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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2022 03:19 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | I tried making stats on my store… but my computer is broken, it only says ”NaN”
over and over 
I fear it’s shorthand for “Sorry, ̶D̶a̶v̶e̶ Sylvain, I can’t do that.”
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 10:04 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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Not really sure I agree with your analysis/interpretation. The first chart, to
us, shows the percentage of each family's sales against total sales. In other
words of all the items sold over 11 years Bricks makes up 45% of that total -using
your figures of 1,000,000 tptal items sold 0 bricks woul represent 450,000 of
those and so on. The 2nd chart says that if the total value of sakes is £2,000,000
the bricks would have been £980,000
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That’s exactly how I interpret your charts 
But, using your numbers: 450,000 bricks for £980,000 means one brick is £2.27
on average.
Same reasoning with sets and it means you sold 10,000 sets and they represent
less than 1% of £2,000,000, so less than £20,000, so less than £2 per set on
average.
Same reasoning with minifigures and it means you sold 80,000 minifigures and
they represent 4% of £2,000,00, so £80,000, so £1 per minifigure on average.
Doesn’t make sense.
| | Hope that is clearer. Makes perfect sense to us and the figures are quite accurate.
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Understand what you are sayibg - will relook at actuals figures - hypothetical
figures do not make sense.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 09:39 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | So the average price for a brick is way more than the average price for a set.
Doesn’t make sense.
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Maybe the average price of a lot of bricks (e.g. 500 red 3001s) is more
than that for a set.
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The average price of our sets is under £10 (Small polybags - nothing more really).
We get an odd one worth more than that but in the main we do not sell sets. We
are a oarts store - we leave sets to those who are into sets.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 09:30 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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| | Something is weird indeed. Are you sure the titles are correct?
Because, as I read the charts, your bricks have more value than your sets: the
average value (value / qty) of your sets is 0.? / 1 (below 1) while the average
value of your bricks is 49.67 / 45 (greater than 1).
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We do not sell sets - only the odd polybag so our bricks, which are in the 100's
of thousands always have much greater value in sales than our sets.
IN other word the 2nd chart shows the % of sales value represented by each product
family. Bricks and plates are 1st and 2bd and so ob,
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Here’s my reasoning in more details:
The first chart says you’re selling 1% in sets in qty. If you sell 1,000,000
items, that means 10,000 sets sold.
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Not really sure I agree with your analysis/interpretation. The first chart, to
us, shows the percentage of each family's sales against total sales. In other
words of all the items sold over 11 years Bricks makes up 45% of that total -using
your figures of 1,000,000 tptal items sold bricks would represent 450,000 of
those and so on. The 2nd chart says that if the total value of sales is £2,000,000
the bricks would have been £980,000
Hope that is clearer. Makes perfect sense to us and the figures are quite accurate.
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The second chart says the sets account for less than 1% in value (not visible
on the chart, so say 0.s%). If the total value is 1,000,000 × X (where X is
the average value of one item), then the total value for sets is around s,000
× X.
That means that the average value of a set is s,000 x X / 10,000 = 0.s × X.
Same reasonning for bricks means the average value of a brick is 49.67/45 = 1.1
× X.
So the average price for a brick is way more than the average price for a set.
Doesn’t make sense.
The only way it makes sense is if by ‘value,’ you mean ‘profits’ or if the charts
are swapped .
If the charts are swapped, the average values would respectively be X / 0.s and
X / 1.1, making the average set more expensive than the average brick.
And the same applies to minifigs (8% qty, 4.04% value).
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 09:27 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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| | Something is weird indeed. Are you sure the titles are correct?
Because, as I read the charts, your bricks have more value than your sets: the
average value (value / qty) of your sets is 0.? / 1 (below 1) while the average
value of your bricks is 49.67 / 45 (greater than 1).
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We do not sell sets - only the odd polybag so our bricks, which are in the 100's
of thousands always have much greater value in sales than our sets.
IN other word the 2nd chart shows the % of sales value represented by each product
family. Bricks and plates are 1st and 2bd and so ob,
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Here’s my reasoning in more details:
The first chart says you’re selling 1% in sets in qty. If you sell 1,000,000
items, that means 10,000 sets sold.
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Not really sure I agree with your analysis/interpretation. The first chart, to
us, shows the percentage of each family's sales against total sales. In other
words of all the items sold over 11 years Bricks makes up 45% of that total -using
your figures of 1,000,000 tptal items sold 0 bricks woul represent 450,000 of
those and so on. The 2nd chart says that if the total value of sakes is £2,000,000
the bricks would have been £980,000
Hope that is clearer. Makes perfect sense to us and the figures are quite accurate.
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The second chart says the sets account for less than 1% in value (not visible
on the chart, so say 0.s%). If the total value is 1,000,000 × X (where X is
the average value of one item), then the total value for sets is around s,000
× X.
That means that the average value of a set is s,000 x X / 10,000 = 0.s × X.
Same reasonning for bricks means the average value of a brick is 49.67/45 = 1.1
× X.
So the average price for a brick is way more than the average price for a set.
Doesn’t make sense.
The only way it makes sense is if by ‘value,’ you mean ‘profits’ or if the charts
are swapped .
If the charts are swapped, the average values would respectively be X / 0.s and
X / 1.1, making the average set more expensive than the average brick.
And the same applies to minifigs (8% qty, 4.04% value).
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 08:53 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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Edge is playing games with the images try this one.
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Something is weird indeed. Are you sure the titles are correct?
Because, as I read the charts, your bricks have more value than your sets: the
average value (value / qty) of your sets is 0.? / 1 (below 1) while the average
value of your bricks is 49.67 / 45 (greater than 1).
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We do not sell sets - only the odd polybag so our bricks, which are in the 100's
of thousands always have much greater value in sales than our sets.
IN other word the 2nd chart shows the % of sales value represented by each product
family. Bricks and plates are 1st and 2bd and so ob,
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, firestar246 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Our inventory is in direct proportion to this little chart and has been for many
years. It will be differnt breakdowns by different regions, store specialisation
etc.
Our product families are our own internal 1 level up from Bricklink categories
e.g Bricks equals all the sub undeer bricks e.g modified, round etc.
Anybody else produce data like this? I am pretty sure qwertyboy does - right
Niek ?
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To make sure I'm reading this right, this is based on "times sold", not "value"?
So if this is based off the sales of a 100 items, 8 of those would be minifigures?
