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 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Jun 20, 2022 11:58
 Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day!
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I have received the gift a day before father's day. Thank you so much!
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Jun 16, 2022 16:54
 Subject: Re: Minifigs and Missions sets
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 Topic: New Sets
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In New Sets, jennnifer writes:
  In New Sets, jennnifer writes:
  In New Sets, Gmid writes:
  We have these cool new Missions sets (60353 et al), where the building instructions
are through the app, and where there is a lot of choice and variation possible
by doing it this way. This means that none of the minifigures in this set have
a fixed build, and have a lot of possible combinations.

What is the plan for listing these in the catalog? List every possible combination
according to the digital instruction? List them as a minifig with multiple chests
and hats to allow every possible combination in one listing? Or not list these
minifigures at all?

 
Set No: 60353  Name: Wild Animal Rescue Missions
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60353-1 (Inv) Wild Animal Rescue Missions
242 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1 Gear, 2022
Sets: Town: City: Missions: Wildlife Rescue
has one minifig built in the instructions:
 
Minifig No: cty1445  Name: Wildlife Rescue Ranger - Female, Blue Shirt with 'RESCUE' on Back, Tan Legs, Black Coiled Hair (Maya)
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cty1445 (Inv) Wildlife Rescue Ranger - Female, Blue Shirt with 'RESCUE' on Back, Tan Legs, Black Coiled Hair (Maya)
Minifigures: Town: City: Wildlife Rescue
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Set No: 60354  Name: Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions
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60354-1 (Inv) Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions
280 Parts, 2 Minifigures, 1 Gear, 2022
Sets: Town: City: Missions: Space Exploration
has one minifig and one robot dog:
 
Minifig No: cty1446  Name: Lunar Research Astronaut - Male, Bright Light Orange and Dark Azure Suit, White Helmet, Trans-Brown Visor (Lieutenant Jamie)
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cty1446 (Inv) Lunar Research Astronaut - Male, Bright Light Orange and Dark Azure Suit, White Helmet, Trans-Brown Visor (Lieutenant Jamie)
Minifigures: Town: City: Space Exploration
 
Minifig No: cty1447  Name: Robot Dog 0-JO
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cty1447 (Inv) Robot Dog 0-JO
Minifigures: Town: City: Space Exploration
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Set No: 60355  Name: Water Police Detective Missions
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60355-1 (Inv) Water Police Detective Missions
266 Parts, 2 Minifigures, 1 Gear, 2022
Sets: Town: City: Missions: Police
will have 2 minifigs: Lieutenant Duke DeTain and Betsy Bass, pending soon....

Jen

And, yes, I had to play through the whole story app to get this info. You are
all welcome.

I just realized that. I’m parting a couple out right now (yay for the new yellow!),
and while figuring out the minifigures I realized the effort it takes to do the
inventory this way. Thanks on behalf of all who will be selling or checking these
sets in the next couple months or years.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Jun 16, 2022 14:22
 Subject: Minifigs and Missions sets
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We have these cool new Missions sets (60353 et al), where the building instructions
are through the app, and where there is a lot of choice and variation possible
by doing it this way. This means that none of the minifigures in this set have
a fixed build, and have a lot of possible combinations.

What is the plan for listing these in the catalog? List every possible combination
according to the digital instruction? List them as a minifig with multiple chests
and hats to allow every possible combination in one listing? Or not list these
minifigures at all?
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Jun 15, 2022 09:38
 Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day!
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In Announce, popsicle writes:
  In Announce, popsicle writes:
  Gonna be away this Father’s Day weekend, to celebrate my son’s birthday (that’s
right, I told his mother to hold tight, until that date) So I’d like to give
my shoutout (and more for some) beforehand to the Dads of BrickLink.

I’ve got some vintage Star Wars Trading Card packs, I’d like to gift to a few
Dads. I mean, what father doesn’t like Star Wars or trading cards for that matter?
I’m lucky enough to be a father, and have posted my share of bragging about it
over the years here in the BrickLink forum. So…

If you’re interested in one of these 3-card packs from
 
Set No: 3342  Name: Star Wars #3 - Troopers/Chewie Minifigure Pack
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3342-1 (Inv) Star Wars #3 - Troopers/Chewie Minifigure Pack
11 Parts, 3 Minifigures, 3 Gear, 2000
Sets: Star Wars: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6
Just let me know.

