my own store, in a ghost mode
that doesn't allow for feedback and doesn't charge fees.
Often when I'm restoring a batch of used sets, I have a wanted list for each
one of them to figure out what I'm missing. Then, once I go through my unlisted
bulk LEGO, I find that have parts in my store that I need to complete these sets.
The only way I can figure to get those parts is to use the inventory search tool
to select items on my wanted list, pull them from my drawers, and then adjust
my inventory quantities appropriately for each item.
It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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What you are really asking for is a way to take an arbitrary list of parts, and
negatively apply quantities to your existing inventory. That capability already
exists.
There exists the ability to submit an XML file for UPDATE, which contains negative
quantities. If the negative amount equals the stock level, then the item is also
deleted, otherwise the quantity is decremented.
Does not involve the creation of an order, price guide, feedback, etc.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | Author: | mgiglio | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 11:50 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Thanks for the suggestion, but this still falls short for me in a couple of ways:
1 - Applying an XML update like you describe before physically picking the items
from my store would leave those items orphaned in the drawers. I would need to
pick the items first, but I don't see a way to generate a report of items
on my wanted list that are in my store, with the wanted quantity of each item
listed.
2 - I sell used LEGO bricks as a hobby. I have no idea how to create an XML file
that contains a negative quantity of items that are in my store and on my wanted
list, and I suspect that most sellers here are in the same boat.
What I'm really asking for is a way to generate a report of items on my wanted
list that are in my store, with the wanted quantity, so I can pick them, and
then once picked, remove them from my store in one fell swoop.
I currently accomplish this by going My Store - Visit Store - Shop - Wanted
List. From there, I have to scroll the page, picking items physically from my
store. Then, I have to go into My Store - Inventory and search for items on
my wanted list, exclude stockroom items, and go through the pile of parts I JUST
physically picked and remove them from my inventory manually, since this page
doesn't show wanted quantity, all while praying that I remember to click
the Stockroom checkbox when I zero out an item, or the whole damn operation gets
jacked up when I hit submit.
It just seems like there should be an easier way to get this done. I know a feature
like this is revenue-neutral to the site, so I can understand the admin's
reluctance to spend developer time on it, but it would really make life easier
for some of us.
In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | It would be great if I could make purchases from my own store, in a ghost mode
that doesn't allow for feedback and doesn't charge fees.
Often when I'm restoring a batch of used sets, I have a wanted list for each
one of them to figure out what I'm missing. Then, once I go through my unlisted
bulk LEGO, I find that have parts in my store that I need to complete these sets.
The only way I can figure to get those parts is to use the inventory search tool
to select items on my wanted list, pull them from my drawers, and then adjust
my inventory quantities appropriately for each item.
It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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What you are really asking for is a way to take an arbitrary list of parts, and
negatively apply quantities to your existing inventory. That capability already
exists.
There exists the ability to submit an XML file for UPDATE, which contains negative
quantities. If the negative amount equals the stock level, then the item is also
deleted, otherwise the quantity is decremented.
Does not involve the creation of an order, price guide, feedback, etc.
Nita Rae
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 12:39 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I imagine the BL worry is that a buyer could just email a xml file to a seller,
they pick the order as themselves so no fees, invoice by email, then send it
off.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | mgiglio | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 15:45 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| That sounds like a lot of effort to save oneself 41 cents.
In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | I imagine the BL worry is that a buyer could just email a xml file to a seller,
they pick the order as themselves so no fees, invoice by email, then send it
off.
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| | | | | | | Author: | RecycledBrick | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 14:26 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 15:38 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, RecycledBrick writes:
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Can I take a wanted list and convert to an XML file. Will that file remove the
pieces from my store and give me the locations that they are in my store? Because
it isn't just about removing the pieces from my store inventory it is giving
me the locations that those pieces are in my store like an order placed does.
I want something that looks like below that gives the locations.
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I believe you can.
Download your Wanted List.
Edit it in a dumb editor (like Notepad, not Word).
Replace all “MINQTY” with “QTY”.
If you want to add a minus sign, first replace “MINQTY»” with “QTY»-” (with a
single chevron / greater than instead of »).
That should work.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | mgiglio | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 15:47 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| This is the problem exactly. Even if you have the expertise to create the XML
file, once you apply it, those parts are sitting in limbo in your physical storage
and you don't know they exist because they've been removed from your
inventory!
In Suggestions, RecycledBrick writes:
| | | | There exists the ability to submit an XML file for UPDATE, which contains negative
quantities. If the negative amount equals the stock level, then the item is also
deleted, otherwise the quantity is decremented.
Does not involve the creation of an order, price guide, feedback, etc.
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Can I take a wanted list and convert to an XML file. Will that file remove the
pieces from my store and give me the locations that they are in my store? Because
it isn't just about removing the pieces from my store inventory it is giving
me the locations that those pieces are in my store like an order placed does.
I want something that looks like below that gives the locations.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 16:16 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | This is the problem exactly. Even if you have the expertise to create the XML
file, once you apply it, those parts are sitting in limbo in your physical storage
and you don't know they exist because they've been removed from your
inventory!
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You have an inventory for them: They are in a Wanted List.
Phisically, either you just picked them first and want to update your inventory,
or you just updated your inventory and are going to pick them pronto.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | mgiglio | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 17:38 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Yes they are in the wanted list but how do I know WHICH items on my wanted list
are the ones I just removed from my inventory! There’s no way to know unless
they are picked first, which as I’ve described is what do now, making it a two
step process, OR, being able to run a list of the items I just removed, which
I don’t see functionality for. Just let me buy from my own store, the tools exist
and work great!
