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No "Select all stores" available any more in BO magic
What happened to the option to select all stores when using Brick Owl magic? I can select individual stores one by one, but I do not have an option to select all the store any more. This was a very useful feature to see, which stores offered the most of the needed parts as cheap as they come...
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- no easy way to find a cheapest seller of multiple parts;
- not easy for new stores wiht small selection of lots to make income here even though they might have good prices.
As i have mentioned i too would like to have more options when using this function. And i too am sad to see that option being disabled. Since it now makes it even more hard to "allocate" the parts.
Lawrence, are there in any way a possibility to make the search function of the wishlist magic better, or bigger in terms of "computer-power" when using this ?
This is by the way my post:
https://www.brickowl.com/forum#/discussion/15367/expanded-store-conditions
So would there be any solution to this ? Or is the wishlist buying form done as it is ?
I would be very sad to see it in the state it is now. It has made the work of working with the "wishlist-MAGIC" less..... well Magic. :-/
To make the "buying/choosing" of stores better. I would rather "deselect" a few stores than needing to click x amount of store until everything is allocated.
or, it could help with an options to decline stores with fixed amount to buy for, since they can make the buying process hard, as to "find" those stores we can buy, only those bricks we need, and not needed to buy for a specific amount. Or need to find a new store altogether where there is no limit.
At least in my view, and it looks like others as well, it is simply to difficult to find stores easy enough to use that wishlist-magic.
Right now the wishlist magic isn't, as Malnaborg said, not very Magic. And I must admit that I did my first spare part order from BrickLink due to this thing... I have never bought any spares from BrickLink, but right now the wishlist magic is more usable there than it is here.
A simple option to improve the wishlist magic would be to have an option for example to automatically exclude all stores that do not have shipping methods set (quote option only). That would already improve the magic a lot.
To give a hint, how I shop spares at the moment here in BO:
I have a list of 130 lots of spares with the total amount of about 450 pieces.
1. I open the wishlist magic and then tick with the painfully slow process the stores that have been lucky to make it into my favourite store list in the past (about 20 stores).
2. I check the parts that have not been allocated and then with every individual piece I need to check, who sells it at the cheapest price and then tick that store in the wishlist (only to discover that they have some strange lot average set and need to tick the next one).
3. I repeat the process until I have everything allocated.
4. Then I need to start "eliminating" stores who have some pieces at a very high price (may be due to condition of being new or is somewhat rare or something) and see with every that kind of piece after many clicks of being able to open the BO market of that specific spare and check what stores sell it cheaper.
5. Again tick some stores where that specific part is cheaper... Then I discover that now some of my favourite store minimum price has not been reached and I need to do some manual evaluation again...
In the past I just selected all and if there was something wrong with some store, then I un-ticked it and continued until I found the sweetspot between cheapest parts and total transportation. Yeah, sometimes a lot of unticking was necessary where, yeah, some stores only "shined" with one specific lot of cheap spares, but at least I was aware of that store and so on...
It really is a whole "search and find" adventure.
With my store as being set oriented, i often search and order very specific bricks, and even so in very small numbers. So i too often look after stores with specific pieces, hence the lot price, minimum buy, is a pain for me.
So as P6tu writes, the "pick all stores" was actually a good starting point, again because "the magic" :-D
Found the stores for me, and then i could on my own, shorten the shopping list of stores.
Maybe we are a small part of the community, but at least for some of us, i would do a lot to get those specific search possibilities. :-)
The "select all" never really worked as you might have expected, because the system couldn't actually allocate to 900 stores.
Right now, I use the "select all stores" option and then start to un-tick the stores that I do not like to see, but then to select new stores from the bottom, then I can do that only by placing a tick on those stores one-by-one again, because if I click on the "select all" option again, then it will undo all the un-ticking that I did...
@Lawrence , could we remove the 100 store cap or add this option to remove those with quote
I am more than happy with the possibility to deselect those stores with minimum buy. That was a big wish for me, and will surely make it easier for me at least.