As a gift, I’ll handle the postage anywhere worldwide.

(I’ll be gifting a limited amount, don’t know how many yet. But I will try
and get them in the mail before we leave on Thursday)


Happy Father’s Day, Dads! You're loved and appreciated


All those that have contacted us for the Father's Day gift: They are on their
way, mailed last night. Offer is now closed

Have a wonderful Father's Day Sunday!

-Christman Family

Lovely gesture, thanks a lot and a happy father's day!
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Jun 14, 2022 10:01
 Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day!
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In Announce, popsicle writes:
  In Announce, Gmid writes:
  Proud father here, 7yo girl, 5yo boy. Both of them always very excited to get
to pick a minifig or animal after they help me sort.

Happy fathers day all!

Can I send their father one of these Star Wars packs?

If so, DM with the address.

I'd love to receive one, thanks a ton!
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Jun 14, 2022 07:59
 Subject: Re: Happy Father's Day!
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Proud father here, 7yo girl, 5yo boy. Both of them always very excited to get
to pick a minifig or animal after they help me sort.

Happy fathers day all!
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: May 27, 2022 09:13
 Subject: Re: Does Anyone Buy Instructions?
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 Topic: General
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In General, Upstate_Brickz writes:
  Hi Bricklink,

I know people buy them for bigger/vintage/high priced/specialty sets but is there
any sense in me keeping a bunch of newer "normal" instructions for sets in the
$20-$80 price range? Do they appreciate in value enough to warrant me keeping
them long term? They are starting to add up and I have limited space. Maybe there's
only certain themes I should keep? Sorry if this has already been asked.

Thanks for the feedback,

Upstate_brickz

I tried at the very beginning when I started my store. I sold only one or two
a year, and then only from either older/retired sets or the very large sets.
To me it did not make sense to continue, the amount of space, organization, inventory
and weight/shipping costs - did not outweigh the benefit and margin.

Right now I discard them into recycled mixed paper when parting out sets.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: May 7, 2022 13:25
 Subject: Re: Orders from Same Person / Different Usernames
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 Topic: Selling
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In Selling, par016 writes:
  Today I got 2 orders from the same username being sent to two different addresses.
Both asked for no packing slip to be included so I figured I had a drop shipper
on my hands. I don't care about drop shippers generally, and I'm not
aware of being against any rules, so I was just gonna pack the orders and move
on, until I noticed that one of the names on the shipping address was very familiar.
I don't generally recognize a name unless I've shipped there 3+ times
but I thought it was weird that on the order it said this person had only purchased
from me twice (both that day and to the different addresses as mentioned). So
I thought this was odd and decided to do a little digging.

I went back to my email and searched the name and found that I had sent to this
address 4 times in the past 4 months (3 in the past month). Checking the usernames
on each order, I noticed that all 4 orders had different usernames. I then search
each username in my email and found that I have received at least 14 orders from
this user (all orders are for minifigures):

-7 from the first username which has 3400+ positives with the username only
being around for 8 months. There are 12 negatives from the same person (on the
same day) saying drop shipper. Their buyer privileges have been revoked.
-1 order from the second username which has only been in use for 1 month. 86
positives, no negatives but buyer privileges have been revoked
-4 orders from the 3rd username which has only been in existence for 3 weeks.
300 positives, no negatives but buyer privileges have been revoked.
-2 orders from the 4th username (which is a more unique name though not much)
but their buyer privileges are still good.

All of the usernames have positive feedback as recently as yesterday. I am not
sure if there are more than these 4 usernames, though it seems quite possible.

So what is going on? This person is clearly a drop shipper. I did not think
that was against the rules as long as you are not selling from a BrickLink store
(where you obviously wouldn't have the inventory on-hand which is against
the rules).

If it's not against the rules why have their buyer privileges been revoked
on the first 3 usernames? How did the buyer privileges get revoked on the 2nd
and 3rd username without even receiving a negative feedback? Should I report
this newest username?

