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 Author: awdrgzj View Messages Posted By awdrgzj
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 06:15
 Subject: Site needs an "Exclude Shop"-Feature
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awdrgzj (112)

Location:  Germany, Niedersachsen
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Hi.

It would be really nice, if you could add a feature, that lets you exclude a
specific shop during Auto-Selection.

I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Exceeeept, this is false information. Once i have created my carts and go to
checkout, it says, that the min. buy is 28€, not 14!

Sure, i can contact the merchant and do whatever, but to quickly solve these
situations, it would be really nice to be like "Yerah, i do not want that shop!".

Maybe you have had personal negative experiences with them and simply do not
want to shop there ever again, due to personal reservations.

I can think of two other instances, where this would have been nice -i just forgot
the exact reason- and if there already is a way to do this, it really needs to
be more comfortable/obvious.

Only solution i have found so far, would be to manually select every shop, that
suits your needs, which is not comfortable at all.
 Author: Dino View Messages Posted By Dino
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 06:20
 Subject: Re: Site needs an "Exclude Shop"-Feature
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Dino (478)

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In Feedback, awdrgzj writes:
  Hi.

It would be really nice, if you could add a feature, that lets you exclude a
specific shop during Auto-Selection.

I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Exceeeept, this is false information. Once i have created my carts and go to
checkout, it says, that the min. buy is 28€, not 14!

Sure, i can contact the merchant and do whatever, but to quickly solve these
situations, it would be really nice to be like "Yerah, i do not want that shop!".

Maybe you have had personal negative experiences with them and simply do not
want to shop there ever again, due to personal reservations.

I can think of two other instances, where this would have been nice -i just forgot
the exact reason- and if there already is a way to do this, it really needs to
be more comfortable/obvious.

Only solution i have found so far, would be to manually select every shop, that
suits your needs, which is not comfortable at all.

Trage diesen Shop in der Favoritenliste als "least favorite" ein.
 Author: awdrgzj View Messages Posted By awdrgzj
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 06:37
 Subject: Re: Site needs an "Exclude Shop"-Feature
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awdrgzj (112)

Location:  Germany, Niedersachsen
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In Feedback, Dino1 writes:
  In Feedback, awdrgzj writes:
  Hi.

It would be really nice, if you could add a feature, that lets you exclude a
specific shop during Auto-Selection.

I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Exceeeept, this is false information. Once i have created my carts and go to
checkout, it says, that the min. buy is 28€, not 14!

Sure, i can contact the merchant and do whatever, but to quickly solve these
situations, it would be really nice to be like "Yerah, i do not want that shop!".

Maybe you have had personal negative experiences with them and simply do not
want to shop there ever again, due to personal reservations.

I can think of two other instances, where this would have been nice -i just forgot
the exact reason- and if there already is a way to do this, it really needs to
be more comfortable/obvious.

Only solution i have found so far, would be to manually select every shop, that
suits your needs, which is not comfortable at all.

Trage diesen Shop in der Favoritenliste als "least favorite" ein.

Isn't that backwards

Das ist nicht, was eine "Favoritenliste" für mich ist.
 Author: maxx3001 View Messages Posted By maxx3001
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 06:33
 Subject: Re: Site needs an "Exclude Shop"-Feature
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Location:  Netherlands, Utrecht
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In Feedback, awdrgzj writes:
  Hi.

It would be really nice, if you could add a feature, that lets you exclude a
specific shop during Auto-Selection.

https://www.bricklink.com/pref_favorite.asp

Fill in least favorite and tadaa!
  
I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Exceeeept, this is false information. Once i have created my carts and go to
checkout, it says, that the min. buy is 28€, not 14!

Sure, i can contact the merchant and do whatever, but to quickly solve these
situations, it would be really nice to be like "Yerah, i do not want that shop!".

Maybe you have had personal negative experiences with them and simply do not
want to shop there ever again, due to personal reservations.

I can think of two other instances, where this would have been nice -i just forgot
the exact reason- and if there already is a way to do this, it really needs to
be more comfortable/obvious.

