Author:  calsbricks  Posted:  Aug 4, 2016 09:23  Subject:  Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color.  Viewed:  48 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card calsbricks (8538) Location:  United Kingdom, England Member Since Contact Type Status Aug 12, 2008 Seller Store: CalsBricks

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:    In Suggestions, garbanzo writes:    The catalog is littered with parts that have very likely been uploaded under the wrong color. Look at 4495 for example, I would guess that 6 of those colors with lots under them are just listed incorrectly (bright pink, dark blue-violet, dark purple, Maersk blue, pink, rust).   *  4495 Flag 4 x 1 Wave Undetermined (Undetermined Type) Parts: Flag Marked for Deletion This shouldn't happen when parting out new sets, but when listing used parts, it seems some sellers don't check against current listings or against the "known colors" data for the part they are listing, and they end up picking whatever they want. I would like to suggest that a control mechanism be put in place to help address this. Maybe if a seller is adding a part to their store that is not a known color, there can be a popup saying "this is not a known color for this part - are you sure?". Maybe the pop-up can contain a list of the known colors to choose from. If the seller is confident they have a "new" color, they can click "this part is not a known color" to proceed with the listing. Ideally, this would flag the entry with a tag that can be used in searches and wanted list notifications. I would love to pick a part and ask to be notified when one is listed in a "new color", or to be able to search within categories for parts in new colors. I guess they are using other software then uploading to bricklink, so the software they use wold also need to know about known colours. This is something we have asked Patrick Brans (Brickstock) for as well as the only way you can tell if it is an unknown colour is if there is no small image available (and that isn't entirely accurate). So yes would like to see some sort of control mechanism which at least warns 'it isn't a known colour'.

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Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. - yorbrick (1185)

[...] I guess they are using other software then uploading to bricklink, so the software they use wold also need to know about known colours. (95 months ago, Aug 4, 2016, to Suggestions)

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Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. - yorbrick (1185)

[...] I guess BL could have a stock check tool that you can run on your inventory once uploaded, although this isn't needed of course for people uploading via BL (as [...] (95 months ago, Aug 4, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. - garbanzo (322)

[...] Is that data not available through the BL API? (95 months ago, Aug 4, 2016, to Suggestions)

Re: Are you sure? This is not a known color. - Royroy (6293)

[...] [...] I always look at the amount of sales of a specific color when I am in doubt (and check BL to be sure). When it is just 1 or 2 in 6 months, that is almost [...] (95 months ago, Aug 4, 2016, to Suggestions)

6 Messages in this Thread:

 Msg 1 - garbanzo (322) 95 months ago Aug 4, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - yorbrick (1185) 95 months ago Aug 4, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 « - calsbricks (8538) 95 months ago Aug 4, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 4 - yorbrick (1185) 95 months ago Aug 4, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 - garbanzo (322) 95 months ago Aug 4, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 6 - Royroy (6293) 95 months ago Aug 4, 2016 to Suggestions