Does anyone have any info on this or have they noticed this person doing this
in their store? Any info or guidance on this would be appreciated.

-Pete

Could it simply be that these accounts are dropshippers, and the common shipping
name/address is someone who buys quite a few minifigs on eBay, and happen to
buy from multiple dropshippers all ordering from you again?

It seems plausible, and there is nothing wrong or fraudulent going on.

Taxes are charged based on shipping address, so I doubt it's anything sketchy
for tax evasion.

Dropshipping is fine, I don't mind them at all, as they get the first questions
from their buyers and act like a filter towards you and me in case issues arise.
Easy business for me. I get the price I want, and he gets extra margin for going
through effort of setting a listing up on ebay and the effort that goes along
with that. Everybody happy.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Mar 20, 2022 01:00
 Subject: Re: Moving my store abroad.
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In General, timitom writes:
  I'm moving from UK to USA next year but don't know how to transfer details?

I moved from NL to USA 4 years back. I was able to simply update the address
on Bricklink and Paypal. I had to create a new account on Stripe, and I'm
still struggling with eBay, my old country keeps popping up here and there.

It shouldn't be a big deal.

Make sure to take your full store offline and redo your inventory, as the valuta
change might skew your prices quite a bit. I used my move as an opportunity to
completely redo, reorganize and recount my inventory. Took a couple of weeks,
but I had to put everything back on shelf anyway.

Good luck with the relocation!
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Mar 14, 2022 19:26
 Subject: Re: Please mark part "3062oldtile" for deletion
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In Catalog Requests, randyf writes:
  In Catalog Requests, LordSkylark writes:
  On a side note, did the catalog admins ever decide if we can start including
other official prototype parts that never appeared in sets but have definitely
made it into the wild, like 4x2 inverted slopes, 2x4 plates with studs on both
sides, etc?


My personal opinion is that if they are real prototype parts manufactured by
LEGO, then they should be able to have entries in the catalog. I can't speak
for everyone else.

This one was marked for deletion a couple of weeks ago:

[p=bb0973]

As far as I'm aware, that's a real prototype seen in the wild as well?
What is the difference between the axle and the above mentioned bricktiles?
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Feb 22, 2022 21:02
 Subject: Re: Does Stripe protect me?
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In Payment Methods, macebobo writes:
  In Payment Methods, CSC writes:
  In Payment Methods, eBricksOnline writes:
  https://www.bricklink.com/feedback.asp?u=wasadasd

Stripe offers no protection for sellers.

-K


In Payment Methods, CSC writes:
  Hi,

I received several orders from new buyers with zero feedback who just registered.
Since several sellers had problems with this and the new buyers paying with Stripe,
I wanted to see if anyone knows if Stripe protects me from fraud.
I will ship with tracking to the address they have provided which is the same
the credit card has, so that part is taking care off. I will also give everyone
the benefit of the doubt, but wanted to make sure that I am covered as well in
case something goes wrong.

Thanks

I signed up for Radar on Stripe and that should do it as far as I understand
it.

That will only allow you to adjust your Radar block rate to suit your risk tolerance,
not offer seller loss protection like PayPal does if something does manage to
get through. The scripting is complicated for a developer, I imagine it may
be more difficult for those without a background in development. I did not find
it worth it and cancelled the trial they offered.

Yeah, this doesn't do anything. I've got it on, but I still received
a random chargeback today. Annoying part is that Stripe charges me another 25
dollar on top of the 12 dollar order, which apparently is normal for a credit
card chargeback.

I'm disputing it, but I doubt it'll be successful. I assume I lost 12
dollar on parts and lost 25 dollar on fees.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Sep 2, 2021 08:37
 Subject: Re: New store in the netherlands.
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In New Stores, Paul_Dreuning writes:
  Goodmorning,

I have my store open since this week. I dont have a lot but i want to grow

If you have ideas to make my store better, feel free to command.

Regrets,
Paul

Veel succes!

Nice bulk volume of some parts. Just keep growing, adding more breadth and depth
of inventory, and customers will come.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Aug 27, 2021 12:13
 Subject: Re: What is your favorite part of selling Lego?
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In Selling, axaday writes:
  In Selling, mjsheller writes:
  I am interested in hearing from Sellers, what is your favorite part of being
in the Lego business? Is it finding a great bulk buy? Sorting? Cataloging, pulling
orders or shipping the goods out the door?

