Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 23, 2024 17:28 | Subject: | Re: Complete orders and order feedback. | Viewed: | 44 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, The_Boyz_Bricks writes:
| Can we have BL (after a 1 - 2 month period) send out a fallow up email for buyers
who haven’t yet completed and/or left feedback for their order? Thanks all!
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No.
It's optional, you can't enforce an option.
"Feedback is how you let other members know how well a transaction went."
So, if you're not interetsed to let other members know, you don't have
to.
Completed - same.
Buyer PAYS for some goods, seller ships, buyer receives, he's happy, he's
nothing else to do.
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Author: | The_Boyz_Bricks | Posted: | Apr 23, 2024 17:20 | Subject: | Complete orders and order feedback. | Viewed: | 147 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Can we have BL (after a 1 - 2 month period) send out a fallow up email for buyers
who haven’t yet completed and/or left feedback for their order? Thanks all!
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 23, 2024 14:00 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 32 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
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As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
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Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
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+1
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No, as said, because Completed means:
"Completed - Package received, contents verified, the order is completed."
And some sellers (like me) give feedback as soon as shipped, and some buyers
even before...
Transaction is completed: neither BrickLink or the seller can't decide this
- whatever the algorithm is.
Buyer paid for something, he has to say the final word, or don't - it's
not even mandatory.
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Author: | pcthurman | Posted: | Apr 23, 2024 13:19 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 42 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
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As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
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Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
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+1
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Author: | pcthurman | Posted: | Apr 23, 2024 13:19 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 32 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
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As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
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+1
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Author: | peregrinator | Posted: | Apr 23, 2024 09:09 | Subject: | Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices | Viewed: | 35 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
| Thank you! I looked back at several pages of messages and found that only 1 of
10 stores actually include the (tax) line on the invoice which begs me to ask...
How come the tax line is not automatically included?
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Because the manual invoicing system uses custom templates and pre-dates the collection
of sales tax, VAT, etc. by BrickLink.
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Author: | Stellar | Posted: | Apr 23, 2024 03:03 | Subject: | Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices | Viewed: | 36 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
| In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
| This should be a no-brainer.
Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.
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Cass T
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This is already possible; the seller needs to have the appropriate macro tags on
their invoice templates.
Here are mine for example, they work for all TAX, VAT and GST orders.
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Thank you! I looked back at several pages of messages and found that only 1 of
10 stores actually include the (tax) line on the invoice which begs me to ask...
How come the tax line is not automatically included?
Cass T
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As the invoice are custom templates they need to be updated or reset manually,
they have specifications from each seller so if the admins reset them all that
would be lost and become a mess for all.
They could inject the code instead but I don't think the bricklink system
is so capable...
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Author: | pcthurman | Posted: | Apr 22, 2024 13:15 | Subject: | Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices | Viewed: | 39 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
| In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
| This should be a no-brainer.
Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.
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Cass T
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This is already possible; the seller needs to have the appropriate macro tags on
their invoice templates.
Here are mine for example, they work for all TAX, VAT and GST orders.
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Thank you! I looked back at several pages of messages and found that only 1 of
10 stores actually include the (tax) line on the invoice which begs me to ask...
How come the tax line is not automatically included?
Cass T
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Author: | Stellar | Posted: | Apr 22, 2024 11:42 | Subject: | Re: Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices | Viewed: | 42 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, pcthurman writes:
| This should be a no-brainer.
Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.
It is very annoying to see:
Total: US $43.77
Shipping: US $10.80
Insurance: US $0.00
Additional Charges: US $1.00
Credit: US $0.00
Grand Total: US $57.94
$43.77
$10.80
$ 1.00
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$55.57
There is clearly a discrepancy between the Grand Total and what is actually showing
for charges. Since taxes are not included in those charges, the discrepancy must
be the taxes.
1) This discrepancy will likely confuse many buyers.
2) Anyone who prints the invoice for business reasons will not have a paper record
of the taxes paid.
3) In case of an audit, having a record of taxes paid on paper is beneficial.
Cass T
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This is already possible, the seller needs to have the appropiate macrotags on
their invoice template.
Here are mine for example, they work for all TAX, VAT and GST orders.
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Author: | pcthurman | Posted: | Apr 22, 2024 11:12 | Subject: | Adding sales Tax or other tax on invoices | Viewed: | 76 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| This should be a no-brainer.
Please add state sales tax or other taxes such as VAT to the invoice.
It is very annoying to see:
Total: US $43.77
Shipping: US $10.80
Insurance: US $0.00
Additional Charges: US $1.00
Credit: US $0.00
Grand Total: US $57.94
$43.77
$10.80
$ 1.00
-------
$55.57
There is clearly a discrepancy between the Grand Total and what is actually showing
for charges. Since taxes are not included in those charges, the discrepancy must
be the taxes.
1) This discrepancy will likely confuse many buyers.
2) Anyone who prints the invoice for business reasons will not have a paper record
of the taxes paid.
3) In case of an audit, having a record of taxes paid on paper is beneficial.
Cass T
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Author: | pcthurman | Posted: | Apr 22, 2024 06:40 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 50 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
| In Suggestions, zorbanj writes:
| Ideally there would be two types of Complete in the pulldown, one for "Seller
- Complete" and the other "Buyer - Complete".
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I don't think that's really necessary - once it's "Shipped"
it's "seller complete".
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But is it really "seller complete"?
If the buyer should receive their order and find inconsistencies with the order,
the buyer reaches out to the seller. The seller then needs to communicate with
the buyer to try to find a solution that both can agree to.
this scenario is in play, then the seller's side is NOT complete until an
agreement can be reached, and the seller honors the agreement.
IMO the only person that should have final say on whether or not an order is
complete, is the buyer! If the buyer does not mark an order as complete, then
leave it as such. The buyer has 6 months to make a claim on any order they pay
for and after 6 months the order is "purged" from the system.
If you are a seller and it bothers you that an order is just sitting there after
you have shipped it, I say "To Bad". It is the buyer's right
to make a claim for up to 6 months REGARDLESS of your store terms because Bricklink
terms supersede store terms.
Some sellers file an order once they believe the order to be complete. I do not
know how this affects the seller's ability to help a buyer if there is a
problem, but this would seem like a decent solution for a seller if having an
order on your orders list for 6 months bothers you.
In truth no order is fully complete until it has been purged from the system
after 6 months.
I vote "YES"
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Author: | SylvainLS | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 16:11 | Subject: | Re: (Cancelled) | Viewed: | 42 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DreadHeadDad writes:
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Ok sorry. Did't know that.
My fault. Won't happen again...
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No harm done
The problem is that we can’t edit posts and can only cancel them.
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Author: | DreadHeadDad | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 15:58 | Subject: | Re: (Cancelled) | Viewed: | 40 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DreadHeadDad writes:
Ok sorry. Did't know that.
My fault. Won't happen again...
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Author: | SylvainLS | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 08:57 | Subject: | Re: Merge Want Lists OR Easy Buy on Multiple List | Viewed: | 28 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MOC_Brick_Steve writes:
| I was recently purchasing parts for two different builds that were in different
want lists.
[…]
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EasyBuy is easy but dumb. Use the Buy page instead (Buy All button in a WL or
hover over the white heart-shaped icon and click Buy when the menu appers).
On the Buy page, you can use Auto-select that’ll give similar results to EasyBuy,
just with a couple clicks more.
Bonuses:
— you can select multiple lists,
— there’s filters (location…),
— you can even cherry-pick lots in multiple WLs (using the Wanted Items tab on
the left).
