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Re: Crazy idea for third-party Factory-like service
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:33:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Larry Whitman wrote:
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How about just writing some code for bricklink and selling it to them which
takes an mlcad model and scans Bricklink for the best deal for those pieces
or all pieces from one vendor etc. Kind of like peeron does for individual
pieces already (at least I don’t think this capability already exists!)
Larry
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Larry-
I’ve always wondered why BrickLink was not set up to provide a user with the
cheapest solution to a specific want list. One could argue that it’s counter
productive for sellers wanting to get the most for their wares, but BL is aleady
setup to help users find the cheapest parts. So, why not help users find the
cheapest set of parts? I suppose this quickly starts to resemble the traveling
salesman problem in that finding the exact best solution is not necessarily
easy, but finding a good enough solution would probably be just fine. One
wrinkle is that BL doesn provide shipping costs up front, so that makes a
calculation more imprecise. Still, ...
-Ted
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| (...) Beautiful idea! If I may add a slight suggestion... How about just writing some code for bricklink and selling it to them which takes an mlcad model and scans Bricklink for the best deal for those pieces or all pieces from one vendor etc. Kind (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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