I'd be curious to see how a value pie chart based off of the same sales would
differ from this one. My guess is the minifigure pie slice would be quite bigger.
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You are
Now look at the Value % as below:
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Edge is playing games with the images try this one.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 08:13 | | Subject: | Re: 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, firestar246 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Our inventory is in direct proportion to this little chart and has been for many
years. It will be differnt breakdowns by different regions, store specialisation
etc.
Our product families are our own internal 1 level up from Bricklink categories
e.g Bricks equals all the sub undeer bricks e.g modified, round etc.
Anybody else produce data like this? I am pretty sure qwertyboy does - right
Niek ?
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To make sure I'm reading this right, this is based on "times sold", not "value"?
So if this is based off the sales of a 100 items, 8 of those would be minifigures?
I'd be curious to see how a value pie chart based off of the same sales would
differ from this one. My guess is the minifigure pie slice would be quite bigger.
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You are
Now look at the Value % as below:
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2022 07:50 | | Subject: | 11 Years worth of data now | | Viewed: | 297 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Our inventory is in direct proportion to this little chart and has been for many
years. It will be differnt breakdowns by different regions, store specialisation
etc.
Our product families are our own internal 1 level up from Bricklink categories
e.g Bricks equals all the sub undeer bricks e.g modified, round etc.
Anybody else produce data like this? I am pretty sure qwertyboy does - right
Niek ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2022 02:54 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ZorBeast writes:
| | It is a far fetched hope but I have worked on multiple ERP systems in many different
roles and most recently an SAP implementation. To be blunt this doesnt come close
to an ERP system, even the DOS based ones had seperate sales and inventory management
databases. A real ERP system like SAP would be nice, looking at you TLG (LEGO
has SAP). Multiple lots per one product, multiple bin locations, cost field for
purchase and one for labor, reporting tools.
In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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If only - we work with Microsoft GP and even their inventory management is leap
years in front of what we have here. Min/Max stock; min max price; ABC analysis,
Product Familes (User defined; Bin no etc., etc
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2022 02:51 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Yo_Yo_Flamingo writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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1. Metrics to display sales figures and what parts/sets are your best sellers.
This is a huge one.
2. Shipping zones for Auto-Checkout that ACTUALLY WORK for us here in the states...
Should have been remedied years ago...
3. The ability to combine duplicate lots in your inventory with a click of a
button.
4. The ability to part out sets at X% of the 6mo average. I love Bricstore, but
would rather be able to do it all in BL.
5. A way to put items that have been in your store for a certain amount of time
on sale, and keep increasing the sale until they sell.
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IN the main agreed, we would also like to see a simp-le click to ensure all prices
are set to x decimal places.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:09 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | Excellent idea !!
I am really often looking at Google Maps, where I copy and paste the address
of a buyer from a received order, to confirm it is exact. I know the region is
always added on the address, but some of them contains symbols, slash... and
my post office only accept letters and numbers, so I am always "translating"
addresses for the shipping form.
Nicolas
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We do something similar
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:08 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, utlf writes:
| | I'd like to see an "active carts" counter, where it tells you how many people
have items in their cart from your store - BrickOwl has this and it's a pretty
good feature imo
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Interesting - that one has not been brought up before.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:07 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ZwarteMagica writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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If orders are payed via Paypal onsite or another onsite payment methode (with
or without taxation) make sure the address from the buyer used in the order matches
the address used with PayPal.
Also start using some kind of standard for addressing. I know there is nothing
official, but for example ISO 19160 for every address in BrickLink/Paypal could
help avoiding mistakes or confusions.
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Lots of people have suggested that one. Agreed.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 10:06 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, novabrick writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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Basic abbilities to syncronize adresses with shipping services. I mean I'm
used to copy the adresses by hand but it would be nice if some automation was
possible.
I think other sites have at least something like this already.
Christian
novabrick-team
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Ok - I agree with that - the current address validation between BL and Paypal
for onsite is not working properly unless you change the address on the order
to match a Paypal address.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 08:43 | | Subject: | Re: Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, LeeGo73 writes:
| | Automatic removal of an NSS when the buyer has been fully refunded through the
'manage refund' page with payment method 'paypal (onsite)' for
the given order.
At the moment sellers are dependent for removal from either a not-responding
buyer or the not-responding BL helpdesk.
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Interesting point - thanks. We would also like to see a complete revamp of the
problem processes - some are too long winded some are not stiff enough etc.
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In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 08:01 | | Subject: | Sellers tools - what would you like to see | | Viewed: | 209 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| We have our own ideas but would like to hear from others as to things they would
like incorporated into the long overdue sellers tools
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 14, 2022 02:27 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | NO longer supports windows 7 (all 100 million + of us)
Not the best decision Windows 10 and 11 are two of the most invasive products
Microsoft has ever produced - we won't be changing os just to accommodate
Brickstore
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Software changes.
MacOS no longer supports 32-bit applications.
So, no LEGO Digital Designer, BrickSmith, LPub, etc.
A lot of LDraw tools are broken.
But Studio is being actively maintained/developed and can do many of the things
those old programs can do and more.
I know many are still using older versions of MacOS/Windows, but maintaining
backward compatibility while updating the software to run on current machines
is challenging. Sacrifices must be made.
That being said, BrickStore is still available for many operating systems (Android,
Debian, iOS, Linux, etc.)
Just not Windows 7.
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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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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2022 09:22 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, peregrinator writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | We think BS should continue to support windows 7 - they are abandoning over 100
million users (who also continue to use Windows 7)
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Perhaps BrickStore supporting Windows 7 is difficult when there is no official
support from MS?
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Pssibly but the way the notice r4eads it is more to do with an app store.
"This comes with a lot of advantages, but also disadvantages for a few users.
The disadvantages:
Windows 7, 8.1 and macOS 10.13 are no longer supported, as they have been discontinued
by their respective vendors. Support for these platforms will not come back!
32bit Windows (x86) is no longer offered as pre-built package to download. Qt
(the library BrickStore is built upon) doesn't offer an installer for this
platform anymore, because there are too few users left using it. Getting BrickStore
running on a 32bit Windows 10 is technically possible, but you are on your own
here, having to build Qt 6.2.4 plus BrickStore yourself.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2022 09:07 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, Poncke writes:
| | In Related Software, calsbricks writes:
| | NO longer supports windows 7 (all 100 million + of us)
Not the best decision Windows 10 and 11 are two of the most invasive products
Microsoft has ever produced - we won't be changing os just to accommodate
Brickstore
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Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020
So not only are you putting yourself at risk, but why do you hold it against
Brickstore for not supporting W7 but you are OK with Microsoft not supporting
W7, which is a much bigger issue for you.