As for merging lists, yes, it’s been missing and we asked for it since the inception
of the “new” Wanted List pages, in 2016.
As a workaround, you can ‘merge’ WLs by downloading your lists and uploading
them into a new one.
Not very user-friendly but you then don’t need to use or create a tool to do
it.
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Author: | MOC_Brick_Steve | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 08:46 | Subject: | Merge Want Lists OR Easy Buy on Multiple List | Viewed: | 43 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I was recently purchasing parts for two different builds that were in different
want lists.
I discovered you can only easy buy for a single wantlist at a time which meant
losing a lot of the efficiency of a single order, and because some of the orders
were small meant not qualifying for the minimum order, even though the combined
total of the wantlists was sufficient.
I subsequently merged the XML files by writing a Python script and reported it
as a new want list. This would be much easier if it were an internal feature.
Preferably I would select distinct want lists and easy buy would merge on the
back end so that I can maintain the sorting of the part lists, but it would be
acceptable to have a "merge want lists" feature internally.
This tool needs to resolve the very common situation that there will be duplicate
parts between lists being merged. Ideally it would use the merged total for calculations
but have a drop down showing the two required amounts from the premerged sources.
The former is simple the latter a little more difficult since the XML format
doesn't have a tag that would allow this.
Thank you.
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Author: | MOC_Brick_Steve | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 08:39 | Subject: | Search "Alternate Item Number" when importing | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
This morning I was importing an XML file with the attached results. In every
case, removing the letter from the part number correctly resolved the issue,
but I noticed while confirming the parts that for each of these parts the site
has recorded the below numbers as "alternate item numbers".
My suggestion is that the import utility also search the alternate numbers when
attempting to import, and update the Wanted List with the most appropriate current
number. This should probably generate an import warning message but should allow
the import to proceed.
Thank you
The following items in the XML file are invalid or do not exist in the Bricklink
Catalog.
Please fix the following errors:
Item No: 3068b
Item No: 3068b
Item No: 3068b
Item No: 3069b
Item No: 3069b
Item No: 3069b
Item No: 3069b
Item No: 3070b
Item No: 3070b
Item No: 3070b
Item No: 44302a
Item No: 553b
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 11:14 | Subject: | Re: Spam | Viewed: | 49 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| Circling back to: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=145974
Seems to me anyway, that simply restricting zero feedback members the use of
links in the forum, would immediately eliminate most current spam posts and deter
future ones. Haven’t been looking that close at these posts, but from what I’ve
seen, it’s presenting links they have as a common purpose or motivation. Removing
motivation is often a subtle yet effective tack in life.
Could be that it’s not all that simple, technically to implement. I don’t know,
but if doable, why not? Personally don't find the spam posts all that bothersome.
Many do though, and if there's an easy fix to tidy things up a bit...
-popsicle
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The spam posts tend to get removed really quite fast, at least at the times of
day when I see them (and report them). Links only work if people click on them.
If nobody clicks on them then there is no motivation to post more. Yet still
they post and post.
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 09:42 | Subject: | Re: Spam | Viewed: | 59 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, v100Bricks writes:
| Would seem to be harsh on new users that may need genuine help. Especially considering
the delays with the help desk just now.
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Considered that and why focusing on link restriction only. Don't think new
users need to post links to get the help needed
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Author: | v100Bricks | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 09:36 | Subject: | Re: Spam | Viewed: | 52 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Would seem to be harsh on new users that may need genuine help. Especially considering
the delays with the help desk just now.
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 09:28 | Subject: | Spam | Viewed: | 476 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Circling back to: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=145974
Seems to me anyway, that simply restricting zero feedback members the use of
links in the forum, would immediately eliminate most current spam posts and deter
future ones. Haven’t been looking that close at these posts, but from what I’ve
seen, it’s presenting links they have as a common purpose or motivation. Removing
motivation is often a subtle yet effective tack in life.
Could be that it’s not all that simple, technically to implement. I don’t know,
but if doable, why not? Personally don't find the spam posts all that bothersome.
Many do though, and if there's an easy fix to tidy things up a bit...
-popsicle
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 10:52 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 56 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Ra writes:
| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Not to mention that stores on BL can not have more than one physical location
from which they ship from.
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That is for regular people and companies. I'm sure they could find a way
round if they wanted to do it. Such as having three different LEGO BL stores,
one for standard parts, one for bestsellers Europe and one for bestsellers North
America, or however many locations they ship from.
But it would still go back on what they said originally, and I think would damage
new parts sales from regular sellers who would then shift their stores completely
to brickowl. Moving both used and new parts sellers, moving customers and losing
BL fees.
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We don't know how lucrative PaB is, but I am sure it isn't just for the
benefit of lego enthusiasts. If TLG were to capture more actual sales then just
fees, I am sure they would be making more money then just fees alone. So if a
brick only costs a few cents to manufacture and they can capture the same profit
as PaB that will be more than 3-2% of what a part sells for on here.
Example:
PaB part cost to manufacture, 5 cents, sells for 10 cents that is 5 cent profit.
Where a seller sells that part at 10 cents TLG makes 2 cents (from a major seller).
Sure you can say but TLG has overhead, where? They are already manufacturing,
storing, sorting for sets and PaB so no additional overhead.
TLG has a global foot print, way more than any seller has on here along with
better shipping rate options.
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Sure they could try to capture more of the market for inividual new parts, but
at what long term cost? They cannot keep up with PAB standard as it is. PAB best
seller is OK for speed but that s relatively small inventory.
If they aim to kill small businesses selling on bricklink then there is little
point in owning bricklink. Longer term,it would be worse for sellers and buyers.
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Author: | Ra | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 09:10 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Not to mention that stores on BL can not have more than one physical location
from which they ship from.
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That is for regular people and companies. I'm sure they could find a way
round if they wanted to do it. Such as having three different LEGO BL stores,
one for standard parts, one for bestsellers Europe and one for bestsellers North
America, or however many locations they ship from.
But it would still go back on what they said originally, and I think would damage
new parts sales from regular sellers who would then shift their stores completely
to brickowl. Moving both used and new parts sellers, moving customers and losing
BL fees.
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We don't know how lucrative PaB is, but I am sure it isn't just for the
benefit of lego enthusiasts. If TLG were to capture more actual sales then just
fees, I am sure they would be making more money then just fees alone. So if a
brick only costs a few cents to manufacture and they can capture the same profit
as PaB that will be more than 3-2% of what a part sells for on here.
Example:
PaB part cost to manufacture, 5 cents, sells for 10 cents that is 5 cent profit.
Where a seller sells that part at 10 cents TLG makes 2 cents (from a major seller).
Sure you can say but TLG has overhead, where? They are already manufacturing,
storing, sorting for sets and PaB so no additional overhead.
TLG has a global foot print, way more than any seller has on here along with
better shipping rate options.
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 07:45 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 59 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | Not to mention that stores on BL can not have more than one physical location
from which they ship from.
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That is for regular people and companies. I'm sure they could find a way
round if they wanted to do it. Such as having three different LEGO BL stores,
one for standard parts, one for bestsellers Europe and one for bestsellers North
America, or however many locations they ship from.
But it would still go back on what they said originally, and I think would damage
new parts sales from regular sellers who would then shift their stores completely
to brickowl. Moving both used and new parts sellers, moving customers and losing
BL fees.
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Author: | Ziegelmeister | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 05:36 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 50 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, nbbhav writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
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It would create an interesting marketing problem for LEGO. If you've not
read LEGO's Fair Play statement, it's worth reading it:
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-play/
I'm not a lawyer, but would it be considered unfair competition if PaB was
added into BrickLink?
