Author:  infinibrix  Posted:  May 13, 2024 21:52  Subject:  Re: FIGURE SW0121 REMOVED  Viewed:  57 times  Topic:  General Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card infinibrix (5019) Location:  United Kingdom, England Member Since Contact Type Status Jul 1, 2013 Seller  Store: infinibrix

In General, Admin_Russell writes:    In General, pitz8008 writes:    In General, zorbanj writes:    In General, pitz8008 writes:    This is what I had written in the description. "Comments: No hair, round plate, lightsaber, doesn't light up. Rest of figure looks in good shape." If your fig wasn't removed automatically by some algorithm, it was likely due to the missing hair and round plate. Also, the other are still listed someone reported yours and not the others. And this had been discussed prior and was said that the figure can be listed that way since it does not have an inventory. Which doesn't make send because the figure can be inventoried since the parts are removable. But the fact mine was taken down and not the others is ridiculous. Especially since this was the agreed upon previous policy. I don't remember this policy, but we did decide a few years ago to not allow the inventorying of Technic minifigures and this presented the same sort of problem, because we removed entries for the individual parts, like the foot. Frayed capes and wands that do not light up will not cause a listing to be removed. Missing hairpieces, missing capes, missing 1 x 1 round plates or any other missing part WILL result in the listing being removed if reported. An inventory is not necessary to determine if basic components are missing from a listing. The image, the instructions, the Item Name, and any Additional Catalog Notes all help set the scope of the entry. The appropriate place for items missing parts is the Custom Items section. We need to do a better job helping sellers list under the custom item section and helping buyers find these listings. In fact, the whole section could use more exposure in general. Well yes if items like this and incomplete sets need to be listed as custom lots then that's fine but just like how custom items appear at the top within in a store search I think the same should apply to Custom lots within a generic search. For instance on this page where I've done an example search for 'Lando' :- https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=lando#T=A There are two custom Lando minifigures including one of my own minifigs without cape but they are right at the very bottom of the page (that's if anyone should care or think to scroll that far down?) However if they are at the very top people will notice them yet can still continue to scroll down with purpose to their desired search be that looking under Lando 'Parts section' or 'Minifigures section' so as far as I can see it should just a case of rearranging the positioning of the category sections. If that was done then Custom lots would actually become a lot more worthwhile and nobody would have reason to complain about being forced to use custom lots

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Re: FIGURE SW0121 REMOVED - Admin_Russell

[...] I don't remember this policy, but we did decide a few years ago to not allow the inventorying of Technic minifigures and this presented the same sort of problem, [...] (16 days ago, May 13, 2024, to General)

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