Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2022 10:09 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 76088-1 | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 24 Part 34816 Light Bluish Gray Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Bar Handle on End - Bar Flush with Edge (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
2 Sets parted out today both with alternate part
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2022 02:56 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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 .
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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
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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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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.
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 21:38 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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
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Just to be clear - BL does NOT gain control over your Paypal account.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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| | | | 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.
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I double up as ceo/CFO so my arguments are with myself. the good news is I win
all arguments.
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| | 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
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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.
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agree with the logic. we would not really make a significant dent on your sales
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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?
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the only thing it might do is make it possible to only have those states to contend
with rather than lots of messages
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| | hope you will be joining us soon
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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. 
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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
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 19:46 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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
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Just to be clear - BL does NOT gain control over your Paypal account.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 19:32 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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
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Good luck with this Bill!
IRS and your Bank, controls your fluxes, and now control how BrickLink manages
taxes to be paid.
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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).
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 14:56 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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 .
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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.)
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7+ this year...
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In short, the ball is in your camp; they won't change this IMHO.
Sylvain
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Ditto
PD: What is holding you back still Bill?
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 14:50 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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 .
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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
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 14:44 | | Subject: | Re: Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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 .
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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.
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that is how we do it. it just seems not sensible.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 27, 2022 13:16 | | Subject: | Just a thoought | | Viewed: | 243 times | | Topic: | General | |
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2022 09:33 | | Subject: | Re: I paid VAT on buying, and VAT again receiving | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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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
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2022 11:41 | | Subject: | Re: New UK Prices on PAB cups | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, misbi writes:
| | In LEGO, calsbricks writes:
| | They have limited supplies coming in and now prices are much higher.
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I wonder what could possibly have caused that to happen? 🙄
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2022 10:51 | | Subject: | Re: New UK Prices on PAB cups | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In LEGO, cosmicray writes:
| | 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
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That could be good news for Bricklink stores other than those that source inventory
from PAB walls of course!
Robert
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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).
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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!!)
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(That makes at least 2 of us !!!!!)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2022 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: New UK Prices on PAB cups | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In LEGO, calsbricks writes:
| | 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
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That could be good news for Bricklink stores other than those that source inventory
from PAB walls of course!
Robert
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That is one positive - prices may go up on Bricklink which might not be quite
so positive
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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
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2022 10:27 | | Subject: | Re: New UK Prices on PAB cups | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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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
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That could be good news for Bricklink stores other than those that source inventory
from PAB walls of course!
Robert
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That is one positive - prices may go up on Bricklink which might not be quite
so positive
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2022 08:35 | | Subject: | New UK Prices on PAB cups | | Viewed: | 156 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2022 08:18 | | Subject: | Re: PAB & B&P Merging | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Dino1 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.
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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.
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2022 07:46 | | Subject: | Re: PAB & B&P Merging | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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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.
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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?
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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
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2022 06:20 | | Subject: | PAB & B&P Merging | | Viewed: | 190 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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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.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2022 11:07 | | Subject: | Re: BL slow | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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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
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Absolutely no problems here in the UK
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 4, 2022 08:00 | | Subject: | Re: Switching to UK sales only for UK stores | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Stuart9 writes:
| | Anyone here switched to UK sales only in the recent past and are UK based ( obviously
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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.
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 31, 2021 07:11 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping as Seller - methods not showing | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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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:
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| | 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?
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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
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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.
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You should see the following. If not show us what you are seeiing
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 31, 2021 07:05 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping as Seller - methods not showing | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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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:
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| | 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
.
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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.
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You should see the following. If not show us what you are seeiing
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 31, 2021 05:55 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink and Brickstore are different | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| 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
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and 71206
|
Same here - looks like the database has not yet been updated.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 26, 2021 08:55 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone recognise this | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
|
| 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
|
|
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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 26, 2021 07:46 | | Subject: | Anyone recognise this | | Viewed: | 155 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 20, 2021 03:14 | | Subject: | Re: Order blocked | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, raduenea writes:
| | Hello,
Please help me with the following issue.
