Author: | jennnifer | Posted: | Jan 26, 2024 17:17 | Subject: | Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed | Viewed: | 67 times | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
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Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions. It's good to have more
of the specifics.
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| 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?
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All sellers who had logged in in the last 6 months were notified by email. As
you may recall, originally a seller's inventory would be completely deleted
after 6 months of inactivity. Now it's not of course, but if they wait a
year, the whole account gets anonymized.
So relative to that, I would say this is not a monumental thing for people who
happen to be inactive for a while. It will probably mean they will need to consolidate
a few lots in their store.
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The results may not be monumental, but they may not understand what's going
on. If they've missed the one announcement, they are going to find a bunch
of duplicate lots. It's going to seem to them that a bunch of items are 'missing'
when they go to look for a merged variant. There's going to be confusion
and then many, many questions here in the Forum. (See sales tax / onsite payment
threads for an example of how long a miscommunication can exist.)
I think there should be a visible notification in the My Actions List similar
to the ## Lots Marked for Deletion. It should be a log of: Lots Affected by Merged
Variants. Sellers should be able to click on it and see every affected lot in
their shop.
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| I wonder how much Catalog Credit will just vanish on Feb 15th. Credit for images,
items, inventories, ... all gone.
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Merges don't touch any of that stuff. It's all retained, but it may not
be retained in the same format as before. For example, inventory change requests
will still show in the logs and in the Forum messages. It's just that in
the logs, it may look like an item was changed to the same item. But the Forum
saves it just as it is, with all the comments and supporting documentation.
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I expect to lose plenty of Catalog Credit. (I don't really mind, I was just
making a point.) I added many of these 3626b and c heads and their images over
the years.
Last thing that you may have missed when I reposted my original list of questions:
What's to happen to lots in active open orders when this change occurs? If
a seller doesn't choose to make a note on every affected lot, it's possible
a buyer will have ordered one specific variant that is merged by the time the
seller goes to pull the part.
Thanks again,
~Jen
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Message is in Reply To: 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) |
Message Has 1 Reply: Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - Admin_Russell | [...] I wish we were at the place where we could deploy something like that for occasional use. The best I believe we will have to offer is an XML list which we are still working [...] (4 months ago, Jan 26, 2024, to Catalog) |
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