Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | qwertyboy  | | Posted: | Jan 26, 2023 11:12 | | Subject: | Re: Move the part... | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | |
| In Catalog Requests, 1977_mauro writes:
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to category: Road Sign
It does not make sense as we have 4 occurrences in Belville Fairy-Tale sets,
4 in Fabuland and 1 in Harry Potter.
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It will be the same discussion as to why these bad boys are categorized differently:
Or these:
[m=sw0984]
And these examples show a different inconsistency: if it is deemed necessary
to place some of the decorated parts in the minifig category, why does poor Han
Solo get a designated minifig item ID (sw0984) whereas Captain America has to
make due with a lowly "pb" extension (instead of IDing him something
like shXXX)?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 26, 2023 11:01 | | Subject: | Re: Feedback not released | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Feedback, tons_of_bricks writes:
| | Your main goal as a seller should be to satisfy your customers
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This got X-rated pretty quick. Keep things decent people.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2023 17:24 | | Subject: | Re: From one of the best LEGO rooms you will see | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
| In New Stores, 2Legit2Brick writes:
| | New store opened!! Constantly adding pieces and awesome figs to come.
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You might want to check your minifigs. You are not allowed to post incomplete
minifigs for sale, not even with describing what is missing.
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=102
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2023 13:26 | | Subject: | Re: Can you help me identify this block? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, kobalt writes:
| | Hello,
I can't locate this item in bricklink database. Do you have any idea?
Thanks.
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That is a Cobi part - search for "Cobi coarse rock".
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2023 21:52 | | Subject: | Re: B2 Pearl Sand or FAKE Sw0056 | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| In Catalog Identification, LichtBricks writes:
| | Heeeey bricklinkers,
I have a question. I bought a big collection of Lego. Also included the Lego
7163. In that collection, there are two Super Battle Droids with this special
color. I checked them, but there are no Lego Signs. There are only numbers in
the arms. Left arm middle 1 and right arm middle 2.
Please can you help me if they are real Lego or fake/custom.
Thank you for your time. Best regards 
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I think this one peed his pants.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 14, 2023 17:15 | | Subject: | Re: A winter view in Cornwall | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | My favourite time in Cornwall, Winter.
A choppy but not stormy Perranporth today, grey and windy, no not me, the weather,
maybe both.
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... and afterwards a stop at the Brown's chippy. Nice!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2023 16:26 | | Subject: | Re: Still prevalent today... | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, LeeGo73 writes:
| | 'just put the charges into the prices' would include the fees for paypal
I assume.
This would be unfair to a large portion of the buyers within the EU who have
the option to pay with IBAN (if the seller has this activated). With IBAN there
are no fees. Why would a buyer paying with IBAN be confronted with higher part
prices that include the paypal fees?
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Some sellers put in an additional fee to cover stuff like driving to the post
office. Pretty much anyone else agrees these costs should just be considered
overhead, and be covered in the price of the product. Then you get a request
for local pick-up, which obviously doesn't need that drive. Are you suggesting
pricing-including-travel-costs is now unfair to the person doing local pick-up?
Keep things simple, don't stack on fees but offer price-of-product plus shipping
cost.
My CAD 0.02 (for free).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2023 12:43 | | Subject: | Re: U of jij? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| In LANG Nederlands, 3001Bricks writes:
| | In LANG Nederlands, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Ik zie dat veel verkopers in hun mails (invoices en bevestigingen) de ontvanger
aanspreken met U. Ook in communicatie na de order.
Ik vind dat niet meer van deze tijd en gebruik zelf zoveel mogelijk je/jij.
Immers, als je een mailtje van postnl krijgt dat er een zending onderweg is spreken
ze je ook aan met "We hebben een pakketje voor jou!" en bij alle andere
websites waar ik bestel in Nederland word ik ook altijd aangesproken in de je-vorm
of direct met mijn voornaam.
Wat vinden jullie?
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Ik ga liever to ver in het tonen van respect door middel van taalgebruik dan
te amicaal of informeel overkomen. Veel bedrijf gaan mijns inziens te ver met
de amicale manier van aanschrijven. Er is een zakelijke relatie, dat creeert
een zekere afstand en beleefdheid. Dat kan langzaamaan groeien in een meer informele
relatie, maar in eerste instantie ga ik liever te ver naar de behoudende kant.
Bricklink is een beetje een apart geval omdat dit een hobby website is waar AFOLs
elkaar helpen en dezelfde hobby hebben. Ik erger me daarom niet aan als ik wordt
aangesproken met je/jij. Ikzelf hou het bij U waar mogelijk.
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+1
Ik ben opgevoed met deze normen en waarden. Ik spreek mijn moeder nog altijd
aan met "U" (mijn twee zussen en mijn broer doen hetzelfde).
Voor mijn "werk-werk" heb ik regelmatig contact met allerlei bedrijven.
Ik erger mij aan die mensen die mij bij het allereerste gesprek al aanspreken
met "buddy". Mijn zwager's vrouw sprak mijn moeder ook aan met "jij"
- maar mijn opvoeding weerhield mij ervan haar te corrigeren...
Met BrickLink heb ik geen problemen - wij verzenden sinds Covid alleen naar Canada
en de VS, dus al mijn communicatie (buiten het forum) is in Engels, en iedereen
is "you".
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Dec 28, 2022 14:22 | | Subject: | Re: GRAND OPENING BSDPARTY STORE!!!!!!!!! | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
| In New Stores, 1001bricks writes:
| | In New Stores, BSDPARTY writes:
| | Hi everyone! your feedback counts!
So please check us out, and let us know how and what we can improve to make your
experience the best possible!!
Waiting to hear from you!!
The BSDPARTY Team
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Erm, do you realize BSD could mean anything, like Bipolar Spectrum Disorder,
Blue Screen of Death, or probably "worse"?
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Acronyms can be - let's say problematic. In computer networking, one of the
key attributes that defines a domain name setup is commonly called the SOA record
(short for Start Of Authority). Well, in the Dutch language, the acronym SOA
has a completely different meaning (STD in English).
Then try to give a network training to a bunch of 18-year olds.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Dec 28, 2022 13:20 | | Subject: | Re: How to distinguish Grays and Orange/Yellow | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, calebfishn writes:
| | Actually, one of the biggest challenges of being color blind, is that people
reflexively refuse to believe you when you tell them you can't see certain
colors. About 100% of the time, they will immediately say: "Really? What
colour is my shirt? What color is this? What color is that". It's very
strange, really, and I can't imagine people doing something like that for
any other problem, like hearing, for example.
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Imagine how people react if you tell them you cannot feel pain...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2022 02:04 | | Subject: | Artemis | | Viewed: | 100 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| That was flippin' awesome (excuse my French).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 21, 2022 18:39 | | Subject: | Re: Do orange parts sell well? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, rainbowmist writes:
| | I was thinking of getting some more part colors added to my store. Does orange,
dark red, and dark blue sell well?
