Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | qwertyboy  | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 13:52 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off so get ready! | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, qwertyboy writes:
| | Well, I am on "this side of the world", and I will be ready March 21
at 2:00AM to buy up your entire store. ABSOLUTELY NO LIMITS APPLY!!!!!
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And just to be clear, I am serious in buying out the shop at 95% discount. So
OP should better "get ready!" for my order on March 21 at 2:01AM (and
there will also not be any ambiguity about what constitutes 2:15AM as both OP
and BL are in the same time zone).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 12:57 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off so get ready! | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | All items 95% off on March 21 starting at 2:00A.M. and ending at 3:00A.M.!!!
ABSOLUTELY NO CONDITIONS APPLY!!!!!
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BTW, I didn’t caught it before but March 21 is a Thursday. And DST starts/stops
on Sundays. So, I just checked and it’s this Sunday, March 10, that most Canadians
enter DST.
I think you’re in trouble 
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Says the one on the other side of the world
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Well, I am on "this side of the world", and I will be ready March 21
at 2:00AM to buy up your entire store. ABSOLUTELY NO LIMITS APPLY!!!!!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 15:30 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone know what this part is? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, LeeGo73 writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, CaptainHC writes:
| | It doesn't have any number on it and I couldn't find it through google.
looks like a tile with jumper, but has beveled face and is slightly larger than
a 2x2 plate.
1.7cm X 1.7cm and about 4mm high with the jumper.
looks to have a late 50s lego logo on the bottom, which is flat with inset.
any help much appreciated 
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Looks like the baseplate of
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Never seen it before, and then it shows up twice in a few weeks:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1449238
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2024 16:59 | | Subject: | Re: bricklink deleted my entire inventory | | Viewed: | 120 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, randyf writes:
| | In Help, mysterygirl writes:
| | Greetings Master Builders,
I was so disappointed to log in after a few years away that bricklink had deleted
my store inventory without notice. Is there a public statement about when they
delete databases? It is really a horror story, because I don't have a backup...bricklink
WAS my store database. Has this happened to anyone else? I emailed their admins
but no response to date.
Myss Terree at Eureka!
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I am pretty sure that if you do not log into your account for a year, then your
store inventory gets removed.
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Correct:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=116
(halfway down first bullet list - "items for sale"
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2024 10:16 | | Subject: | Re: APO/FPO | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | I’m sorry you have been unable to experience how fun they are under control.
My cousin and I fill up old cans with oil then we light them on fire and shoot
at them it’s a lot of fun.
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So you then shoot holes in the oil cans, oil would flow out, and then afterwards
you would clean up all the contaminated soil? Sounds like a lot of work
for a little fun.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2024 11:34 | | Subject: | Re: APO/FPO | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, Brickman4you writes:
| | In Shipping, peregrinator writes:
| | In Shipping, Brickman4you writes:
| | APO and FPO packages must be sent via USPS (meaning only from locations within
the US States).
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No, that isn't the case. APO/FPO addresses can receive international shipments,
but they *do* have go through USPS. But that is typical for international mail
- the national postal service makes delivery after the package goes through customs.
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USPS does not operate in Italy, does it?
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It does not, but that is not the point. We have shipped to APO/FPO as well. There
is no USPS here, but when shipment reaches US, it is handed over to USPS. So
OP needed to use a shipping service that does the same.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 18, 2024 22:44 | | Subject: | Re: Adding Canada to my store | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, 1001bricks writes:
| | Much more; our TGV fast train tracks (200 MPH) would be incompatible with all
yours snail trains LOL!!!
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Mwah. Looks like the French can't even build new trains that are compatible
with their own infra...
https://time.com/108252/france-trains-too-wide/
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2024 11:39 | | Subject: | Re: Massive refund error | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, Ziegelmeister writes:
| | In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | Nubs_Select talked about this.
It's a bug I see since the Refund page exists.
When you've input any amount in the "Refund amount Buyer will receive"
field, then using your mouse to scroll either up or down will increase or
decrease the value by increment of 1 (ex: 12.37 = 13.37, 14.37, etc)
Which can also lead to negative numbers.
But a few times I was to validate a refund which in the end was 1 or 3€ more
than what I typed because of this. Of course it's more difficult to notice
if you've a non trivial number like 12.37 which can become 13.37 without
you to notice.
In short, after clicking "Review refund" CAREFULLY double check the amount,
it may have changed since you typed it
Note it's the same in a Shop page, you may type 4, scoll down, and buy 2...
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... But... When I tried to replicate this after Nubs mentioned it above, I
scrolled up, down, left, right, expanded, contracted... nothing changed.
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Depends the position of your cursor, the rotation speed or start time, many things...
Here I can make it happen 100% of the times.
Confirmed to happen here on Firefox and Nubs on Opera IIRC - at least, didn't
try other browsers.
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The behavior of the mouse scroll wheel updating the contents of a "number"
input field is the default behavior on most browsers. This can be disabled with
a small tidbit of JavaScript (you can disable events generated by the scroll
wheel with a "blur()" override).
