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 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Jan 15, 2023 09:09
 Subject: Shipstation Order not clearing after shipping
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 Topic: Shipping
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Anyone else have the last 3 or 4 days of orders still showing on your order screen
in Shipstation? I've tried contacting them, provided screen shots and even
tried to manual update the tracking in PayPal to clear them. I've been
successful in clearing 2 or 3 but the rest gives me an error.
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Nov 15, 2022 20:31
 Subject: Re: BRICKLINK ERRORS
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 Topic: General
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Yeah, this is a dumpster fire

In General, pitz8008 writes:
  Bricklink isn't letting me add minifigures. I keep getting.......

Oops! There was a problem processing your request:
Please select a Minifigure from the list or type in your own description instead.
Price cannot be zero.
You didn't select a Color. If you don't want color to show with your
part, select "Not applicable".
Quantity cannot be zero and cannot be negative.
Condition was not selected.
Sub-Condition was not selected.
Tiered Pricing #1: (Price) and Quantity must be 0
Tiered Pricing #2: (Price and Quantity) must be 0
Tiered Pricing #3: (Price and Quantity) must be 0...........

None of this should have shown up as I know how to list minifigures. Also about
an hour ago, I kept getting logged off and when trying to sign back in was told
my name and password didn't match. Anybody else having problems?
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Nov 9, 2022 08:48
 Subject: Re: Shipping practices
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 Topic: Buying
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Just because the tracking hasn't updated doesn't necessarily mean the
order hasn't shipped. I ship order throughout the day and have them waiting
to be picked up or waiting to be dropped off at a collection site. Packages
over the weekend that are shipped and dropped off at a collection site might
not get scanned until that night, but they are still shipped and dropped off.


I'd give sellers the benefit of the doubt they are marked shipped and begin
tracking within 24 hours during the week, and by Monday evening over the weekends.


In Buying, Toyscout2 writes:
  I have seven current orders, all placed on the same day, and 10 other orders
placed within the last year. Of the seven current orders, they all say shipped.
This appears to be inaccurate. When I track those packages, they say a label
was created but they have not been picked up by USPS. I am sorry but that is
packed, not shipped. I will favorite the stores that claim my package is shipped
and when I track it, it is actually shipped.
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Jul 24, 2022 16:20
 Subject: Re: Can anyone help me identify this piece?
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 Topic: Help
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https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=30035&idColor=1&name=White%20Minifigure,%20Utensil%20Space%20Scanner%20Tool&category=%5BMinifigure,%20Utensil%5D#T=C&C=1


In Help, cweir1969 writes:
  Can anyone identify this piece for me?
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Jun 26, 2022 21:08
 Subject: Shipstation postal increase?
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 Topic: Shipping
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I have noticed the last few days that my labels are costing .01 more. Labels
that had been $3.42 or $3.58 are now $3.43 and $3.59. Was this published somewhere?
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Apr 18, 2022 19:22
 Subject: Re: Are sales (much) lower as usual?
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 Topic: Selling
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April 1 - April 18 2019 - 47 orders
April 1 - April 18 2020 (pandemic) - 150 orders
April 1 - April 18 2021 - 53 orders
April 1 - April 18 2020 - 79 orders

I think traffic is still better than last year, but off from the pandemic.
I've noticed here in the US that the first week of the month, a few days
around the middle of the month and the last few days of the month are generally
higher volume and higher average sales. This corresponds to the times of the
month people are generally paid.
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Mar 25, 2022 21:06
 Subject: Re: Lost package fault
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 Topic: Shipping
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I agree with you completely, but playing devils advocate, why isn't the post
office giving refund of the shipping when they lose a package unless insurance
is purchased. Why is their terms of agreement to be held not liable any different
than a sellers terms of agreement saying the same thing?

I ask because I've had several packages lost in the past 18 months, probably
4 or 5 now, that they have no idea where they went and have basically stopped
looking for it. They have never once offered a refund of postage even. Maybe
I need to ask for it but getting to talk with a human at the USPS is not an easy
task and probably not worth the time I'd spend trying to recover the $3.50.

In Shipping, psusaxman2000 writes:
  In Shipping, C0lsanders_ writes:
  Correct. But I was saying if I order and pay for a pizza (regardless of where
it is going), THEY are responsible. The person who is getting paid to move the
pizza from A to B is responsible, not me who paid for the pizza. Not a great
example, granted, but it is what I had thought of when writing this.

In Shipping, peregrinator writes:
  In Shipping, C0lsanders_ writes:
  If I order
a pizza and pay them in advance, but they lose it, drop it, or whatever, who
is responsible...?

This is a strange question - they would 100% be responsible and would either
refund you or make you another.

This is what insurance is for. In theory, you could go to the USPS and get your
money back for the lost product, but you are the contracted member to the buyer
and not USPS. You made the purchase for the shipping of the goods, therefore
your are responsible for this end of the transaction as well. For both buyer
and seller to be even, buy receives their refund from you because they have no
ability to go to USPS (or any shipping company) because they were not the purchaser
of the shipping label.
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Mar 13, 2022 19:05
 Subject: Re: How rare is this?
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 Topic: Help
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All of the ones i've had or seen have been engraved as well.

In Help, yorbrick writes:
  In Help, Drevil44 writes:
  In Help, Play_It_Again writes:
  https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3004pb053&idColor=5&name=Red%20Brick%201%20x%202%20with%20Lego%20Logo%20Open%20O%20Style%20White%20Outline%20Pattern&category=%5BBrick,%20Decorated%5D#T=P&C=5



It's a bit hard to tell if that printing is embossed or not. It is not specified
in the description and there is a separate category for embossed parts is there
not?

They are engraved rather than embossed. There isn't a special category for
them, just decorated brick. They are quite common. I have some 2x2 somewhere
as well.
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Mar 13, 2022 16:20
 Subject: Re: How rare is this?
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 Topic: Help
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https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3004pb053&idColor=5&name=Red%20Brick%201%20x%202%20with%20Lego%20Logo%20Open%20O%20Style%20White%20Outline%20Pattern&category=%5BBrick,%20Decorated%5D#T=P&C=5


In Help, Drevil44 writes:
  I have found this 1x2 brick with "embossed" Lego logo. This is not just surface
printed but relief embossed into the plastic and then white paint put into the
grooves. Not sure if this may have been a normal way to make a printed part back
in the day, but I thought someone here might know better about this sort of thing.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Mar 11, 2022 14:27
 Subject: Re: Stickers of Death
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 Topic: My Own Creation
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I found that the vast majority of sticker parts bring just a fraction more, and
even sometimes less than the non sticker version. If you account for all the
search time your actual net is less. They also take infinitely longer to sell.
There are obvious exceptions and i try to pull those and at least look them
up. I also have 4 or 5 sticker parts on my want list that I buy when they are
available with other things I need that I pull the sticker from and sell for
3x to 10x the cost. I'm certainly not a big fan of them.

In My Own Creation, Nubs_Select writes:
  So many stickers.......... Just curious what other people waiting to be listed
stickered/printed parts piles look like. My own creation of endless headaches

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