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Orange sells great if you have a customer who built a life-size Tigger. We sold
a boatload to him, and then, when he left the Lego-building scene, we bought
back his entire inventory.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 15, 2022 23:45 | | Subject: | Re: Brickpacker has lost connection | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, ErwinNL writes:
| | In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Selling, ErwinNL writes:
| | In Selling, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | The issue seems to be that Bricklink is blocking all connections from the Brickpacker
server and as a result all functions accessing BrickLink fail.
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Over 5000? If so, it'll be reset at midnight EDT.
Otherwise I don't know.
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In case when you go over the API limit you can still establish a connection to
the server and get an error message. When the server blocks the connection you
don't even get that message anymore.
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Maybe, but anyway wait until midnight EDT and see if I was right?
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I hope you are right, but:
- The 5K limit is per seller, all his customers are blocked. It is unlikely that
they all went over the limit at the same time.
- You get a clear error message when you go over the limit, your connection isn't
blocked.
- My most recent experience with going over the limit is that you get an email
from BL.
This is most likely not related to the API call limit.
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A while ago BL blocked some IP addresses for generating too much traffic. As
I understand BrickPacker, it hosts multiple shops on one (or very few) IP address(es).
Although each seller might stay under 5000 API requests, the sum of all that
traffic coming from one IP address may hit that other traffic limit.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2022 15:17 | | Subject: | Re: Finding a part..... | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, macebobo writes:
| | […]
Turn off safe-search.
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Safe-search IS turned off.
You got something?
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My search in Chrome on Google returned an empty page, but not when I then clicked
"images"...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2022 22:55 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink Marketplace news letter | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, popsicle writes:
| | In General, qwertyboy writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
| | In General, qwertyboy writes:
| | Just received the BMNL October 2022.
There appears to be an error in Tip #1 ("how do I protect myself from fraud as
a seller"). It says:
Enable seller protection in your store settings. To do that go to My Store
Settings Management Seller protection. Once you’ve ticked that box, new buyers
(less than 100 days on the site or a feedback score of 5) won’t be able to place
an order with you.
I sure hope it is still just that new buyers are limited to instant check-out,
and NOT barred completely.
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It clearly states "Show only Instant Checkout methods to new buyers" What gives
you pause with this, Niek? Are you picking-up or experienced something further
that might indicate otherwise?
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This is an exact quote from the newsletter - again, it says under the section
"Tip #1: How do I protect myself from fraud as a seller?":
| | Enable seller protection in your store settings. To do that go to My Store Settings Management Seller protection. Once you’ve ticked that box, new buyers (less than 100 days on the site or a feedback score of 5) won’t be able to place an order with you.
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The text is pretty clear here. It should have said that, when the setting is
enabled, these new buyers "... will only be able to pick instant checkout." Instead,
the newsletter says that new buyers "... won't be able to place an order
with you." (Not that we have enabled that option.)
Unless you have received a different-worded newsletter?
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You referring to this section?
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Yup (thank you for posting a pic - can't do that ATM). Even with the box
ticked, new buyers will still be able to place an order provided the shop offers
instant checkout. Saying they will be blocked all together is not how it works
(hopefully).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2022 22:43 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink Marketplace news letter | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, popsicle writes:
| | In General, qwertyboy writes:
| | Just received the BMNL October 2022.
There appears to be an error in Tip #1 ("how do I protect myself from fraud as
a seller"). It says:
Enable seller protection in your store settings. To do that go to My Store
Settings Management Seller protection. Once you’ve ticked that box, new buyers
(less than 100 days on the site or a feedback score of 5) won’t be able to place
an order with you.
I sure hope it is still just that new buyers are limited to instant check-out,
and NOT barred completely.
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It clearly states "Show only Instant Checkout methods to new buyers" What gives
you pause with this, Niek? Are you picking-up or experienced something further
that might indicate otherwise?
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This is an exact quote from the newsletter - again, it says under the section
"Tip #1: How do I protect myself from fraud as a seller?":
| | Enable seller protection in your store settings. To do that go to My Store Settings Management Seller protection. Once you’ve ticked that box, new buyers (less than 100 days on the site or a feedback score of 5) won’t be able to place an order with you.
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The text is pretty clear here. It should have said that, when the setting is
enabled, these new buyers "... will only be able to pick instant checkout." Instead,
the newsletter says that new buyers "... won't be able to place an order
with you." (Not that we have enabled that option.)
Unless you have received a different-worded newsletter?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2022 18:34 | | Subject: | BrickLink Marketplace news letter | | Viewed: | 194 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Just received the BMNL October 2022.
There appears to be an error in Tip #1 ("how do I protect myself from fraud as
a seller"). It says:
Enable seller protection in your store settings. To do that go to My Store
Settings Management Seller protection. Once you’ve ticked that box, new buyers
(less than 100 days on the site or a feedback score of 5) won’t be able to place
an order with you.
I sure hope it is still just that new buyers are limited to instant check-out,
and NOT barred completely.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2022 15:44 | | Subject: | Re: Ignored by helpdesk for over 30 days | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Wow… isn’t that ban evasion?
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It would be if they managed to get that store opened by BL ...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2022 15:51 | | Subject: | Re: any pro tips for this? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I've got a lot of these and not looking forward to separating the 2 variants...
does anyone know any fast ways to separate them?
I know I could list them under
but that almost feels like I'm cheating 
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Take two. Put them face-to-face / bar-to-bar.
— If they are the same, keep one, and put the other one in the ‘?’ pile.
— If they are not the same, keep the longest and put the other one in the ‘A’
pile.
Take another one and repeat. At one time, you should be able to tell if ‘?’
is ‘A’ or ‘B’… unless all of those you have are the same variant
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This. Also, when you put them bar-to-bar, "wiggle" them. You should clearly notice
if the bars are same length or if one is longer than the other. I tried explaining
that to my CFO, but she doesn't get that, and leaves these parts for me to
sort out.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2022 11:05 | | Subject: | Re: ... and I like it! | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, jennnifer writes:
| | This is my shop in the beautiful little office that I am currently renting. I
only have it for a year, but I am loving every minute.
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Love the board games! We haven't played Dominion in quite a while. We regularly
play Carcassonne (the "regular" version) with friends. In winter time, we play
the online version I programmed (fully functional, with all rules, with the river
and the first 5 expansions).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 27, 2022 13:41 | | Subject: | Re: Item removed not returned to inventory | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | The only thing you can infer from a seller-initiated OIRR is that s/he wants
that item removed from the order, nothing else.
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A seller "editing" an order "in the behalf" of a buyer seems to me an open door
for many abuses.
Ex: oh darn, I sold this too low!
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There are many other ways for a seller to abuse the system. My point is that
there are legitimate reasons for a seller to want/need to initiate an
OIRR - your statement of "the only (good) reason a seller would request a cancel
is if he doesn't have the item" is simply not true. We (as a seller) have
initiated 4 OIRRs in the last couple of months, all to help out our customers.
This is an UI issue, nothing more.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 27, 2022 12:16 | | Subject: | Re: Item removed not returned to inventory | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | In short, this is an UI issue.
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I don't think so, it's just logical.
The only (good) reason a seller would request a cancel is if he doesn't have
the item.
So the item is deleted.
The only reason a buyer would request a cancel is because he doesn't want
it anymore (for any reason).
