| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2022 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: New NIckname issue | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, macebobo writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Have 2 issues wuth this really. The first is when trying to follow the link in
the eail bl sne I get the below
And the 2nd is I do not wwant my detials at lego.com linked top my Lego id th8ey
are 2 seperate acounts and need to stay that way. One is for personal use and
other is for our store.
They could easily use a lookup table in their code to match the 2 and save all
this Hassle
Sometimes people who believe they are doing something genuinely helpful do not
really take the time to think these things through.
Lookup table BL ID = 1 ;ego id = 2 - Not exactly rocket science.
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Cal, they are already linked due to fingerprinting of browsers, unless you use
two browsers, one each exclusively for each task. Then, using big data, they
have other ways of linking the two. It is the world we live in, but I don't
have to like it or help make their job easier.
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George Orwell and 1984 springs to mind as a reality
Everyone seems to want to know everything about everybody . We are supposed to
have GDPR to help prevent this kind of invasive behaviour.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2022 12:22 | | Subject: | New NIckname issue | | Viewed: | 96 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Have 2 issues wuth this really. The first is when trying to follow the link in
the eail bl sne I get the below
And the 2nd is I do not wwant my detials at lego.com linked top my Lego id th8ey
are 2 seperate acounts and need to stay that way. One is for personal use and
other is for our store.
They could easily use a lookup table in their code to match the 2 and save all
this Hassle
Sometimes people who believe they are doing something genuinely helpful do not
really take the time to think these things through.
Lookup table BL ID = 1 ;ego id = 2 - Not exactly rocket science.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2022 11:56 | | Subject: | New NIckname issue | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Have 2 issues wuth this really. The first is when trying to follow the link in
the eail bl sne I get the below
And the 2nd is I do not wwant my detials at lego.com linked top my Lego id th8ey
are 2 seperate acounts and need to stay that way. One is for personal use and
other is for our store.
They could easily use a lookup table in their code to match the 2 and save all
this Hassle
Sometimes people who believe they are doing something genuinely helpful do not
really take the time to think these things through.
Lookup table BL ID = 1 ;ego id = 2 - Not exactly rocket science.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 26, 2022 12:38 | | Subject: | Re: BL only 3 out of 5 stars @ online review site | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| | I happened to randomly google BrickLink today.
One of the first things to appear was the question,
"Is BrickLink a trusted site?"
And it took me to sitejobber which has a generally unfavorable view of BrickLink.
https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/bricklink.com
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To be fair the sample size they are using is totally irrelevant. The site has
over 11k in stores and approaching 1 million in members. To take those review
seriously you need a much larger sample size. .
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 10:27 | | Subject: | Re: Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, peregrinator writes:
| | Have you tried using "Save As PDF" from Chrome? I just tried that (though I'm
running Win 10) and I was able to copy and paste from the PDF produced (I'm
guessing "Print to PDF" produces an image instead of PDF code).
It would at least allow you to rule out the "Save as PDF" driver and place the
blame squarely on Edge
In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Windows 7 and everything was working fine until today (Edge updated itself last
noght)
We understood that xps was Microsoft's effort to counter the dominance of
pdf (And it never worked)
Microsoft print to pdf outside of edge works fine we use it all the time within
edge it is a different story
Up until this morning everythig was fine when we saved to pdf then opened the
pdf in adobe combined it with our order cover sheet If we used the edge print
to pdf command the pdf it created was not editable in other words we could not
copy text and paste it., which we can do when we save as pdf.
From this morning it has adjusted the font size to almost unreadable and that
is even with the scale set to maximum. Like almost everything Microsoft do they
very rarely get it right first time. The office suite has detreated significantly
as they continue to push to do everything via the web.
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Just tried that and it seems to work - which confirms it is an edge issue. Thanks
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 07:19 | | Subject: | Re: Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, hpoort writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | both the save as pdf and print to pdf feature. If you try saving to pdf the text
is minute even scaled up to over 200% and if you print to pdf the text is not
editable as it should be or was.
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Thank you Microsoft yet again - does anyone there know what they are doing ????
