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 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
 Posted: Feb 10, 2022 10:09
 Subject: Inventory Change Request for Set 76088-1
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Please make changes to the following inventory:
 
Set No: 76088  Name: Thor vs. Hulk: Arena Clash
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76088-1 (Inv) Thor vs. Hulk: Arena Clash
468 Parts, 5 Minifigures, 1 Book, 2017
Sets: Super Heroes: Thor Ragnarok

* Add 24 Part 34816 Light Bluish Gray Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Bar Handle on End - Bar Flush with Edge (Alternate)

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2 Sets parted out today both with alternate part
 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
 Posted: Jan 28, 2022 02:56
 Subject: Re: Just a thoought
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In General, TheBrickGuys writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  In General, 1001bricks writes:
  
  On the other hand eliminating a large part of the market based purely on payment
method does not make good business sense. You can collect the sales tax in a
more conventional method - like bill us for it., or is that too difficult .

That's not possible.

As soon as a company (here: the marketplace) will declare a 1000€ VAT paid, they
DO owe it, and they will pay it.

Meaning that if the seller makes an indirect sale (like using IBAN or such) and
BL cannot collect this VAT amount (for any reason), they'll simply loose
this amount.

This isn't acceptable - especially if you multiply this risk by 30000+ shops.


On the other side; on site payments are 5 years old at least.
There's no reason not to set up those payment methods, especially if you
wish to be able to sell to this market (USA, etc.)

In short, the ball is in your camp; they won't change this IMHO.

Sylvain

unfortunately you have misread rhe thread it is not to do with vat only usa and
sales tax.

the ball, as you call it, is not in our court. it is firmly in Bricklink's.
they agreed in the beginning to investigate other payment options and have let
that fade away. as a business we would never give away control of our funds
nd that is what the terms of ppm state

Actually the ball is in your court. BrickLink has set up the rules in how you
can sell to customers in the US so it is now up to you to decide if you want
to abide by there rules or not. I know you have brought up many many arguments
against implementing onsite payments thru many many threads here but I think
you just need either bite the bullet and implement onsite payments or if not
then I think it is time to let it go and accept that BrickLink is not going to
change their policies concerning onsite payments in anyway that will be pleasing
to you. You just need to let it go and move on.

Jim.

Well , if everyone did that the world would never change., This will be the last
post on this matter from us. Sometimes people make uninformed decisions which
impact many without looking at all the consequences. Whilst the compliance issue
had to be solved Bricklink took the 'easy option' and didn't get
it right. Our setup will remain the same so those states that do not have a sales
tax policy can still order from us if they choose and those that do cannot. Still
doesn't seem right now does it ?
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 Posted: Jan 27, 2022 21:38
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In General, qwertyboy writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  In General, qwertyboy writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  ppm terms and conditions. there is no way we will hand over control of our funds
to bricklink or anyone else for that matter

Just to be clear - BL does NOT gain control over your Paypal account.

they gain control over all/any bricklink transactions and have the right to determine
when and if you receive those funds according to the ppm terms and conditions.

Well, Paypal has absolute control over ALL your PP transactions, as well as your
balance. They can freeze your account for whatever reason, yet you still offer
that. Why? Because you trust they will do the correct thing. Why not extend that
same trust to BL, an entity where you demonstrably have more influence over?


you are, of course, correct. we have been with them for 14 years without a problem
and believe it will stay that way. trust them - possibly but that has been built
up over our time with them and we never, repeat never leave funds with them.
as for Bricklink we have built up a degree of trust since tlg have more or less
taken over. Tanya has helped with that as well as her team. long may it continue,
but tlg have to back her, and ensure she has the resources she needs to get the
job (s) done.

  
  one of the longest and most complicated threads this forum has seen in my 14
year they had to publish a statement in the end to mitigate the concrns stores
had. that statement was that they would not get involved with that side of the
terms, and until this compliance issue came along they kept to their word.

