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What's in Your Inventory?
Beginning a personal challenge to upload images for the 8 parts that don't have one, which are already listed for sale in our store.
In addition, have a small Pick-A-Brick cup going with 17 (!) parts that have never been placed on inventories, albeit a lot of stickered parts, thereby Alternates for sets.
Our personal challenge, should you wish to join, is to complete all these pictures for submission within one week.
In addition, have a small Pick-A-Brick cup going with 17 (!) parts that have never been placed on inventories, albeit a lot of stickered parts, thereby Alternates for sets.
Our personal challenge, should you wish to join, is to complete all these pictures for submission within one week.
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Who else will join us? ;-)
Bet your lighting tent wins out on the inclusion side...the 25 images we will do are no doubt likely duplicates within your 400...
On any item you search and get a catalogue page, look to the bottom for the flags on buy, colors, comes in, sell. and then look for "Edit"
Select this and a whole new array appears below with things like "image" and "dimensions"
click on these and go to town!
Try to set up a picture with a combination of white background materials, lighting above, and natural sunlit window adjacent- can sometimes do the trick for photographing with minimal shadowing and color alterations.
When doing a part not in the inventory already, go to the set catalogue listing and click on inventory, then begin the edit process to include "alternate" items like those that are stickered parts of this same set but not already in the main BO inventory.
Hope this helps!
looks like we all have differing things to submit so lets put together a point system.
You are a star at minifigs so can't be too much for them or on an honor system of points you would win hands down. How about:
10 pts. Set or part dimensions
5 pts. Minifig assembled image
3 pts. Catalogue item primary image
4 pts. not yet in Catalogue primary image
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okay, take a breath, No, no real prize but to say you are the Best of the Best!...and we would all know it! Should be enough, right?
We have flat rate shipping, but if we didn't, would have to address this "tout suite" otherwise, things remain in unsold inventory!
We are hoping for just "Consolation Prize" for adding images or dimension for 100% of those needing it in current For Sale status!- If we have it listed for Sale then we need to make sure it is "Saleable"- is that a word?
I did all the research, going through 50 pages of stickers to just identify which sets our stickered parts, not yet listed as Alternates in sets, were.
Think we are finished- now with our "Tasks" box not showing "Items needing Images" any longer.
We have the same problem with dimensions that a lot of people do- our scale just doesn't go low enough to do decimal points for grams...Ugh!
Interesting that we saw emails of "accepted for submission" this weekend- do you think the BrickOwl catalogue administrator knew we would be flooding them with entries and images?
Anyway, High Noon, Wednesday is the cut-off and we may still research a few things but...
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS TAKEN ON THIS CHALLENGE!
...and to you Silent Runners, really hoping you will show us how it's done! Go, You!
Calculations coming Wednesday, Tombstone OK Corral noon time!
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we just found two more without image stickered parts that we thought we "LOST"- ugh, now have to add images to have no "tasks"
Again just submits, don't actually have to be accepted. Hope that helps!
Minifig assembled image: 13 (65 points)
not yet in Catalogue primary image: 33 (132 points)
Alternate images: 12 (24 points)
Total points: 221
Seeing as how only 3 of my pics got rejected because of the angle I took them at, I think the light tent is working. Great job to everyone else who helped edit the catalog! Let's get it finished!
*virtual high five to everyone*
We have finished submitting as well:
Dimensions: 2 (20 points)
not yet in Catalogue primary image: 16 (64 points) - includes 7 new catalogue entries
Total points: 84
Really hear what @Bulkbrickvault is saying about the tans and grays. It is even our pet peeve with lavendar and flesh tones, where the LEGO image provided shows the lighter versions darker than the dark- these really need some photo images especially in bricks and plates- has got to be confusing to buyers...
Only have one reject and that seems to really be a catalogue item duplication problem- we will get to addressing this after some research viewing set pictures and the corresponding build pages on instructions.
Yes, Let's get this finished! So, @firestar246 , how many more "Items missing Images" are in your task box?
Total, Virtual HIGH FIVE for these submissions!
It was really @Calibrick that inspired us to look at adding images, plus the fact that we are primarily buyers: Sandy stated in another thread, how adding an image after a listing languished for over a year, drove a "buy", and that MOC builders (that's us) are inspired by an image...can't tell you how many MOC obsessions have come from seeing single stickered tile or other part, but, she is correct!
@Calibrick pic of the VW camper tile with a sticker has us wanting to now do a Hippie apartment on the top floor of the Detective's Office City set.
I have the Detectives Office in my personal collection, would love to see the apartment if you ever build it.
@1271.moggy I'm guessing you mean when there are two entries for the same part that are stickered without an image, so you don't know which is which. Is that correct? If so, I have run into that many times. :-(
There are a couple of things you can do... you can email the BO IDs to brickowl.com and ask Lawrence which is which so you know which one applies to the photo you want to upload (he usually responds pretty fast, within 24 hours). If you're antsy and don't want to wait, I've looked at who is selling each item, looking to see if they also BL sellers, , and seeing what image they're showing on BL for that part to figure out which they actually are.
These are most likely two different stickered parts and only Admin knows what sticker for sure- go with.
We also found a duplicate listing during this venture to provide images, one roughly described and imaged, and the other, coming from LEGO, more accurately completed. Used the edit panel to ask for deletion of the first, and it was completed.
@Calibrick 's suggestion of an email to ask for info, then, submit your own image of the part in question, and the other goes without image, unless of course, You have Both, then, Yay, You!
@Calibrick - you are always an inspiration to Us! Ordering soon...
@firestar246 you and @Calibrick have done so much so far- really, really appreciate all that is now in the catalogue contributed by you!
We still have a personal challenge to upload an image of anything we list for sale that doesn't already have one, but @Bulkbrickvault we are still vexed by the medium stone gray being darker than dark stone gray and the same with tan and dark tan having opposing shades of darkness...
@Calibrick doing a whole set is so awesome! The time it takes to discuss that you did this in no way calculates the time it really took to Do That!
Can someone look at this and tell me if I’m just overlooking something? I don’t do this very often and it is easy for me to miss some step or overlook something. Thanks!
If you go to the edit tab and select 'Other', you can change from 'Gear' to 'Part'. Add a little note for admin to explain why you think it needs changing. Looks like it's already inventoried in the respective packs (which are correctly down as Gear), so fingers crossed there shouldn't be any problem to get it changed (he says, inching nonchalantly away, whistling a merry tune... ;-))