  
| Author: | jennnifer  | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2024 10:12 | | Subject: | Variant merge - specific answers needed | | Viewed: | 233 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hello,
Regardless of my thoughts toward losing some valuable variants in our Catalog,
I have now read the message twice, and read most of the main Forum thread, and
I still have no idea how technically this is going to work.
You are going to take two active catalog items, 3747b and 3747a for example,
choose a main Image, choose one Image for each of the color thumbnails, choose
1 Price Guide (or does this merge also), and add a new Note explaining the 2
different versions. Is an experienced Catalog Expert going to do this or someone
else? Will the deleted info be archived in case of errors?
Then, you are going to merge the two items in the Catalog.
Seller shop inventory
Seller's shop items will be merged unless they paste a specific string of
text on the entry ahead of time. If not, they will not get to choose which price
is used or any of the other lot data. They will not be given a log of exactly
what was merged or changed.
It's not as if sellers are already prone to blaming BrickLink for errors
in their inventory. Now BrickLink will be actively changing their store listings.
We have no way of testing if this going to work and no way of flagging or logging
errors created.
Set Inventories
All Set Inventories that have these items will change to just one item. Any sets
that have the parts listed as Alternates will ?? Any Match ID's affected
will ?? Links to Change Requests discussing these items will ??
Everything else
All Wanted Lists that have these items listed will have the parts merged? What
if they are in separate projects? Isn't there an issue with Wanted Lists
already that involves problems with duplicate items?
All external links to one (or both) of the item variants will break or ??
All the people who write related software will have to adjust, rewrite, debug,
and ??
To sum up:
There is a reason it took so long to Mark Items for Deletion and then actually
delete them. It's to avoid all this trouble and uncertainty.
What happens 3 months from now when a seller who's been away reopens his
shop and doesn't understand what happened? You simply cannot count on every
single member receiving, reading, and understanding the email message sent out.
Will they receive any Action Items within BrickLink to understand the changes?
I wonder how much Catalog Credit will just vanish on Feb 15th. Credit for images,
items, inventories, ... all gone.
Thanks,
~Jen
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Message Has 7 Replies:  Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - SylvainLS (46) | [...] AFAIU, lots in stores won’t be merged. You’ll “just” have two lots for the same ID, with different prices and comments. Before: — id 2454, New, Black, $0.5, your remarks [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 25, 2024, to Catalog) |
Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - Leftoverbricks (2225) | I very much agree with all your critical and, in my opinion, justified comments about this change. Moreover, you are one of the active inventory contributors, so your comments [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 25, 2024, to Catalog) |
Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - jennnifer (3535)  | Reposting for clarity and questions answered: Hello, Regardless of my thoughts toward losing some valuable variants in our Catalog, I have now read the message twice, and read [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 25, 2024, to Catalog) |
| Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - Admin_Russell | [...] [...] [...] I will do all of these changes myself. There are too many steps to mention here, but here is a list of the results: 1) In our current system, no images [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 26, 2024, to Catalog) |
Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - SnarkBricks (9838) | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX These variants ALL have different price points. Some are vital to re-creating the authenticity of the older [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 1, 2024, to Catalog) |
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