I think LEGO has more opportunities promoting BrickLink longer term for both
New and Used pieces. I've had problems in orders from PaB which weren't
ideal for me, but from the LEGO perspective this is additional cost they have
to manage.
For Used pieces, promoting their support for BrickLink helps in environmental
sustainability through recycling of used bricks.
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Not to mention that stores on BL can not have more than one physical location
from which they ship from.
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Author: | nbbhav | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 05:15 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 48 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
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It would create an interesting marketing problem for LEGO. If you've not
read LEGO's Fair Play statement, it's worth reading it:
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-play/
I'm not a lawyer, but would it be considered unfair competition if PaB was
added into BrickLink?
I think LEGO has more opportunities promoting BrickLink longer term for both
New and Used pieces. I've had problems in orders from PaB which weren't
ideal for me, but from the LEGO perspective this is additional cost they have
to manage.
For Used pieces, promoting their support for BrickLink helps in environmental
sustainability through recycling of used bricks.
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Author: | Stellar | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 11:17 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 64 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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Anyone have the data on what percentage of parts/colors/patterns available on
BrickLink is on the current PAB menu?
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They now have 15087 lots for sale, but only 14694 in stock. Bestsellers in stock
are 4180 lots.
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Also, I think the prices would become much higher if LEGO had to pay enough people
to ship every order as quickly and accurately as a good BL shop does.
~Jen
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Author: | jennnifer | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 10:45 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 61 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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Anyone have the data on what percentage of parts/colors/patterns available on
BrickLink is on the current PAB menu?
Also, I think the prices would become much higher if LEGO had to pay enough people
to ship every order as quickly and accurately as a good BL shop does.
~Jen
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Author: | peregrinator | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 07:16 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 74 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
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In my experience, it's rare that PaB is actually cheaper - if it were I'd
definitely be buying parts there and selling them here.
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Author: | Ziegelmeister | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 02:59 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 52 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
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Because that would directly impact their own sales. Myself and many others focus
solely on new sets and new set part outs, buying multiple copies of high dollar
sets. How many $200, $400, $600+ sets do regular consumers (or BL buyers without
a store) buy per year, and how many do small rinky dink stores like me - or
extremely large stores not like me - buy per month? I'd argue that an enthusiastic
3PS is worth a minimum - minimum - of 40 run of the mill consumers.
| Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
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Indispensable and profitable are two different things. Plus how many people
place an order for 50 lots of discontinued parts? Think of at least five of
unavailable parts you're trying to find and go look at the sales history
of it. At best it's current for sale average is probably a couple of bucks
and at least three of those probably have an outlier that's ~50% below the
average. From the sounds of it, you're going to buy from the cheapest store,
and they made "a coupl'a bucks". That's not running a business,
that's running a charity without the benefits of 501c status.
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 02:05 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 55 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
When taking over bricklink, LEGO claimed they wouldn't interfere with the
marketplace, implying they wouldn't compete with sellers. If they want to
compete with sellers, then many sellers will leave and move to the independent
marketplace.
They would also need to behave like other BL sellers. I'd leave them negative
feedback unless they improved their order turn around times.
|
|
Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 00:09 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 49 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, rtzx9r writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| In Suggestions, UTLF writes:
| | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
Lego owns Bricklink, and Bricklink is strictly third-party sellers; the site
would die and Lego would lose money on their investment & whatnot
If you want to source parts from PAB and Bricklink, use BrickHunter, a Chrome
extension that lets you upload a wanted list & auto-selects parts from PAB and
shows what you would need to get from Bricklink if parts are unavailable or retired
|
Yes, BH is amazing, and I often use it. But it adds another layer of complexity
and another step in the process.
|
Ever order from PAB? Enjoy your bricks 2-3 months later.
|
For standard bricks but yah it’s crazy.
|
|
Author: | rtzx9r | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 00:00 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 45 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| In Suggestions, UTLF writes:
| | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
Lego owns Bricklink, and Bricklink is strictly third-party sellers; the site
would die and Lego would lose money on their investment & whatnot
If you want to source parts from PAB and Bricklink, use BrickHunter, a Chrome
extension that lets you upload a wanted list & auto-selects parts from PAB and
shows what you would need to get from Bricklink if parts are unavailable or retired
|
Yes, BH is amazing, and I often use it. But it adds another layer of complexity
and another step in the process.
|
Ever order from PAB? Enjoy your bricks 2-3 months later.
|
|
Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:52 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 48 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
|
since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
|
cool pizza flag
|
pizza!
| Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
|
since they make up a good chunk of Lego's revenue. 3rd party sellers buy
from lego and then do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
minimum wage they probably couldn't make it profitable so with the current
setup all parties involved benefit. Also it seems lego is pursuing this route
as there have been surveys from lego and bricklink trying to improve the lego-reseller
connection.
| Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
To a point but if lego started selling lots on bricklink then a good chunk of
sales would move to them and then the stores that could offer said parts would
have most of their stock not moving since lego takes that and then they probably
wouldn't bother with selling the few parts that lego doesn't sell as
sales would be significantly lower and make it not profitable for many
|
pardon my ignorance (I'm an AFOL newbie), but could you explain this a little?
what work?
|
Listing and pulling orders is usually extremely work intensive in comparison
to profit.
|
|
Author: | ej76az | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:40 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 51 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
|
since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
|
cool pizza flag
|
pizza!
| Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
|
since they make up a good chunk of Lego's revenue. 3rd party sellers buy
from lego and then do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
minimum wage they probably couldn't make it profitable so with the current
setup all parties involved benefit. Also it seems lego is pursuing this route
as there have been surveys from lego and bricklink trying to improve the lego-reseller
connection.
| Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
To a point but if lego started selling lots on bricklink then a good chunk of
sales would move to them and then the stores that could offer said parts would
have most of their stock not moving since lego takes that and then they probably
wouldn't bother with selling the few parts that lego doesn't sell as
sales would be significantly lower and make it not profitable for many
|
pardon my ignorance (I'm an AFOL newbie), but could you explain this a little?
what work?
| 3rd party sellers... do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
|
|
|
Author: | ej76az | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 23:33 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 59 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, UTLF writes:
| | Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
Lego owns Bricklink, and Bricklink is strictly third-party sellers; the site
would die and Lego would lose money on their investment & whatnot
If you want to source parts from PAB and Bricklink, use BrickHunter, a Chrome
extension that lets you upload a wanted list & auto-selects parts from PAB and
shows what you would need to get from Bricklink if parts are unavailable or retired
|
Yes, BH is amazing, and I often use it. But it adds another layer of complexity
and another step in the process.
|
|
Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:54 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 58 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
|
since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
|
cool pizza flag
|
pizza!
| Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
|
since they make up a good chunk of Lego's revenue. 3rd party sellers buy
from lego and then do lots of work which if lego themselves did and paid employees
minimum wage they probably couldn't make it profitable so with the current
setup all parties involved benefit. Also it seems lego is pursuing this route
as there have been surveys from lego and bricklink trying to improve the lego-reseller
connection.
| Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
To a point but if lego started selling lots on bricklink then a good chunk of
sales would move to them and then the stores that could offer said parts would
have most of their stock not moving since lego takes that and then they probably
wouldn't bother with selling the few parts that lego doesn't sell as
sales would be significantly lower and make it not profitable for many
|
|
Author: | ej76az | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:48 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 71 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
|
since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
|
cool pizza flag
Why would LEGO care whether any third-party stores (i.e. competitors of LEGO's
PaB website) close down?