I don't see a compliance issue. I see a requirement forced upon BL to comply
with how market places can and cannot operate. This led to an implementation
that tries to make sure the tax monies are indeed collected. How would you have
tackled this problem?

I have called it compliance because that is what they call it. my approach would
have been somewhat different however with more time spent up front in design.
sales exemptions for example should have been included as well as margin schemes
and of course I would have looked far more deeply into payment methods, but that
is just me and how we approach issues like this.

  
  
  But then again, the more shops refuse to do onsite payments, the better it can
be for my bottom line. So now I will have to explain to the CFO why I am typing
this reply which potentially costs our shop some sales.

I double up as ceo/CFO so my arguments are with myself. the good news is I win
all arguments.
  
  I doubt that.people go where the product is. that is what drives sales not what
payment methods you accept. you know that old marketing expression the right
product at the right place at the right time is what drives business

People need to buy product. You have it, I have it, and many other shops have
it. You bow out of the US market. That means the odds they place an order in
my store just went up. By a tiny tiny bit, but it went up. If you start selling
to the US again because of this discussion, my odds go down again by a tiny tiny
bit. Simple logic.

agree with the logic. we would not really make a significant dent on your sales
  
Circling back to your initial suggestion - splitting up the US in tax / no-tax
is a non-issue for your shop. By your own words, you hardly received any orders
from the US before, and that was from all states. Why would you want this split-up
if there would not be any orders from that small part of the US? Is it maybe
to raise your odds by a tiny tiny bit? Are you actually in my boat?

the only thing it might do is make it possible to only have those states to contend
with rather than lots of messages
  
  hope you will be joining us soon

I will wave in your general direction when the airplane with the CFO and me starts
its descent to Schiphol airport early March. That's about as good as I can
do.

I didn't mean that but you should enjoy the Netherlands at that time of year
many of us are hoping you will join us in Feb

stay safe and well
  
Stay safe!

Niek.
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 Posted: Jan 27, 2022 19:46
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In General, qwertyboy writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  ppm terms and conditions. there is no way we will hand over control of our funds
to bricklink or anyone else for that matter

Just to be clear - BL does NOT gain control over your Paypal account.

they gain control over all/any bricklink transactions and have the right to determine
when and if you receive those funds according to the ppm terms and conditions.
one of the longest and most complicated threads this forum has seen in my 14
year they had to publish a statement in the end to mitigate the concrns stores
had. that statement was that they would not get involved with that side of the
terms, and until this compliance issue came along they kept to their word.
  
When an onsite payment is done, BL gets authorized to be an intermediate for
that specific transaction (nothing else). That way, BL can redirect parts of
that payment when needed. For instance, when taxes are involved for a US sale,
the customer pays the full amount including taxes, and BL siphons off the tax
part, so the seller gets the payment minus the tax part.

I understand that this power can make you hesitant, but if BL wants to screw
you over, they can do that without onsite payments. There has to be a level of
trust when you join a market place as a seller.

Besides, refusing to implement onsite payments will cut you off from the largest
international market. I for one could not explain that if I had to build my business
and maximize profits.

all of that is true, however less than 9% of our sales over our 11 years has
come from overseas (postage costs are simply too high), we lost the usa when
they first implemented sales taxes and now the eu with vat. sales levels are
still acceptable and we still get the odd order from Canada as well as switzerland
and Australia.
  
But then again, the more shops refuse to do onsite payments, the better it can
be for my bottom line. So now I will have to explain to the CFO why I am typing
this reply which potentially costs our shop some sales.

My CAD 0.03.

I doubt that.people go where the product is. that is what drives sales not what
payment methods you accept. you know that old marketing expression the right
product at the right place at the right time is what drives business

hope you will be joining us soon
  
Niek.
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 Posted: Jan 27, 2022 19:32
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In General, 1001bricks writes:
  
  ppm terms and conditions. there is no way we will hand over control of our funds
to bricklink or anyone else for that matter

Good luck with this Bill!