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We are not really at risk with windows 7 we have adequate protection - Brickstore
, on the other hand seem to think the world is moving to app stores (which is
not the case for PC applications).
We think BS should continue to support windows 7 - they are abandoning over 100
million users (who also continue to use Windows 7)
We are far from being a Microsoft fan and we have been one of their partners
since 2000.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2022 08:33 | | Subject: | Brickstore latest version warning | | Viewed: | 220 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| NO longer supports windows 7 (all 100 million + of us)
Not the best decision Windows 10 and 11 are two of the most invasive products
Microsoft has ever produced - we won't be changing os just to accommodate
Brickstore
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| In Catalog Identification, Ber_i writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, calsbricks writes:
| | Some time ago we parted out 8 Small super hero sets which, in theory gave us
8 sh077 minifigs
They sat in our inventory f0r a while until someone bought 2 of them. We shipped
them out along with some other bits and got a message back from the buyer that
1 of the sh077's had an incorrect hair piece. He included a photo which clearly
shows item 92081 rather than 98726. We could not understand how that happened,
so we went to the other 6 and 2 of those also had what appears to be an alternate
hair piece. No mention of this anywhere that I can find - should there be an
alternate or a note
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Did you partout
This set contains a loose and .
maybe the parts got mixed up in your inventory.
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Hiya and thanks for the thoughts. Actually, it was set 76003 - We thought the
same as y ou
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| Some time ago we parted out 8 Small super hero sets which, in theory gave us
8 sh077 minifigs
They sat in our inventory f0r a while until someone bought 2 of them. We shipped
them out along with some other bits and got a message back from the buyer that
1 of the sh077's had an incorrect hair piece. He included a photo which clearly
shows item 92081 rather than 98726. We could not understand how that happened,
so we went to the other 6 and 2 of those also had what appears to be an alternate
hair piece. No mention of this anywhere that I can find - should there be an
alternate or a note
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 10:05 | | Subject: | Re: 'everything shop' spam | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, bengreen28 writes:
| | I got one as well, someone in India looking at the end of the message, it did
specify certain sets that I had in my store, not sure if anyone else had sets
mentioned but the one they did from my store was the hogwarts express.
In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, alexwilcox writes:
| | I feel so honoured! I finally got the 'everything shop' spam message
that a lot of other members have been getting.
mine was from 'wspam_97raj.fr' - so seems like they're not even trying
very hard - even including spam in the name of the account!
I've obviously reported it but surely bricklink can do something to prevent
all these obvious spam accounts being setup in the first place?
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Must be the UK's day for all this.
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OUrs mentioned sets and polybags. Real pity Bricklink cannot do more about this
kind of thing - it is genuinely a nuisane
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 09:02 | | Subject: | Re: 'everything shop' spam | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, alexwilcox writes:
| | I feel so honoured! I finally got the 'everything shop' spam message
that a lot of other members have been getting.
mine was from 'wspam_97raj.fr' - so seems like they're not even trying
very hard - even including spam in the name of the account!
I've obviously reported it but surely bricklink can do something to prevent
all these obvious spam accounts being setup in the first place?
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Must be the UK's day for all this.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 08:31 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, calsbricks writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, calsbricks writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | you should promote other websites on here more often, everyone loves it
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I just knew someone would react that way. Actually it doesn't offer a link
to any other site so just like mentioning ebay and others it is just a bit of
spam but it came through the bricklink message system
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so...
you recieved this email, reported it as spam & are happy all of the 'members'
involved in sending it have been reported, you thought the best idea was to copy
& paste the exact thing you reported someone else for & publicly post it directly
to the forum...
... absolutely genius..
hope no one reports you for doing the exact same thing .. publicly in the forum
.. that you reported others for doing privately in direct messages..
*facepalm
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If you wish to be pedantic we received this Bricklinnk message and it has been
reported in full. What you make of it is your business not ours. The UK has not
been hit with this yet whereas they have started in the US and Canada, The post,
is a warning as to how these things take shape aned most people, not all, will
take it that way.
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if what we make of it is our business & not yours ..
geez, if only we weren't communicating via the Public Forum you decided to
post this in..
but hey..
you do you..
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And it appears you do you . Lets leave it at that.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 08:24 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, calsbricks writes:
| | In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | you should promote other websites on here more often, everyone loves it
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I just knew someone would react that way. Actually it doesn't offer a link
to any other site so just like mentioning ebay and others it is just a bit of
spam but it came through the bricklink message system
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so...
you recieved this email, reported it as spam & are happy all of the 'members'
involved in sending it have been reported, you thought the best idea was to copy
& paste the exact thing you reported someone else for & publicly post it directly
to the forum...
... absolutely genius..
hope no one reports you for doing the exact same thing .. publicly in the forum
.. that you reported others for doing privately in direct messages..
*facepalm
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If you wish to be pedantic we received this Bricklinnk message and it has been
reported in full. What you make of it is your business not ours. The UK has not
been hit with this yet whereas they have started in the US and Canada, The post,
is a warning as to how these things take shape aned most people, not all, will
take it that way.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 08:00 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | Some of us received exactly the same email.
I think Every "member" has been reported. I reported it
Sincerely,
Nicolas
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Great the more the merrier.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 07:59 | | Subject: | Re: Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| In Terms and Policies, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | you should promote other websites on here more often, everyone loves it
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I just knew someone would react that way. Actually it doesn't offer a link
to any other site so just like mentioning ebay and others it is just a bit of
spam but it came through the bricklink message system
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 07:47 | | Subject: | Just arrived and has been reported | | Viewed: | 435 times | | Topic: | Terms and Policies | |
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| Hey CalsBricks
I was looking at a few of your products especially Winter Soldier polybag & wanted
to know if you are able to sell these to our customers.
Everythingeshop is interested in selling your products on our marketplace. We
are a marketplace where sellers like you can list and sell your products to our
worldwide customers base. We would like to invite you to be a seller on everythingeshop.com.
The reason we contacted you is that our customers are searching for products
similar to yours & not having many options. You can be a seller today & upload
products on our platform. You can find us on google by typing everythingeshop.
Please email us on our website & feel free to check out our social media since
we do post about seller's products and can promote your products too.