Also, third-party stores would still be indispensable, because there are so many
parts that are unavailable from the PaB website.
|
|
Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:42 | Subject: | Re: add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 62 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, ej76az writes:
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
|
since bricklink is specifically for 3rd party sellers, not lego themselves. if
lego came over to bricklink and started ramping up then most stores on bricklink
would have to close down as they cant compete with lego if they are on the same
site which would then just end up making bricklink a reskinned PAB.
|
|
Author: | ej76az | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 22:35 | Subject: | add LEGO PaB website to stores | Viewed: | 198 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
|
| When clicking Buy All on a Wanted List and then clicking Auto-Select, only third-party
stores are listed. The price of a part is often (but not always) cheaper from
LEGO's PaB website than from any third-party store. Also, PaB shipping is
free if the order is at least $35, whereas shipping costs can really add up when
buying from third-party stores. LEGO has owned BL for almost half a decade.
Why is LEGO's PaB website not included among the stores on BL?
(I tried to search for this suggestion in the Forum but didn't find anything)
|
|
Author: | Hal8472 | Posted: | Apr 8, 2024 14:17 | Subject: | Re: New filter based on % off | Viewed: | 29 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, TheHatter13 writes:
| I have seen a lot of sellers offer multiple different discounts. It would be
nice to have a filter that you can choose the discounts you want to see instead
of just all sales. Like if a shop has different sale percentages at 10, 25, 30,
50 and 75 percent off you could filter for everything above 50%.
|
This is a comparison to a created number. There are no sales on bricklink.
Just different prices.
|
|
Author: | infinibrix | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 11:49 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 57 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| […]
| I've definitely had buyers leave feedback before they even received their
orders - rare, but it happens.
|
Yes but this example just illustrates someone not using the system properly and
I'm pretty sure we don't require a system built around a one off user
not using the system correctly?
|
A system shouldn’t allow its users to use it incorrectly.
(That includes sellers marking orders complete )
|
And your point? Removing the Completed option would solve this issue at the same
time?
Besides which as a Seller I have never marked an order as Complete! Once I mark
the order status as 'Shipped' I then leave the customer alone to change
the status from there on in
| “You’re holding wrong” is a registred trademark. BrickLink is too cheap to use
it.
|
??
|
|
Author: | SylvainLS | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 11:19 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 25 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| […]
| I've definitely had buyers leave feedback before they even received their
orders - rare, but it happens.
|
Yes but this example just illustrates someone not using the system properly and
I'm pretty sure we don't require a system built around a one off user
not using the system correctly?
|
A system shouldn’t allow its users to use it incorrectly.
(That includes sellers marking orders complete )
“You’re holding wrong” is a registred trademark. BrickLink is too cheap to use
it.
| I can imagine the feedback they left was interesting....
"Great Seller, Order is on its way and it will arrive in good time and be
absolutely perfect!"
|
Have you read the feedback left on other plateforms? It’s sometimes worse than
that.
|
|
Author: | infinibrix | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 10:53 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 35 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| I cannot think of a single situation where a buyer would leave feedback if they
didn't consider the order completed? Presumably they leave feedback when
they've either received goods and are happy (Order Completed) or they leave
negative/neutral feedback because they are unhappy with the sellers lack of resolve
(Order Completed)
On other platforms like ebay there is no Completed status because feedback alone
defines the orders status and rounds up the overall transaction as complete!
|
I've definitely had buyers leave feedback before they even received their
orders - rare, but it happens.
|
Yes but this example just illustrates someone not using the system properly and
I'm pretty sure we don't require a system built around a one off user
not using the system correctly?
I can imagine the feedback they left was interesting....
"Great Seller, Order is on its way and it will arrive in good time and be
absolutely perfect!"
| I don't know if one can do the same on eBay
(it seems one can click the "Leave Feedback" button but I don't know
if the form can be submitted), but in any case, since eBay also tracks orders,
I imagine the order isn't complete until the buyer has received it (I don't
know what happens in cases where the order can't be tracked).
I think if the buyer marks the order as "Received" and then leaves positive
feedback the order should automatically complete. Maybe when the buyer leaves
any kind of feedback? Not sure about that last part.
|
The way I see it the very final option in the dropdown should be 'Received'
with no need for a 'Completed' option. The buyer essentially completes
their order by leaving feedback!
i.e they mark as received and then leave feedback once they are happy with their
order or if they are unhappy with their order they mark as received, message
seller for a resolution, wait for issue to be resolved(or not resolved) and then
leave appropriate feedback. By leaving feedback the buyer is finished with that
order and it is essentially complete
|
|
Author: | peregrinator | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 06:43 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| I cannot think of a single situation where a buyer would leave feedback if they
didn't consider the order completed? Presumably they leave feedback when
they've either received goods and are happy (Order Completed) or they leave
negative/neutral feedback because they are unhappy with the sellers lack of resolve
(Order Completed)
On other platforms like ebay there is no Completed status because feedback alone
defines the orders status and rounds up the overall transaction as complete!
|
I've definitely had buyers leave feedback before they even received their
orders - rare, but it happens. I don't know if one can do the same on eBay
(it seems one can click the "Leave Feedback" button but I don't know
if the form can be submitted), but in any case, since eBay also tracks orders,
I imagine the order isn't complete until the buyer has received it (I don't
know what happens in cases where the order can't be tracked).
I think if the buyer marks the order as "Received" and then leaves positive
feedback the order should automatically complete. Maybe when the buyer leaves
any kind of feedback? Not sure about that last part.
|
|
Author: | infinibrix | Posted: | Apr 6, 2024 06:30 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 41 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
|
|
| | | As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
|
Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
If the buyer has left feedback prior to item being received/shipped then that
would be a bit silly and they are in no better position regardless of whether
the order has been completed or not!
|
See Help page of definition of Status Completed.
A positive feedback doesn't mean the order is completed.
|
It doesn't mean your original statement makes any more sense either?
|
Kind of, re-read "while it wasn't meant" as "while it could haven't
been meant".
But who cares, the fact is there's no / not always relationship between feedback
and status.
I mean apart if everything's rewritten, like status, feedbacks, alerts...
But as of right now, a quick and easy way to straighten things would be to:
* redefine the Completed status in Help,
* or make seller not able to set the order to Completed.
Right now we're discussing in vain because it's one of the points where
BrickLink doesn't work or can't be used as described
I'm off this subject, sorry.
|
That's okay I can round-up things then....
Basically a buyer doesn't leave feedback until they consider the order completed
thereby making the status of 'Completed' obsolete
I cannot think of a single situation where a buyer would leave feedback if they
didn't consider the order completed? Presumably they leave feedback when
they've either received goods and are happy (Order Completed) or they leave
negative/neutral feedback because they are unhappy with the sellers lack of resolve
(Order Completed)
On other platforms like ebay there is no Completed status because feedback alone
defines the orders status and rounds up the overall transaction as complete!
|
|
Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 21:10 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 35 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
|
|
| | | As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
|
Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
If the buyer has left feedback prior to item being received/shipped then that
would be a bit silly and they are in no better position regardless of whether
the order has been completed or not!
|
See Help page of definition of Status Completed.
A positive feedback doesn't mean the order is completed.
|
It doesn't mean your original statement makes any more sense either?
|
Kind of, re-read "while it wasn't meant" as "while it could haven't
been meant".
But who cares, the fact is there's no / not always relationship between feedback
and status.
I mean apart if everything's rewritten, like status, feedbacks, alerts...