They have never been able to accept they lost the universal document battle to
adopbe and pdf's. XPS is totally useless - Come back BIll - all is forgiven
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What version of Windows are you on?
XPS is from the Windows Vista era and is not at all relevant in this context.
Microsoft Print to PDF has been a standard print driver for ages.
Microsoft has joint forces with Adobe for developing the font formats.
So where do you see any resentment?
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Windows 7 and everything was working fine until today (Edge updated itself last
noght)
We understood that xps was Microsoft's effort to counter the dominance of
pdf (And it never worked)
Microsoft print to pdf outside of edge works fine we use it all the time within
edge it is a different story
Up until this morning everythig was fine when we saved to pdf then opened the
pdf in adobe combined it with our order cover sheet If we used the edge print
to pdf command the pdf it created was not editable in other words we could not
copy text and paste it., which we can do when we save as pdf.
From this morning it has adjusted the font size to almost unreadable and that
is even with the scale set to maximum. Like almost everything Microsoft do they
very rarely get it right first time. The office suite has detreated significantly
as they continue to push to do everything via the web.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 06:44 | | Subject: | Re: Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | both the save as pdf and print to pdf feature. If you try saving to pdf the text
is minute even scaled up to over 200% and if you print to pdf the text is not
editable as it should be or was.
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Thank you Microsoft yet again - does anyone there know what they are doing ????
They have never been able to accept they lost the universal document battle to
adopbe and pdf's. XPS is totally useless - Come back BIll - all is forgiven
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I use Edge but never "Save as PDF". I always use "Print to PDF", which is still
there (in my version at least).
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When we use print to we are not allowed to copy and paste - can you
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2022 06:04 | | Subject: | Latest update to microsoft edge has broken .. | | Viewed: | 121 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| both the save as pdf and print to pdf feature. If you try saving to pdf the text
is minute even scaled up to over 200% and if you print to pdf the text is not
editable as it should be or was.
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Thank you Microsoft yet again - does anyone there know what they are doing ????
They have never been able to accept they lost the universal document battle to
adopbe and pdf's. XPS is totally useless - Come back BIll - all is forgiven
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2022 12:30 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | Yeah all 100+ million of us. Poor decision especially as Microsoft are still
supporting Windows 7 (Those that have paid extra to maintain that support). Sounds
fair doesn't it.
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It does, considering that there are 1+ billion people using Windows 10.
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Yes some of my employees use it but not w11 - I have a special application running
on my machine which will not work on windows 10 so I will stay with 7 as long
as possible (Along with the other part of the 100 million plus.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2022 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Gone through the figures with a fine tooth comb and they are 100% correct. Ours
are actual -
yours are hypothetical and the correlation is somewhat vague.
Remember chart 1 is based on no of total units broken down into those families
whilst chart 2 is based on total value again, broken down by family. There really
is no correlation between the two only to show that bricks are selling more and
bringing in more money than any of the other families.
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But Sylvain is talking about averages rather than totals.
Let's put it this way: Bricks make up a greater proportion of your sales
by value than they do by quantity. However, sets make up a smaller proportion
of your sales by value than they do by quantity. Therefore, the average sale
value of a single brick is greater than the average sale value of a single set.
Let's do the maths: At the time of writing, you've 183,047 bricks for
sale, for a total value of £12,465.97. That's an average price of approximately
£0.07 per brick. Meanwhile, you've 150 sets for sale, for a total value of
£1,639.99. That's an average price of approximately £10.93 per set.
Even when lots are considered instead of quantity, sets are still worth more.
Now, I realize there may be a bit of a survivorship bias here: The items for
sale in your store, are items that have not sold, not items that have. But I'm
skeptical that a single brick is worth more than a single set, unless you've
sold several hundred of these:
And even then, this item is technically categorized as a gear, not a brick.
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We are not really interested in averages only totals. As for sets - ours are
almost all polybags which are classed as sets by Bricklink but are not really
sets. We sell 10's of thousands of bricks every month, when we can get our
hands on them and maybe one or 2 polybags every 6 months so I know where our
emphasis should be.
So for sure there are numerous ways to look at stats. Ours were presented in
our way which hopefully were understood. The averages have no real meaning to
us.
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