Let me explain some basic stuff so you can better understand our marketplace:
We mainly operate in Canada & the USA where 80% of our traffic comes from, but
we have 500,000+ of sellers and customers around the world.
Our sellers are responsible for shipping - however, we offer seller freedom which
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Once you make a seller account on everythingeshop.com, you can instantly start
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Please go to everythingeshop.com and click on Be a Seller at the top of the page,
if you haven’t created your seller account yet.
Does it sound good to you? Please let me know by emailing support@everythingeshop.com
for any questions you may have regarding your account and one of our account
reps will be more than happy to help you.
Looking forward to collaborating with you since we feel your products can sell
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Kind Regards,
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 13:14 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | […]
Lo and behold BT (our ISP) have just admitted to Microsoft introducing a junk
filter rule that moves anything that has the word invoice in it.Good grief -
there were all the invoices in my online junk folders. Would you credit it.
Tha
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Yeah, there’s lot of “we know better than you what you need and we won’t tell
you when we change things” going around.
I had something similar happen to me a few years back: my ISP decided to add
folders (spam, commercial…) with automatic filtering and without telling me.
Mimicking some bigger guy I guess.
Not a big problem if you use their webmail or IMAP that see/show the folders…
but I use POP (direct download of the e-mails in the inbox to my machine) so
it took me some time to understand that some e-mails didn’t pass by the inbox
(I wasn’t aware there were lost e-mails).
I then checked another e-mail provider… and, of course, same for them.
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. *sigh* All those princes(ses) I could have helped with their money…. *sigh*
The tech support person at BT was not aware of the changes or new rules - it
is only when she spoke to her supervisor that it came out so communications has
a lot to do with it as well. Still one day the world will believe that communications
is vital no matter what is going on
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 13:10 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, MMillere writes:
| | Had the same problem recently.
Mark found that our email provider GoDaddy, switched to Office 365 Mail and 'some'
of the BL mail was going to the spam folder.
Milissa
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Lo and behold BT (our ISP) have just admitted to Microsoft introducing a junk
filter rule that moves anything that has the word invoice in it.Good grief -
there were all the invoices in my online junk folders. Would you credit it.
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Oh God - In a general meaning, avoid the big data companies for your pro e-mail,
as outlook, gmail, hotmail... that DO filter your e-mails on whatever their reason
and without telling you or having a way to set/rest this.
There are tons of reliable free e-mail provider (like gmx), or with a bit of
payment, we're at infomaniak for example.
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Too much invested in curent iSP - both here and our mainline business. To be
fair to them we rarely have any problems but since they moved to office 365 they
haven't been great so it is more a microsoft thing than BT.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 12:27 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, MMillere writes:
| | Had the same problem recently.
Mark found that our email provider GoDaddy, switched to Office 365 Mail and 'some'
of the BL mail was going to the spam folder.
Milissa
|
Lo and behold BT (our ISP) have just admitted to Microsoft introducing a junk
filter rule that moves anything that has the word invoice in it.Good grief -
there were all the invoices in my online junk folders. Would you credit it.
Tha
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 06:09 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, brac.brick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
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When you send the invoice, make sure you have this box checked, "E-Mail Me a
Copy"
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Have that and also the setting that says set that as default. Thamls fpr the
thoughts
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Have you cleared your cache and set Bricklink as a safe sender in your email
provider? For a time, I found all mine were going to Spam, so I set up a filter
to send them to my Bricklink folder in my email. Also try unchecking the box
"email me a copy and then rechecking it.
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Tried unchecking the default box and then rechecking but not the specific box
on the invoice. Will try that - also did all the other things - none of which
worked. Contacted isp they are not causing the issue - the messages are not getting
to them. Really odd nearly 11 years and no issues and now ....
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 8, 2022 23:43 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
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When you send the invoice, make sure you have this box checked, "E-Mail Me a
Copy"
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Have that and also the setting that says set that as default. Thamls fpr the
thoughts
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 8, 2022 23:23 | | Subject: | Re: 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
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When you send the invoice, make sure you have this box checked, "E-Mail Me a
Copy"
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Have that and also the setting that says set that as default. Tjamls fpr the
thoughts
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 8, 2022 23:01 | | Subject: | 6 days now without a copy invoice ??? | | Viewed: | 107 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| It is now 6 days without a copy invoice. I know buyers are receiving them cause
we are getting paid, we are also receiving order notifications and all other
messages and emails via bricklink. Checked with isp no blacklist. Doesn't
appear anyone else is having this issue. Can admin check this please
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 11:18 | | Subject: | Re: No copy invoices for several days now | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, peregrinator writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, fritsp writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Anyone else experiencing this. Buyers get their copy but copy to seller is not
arriving.
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Works fine for me. I am using automated immediate invoices.
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Our isp (BT) are not receiving them to forward on. Hmmm
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Possible they're subscribed to a blacklist and BL is on it?
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Get all other emails/messages - just no invoices.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 11:16 | | Subject: | Re: Pleasse explain | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, randyf writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | Just noticed we have a new category under super heroes Super Heroes Girls -
Shouldn't this be Super heroes: Girls not a Top level entry ?
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Where do you see this?
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https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=M&catString=893
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 09:43 | | Subject: | Re: No copy invoices for several days now | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, fritsp writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | Anyone else experiencing this. Buyers get their copy but copy to seller is not
arriving.
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Works fine for me. I am using automated immediate invoices.
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Our isp (BT) are not receiving them to forward on. Hmmm
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 09:24 | | Subject: | Pleasse explain | | Viewed: | 195 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Just noticed we have a new category under super heroes Super Heroes Girls -
Shouldn't this be Super heroes: Girls not a Top level entry ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 09:22 | | Subject: | No copy invoices for several days now | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Anyone else experiencing this. Buyers get their copy but copy to seller is not
arriving.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 09:05 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, popsicle writes:
| | In Technical Issues, calsbricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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No one can - thanks for your comments randy. Lots is going on and in time all
wail be revealed, but things do take time especially with the small development
team that is available and the compliance issues which continue to take time.
BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG. Lots has already
changed with the sales tax and vat implementations and more is going to in due
course and after thorough testing has taken place. Patience is a virtue etc etc
etc.
TLG are very much working on lots of good things for all of us.
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Another one, albeit more flowery 
I believe Ole is correct with "on it's fourth owner by now" Didn't Jay
acquired ownership from Dan's parents? Eliska was nonetheless at the helm
as CEO for a time.
btw, not cool correcting another's details to dismiss the more salient
point being made.