So the item comes back in shop.
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You make generalized assumptions here.
In Canada, there is a steep difference in shipping prices for small items, and
items thicker than about 1.6cm, so fairly regularly it happens that a customer
wants to have an item removed from an order to lower shipping cost.
I don't know about French people and their computer / web skillz, but we
see quite often that customers don't know how to get an OIRR done (even if
we spell it out step-by-step). We then put in the OIRR. So I don't agree
with the blanket statement that a seller only would request a cancel if s/he
doesn't have the item.
The only thing you can infer from a seller-initiated OIRR is that s/he wants
that item removed from the order, nothing else.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 27, 2022 10:16 | | Subject: | Re: Item removed not returned to inventory | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, calebfishn writes:
| | A buyer completed the process of removing an item from his order. But now, that
item is not in my inventory.
I would have thought the item would be returned automatically to my store inventory.
Did we miss something?
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If the buyer initiates an OIRR, it is the seller that confirms this. At that
point (of confirmation), the seller is actively "driving", so BL is able to then
ask the seller what to do with the items (add back to inventory etc).
If however the seller initiates the OIRR, it is the buyer that finally accepts
this. At that point, it is the buyer "driving", and s/he cannot decide whether
to add back to inventory etc.
In short, this is an UI issue. The OIRR should have an additional step,
where (if the buyer accepts) the seller gets the option of what to do with the
items.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 25, 2022 11:22 | | Subject: | Re: Very Light Gray - Very excluded | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Searching | |
| In Searching, hpoort writes:
| | While searching for Items for Sale by color, 'Very Light Gray' is not
recognized as color name. I get 'The following keywords were excluded from
your search: very'.
What did they do to the search box algorithm this time? Or has this specific
search always failed?
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The order of processing the search request should be:
(1) strip the leading color name if any ( 'very light gray' )
(2) replace 'space x space' by 'x' for dimensions
(3) apply the exclude words algorithm (but it should be done with a vocabulary
frequency list relevant to the Bricklink context only! It would make much more
sense to completely skip this step.)
(4) find the matching lots for sale based on the remaining search phrase ( 'tile'
)
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How to find these lots now?
Searching without color filter gives the entire 2,002,093 lots of 'tile'.
As if the rare word 'very' is more common in our Bricklink database than
the common word 'tile'.
In this case I could just check each of the few tiles that exist in this color
separately, but how to get them together in a single search like for any other
color?
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You could go into the store page, under "Parts" click "By Color".
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 23, 2022 00:04 | | Subject: | Re: What are these? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| In Catalog Identification, popsicle writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, popsicle writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, baylit writes:
| | 1) Heads on the left - Bionicle?
2) Legs/feet in the middle ???
3) Foot Armor on the right (which fits on 2))
???
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Parts to McDonald's promo toy, I see
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Join up with this guy - you'll have a set!
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1364955
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 20, 2022 23:37 | | Subject: | Re: Interesting number of parts for sale | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
| | something aint right here
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When I check with a not-logged-in browser, it shows 96847. Maybe difference between
all lots vs lots from sellers who ship to you?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 20, 2022 23:31 | | Subject: | Re: Interesting number of parts for sale | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
| | something aint right here
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Hm. Mine says 61582 lots for sale...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 20, 2022 20:05 | | Subject: | Re: Did we have a date for Canadian Sales Taxes? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
| In Taxes, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Taxes, Hal8472 writes:
| | Our provinces each have unique rules, making no efforts to harmonize. I would
go as far as saying certain provinces revel in the power to interfere. Particularly
difficult where small sellers are concerned. Bricklink has my sympathy. Its
probably our fault more than there’s.
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But you've only 10 provinces to deal with!
We've got 50!
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Your states have 1 sales tax each (or none). In Canada we like to complicate
things.
https://www.fedex.com/en-ca/news/canadian-sales-taxes.html
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 19, 2022 15:45 | | Subject: | Re: Did we have a date for Canadian Sales Taxes? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
| In Taxes, Hal8472 writes:
| | In Taxes, Nubs_Select writes:
| | They keep saying that it’s coming but legally it should have already been in
place… you think they would have made it a higher priority but who knows
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Our provinces each have unique rules, making no efforts to harmonize. I would
go as far as saying certain provinces revel in the power to interfere. Particularly
difficult where small sellers are concerned. Bricklink has my sympathy. Its
probably our fault more than there’s.
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The situation for Canada is a bit more complex than the US, in that provinces
and territories can levy their own provincial taxes (PST) on top of goods and
services taxes (GST). Some provinces have these combined in a harmonized tax
(HST). Different taxes might mean different instances for a market place to hand
over collected taxes, but I am not a marketplace-tax-expert.
Yup, a mess. But several times BL did promise implementation "soon" - for an
unknown value of "soon"...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 16, 2022 15:43 | | Subject: | Re: Issues with bricklink contact forms | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, tukeetrash writes:
| | July 28th Invoice# 19696639 paid VIA Paypal
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Time to start a Paypal claim.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 16, 2022 13:11 | | Subject: | Re: 500 MINIFIGURES JUST ADDED | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| In Sales, Jarvis_Bricks writes:
| | Fresh new figures on the store!!
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Looks like you already sold 148 of them. Nice!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 11, 2022 14:16 | | Subject: | Re: store.bricklink.com is down | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, relhak writes:
| | The shopping side of BL is down (store.bricklink.com). I get a 502 bad gateway
error. I verified against isitdownrightnow.com .
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Looks like api.bricklink.com is struggling as well.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 29, 2022 16:30 | | Subject: | Re: search for pieice, no matter color, from selr | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, BrickSwede writes:
| | I dont understand...
In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, BrickSwede writes:
| | Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to search for a certain piece and find
the seller with the most of them in total, no matter color or condition.
Let's just say I want as many 2x2 bricks as posible from one seller and I
dont care if they're new or used and also in any color.
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BrickStore or the bush!
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Sylvain-the-1001bricks-guy is convinced BrickStock can do everything, from doing
your taxes and painting your car to cooking your pizza with pineapple and mustard.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 26, 2022 21:52 | | Subject: | Re: WHY IS MY STORE SUSPENDED???!!! | | Viewed: | 157 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, dreambuilder71 writes:
| | Thanks for your reply. Yes I see now how BL is in the USA so I would have to
let them charge the taxes to USA buyers on my sales. But I didn't have paypal
activated so I never sold to USA buyers and all orders were cancelled or NPB
reports completed when the buyer never paid.
But BL still won't activate my store again saying I did tax evasion which
I actually did not! So now I am waiting for them to take their time and decide.
I will need everyone's support to convince them to turn it back on.
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You literally said in your terms that any US customers should contact you directly
so you could sell them their parts outside of BL. Not only were you transacting
using the BL system without BL getting their fees (which is against the ToS),
technically BL still facilitated in getting that order done, so states could
have an argument of tax evasion in these cases. Whether that would be a solid
argument I don't know, but I can definitely see BL not wanting to "test the
waters" there.
