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Amazon noise reduction (a.k.a. "Only 20 left in stock - order soon." - really!?)
🕑 Added 2021-03-07 08:28:47 +0000 UTCHello Patrons :)
A quick update for everyone in the US, UK and Canada. If you're a little over "noisy" Amazon when it comes to Availability alerts, rest assured that it's about to get a little (hopefully a lot) quieter!
Rather than to seemingly alert you every time Amazon sells a LEGO set, for example alert emails with...
Availability: Only 19 left in stock - order soon. (was Only 20 left in stock - order soon.)
...BrickHawk will now consider anything over 5 'left in stock' as just "In stock". This will remove Availability alerts being sent whenever there are more than 5 'left in stock'. So:
- Anything over 5 'left in stock' (e.g. Only 19 left in stock - order soon) will show in BrickHawk as In stock
- Anything between 2 and 5 'left in stock', e.g. Only 5 left in stock - order soon or Only 2 left in stock - order soon will show in BrickHawk as Only 5 [or fewer] left in stock - order soon
- Anything with 1 'left in stock', e.g. Only 1 left in stock - order soon will show in BrickHawk as Only 1 left in stock - order soon (no change)
- These changes also applies to whenever the availability is Only x left in stock - (more on the way)
Prior to this change, there were thousands of availability changes each day attributed to 'left in stock' changing from one number to the next. Hopefully this will significantly reduce the number of essentially meaningless Availability alerts sent, and make your BrickHawk experience extra awesome :)
And if you are in Australia and wondering why this doesn't apply to Amazon AU? Whilst Amazon AU does the Only x left in stock thing, it only kicks in at 5 and isn't anywhere near as noisy. There's also a little technical quirk in BrickHawk making it tricky to apply it at the moment to Amazon AU. However once that quirk is out of the way, the change will happen for Amazon AU too.
As always, thank you for your support!
BH.