-popsicle
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I wont rise to the snide comment -
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 08:22 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, infinibrix writes:
| | In Technical Issues, popsicle writes:
| | In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
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| | | | There is a lot going on behind the scenes that you have no idea of.
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Very hush-hush, I'm sure
| | There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't say more for now.
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Highly classified stuff, no doubt: https://youtu.be/MnWSI-PVl1s?t=22
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Yes, yes and its very important that I make you all aware that I know what’s
going on without actually telling you what’s going on as it gives me a huge sense
of importance you see!
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who me or rnady ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2022 07:14 | | Subject: | Re: Would You Rather… | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, randyf writes:
| | In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Would you rather…
1. See BrickLink raise its seller fees to, say, 10% of the grand total, or
2. See advertisements on BrickLink.
Methinks BrickLink could use a little bit of TLC right now. With the TLG acquisition,
many thought that that would bring additional investment to the site, but two
years later not much has changed.
Personally, I would rather see an increase in seller fees. Sites with too many
advertisements are just as unusable as BrickLink, and sellers can always raise
prices to cover the additional cost.
That being said, BrickLink is still a thriving marketplace. Over a million registered
users, many of whom just signed up in the past couple of years.
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You don't have to worry, because neither will happen. There is a lot going
on behind the scenes that you have no idea of. Things are definitely happening,
but they take time to happen. LEGO finally has full control of BrickLink as of
earlier this year. In other words, the old regime is finally no longer at the
helm. And this time, they are actually listening to the community, as there are
panels of buyers and sellers having meetings with BrickLink concerning the Catalog
and the Marketplace. There are some very cool things being worked on, but I can't
say more for now.
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No one can - thanks for your comments randy. Lots is going on and in time all
wail be revealed, but things do take time especially with the small development
team that is available and the compliance issues which continue to take time.
BTW there have only been 3 owners not 4 Dan, JK and now TLG. Lots has already
changed with the sales tax and vat implementations and more is going to in due
course and after thorough testing has taken place. Patience is a virtue etc etc
etc.
TLG are very much working on lots of good things for all of us.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2022 11:28 | | Subject: | UK Royal Mail price increase from 04 Apr 2022 | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Prices and new complications added to their pricing structure. Europe now has
zones . Standard large letter up to 100g is now 1.45 rather than 1.29 which
is a 12% + Hike.
Things are going to get very expennsive and complicated/
It wasn't bad enough adding vat onto everything now the surrounding services
are going to go up significantly
Good fun really. Life is always a challenge.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2022 00:34 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Product Family (Bricklink)
The vast number of categories that Bricklink incudes is great In some ways and
not so good in others. If you want to do a category analysis you will need lots
of paper or disk space and quite honestly it doesn’t make that much sense.
What we have done externally is set up groups of categories say for Bricks you
have modified, round, decorated etc. The same for Slopes, Tiles, Technic etc.
Our sales analysis automatically puts stats into each group as we sell items.
We have 10 families which is enough for us. We can drill down in each category
and get to the specifics e.g how many modified bricks did we sell at what value
etc, and from that we can look at individual parts.
Over our 11 years it has worked fine and gives us what we want and need. – In
inventory management terms it is like having a hierarchy where there isn’t one.
This is what we meant in our earlier post ' A Few questions'
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A similar method was used recently in Studio and XP but people are rather loyal
to the category tree.
However, we have plans for a tag system, which will take the pressure off of
the tree and may eventually replace it as the primary method of searching the
catalog. We still need the tree to help maintain the catalog, but we certainly
need a more flexible system for everyday use.
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Hi Russell nice to hear from you again
When and if tagging gets added we will see how that helps the situation. Tagging
is in operation in most modern sql based systems and it certainly helps in finding
things but not sure I see how it is going to pull together a members sales analysis
requirements in a way this would.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2022 00:31 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | This is - sorry - old relational database style.
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There is no reason why a part can't exist in multiple categories even in
a relational database.
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Thanks for adding your comments to the thread, and of course you are correct.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2022 00:30 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | Over our 11 years it has worked fine and gives us what we want and need. – In
inventory management terms it is like having a hierarchy where there isn’t one.
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Yes, but it's rigid, arbitrary, allows a part to be only in one Category.
This is - sorry - old relational database style.
Is this more a Slope than a Round, more a Tile modified than a Plate modified?
Why is it in this category, I would have seen the opposite!
A Tag system can show any part even in multiple categories.
Then, if you need basic arbitrary categories - just like right now, it's
not a problem.
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I think you have misunderstood. The product family is not arbitrary it is defined
by each store to suit their reporting requirements and it is flexible enough
to accommodate everyone and anyone who wish to analyse their sales by category.
Far from being old relational database technique this is a standard feature in
most modern inventory management suites.
I apologise if I did not explain it thoroughly enough.
Hope this helps
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 11:51 | | Subject: | Bricklink Product Family | | Viewed: | 184 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Product Family (Bricklink)
The vast number of categories that Bricklink incudes is great In some ways and
not so good in others. If you want to do a category analysis you will need lots
of paper or disk space and quite honestly it doesn’t make that much sense.
What we have done externally is set up groups of categories say for Bricks you
have modified, round, decorated etc. The same for Slopes, Tiles, Technic etc.
Our sales analysis automatically puts stats into each group as we sell items.
We have 10 families which is enough for us. We can drill down in each category
and get to the specifics e.g how many modified bricks did we sell at what value
etc, and from that we can look at individual parts.
Over our 11 years it has worked fine and gives us what we want and need. – In
inventory management terms it is like having a hierarchy where there isn’t one.
This is what we meant in our earlier post ' A Few questions'
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 11:30 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
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I mainly use the superlot feature to sell parts together that are paired as right
and left halves.
David
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Fortunately some progress has been made here, where there are parts that sometimes
you don't want to sell individually as it leaves you with the other half
that on its own is fairly useless. I remember doing a superlot for these parts:
as I didn't want to sell one side and get stuck with the other.
Whereas some years later this was added to the catalogue:
so now it can be sold as a whole.
I also used to try to superlot leg and torso assemblies where the print meant
the legs part was a bit useless without the torso but since superlots don't
show by default any more, stopped doing that.
