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(...) Wow! Those must be rare if there isn't even a picture of them... And, yes, Dan...this is EXACTLY the type of store naming I was talking about. I wish there was a way to knock all names starting with special characters to the bottom of the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hey... how about listing the brickbay sites by number of parts? The more you post, the higher on the list you are! That way we can avoid anyone opening "AAA Lego Sales". Just my 2 cents worth... Tom of Tom's Technic (...) I (...) the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I thought about that and about showing shops with 10K+ parts in bold but then shops also have sets in them so it would have to be a combination of how many parts and how many sets one has in their shop. How would you determine how many parts (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I'll bet 50 qatloos that I can come up with a method to circumvent any rule like that that you come up with. Want to base it on number of parts, or $ value of inventory? No problem: I'll just offer 150,000 Technic friction pins at $2 apiece. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) True, but it is a start. Unfortunately, there are also a large number of lots that qualify as more than just a 'part' or 'set'. Currently, I have a large lot of green slopes that fit into this category. Are they a single item or a set? Just (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) IMHO You can't compare the value of sets with bricks. Is a shop that has 10K of bricks better than a shop that has one Metroliner and a Guarded Inn for sale? Is the shop with one 4558 better than a shop that sells 10 small sets? I would like (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) And what do you do when someone named Aaron wants to have his shop be "Aaron's LEGO", perfectly reasonable (and if his last name is Smith, I'm sure he'd far rather be "Aaron's LEGO" than "Smith's LEGO"). Other's a right, any scheme you pick (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Frank Buiting writes: ... (...) like. (...) ... How about a rank based on number of pieces sold during the last week or month? Or better yet, allow the user to decide. I would suggest offering 3-5 user-selectable (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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"Tom Heidemann" <taheidem@execpc.com> wrote in message news:G1Ms7p.Aqs@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) I thought about suggesting this myself. I think it would be a great way to promote those people that use the site extensively. Providing a link to (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.services)
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"Andreas Stabno" <stabno@megsinet.net> wrote in message news:G1nFJD.4s3@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) 3-5 (...) I'd like to see sellers classify their store as either a "parts" store or a "sets" store and then the BrickBay front (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I think Dan closed the barn door (with his statement about not putting special chars into names in order to sort to the top) a horse or two too late. Personally, were I he, I'd go tell a few people they need to change their store name, based (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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In lugnet.market.services, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) Well as I said in another thread I would prefer sorting not be purely by # of parts. I have a store and for what I want it for it has been a hugh success but it doesn't have 50,000 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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Mike Walsh wrote: [snip] (...) There is a problem with that. If your store sells both parts and sets, then the category it is not classified as will not get the exposure it deserves. You might want to allow stores to be in both categories, in which (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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This "problem" probably doesn't warrant this much discussion but what the hell. :-) Re: Special Characters in store names - I think it's pretty cheesy. I'm less likely to browse a store that's at the top of the list because of such a trick but it (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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That's it! I'm moving my store back to "bricks@onedaycnn"! (no quotations--since those are special characters!) seriously folks, when all is said and done, it doesn't really matter where your store falls on that list--who CARES if your store's (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Good for you! :) I preferred it that way anyway. It just made more sense. (...) Very true. That's what started this whole mess anyway. As long as you have the parts, that's all that matters. (...) That depends on your point of view. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) If it doesn't matter, why did you have the asterisks there in the first place? :-) Glad to see you're lining up with the norm though, now there are just two left I think. ++Lar (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) last? (...) I find it interesting that no one (unless I missed a post) has suggested that the stores be listed by the date they were first created (or opened). I'm not sure that I think this is a good idea... but I'm surprised it has not been (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Here's an alternate thought: sort the shop-list by date-time of their most recent order. This *might* be viewed as punishing low-volume sites, but those are probably not very active anyway--all it would take is a single order to push a shop (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) But not if it was sorted in descending order. Anyone who knows what's going on, will know how they're sorted, and maybe it gives an edge to the smaller guys sometimes. And if you wanted to do it that way, maybe a sales volume for the past 24 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) you (...) set (...) The most effective way of sorting the shops would be to sort by country then by state. That way if someone really really wanted to be on the top, they would have to relocate from Wyoming to Alabama. But seriously, sorting (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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