IRS and your Bank, controls your fluxes, and now control how BrickLink manages
taxes to be paid.

just to be pedantic is (hmrc) have absolutely no control over my funds. they
have the right to charge me taxes on earned income, which they do once a year.

as for the banks, the situation is different, but again they have no control
over my funds

in both situations these organisations are set up with the management of funds
as their main focus. bricklink is not and possibly never will be.

as you are well aware there are often difficulties with them keeping up with
their main focus (that is not meant as a criticism rather a statement of fact).


  
There's every day less and less solutions this not to be controlled.

Apart if you're one of the 1% VIPs of the World (shame on you then).
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 Posted: Jan 27, 2022 14:56
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In General, Stellar writes:
  In General, 1001bricks writes:
  
  On the other hand eliminating a large part of the market based purely on payment
method does not make good business sense. You can collect the sales tax in a
more conventional method - like bill us for it., or is that too difficult .

That's not possible.

As soon as a company (here: the marketplace) will declare a 1000€ VAT paid, they
DO owe it, and they will pay it.

Meaning that if the seller makes an indirect sale (like using IBAN or such) and
BL cannot collect this VAT amount (for any reason), they'll simply loose
this amount.

This isn't acceptable - especially if you multiply this risk by 30000+ shops.


On the other side; on site payments are 5 years old at least.
There's no reason not to set up those payment methods, especially if you
wish to be able to sell to this market (USA, etc.)

7+ this year...

  
In short, the ball is in your camp; they won't change this IMHO.

Sylvain

Ditto

PD: What is holding you back still Bill?

ppm terms and conditions. there is no way we will hand over control of our funds
to bricklink or anyone else for that matter
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 Posted: Jan 27, 2022 14:50
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In General, 1001bricks writes:
  
  On the other hand eliminating a large part of the market based purely on payment
method does not make good business sense. You can collect the sales tax in a
more conventional method - like bill us for it., or is that too difficult .

That's not possible.

As soon as a company (here: the marketplace) will declare a 1000€ VAT paid, they
DO owe it, and they will pay it.

Meaning that if the seller makes an indirect sale (like using IBAN or such) and
BL cannot collect this VAT amount (for any reason), they'll simply loose
this amount.

This isn't acceptable - especially if you multiply this risk by 30000+ shops.


On the other side; on site payments are 5 years old at least.
There's no reason not to set up those payment methods, especially if you
wish to be able to sell to this market (USA, etc.)

In short, the ball is in your camp; they won't change this IMHO.

Sylvain

unfortunately you have misread rhe thread it is not to do with vat only usa and
sales tax.

the ball, as you call it, is not in our court. it is firmly in Bricklink's.
they agreed in the beginning to investigate other payment options and have let
that fade away. as a business we would never give away control of our funds
nd that is what the terms of ppm state
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In General, psusaxman2000 writes:
  In General, calsbricks writes:
  Currently due to Bricklink policy of 'must have onsite payment method enabled'
no store without that function can sell to anywhere in the USA. We would like
to suggest (not a formal suggestion yet) that BL splits the US shipping destinations
to with sales tax and without, so those of us who do not have onsite payments
enabled can still sell to the (9 states currently). We appreciate this will probably
change as everyone tries to get on the bandwagon - but because you cannot currently
remove an individual state this is not possible - we have had half a dozen enquiries
this month for shipping to USA - all from states with sales tax, unfortunately

On the other hand eliminating a large part of the market based purely on payment
method does not make good business sense. You can collect the sales tax in a
more conventional method - like bill us for it., or is that too difficult .

While it's not the greatest options, you can still ship today if you setup
a shipping option to the US. Yes, it will appear for all US buyers like myself,
but they will not be able to checkout due to lack of onsite payment. With this,
you would probably get a series of emails about not being about to check out
and the like, but you would show up on the search for all those other buyers
that don't have this rule in place yet.