I add some products in the cart for every order it keep telling me the message:
Order summary
Seller Refuses Service
This seller refuses service to all members with negative feedback score.
From this message I understand that I have, somehow, negative feedback. I don't
even know why, because I didn't buy anything from this store in order to
receive this feedback. Anyway it's not my intension to do this .
What should I do to?
Thanks in advanced.
|
Stores have the ability to block buyers who have negative feedback, wherever
you got it from. You either need to reach out to the store or gain some positive
feedback to reverse your current negative status.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2021 02:36 | | Subject: | Does anyone know the answer | | Viewed: | 190 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| Reported a printing bug in Brickstore yesterday. Followed all the guidelines
on Github and the report was acknowledged by the author. Late last night received
an advice that the case was now closed. Bug 'fixed' and matter now over.
No program update to Brickstore and whilst I see a lot of code having been introduced
on Github when does the program get updated?
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 15, 2021 05:50 | | Subject: | Re: Orderhistory | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, Beerzon55 writes:
| | In Help, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Help, Beerzon55 writes:
| | Good afternoon, I was wondering if there is a feature where I can see (download)
all my orders bought on Bricklink with all the details?
PLease let me know!
With regards, Hein Berendsen
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Click on the Download button on the orders placed page.
Note that after 1 year details are purged.
|
Brickwilbo, thanks for your reply, is there no way to view on the purged orders
for details?
With regards, Hein Berendsen
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Currently for a non admin user the answer is no - but you may be able to reach
out to an admin and request info if it is vital.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 15, 2021 05:09 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore issues - update | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| In Related Software, Stellar writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | Further to our original post we are delighted to advise thet with the help and
patience of Beaverbrick we now have a working labels template for Brickstore.
That has also revealed a bug in Brickstore which we are looking at how best to
report that.
The labels work wonderfully, but you can not selectively print them - it is
all or nothing. That happens whether using the label template from the extras
menu or the normal Brickstore print command. It seems to think a document is
the entire list not a selected item. Workaround is simple, copy the individual
item to another document and print from that, but it is a definite bug.
Thanks again Beaverbrick
|
We found another wowrk around. If you use the filters to select the item or items
that you wish to print from a list the select process works. STrange behaviour.
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It's because BrickStore printing works as WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You
Get, if you want to report a bug or a feature just post here:
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/issues
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What then is the point of select either by marking the item or using the filter.
If that is by design I think it needs to change , if it is a bug it needs fixing.
Will report it where you advised.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 15, 2021 03:07 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore issues - update | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | Further to our original post we are delighted to advise thet with the help and
patience of Beaverbrick we now have a working labels template for Brickstore.
That has also revealed a bug in Brickstore which we are looking at how best to
report that.
The labels work wonderfully, but you can not selectively print them - it is
all or nothing. That happens whether using the label template from the extras
menu or the normal Brickstore print command. It seems to think a document is
the entire list not a selected item. Workaround is simple, copy the individual
item to another document and print from that, but it is a definite bug.
Thanks again Beaverbrick
|
We found another wowrk around. If you use the filters to select the item or items
that you wish to print from a list the select process works. STrange behaviour.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 15, 2021 00:12 | | Subject: | Brickstock/Brickstore issues - update | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| Further to our original post we are delighted to advise thet with the help and
patience of Beaverbrick we now have a working labels template for Brickstore.
That has also revealed a bug in Brickstore which we are looking at how best to
report that.
The labels work wonderfully, but you can not selectively print them - it is
all or nothing. That happens whether using the label template from the extras
menu or the normal Brickstore print command. It seems to think a document is
the entire list not a selected item. Workaround is simple, copy the individual
item to another document and print from that, but it is a definite bug.
Thanks again Beaverbrick
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2021 11:18 | | Subject: | Re: Change ,oftenbrings chaos | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, Teup writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Having looked back a long way in the forum (before the current lot of compliance
issues being addressed) I could find no real issues being brought up over sales
tax, vat etc. The stores where it applied were dealing with it with no real issues.
