Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2024 06:41 | | Subject: | Forum down? | | Viewed: | 129 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| I'm trying to post a reply but I get error 403: Forbidden. Let's see
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Apr 23, 2022 02:51 | | Subject: | Teup out, see ya guys! | | Viewed: | 294 times | | Topic: | General | |
| As some of you miiiight have noticed I haven't been around for a while here.
Just a last post to say I'm quitting this forum, as I feel we have plenty
of channels to discuss all things Bricklink and Lego selling in general these
days, and I no longer feel this forum has any merit to me. I might post something
someday if there's some kind of urgent selling emergency because of new rules
or whatever, but that'll be it. So, it's been fun, see you guys elsewhere
or good luck on all your Lego endeavours 
I will just leave a couple of usual replies to common topics right here:
- Wear that first negative feedback like a badge of honor
- You have to separate payment status and order status, set payment status to
none, then try again
- Just pay your taxes
- You need Brickstore or other software to be able to do that
- Yeah, I'm also waiting until Bricklink lets me part out my Ninjago Gardens
- Those are all pearl gold
- Wow! Yes, I would love to buy that driver's license and US passport
Hope this way my input is going to be relevant for many years to come 
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2022 04:48 | | Subject: | Still a lot of cancelled payments...... | | Viewed: | 207 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| I'm still having lots of cancelled payments on Stripe. Mostly from American
users, but also some European. There is one user who made 3 attempts in one day,
and did not end up placing an order. Every unsuccessful payment seems to say
"a check-out session has expired".
I receive payments for my own webshop through the same channel, and while I have
more orders, I have maybe one unsuccesful payment per month there.
I've tried to reach out to the buyers but most have not responded. Two told
me it was indeed intentional, but I still worry about the ones that didn't
respond, as there are quite many of these attempts. This could be a real problem,
right..?! Is it because of that last page that Bricklink has where you have to
(redundantly) confirm your payment? Often when I pay onsite I forget this step
exists and find it an hour later somewhere in my browser tabs.. but as it is
mostly American users, it could be because of sales tax changing the buyer's
mind, too.. I really have no idea. And even in the best case that all were somehow
intentional, it was still a lot of time wasted for the buyers.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2022 05:07 | | Subject: | Bricklink calculates VAT incorrectly | | Viewed: | 193 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| Inspired by an incorrect comment yesterday in the EU distance selling call that
shipping costs don't include VAT, I went to check a VAT invoice of my orders
to the UK and yep, I noticed that VAT was only calculated over the item total
and not the shipping costs. This is not right, VAT needs to be calculated over
the grand total. I wonder, could this be the reason for some situations where
people need to pay VAT twice? I don't know what invoices (if any) get attached
when importing into the EU, but if the ex.VAT price of the grand total does not
match with the VAT percentage charged, it is logical that authorities will not
accept it.
I don't know precisely for which countries shipping costs have VAT (I checked
UK, seems yes), but even if there would be a country that doesn't, it would
still be incorrect because S&H charges include handling which is always subject
to VAT. (And sometimes the postage costs are visible on the label, and if that
doesn't match the shipping cost in the invoice, for which no VAT was charged,
that's going to raise some eyebrows)
Or is this just in my store, because I haven't switched on VAT on shipping
costs? (I don't use Bricklink to calculate my VAT, I just entered the correct
shipping prices the way they should be, so I didn't need this feature)
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jan 1, 2022 06:04 | | Subject: | Cancelled payments? Problems with ordering? | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| Happy new years folks!
I noticed I suddenly have a lot (5) of cancelled payments in my Stripe for 30
and 31 December. Something going wrong at Bricklink? People having difficulty
to place orders? Did anyone else notice a lot of cancelled payments?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Dec 17, 2021 05:33 | | Subject: | Coupon bug | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| I reported this before, but oh well. The "exclude items on sale" option in coupons
is bugged. It doesn't only exclude items with a reduced sale price, but also
the ones that have an increased price by using a negative sale amount. Negative
sales are not visible to the buyer, so buyers don't understand what is going
on. They think they will get e.g. 10% discount because the coupon says so, but
if 90% of the items in their basket actually have a negative sale amount, their
discount is only 1%. This is really misleading.