My favorite part of owning a store is dumping onto the table the latest bucket
of bulk Lego and sorting through and gathering similar items. I would happily
just do that and someone else could inventory it and sell it. Sorting is definitely
my favorite and I am just happy as can be when I come across a part I have never
seen before and look on BL what it is and how it is used.

Being able to buy Lego with impugnity.

This is the best part for me as well. New set released? I'll take 10! Rare
sealed set shows up on eBay? Sure! Not having to defend to my better side. And
sometimes out of the 10, I'll take 1 for myself.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Aug 23, 2021 10:38
 Subject: Re: Your next contest!
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 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Aug 10, 2021 13:55
 Subject: Re: Two shades of trans dark pink?
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In Colors, yoavheskia writes:
  What is the color of the tile in the middle? Trans dark pink? The tile on the
right is trans dark pink, the Clikits part on the left is trans pink.
What do you think?

The tolerance of the right two pieces looks in line with tolerance i've seen
in trans-red parts.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Aug 2, 2021 08:25
 Subject: Re: Time for another contest...
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 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Aug 2, 2021 08:24
 Subject: Re: Taxes
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In Sales, tjb01527 writes:
  That does not make it right! They need to revisit it. I have now questioned this
with admin. Paying VAT or Taxes is one thing, being charged to collect them is
another.


In Sales, yorbrick writes:
  In Sales, tjb01527 writes:
  As most of my transactions are via Paypal, I get charged by Paypal for collecting
tax fees!! You could never have predicted this.


They did say this would happen prior to it going live.

Why is that not right? If you would handle the full tax admin yourself, you would
charge taxes, and you would pay your paypal/creditcard fees over the full amount
including taxes. The same with shipping, these costs are passed through, yet
you pay paypal/creditcard fees over those as well.

This is part of doing business. If you have a brick and mortar store, you would
also pay a 1-2% fee over every maestro or credit card transaction, including
the taxes you have to charge.

I'm happy I don't have to go through the hassle of doing the sales tax
admin myself in every single state. Happy to pay a few bucks to bricklink to
have them do it.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Jul 20, 2021 10:00
 Subject: Re: Quality of new bricks?
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In Problem Order, musen2100 writes:
  Hello everyone

First of all I want to say I am quite new to bricklink and this is my first post
in the discussion forum. This is why I am asking for help. I recently bought
from someone who I will not name, that sold some *new* bricks that has quite
a lot of scratches. On the image below you can see a sample of some of the bricks.
I bought some more, and I would say 10-30% of them had these kind of scratches.
Since I am quite new, I do not have a lot of experience buying new bricks, which
means I might be completely wrong, but in my opinion the bricks has so many scratches
it can not be called new. Am I just nitpicking? Any help is appreciated, thank
you for reading.

New parts can come with a scratch here and there, but that looks completely different
then this. This scratching and scuffing on your picture is achieved by continuously
searching through a mount of bricks. A new brick with scratching will have a
few large scratches, not a high amount of scuffing like we see here.

These are used bricks.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: May 28, 2021 12:00
 Subject: Re: sellling my store for 1/2 of avg sale price
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In Sales, legomaster100 writes:
  I have about 300$ avg sale price in parts, and I am looking to sell it for 120$
and I will ship free with purchase in USA
I can give you the xml file if wanted
Let me know if interested


Would you split new from used? I'm interested in the new parts.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: May 28, 2021 11:43
 Subject: Re: Lego Ownership of Bricklink
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In Announce, StickyBrickit writes:
  So it's been quite a while now since the bolt out of the blue announcement
that Lego had acquired this site. I remember at first there was quite a lot of
concern that they would ruin the site, or at least have an overall negative impact.
However I haven't really noticed any difference so far (perhaps a bit more
downtime from the server?).

Just wondering what other people's thoughts are now that they've had
control of the site for a while. Better, worse, about the same?

My sales tripled since last year, but there are two more variables that play
into that.