Only solution i have found so far, would be to manually select every shop, that
suits your needs, which is not comfortable at all.
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 06:58
 Subject: Re: Site needs an "Exclude Shop"-Feature
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In Feedback, awdrgzj writes:
  I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Add the shop to your least favorite list and then make sure "Exclude Disliked
Stores" is checked before clicking "Auto-select"
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 07:01
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peregrinator (771)

Location:  USA, New Jersey
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In Feedback, peregrinator writes:
  In Feedback, awdrgzj writes:
  I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Add the shop to your least favorite list and then make sure "Exclude Disliked
Stores" is checked before clicking "Auto-select"
 
 Author: Heartbricker View Messages Posted By Heartbricker
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 08:20
 Subject: Re: Site needs an "Exclude Shop"-Feature
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In Feedback, awdrgzj writes:
  Hi.

It would be really nice, if you could add a feature, that lets you exclude a
specific shop during Auto-Selection.

I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Exceeeept, this is false information. Once i have created my carts and go to
checkout, it says, that the min. buy is 28€, not 14!

Sure, i can contact the merchant and do whatever, but to quickly solve these
situations, it would be really nice to be like "Yerah, i do not want that shop!".

Maybe you have had personal negative experiences with them and simply do not
want to shop there ever again, due to personal reservations.

I can think of two other instances, where this would have been nice -i just forgot
the exact reason- and if there already is a way to do this, it really needs to
be more comfortable/obvious.

Only solution i have found so far, would be to manually select every shop, that
suits your needs, which is not comfortable at all.

Here's a counter point:
In my personal experience, i had one shop least favorited based on a bad experience
and another shop least favorited because of a high minimum.
Later on i was desperate and the first shop was the only one that had a part
i needed. I ordered from them very reluctantly and ended up having a splendid
experience, i ordered again and again and they really cleaned up their act and
improved and became one of my favorite shops.
The other store with the high minimum ended up changing to a no minimum model
and had good deals.
That is why i'm personally against this feature BUT i use the feature on
a temporary base meaning if the shop doesn't suit my needs now then i least
favorite, turn the feature on when i search parts for a project but then i turn
it off because that shop might suit my needs in the future.
activating this feature on a permanent basis (or activating and forgetting) will
hurt me as a buyer in the future as i might miss an opportunity or pay more than
i have to.
Something to consider...
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 10:05
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  Here's a counter point:
In my personal experience, i had one shop least favorited based on a bad experience
and another shop least favorited because of a high minimum.
Later on i was desperate and the first shop was the only one that had a part
i needed. I ordered from them very reluctantly and ended up having a splendid
experience, i ordered again and again and they really cleaned up their act and
improved and became one of my favorite shops.
The other store with the high minimum ended up changing to a no minimum model
and had good deals.
That is why i'm personally against this feature BUT i use the feature on
a temporary base meaning if the shop doesn't suit my needs now then i least
favorite, turn the feature on when i search parts for a project but then i turn
it off because that shop might suit my needs in the future.
activating this feature on a permanent basis (or activating and forgetting) will
hurt me as a buyer in the future as i might miss an opportunity or pay more than
i have to.
Something to consider...

It depends on how you search and browse when buying. I reckon I have at least
60 least favourite stores. Some are due to less than great experiences but many
are due to advertising fake sales, assembling minifigures, paypal charges, other
things in their terms that I do not like, etc. Some may have changed, but I rarely
go through systematically and look to see if they have changed. If I am buying
relatively cheap parts through a wants list, I leave them excluded. It really
is not a big deal to exclude them for such searches as there are plenty of sellers
for that type of part. If I am browsing and buying more expensive parts, which
I tend to do manually, I look in the price guide at what is available rather
than at the sorted price list. The price guide does not exclude least favourite
stores so I can see all for sale (in my country) quickly and easily and hence
don't miss something because I have them as a least favourite store. But
as soon as I enter their store, I get a warning that they are least favourited
by the thumbs down with a note so I can quickly check why. I can then choose
whether it is worth buying from them or not.
 Author: Heartbricker View Messages Posted By Heartbricker
 Posted: Sep 20, 2022 10:37
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Heartbricker (18095)

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In Feedback, yorbrick writes:
  
  Here's a counter point:
In my personal experience, i had one shop least favorited based on a bad experience
and another shop least favorited because of a high minimum.
Later on i was desperate and the first shop was the only one that had a part
i needed. I ordered from them very reluctantly and ended up having a splendid
experience, i ordered again and again and they really cleaned up their act and
improved and became one of my favorite shops.
The other store with the high minimum ended up changing to a no minimum model
and had good deals.
That is why i'm personally against this feature BUT i use the feature on
a temporary base meaning if the shop doesn't suit my needs now then i least
favorite, turn the feature on when i search parts for a project but then i turn
it off because that shop might suit my needs in the future.
activating this feature on a permanent basis (or activating and forgetting) will
hurt me as a buyer in the future as i might miss an opportunity or pay more than
i have to.
Something to consider...