But as of right now, a quick and easy way to straighten things would be to:
* redefine the Completed status in Help,
* or make seller not able to set the order to Completed.
Right now we're discussing in vain because it's one of the points where
BrickLink doesn't work or can't be used as described
I'm off this subject, sorry.
|
|
Author: | infinibrix | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 20:48 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
|
|
| | | As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
|
Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
If the buyer has left feedback prior to item being received/shipped then that
would be a bit silly and they are in no better position regardless of whether
the order has been completed or not!
|
See Help page of definition of Status Completed.
A positive feedback doesn't mean the order is completed.
|
It doesn't mean your original statement makes any more sense either?
|
|
Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 20:16 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 36 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
|
|
| | | As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
|
Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
If the buyer has left feedback prior to item being received/shipped then that
would be a bit silly and they are in no better position regardless of whether
the order has been completed or not!
|
See Help page of definition of Status Completed.
A positive feedback doesn't mean the order is completed.
| I've come to the conclusion that you are the type of person who just likes
to disagree for the sake of disagreeing only your counter arguments rarely ever
seem to have any substance or make any sense?
|
Mom told me not to talk to trolls. Should have listen to her more.
|
|
Author: | infinibrix | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 19:44 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 40 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
|
|
| | | As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
|
Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
If the buyer has left feedback prior to item being received/shipped then that
would be a bit silly and they are in no better position regardless of whether
the order has been completed or not!
I've come to the conclusion that you are the type of person who just likes
to disagree for the sake of disagreeing only your counter arguments rarely ever
seem to have any substance or make any sense?
|
|
Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 15:22 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 44 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | |
There is a reason sellers might want to set an order to complete.
If you want to delete an old shipping method, you cannot if there is an open
order using that method
|
There's also NO reason to immediately delete a shipping method.
Simply disable it and forget it, delete it later on - it won't be shown in
your shop while disabled.
In short, there is still no reason a seller would set Completed an order
|
Sure there are work arounds to solve a problem. But if a seller wants to remove
a method, they cannot
|
We don't care.
The discussion is about: why a Seller would be able to set Completed.
Final argument being for me that this doesn't comply with the Completed status:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1462312
|
|
Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 15:04 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 34 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| | |
There is a reason sellers might want to set an order to complete.
If you want to delete an old shipping method, you cannot if there is an open
order using that method
|
There's also NO reason to immediately delete a shipping method.
Simply disable it and forget it, delete it later on - it won't be shown in
your shop while disabled.
In short, there is still no reason a seller would set Completed an order
|
Sure there are work arounds to solve a problem. But if a seller wants to remove
a method, they cannot and are warned it is because there are open orders (even
if they are filed). Hence they can be tempted to complete ones that are already
months old.
There is also the issue that store wide minimum orders take into account any
disabled methods. So if you have multiple redundant methods that are disabled
you still have to edit every one of them if you want to raise the store minimum,
even though they cannot be used by a buyer. Of course, this is not the buyer's
fault (or care), just dodgy programming blocking changes.
It also seems strange that you cannot delete a shipping method while an order
is open, but you can change all the variable parameters in that method.
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 13:34 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 56 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
|
There is a reason sellers might want to set an order to complete.
If you want to delete an old shipping method, you cannot if there is an open
order using that method
|
There's also NO reason to immediately delete a shipping method.
Simply disable it and forget it, delete it later on - it won't be shown in
your shop while disabled.
In short, there is still no reason a seller would set Completed an order
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 13:29 | Subject: | Re: Connect Wanted List to My Collection | Viewed: | 33 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, TheHatter13 writes:
| I asked this same thing previously but it is kind of a manual process that I
chose. You can use the apply order in the Wat list at the top but if you have
2 orders with the same part you can accidently apply some parts twice if you
are not careful.
I ended up using BrickStore which is a free program that connects to Bricklink.
I download my orders and then sort by part number. Once I have this I go to the
Search in the Want List menu and search for that part. Then, I can compare the
numbers and update the have quantities.
|
Great move!
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Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 13:05 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
|
There is a reason sellers might want to set an order to complete.
If you want to delete an old shipping method, you cannot if there is an open
order using that method, even if it was delivered months ago and feedback left.
Obviously you can disable the shipping method, change the name if it conflicts
with another name, set the minimum order value for that shipping method to 9999
if it conflicts with a change in the store minimum order value, but all that
is a faff just because someone hasn't marked an order as complete.
|
Like you mentioned you can simply choose disable and it will be off and then
in 6-months you can delete it. Plus that way your guaranteed not to potentially
cause issues to the buyer
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 12:50 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 49 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
|
There is a reason sellers might want to set an order to complete.
If you want to delete an old shipping method, you cannot if there is an open
order using that method, even if it was delivered months ago and feedback left.
Obviously you can disable the shipping method, change the name if it conflicts
with another name, set the minimum order value for that shipping method to 9999
if it conflicts with a change in the store minimum order value, but all that
is a faff just because someone hasn't marked an order as complete.
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Author: | TheHatter13 | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 06:14 | Subject: | Re: Connect Wanted List to My Collection | Viewed: | 35 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I asked this same thing previously but it is kind of a manual process that I
chose. You can use the apply order in the Wat list at the top but if you have
2 orders with the same part you can accidently apply some parts twice if you
are not careful.
I ended up using BrickStore which is a free program that connects to Bricklink.
I download my orders and then sort by part number. Once I have this I go to the
Search in the Want List menu and search for that part. Then, I can compare the
numbers and update the have quantities.
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Author: | mediatlon | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 05:51 | Subject: | Connect Wanted List to My Collection | Viewed: | 53 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I already found a way to add parts from an order to My Collection (using XML).
To avoid ordering the same part again, it would be helpful to see how many of
that part is already in my collection when building a Wanted List.
The "Have" box in the Wanted List is just valid for that list, and entered
one part by one, as far as I could see, so that doesn't help. I'm not
a seller, so I just want to use My Collection to track what I already have and
use it to build new Wanted lists.
Thanks,
M
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Author: | maxx3001 | Posted: | Apr 4, 2024 04:47 | Subject: | Re: Give access to all colors | Viewed: | 53 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Turez writes:
| In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| Please give 3001special access to all colors in the catalog, including Modulex
colors.
Often when uploading test bricks, it is hard to find the exact color, so having
all colors available is a must.
Also, some test bricks actually come in Modulex colors.
It would be great if this can be added.
Thanks,
Maxx
|
Moved to suggestions because this requires a code change. We can't do anything
here with our admin tools.
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Thank you 👍
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Author: | BB12 | Posted: | Apr 4, 2024 04:45 | Subject: | stud.io app | Viewed: | 59 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible that Stud.IO will ever become an
app. I would really look forward to be able to make and edit LEGO models on my
tablet!
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 4, 2024 01:16 | Subject: | Re: New filter based on % off | Viewed: | 24 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, TheHatter13 writes:
| That could work but I would still have to manually go through them. I use the
want list filter and select the min option to apply in bulk. If I just want parts
at a certain percentage that would not work as the lower sale items would still
be in the list.
|
If this was common buyer behaviour because a tool allows it, sellers would double
their prices and offer 50 % off on everything.
Some already do that type of thing, and advertise fake sales in the forum.