Either way, you will have to work this out with BL. I don't see any use in
getting "everyone's support" as nobody else but you and BL are involved here,
and to put it bluntly "everyone" only sees your side of the story.
Anyways, still good luck.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 26, 2022 21:34 | | Subject: | Re: Buyer Won't "complete order" | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, zorbanj writes:
| | In Help, Yogi_007 writes:
| | IMHO its the buyers job only to set the status to complete. I dont know why
the seller has access to update the order status beyond shipped.
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The function should be separated into "Seller complete" and "Buyer Complete"
columns. The seller can mark the order as complete for their recordkeeping and
the buyer can mark it complete when they are ready.
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Not looking to start a big argument, but what would be the difference between
"shipped" and "seller complete"? I get the argument that some shops consider
the transaction not complete until the buyer confirms it is complete, but that
would make "seller complete" a state after "buyer complete", so "complete"? Or
is ''seller complete" an order that has a buyer's feedback posted
but no "complete" posted by buyer?
For us, "shipped" means we are done - unless buyer comes back with a question.
There is no telling if/when that would happen, so if we were to differentiate
between "shipped" and "seller complete", when do you suggest a seller puts it
from "shipped" to "seller complete"?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 19, 2022 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: WHY IS MY STORE SUSPENDED???!!! | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, ErwinNL writes:
| | In Selling, BlueDevilBricks writes:
| | In Selling, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Selling, helge writes:
| | If BrickLink do not authorize that the item in question is sold, they should
remove the item from the catalogue, as they did with the 42133, not randomly
strike down on some sellers.
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? Just curious which part you mean.
Niek.
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Niek, I believe the 42133 is a typo. In an earlier post, helge referenced 42113,
which can no longer be found in the catalog.
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is the Bell™ Boeing™ V-22 Osprey™ (42113)
https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/07/28/reason-lego-cancelled-its-v-22-osprey-set.html
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Ah, that makes sense, thanks!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 19, 2022 10:15 | | Subject: | Re: WHY IS MY STORE SUSPENDED???!!! | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, helge writes:
| | If BrickLink do not authorize that the item in question is sold, they should
remove the item from the catalogue, as they did with the 42133, not randomly
strike down on some sellers.
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? Just curious which part you mean.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 18, 2022 12:51 | | Subject: | Re: WHY IS MY STORE SUSPENDED???!!! | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, dreambuilder71 writes:
| | Hope the attachment works,, but this is all I got from BL on my profile page...
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I do agree BL should communicate better (and I am aware this is not a court of
law, and IANAL), but if you look at it from a "laws" point of view - ignorance
of the law is never an excuse for breaking it, ask any lawyer. In BL's case,
the ToS is part of their law. Specifically, the following sections may
apply to your case (and there might be others):
Section 4, 3rd paragraph
Section 10.4
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/terms_of_service.page
However blunt the results are, I do agree with BL closing your shop. You will
need to work this out with BL admin, hopefully the closure is temporary and you
can work things out.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 18, 2022 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: WHY IS MY STORE SUSPENDED???!!! | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, popsicle writes:
| | You might look at it from another angle, James: Practically speaking, it’s BrickLink
that “charge a USA buyer any taxes” via third party arrangements.
You, as representing today’s online vendor, do not determine, apply to invoice
(charge) or have access to any tax-funds collected for remittance.
As it stands currently, the site can only fulfill what is now an obligation,
by using the payment process. The Onsite method, contractually allows for this.
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This.
Also (and not unsignificantly) - your terms flat-out advised US BL customers
to contact you off-site to arrange a sale. You can't use BL to generate Lego
sales that doesn't end up as an order with BL.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2022 23:00 | | Subject: | Re: What set does this come in? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| In Catalog Identification, BricksOfFaith writes:
| | I know that it’s the color purple, and included a 1x1 to compare it to prove
it’s purple. There are several listed. But can’t figure out what set it’s from.
Can someone help me? Thanks!
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You have this one in your store:
You can compare colors to determine if your 2x3 plate is in fact dark purple.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2022 15:53 | | Subject: | Re: An order has dissapeared from my order list | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, DirectorBright writes:
| | The seller wont contact me, i spent money on this, and i need to know if there
is a way i can get my money back
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Note that I had the bug once (in 15 years), a few months ago.
Buyer placed the order, paid for it, sent me the PayPal proof - but no order
was created on BrickLink.
I checked our PayPal account and the payment was there, initiated by BrickLink,
very typical for a BL order.
We talked and asked him to place another order that I would set to "Paid", and
everything was "fixed".
I didn't open a ticket, but still have all info.
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If this was instant check-out, your Paypal transaction should show an entry called
"Custom" (scroll down on the payment details) with a value like "BLLIVE_CUSTOM_ICxxxxxxx".
BL support should be able to trace that xxxxxxx number in their database.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 16:39 | | Subject: | Re: Scam alert! | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I think its a script since most of the time its a part that really doesn't
make sense for a standalone part
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It looks like the script simply scrapes the Shop - Featured page and picks an
item there.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2022 13:28 | | Subject: | Re: What can I consider New? | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Feedback, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Ummm... so they don’t rub against each other? Unless (and I’m pretty sure I’ve
seen it before) you do what some people do and individually bag each piece of
the minifigure which it phycotic (except for rare/expensive figures)
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I think the rubbing part (ooo-er) is way less for one minifig-in-parts in its
own little baggie then it is for a new off-the-shelf LEGO set where minifig parts
are mixed in with other sharp-edged parts in larger bags.
When we put a minifig from a new set into our inventory, we put all the relevant
parts of the fig in its onw little baggie. It does not get disturbed again until
we grab that baggie from storage and ship it out. Because the baggie is way smaller
(like a 3"x2"), the parts don't have much "freedom" (if any) to do any rubbing,
even while in transport.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2022 12:49 | | Subject: | Re: What can I consider New? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Feedback, briky writes:
| | In Feedback, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Feedback, briky writes:
| | a miniFIGURE only becomes a miniFIGURE after it has been assembled,not before..then
its a set,puzzle,parts....but not a minifigure Yet....like to buy my new car
assembled too
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| | | | If you were to go to the LEGO store, would you ask "Do you have the Chevrolet
Camaro Z28", or ask "Do you have the set of parts to build a Chevrolet Camaro
Z28"? If you ask the former question, and they show up with a new box for set
10304, would you then complain that you asked for the car, not its building parts
and instructions?
Semantics are just that - semantics. They don't bear relevancy on this particular
issue.
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| | Never went to a legoshop to buy a car...I go to a car dealer for that...so your
answer is quite moot...You are mixing up sets and minifigures....like apples
and oranges.
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Uhmmmm - my "apples and oranges" (both LEGO products) are actually way closer
related than your "apples and oranges" (a LEGO minifigure and a new car you buy).
So is your answer "quite moot" as well?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2022 12:33 | | Subject: | Re: What can I consider New? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Feedback, briky writes:
| | In Feedback, Biglesdug writes:
| | In Feedback, SumFunLegoFan writes:
| | If a Minifigure is in MINT condition or a set along with whatever else comes
in the set are MINT,
Can I consider it new?