All of a sudden legislates get involved, without thinking things through, as
usual, and we have a degree of chaos here on Bricklink. How odd that the individual
stores, where applicable coped more than adequately, until this load of changes
emerged,
The moral of the story is let well enough alone. Yes they may have missed the
odd amount of tax or vat but things were being dealt with - no pressure on BL
to come up with a total solution and no forum posts raising holy hell.
Still there is no going backwards only forwards and we are all now waiting for
the issues to be dealt with - they are far more complicated than what people
believe but if others have dealt with it I am sure BL will in due course.
|
Well, life was simpler in the past in general... That doesn't mean we can
recreate that by not having the rules we have today. They're there for a
reason. Today's world can't exist without improved legislation on e-commerce,
just like it can't exist without something like cyber security. The problem
is just that Bricklink doesn't see changes in the world as opportunities
to make this platform professional and respectable, but rather behaves like a
poorly motivated teenager who does the bare minimum to pass the class at the
very last moment (and in some cases less than the bare minimum and later than
the last moment).
|
Hiya Teup. Veery philosophical.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2021 10:31 | | Subject: | Re: Change ,oftenbrings chaos | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, cosmicray writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Yes they may have missed the
odd amount of tax or vat but things were being dealt with - no pressure on BL
to come up with a total solution and no forum posts raising holy hell.
|
You don't live in the USA, so your understanding of the previous situation
may not have been clear. Prior to July 1, 2021, sellers on BrickLink, and located
outside of Florida, were not collecting sales tax. So 49 US states plus all international
sellers were not collecting sales and use tax for shipments destined for Florida.
The same situation applied to ~40 other US states. I do not consider that an
odd amount of sales tax.
Furthermore it created a lopsided playing field between sellers in Florida, and
sellers outside of Florida, for shipments destined here. Since July 1, I've
noticed more orders destined for Florida than I used to receive. Likewise I've
seen fewer orders going to California. So it balances out (in some sense).
Nita Rae
|
Just to help you out Born and raised for the first 21 years of my life in Buffalo,
New York. Well aware of the sales tax situation - every time my family and I
visit the US all I hear from them is we forgot about the sales tax - so it wasn't
quite as cheap as as we thought.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2021 03:59 | | Subject: | Change ,oftenbrings chaos | | Viewed: | 181 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| Having looked back a long way in the forum (before the current lot of compliance
issues being addressed) I could find no real issues being brought up over sales
tax, vat etc. The stores where it applied were dealing with it with no real issues.
All of a sudden legislates get involved, without thinking things through, as
usual, and we have a degree of chaos here on Bricklink. How odd that the individual
stores, where applicable coped more than adequately, until this load of changes
emerged,
The moral of the story is let well enough alone. Yes they may have missed the
odd amount of tax or vat but things were being dealt with - no pressure on BL
to come up with a total solution and no forum posts raising holy hell.
Still there is no going backwards only forwards and we are all now waiting for
the issues to be dealt with - they are far more complicated than what people
believe but if others have dealt with it I am sure BL will in due course.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2021 00:07 | | Subject: | Re: What happens next | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, infinibrix writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | TLG - Bricklink have recently announced a change of leadership at Bricklink
and thanks the previous CEO for all of his efforts. (Sorry to Interrupt the Monthly
Contests), etc.
We have a new gentleman coming on board - who we do not know a great deal about
other than he is a Lego guy. Ok good. Everyone who uses this site since JK's
takeover (2013) knows it needs a major re-write (Not XP) but both a redesign
and rethink. There have been a few (Including one by us) messages on here which
pointed the cost of doing that to be around 2 years in development terms at whatever
cost you wish to put on that.
|
For me 2 things come to mind:-
1. Cost benefit analysis - what would Lego and everyone else expect to get out
of rewriting the site (versus doing nothing or doing something else instead)?
|
Hiya Robert
A little bird told us a rewrite is the only real way to get thee functionality
we want. Far too much 'spaghetti code' to leave as it is. But the whole
point is it has to be done on a collaboration basis not one individual deciding
what everyone wants and needs. Time will, of course tell
| | 2. Risk analysis. Completely rewriting the site sounds like potentially changing
(or losing) some functionality and as we have seen many times before a resulting
dissatisfaction from members. Could be disaster.
