  
| Author: | viejos  | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2017 01:31 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 7019-1 | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, viejos writes:
| | Let me look into it. Since the original inventory is considered solid, I think
the alternate exchange can be done with just one set of instructions.
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OK, after studying this inventory a bit and hearing from a couple people offering
different pieces of the puzzle, I am ready to pronounce this inventory to be
the textbook definition of a MESS. Not the worst I've seen on BL, but pretty
bad.
The root of the problem as I see it now is that the original inventory was compiled
from two different versions of the set - a very early version (whose production
run may have been cut short) and the "regular" early version. Alternate quantities
were listed in the Regular section alongside the Regular quantities, with no
distinguishing markings.
A late version which had a supplemental instructions sheet (showing the lengthening
of two pairs of plates - see images below) was then discovered and the differences
were added to the BL inventory within a month.
At the time this inventory was added (2005), sellers were fully expected to manually
confirm the contents of their particular sets during partout. That's how
a "fusion" inventory like this one could be made to work. This goes as a reminder
that the BL partout feature (similar to the recent populate new inventory feature)
was never intended to be a one-click operation. Rather, it was designed only
to take the brunt of the catalog work out of the partout process.
Anyhow, the change log is filled with a variety of things. The fixing of clerical
errors, attempts to separate extras, attempts to account for the two early versions,
standard system upgrades, the adding of mold variants, and a whole lot of match
ID changes. In addition, there are currently a number of pending requests from
two different members. But with a little patience, it will get fixed. I have
an idea in mind.
As a point of interest, if our current Inv Admin (Jen) at some point adds her
blue squares to this change log, it will likely set a record for the most Inv
Admins to work on a given inventory (six!).
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