If someone can please message or comment back, this is #3 trying to grab feedback
or help and haven’t gotten a thing..
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If a minifigure has been built and only display it is still used.
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a miniFIGURE only becomes a miniFIGURE after it has been assembled,not before..then
its a set,puzzle,parts....but not a minifigure Yet....like to buy my new car
assembled too
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If you were to go to the LEGO store, would you ask "Do you have the Chevrolet
Camaro Z28", or ask "Do you have the set of parts to build a Chevrolet Camaro
Z28"? If you ask the former question, and they show up with a new box for set
10304, would you then complain that you asked for the car, not its building parts
and instructions?
Semantics are just that - semantics. They don't bear relevancy on this particular
issue.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 9, 2022 13:39 | | Subject: | Re: Happy International Cat Day~! ฅ(ﾐ⚈ ﻌ ⚈ﾐ)ฅ | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 5, 2022 11:58 | | Subject: | Re: Best/worst buyers/sellers you've experienced? | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Yup, had a similar thing. Bought from the US, seller was short some items, and
he decided to put a few US nickels and dimes in the package...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 4, 2022 12:32 | | Subject: | Re: Asteroids? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, popsicle writes:
| | In General, PBM writes:
| | I do believe there used to be a poster in the forum called 'asteroids'
or something like that.
I am doing a followup on my "bunny" story from 8-10+ years ago.
If anyone knows this buyer/seller/forum poster please let me know.
Would like to contact them about the LEGO bunny and get an update!
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You may be referring to member: Rick_S. I don't know, he's had a lot
of username changes over the years.
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https://www.bricklink.com/memberLog.asp?oldUsername=asterios
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 3, 2022 22:15 | | Subject: | Re: fully crazy | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, molten.brick writes:
| | Functionality is key.
Ultimate disclosure is fact.
Ommissions equate to lies.
Yes, that is a glass-elevator!@#$
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Your posts remind me of the time I ran an IT support department. I had a new
tech who made similar statements - all way over my head. One time he confided
in me that, at nights, he would lay awake and simply listened to the voices in
his head. He was on a different plane, nowhere near the lowly level required
to tackle IT networking issues. I had to let him go.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 3, 2022 21:57 | | Subject: | Re: How to cancel Catalog change request | | Viewed: | 15 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I accidentally entered the wrong numbers for the packing dimensions form for
a part and can't override it and can't find where I can delete it. am
I missing something?
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It's hidden!
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I remember I read in 1990 ? Bruce Scheiner's bible: Applied Cryptography
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An excellent book to learn about the 1s and 0s of cryptography in all its forms.
You should also read (if you haven't already) "Secrets and Lies" - a more
pragmatic book about this subject. After Bruce wrote "Applied Cryptography" he
got depressed because of all the issues with security (mostly because of the
fact there were perfectly fine technical solutions, yet massive failures in actually
applying it), and this book was born. Highly recommended.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2022 18:19 | | Subject: | Re: systems engineering problems in a nutshell | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, SomeRandomUser writes:
| | To be fair, I'm a fledgling systems engineer undergoing training. I was using
a simulated learning environment with nodes designed to mimic what would be found
in the corporate production domains. The terminology is still relatively new
to me.
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Fair enough. But using terminology that doesn't match 'real life'
will make it hard for others to help you.
| | Performing a kill -9 on the registry was actually killing the monitor. Corporate
tools are assigned to a special Linux group and breaking the corporate registry
by running a script led to the newgrp command (done by typing in "newgrp - [group]")
saying there were too many arguments among other things.
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`newgrp - [group]` is not a valid command. You either want to change your primary
group (and use `newgrp [group]`) or reset your shell to its defaults (and use
`newgrp -`). Specifying both `-` and `[group]` is not allowed, and `newgrp` tells
you that - there are too many arguments.
| | I'm still learning. Only been at this a month and I'm grateful they taught
me like it was a classroom setting. The domain replication is what gave me severe
trouble.
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Breaking a test environment and then trying to right the ship is one of the ways
you can learn the most. Try to approach your issue using small steps, and don't
try to fix it "in one go". Use tools that allow you to poke at your environment
in a controlled manner (like `smbclient`, `testparm` etc). Compare the setup
with a known working one (especially smb.conf). GUIs and scripted solutions can
hide the actual problems, especially ones which are not foreseen by its authors.
Good luck!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 29, 2022 17:47 | | Subject: | Re: systems engineering problems in a nutshell | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, SomeRandomUser writes:
| | Imagine there being a slew of tools set to a specific group environment that
you need to newgrp into (yes, this is a Linux server). Now imagine you break
a registry somewhere by running a script that aids in domain replication. Can't
figure out what the script exactly did but all you know is that now you can't
newgrp anymore, and so every specialized tool you use is inaccessible.
So now you have this registry you're trying to kill by its process ID. Sending
a SIGKILL signal to it after doing ps -ef just closes your terminal. Logging
back in, it's still there. You really need to kill, cycle, and restart that
registry before proceeding with diagnosis and repair. Best close the domain and
then the service in charge of making sure things start up automatically.
Can't. Both ksh scripts you have available to stop the domain require the
registry working in order to proceed. Might as well restore from a snapshot at
this point.
Messy.
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This all sounds weird. There is no registry in Linux (a registry is a Windows
thing). A Linux server can run Windows domain services through Samba, but this
is all configured in txt files - mainly smb.conf, or sometimes in a database
(but that would be specified in your smb.conf).
A SIGKILL won't terminate your shell, unless you either kill the shell itself,
kill its dependency (like an ssh session), or try to do something like `kill
-9 -1`.
If you need to use `newgrp` this implies you need to change the user's default
group membership for that current session. Is that user actually allowed to change
group membership (see `man newgrp`)? Does `newgrp` actually spit out a message
(or, failing that, what is its exit value)? If `newgrp` fails, you can also simply
(as root) use `vipw`/`vigr` to change that user's default group, and then
log in as that user.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 27, 2022 10:29 | | Subject: | Re: Solicitation on Bricklink? | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, Sterra writes:
| | Got a message through Bricklink this morning from pratap_a (0) . Asking if I
wanted to sell on their platform called Everyeshop.com. Signature says they
are out of Vancover. Sellers cover shipping, very low fees (didn't investigate
yet), social media marketing.....
Sounds like ebay but cheaper (maybe).
Anyone know this site? Is it legit?
Also they have their construction cap still and no feedback or orders. Did they
apply to Bricklink for the purpose of finding new clients? Might have been
a bot - addressed oddly to my store name and used a set I have listed that is
high priced but incomplete. Doesn't feel right, Admin?
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I just filed a report for same, from user deanon. Looks like a massive influx
of "new users"...
https://www.bricklink.com/memberList.asp?countryID=IN
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 27, 2022 10:20 | | Subject: | Re: Best Names in the Whole Catalog | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, jennnifer writes:
| | In LEGO, axaday writes:
I'll take the legs instead of the skirt any day.
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Me too.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 23, 2022 10:28 | | Subject: | Re: Seller Privileges Revoked | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, BricksOfFaith writes:
| | Honestly, this store being closed is getting plain and simply stupid and idiotic.
