Author:  yorbrick  Posted:  Jan 9, 2024 11:47  Subject:  Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants  Viewed:  86 times  Topic:  Catalog Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card yorbrick (1185) Location:  United Kingdom, England Member Since Contact Type Status Apr 11, 2011 Seller  Store: Yorbricks

In Catalog, 1001bricks writes:    In Catalog, Dino writes:    This site is degenerating more and more into a random site. If you don't care what part variants there are and where they were used, you might as well use the inventory lists of the LEGO sets. That would be much quicker. Then it won't make any difference what color a part is as long as it looks similar to the original. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3068a#T=P&C=11 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3068b#T=P&C=11 6 months Sales, New. Black Tile 2x2 WIHOUT groove, sold: 6 Black Tile 2x2 WIH groove, sold: 242531 The demand for this example of modern Tiles represents just... 99.997% I think it's fine if BrickLink makes it easy for the VAST majority of the market. For used parts, the ratio drops to about 99%. But I guess that is expected for such an old part where the modern one dominates the market because of the relative scarcity of the older ones. Mixing them means it becomes much harder to find the old ones if you really want them. Sure sellers could note in the comments that they have them, but how much more do they have to be worth for the seller to sort them, store them and label them if there is an easy option of mixing them? If two variants of a part have similar value, I imagine sellers won't go to the effort of saying what they have. Then buyers will need to place many orders (or ask lots of questions, many of which will go unanswered) to find the part variant they want if they want less common variants.

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Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - 1001bricks (52476)

[...] (URL) (URL) 6 months Sales, New. Black Tile 2x2 WIHOUT groove, sold: 6 Black Tile 2x2 WIH groove, sold: 242531 The demand for this example of modern Tiles represents [...] (5 months ago, Jan 9, 2024, to Catalog)

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Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - 1001bricks (52476)

[...] See Russell's post I replied to, here: (URL) ... there should be a specific variant kept for those rare cases. The normal entry would be a kind of "Undetermined". [...] (5 months ago, Jan 9, 2024, to Catalog)

Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - Admin_Russell

[...] [...] Just to be clear, the last example on the Help page does NOT involve merging / deleting entries. It only means we rename and renumber 4 very common parts: (Part [...] (5 months ago, Jan 9, 2024, to Catalog)

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