I think it would be nice if there was a marker or flag that trigger the "seller
ships to my country" based on the necessary shipping option for the tax and VAT
stuff, but that probably isn't a high priority thing at this time.

that is how we do it. it just seems not sensible.
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Currently due to Bricklink policy of 'must have onsite payment method enabled'
no store without that function can sell to anywhere in the USA. We would like
to suggest (not a formal suggestion yet) that BL splits the US shipping destinations
to with sales tax and without, so those of us who do not have onsite payments
enabled can still sell to the (9 states currently). We appreciate this will probably
change as everyone tries to get on the bandwagon - but because you cannot currently
remove an individual state this is not possible - we have had half a dozen enquiries
this month for shipping to USA - all from states with sales tax, unfortunately

On the other hand eliminating a large part of the market based purely on payment
method does not make good business sense. You can collect the sales tax in a
more conventional method - like bill us for it., or is that too difficult .
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In Selling, calsbricks writes:
  In Selling, Erkiles writes:
  "The IOSS allows suppliers and electronic interfaces selling imported
goods to buyers in the EU to collect, declare and pay the VAT to the tax authorities".

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/ioss_en

The whole idea of IOSS has been designed for e-commerce, emphasis on the
"e" for electronic, aka automated systems.

As I've said before: there's no entity that could work through the amount
of parcels arriving daily by hand. You'd need a workforce of at least 10000
people checking parcels 24/7. Or people should expcect delivery times of up to
2 years
If people are expecting their postal services or courrier to manually check their
parcel for an IOSS nr on the CN22/CN23 slip they are not being realistic IMO.




Erikk

Hi Erikk

Design is one side of this issue - the other and perhaps more important is the
implementation. Trying to coordinate the rest of the world to a EU specific
system has not gone well. Some areas seem okay and others are a long way short.
And that is with or without an electronic version.

Overall a score of very low for the overall project.
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In LEGO, misbi writes:
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  They have limited supplies coming in and now prices are much higher.

I wonder what could possibly have caused that to happen? 🙄

There is that of course, but local retail managers always have problems in Dec
and Jan getting in supplies. That has beem happening for years now.
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  Effective 1 Jan 2022 large cup prices have increased from £11.24 each to £14.24
each (That is on using returned cups). 30% ish hike


Hmmmm

That could be good news for Bricklink stores other than those that source inventory
from PAB walls of course!

Robert

Looking at it from the other end of the telescope ... If you sell it here, for
the same price you had it listed for 12 months back, your return today will not
buy what it would have bought 12 months ago. Think about that.

The price guide does not take into account inflation. Actual buying power is
varying from country to country (which also isn't being considered).


Very true, with inflation your inventory is worth less in terms of spending power
when liquidated. Here in UK we have not seen big inflation for decades, many
sellers will never have experienced its effect.

Robert (who unfortunately is old enough to remember the 70's/early 80's!!)

(That makes at least 2 of us !!!!!)
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In LEGO, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
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  In LEGO, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
  In LEGO, calsbricks writes:
  Effective 1 Jan 2022 large cup prices have increased from £11.24 each to £14.24
each (That is on using returned cups). 30% ish hike


Hmmmm

That could be good news for Bricklink stores other than those that source inventory
from PAB walls of course!

Robert

That is one positive - prices may go up on Bricklink which might not be quite
so positive

Yep I think this year will have the tag "inflation". Bricklink prices are likely
to be behind retail prices due to the massive overstocks here but I think they
will go up over time. For mass demanded parts (bricks, plates, etc.) it would
not take a big shift of buyers switching to BL from other sources like PAB I
suppose to reduce those stocks though. That said there are some parts here that
look like they might take until the next millenium to sell out.