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Author: | axaday | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 19:48 | Subject: | Re: New filter based on % off | Viewed: | 31 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, TheHatter13 writes:
| I have seen a lot of sellers offer multiple different discounts. It would be
nice to have a filter that you can choose the discounts you want to see instead
of just all sales. Like if a shop has different sale percentages at 10, 25, 30,
50 and 75 percent off you could filter for everything above 50%.
|
I think if we had it you would come to see it was useless. If you were choosing
between Walmart, Target, or TRU, it would be useful, but different shops on Bricklink
routinely list things 3-4 times as much as other stores and those tend to be
the ones running sales. You can’t get much of an idea where you will get the
lowest prices by sorting by sale %.
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Author: | TheHatter13 | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 18:41 | Subject: | Re: New filter based on % off | Viewed: | 35 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| That could work but I would still have to manually go through them. I use the
want list filter and select the min option to apply in bulk. If I just want parts
at a certain percentage that would not work as the lower sale items would still
be in the list.
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 16:25 | Subject: | Re: New filter based on % off | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, TheHatter13 writes:
| I have seen a lot of sellers offer multiple different discounts. It would be
nice to have a filter that you can choose the discounts you want to see instead
of just all sales. Like if a shop has different sale percentages at 10, 25, 30,
50 and 75 percent off you could filter for everything above 50%.
|
Just sort by % off descending.
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Author: | M_R | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 15:25 | Subject: | Re: Give access to all colors | Viewed: | 66 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| Please give 3001special access to all colors in the catalog, including Modulex
colors.
Often when uploading test bricks, it is hard to find the exact color, so having
all colors available is a must.
Also, some test bricks actually come in Modulex colors.
It would be great if this can be added.
Thanks,
Maxx
|
Good one Maxx !
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Author: | TheHatter13 | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 11:23 | Subject: | New filter based on % off | Viewed: | 88 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
|
| I have seen a lot of sellers offer multiple different discounts. It would be
nice to have a filter that you can choose the discounts you want to see instead
of just all sales. Like if a shop has different sale percentages at 10, 25, 30,
50 and 75 percent off you could filter for everything above 50%.
|
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Author: | Turez | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 08:28 | Subject: | Re: Give access to all colors | Viewed: | 97 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, maxx3001 writes:
| Please give 3001special access to all colors in the catalog, including Modulex
colors.
Often when uploading test bricks, it is hard to find the exact color, so having
all colors available is a must.
Also, some test bricks actually come in Modulex colors.
It would be great if this can be added.
Thanks,
Maxx
|
Moved to suggestions because this requires a code change. We can't do anything
here with our admin tools.
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Author: | maxx3001 | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 07:45 | Subject: | Give access to all colors | Viewed: | 185 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
|
| Please give 3001special access to all colors in the catalog, including Modulex
colors.
Often when uploading test bricks, it is hard to find the exact color, so having
all colors available is a must.
Also, some test bricks actually come in Modulex colors.
It would be great if this can be added.
Thanks,
Maxx
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 04:39 | Subject: | Re: Wishlists (like amazon) | Viewed: | 46 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | People
could support their favorite content creators and not have acess to their adress,
friends that are not on the adress sharing level can also do that, members of
family can have a way easier time finding something you actually want without
the hassle of looking for it and packing and sending it. It would be a really
fun idea all around imo with a lot of ways to surprise someone.
|
Voted no, because of the idea of supporting content creators. This would be abused
from both sides. The buyer has no idea if the seller sends the item. Similarly,
there is no eller protection as the buyer asks for it to be sent to a different
address to their payment address.
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Author: | Brickwilbo | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 01:44 | Subject: | Re: Wishlists (like amazon) | Viewed: | 31 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, NuteGunray writes:
| My idea comes from my friend group and family that lives pretty much all over
Europe and US. We would like to buy each other figures or sets for events
and holidays like Christmas, birthdays or even have a wishlist for any occassion
like a wedding registry. As we don't always know which figure or set someone
is missing and as adresses change it would be nice to have a wishlist like people
on amazon have where you pick figures or sets you need and want and someone else
can buy them for you. Content creators can put them in their bios on social media,
people can put them on their wedding registries, for their birthdays etc. People
could support their favorite content creators and not have acess to their adress,
friends that are not on the adress sharing level can also do that, members of
family can have a way easier time finding something you actually want without
the hassle of looking for it and packing and sending it. It would be a really
fun idea all around imo with a lot of ways to surprise someone.
|
You can add items to a Wantlist, download the list and send the file.
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Author: | NuteGunray | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 00:47 | Subject: | Wishlists (like amazon) | Viewed: | 81 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
|
| My idea comes from my friend group and family that lives pretty much all over
Europe and US. We would like to buy each other figures or sets for events
and holidays like Christmas, birthdays or even have a wishlist for any occassion
like a wedding registry. As we don't always know which figure or set someone
is missing and as adresses change it would be nice to have a wishlist like people
on amazon have where you pick figures or sets you need and want and someone else
can buy them for you. Content creators can put them in their bios on social media,
people can put them on their wedding registries, for their birthdays etc. People
could support their favorite content creators and not have acess to their adress,
friends that are not on the adress sharing level can also do that, members of
family can have a way easier time finding something you actually want without
the hassle of looking for it and packing and sending it. It would be a really
fun idea all around imo with a lot of ways to surprise someone.
|
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Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 2, 2024 21:13 | Subject: | Re: "Report This Item" Button... | Viewed: | 53 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| Currently, when shopping, if you run across an item that needs to be reported
for one problem or another, it is a multi-step process to do so. I would like
to propose a simple "report this item" button be implemented so that simply clicking
it will take you to the "problem with item for sale" section, bring with it the
lot number from the item and when you have submitted the item, have a button
to bring you right back to where you left off so you can finish shopping.
Too often things do not get reported due to the current reporting process. A
one click reporting button with a simple return to previous page button would
be wonderful.
|
success!
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Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 2, 2024 21:10 | Subject: | Re: Make reporting bad listings easier | Viewed: | 40 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
| The only way I know of to report offending items is as follows...
1) find listing
2) roll mouse over picture of the listing
3) write the number down
4) find the problem report page, and enter the number
Please find a way to make this process easier. This is even more annoying when
after all that, the item has already been reported .
Darren
|
even tho its marked as discarded (at least at the time of my writing this) it
has been implemented!
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 17:24 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 58 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
Agreed - I have several customers that post FB as soon as I mark it shipped,
and sometimes earlier
Milissa
|
I appreciate you, Milissa. But please express your opinion more directly here
within the thread you've initiated. Not secondhand or in reply to others
replying. It would carry more weight.
|
You being the longest held admin position on the site, it won't be unseemly
to express yourself more boldly. Not imho anyway
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 17:19 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 45 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
Agreed - I have several customers that post FB as soon as I mark it shipped,
and sometimes earlier
Milissa
|
I appreciate you, Milissa. But please express your opinion more directly here
within the thread you've initiated. Not secondhand or in reply to others
replying. It would carry more weight.
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Author: | MMillere | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 16:38 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 42 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
Agreed - I have several customers that post FB as soon as I mark it shipped,
and sometimes earlier
Milissa
|
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 16:12 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 44 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
|
As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
|
Abolutely not please.
Buyer also can be too kind and post immediately a positive feedback when having
paid, or even before!
This would close the order as "Completed" while it wasn't meant
|
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 15:32 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 41 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, infinibrix writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
|
As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
Sensible. Put it forward as a Suggestion post, I say.
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Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 12:47 | Subject: | Re: Bricklink implement 1 suggestion annually | Viewed: | 32 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| In Suggestions, macebobo writes:
| On April 1st of each year.
|
If they implement this suggestion, then they would have fulfilled this year's
quota and they wouldn't need to implement another until next year!