I don't know if they are even thinking of doing this or not and I'm personally
not convinced it is the right thing to do now. Overall not my decision to make
thankfully!
Robert
|
|
Correct me if I'm wrong but XP is already the work in progress where all
the substantial programming and work will be focused. The standard BL will sit
alongside XP and remain largely untouched apart from being patched up here and
there and so I don't think there should be any concern about losing what
we already have.
|
HI there and thanks for adding your thoughts. We believe this entire situation
has changed/evolved and a different approach is in the air. Time, will of course
tell and of course whatever does happen the main site will be kept in place until
any new development is ready.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 12:23 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| In Related Software, beaverbrick writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, beaverbrick writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, beaverbrick writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | We have been Brickstock users since Patrick took it on and in many cases worked
closely with him to iron out issues etc, however his main job really does prevent
him from carrying on with developments so the product is slowly but surely heading
for the archives. Current issues include not getting any images of minwfigures
(everything else is okay), and price guide guidelines are also not updating properly.
So we downloaded Brickstore and it 'cures/fixes' the current Brickstock
issues and adds some nice touches but and it is a big but. We cannot use our
print templates. Yes we know about modifying viewws etc but that doesnt work
when we need to print labels for our products - and it works very well in Brickstock.
. We worked with tsrateplayer (Alan) a long time ago to get these templates done
and have shared them with many Brickstock users. We have good documentation on
theme and a how to guide to create or modify them but have not got a clue how
to incorporate them into Brickstore.
Maybe we can actually reach out to Robert via this forum message and ask if he
is willing to incorporate these into Brickstore. (We print delivery notes as
well as product labels via the templates.
Thoughts/comments.
|
Forgot to add the minifigure issue started immediately after Bricklink changed
the id from minifig to minifigure - we are sure that has something to do with
the issue.
|
The print templates in BrickStore are JavaScript.
I never used BrickStock so I don't know what format they're in.
Take a look at this page...
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/tree/master/extensions
Scroll down to the README.md section and it gives you info on how to get a print
template into BrickStore (basically, copying the print template file into the
right directory/folder and giving it the right file extension).
I have modified existing templates for my own use, so I'd be happy to take
a look if you're not having much joy... although I'm not a pro programmer
|
OK - the Brickstock files are .qs files and it says only qm are allowed. Not
being a programmer doesn't help me cause I dont know if I can convert the
qs to qm or I have to develop a qm file and add it to the directory. Grrr.
|
Send me the qs file from BrickStock and I'll take a look.
If you send me instructions on how to load the template into BrickStock too,
I can then see exactly what you want in BrickStore.
|
Done - will wait to hear from you. The labels one is the most critical - we
have found a way to create a view that then prints a bit like our delivery note.
|
Working through some of these and think we're getting there.
Which labels are the most important for you?
There are 5 different label layouts, some of which have identical names in BrickStock!!...
Labels_5b
labels_A4Order
labels_A4Report
labels_bill
labels_DYMO
Thanks :
|
Answered by PM - THanks)
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 11:21 | | Subject: | Re: What happens next | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, Rob_and_Shelagh writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | TLG - Bricklink have recently announced a change of leadership at Bricklink
and thanks the previous CEO for all of his efforts. (Sorry to Interrupt the Monthly
Contests), etc.
