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 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Feb 5, 2024 19:00
 Subject: Re: Confirm, Stripe payment are all Cancelled
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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In Technical Issues, Hazborgufen writes:
  In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
  After:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1452636

... and some others IIRC, I confirm having had our last 40+ payments Cancelled
on Stripe

No paienent went through on our Stripe account went through since 02 FEB 22:38
Paris Time.
Zero, none.

All are Cancelled ("Annulé" in French)

See (large copies here) - this is our Stripe account:
https://snipboard.io/Klr9Lc.jpg

And:
https://snipboard.io/W7TE9X.jpg

Some buyers tried 4 to 6 times.


I noticed something was wrong when I tried purchasing using Stripe. The page
would freeze so I'd have to close the window. When I returned to my cart,
many of the parts I had tried to order were now listed as out of stock. I wonder
if the inventory of those stores were updating for my attempted purchase, but
didn't return the items to stock when the payment failed. I kept trying,
removing the out of stock items from the shopping cart, and then other items
showed out of stock after the next failed attempt. It was really frustrating.

I ended up using PayPal for all my purchases, which did not have this issue.

Yes, this is a known problem: Payment fails to go through, Bricklink reserves
the items anyway, buyer is unable to try again because the items now show up
as out of stock. We've had several buyers message us about this.
Outside of Bricklink we never have problems with Stripe. The only times the payment
fails is when the buyer aborted it. So I don't know why it happens sometimes,
but it's clearly a Bricklink problem.
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Feb 4, 2024 11:50
 Subject: Re: Variants Thread - January 31
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 Topic: Catalog
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In Catalog, SylvainLS writes:
  In Catalog, Teup writes:
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Wow, thanks for the link, I missed that. Surprising, very strange reasoning IMO.
Software is not organic tissue. Nothing gets absorbed if you just do it slowly
or in small doses. Pretty sure everyone benefits from a clean full update, that
is well announced and well documented, so only 1 update has to be made and the
risk of human errors is much smaller. I'm still waiting for Russell to give
me a rough timeline so that I know what I'm going to have to be working with..

Even more baffling is that Studio wasn’t immediately updated.  It’s BrickLink
Studio.  Not a third-party software.  They are in the same building!

It’s not the first time parts were re-IDed.  It always takes weeks (and messages!)
to have them fixed, but then, one could imagine the Studio team isn’t always
warned (hence the need for messages).  Here, the team knows (I checked), and,
anyway, that should be automatic!
The more I think about it, the more I get upset.  I should stop thinking about
it….

Haha, good point. And the fact that the link/picture of the tile in the help
topic ABOUT this change was broken after the item number change is also telling.
I mean, that's really not a big deal and it was fixed quickly after it was
reported, but it just shows the whole process and the consequences weren't
really thought through... and doing it slowly just creates more episodes of it.
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Feb 4, 2024 09:43
 Subject: Re: Variants Thread - January 31
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 Topic: Catalog
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In Catalog, SylvainLS writes:
  In Catalog, tmtomh writes:
  In Catalog, DaddyOs_Bricks writes:
  Has any consideration been given to how this update and merge will affect the
traffic that is driven to bricklink when buyers are generating wanted lists from
sites such as rebrickable, either from their set inventories or MOC inventories;
or any of the design programs with the parts/ part numbers that that have been
in use prior to the changes on the 1st and future proposed changes?
When I try to use rebrickable to buy the parts that were updated on the 1st they
can no longer be found for sale on bricklink via rebrickable. I would think the
same result will happen when trying to buy the part list for a MOC that includes
affected parts.

I apologize if this has already been asked or addressed but I have not been able
to find it. The lengthy threads across multiple posts are not easy to navigate
or follow for those that do not spend time in the forums on a regular basis.

Bill


It appears that either:

(a) No thought has been given to this important issue you raise, or

(b) Thought was given to it and the conclusion was, “We’ll announce it and Rebrickable
and all the other sites, software apps and tools will have to figure out how
to deal with it.”

(c) “We never know what kind of impact this has on third parties, but will be
sending lists to our affiliates (Brickset and Rebrickable) and Brickstore just
in case. Most of the changes should be absorbed by normal processes, but our
concern here is volume. We will make the changes batch by batch, and not all
on the same day.”
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1450771

Wow, thanks for the link, I missed that. Surprising, very strange reasoning IMO.
Software is not organic tissue. Nothing gets absorbed if you just do it slowly
or in small doses. Pretty sure everyone benefits from a clean full update, that
is well announced and well documented, so only 1 update has to be made and the
risk of human errors is much smaller. I'm still waiting for Russell to give
me a rough timeline so that I know what I'm going to have to be working with..
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Feb 4, 2024 09:04
 Subject: Re: Versturen naar bv Amerika.
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 Topic: LANG Nederlands
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In LANG Nederlands, LeeGo73 writes:
  In LANG Nederlands, Teup writes:
  In LANG Nederlands, StarBrick writes:
  Oe, dan wil ik graag je link waar jij dat zo goedkoop kunt versturen.
Als ik via PostNL een brievenbuspakje (hoezo zwart?) wil versturen krijg ik dit:

Bij deze de lijst

https://www.postnl.nl/api/assets/blt43aa441bfc1e29f2/blt5b5dd0e5cdaa0cb4/65302c781b3edf57d2c162e0/landentarieven-zakelijk-2024.pdf

Zakelijk account aanmaken. Mijn workflow is sinds de invoering van het nieuwe
systeem (alles naar het buitenland met barcode) eigenlijk juist versimpeld. Ik
importeer de zendingen, print de labels, en breng ze weg (moet officieel in een
postzak maar dat doe ik nooit).

Zijn de 50 vermelde zendingen naar buitenland alleen, of minimaal 50 naar buitenland
& NL?

Zoals ik het opvat, dien je per product er op jaarbasis 50 stuks van af te nemen.
Dus welk land maakt niet uit, maar dus wel 50x "buspakje untracked" buitenland.
Handigste dus, als je weinig verstuurt, om dan te settlen voor óf alleen met
tracking, óf alleen zonder tracking afnemen. (Overigens zijn ze hier volgensmij
niet heel streng op)
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Feb 4, 2024 07:21
 Subject: Re: Versturen naar bv Amerika.
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 Topic: LANG Nederlands
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In LANG Nederlands, StarBrick writes:
  Helder.

Begrijp dat jij van de KOR regeling gebruik maakt, maar daar heb ik tot op heden
voor gepast.

Met de invoering van de 2000 euro grens/30 transacties voor fiscale doormelding
van particuliere verkoop in 2023 is dat inmiddels eerder een noodzaak dan een
mogelijkheid geworden.

Nee, zelf zit ik er boven, dus dan is het eigenlijk sowieso een uitgemaakte zaak,
anders is het echt frauderen. Maar voor de hobbyisten in de twijfelzone biedt
die KOR wel een hele schappelijke manier om het netjes te regelen. 1 afspraak
á €80 met de Kamer van Koophandel en het is geregeld. BTW zit je dus niet mee,
en inkomstenbelasting zit je alleen aan als je sowieso al best goed verdiende
naast je Legobusiness, dus dat is ook wel eerlijk. En het kan een opstapje zijn
naar nog groter, beter, efficiënter worden met je Legowinkel.

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