It depends on how you search and browse when buying. I reckon I have at least
60 least favourite stores. Some are due to less than great experiences but many
are due to advertising fake sales, assembling minifigures, paypal charges, other
things in their terms that I do not like, etc. Some may have changed, but I rarely
go through systematically and look to see if they have changed. If I am buying
relatively cheap parts through a wants list, I leave them excluded. It really
is not a big deal to exclude them for such searches as there are plenty of sellers
for that type of part. If I am browsing and buying more expensive parts, which
I tend to do manually, I look in the price guide at what is available rather
than at the sorted price list. The price guide does not exclude least favourite
stores so I can see all for sale (in my country) quickly and easily and hence
don't miss something because I have them as a least favourite store. But
as soon as I enter their store, I get a warning that they are least favourited
by the thumbs down with a note so I can quickly check why. I can then choose
whether it is worth buying from them or not.

When building a moc or build; many times there are parts that aren't readily
available in every shop and if you find the rare parts in a few shops then you'll
probably utilize those shops and attempt to buy more items from those shops in
order to save on shipping costs.
And as i mentioned; some shops may charge various fees now that they may not
charge in the future- or change the unpopular items in their terms page.
While I disagree with many parts in your statement and stand by mine; I will
concede to say it's a personal/business choice.
 Author: Akir View Messages Posted By Akir
 Posted: Sep 22, 2022 11:41
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Akir (120)

Location:  Austria, Steiermark
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In Feedback, Heartbricker writes:
  In Feedback, awdrgzj writes:
  Hi.

It would be really nice, if you could add a feature, that lets you exclude a
specific shop during Auto-Selection.

I am currently in one situation, where that would be necessary.
I don't know what went wrong, but your site always selects one shop with
a 14€ min buy.
I have 15 €, so that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Exceeeept, this is false information. Once i have created my carts and go to
checkout, it says, that the min. buy is 28€, not 14!

Sure, i can contact the merchant and do whatever, but to quickly solve these
situations, it would be really nice to be like "Yerah, i do not want that shop!".

Maybe you have had personal negative experiences with them and simply do not
want to shop there ever again, due to personal reservations.

I can think of two other instances, where this would have been nice -i just forgot
the exact reason- and if there already is a way to do this, it really needs to
be more comfortable/obvious.

Only solution i have found so far, would be to manually select every shop, that
suits your needs, which is not comfortable at all.

Here's a counter point:
In my personal experience, i had one shop least favorited based on a bad experience
and another shop least favorited because of a high minimum.
Later on i was desperate and the first shop was the only one that had a part
i needed. I ordered from them very reluctantly and ended up having a splendid
experience, i ordered again and again and they really cleaned up their act and
improved and became one of my favorite shops.
The other store with the high minimum ended up changing to a no minimum model
and had good deals.
That is why i'm personally against this feature BUT i use the feature on
a temporary base meaning if the shop doesn't suit my needs now then i least
favorite, turn the feature on when i search parts for a project but then i turn
it off because that shop might suit my needs in the future.
activating this feature on a permanent basis (or activating and forgetting) will
hurt me as a buyer in the future as i might miss an opportunity or pay more than
i have to.
Something to consider...


I also don't really like the "least favorite" thing - I use it only for the
described reason, to block shops from the auto selection that are inconvenient
for some reason - fortunately I didn't have bad buying experiences so far,
so I don't have any real "least favorite" shops. But still, as a seller,
I hate seeing that I'm somebody's "least favorite" store. I hope it's
for the same reason and nothing personal, but still, it keeps bugging me that
someone likes me least. I can never be sure why...