We have a new gentleman coming on board - who we do not know a great deal about
other than he is a Lego guy. Ok good. Everyone who uses this site since JK's
takeover (2013) knows it needs a major re-write (Not XP) but both a redesign
and rethink. There have been a few (Including one by us) messages on here which
pointed the cost of doing that to be around 2 years in development terms at whatever
cost you wish to put on that.
|
For me 2 things come to mind:-
1. Cost benefit analysis - what would Lego and everyone else expect to get out
of rewriting the site (versus doing nothing or doing something else instead)?
|
Hiya Robert
A little bird told us a rewrite is the only real way to get thee functionality
we want. Far too much 'spaghetti code' to leave as it is. But the whole
point is it has to be done on a collaboration basis not one individual deciding
what everyone wants and needs. Time will, of course tell
| | 2. Risk analysis. Completely rewriting the site sounds like potentially changing
(or losing) some functionality and as we have seen many times before a resulting
dissatisfaction from members. Could be disaster.
I don't know if they are even thinking of doing this or not and I'm personally
not convinced it is the right thing to do now. Overall not my decision to make
thankfully!
Robert
|
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 11:12 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| In Related Software, MMillere writes:
| | Please share in a new post if this works
Milissa
|
Of corse
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 10:12 | | Subject: | Re: What happens next | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, kzinti writes:
| | Architecture is everything, so rebuilding a house on a crappy foundation only
results in more issues down the road. The site needs a complete rebuild from
the bottom up, and if the core system is built out correctly, the subs can be
handled Agile style for quicker results.
|
Hiya and thanks for adding your thoughts. I think I covered architecture with
the analyst and a systems spec. Systems meaning architecture, UI, and functionality.
Still do not see a need for agile - requires so much admin and follow up etc,
but if we get that far who cares.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 06:48 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| In Related Software, beaverbrick writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, beaverbrick writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | We have been Brickstock users since Patrick took it on and in many cases worked
closely with him to iron out issues etc, however his main job really does prevent
him from carrying on with developments so the product is slowly but surely heading
for the archives. Current issues include not getting any images of minwfigures
(everything else is okay), and price guide guidelines are also not updating properly.
So we downloaded Brickstore and it 'cures/fixes' the current Brickstock
issues and adds some nice touches but and it is a big but. We cannot use our
print templates. Yes we know about modifying viewws etc but that doesnt work
when we need to print labels for our products - and it works very well in Brickstock.
. We worked with tsrateplayer (Alan) a long time ago to get these templates done
and have shared them with many Brickstock users. We have good documentation on
theme and a how to guide to create or modify them but have not got a clue how
to incorporate them into Brickstore.
Maybe we can actually reach out to Robert via this forum message and ask if he
is willing to incorporate these into Brickstore. (We print delivery notes as
well as product labels via the templates.
Thoughts/comments.
|
Forgot to add the minifigure issue started immediately after Bricklink changed
the id from minifig to minifigure - we are sure that has something to do with
the issue.
|
The print templates in BrickStore are JavaScript.
I never used BrickStock so I don't know what format they're in.
Take a look at this page...
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/tree/master/extensions
Scroll down to the README.md section and it gives you info on how to get a print
template into BrickStore (basically, copying the print template file into the
right directory/folder and giving it the right file extension).
I have modified existing templates for my own use, so I'd be happy to take
a look if you're not having much joy... although I'm not a pro programmer
|
OK - the Brickstock files are .qs files and it says only qm are allowed. Not
being a programmer doesn't help me cause I dont know if I can convert the
qs to qm or I have to develop a qm file and add it to the directory. Grrr.
|
Send me the qs file from BrickStock and I'll take a look.
If you send me instructions on how to load the template into BrickStock too,
I can then see exactly what you want in BrickStore.
|
Done - will wait to hear from you. The labels one is the most critical - we
have found a way to create a view that then prints a bit like our delivery note.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 06:07 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| In Related Software, beaverbrick writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | We have been Brickstock users since Patrick took it on and in many cases worked
closely with him to iron out issues etc, however his main job really does prevent
him from carrying on with developments so the product is slowly but surely heading
for the archives. Current issues include not getting any images of minwfigures
(everything else is okay), and price guide guidelines are also not updating properly.
So we downloaded Brickstore and it 'cures/fixes' the current Brickstock
issues and adds some nice touches but and it is a big but. We cannot use our
print templates. Yes we know about modifying viewws etc but that doesnt work
when we need to print labels for our products - and it works very well in Brickstock.