1. The pandemic caused people to be home more + stimulus payments.
2. I increased inventory by about 35-40%
3. Lego purchased bricklink.

No negative impact whatsoever. I slowly see more interaction with the users,
slow changes for the good. Changes that help make things more 'official'
and efficient for the registered companies selling on here (tax arranged through
BL), etc.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: May 20, 2021 08:58
 Subject: Re: Online shipping labels - Shippo, ship station
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In Shipping, gr8trains writes:
  Does anyone use any of the online shipping label companies? Trying to find one
I can use USPS and UPS or fedex and just switch back and forth easy. Shippo,
ship station, stamps.com?

Getting Oreo and more orders so need someone easy and don’t want to pay a big
monthly fee. Thanks!!!!

I have used stamps.com for a year or so, and then switched to shippingeasy (daughter
of stamps.com). Shipping easy has a much easier order overview, and the connection
with paypal is a tad better. You can ship usps, ups and fedex with them, and
quickly compare prices. Links to all major USB scales and label printers.

Right after I signed up for 30 bucks a month, they called me and they offered
me a permanent discount to bring it down to 10 bucks a month because at that
time I had less than 10 orders a week. I asked them: "what if my volume increases,
do I lose the discount?", they confirmed that the discount was permanent. I am
at 50 orders a week now, and my discount still stands.

I am very happy and satisfied with shipping easy. Send me a note if you want
a referral link or code.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Nov 21, 2020 14:29
 Subject: Re: Increase in fees, loss of members and stores
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In Suggestions, 13thWarrior writes:
  I have enjoyed Lego most of my life, but it seems that Lego seems to want to
make me give up on them. I have had to increase shipping rates and add a processing
fee to offset the increasing fees. The addition of the VAT taxes has made it
nearly impossible to make money on Bricklink. It increases the final sale which
in turn, increases the fees that both Bricklink and PayPal take from you. You
have to notice the huge decrease in stores and customers. What is everyone else's
thoughts on this?

My thoughts.

I've seen a crazy increase in both the amount and the value of orders this
year, despite keeping my prices high (still on a reasonable level) to make sure
I can keep doing this as a side business.

I see nothing what you are reflecting here. I had to charge sales tax for customers
in Arkansas anyway, and I was in process of setting up tax Nexus in states where
it was needed (first was Kansas for me). But all that effort is reduced drastically
now BL is taking care of that.

Besides this, the taxes should not affect your business model at all, they are
added at the end of the sale, passed through on paypal. And the 3.5% paypal is
charging on those taxes? That should be neglectable if you look at your business
in the big picture. A 50 dollar order will have between 3 and 5 dollar taxes.
5 dollar will have 0.175 usd paypal fees. If that is killing you on a 50 dollar
order, i think it is time to rethink your model. Heck, the tape to seal your
package is more than those 3 nickles.

If your problem is instant checkout? You will have to rethink your model as well.
Maybe it is time to move away from exact calculated shipping fee, and go for
a flat fee for 1st class mail and a flat fee for priority mail. No customer will
complain about charging 3.95 instead of the actual 3.18 a 1st class package costs.
The next order they'll be lucky and have to pay 3.95 instead of a 4.53 1st
class package. See shipping costs as a generic expense, make sure at the end
of the month you end up positive. That way you don't have to go through crazy
hoops to make instant checkout work. Customers happy because they can pay rightaway,
you happy because you don't have to go through the hassle of guessing weights,
making invoices and waiting for payments.

Last point, and I think that's already mentioned, prices. You get your orders
because your prices are at the bottom, the far bottom. A store your size doesn't
have to be at that price point. If your prices are on or just below average,
the amount of orders will go down slightly, but the value of your orders will
go up drastically. You will also see a movement from a lot of small orders, to
large, more substantial orders. Customers who are going for one-stop shopping,
instead of placing 20 orders at different stores.

Look, it's your business, you can run it the way you want it. But the generalization
you put out there is fair and simply untrue. Since LEGO purchased this whole
thing, there has been drastic changes, we see crazy improvements, sales tax is
a big win, the last time i've seen a '500 error' is at least a COVID
away. A lot to improve still, absolutely, but we're well on track.