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The entire superlot feature needs revisiting. Dan based Bricklink on an auction
house system - that is not what it is any more. There does need to be a way to
bind product together but the best way eludes us at present. I look at it this
way. if two or more parts need to go together e.g hinges, wedge plates etc then
there should be away of doing that which also satisfies pricing guidelines and
appears for sale. Counter parts are another good example - two or more parts
going together get a unique part number ane are listed for price guide purposes.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 11:05 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
2. Unsorted lots
3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
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No for both; we do detailed orders for generic parts, end users.
| | 4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
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Yes, but we do it internally, asking the buyer a manual invoicing we provide
him with specific discussed rate.
| | 5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
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No.
| | 6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
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No.
Better prefer a Tag system, like "Brick", "Modified", "Star Wars", "Technic"
- this way combining tags in search you can find the part.
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Or a smarter "google-like" search, including auto-correction and statistical
| | analysis. Like searching for "Minifig Head Beard Red" will probably be more for
finding a red beard than a red head...
| | 7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
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Some may, I guess.
| | 8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
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Some may, I guess.
Sylvain
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Thanks for taking the time to add your thoughts. I should have explained the
product family thing better. More on that at another time.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
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I used a superlot once for an assembly that was missing a piece (the forklift
from LL924, missing the spring) that I did not want to disassemble.
Never used it.
| | 3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
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I've used it a couple of times. If I could recommend a different approach,
it would be tiered pricing for multiples.
| | 4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
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Like a promotional code?
| | 5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
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I personally can't see a need for it.
| | 6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
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Possibly, my concern is that it would look terrible.
| | 7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
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No - I don't even use remarks for this.
| | 8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
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Weighted average
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Thanks for taking the time to add your thoughts. Interesting
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 10:53 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
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I used them for the accessory bags before they were added to the catalog.
I use them to list Used items I don't want to take apart.
I use them to keep some decorated items together to avoid difficult-to-sell orphans.
I use these to sell my filler bricks and pieces.
| | 3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
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Just one tier for technic pins. I don't have enough quantity of anything
else to matter.
| | 4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
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No
| | 5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
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No
| | 6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
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No
| | 7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
|
Sounds intriguing, but I wouldn't want to add any additional lines or formatting
to the order and inventory pages. There is already too much wasted space.
| | 8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
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I don't use BL to track inventory costs.
| | Very interested in comments/thoughts
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There ya go,
Jen
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Thanks Jem/ All replies are helfpul. Getting a few pms as well which is beginning
to show a distinct difference between hobby and non hobby (which I expected)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Help, calsbricks writes:
| | What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
|
I mainly use the superlot feature to sell parts together that are paired as right
and left halves.
David
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Understand - kind of like the old hinge pieces and pairs of arms etc. Hmmm
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 10:48 | | Subject: | Re: A Few questions | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, StarBrick writes:
| | 1. Superlot - not in use
2. Unsorted - never used
3. Tiered pricing - never used
4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer) - none
5. What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type - not used ever
6. Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
| | the catalogue - not of my interest
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7. Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
- use the remarks field
8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs - not as hobbiest
I have seperate bankaccount for buying and selling and procuring stamps, packaging
material, storage containers etc.
Being a BL-member and running a shop is a hobby, not a means of income for me.
I think it would make a BIG difference when this shop would be my daily job and
income for sure. So not sure my response will help you in any way ..
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Actually it helps a lot. Inventory management is a wide and complex topic but
not all things apply to all people. You help to emphasise that.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2022 04:30 | | Subject: | A Few questions | | Viewed: | 197 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| What, if anything, do you use the following for:
1. Superlot
2. Unsorted lots
3, Do you use tiered pricing if so do you need all 3 levels or do you need a
different approach to this
4. Would you use an overall trade discount (for example by buyer)
5 What about setting min and max stock levels by item or type
6 Would you like a product family grouping capability where you define which
categories go into each e.g. Bricks as a family would include all brick subcategories,
etc.) The same for tiles, slopes etc. Kind of like creating a hierarchy outside
the catalogue
7 Would you use a separate field for your item location (rather than remarks)
8. How would you like to deal with your inventory costs (Would you use LIFO,
FIFO or weighted average - ((LIFO - Last In First out; FIFO - First in First
Out))
Very interested in comments/thoughts
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 12:45 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, hpoort writes:
| | In General, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| | Unfortunately, this is rarely possible anymore because for some reason, BL mixes
up stuff into random order and that random order even changes from day to day.
There is NO logical reason for the mix-up to happen. It didn't use to happen,
but it does, even tho it means that the main BL database of shop listings is
corrupt somehow and is a failure of the system.
|
You are expecting an auto increment field and in stead get a field that provides
unique numbers, but not in order. From the database point of view, the only requirement
is for the field values to be unique.
For an auto increment field to function, there needs to be a single 'authority'
to provide these numbers. In a large database setup, that same authority may
become the bottleneck. Every add request for every user worldwide would need
to go through the same server. That system has been superseded by different setups
that can handle upscaling.
In an asynchronous setup (for load spreading), the numbers are assigned differently,
still guaranteed to be unique, but not necessarily in chronological order.
So it is not a bug, it is a feature that shows us that Bricklink now likely uses
an asynchronous setup for this part of the database.
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All true and part of the infrastructure review. Is a separate database server
required for different modules e.g. catalogue. inventory etc ?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 12:42 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
|
One actual USE of the Lot ID by sellers is to create SUPER LOTS.
Sellers have to manually input the Lot ID of each item that goes into the super
lot in order to create that super lot.
https://www.bricklink.com/inventoryBind.asp?utm_content=subnav
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| | | |
Also, after I manually add or upload new items to my shop, I sort my shop by
NEWEST Items to check for errors. So, I want everything to show up in the same
order I added them, which makes use of the Lot ID Number.
Unfortunately, this is rarely possible anymore because for some reason, BL mixes
up stuff into random order and that random order even changes from day to day.
There is NO logical reason for the mix-up to happen. It didn't use to happen,
but it does, even tho it means that the main BL database of shop listings is
corrupt somehow and is a failure of the system.
I hate it and it makes me quite annoyed. It definitely makes it difficult to
double check my new listings for errors or potential (price) adjustments.
Here is an example of items listed on the same day in the same upload batch that
SHOULD show up in numerical order by LOT ID number:
274240 270
274240 277
274240 263
274240 267
274240 265
274240 262
274240 256
274240 279
274240 274
274240 284
274240 269
274240 243
274240 271
274240 252
274240 246
274240 253
274240 247
274240 272
274240 255
274240 251
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| | Understand completely - that needs to be addressed as lots of people do similar
things.