. We worked with tsrateplayer (Alan) a long time ago to get these templates done
and have shared them with many Brickstock users. We have good documentation on
theme and a how to guide to create or modify them but have not got a clue how
to incorporate them into Brickstore.
Maybe we can actually reach out to Robert via this forum message and ask if he
is willing to incorporate these into Brickstore. (We print delivery notes as
well as product labels via the templates.
Thoughts/comments.
|
Forgot to add the minifigure issue started immediately after Bricklink changed
the id from minifig to minifigure - we are sure that has something to do with
the issue.
|
The print templates in BrickStore are JavaScript.
I never used BrickStock so I don't know what format they're in.
Take a look at this page...
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/tree/master/extensions
Scroll down to the README.md section and it gives you info on how to get a print
template into BrickStore (basically, copying the print template file into the
right directory/folder and giving it the right file extension).
I have modified existing templates for my own use, so I'd be happy to take
a look if you're not having much joy... although I'm not a pro programmer
|
OK - the Brickstock files are .qs files and it says only qm are allowed. Not
being a programmer doesn't help me cause I dont know if I can convert the
qs to qm or I have to develop a qm file and add it to the directory. Grrr.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 06:04 | | Subject: | Re: What happens next | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, yorbrick writes:
| | What next? I reckon very little in terms of seller/buyer features or site development
but probably more Bricklink Designer Program sets. That (and studio) seems to
have driven more new users here and also sales through LEGO's own website.
Two easily measurable performance goals.
|
I hope you are wrong but there is logic in what you are saying. We need another
Dan, really. Lego are mainly interested in sets - they make more money that way.
Parts etc are small fries . I have had a very lengthy e-mail exchange with TLG
customer services (Who are normally very good) over the fact they have stopped
allowing Retail stores ordering 2 x 4 bricks in various standard colours e.g
LBG, DBG, Reddish Brown and Lime to name a few. It has been over 4 years siince
the UK stores have been able to order any of those. One manager told me TLG are
not really interested in the wall - the push is for sets.
|
|
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 05:31 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
|
| In Related Software, beaverbrick writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | We have been Brickstock users since Patrick took it on and in many cases worked
closely with him to iron out issues etc, however his main job really does prevent
him from carrying on with developments so the product is slowly but surely heading
for the archives. Current issues include not getting any images of minwfigures
(everything else is okay), and price guide guidelines are also not updating properly.
So we downloaded Brickstore and it 'cures/fixes' the current Brickstock
issues and adds some nice touches but and it is a big but. We cannot use our
print templates. Yes we know about modifying viewws etc but that doesnt work
when we need to print labels for our products - and it works very well in Brickstock.
. We worked with tsrateplayer (Alan) a long time ago to get these templates done
and have shared them with many Brickstock users. We have good documentation on
theme and a how to guide to create or modify them but have not got a clue how
to incorporate them into Brickstore.
Maybe we can actually reach out to Robert via this forum message and ask if he
is willing to incorporate these into Brickstore. (We print delivery notes as
well as product labels via the templates.
Thoughts/comments.
|
Forgot to add the minifigure issue started immediately after Bricklink changed
the id from minifig to minifigure - we are sure that has something to do with
the issue.
|
The print templates in BrickStore are JavaScript.
I never used BrickStock so I don't know what format they're in.
Take a look at this page...
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/tree/master/extensions
Scroll down to the README.md section and it gives you info on how to get a print
template into BrickStore (basically, copying the print template file into the
right directory/folder and giving it the right file extension).
I have modified existing templates for my own use, so I'd be happy to take
a look if you're not having much joy... although I'm not a pro programmer
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Hiya and thanks for the post. Will investigate.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2021 04:13 | | Subject: | What happens next | | Viewed: | 281 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| TLG - Bricklink have recently announced a change of leadership at Bricklink
and thanks the previous CEO for all of his efforts. (Sorry to Interrupt the Monthly
Contests), etc.