Anyway, have a wonderful Saturday and Thanksgiving, may your orders be plentiful
and your inventory grow to be bountiful.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Nov 14, 2020 11:45
 Subject: Re: Bricklink wordpress integration (woocommerce)
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In Suggestions, Teup writes:
  In Suggestions, thirteeneighty writes:
  As a business with both bricks 'n' mortar and online shop I'd love
to do sales direct though our own website (wordpress with woo-commerce) but manage
inventory, sales process, feedback etc on bricklink. Obviously I'd expect
to pay bricklink fees on these sales.

We have tried to run our own woo-commerce site manually as well as a bricklink
site but the admin required especially when we usually have small volumes of
many products meant that we abandoned these options and returned to simply selling
via bricklink where listing and inventory management is quick and easy.

If I could install a bricklink plugin on my woo / wordpress site and let that
process sales to bricklink, maintain inventory, images etc I would generate more
sales and bricklink would get more revenue. I guess it needs bricklink to develop
a plugin.

Would others be interested in such a plugin to allow them to make bricklink sales
off bricklink on their own sites?

I have this, my woocommerce webshop is synced to my Bricklink. It auto generates
new products as well and downloads their pictures from Rebrickable whenever I
part out something on Bricklink. It took me about two solid months of programming
to get it done. As it's completely tailor-made and integrated with my administration
software I can't exactly share it, besides the fact that it may not be stable
enough to really be a third party tool...
All I can say is, if you want to get this done, it's gonna be quite a project!


Would you be willing to share to rough route you've taken? What pulls from
where, did you do most programming on the woocommerce side of things?

Thanks!
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Oct 27, 2020 14:21
 Subject: Re: Minifigure names and punctuation
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 Topic: Catalog
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In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
  In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
  In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
  In Catalog Requests, qwertyboy writes:
  In Catalog Requests, Hygrotus writes:
  In Catalog Requests, yorbrick writes:
  I know BL is quite strict about names and using the correct diacritics, umluats,
accents, and so on.

For example, ages ago I asked if "Mesut Özil" could be called "Mesut Özil (Mesut
Ozil)" (and similar requests for the others) to help out English speakers searching
for him but it was denied and only the correct spelling retained.

When typing German, if umlaut letters are not available, it is usual to replace
them with the underlying vowel followed by an ⟨e⟩. So, for example, "Schröder"
becomes "Schroeder"
So should be correctly then Oezil not Ozil

Yes, that would linguistically correct, but the issue is that people need to
be able to find items in the catalog. If they know it is officially called Özil
they are far more likely to search for Ozil instead of Oezil.

Niek.

And for that reason, we did the following:
 
Set No: BL19001  Name: Löwenstein Castle
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BL19001-1 (Inv) Löwenstein Castle
2002 Parts, 3 Minifigures, 2019
Sets: BrickLink Designer Program
It ain't pretty, but it works.


Wouldn't it make more sense to make the search engine a bit smarter? That
would be a much cleaner and more appropriate solution. The problem is searchability
of non-roman letters, so the solution should be that the search engine fills
these out, when searching for ozil, it should automatically feedback 'ozil'
first, but also search for 'özil' and 'oezil'. Creating a collection
of alternative spellings seems a bit backwards to me.
 Author: 3001Bricks View Messages Posted By 3001Bricks
 Posted: Oct 12, 2020 11:59
 Subject: Re: BAM Plans
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 Topic: Catalog
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In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
  Per the catalog roadmap, we're now taking suggestions for what we should
do with BAM sets, parts, and figures. Please provide specific suggestions for
how you'd prefer to see these items handled and the rationale for your preferred
method.

Alright, I'm taking the privilege to go first.

Would it be worth it to have a separate subcategory / tag for these kind of unique
parts? I have added quite a lot myself, and they are insanely hard to find as
seller, and possibly even harder to find as a buyer. It would be nice to just
browser through a BAM section to see those unique minifigure parts as inspiration.

I haven't participated in any category discussion at all, but are there options
to give parts a specific 'tag' to help the search? Most modern databases/archives
don't work with categories/subcategories anymore, but simply with tags assisted
by filtering.

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