Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Ziegelmeister  | | Posted: | May 16, 2024 00:26 | | Subject: | I need tree inspiration | | Viewed: | 139 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| I'm wanting to build a beer garden modeled after Viktualienmarkt's in
Munich. It will probably be on a 48x48 plate so I'll have room for at least
4-5 large "bushy" trees, but I'm struggling to find inspiration online.
Most of the the trunks I'm seeing are built from square bricks/slopes and
they just don't look right.
The Rivendell set looks like it has some really interesting ones but they need
about 8x the amount of leaves and 2x broader foliage. I know we can't post
links but are there any obvious ones in the lego realm I'm not seeing?
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | May 6, 2024 18:08 | | Subject: | I need a train expert. | | Viewed: | 145 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| Pick-a-Brick only has two train Buffer Beams; No.1 and No.2. (I don't think
we're allowed to post links to that site so just go there and type in "Train
buffer beam" They have 6172142/29082, but BL only shows a result when you
search 6172142 and sends you to this . It appears that is correct
since it has the Pilot at the bottom.
PaB then has a Train Buffer Beam No.2 with the ID(s) 6172149/29084 which both
send you to which lists it as "type 3"
But when you do a search for Train Buffer Beam - Type 2 on Bricklink you finally
find: Which isn't on PaB.
Since there isn't a 3D option for the part on PaB, you can't see the
bottom to know if it's the open or closed version.
So; A: does anyone know if the PaB one is the "closed bottom" and B:
Do the "type 2" and "type 3" on BL need to be swapped to align
with what's on (or not on) PaB?
Sincerely-
Confused in Cincinnati
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | May 5, 2024 23:06 | | Subject: | 3933a and 3934a images | | Viewed: | 102 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
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| Now that I know more about Bricklink I thought I'd circle back on my first
big mistake; printing out order pages in black and white and having inadequate
lighting in the shop. 
One of the first sets I parted out was from my childhood, and the
second or third order was for either or
The images for all of the colors except black, show the underside of the plate
and you don't really notice it unless you're looking at it on a computer
screen (which I do now), so I shipped the wrong side and then had to send the
other to fix the mistake.
Can all of these be changed to show the top of the plates in order to conform
with every other part on bricklink?
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | May 5, 2024 13:20 | | Subject: | How does bulk pricing work? | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| If you have three tiers with the following prices:
base - 10¢
100 - 9¢
250 - 8¢
500 - 7¢
And someone orders 1000 of the lot, is the total cost $70.00 (since it's
over 500) or is it treated like tax brackets and the first 100 pieces go for
10¢, 100-250 go for 9¢, 250-500 go for 8¢ and everything else after that goes
for 7¢ for ~78.50?
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | May 1, 2024 23:57 | | Subject: | Paypal lag? | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Has anyone ever had a long delay from when someone paid on the site and when
it showed up in Paypal? It's been over an hour now (yes it says "paid"
and everything is picked and packed, but still nothing in Paypal.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | May 1, 2024 03:37 | | Subject: | May the Fourth be with you; and also with you | | Viewed: | 90 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| Itty bitty sale for 5.4% off (American date system offered a better discount)
Star Wars sets and minifigs. Lasts through May 4th at midnight.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 30, 2024 16:01 | | Subject: | Does part 10202 need a note? | | Viewed: | 125 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Normally I wouldn't think twice about this, but I just packed and shipped
an order for a bunch of tiles ranging from 1x1 to 6x6. If you're not aware
the, the 6x6's have a matte finish quality to them that almost resembles
a 4x3 slope rather than the high gloss you come to expect from, say, 2x6 tiles.
Should there be a note attached to 10202 mentioning this? If this particular
buyer is intending to have these seamlessly blend in with the other tiles they
bought, they're in for a bad surprise unless they are already familiar with
the part.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 30, 2024 00:57 | | Subject: | Is Dark Blue the new problem child? | | Viewed: | 190 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| (That thread title might get lost in translation for some of our non English
speaking users)
Color shifts in Dark Red are well established. Same with white stress marks
on Reddish Brown and Dark Red parts... But has anyone else been paying close
attention to Dark Blue?
I'm trudging along slowly with several copies of And I'm
seeing an extremely high incidence rate of "less than pristine" examples
of and . 3/16 and 4/16 respectively.
I'm going to go back and check some of the higher volume pieces like the
1x8's and check, but has anyone else been seeing this? I can't in good
conscience list these as "new" even though they are. (Can add photos
tomorrow.)
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2024 12:55 | | Subject: | Request for quote finally working; buuut.... | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I finally got my quote requests working thanks to some help from the forum.
Then my first quote comes in from a buyer in Oregon (no sales tax). Would the
taxes field normally auto-populate or do you have to manually enter that? in
this case the field was blank and I left it blank.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2024 22:51 | | Subject: | Custom items and catalog entries | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| I know I can list individual carriages from as a custom item, but
can there be a catalog entry for them similar to how characters from Super Mario
Bros Series 6 are entered with the hyphen and number? It would be helpful if
only to establish a market price for the locomotive and each carriage.
