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Re: Brickbay is available and running on a new server
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Sun, 12 Aug 2001 09:29:05 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Dan Jezek writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Paul Janssen writes:
> > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Daniel L. Massicotte writes:
> > > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Dan Jezek writes:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The move has been completed, I apologize for it taking so long. Brickbay
> > > > can be accessed on the following URL:
> > > >
> > > > http://216.37.35.72/
> > > >
> > > > The domain name www.brickbay.com will point to it within the next 48 hours.
> > > > If you go to www.brickbay.com, you will be automatically redirected to the
> > > > new server.
> > > >
> > > > Brickbay is now hosted by Eric Smith's Northstar Computer Systems. Eric is
> > > > a member of the AFOL community, a member of the Guild of Bricksmiths and
> > > > even has a Brickbay shop. Check it out:
> > > >
> > > > http://216.37.35.72/store.asp?p=ncseric
> > > >
> > > > Please e-mail me if you encounter any problems ;-)
> > >
> > > Hi Dan,
> > > I seem to have an intereting problem with brickbay that does'nt occure all
> > > the time. Suppose I click the store in the US "Lost in the Vacuum." Once I'm
> > > in the store, I see the splash page, the name of the store, and where the
> > > store is located, but the list of set categories and pieces are'nt there.
> > > However, this problem does'nt happen with all the stores. Only certain ones
> > > like: Charles Heap O Legos, Lost in the Vacuum, Pyrite's Plunder (and others).
> > > The store Missing Brick does'nt show me anything but the Title, the tabs at
> > > the top, and what country it is located in. (USA) Which leaves me unable to
> > > do anything but get out of the store.
> > > It may be helpful for you to know that at the bottom of the screen it says
> > > "Done" (something to do with uploading the page) Also, this problem has
> > > happened with both the old and new brickbay servers.
> > > If you can suggest anything I'd really appreciate it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerly
> > > Daniel Massicotte
> > > p.s. ( Thankfully, this problem has'nt stopped me from ordering pieces from
> > > other stores :-), also, I'm writing the message here because I can't reach
> > > you by e-mail. For some reason the Mail Administrator keeps sending it back
> > > to me.
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Dan
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > As owner of the "Missing Brick" I am very unhappy to hear this. I checked, and
> > it indeed takes a lomg while for the shop to load (but it eventually does) . The
> > other shops you indicated also have, like me, a very large variety of bricks (I
> > have over 1.500 different bricks). This makes the store inventory big and takes
> > a long time to load. On slower connections, like a modem, it may be impossible
> > to avoid a timeout, and therefore not get to my store. The size of the file
> > needing upload is however noly 245k (in my store's case), and when I download a
> > similar amount of other webpages, I get is in 2-3 seconsd, while on the current
> > brickbay server (and for the old one) it can take up to 40 seconds. Usually my
> > store gets a few orders a day, and about 1 in every 8 visitors ends up ordering.
> > I noticed that after the move, I have had 100+ visitors, but only 5 orders. I
> > hope this problem is solved soon. Meanwhile, begore this problem is fixed, just
> > wait a little longer when visiting a large shop (like mine, pyrite's, etc..), it
> > will load over time...and then there is lots of bricks to choose from. I
> > recently listed: 7817, 4558, 4547, 181, 4551, 4559, barracuda ship, castle sets
> > and a 390 (cool old cadillac, mint bricks), and many more...
>
> It's true that the store pages take a long time to load, however my admin
> statistics show that some stores with a large number of lots receive large
> number of orders and some stores with 10 - 100 lots receive lot of hits but
> almost no orders.
>
> Another reason why you might not be receiving orders could be because your
> prices are too high, your descriptions are not very clear, you don't have
> images of your items or because your items may not be desired at the moment
> or because at a certain time of year, the sales generally go down in volume.
>
> I've tried to compress the javascript shop menu which can get quite large
> like in your case but then the shop would not work under WebTV and Netscape
> 3.0 and below.
Thanks for the update Dan. Since it was posted that it may take a long time to
load large shops, like mine ("missing brick"), orders have been coming in again.
I think this is a coincidence however. I can see that large shops get many
orders, they have many bricks, and therefor a wide selection, saving the buyers
on S&H than when from buying at a number of small stores. When I didn't get any
orders for a few days, AND a lugnet posting during those days that my shop
didn't load, prompted me to reply. Maybe on the front page of Brickbay it could
be written that loading the inventory of large shops, escepcially those with
many lots, can take a bit, and urging buyers not keep hitting the reload button
(as I myself as an impatient computer user tend to do too often:). Although too
high prices certainly don't get you orders, I almost always post my bricks/sets
under the then going previous average sales price. Also, I didn't adjust prices,
so there would be no reason for buyers to be scared away by my prices. Again,
all is fine, buyers be need to be aware that a large shop simply doesn't show up
in a split second. I love brickbay, any critique I have is always intended to
improve. Keep up the good work. Paul
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