Author:  Grego  Posted:  Aug 30, 2015 22:24  Subject:  Allow Sellers to auto-close store  Viewed:  276 times  Topic:  Suggestions  Status: Implemented Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card Grego (3899) Location:  Canada, British Columbia Member Since Contact Type Status Jan 11, 2006 Seller  Store: Gregos

Seller after seller falls into difficult times and finds they really need to close their store to stem the tide of new orders. If sellers have 20/20 foresight and can tell the future, they know when to shutdown their store *before* they become sick, before that car accident that leaves them in a coma in the hospital, before the massive power outage that shuts down their city. How many sellers on BL are great at predicting the future? I know I'm not. Otherwise I would have shut my store down BEFORE the massive power outage that is currently affecting my area. My suggestion is this: Change the current lower minimum time on auto-shutdown of av store from 3 days to something more realistic like 1 day ....or even 12 hours. Technically, I can't see BL having a problem with that ... they auto-disconnect users after 15 - 30 minutes of browser inactivity and preform daily site maintenance. Surely doing a daily check on stores that have not been active in the last 24 hours (only for those sellers who actively select that time frame), is possible. BL may have some philosophical or ethical reason for this 3 day limit, but I can not see what it could be. The current 3 day limit only exacerbates the situation and does not make for happy buyers or sellers. Buyers are unhappy because their sellers are ignoring them; Sellers are unhappy as is soon as they are back on their feet physically or electronically, they may have to go into over-drive to process the backlog of orders that occurred before they could shutdown their store Who knows more about when and how often a given seller logs into his/her store? The store owner or BrickLink? Grumpy seller still without power after 1.5 days ...and 3 new orders to process when I do get power back

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Re: Allow Sellers to auto-close store - tEoS (5297)

(URL) In Suggestions, Grego writes: [...] (106 months ago, Aug 30, 2015, to Suggestions)

Re: Allow Sellers to auto-close store - Grego (3899)

[...] Current status for this suggestion claims it is implemented. Must have broke as soon as it was implemented, as the minimum is still THREE DAYS (93 months ago, Sep 27, 2016, to Suggestions)

8 Messages in this Thread:

 Msg 1 « - Grego (3899) 106 months ago Aug 30, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - tEoS (5297) 106 months ago Aug 30, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 - j7r7o7c7k7 (135) 106 months ago Aug 30, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 4 - tEoS (5297) 106 months ago Aug 30, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 - j7r7o7c7k7 (135) 106 months ago Aug 30, 2015 to Suggestions
 Msg 6 - Grego (3899) 93 months ago Sep 27, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 7 - tEoS (5297) 93 months ago Sep 27, 2016 to Suggestions
 Msg 8 - Grego (3899) 93 months ago Sep 27, 2016 to Suggestions