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It _has_ been fixed in the recent past, but seems to also have been un-fixed
soon after:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1319587
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One of the most common pitfalls when working with undocumented code. The current
development team are working very hard to resolve many of the spaghetti code
issues they were left with. That and dealing with the current barrage of compliance
issues (e.g. sales tax, VAT, etc)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 12:30 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
|
One actual USE of the Lot ID by sellers is to create SUPER LOTS.
Sellers have to manually input the Lot ID of each item that goes into the super
lot in order to create that super lot.
https://www.bricklink.com/inventoryBind.asp?utm_content=subnav
|
Understand completely - that needs to be addressed as lots of people do similar
things.
| |
Also, after I manually add or upload new items to my shop, I sort my shop by
NEWEST Items to check for errors. So, I want everything to show up in the same
order I added them, which makes use of the Lot ID Number.
Unfortunately, this is rarely possible anymore because for some reason, BL mixes
up stuff into random order and that random order even changes from day to day.
There is NO logical reason for the mix-up to happen. It didn't use to happen,
but it does, even tho it means that the main BL database of shop listings is
corrupt somehow and is a failure of the system.
I hate it and it makes me quite annoyed. It definitely makes it difficult to
double check my new listings for errors or potential (price) adjustments.
Here is an example of items listed on the same day in the same upload batch that
SHOULD show up in numerical order by LOT ID number:
274240 270
274240 277
274240 263
274240 267
274240 265
274240 262
274240 256
274240 279
274240 274
274240 284
274240 269
274240 243
274240 271
274240 252
274240 246
274240253
274240247
274240272
274240255
274240251
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 12:28 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, runner.caller writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
|
When I export my inventory to excel, I use vlookup to match it with the copied
and pasted Price Guide summaries which are somewhat tied to the lot after pasting
the data into excel.
I then use that to set prices and re upload via xml.
I suppose I could just use the itemID for figures, but I'd probably need
to make a new cell that ties the ItemID and Color code to correctly vlookup pricing
for parts.
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Understand what you are doing - things, as far as that goes, could get easier
as and when sellers tools come along.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 11:46 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, qwertyboy writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
So now that we are all on the same page -
Can you elaborate why you asked this question? I doubt you woke up this morning
thinking "Hmmm - this lot ID, why can we see it? Let's ask!". Are you doing
a BL database redesign for your BrickBill web site?
Niek.
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Of coujrse
Thinking of how it can be used in the new search and update element of sellers
tools
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 11:13 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, qwertyboy writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | From a db design point of view it is quite rare for a unique identifier to have
as many external uses as we are now seeing.
|
On the contrary. When a shop puts up a lot for sale (say, a minifig), it is a
physical entity that has some form of representation in the BrickLink database.
If at one point we run out of numbers again for minifigs, the catalog admins
might decide to do a massive renumbering, effectively changing the product code
from say "sw112" to "sw0112". If a lot did not have a unique ID but instead depended
on its product code (combined with color, condition etc), the physical item that
this poor seller put up for sale (and used code/color/condition to track it in
their shop) could now be lost in their inventory.
So it makes 100% sense for shops to use lot IDs in some cases, as a lot on the
shelf is 100% uniquely tied to the entry that shows up in the BrickLink database
(regardless of what catalog admins decide to change).
From a DB design point of view, pretty much ALL of the DB records that identify
something should have a unique serial, even if you don't use it at the time
(and you might want to in the future). Since these are unique, it makes sense
to expose them to the outside world for people to make use of for whatever reason.
Niek.
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Hiya Niek
Agreed
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:53 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Do those variations in minifigs not have their own product id?
|
On BL? No, they don't. BL doesn't distinguish between torso variants
like: no prongs, short prongs, and long prongs (ribs). They do distinguish helmets,
but different helmet variants are acceptable even if they're not in the official
inventory (minifigure inventories don't allow for alternates).
For my own sanity I match helmets with thick chinstraps with torsos that have
prongs. But even there there are two varieties of thick-chinstrap helmets, one
with dimples and one without. So for, e.g.
I have three variations before even considering whether the space logo pattern
is faded, etc.
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Interesting - well aware of no variants on minifigs but not so aware of the number
of variations you are mentioning.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:52 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
|
Yes, very important.
In case there seem to be an Inventory problem (on BL), you can check on 2 or
more invxml.txt downloads if the same lot ID has a changed qty, or if the same
physical lot changed of lot ID (which means it has been destroyed and recreated
with a new lot ID).
You can also use it to check if the Added date corresponds; the lot IDs are always
incremented, so the date must correspond. If you find an old lot ID with a recent
date, or the opposite, then there's something impossible.
And of course, as it's a unique identifier in BL, and it's linked to
many other tables, you just can get rid of it
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Okay - inventory tracking as [part of sellers tools) should allow you to track
all movements. But when we will see that remains to be seen (if in my lifetime)
Basically it looks like there are many uses of the lot id by sellers above and
beyond the db usage for a unique idetifier.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:29 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, peregrinator writes:
| | I grade minifigures so when I list one I put a piece of paper with the lot ID
in the zip bag with the minifigure. So when I receive an order I can hover over
the item's image on the order detail page and make sure I'm pulling the
precise lot.
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All our items include a product label which we create when we list so we do the
same thing but without lot id, purely prod id colour and category (file location)
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That's normally sufficient for me, but in the case of minifigures I'll
often have 6-7 of the same product ID, color, and condition (Used) in various
stages of fading/wear. Particularly with Classic Space, where there can also
be other variations like chinstraps and whether or not there are torso prongs.
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Do those variations in minifigs not have their own product id?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:28 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Teup writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
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Yes, of course it would be a problem. Products always need SKU's. Without
barcodes, the supermarket would be a giant mess.
But it's true you could in some situations derive SKU's from a kind of
part+colour code, which is actually what I personally do in my inventory management
outside of BL. But principally it's a little bit dirty because those numbers
aren't meant to serve that purpose, and functionally it's a downgrade.
Because obviously that makes it impossible to list the same part+colour(+condition,type,..)
multiple times, and means consolidation is obligatory. Also, if an item number
changes (rare but it happens), you're in trouble if you don't have a
separate SKU to fall back on.
And if we talk about not just hiding it but really removing it from the
code, we're in trouble as obivously it's not uncommon for a particular
part to be in the inventory of not just one but multiple sellers worldwide
In order to facilitate that, items would need a list of which seller sells them
and how much. So instead of sellers having lotIDs, lots would be having sellerIDs
I won't call any data structure "wrong", it's all a matter of style,
but let's say the current one does make sense
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We actually use part id, colour and copndtion but basaically it is the same thing.
