Author:  Admin_Russell  Posted:  Jan 26, 2024 18:28  Subject:  Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed  Viewed:  96 times  Topic:  Catalog Cancel Reply

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In Catalog, jennnifer writes:       In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes: Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions. It's good to have more of the specifics.       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? 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. 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. 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 on.          I wonder how much Catalog Credit will just vanish on Feb 15th. Credit for images, items, inventories, ... all gone. 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. 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. Unfortunately the data linked to a catalog entry is dynamic in orders, so the only thing that is recorded there is the number behind the number - the index for that entry, which never changes. So if a lot is purchased before the seller adds the note, the lot will show up as a merged entry in the order if the catalog entry is merged.

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Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - jennnifer (3537)

[...] Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions. It's good to have more of the specifics. [...] The results may not be monumental, but they may not understand [...] (4 months ago, Jan 26, 2024, to Catalog)

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Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed - SylvainLS (46)

[...] Maybe it’s the hour (already tomorrow here :D) but even with an idea of what you’re trying to say, I’m not sure I understand. So, an example: 1. Buyer orders [...] (4 months ago, Jan 26, 2024, to Catalog)

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