BRICKGOD Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I haven't even received an alert from the other alert site and I am tracking the same sets on both site. Seriously awesome!! I received two alerts from the Brickpicker app a while ago. I have been monitoring the alerts as well. The other site has not even registered that they are in stock almost 30 minutes later, so great job on whatever technology you are using to do this. It works really well. I will not even use the other one any longer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 70404 Kings Castle might be a good one to add here too. Love the tracker! Thanks guys. can we add 10226 sopwith camel to the list? Thanks! These have been added. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekgate502 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Jeff, I subscribed to the 6860 Batcave alert. I am setup forn sms and email and all alerts in general have been working good but tonight about 9:53pm set I got a sms in stock alert for the bat cave for $101.99 which was amazon 3rd party. All that is fine with me. The thing I am mentioning is there were no email alerts to go with it where normally I get the alert both ways timed fairly close together. If you have already covered or email was down for modifications I apologize in advance! Just thought I should report it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Yes I am aware of the Batcave alerts. I still got my emails, not sure why you did not get yours. I am looking into the price alerts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicblast Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Hey Jeff, could you add the Creative Suitcase to the alert list? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekgate502 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 FWIW the Toys R Us BTTF 21103 alert just hit my phone and email at the same time so either my email is back or it was only the bat cave thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxckid88 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I need a lesson. And for the one who gives me said lesson can bust my *****. I'm subscribed to this thread. I check it. But I see no how to of how to get alerts. Can one please advice. Please and thank you. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Raichu Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) I need a lesson. And for the one who gives me said lesson can bust my *****. I'm subscribed to this thread. I check it. But I see no how to of how to get alerts. Can one please advice. Please and thank you. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app Good thing I (somewhat) like you 1. Go to price checker page (http://www.brickpicker.com/brickwatcher/lego-stock-checker.cfm) 2. On the top of the page, click on "Setup Alerts" (red box, can't miss it) 3. It opens up a window for"Alert Notifications" 4. Choose the methods of receiving alerts (email, on site, SMS) and choose which sites you want to get alert for 5. Click "submit" 6. Under each set you see a box with "Alert Off". If you click them, they turn to "Alert On" 7. Set which set you want to get the alert for by clicking the box under each name changing it to "Alert On" 8. When a set is available at vendor of your choice, you get an alert Simple as that Edited January 30, 2015 by Darth_Raichu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 I need a lesson. And for the one who gives me said lesson can bust my *****. I'm subscribed to this thread. I check it. But I see no how to of how to get alerts. Can one please advice. Please and thank you. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app Click the link under the purple banner at the top of the forum. Read my post on setting up the alerts. You need to setup your alerts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 I think I will need to come up with some sort of a tracker hot or not page to gauge the importance of some of these items that are being tracked and potentially wasting "checking cycles" Do we really need to track those new Minecraft sets? Nobody really wants alerts to those. Same with the Double Decker Couch. Basically these sets here are all questionable to me? Do we need to track them? Dolphin Cruiser The Farm Double-Decker Couch Fallingwater Crafting Box Heartlake Shopping Mall The Cave The Mine The First Night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold-Arrow Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I think I will need to come up with some sort of a tracker hot or not page to gauge the importance of some of these items that are being tracked and potentially wasting "checking cycles" Do we really need to track those new Minecraft sets? Nobody really wants alerts to those. Same with the Double Decker Couch. Basically these sets here are all questionable to me? Do we need to track them? Dolphin Cruiser The Farm Double-Decker Couch Fallingwater Crafting Box Heartlake Shopping Mall The Cave The Mine The First Night I wouldn't bother with any of those tbh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exciter1 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 SSD can probably go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No More Monkeys Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I think I will need to come up with some sort of a tracker hot or not page to gauge the importance of some of these items that are being tracked and potentially wasting "checking cycles" Do we really need to track those new Minecraft sets? Nobody really wants alerts to those. Same with the Double Decker Couch. Basically these sets here are all questionable to me? Do we need to track them? Dolphin Cruiser The Farm Double-Decker Couch Fallingwater Crafting Box Heartlake Shopping Mall The Cave The Mine The First Night You could probably make checking frequency a reverse function of a number of people who set up alert for particular set (something like - a set has to have X watchers for it to be polled at maximum frequency. Otherwise, poll once an hour) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Its not like I am going to delete them, I will just disable the tracking of them (i can active them at anytime quickly if needed). For every set that we remove, its a boat load of cycles that go back to the other sets to get even faster alerts on those. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Raichu Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 (edited) I would not mind having those sets moved to the bottom of the list or hidden in the Stock Tracker page altogether. Perhaps sort the sets based on how many stores have them available ? Edited January 30, 2015 by Darth_Raichu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Thank you, some good suggestions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekgate502 Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I think it would be great to disable all the items on your its maybe more. I still hope for the SSD to come back but would understand if you disabled. (like the Rovers just came back at TRU) Assuming the alert option would disappear when you disable and then we would know it couldn't be tracked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold-Arrow Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 No need for those IMO : Cinderella castle: early Farnsworth : gone EDB : no comment ultra Sonic : see above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cissi Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Also, maybe probably not completely delete or hide the less tracked sets but just run less frequently? Same principle maybe for much widely available sets, say available at 4 out of 5 retailers to save resources? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val-E Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Lego shop at home Spain is not visible - at least on my pc. I run IE11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinemaps Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 You could probably make checking frequency a reverse function of a number of people who set up alert for particular set (something like - a set has to have X watchers for it to be polled at maximum frequency. Otherwise, poll once an hour) Love this suggestion. Especially since it's dynamic, and doesn't need eyes on the sets to figure out what's popular, and what's not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 So this has been changed to a priority setup. The more watched sets get the higher priority and it has increased the quickness in which those Priority #1 sets get checked. A few not so great things I have noticed so far since this has been live. Just like I thought, the Non-USA user base doesn't really seem to care to use the feature at all. I think the ratio is like 100:1 of USA to Non USA for alerts. I know the site is still heavily USA favored here, but I thought there might be a little more interest. Maybe I need to make those areas more known and of course give it more time, again. I just thought more would at least view those pages. Over 4,000 individual SMS alerts (not including email) have gone out for the Palace Cinema since Feb 1. From my records, only 2 have been purchased. So this starts making me come up with other ideas on when should a set start getting SMS alerts and base it on how scarce/hot/needed the item is to control costs. This is just one set, there are others that are not that far behind. Do we really need SMS alerts? How many of you just see them come in an just ignore them? Should SMS alerts be a pay for feature to make sure you actually use them? Just ideas/just questions.... We will continue to tweak and work on ways to make sure members know it exists. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekgate502 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 SMS alerts are Da Bomb for me. Everyone loves free (coming from a person that supports a premium membership fee) but I'd be happy to pay for the alert feature... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickmaster Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Based on my tech experience and based on what I have read about your setup is that you are paying for a server farm on the Azure cloud platform to do the checking and you are using some SMS gateway to send out the messages. Here is an estimate (and of course you don't have to say whether I am right or wrong) Servers: $300+ / per month SMS Gateway: $300+ / per month (esitmating at least 50k messages) So $600+ / month of over $7000 / yr to run this one feature for us whack jobs.. I think you guys are nuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Yes, we are nuts, we have always known that. We have no idea how this will work or what it will turn into. In business, you take changes and see what happens. The goal is to make it work the best it can and hope that it covers the costs. So far not so much 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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