Here is Version 1.0 of the Brickpicker LEGO Stock Tracker.  There will be a few different pages and trackers released over the coming days.  This one here will be one that is updated very frequently.  This list here will not grow to 100 sets or anything like that.  I want to keep it focused on key sets that are desirable and sought after.  This tracker will also be enhanced over the next few days to setup alerts via the site as well as email and SMS.  I have included the current price on the site as well as an alert icon if the current price is higher that retail MSRP.  You will also see how long ago the in-stock status was checked. This page also works well on mobile devices. 

 

For now this page is open to everyone to see what it is, but as I finish the upgrades you will need to be a member and be logged into the site in order to access it.

 

As I mentioned earlier, there will be other pages that will be monitoring all of the sets stock and prices on Amazon, Target, LEGO, Walmart and TRU.  These should be live by next week if not sooner.  

 

We will use the thread to discuss adding or removing sets on this list of constant updates.  I hope you like the start, it will continue to improve. Let me know your thoughts.

 

http://www.brickpicker.com/brickwatcher/lego_stock_checker.cfm

 

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!

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.

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.

Hey Jeff, could you add the Creative Suitcase to the alert list? Thanks!

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!

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.

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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.

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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, 201511 yr by Darth_Raichu

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.

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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.

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 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

SSD can probably go.

 

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)

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.

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, 201511 yr by Darth_Raichu

Thank you, some good suggestions 

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?

No need for those IMO :

Cinderella castle: early

Farnsworth : gone

EDB : no comment

ultra Sonic : see above

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?

Lego shop at home Spain is not visible - at least on my pc. I run IE11.

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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

Can you guys set up a donation link where we can contribute to the costs of Brickpicker?  You might be surprised at how many people would donate. This could be a good test to see if making any parts of the site into a paid service would be possible.