Please fix this by making the "exclude items on sale" option still include the
items with a negative sale amount. Thanks!
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 26, 2021 09:10 | | Subject: | Remove pointless restriction | | Viewed: | 150 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| The usual pattern for bugs I report is: Bricklink says "ah, well that's funny!",
nothing happens, and I give up, but this time I will try again, since this one
really is a nuisance. I need to go over all of my shipping methods one by one
and change it every time I adjust my minimum order (and lose the old settings).
So, one more time...
Bricklink, please, remove this pointless restriction. There is no reason why
my minimum order can't be higher than my shipping method minimum orders.
The store minimum should simply override it.
In fact it frustrates the bypass procedure, because I cannot control which shipping
methods become available when someone gets the bypass password (not sure if they
get any at all - they might end up with none). Simply allow shipping methods
to have a low minimum. Should be a simple change.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2021 16:31 | | Subject: | Unieregeling | | Viewed: | 117 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| Iemand al ervaring met BTW aangifte doen met de unieregeling? Ik wil me er volgend
kwartaal voor aanmelden en ik vroeg me af wat ik kon verwachten aangezien ik
mijn software moet gaan aanpassen. Je moet dan een lijst met EU landen aanvinken
en invullen hoeveel omzet en hoeveel BTW je bij dat land hebt, zoiets? Verder
nog iets dat ik moet weten?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 21, 2021 10:41 | | Subject: | Adding items needs a little improvement | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| - Why can I enter only the design ID and not the element ID from the "add item"
screen? They are in the database, so Bricklink might as well use them, right?
- I can't enter a negative sale in the "add item" screen. It just doesn't
accept a "-" character in that screen. Has been reported 5 weeks ago and devs
were going to have a look at it, still not fixed. (=The usual pattern whenever
I report anything, so I'm not surprised, but still - come on guys!)
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 5, 2021 13:50 | | Subject: | Can we talk about set 6087 | | Viewed: | 178 times | | Topic: | General | |
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As a kid staring at the 1997 catalog, I always wondered...
What even is this?!
Not sure if this BURPfest is supposed to be a castle (it's completely open
on one side) or some kind of mountain ambush, but anyway... what is that black
thing sticking out behind it (on the catalog image)?
And I always wondered: Is the witch with the bat knights or against
them? In my catalog they seem to have a rivalry but it seems the knights are..
guarding this thing?
And what's that dark forest guy doing in the midst of this? (not that we
can even know it's a dark forest guy unless you live in the US, since that's
the only place where the dark forest sets were released - why even?). Is he guarding
this thing, or is he getting crushed under a rock? That's kind of a difference
you know!
And why is there a dragon flying around aimlessly? Or rather: Why does the witch
have a... helicopter? I mean, if there's literally a dragon right there to
fly around on...
And just the scene in general on the box art.. all figures are just running random
directions, someone shoots an arrow at a rock, everyone is too busy to even pay
attention to the scary skeleton. As a kid I had no idea what I was looking at!
I wonder if LEGO even knew what they were doing here? Maybe the worst castle
set ever made? Seems to me that 1997 is the year that things started to become
weird...
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 23, 2021 16:25 | | Subject: | I thought you could add to "Ready" orders? | | Viewed: | 128 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| One of my customers added something to his order and it created a new order.
Even though the order was "ready". I thought it would always create a new batch
to the existing order, as long as the order isn't marked "packed"?
He first got a message saying that the value was lower than the minimum order
value, which I thought was already strange since it was supposed to be an addition.