Robert

Agreed with both yours and Nita's comments. Don't you wish you could
raise your prices by 30%, We will be watching this very closely on BL, I have
already heard from one Lego store manager that they are not happy with this.
They have limited supplies coming in and now prices are much higher. If B&P is
combined with PAB that is going to be very interesting indeed.
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In LEGO, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
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  Effective 1 Jan 2022 large cup prices have increased from £11.24 each to £14.24
each (That is on using returned cups). 30% ish hike


Hmmmm

That could be good news for Bricklink stores other than those that source inventory
from PAB walls of course!

Robert

That is one positive - prices may go up on Bricklink which might not be quite
so positive
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Effective 1 Jan 2022 large cup prices have increased from £11.24 each to £14.24
each (That is on using returned cups). 30% ish hike


Hmmmm
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In LEGO, Dino1 writes:
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  Could it possibly be a good thing for PAB & B&P merging? Currently the TLG Retail
store managers are restricted to an order form which only allows them to choose
a limited number of items from the 1600 that are available to PAB. With the addition
of the B&P elements might they have a wider choice to make available? Is that
good or not so good. Depends on how you want to look at ir really.


Overall, it will not be good for us.
With BL's data, it will be easier to adjust prices and quantities to the
market and, most importantly, they will be unbeatable for us in terms of shipping
costs.

Agreed to a certain extent but not in shipping times (Unless they alter that
as well)- If we have access to the items on PAB walls then they will also have
a hard time competing with BL Price. For example look at 2 x 4 bricks. You can
get 110 in a large cup. Over here that is 10p each roughly. Find a 2 x 4 on TLG
PAB or B&P at that price. So it may well just be swings and roundabouts but BL
delivery will always be better.
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In LEGO, manganschlamm writes:
  In LEGO, calsbricks writes:
  Could it possibly be a good thing for PAB & B&P merging? Currently the TLG Retail
store managers are restricted to an order form which only allows them to choose
a limited number of items from the 1600 that are available to PAB. With the addition
of the B&P elements might they have a wider choice to make available? Is that
good or not so good. Depends on how you want to look at ir really.

Another issue concerns the current limitation to 200 of each part that you order
from B&P. That limit is not in PAB. So what will be the new limit?

Obviously you mean online as there will not be a limit if bought through a Lego
retail store.

There are ways of going over the 200 limit on line. We have done that on a number
of occasions
 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
 Posted: Jan 14, 2022 06:20
 Subject: PAB & B&P Merging
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Could it possibly be a good thing for PAB & B&P merging? Currently the TLG Retail
store managers are restricted to an order form which only allows them to choose
a limited number of items from the 1600 that are available to PAB. With the addition
of the B&P elements might they have a wider choice to make available? Is that
good or not so good. Depends on how you want to look at ir really.
 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
 Posted: Jan 13, 2022 11:07
 Subject: Re: BL slow
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In Related Software, Emilio_Magnelli writes:
  I would let you know that BL is very slow today.

It's impossible to work!

Also Help Desk is down.

em

Absolutely no problems here in the UK
 Author: calsbricks View Messages Posted By calsbricks
 Posted: Jan 4, 2022 08:00
 Subject: Re: Switching to UK sales only for UK stores
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In Selling, Stuart9 writes:
  Anyone here switched to UK sales only in the recent past and are UK based ( obviously
)

Really don’t see me selling overseas anymore due to all the red tape and need
to produce paperwork that appears to fall foul of or being ignored by officials.

Could barely fit a CN22 to some small packages, now it seems you need to attach
much more for customs, I could be wrong.

No way do I want to get into arguing with vat officials or others because I missed
something or something has changed.

Anyone think I’m being shortsighted or over reacting, fire away, I’m happy to
reconsider.

My best sales have been overseas so I will miss out, I know that, might make
exceptions for large orders, who knows.