The lot id is almost an element of traceability if u sed in that way. It could
be helpful in cost analysis as well but that is another subject.
SO it appears there is more use of itthan first appears.
From a db design point of view it is quite rare for a unique identifier to have
as many external uses as we are now seeing. We remember prod ids all the time
but never a lot id. We also do not use stockroom or retain when 0 so each item,
when replaced gets its own lot id. Our tracking is by part no, colour and condition
not lot id.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:21 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, zorbanj writes:
| | I also use it if I have more than one copy of a used set listed and each listing
is different. For example, if set 1 is missing instructions, set 2 is missing
stickers, etc.
In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | so from a systems point of view, which we are well aware of the lot id takes
care of fundamental db requirements. As long as some unique identifier is there
that would satisfy that requirement - but that is system functionality - where
does the seller come into that.
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I grade minifigures so when I list one I put a piece of paper with the lot ID
in the zip bag with the minifigure. So when I receive an order I can hover over
the item's image on the order detail page and make sure I'm pulling the
precise lot.
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Good point
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 09:20 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, bricks2you writes:
| | On occasion when I can't find an item, I search a downloaded inventory by
lot id, check the location of the parts on either side of the errant item and
there it usually can be found.
In General, calsbricks writes:
| | I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
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Okay - we don't associate lot id with location but understand your point.
All our part id's have a location and that is all we need as we always consolidate
lots as appropriate.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:53 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, peregrinator writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | so from a systems point of view, which we are well aware of the lot id takes
care of fundamental db requirements. As long as some unique identifier is there
that would satisfy that requirement - but that is system functionality - where
does the seller come into that.
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I grade minifigures so when I list one I put a piece of paper with the lot ID
in the zip bag with the minifigure. So when I receive an order I can hover over
the item's image on the order detail page and make sure I'm pulling the
precise lot.
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All our items include a product label which we create when we list so we do the
same thing but without lot id, purely prod id colour and category (file location)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:51 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, firestar246 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | In General, firestar246 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
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YES!!! Many syncing services use the lot ID. Without it, my store on Brickowl
would be impossible.
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Okay thanks for that - as we do not use another site the syncing is something
we were not aware of. So you need a unique number that identifies part no, colour
and condition.
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It needs that lot ID to determine if it's already carried that listing over
or not; that way I could technically have to identical listing and they still
work properly, because the ID is different. It also brings that id over to brickowl
so if I need to check a specific lot, then I can then search the lot id and it
comes right up.
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Thanks for the further clarification. We can see from that how you use it. -
From a sales point of view it may not be quite as important . we want to know
how many black 2 x 4 new bricks we sold that might be a large number of lots
so the lot number is not important in that case (to us, anyway) but the prod
id colour and condition are. We would not want to have to know all the lot ids
associated with black 2 x 4 bricks to get at that info., but I do see your point.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:41 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, kzinti writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
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It's an internal function of the BrickLink database. Every lot entered has
to have a unique number which is used as a primary relational key within the
database. Data tables link to all sorts of stuff, and every part entered reads
your user number, part number, color, etc. Almost every item aspect is linked
to other tables, which hold other data. The entirety of BrickLink could not function
without it.
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Well aware of that side of it. And a unique identifier is essential, agreed
so from a systems point of view, which we are well aware of the lot id takes
care of fundamental db requirements. As long as some unique identifier is there
that would satisfy that requirement - but that is system functionality - where
does the seller come into that.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:35 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, psusaxman2000 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
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This is standard database Unique Key identifier. Whether you see it or not, it
is most definitely needed for core functionality and data processing. Visually
it matter to make reporting and integration to external systems easier. If you
find a invalid item for sale, you report with this id. Can you imagine if instead
you had to say "go to buyer xyz, and look at part 123...." and they happen to
be one who doesn't consolidate lots.
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Yes -
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:34 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stellar writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
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BrickLink would break, it is an intrinsic value needed to operate.
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Yes we are aware of that but that goes back to basic design
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I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:33 | | Subject: | Re: What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, firestar246 writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
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Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
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YES!!! Many syncing services use the lot ID. Without it, my store on Brickowl
would be impossible.
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Okay thanks for that - as we do not use another site the syncing is something
we were not aware of. So you need a unique number that identifies part no, colour
and condition.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2022 08:16 | | Subject: | What, if anything, do sellers use lot id for | | Viewed: | 198 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I know what the system uses it for but I am curious as to what sellers use it
for. It is unique per item (Item, colour, and condition). It has been around
since Dan put the software together (from an auction house system)
Just curious - if it wasn't there would that be a problem ?
I cam think of a couple of uses but they aren't all that important. Would
you want to track by lot (Cost analysis??)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2022 11:26 | | Subject: | Re: Simple question - complicated answer ????? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, BasKrie writes:
| | In General, calsbricks writes:
| | Anyone know what has happened to the XP project ? With MP gone, has this died
or is it still simmering on the back burner?
Never see anything on the forum about xp issues so I presume it is either not
being used or is code perfect (I seriously doubt that)
Just some food for thought.
There was a rumour at one stage that it was being rewritten
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It's still there:
https://www.bricklink.com/r3/main.page
And from the bug fixes list:
Fixed being unable to view all lots in a single XP store cart
So it's not dead
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Hmmm - must have missed that forum post.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2022 08:05 | | Subject: | Simple question - complicated answer ????? | | Viewed: | 156 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Anyone know what has happened to the XP project ? With MP gone, has this died
or is it still simmering on the back burner?
Never see anything on the forum about xp issues so I presume it is either not
being used or is code perfect (I seriously doubt that)
Just some food for thought.
There was a rumour at one stage that it was being rewritten
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2022 12:20 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 76088-1 | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, Turez writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, calsbricks writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, calsbricks writes:
| | 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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The set has either 11 of the inset one or 24 of the flush one?
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Oops - I put the wrong quantity into the change foorm - it should be 12 (11
+1)
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Why 11+1?
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The original inventory calls for 11 and we found 12 of the alternates in the
2 sets we parted out - so it appears there is an extra in there somewhere.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2022 10:45 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 76088-1 | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, calsbricks writes:
| | 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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The set has either 11 of the inset one or 24 of the flush one?
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Oops - I put the wrong quantity into the change foorm - it should be 12 (11
+1)
Apologies
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| 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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