I gave him the bypass password and it spawned a new order.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2021 10:46 | | Subject: | Aangetekend naar Amerika kan niet meer | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| Vreemd, ik kwam net bij het postpunt en kreeg te horen dat Amerika (als enige
land ter wereld) geen handmatig aangeboden pakketjes meer accepteert. Ik kwam
voor een aangetekend pakket, aangezien je die niet met de zakelijke module kunt
aanmaken. Zakelijke helpdesk gebeld en die geven aan dat aangetekende zendingen
naar Amerika niet meer mogelijk zijn.
Ik vind dit erg raar, wat is jullie ervaring? Gewoon maar erop wagen met track&trace
dan maar?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 10, 2021 05:08 | | Subject: | Hoe zat het precies met het VK.. | | Viewed: | 89 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| Ik had met de Brexit het Verenigd Koninkrijk maar gewoon uit mijn bereik gezet
om administratieve problemen te voorkomen. Nu wilde ik even checken of het inderdaad
'veilig' is om toch weer naar het VK te leveren. Hier blijf ik even op
steken: Bricklink zegt dat je gewoon naar het VK kunt verkopen en dat zij verder
alles regelen. Je plakt denk ik het IOSS-nummer op de envelop en gaan met die
banaan. (en bij bestellingen boven 135 pond doe je uberhaupt niks want dan is
de ontvangende kant verantwoordelijk voor BTW-afdracht)
Maar op Brexitloket.nl vind ik deze passage:
Platforms die geen crossborderleveringen doen
In het geval van platforms die niet aan crossborderleveringen doen (bijvoorbeeld
Etsy en E-bay) is de situatie anders. Zij bieden u alleen een plek om uw glazen
te verkopen. Dat lijkt dus eigenlijk heel veel op het verkopen via je eigen website,
want de levering doet u zelf.
Als u via zulke platforms producten aan uw Britse klanten wil verkopen, moet
u ook een Brits EORI-nummer en een Brits btw-nummer (VAT) aanvragen. Bij Tips
2 en 3 leest u er meer over.
https://www.brexitloket.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/12/22/nieuwe-regels-webwinkels
Als ik Bricklink onder "platforms" mag scharen, is dat toch wel een vrij expliciete
waarschuwing dat je bij de Britse overheid moet registreren. Is het toch echt
OK om dat niet te doen?
En als ik het goed begrijp interesseert het de Nederlandse Belastingdienst helemaal
niks, het lijkt me dat als je naar het VK levert zonder BTW te heffen zij het
verder prima vinden, omdat zij alleen over Nederlandse/EU burgers gaan, en een
BTW-plichtige Engelsman aan de Britse overheid interesseert ze dan dus niet.
Dus je hoeft voor de Belastingdienst geen extra admistratie erover te bewaren,
klopt? Gewoon business as usual, een buiten-EU zending zonder BTW dus.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 03:51 | | Subject: | Attack of the Cones | | Viewed: | 153 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| I just noticed this in the catalog roadmap:
"Move parts out of Cone (most of them to Brick, Round) and eliminate the Cone
category."
But why? Actually, I kind of like the Cone category. I think it's:
- precise: It's pretty clear when something is a cone and when it is not
- nicely sized: There's quite a bunch of different cones by now, and the
number appears to be growing. Ok, it's not huge, but not smaller than Dish.
- a relevant set: Several cones combine together to form larger cones - top/bottom
halves, side halves
Seems like a fine category to me. I get the wish to eliminate some categories,
but then I'm thinking about stuff like Hook or Tail, the real small and
rarely used ones ones like that.
And I'm thinking: Slope and Slope,Curved get to be separate categories too.
If cones would be considered round bricks, then analogous to that at least maybe
we can have Brick,Round and Brick,Round,Conical? Not sure what the exact reason
was to be cone haters, but maybe this could be the best of both worlds? Somehow
it feels like a waste to me to throw one category into another when it has such
a consistent distinctive feature.