The admins are extremely present on the forum, and they simply ignore these threads
at this point. If bricklink wasn’t needed in my income, I would seriously consider
closing my store permanently.
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Admins have not replied to these forum messages, and they have no requirement
to. Communication about store inventory issues like these should be kept private,
between store and BL. There are only posts from one side, and so outsiders can't
have a full view of what is happening.
Whether it is pitchforking against a store for having "interesting" inventory,
or pitchforking against admin for not publicly responding, we should let the
involved parties sort this out instead of taking sides and heating things up.
Have a great weekend all, and stay cool!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2022 21:02 | | Subject: | Re: Record U.K. temps | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
Ah. My favorite is Laphroaig 16. Friends of mine are on a world trip, currently
in Alaska. They plan on swinging by around September, time to hang out around
the fire and cherish a glass.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2022 19:02 | | Subject: | Re: Record U.K. temps | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Me too but he didn’t answer me. 
I suspect he googled it somehow or perhaps he has an alll seeing eye.
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Maybe Google. Though I suspect Niek is a well traveled man too
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Cornwall was one of our fav places to visit when in the UK, but I won't pretend
to have an eidetic memory. I used the same tool as advising the curry place on
Victoria Road - Google Maps. I can spend hours zooming around on this. And on
Google Earth - many areas there are in 3D, so you can "fly around".
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2022 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: Record U.K. temps | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Just heading there now believe it or not.
Where did you get that from ?
Spooky !
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It was a toss-up between the chippy and the curry place on Victoria Road (although
many claim spicy food is good when the weather is hot, as it makes you sweat
as your body tries to cool down).
Enjoy your dinner!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2022 13:30 | | Subject: | Re: Your store is suspended But WHY ? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | But that doesn’t change the ability to check, and more thoroughly than just the
size.
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OK, I tried an experiment and I was able to save a comment of 90 chars in length
- the one I submitted was much longer than 90 chars but it got cut off at 90.
The comment, ah, commented upon above is 200 characters. So maybe there was a
check on the server side after form submission to make sure the comment was 200
characters or fewer - now it checks for 90 or less.
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What I've not tried is doing it through the API. That's a bit too much
work for me at the moment.
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Just did a test trying to post a feedback of 118 chars through the API. The request
was accepted, but the result was truncated to 80 chars.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 19, 2022 13:00 | | Subject: | Re: Record U.K. temps | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Didn’t expect that, pleasant surprise.
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You guys should meet up at the chippy across from Tesco's.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 20:51 | | Subject: | Re: Evacuated due to fire... | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, cycbuild writes:
| | In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
So, how's the weather?
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Hot and dry. Tomorrow should be the worst… and the we get storms.
Sylvain has stopped his 1200ha barbecue on the east but there’s been a (for now)
11000ha one on the west (near Bordeaux) since Tuesday.
(1ha = 2.47 acres, don’t know what that makes in square libraries of Congress)
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1200ha is about 0.5776 milliwales, 2962 football pitch, or 0.0004 belgium.
https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 15:52 | | Subject: | Re: Your store is suspended But WHY ? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | It’s not strange at all. Sadly, it’s SOP not to check anything so that you easily
get powned: https://xkcd.com/327/
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Trying to hack in forum...
[DELETE FROM FORUM "wildchicken13", "Nubs_Select", "SylvainLS"]
Hoping it works!
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DELETE FROM forum_message WHERE userid=505455 OR userid=713109 OR userid=479387;
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I knew, but it was to delete the users (which would use a JOIN)
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These are the users [...]
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Hum - I know, it was a joke.
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I was trying to give your most-excellent idea a better chance of succeeding.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 15:51 | | Subject: | Re: Your store is suspended But WHY ? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | […]
These are the users - they are the user IDs of those people. The database
will use this ID as the foreign key in the forum messages table, not the user
name (which can be changed by the user).
Niek.
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Thing is, the user IDs are used everywhere (messages, catalogue changes…). That’s
why BL doesn’t delete users when the accounts are closed. The names are replaced
with bl## so that the tables can still refer to them.
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Yup. That is called a foreign key - ithe "userid" in the "forum_messages" table
refers to a primary key (the "id" in the users table).
| | IOW: you need more work to get rid of us 
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The SQL statement deletes the messages for the users mentioned by user 58243
(currently named "1001bricks"). He specifically said "delete from forum", not
"delete from BrickLink all together".
And it would not take that more work to get rid of users:
DELETE FROM users WHERE id=58243;
Byebye Sylvain #2 (who cares about dangling references in all other tables, right?).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 15:27 | | Subject: | Re: Your store is suspended But WHY ? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | It’s not strange at all. Sadly, it’s SOP not to check anything so that you easily
get powned: https://xkcd.com/327/
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Trying to hack in forum...
[DELETE FROM FORUM "wildchicken13", "Nubs_Select", "SylvainLS"]
Hoping it works!
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DELETE FROM forum_message WHERE userid=505455 OR userid=713109 OR userid=479387;
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I knew, but it was to delete the users (which would use a JOIN)
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These are the users - they are the user IDs of those people. The database
will use this ID as the foreign key in the forum messages table, not the user
name (which can be changed by the user).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 12:20 | | Subject: | Re: Your store is suspended But WHY ? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | As this feedback is longer than the interface/browser allows, it means it has
been sent to the server in another way¹ and the size was not checked by the server
(or the limit is not the same).
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At least we know the definition of the column is large enough. Now it is just
a matter of changing the front-end.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 17, 2022 12:16 | | Subject: | Re: Your store is suspended But WHY ? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | It’s not strange at all. Sadly, it’s SOP not to check anything so that you easily
get powned: https://xkcd.com/327/
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Trying to hack in forum...
[DELETE FROM FORUM "wildchicken13", "Nubs_Select", "SylvainLS"]
Hoping it works!
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DELETE FROM forum_message WHERE userid=505455 OR userid=713109 OR userid=479387;
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 16, 2022 20:28 | | Subject: | Re: Threads On Forums | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, FigBits writes:
| | In Help, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | PIZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
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You know what's better than pizza?
Nothing. Nothing is better than pizza.
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But consider: a ham sandwich is better than nothing.
And since a ham sandwich is better than nothing, and nothing is better than pizza,
by the transitive law, a ham sandwich is better than pizza.
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I fit in my coat, my coat fits in my briefcase, ergo I fit in my briefcase.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2022 15:13 | | Subject: | Re: PayPal price increase | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
| In Payment Methods, Tracyd writes:
| | In Payment Methods, jbo210 writes:
| | racerxmtb,
Yes, very frustrating. I wonder if this is caused by economic issues stemming
from COVID but it's been over a year now and the increase just occurred?
Really makes me wonder the true cause of why...
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Let's place the answer is C.
A: Inflation.
B: Lack of competition.
C: Because they can.
The correct answer is C.
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In pretty much all of the for-profit companies, monetary goals are set by the
stakeholders (shareholders, board of directors etc). The vast majority of stakeholders
expect (read: require) the company to increase its yearly profits. _How_ this
is done is most times not of interest, and is up to the CEO and his/her minions.
