Author:  bhim001  Posted:  Jan 28, 2017 20:42  Subject:  Automate multi store purchases  Viewed:  120 times  Topic:  Suggestions  Status: Already Exists Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card bhim001 (16) Location:  New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Member Since Contact Type Status Sep 30, 2016 Buyer

Hi I'm totally new to bricklink. Firstly thanks to all the people who make this happen. It's awesome! One suggestion / request though... We all know that shipping costs are the real killer when it comes to ordering bricks. I recently purchased a bulk lot of used lego sets and had to order around 200 pieces that were missing. Ultimately I had to order parts from about 7 different stores and three different countries to get all the bits I wanted. No one store had all the bits I needed. It was a very pain-staking process to try and find the smallest number of different stores that could fill my order. Ultimately the price of each brick wasn't too important. It worked out a lot cheaper to buy bricks at twice the price from half as many different stores. I think it would be great if users could enter a list of desired parts and bricklink offered an automated search that could generate the shortest possible list of suppliers (the fewest number of different stores) that would be able to supply all the parts needed. My sincerest apologies if this already exists. ~Ben

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Re: Automate multi store purchases - StormChaser (569)

[...] This already exists somewhat. It's the Wanted List feature. You can explore it by clicking on the heart at the upper right side of your screen. (89 months ago, Jan 28, 2017, to Suggestions)

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