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 12:26 | Subject: | Re: Bricklink implement 1 suggestion annually | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, macebobo writes:
| On April 1st of each year.
|
If they implement this suggestion, then they would have fulfilled this year's
quota and they wouldn't need to implement another until next year!
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 09:25 | Subject: | Re: Bricklink implement 1 suggestion annually | Viewed: | 37 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, macebobo writes:
| On April 1st of each year.
|
Clever
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 08:43 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 46 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| YES - same for Received. Tracking doesn't mean actually received.
|
To the best of my knowledge sellers can't set orders to received.
|
You're right, thanks!
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 08:36 | Subject: | Re: Bricklink implement 1 suggestion annually | Viewed: | 41 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, macebobo writes:
| On April 1st of each year.
|
Voted no: hoping they'll implement more often
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Author: | peregrinator | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 06:37 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 29 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, zorbanj writes:
| Ideally there would be two types of Complete in the pulldown, one for "Seller
- Complete" and the other "Buyer - Complete".
|
I don't think that's really necessary - once it's "Shipped"
it's "seller complete".
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Author: | peregrinator | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 06:33 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 37 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| YES - same for Received. Tracking doesn't mean actually received.
|
To the best of my knowledge sellers can't set orders to received.
|
Author: | StarBrick | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 03:37 | Subject: | Re: Bricklink implement 1 suggestion annually | Viewed: | 52 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, macebobo writes:
| On April 1st of each year.
|
And we can choose which one?
|
Author: | macebobo | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 00:22 | Subject: | Bricklink implement 1 suggestion annually | Viewed: | 155 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
|
| On April 1st of each year. |
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Author: | Nubs_Select | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 00:20 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 31 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, zorbanj writes:
| But a seller *is* allowed to mark an order as complete. Why is it allowed if
it's so terrible?
|
Because Completed means:
"Completed - Package received, contents verified, the order is completed."
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1462289
It's terrible because the seller can NOT tell contents' been verified
and the buyer thinks the order is completed.
In a more generic reply, sellers should take care of their inventory, purchase
packaging, review prices, clean terms, make an attractive but sincere shop, prepare
accounting for IRS... whatever ELSE than taking care of the buyers or what's
the status of their orders.
|
Well put. And as to the question of why is it allowed, it could be for any number
of reasons, an accident, old feature/rules, poorly implemented, etc. it’s not
like bricklink is bug free and everything is perfect. Most things on Bricklink
have slight quirks at the very least
|
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Author: | infinibrix | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 23:26 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 39 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
|
As a side note I wonder whether status should auto set to complete once buyer
has left feedback or certainly after both buyer and seller have left feedback
|
|
Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 21:37 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 41 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, zorbanj writes:
| But a seller *is* allowed to mark an order as complete. Why is it allowed if
it's so terrible?
|
Because Completed means:
"Completed - Package received, contents verified, the order is completed."
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1462289
It's terrible because the seller can NOT tell contents' been verified
and the buyer thinks the order is completed.
In a more generic reply, sellers should take care of their inventory, purchase
packaging, review prices, clean terms, make an attractive but sincere shop, prepare
accounting for IRS... whatever ELSE than taking care of the buyers or what's
the status of their orders.
|
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Author: | zorbanj | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 21:23 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 28 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:
|
Yes. There are no legitimate cases for sellers to ever mark an order as completed.
|
Then is this functionality enabled? I have posted this question many times on
the forum and no one has posted an answer. So, here we go again:
If a seller should "never" mark an order as complete, then why does BL
allow it?
| Even if the buyer says they got their order and are happy it still is no reason
then up to the seller to mark it as complete. Those orders would then just fall
into the same category as the other ~50% of orders that would be in the exact
same circumstance aside for the message. And on the flip side letting the seller
mark it as complete can make things much more difficult for buyers.
|
But a seller *is* allowed to mark an order as complete. Why is it allowed if
it's so terrible?
| Just like
a buyer can’t change the order status from paid to shipped the seller should
not be allowed to change it from shipped to completed.
|
I really don't see the big deal. Every order has a buyer and a seller, and
if the seller feels the order is complete they have the ability to mark it as
complete. The buyer can always change it back.
Ideally there would be two types of Complete in the pulldown, one for "Seller
- Complete" and the other "Buyer - Complete".
|
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 20:26 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 39 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| Again, in 2024, a buyer should'nt have to click "I received my order,
how lucky I am!"
Etc.
|
And the Suggestion wasn't about what could or should do the buyer, but if
the seller should or shouldn't be able to set the transaction to "Completed".
This is even easier: no (he shouldn't).
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 20:15 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 32 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| We are not Amazon, that’s why buyers are so lazy now.
|
Be kind with buyers.
Be happy they do what they only HAVE to do: place an order with no problem, and
pay for it in a timely manner.
That's it.
| I like to be able to know that my customers have received their orders.
|
It's not your business.
You're a seller, you ship what you've been ordered for.
If there's a problem in the end, you'll be informed.
Otherwise you leave the buyer alone; we've concerns for Privacy here.
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 20:09 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 39 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| Both this concept and Help page are outdated.
1) Fix the Help page(s).
2) Disallow the seller to change to Received or Completed.
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It's an updated page:
"This document was last updated on Aug 21, 2023 19:34 by CE_Eric"
But you keep trying... it continues to be fun
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Even chatGPT knows better:
"Updated" simply means that some changes or modifications have been made
to a particular piece of information, product, or service. It indicates that
the information has been refreshed or modified in some way, which could include
corrections, additions, or enhancements.
However, "updated" does not necessarily imply that the information is
not outdated. In other words, while updates may have been applied, it's possible
that those updates are insufficient to bring the information completely up-to-date,
especially if significant changes have occurred since the last update.
Therefore, it's crucial to understand that while updates are important for
maintaining accuracy and relevance, they may not always guarantee that the information
is completely current or not outdated. Users should exercise caution and consider
other factors such as the date of the last update, the pace of change in the
relevant industry or market, and any additional sources of information available.
Again, in 2024, a buyer should'nt have to click "I received my order,
how lucky I am!"
Etc.
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Author: | Saitobricks.ca | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 19:58 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 28 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| Under Buyer "Change Order Status to Completed - Change the Order
Status Received when you have received your package (but have not yet verified
its contents or there is a problem). When you verify the contents of your package
and consider the order completed, change the order status Completed"
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That's a typical 2000 text
Since somewhere later than 2000, I don't have to tell: "I've received
the order, that's unbelievable!!!"
And then after opening the parcel: "Wow, it contains what I paid for!".
Buyer shouldn't HAVE to do this.
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We are not Amazon, that’s why buyers are so lazy now.
| Both this concept and Help page are outdated.
1) Fix the Help page(s).
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Please do
| 2) Disallow the seller to change to Received or Completed.
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Why?
Other that the incompetent buyers who are to lazy to do it them selfs I see no
problem.
I like to be able to know that my customers have received their orders.
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 19:55 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 48 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| Under Buyer "Change Order Status to Completed - Change the Order
Status Received when you have received your package (but have not yet verified
its contents or there is a problem). When you verify the contents of your package
and consider the order completed, change the order status Completed"
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That's a typical 2000 text
Since somewhere later than 2000, I don't have to tell: "I've received
the order, that's unbelievable!!!"
And then after opening the parcel: "Wow, it contains what I paid for!".
Buyer shouldn't HAVE to do this.
Both this concept and Help page are outdated.
1) Fix the Help page(s).
2) Disallow the seller to change to Received or Completed.
