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It appears brickstore is officially defunct. A pretty much EXACT copy emerged – brickstock.
with my digging, I came across brickficiency, which I have yet to use, but sounds like exactly what we’ve been talking about in the past. Seems you can plug in a wanted list to the software and it will tell you which few stores to buy from to get the best bang for your buck.
http://buildingoutloud.com/brickficiency.phpit’s a bummer i just placed 8 different orders last night, but anyone want to try this thing out?
I forgot about this, but I stumbled on it on my desktop. I have a .bsx file of my cathedral, so I used that and it’s pretty slick. it came up with a few different store solutions to find all the parts I needed for the cheapest price.
re: brificiency – This is my first time hearing about this, but sounds like it could save hours of comparing stores. I need to try this out. I’ll be interested to see if it can handle assigning priority to parts wanted and other factors like handling/PayPal charges or differences in shipping costs from different countries. For example, I would rather buy parts from Germany than Canada because the shipping is less (and usually the part selection is better.)
leaving this here:
just a bump, played around with bricklink 2.0’s wanted list auto-buy feature last night. seems like it does the job well enough.
auto-buy feature
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it was discussed a bit here, http://www.steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/help-figuring-out-a-wanted-list/#post-17871
I thought you knew about it.
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/shop.page
add a list and use the auto finder.
I thought you knew about it.
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/shop.page
add a list and use the auto finder.
maybe this time I will remember it 🙂
Does it take into account that some places have fees? … and that shipping from Canada costs a lot more than shipping from New York?
I’ll have to check this out at some point also, I just use BrickLink and spend a lot of time sorting through stores.
>> Does it take into account that some places have fees? … and that shipping from Canada costs a lot more than shipping from New York?
This isn’t surprising, but it also costs more to ship from Canada than from Germany (which actually I see Greg already mentioned), I stopped looking at Canadian stores a long time. BL lets you search by USA stores only, but it still doesn’t account for variations inside the country, it costs a lot more to ship to here from Oregon than from Ohio and I’ve run into problems with that.
I also have not figured out how the European VAT thing works and if I need to worry about it when ordering from over there.
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