You could grow your client base, sell more product to existing clients, create
new products to sell, work "leaner" (decrease your costs) or indeed simply raise
your prices. Since Paypal is, for large swaths of the world, still the de-facto
payment processor for online transactions (despite whatever Stripe et al try
to do), price increase is the easy way to increase profits.
So yeah, C it is.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 8, 2022 13:20 | | Subject: | Re: Canada massive internet outage | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Just a heads up for anyone who ordered from sellers in Canada there may be delays
in orders getting shipped out due to a massive internet outage. I’ve heard it’s
a massive outage possibly almost nationwide but I can’t even look it up with
data since the connection is so slow. (But for some reason bricklink isn’t slow
when I use data?). If I’m mistaken and it’s just a local outage hopefully someone
will correct me.
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Yup. Nation-wide. Rogers is the cause. Although it is mainly a cell phone carrier,
issues bleed over into many other Internet areas. Some weird dependencies surface
as well - a lot of machines will accept credit card payments, but refuse debit
transactions.
Today is the first day of the Calgary Stampede, and the first time they will
be fully open after Covid. They expect record attendance and accompanying commerce,
but who knows how that will pan out today.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 7, 2022 17:31 | | Subject: | Re: Store name change coming soon! | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | Would you buy from a store named "Wild Chicken"?
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Their great new logo makes it a no-brainer
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So is that a "yes" or a "no"? Asking for a friend.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 6, 2022 10:40 | | Subject: | Re: tiny bug | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, rab1234 writes:
| | Probably already mentioned, but didn't see it in a quick search.
I just got my purple brick (yay). I got it with 999 feedback instead of 1,000.
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I wonder if it is counting the total number of feedbacks left, not just your
"score" (you have one neutral and 999 positives).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 3, 2022 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: Local Sellers? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, NateFrizz writes:
| | Is there a way to find bricklink sellers in my city? A filter or something that
I'm missing?
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If you are in the Calgary area, you are welcome to do a local pick-up!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2022 15:34 | | Subject: | Re: Official price Info on Sets | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, HLego writes:
| | i would suggest to you, to add the official prices of each set on the page of
the sets.
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This was actually implemented a while ago, and met stiff resistance, and was
subsequently removed. See here for the discussion:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=168576&nID=811343
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 21, 2022 12:49 | | Subject: | Re: Part searching | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Suggestions, Stellar writes:
... and for those among us who can't remember URLs but can grok navigation
once shown:
- Hover over the "Market" icon, and click "Appears In";
- Click "Find Multiple Items in Inv".
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 19, 2022 10:36 | | Subject: | Re: What grey is this? | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, antant7 writes:
| | What shade of grey are the 3 middle clips?
For comparison, the ones on the left are light grey, the ones on the right are
light bluish grey and below are dark grey and dark bluish grey.
thanks in advance.
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https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1171994
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 17, 2022 12:53 | | Subject: | Re: Have sealed Titanic; want a more playable set | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Trades | |
| In Trades, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Trades, LegoDadVa writes:
| | I have a new in the box Titanic. Box has very minor shelf ware but nothing extreme.
I would not say the box is 10/10 of though. Maybe 8 or 9 out of 10.
In exchange for it I want a large sealed set or sets from City/Town, Modular
building, Pirates, Castle, or Ninjago. Something with more playability or that
fits in a city. No interest in Star Wars, Technic or other models. I lived
in the Washington DC area.
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Blip! Blip!
You must be registered as a seller to sell/trade here - sorry
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Not quite. If OP finds a shop willing to do the trade, it can go through the
shop, as long as BL gets its fee from the transaction.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 16, 2022 13:36 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone else get a random email from PayPal? | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| It kinda looks like the message I get when I use Paypal multiple times through
a browser. Initially, I would need to go through the "I am not a robot" click-thingy,
but after a few times a message comes up at login, saying something to the effect
that Paypal now trusts the device I am using, and the robot clicks are now no
longer needed (but obviously the password is still required).
It looks like you are using their app though - I don't have any experience
with that.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 15, 2022 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: Paypal sellers protection | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| Please refrain from swearing, even if it is only by using abbreviations.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 14, 2022 18:27 | | Subject: | Re: Seller refuses to sell | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, LegoDadVa writes:
| | I can say this with confidence: 125 transactions on eBay and I’ve never had
a seller get cold feet. 8 on this site and I have had 1 already.
|
My neighbor has been driving her car around Okotoks daily for 15 years with zero
issues. She drives it to Sherwood Park once, and boom. How's that
for stats?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 14, 2022 13:43 | | Subject: | Re: Canadian Letter Mail vs Parcel Post | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| In Shipping, miskox writes:
| | Interesting. Usually letter mail is considered if weight is less than 2 kg (~4
lb) and dimensions:
W+H+L less than 90 cm (3 ft) and none of the sides must not exceed 60 cm (2 ft).
Our Post of Slovenia has this limit. I am sure some other Posts have the same
restrictions too.
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Yah. Well, we can't assume anything when comparing Canada Post to "normal"
mail companies. Often there is no rhyme or reason. CP is a beast of its own,
don't expect any sanity there.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 14, 2022 13:37 | | Subject: | Re: Canadian Letter Mail vs Parcel Post | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| In Shipping, gogogovro writes:
| | In Shipping, Bricklord writes:
| | I won't go over 200g for domestic or over 100g for US/international. Instructions/stickers
I will go higher. Otherwise its all small packet/parcel rates.
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If you're talking about lettermail above, last time I checked, Canada Post's
terms don't actually allow goods to be sent to the USA or internationally
using that method - paper only. I know it works, but at some point there will
be problems b/c it is against their terms.
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Cheapest option to send Lego from Canada to the US with Canada Post is called
"Small Packet". See:
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/business/shipping/international/compare/small-packet-usa.page
Depending on your account discounts, this should be around CAD 8 to CAD 9 for
the smallest packages.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2022 11:45 | | Subject: | Re: New store | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| In Announce, Nai2 writes:
| | Hi. Im a new store that just opened. However there have not been a single order
Hiw do.i boost my sales. My items are all unopened sets
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Your shop is one of many on BrickLink. You have to put yourself in a buyer's
shoes.
"I want to buy a this set on BrickLink, and I see it is being offered by 100
shops. Hm. Which shop shall I place the order at?"
So ask yourself: "Why would a buyer pick MY store over the 99 other ones?" If
you manage to figure tat out objectively, you are on your way to sell
your product.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2022 17:02 | | Subject: | Re: Canada: netParcel shipping | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| In Shipping, qwertyboy writes:
| | Paypal now shows a big ugly banner, saying they will automatically switch from
"Paypal shipping" to "netParcel shipping" on June 1.
Currently, when we ship small orders to the US, we use the regular Canada Post
"small packet" service, which (for under 100gr) would cost around CAD 8.50.
We hooked up our Canada Post account to netParcel, and tried to ship a small
order to the US. The "small packet" service is no longer available, the cheapest
option would be UPS Standard 4 days for just over CAD 14 (so a CAD 6 raise in
shipping cost).
