| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2021 04:18 | | Subject: | OSS registration | | Viewed: | 178 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| I wonder what happens when you register for the OSS. Does it mean that from that
point you are obligated to use it (ie. count VAT per country, at each
individual country's VAT rates), or does it mean you just have access
to that tax reporting environment?
I am asking because in the latter case, nobody needs to be "banned" unnecessarily.
Some sellers don't need to use the new system but Bricklink will say they
do (I am thinking about margin VAT sellers, and possibly sellers who sold over
the limit last year but will not do so this year). If they just register for
the OSS and provide the ID in their profile, they can continue to sell and they
can decide for themselves whether to use it or not.
Margin VAT sellers could just enter their VAT and OSS ID if Bricklink requires
it and continue to sell as before. The only real difference would be export out
of the EU, where the seller misses out on the full (19%-27%) VAT amount. They
could compensate by higher shipping rates though. Far from perfect but significantly
better than not being able to sell here at all.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2021 03:53 | | Subject: | Two Weeks?! | | Viewed: | 536 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| This is not a big deal for me personally as I am not currently selling here,
so I can plan it when I want.. but... really?!
The catalog changes are scheduled for April 1. That's only 2 weeks away.
I noticed that this is a DRAMATIC catalog update that will throw the entire store
upside down. Definitely won't be able to take my entire 1.2 million parts
store apart and piece it back together just casually within these next two weeks
between sorting orders. Especially moving all the wedges will be be fun puzzle.
Not gonna object against any changes, they seem alright to me. Except that there's
one change clearly missing from that list: Moving the 2x2 corner brick to Brick,
Modified.. (since plate and tile are there)
I hope this really was THE update everyone was waiting for, and now we're
satisfied..
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 24, 2021 12:46 | | Subject: | Wheel? | | Viewed: | 121 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| Was searching my train department upside down for this part...
But I see it is in "Wheel"... is this a mistake? Since, well, it clearly is not
a wheel 
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 18, 2020 03:10 | | Subject: | Please improve min average lot explanation | | Viewed: | 149 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Again, can Bricklink please do something about the way the mininum average lot
value is explained to the buyer? I am getting many messages about it and find
myself explaining the same thing over and over. Please improve these descriptions
in the interface. Maybe by including an example, and by changing the terminology.
As is evident from many forum posts as well, many fresh buyers don't even
know what a "lot" is supposed to mean, let alone they will understand the concept
of minimum average lot value.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Sep 2, 2020 18:53 | | Subject: | Rounded bricks in "Slope Curved"? Really? | | Viewed: | 210 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| Very surprised to find moving rounded bricks to the Slope,Curved category. How
many people really were in favour of that idea and how many were against? I thought
the general sentiment was that curved slopes are an entirely different thing
than parts with a quarter circle.
Putting rounded parts in Slope,Curved really makes no sense to me. I'd really
like to see some kind of vote on this as I cannot imagine this is intuitive to
the users.
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2020 08:32 | | Subject: | Catalog changes | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| It's only a week now until September. What's the status on the upcoming
catalog changes? Haven't seen any posts about it lately. Is this project
already finished?
And I haven't seen any updates on this page recently either, but I don't
think this will be all, will it?
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2487
Hope it will be wrapped up and updated soon, so I can start assessing how to
adapt my store.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Dec 24, 2019 13:10 | | Subject: | Problem/bug with shipping minimum order | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I've never quite understood why you are not allowed to set the minimum order
of a shipping method lower than the minimum order of your store. It's annoying
because if you have 10 shipping methods, then anytime you want to change your
minimum order, you need to also change it 10x in your shipping methods, for no
real reason, because the "master setting", the store minimum order value, should
determine it already.
However, it seems it's also causing another problem: Buyers can use the bypass
password to get around the minimum order, but it does not help them go
around the minimum order of the shipping methods. The result is that anytime
a buyer used the bypass password, they are able to order but unable to select
any shipping methods. So there will need to be a manual invoice.
I'd propose removing the restriction for shipping methods to have a minimum
order value that is higher than or equal to the store minimum order value - in
fact, I'd propose for shipping methods not to need a minimum value at all.
That should solve everything I described without any side effects.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2019 09:02 | | Subject: | 4150 not dead? | | Viewed: | 176 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| That's funny. I just encountered 4 of these:
With "X" bottom in Light Bluish Gray in some 2019 sets. I mixed together many
sets so unfortunately, I can't trace which one it's from. But it's
definitely a set from this year. According to the catalog, the part died out
in 2014.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Oct 10, 2019 07:19 | | Subject: | 49699 a Panel?! | | Viewed: | 163 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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I can't discover anything panel-ish about this part. I'd say it's
window, door, technic, other, vehicle, or pretty much anything except a panel...
 What do you think it should be?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Aug 30, 2019 16:39 | | Subject: | Technic heads: Do the categories make sense? | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| I'm not super technical and as a kid I was terrible at making anything out
of Technic Lego so in spite of my dad's efforts I quickly abandoned it and
never picked it up again. But I'm seriously wondering if the Technic categories
make any sense at all. I'm not good at the jargon and especially not in English,
but here's my observation:
- There's a category called "Link", which includes belt/chain items as well
as suspension parts. Is that just a random semantic, well, "link" between these
parts?
- It seems like there's a whole family of parts that have to do with driving/gears
- clutches, gearboxes, driving rings, changeover catch.. all of these parts are
scattered across categories but I think they are supposed to work together.
- There's a category called steering but it seems to be about wheel suspension
as well as, well, steers. And then there are suspension arms in both "Link" and
in the generic "Technic" category that I think are equally involved in this stuff.
- There's a generic "Technic" category which includes very random items.
While there was a fanatic impulse of emptying out the "(other)" category, apparently
the "Technic" category is still full of randomness. And it's now the biggest
Technic category (if you don't count decorations). That isn't very helpful
is it?
So... I never used this stuff, but a question to the Technic pros: Do you find
that the Technic categories make sense to you, or is it just a fairly random
division that you just memorised the way it is? Should it be improved?
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