Well, just some thoughts
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2021 11:33 | | Subject: | PostNL: Buspakjes voortaan in zak | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| Ik heb wel eens eerder wat gehoord over buspakjes buitenland (6440) aanbieden
in een postzak met een label eraan. Maar ik heb het nooit gedaan.
En nu, sinds vandaag ineens, herkent de PostNL terminal de barcodes van die buspakjes
gewoon niet meer. Ik ga ervan uit dat dit een landelijke verandering is, aangezien
de PostNL terminals in alle postpunten centraal worden aangestuurd.
Heb de helpdesk gebeld. Die zweren dat er niets veranderd is. Ik zei dat ik al
sinds het begin die dingen gewoon bij het postpunt aanbied, maar kennelijk moet
ik me vergist hebben of zijn ze coulant geweest (...ja, het scanapparaat van
de PostNL terminal is coulant geweest). Hoe dan ook, voortaan moet je postzakken
en labels voor het corresponderende postproduct gebruiken. Die zijn gratis te
bestellen in de PostNL Webshop.
Ik heb meestal maar 1 of 2 envelopjes. En ja, die moet dus serieus in een gigantische
postzak. Kan het bijna niet geloven maar het schijnt de werkelijkheid te zijn..
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 20, 2021 02:41 | | Subject: | iDeal | | Viewed: | 160 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| Question to admin; Is there a reason why iDeal is not mentioned in the list of
proposed payment methods in the survey? Does it mean it will not be implemented
at all, or implemented for sure?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2021 08:09 | | Subject: | Utensil -> bar? | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
| Posted it before sometime, but anyway - I'd really like to see this part
moved:
Why I think it's not a utensil:
It doesn't represent anything, like a guitar, a shovel, a suitcase etc. It
is used to make minifigs jump or fly, so it's at best a utensil for the builder,
but not in-world.
(Utensil = "For items that cannot be worn, are intended for minifigure use, and
are not weapons. Some may also be used by micro and mini dolls.")
Why I think it's a bar:
It's basically a bar with a stud, much like this:
* | | 32828 Bar 1L with 1 x 1 Round Plate with Hollow Stud
Parts: Bar |
And we're likely to see more and more uses where it's simply used for
its shape and not as a minifig stand. After all, the 3x4 bases of collectible
minifigs are 'tile modified' too even though they debuted as minifig
stands.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2021 07:32 | | Subject: | Can these please all be the same category? | | Viewed: | 139 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Open | |
| I'm trying to do some sorting here but I'm terribly confused with the
categorisation of these rounded corners these days. Can we please improve this
and have them all in the same category?
Is a 'slope curved'
Is a 'brick modified' (but it's the corner of a slope curved)
Is a 'brick round' (but it's the corner of a slope curved)
All of their non-corner versions are 'slope curved'. Please let's
have them all either in 'slope curved' on that basis, or in 'brick
round' on the basis of their base having a rounded site. No preference but
please let's make it consistent, thanks!
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2021 19:02 | | Subject: | Pot vs bucket | | Viewed: | 124 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
| So... the pot has been moved to utensil, but the buckets are still container
(as well as the handle for both).. may I ask why 
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Jul 21, 2021 17:04 | | Subject: | Wasn't there a dome category? | | Viewed: | 176 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| So.. forgive my inattentiveness, but last time I checked (earlier this year),
the catalog was looking a biiit different from what I was used to for the past
15 years. And since I am a catalog based sorter, I decided to close the main
part of my store on Bricklink for now, focus on other stuff and address the issue
later on. Give it some time for the dust of moving stuff in the catalog to settle.
I recall there was some Dome category, amongst a few other things (didn't
wedge plates also got moved to plate? Or that was about to happen?)....
But the other day I was browsing my inventory and I noticed everything is...
preeetty much the way it used to be? Tried to search the forum but didn't
exactly find an explanation.. whatever happened? I mean, I'm fine with it,
but just wondering.. was it cancelled or just postponed?
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