In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | This is the problem exactly. Even if you have the expertise to create the XML
file, once you apply it, those parts are sitting in limbo in your physical storage
and you don't know they exist because they've been removed from your
inventory!
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You have an inventory for them: They are in a Wanted List.
Phisically, either you just picked them first and want to update your inventory,
or you just updated your inventory and are going to pick them pronto.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | Biscuit_head | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 16:49 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | This is the problem exactly. Even if you have the expertise to create the XML
file, once you apply it, those parts are sitting in limbo in your physical storage
and you don't know they exist because they've been removed from your
inventory!
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I use a software called BrickStock to upload new lots and update the prices on
the existing lots. I've never actually used it for what you are suggesting
but I'm pretty sure if you download it and tinker with it for a while it
should be able to do this.
The only annoying part about it is this:
"BrickStock is currently running in Demo mode.
The complete functionality is accessible, but this reminder will pop up every
20 minutes.
You can change the mode of operation at anytime via Help Registration..."
but even that isn't crazy intrusive.
also there are a number of tutorial videos on youtube made by other Bricklinkers.
If you have specific questions about it feel free to send me a direct message.
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| | | | | Author: | clearingtoys | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2019 07:36 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2024 23:14 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, mgiglio writes:
| | It would be great if I could make purchases from my own store, in a ghost mode
that doesn't allow for feedback and doesn't charge fees.
Often when I'm restoring a batch of used sets, I have a wanted list for each
one of them to figure out what I'm missing. Then, once I go through my unlisted
bulk LEGO, I find that have parts in my store that I need to complete these sets.
The only way I can figure to get those parts is to use the inventory search tool
to select items on my wanted list, pull them from my drawers, and then adjust
my inventory quantities appropriately for each item.
It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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I'm bringing back old suggestions that should have been implemented years
ago, k? This one has 263 views. Would BL admins be able to reveal the yes/no
results of this one?
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| | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2024 23:19 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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I'm bringing back old suggestions that should have been implemented years
ago, k? This one has 263 views. Would BL admins be able to reveal the yes/no
results of this one?
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Just FYI, I like every week remove full lists from my shop using BrickStore,
it takes a couple of clicks:
* open your WL
* import Shop
* shop minus WL
* mass update your Shop to BrickLink.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 17, 2024 23:33 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | | | It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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I'm bringing back old suggestions that should have been implemented years
ago, k? This one has 263 views. Would BL admins be able to reveal the yes/no
results of this one?
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Just FYI, I like every week remove full lists from my shop using BrickStore,
it takes a couple of clicks:
* open your WL
* import Shop
* shop minus WL
* mass update your Shop to BrickLink.
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Thanks, but i've never used BrickStore. I'm making the point that BL
should have had this functionality years ago. Why not?
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2024 01:08 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, brickerking writes:
| | In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | | | It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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I'm bringing back old suggestions that should have been implemented years
ago, k? This one has 263 views. Would BL admins be able to reveal the yes/no
results of this one?
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Just FYI, I like every week remove full lists from my shop using BrickStore,
it takes a couple of clicks:
* open your WL
* import Shop
* shop minus WL
* mass update your Shop to BrickLink.
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Thanks, but i've never used BrickStore. I'm making the point that BL
should have had this functionality years ago. Why not?
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Because they have other priorities?
Maybe they also know you can do it in a few clicks, so they may wish (or have
to) to concentrate on something different or more important?
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | brickerking | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2024 01:22 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, brickerking writes:
| | In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | | | It would be much easier if I could just treat it like a regular sale, so that
I could remove all the parts from my inventory in one operation and then pull
them from the drawers the way I would any other order. Maybe I'm missing
something and there's an easier way to accomplish what I want to do?
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I'm bringing back old suggestions that should have been implemented years
ago, k? This one has 263 views. Would BL admins be able to reveal the yes/no
results of this one?
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Just FYI, I like every week remove full lists from my shop using BrickStore,
it takes a couple of clicks:
* open your WL
* import Shop
* shop minus WL
* mass update your Shop to BrickLink.
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Thanks, but i've never used BrickStore. I'm making the point that BL
should have had this functionality years ago. Why not?
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Because they have other priorities?
Maybe they also know you can do it in a few clicks, so they may wish (or have
to) to concentrate on something different or more important?
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BL's no. one priority should be marketing and developing the site for buyers
and sellers. This is a simple and obvious one that should be implemented. Making
excuses for BL - they're much too busy - they have so many other things to
do - is not something we as part of the BL community should do. If we pay to
use a service, we should expect it to get better and improve all the time. You
are apologizing for BL for what? Are you being paid to do this? If not, why argue
against making small improvements to the website you use every day?
Actually, please don't answer, you're probably much to busy - I wouldn't
want to bother you. 
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2024 10:22 | | Subject: | Re: Ghost Buy feature from sellers own store | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, brickerking writes:
| | BL's no. one priority should be marketing and developing the site for buyers
and sellers. This is a simple and obvious one that should be implemented. Making
excuses for BL - they're much too busy
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You too apparently?
You're asking for BrickLink to implement a solution.
I told you there's already one existing for years which's free, work
like a charm and in a couple of clicks 
Just do it your way, no problem really.
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