I only mention this because I've seen multiple youtube/tiktok videos recently
where people have added several carriages on to the base sets.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2024 19:44 | | Subject: | What's the most powerful projectile launcher? | | Viewed: | 157 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| We're mostly a castle system household when it comes to what the kids and
I build. The whole reason I even started parting out sets was to pillage parts
for us and sell the rest to offset everything. Concurrently, a game from my
childhood popped up on kickstarter and I ponied up for the super mega deluxe
version of Crossbows and Catapults. As we're patiently waiting for it's
delivery we've been adapting our LEGO play to incorporate break away walls
to knock down, but it's proving difficult because nothing has enough "oomph"
to knock things down.
This is way to weak with very short range.
These have some velocity but still don't have a lot of kinetic energy.
I never knew about this until this weekend, but I saw some knockoffs with a rubber
tip. Is it powerful enough to knock over a few bricks from 4-5 feet away?
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 17:55 | | Subject: | Did they listen to us? | | Viewed: | 262 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I haven't had to order anything online from TLG in a month or two and
placed an order for multiple copies of a set late Monday night. Much to my surprise
they arrived today. But the bigger surprise was that they shipped the GWP's
in separate boxes. Is this a fluke or did they listen to our complaints about
smaller sets getting crushed? Seems like the orders from early February were
all packed in to one box.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 9, 2024 17:31 | | Subject: | Adjusting qty in Brickstore after pricing | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| Taking in to consideration the recent thread about accidentally inflating prices,
I spent some time looking at the most desirable parts from a set I'm preparing
to part out 5x of. Half the set was adjusted up, half the set was adjusted down
from the 6 month average.
Then I decided I wanted to give one of them to someone as a gift. So is there
a hack in Brickstore to adjust the quantities down by 20%, or should I just upload
5 and then upload another one at -1?
It's not the end of the world if it's too much of a PITA.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 15:01 | | Subject: | Why is this green dot perpetually there? | | Viewed: | 244 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | For the neurotics in the room, you probably share my pain. What does this mean? |
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2024 23:09 | | Subject: | I tried an experiment, and it's 2 for 2. | | Viewed: | 321 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| As we all know, getting buyers to reply to messages and/or leave feedback can
be brutal. I don't know if it's just me but my feedback response rate
fell off a cliff around early February. 83 orders and just 35 feedbacks which
drops well below the 60% rate most of us have.
I've had a few buyers with very high feedback numbers but they have left
___ZERO___ for other users. Those people are to far gone, so I decided to try
to tackle the problem with the new users.
I tend to get a lot of buyers with very low scores, so when I recently had a
few zero feedback users place orders, I decided to try something proactive and
drafted up this letter which was included in their package. Of the two I sent
it to so far, both followed the instructions. One even went back and added feedback
for other orders they placed. I sent my third one out today which is what prompted
me to go double check on the other two users.
And I know, I know, "don't worry about your feedback number more than
your feedback rating", but there are people out who see that number first
and assume that with experience comes better service and fewer hassles. It's
also just a few extra keystrokes of extra work to help improve the community
for everyone IMO.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2024 14:05 | | Subject: | Wise | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| We have enough international members in here, maybe you all can help…
Long story short, I can’t open a bank account in Germany until I have an address
which is a few years off. Ideally it’s with Commerzbank since most of my transfers
are to a corporation that banks there too and I like to keep things simple.
I send about €15,000 over every year and it seems like every time I go to do
it the conversion rate drops.
Like around November the conversion was at .96 and then it dropped to .92 by
the time I did the transfer. Somebody suggested I use Wise. But can I purchase
euro and keep them in an account or can you only transfers? I’d prefer to buy
and hold when rates are favorable.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2024 22:58 | | Subject: | Request for Quote broken | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| For whatever reason, people can not request quotes because it's telling buyers
that I don't have a shipping method available.
I have "Accept quote requests" turned on in Management.
I tried setting up my own method (and enabling it) where it's set to "manual"
(doesn't show up)
I tried importing the shared method (and enabling it) that is specifically called
"Request for quote" and it only gives a "place order" option,
the request for a quote button that should be below that is not visible for the
buyers.
I followed the instructions on this page: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2437
and nothing seems to be working.
What am I missing?
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Mar 26, 2024 21:52 | | Subject: | Item description too long? | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Is anyone else having this problem tonight? I'm trying to add sets and
it says I'm below the 255 character limit but when I go to the next screen
I'm told I'm exceeding it.
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2024 17:28 | | Subject: | USPS Priority Flat Rate and Priority boxes | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| Is there any kind of work around using the Courier API where you can put in different
box dimensions? The Priority Flat Rate boxes are smaller and more expensive
than the standard Priority boxes - and also come in a wider variety like the
7x7x6 box.
However it appears you're locked in to the predetermined Flat Rate dimensions.
I'm assuming these need to just be manually priced?
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| Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2024 22:06 | | Subject: | Dark Stone Grey v. Dark Blueish Grey | | Viewed: | 111 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I've been trying to find a part on PAB for a few hours now (not going to
get in to why things are called one thing here and another there) and I think
I finally found it - but they have it listed as Dark Stone Grey; is that the
same?
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