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It's an updated page:
"This document was last updated on Aug 21, 2023 19:34 by CE_Eric"
But you keep trying... it continues to be fun
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 19:49 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 36 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| Under Buyer "Change Order Status to Completed - Change the Order
Status Received when you have received your package (but have not yet verified
its contents or there is a problem). When you verify the contents of your package
and consider the order completed, change the order status Completed"
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That's a typical 2000 text
Since somewhere later than 2000, I don't have to tell: "I've received
the order, that's unbelievable!!!"
And then after opening the parcel: "Wow, it contains what I paid for!".
Buyer shouldn't HAVE to do this.
Both this concept and Help page are outdated.
1) Fix the Help page(s).
2) Disallow the seller to change to Received or Completed.
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 19:04 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 53 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
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+1!
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Rather not, Milissa.
There are fairly common scenarios in which a seller might consider setting a
sent order status to “Completed” Just a few…
1) Buyer leaves positive feedback, but doesn’t change the order status from “Shipped”
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Just file it.
| 2) Buyer messages seller, thanking and/or offering praise of service or product
without changing the status.
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Just file it.
| 3) Buyer and seller are in communication over an order issue, which concludes
with the buyer expressing to the seller, their complete satisfaction with the
transaction. Here, the seller might not wish to task the already tasked buyer
further, by asking them to change the status and rather takes care it themself.
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Just file it.
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There are a good many LEGO fans that simply don’t know, don’t care, or don’t
care to know about order status 'duties’ and just wanna buy LEGO, that’s
it. Which is fine. The changing of order status by the seller simply helps a
vendor clean things up a bit, to stay organized. I does for me anyway.
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The only order duty a buyer has is to pay. After that is the seller shipping
it and nothing else, as a commerce platform there is no further need to
do anything else.
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What part of this explicit statement of mine...
“There are a good many LEGO fans that simply don’t know, don’t care, or
don’t care to know about order status 'duties’ and just wanna buy LEGO, that’s
it. Which is fine”
... does not align with the sentiment of your reply, or are you just repeating
back in argumentative form, what’s been expressed? The latter does not advance
discussion
My attitude is relatively the same as yours and Milissa's, never really cared
if my buyers used the status change, not as much as is occasionally expressed
in forum by others. Just rather keep the seller ability in place, is all.
As to order status ‘duties’ and importance: None "need" as you
say, fulfill those. But it is a significant form of communications within a transaction,
helpful to both parties. Otherwise, why bother having the ability for both buyer
and seller.
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And let's substitute the term "duties" with tasks, if that
facilitates better understand: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1138
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Opening sentence: "Buyer and Seller each have tasks to complete
during the lifetime of an order"
Under Buyer "Change Order Status to Completed - Change the Order
Status Received when you have received your package (but have not yet verified
its contents or there is a problem). When you verify the contents of your package
and consider the order completed, change the order status Completed"
I've always maintained that I personally don't care if my buyers fulfill
their task, not really, and will gladly handle it when needed.
-popsicle
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Author: | 1001bricks | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 18:43 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 45 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
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Thanks to Cory, I reread the Help:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=41&q=status
... which says:
Received - Package has been received but the buyer has not yet verified the contents
on the package.
Completed - Package received, contents verified, the order is completed.
So there is no way the seller could decide that the package is received (as tracking
isn't truth like map isn't territory), and / or the order had been verified
by the buyer, and the buyer to agree the order is completed.
In short, as per BrickLink Help it shouldn't be technically allowed for a
seller to change this.
Implementing this would just, in fact, correspond to the terms of the Help /
guidelines / terms of BrickLink.
Or change the BrickLink Help page.
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 18:41 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 52 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
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+1!
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Rather not, Milissa.
There are fairly common scenarios in which a seller might consider setting a
sent order status to “Completed” Just a few…
1) Buyer leaves positive feedback, but doesn’t change the order status from “Shipped”
|
Just file it.
| 2) Buyer messages seller, thanking and/or offering praise of service or product
without changing the status.
|
Just file it.
| 3) Buyer and seller are in communication over an order issue, which concludes
with the buyer expressing to the seller, their complete satisfaction with the
transaction. Here, the seller might not wish to task the already tasked buyer
further, by asking them to change the status and rather takes care it themself.
|
Just file it.
|
There are a good many LEGO fans that simply don’t know, don’t care, or don’t
care to know about order status 'duties’ and just wanna buy LEGO, that’s
it. Which is fine. The changing of order status by the seller simply helps a
vendor clean things up a bit, to stay organized. I does for me anyway.
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The only order duty a buyer has is to pay. After that is the seller shipping
it and nothing else, as a commerce platform there is no further need to
do anything else.
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What part of this explicit statement of mine...
“There are a good many LEGO fans that simply don’t know, don’t care, or
don’t care to know about order status 'duties’ and just wanna buy LEGO, that’s
it. Which is fine”
... does not align with the sentiment of your reply, or are you just repeating
back in argumentative form, what’s been expressed? The latter does not advance
discussion
My attitude is relatively the same as yours and Milissa's, never really cared
if my buyers used the status change, not as much as is occasionally expressed
in forum by others. Just rather keep the seller ability in place, is all.
As to order status ‘duties’ and importance: None "need" as you
say, fulfill those. But it is a significant form of communications within a transaction,
helpful to both parties. Otherwise, why bother having the ability for both buyer
and seller.
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And let's substitute the term "duties" with tasks, if that
facilitates better understand: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1138
-popsicle
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Author: | popsicle | Posted: | Mar 31, 2024 18:27 | Subject: | Re: Setting Orders to Complete! | Viewed: | 90 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
| In Suggestions, popsicle writes:
| In Suggestions, MMillere writes:
| Since sellers are NOT supposed to set orders to Complete.....
Can we make it so they can't?
Because when a seller does it by mistake, we can not send a ship notice thru
the system
Thanx
Milissa
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|
+1!
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Rather not, Milissa.
There are fairly common scenarios in which a seller might consider setting a
sent order status to “Completed” Just a few…
1) Buyer leaves positive feedback, but doesn’t change the order status from “Shipped”
|
Just file it.
| 2) Buyer messages seller, thanking and/or offering praise of service or product
without changing the status.
|
Just file it.
| 3) Buyer and seller are in communication over an order issue, which concludes
with the buyer expressing to the seller, their complete satisfaction with the
transaction. Here, the seller might not wish to task the already tasked buyer
further, by asking them to change the status and rather takes care it themself.
|
Just file it.
|
There are a good many LEGO fans that simply don’t know, don’t care, or don’t
care to know about order status 'duties’ and just wanna buy LEGO, that’s
it. Which is fine. The changing of order status by the seller simply helps a
vendor clean things up a bit, to stay organized. I does for me anyway.
|
The only order duty a buyer has is to pay. After that is the seller shipping
it and nothing else, as a commerce platform there is no further need to
do anything else.
|
What part of this explicit statement of mine...
“There are a good many LEGO fans that simply don’t know, don’t care, or
don’t care to know about order status 'duties’ and just wanna buy LEGO, that’s
it. Which is fine”
... does not align with the sentiment of your reply, or are you just repeating
back in argumentative form, what’s been expressed? The latter does not advance
discussion
My attitude is relatively the same as yours and Milissa's, never really cared
if my buyers used the status change, not as much as is occasionally expressed
in forum by others. Just rather keep the seller ability in place, is all.
As to order status ‘duties’ and importance: None "need" as you
say, fulfill those. But it is a significant form of communications within a transaction,
helpful to both parties. Otherwise, why bother having the ability for both buyer
and seller.
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