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
means you decide where to ship. Shipping internationally is not needed if you
don’t want to - just state it in your store’s info!
you can get more organic traffic and rank higher on Google! our plan includes:
* 1.5% World's Lowest Selling Fee - there are no listing fees, no advertising,
no referral fee & no any other fees
* Complete SEO - backlinks, guest posting, keyword research, organic traffic
growth, content writing & listing on Google shopping. Your Everythingeshop WebStore
will show up when customers search for your products along with more benefits
for joining as a seller, just saying
* Social Media Marketing - we promote your products on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest,
Facebook, Tiktok & Youtube
* Unlimited Product Listing - via Shopify API integration or CSV file for bulk
uploads
* 24/7 Seller Support - happy to guide you on every step via email or live chat
* Your Business Growth - Trusted by 10,000 Sellers - we provide you with the
customers’ full contact information (i.e., phone number, email) once you get
a sale to help you grow your customers email list and traffic to your own website
* Fast Payments & Easy Product Shipping/Delivery Management - send customers
their tracking number and get paid on the same day! I.e., you get your order
payments sent to you within 24 hours
We create social media content, ads and SEO backlinks placement for your products.
Apart from giving an opportunity to sell your products, we provide you marketing
services that no other marketplace does!
Once you make a seller account on everythingeshop.com, you can instantly start
uploading products, just filling in your seller storefront and description.
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
great with our customers.
Kind Regards,
Edward Sherman- Seller Relations
Everythingeshop.com
1285 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC
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- 250,000 products listed on everythingeshop
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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
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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.
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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