We have a new gentleman coming on board - who we do not know a great deal about
other than he is a Lego guy. Ok good. Everyone who uses this site since JK's
takeover (2013) knows it needs a major re-write (Not XP) but both a redesign
and rethink. There have been a few (Including one by us) messages on here which
pointed the cost of doing that to be around 2 years in development terms at whatever
cost you wish to put on that.
There are differing views on development here some say use an agile methodology
(write code quickly and then patch, patch and patch.) Others say waterfall (The
old fashioned way) is best here - it takes more time and is less patch, (patch
and patch) . Agile is great when you are in a competitive environment (Can keep
you in front of the competition) but is that really required here? It also needs
2 sprint teams at least. One to write and release and the other to patch. Is
this the right environment for release, patch, patch and patch again (Even if
you have the people?)
Bricklink has several things going for it - e,g market pull, membership and now
the financial clout available through TLG, albeit we say that with tongue in
cheek.
Hire a senior analyst who has strong SQL skills/background and let them spend
some time putting together a decent system spec from which a business overview
can be published which asks all the right questions about direction etc and once
that is put together talk to your panels of advisors e.g Marketplace, Catalogue
and Studio as well as any future ones created. Make sure the spec includes strong
inventory management, and gives sellers the tools they need to operate successful
businesses as well as ease of use for buyers, etc. etc.
Get the spec costed and presented to TLG for approval (Let them worry about the
cost and time tables.)
Then go for it , really - lots of complications to this I am sure but in the
end analysis that is what is needed. Think more than carefully about the design
work- what it looks like is a matter of personal choice but what it does is not.
Design is everything in development4 and always calls for the highest level of
knowledge and experience
There are quite a few of us who would be willing to put time and effort into
this as this is a major project and needs lots of input and discussion. Not everyone
is going to get everything they want but working on the basis of discussion leads
to compromise and ultimately a quality product - this is the real way forward,
isn’t it?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 10, 2021 23:31 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | We have been Brickstock users since Patrick took it on and in many cases worked
closely with him to iron out issues etc, however his main job really does prevent
him from carrying on with developments so the product is slowly but surely heading
for the archives. Current issues include not getting any images of minwfigures
(everything else is okay), and price guide guidelines are also not updating properly.
So we downloaded Brickstore and it 'cures/fixes' the current Brickstock
issues and adds some nice touches but and it is a big but. We cannot use our
print templates. Yes we know about modifying viewws etc but that doesnt work
when we need to print labels for our products - and it works very well in Brickstock.
. We worked with tsrateplayer (Alan) a long time ago to get these templates done
and have shared them with many Brickstock users. We have good documentation on
theme and a how to guide to create or modify them but have not got a clue how
to incorporate them into Brickstore.
Maybe we can actually reach out to Robert via this forum message and ask if he
is willing to incorporate these into Brickstore. (We print delivery notes as
well as product labels via the templates.
Thoughts/comments.
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Forgot to add the minifigure issue started immediately after Bricklink changed
the id from minifig to minifigure - we are sure that has something to do with
the issue.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 10, 2021 23:26 | | Subject: | Brickstock/Brickstore - issues | | Viewed: | 165 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| We have been Brickstock users since Patrick took it on and in many cases worked
closely with him to iron out issues etc, however his main job really does prevent
him from carrying on with developments so the product is slowly but surely heading
for the archives. Current issues include not getting any images of minwfigures
(everything else is okay), and price guide guidelines are also not updating properly.
So we downloaded Brickstore and it 'cures/fixes' the current Brickstock
issues and adds some nice touches but and it is a big but. We cannot use our
print templates. Yes we know about modifying viewws etc but that doesnt work
when we need to print labels for our products - and it works very well in Brickstock.
. We worked with tsrateplayer (Alan) a long time ago to get these templates done
and have shared them with many Brickstock users. We have good documentation on
theme and a how to guide to create or modify them but have not got a clue how
to incorporate them into Brickstore.