HI Stuart - glad to hear you are settling in. When the pandemic started we decided
to stop selling outside the Uk (just too many issues and, of course we will not
sign up to onsite payments with the current Paypal/Stripe terms). That kept us
out of the US other than the few states where there is no sales tax. Europe we
still sell into Switzerland and ouside of there we still do a few sales to Canada
and Australia. It keeps the store ticking over whilst we consider the future.
Overall only 8% of our total sales came from outside the UK any way (too high
postage costs ).

So whatever decision you make we are sure it will work out for you,

Good luck with it
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 Posted: Dec 31, 2021 07:11
 Subject: Re: Shipping as Seller - methods not showing
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In Shipping, calsbricks writes:
  In Shipping, liana_condor writes:
  In Shipping, brac.brick writes:
  In Shipping, liana_condor writes:
  In Shipping, Llewyn writes:
  In Shipping, liana_condor writes:

  Ah ok. Thank you for trying that out! How do I manually override these in my
inventory? I can’t see any way to do this? I’d assume that usually the dimensions
etc are correct but I’m sure there’ll be times when it doesn’t quite match up
or hasn’t been inputted on the catalogue?

On each item you wish to have set to Manual invoice only, you go to the item
and where you select the price & quantity, at the bottom, there is an option
"Pkg type". You can select Manual there. Then make sure to click "submit changes"
so it takes effect. You will need to do this for each item you do not want to
be available for instant checkout. I do this with all my instruction booklets
.

Hmm, thanks for the help on this - I've gone to my inventory and selected
the item but I see no 'Pkg type' option. I've tried to amend the
Shipping options to be Manual but no option showing still. Still not sure what
I'm missing.

You should see the following. If not show us what you are seeiing

You will aloso need to have th4e following checkbox ticked in My Store settings
- scroll down to inventory and ensure the tick is there.
 
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In Shipping, liana_condor writes:
  In Shipping, brac.brick writes:
  In Shipping, liana_condor writes:
  In Shipping, Llewyn writes:
  In Shipping, liana_condor writes:

  Ah ok. Thank you for trying that out! How do I manually override these in my
inventory? I can’t see any way to do this? I’d assume that usually the dimensions
etc are correct but I’m sure there’ll be times when it doesn’t quite match up
or hasn’t been inputted on the catalogue?

On each item you wish to have set to Manual invoice only, you go to the item
and where you select the price & quantity, at the bottom, there is an option
"Pkg type". You can select Manual there. Then make sure to click "submit changes"
so it takes effect. You will need to do this for each item you do not want to
be available for instant checkout. I do this with all my instruction booklets
.

Hmm, thanks for the help on this - I've gone to my inventory and selected
the item but I see no 'Pkg type' option. I've tried to amend the
Shipping options to be Manual but no option showing still. Still not sure what
I'm missing.

You should see the following. If not show us what you are seeiing
 
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 Posted: Dec 31, 2021 05:55
 Subject: Re: Bricklink and Brickstore are different
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In Catalog, amthorpe writes:
  In Catalog, amthorpe writes:
  Just updated the database. Still showing no image and non matching reference
same also applies to the similar items in 71228

and 71206

Same here - looks like the database has not yet been updated.
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 Posted: Dec 26, 2021 08:55
 Subject: Re: Anyone recognise this
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In Catalog Identification, BricksThatStick writes:
  In Catalog Identification, calsbricks writes:
  Checked 14769* several times and cannot see this. Either the eyes have gone (good
possibility) or it isn't there.

Ot is definitely black and definitely Lego

 
Part No: 4150pb109  Name: Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Vinyl Record with Black Heads with Glasses Pattern
* 
4150pb109 Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Vinyl Record with Black Heads with Glasses Pattern
Parts: Tile, Round, Decorated

Thanks - didn't check 4150 - Duh - trouble is it isnt a 4150 - clearly 14769
so it is currently misidentified in the catalogue or re-released by Lego as 14769
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Checked 14769* several times and cannot see this. Either the eyes have gone (good
possibility) or it isn't there.

Ot is definitely black and definitely Lego
 

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