Am I missing something here? Or will we need to raise our shipping rates?
|
Quick follow-up:
I just got a call from netParcel. The guy said he read this forum thread, and
said that the reason CP "small packet" service for the US was missing was due
to a bug. This should be resolved coming Friday.
Looks like the netParcel people are on top of things. Thanks guy! (sorry, forgot
your name)
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 4, 2022 23:22 | | Subject: | Re: What am i doing wrong | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| What you see as "catalog" is actually the "BrickLink" catalog. Try looking at
a part - top-left will also show "catalog".
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 4, 2022 23:19 | | Subject: | Re: What am i doing wrong | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Pick "set" at the top-right to change properties of the set - there it will offer
stuff for instructions.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 4, 2022 23:09 | | Subject: | Re: What am i doing wrong | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I've tried submitting this forum multiple times but it keeps popping up with
the errors
"The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred."
and "Item No to Change does not exist in Catalog."
which is what I get when I entered something wrong. I've tried selecting
different dimensions and tried 3 different item numbers but nothing works.
For item numbers, I've tried
40451
40451-1
40451-1 (Instructions Entry)
any help would be appreciated!
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Are you trying to edit a "catalog" item?
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So maybe pick "set" at top-right?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 4, 2022 23:03 | | Subject: | Re: What am i doing wrong | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I've tried submitting this forum multiple times but it keeps popping up with
the errors
"The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred."
and "Item No to Change does not exist in Catalog."
which is what I get when I entered something wrong. I've tried selecting
different dimensions and tried 3 different item numbers but nothing works.
For item numbers, I've tried
40451
40451-1
40451-1 (Instructions Entry)
any help would be appreciated!
|
Are you trying to edit a "catalog" item?
Niek
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 23:02 | | Subject: | Re: Wild Orchids U.K. | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Stuart9 writes:
| | Never had wild orchids anywhere near where I live, never seen one in the wild,
until now.
They are coming up all around where I now live..
Not sure which one it is.
|
Looks like a species from the Dactylorhiza family (Southern / Irish / Early Marsh
Orchid).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2022 12:38 | | Subject: | Re: CO delivery tax on July 1 2022 | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
| In Taxes, jennnifer writes:
| | Fees are a regressive tax. Implementing fees is a crap solution.
|
Ah - we are back to BrickLink Forum topic ...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 31, 2022 18:30 | | Subject: | Re: RESTOCK | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| In Sales, owencox23 writes:
| | Hi I've just restocked massively, come check it out
|
Just a tip -
You cannot post a set as "complete" with a note that it comes without minifigs.
No minifigs equals an incomplete set.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 29, 2022 12:36 | | Subject: | Re: CLEARANCE: INSANE BULK SALE | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| In Sales, EatPetit writes:
| | we are moving and are trying to clear our entire inventory of Lego elements.
We are selling them in bulk (about 40,000 pieces), and these consist of used
and new elements including elements from modular buildings. WE WILL GIVE YOU
AN INCREDIBLE DEAL, as we are trying to get rid of them. Perfect for sellers
who will resell the pieces at a mark up after buying them. CONTACT US FOR INQUIRIES!!
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You don't have anything listed in your shop...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 19, 2022 15:04 | | Subject: | Re: 75895 Porsche stickers | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, CapnBootle writes:
| | Hello! - does anyone know if the sticker sheet for 75895 Speed Champions Porsche
is the transparent type or the opaque solid colour type? - I'm building a
black version of the set for a friend and wondering if I can use some of the
original stickers or not..
|
Every now and then, a brief discussion comes up whether to assign a color to
a sticker sheet - the color would be of the background of the sticker sheet (so
most times trans-clear or white). See for instance
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1183169
and its replies.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 17, 2022 17:00 | | Subject: | Re: Order cancelled???? | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Designer Program | |
| In Designer Program, Stellar writes:
| | In Designer Program, echogamer writes:
| | We’re really sorry, but your recent LEGO® Shop order T3909600xx has been cancelled
because it went above our purchase limits for the following items:
910008 Modular Construction Site
I ordered two..
Was one a limit?
|
Yes, there is a limit of 1 per household per project.
|
Reading is long since a lost art.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 15, 2022 20:16 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Refunds | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| In Sales, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Sales, azbrickz writes:
| | BrickLink doesn't handle the refund because they never actually have the
money, PayPal is the one responsible for returning the money. According to PayPal:
for purchases made with your credit or debit card, the refund can take up to
30 days to show up on your account. If you bought the item using your bank account
or PayPal balance, the balance will be credited to your PayPal account. Funds
can take three to five days to arrive in your account. Here is a link from PayPal
that explains it better.
https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/where-is-my-refund-faq1212
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Not quite. For onsite Paypal payments, BrickLink is actually the "facilitator".
Any payment done through onsite PP is under control of BL. This is how BL is
able to siphon off the taxes part. Since BL has control over these payments,
they can also initiate a refund.
So you are correct in that BL doesn't have the money, but you are incorrect
in claiming they therefore can't handle a refund. They most definitely can.
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Forgot - to add to this, you should refund through BL if there were taxes
involved, so BL can refund the tax part as well (otherwise the seller would have
to pay back the tax part).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 15, 2022 20:09 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Refunds | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| In Sales, azbrickz writes:
| | BrickLink doesn't handle the refund because they never actually have the
money, PayPal is the one responsible for returning the money. According to PayPal:
for purchases made with your credit or debit card, the refund can take up to
30 days to show up on your account. If you bought the item using your bank account
or PayPal balance, the balance will be credited to your PayPal account. Funds
can take three to five days to arrive in your account. Here is a link from PayPal
that explains it better.
https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/where-is-my-refund-faq1212
|
Not quite. For onsite Paypal payments, BrickLink is actually the "facilitator".
Any payment done through onsite PP is under control of BL. This is how BL is
able to siphon off the taxes part. Since BL has control over these payments,
they can also initiate a refund.
So you are correct in that BL doesn't have the money, but you are incorrect
in claiming they therefore can't handle a refund. They most definitely can.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 14, 2022 11:08 | | Subject: | Re: Price Guide Question/Issue. | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Price Guide | |
| In Help, George_Lucy writes:
| | But what when someone else has 50 to sell and thinks they sold for an inflated
price and it just drives the price up for no other reason than a glitch in the
system.
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That would be a refreshing change.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 11, 2022 23:51 | | Subject: | Re: Item 11097 color issue | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, Hossmaz writes:
| | I have purchased a bulk buy of accessories and it seems that there are two colors
of gold for this part. It seems a clear difference in color like one is pearl
gold and the other is metallic pearl gold. Or even pearl light gold.
The part color only shows pearl gold.
There are separate numbers on them too: 11-02 and 05-02.
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The numbers are mold cavities.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 11, 2022 16:00 | | Subject: | Re: Ottawa stores? | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, Arasaka writes:
| | I'm in the Ottawa area and looking for stores that offer local pick-up. I
wish there was a feature to look for that on BL...
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Whenever something bad happens on the other side of Canada, my mom always assumes
we are close to it since, after all, we live in Canada. So in the same vein -
we offer local pick-up, feel free to place an order and swing by!
Niek.
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