Maybe we can actually reach out to Robert via this forum message and ask if he
is willing to incorporate these into Brickstore. (We print delivery notes as
well as product labels via the templates.
Thoughts/comments.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2021 12:36 | | Subject: | Re: Not convinved this is correct | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, dcarmine writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, StarBrick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | with. What a convoluted mess, with or without Brexit. Do they actually pay these
people to come up with these hair brained schemes (Not Bricklink, by the way
- they are just trying to implement this hair brained scheme)
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Frustration noted, but it doesn't bring you into a better environment....
Actually, we make it possible to have these people paid to come up with these
schemes....
They are funded by OUR taxes, so indirectly when we stop paying taxes, these
people are no longer being paid for there brained scheme productions. However,
it takes about 55 steps in the system to get from your tax payments to these
people.
All these systems worldwide are broken or at the verge of breaking. As long as
we abide by these insane rules, insane schemes and insane solutions, these insane
systems will be held in place.
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One lingering question. A seller putting bl's gb vat id on a cn232b is open
to problems,, especially as you now have to put the business name and address
details on the cn22. To me that is not sensible and very much open to fraud.
How does the system deal with that, if it does at all?
| | When we bring back understanding and logic that operates on a higher level and
not different logic for every lower level, we will gradually begin to see a change
for the better.
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I am not, in any way, fully understanding this system. But from listening to
others, the IOSS system is used to report the paid VAT to a database that can
be used by the receiving country to see if the VAT was paid on the sending side
of the transaction.
Maybe you can look that up and see if that is true.
HTH
Donna
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Hi Donna
Thanks for the post. Will be talking to our local Postmaster tomorrow to see
what he knows. Will update then. Whatever the outcome of that it is still a mess
- not well thought out from a practical point of view and full of little loopholes
etc. It is, also in our opinion ripe for fraud.
There is in the UK at least a VAT registration database where one can check on
the validity of a number. I presume the same applies across the EU, but as for
world wide cooperation on a matter like this - no chance.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2021 04:13 | | Subject: | Re: Not convinved this is correct | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, StarBrick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | with. What a convoluted mess, with or without Brexit. Do they actually pay these
people to come up with these hair brained schemes (Not Bricklink, by the way
- they are just trying to implement this hair brained scheme)
|
Frustration noted, but it doesn't bring you into a better environment....
Actually, we make it possible to have these people paid to come up with these
schemes....
They are funded by OUR taxes, so indirectly when we stop paying taxes, these
people are no longer being paid for there brained scheme productions. However,
it takes about 55 steps in the system to get from your tax payments to these
people.
All these systems worldwide are broken or at the verge of breaking. As long as
we abide by these insane rules, insane schemes and insane solutions, these insane
systems will be held in place.
|
One lingering question. A seller putting bl's gb vat id on a cn232b is open
to problems,, especially as you now have to put the business name and address
details on the cn22. To me that is not sensible and very much open to fraud.
How does the system deal with that, if it does at all?
| | When we bring back understanding and logic that operates on a higher level and
not different logic for every lower level, we will gradually begin to see a change
for the better.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2021 03:59 | | Subject: | Re: Not convinved this is correct | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, StarBrick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | with. What a convoluted mess, with or without Brexit. Do they actually pay these
people to come up with these hair brained schemes (Not Bricklink, by the way
- they are just trying to implement this hair brained scheme)
|
Frustration noted, but it doesn't bring you into a better environment....
Actually, we make it possible to have these people paid to come up with these
schemes....
They are funded by OUR taxes, so indirectly when we stop paying taxes, these
people are no longer being paid for there brained scheme productions. However,
it takes about 55 steps in the system to get from your tax payments to these
people.
All these systems worldwide are broken or at the verge of breaking. As long as
we abide by these insane rules, insane schemes and insane solutions, these insane
systems will be held in place.
When we bring back understanding and logic that operates on a higher level and
not different logic for every lower level, we will gradually begin to see a change
for the better.
|
I wonder whose lifetime that will be in. Certainly not mine.
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