For devs: please let me know if you need more specific info.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2024 16:04 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink API - Update Store Inventory | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, ErwinNL writes:
| | The fix is to specify the "description" field.
{"quantity":4, "description":""}
Works fine and fixes it as far as I can tell.
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I can't help but think someone at BL was a bit overzealous. With the merging
changes, the advice from BL was to put some text in the "description"
field to specify mold differences. Maybe this was construed as "now everything
needs a description", so the API was changed to now require a "description"
field...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2024 10:12 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink API - Update Store Inventory | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, BigBBricks writes:
| | In Technical Issues, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Technical Issues, minithings4life writes:
| | Admin Russell, you did not understand what BrickFreedom was posting.
The API that updates inventory by a quantity (+ or -), is intermittently breaking
on part numbers that are not within your 4 changed parts.
This will break every piece of software that relies on updating Bricklink store
inventory using the API method.
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I concur. The last failed update on our end was for
There were no other parts involved in this update attempt.
Niek.
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Same error, did you happen to have a sale on BO for those four items?
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Yes.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2024 00:06 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink API - Update Store Inventory | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, minithings4life writes:
| | Admin Russell, you did not understand what BrickFreedom was posting.
The API that updates inventory by a quantity (+ or -), is intermittently breaking
on part numbers that are not within your 4 changed parts.
This will break every piece of software that relies on updating Bricklink store
inventory using the API method.
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I concur. The last failed update on our end was for
There were no other parts involved in this update attempt.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 30, 2024 13:10 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, calebfishn writes:
[a well-thought-out post clipped]
All this. Thank you for the eloquent dissertation.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 30, 2024 09:14 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Stellar writes:
| | In Catalog, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Catalog, Brickspert_AU writes:
| | I should also add that I think a community vote for each merge/deletion should
take place, that's probably the fairest way to do it, but that's just
me.
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Seeing how this thread went, nothing could be done.
Niek.
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Is it causality your post was the one that made this beat the longest thread?
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1450801
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 30, 2024 06:03 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Brickspert_AU writes:
| | I should also add that I think a community vote for each merge/deletion should
take place, that's probably the fairest way to do it, but that's just
me.
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Seeing how this thread went, nothing could be done.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 26, 2024 16:49 | | Subject: | Re: Variants Thread - January 26 | | Viewed: | 94 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Hello again everyone,
My initial post on this subject earlier this month has garnered almost 700 replies,
which is right about the level of the BrickArms threads a few years ago.
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Yup - that thread stopped at 748 posts. Only 41 to go!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2024 23:01 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Nubs_Select writes:
| | the trick with the teeth is to not count the teeth but just look for the large
gap between them on the 1 version
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Correct. You can see the missing teeth on the large picture for [p=53029].
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2024 16:24 | | Subject: | Re: Store suspended | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
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| In New Stores, 1001bricks writes:
| | In New Stores, yorbrick writes:
| | In New Stores, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In New Stores, yorbrick writes:
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He made an extra account (WanderSTEINE) for that purpose. Works fine for testing
your own shop....
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Breaking the rules is not a good idea.
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your allowed to open a second account for testing
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The terms of service still limit users to one account, unless permission is sought
for a second account.
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Russell said it in forum somewhere.
I guess for legitimately and only trying to debug your own shop not working,
I can't see why it wouldn't be possible.
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https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1264926
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 13, 2024 17:16 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, axaday writes:
| | I saw enough
to start thinking I may be done working on the Bricklink catalog. I have wasted
a LOT of my time getting them information that they don't want and in the
future I'll never know if I am wasting my time. They accept my work now,
but might throw it away later.
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Selfish me would like you to continue your work, but I totally get the frustration
of seeing your work undone and the total lack of acknowledgment and appreciation
from BL. You must do what is good for you. Whatever you decide, a massive THANK
YOU for your work.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 12, 2024 18:29 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Saitolegos writes:
| | If people keep pricing by average then the price
will go up, and up, and up. Pricing lower than the competition is not only good
for business, but it keeps the price steady. Compared to just the average which
will slowly go up over time.
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As most all of the long(er)time sellers can attest, historically, prices of parts
have gone down and down. There are precious few parts where prices have stayed
steady or have gone up. This last phenomenon mostly happens for parts unique
to popular builds, popular MOCs, parts no longer in production etc.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 11, 2024 21:21 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, randyf writes:
| | In Catalog, axaday writes:
| | Will all of my work be totally erased or will it still be recorded somewhere?
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| | They could do a database back-up before this all occurs and have the information
stored somewhere, but not being able to publicly access that information means
that it is basically useless and non-existent.
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Info such as catalog contributors, dates of changes, item logs etc are only available
in BL's own databases. However, the bare info of what parts make up a minifig
or a set are contained in the nightly database builds for BrickStock / BrickStore.
It would only take a bit of tinkering and programming to use an older copy of
these database files to resurrect the state of inventories at some point in time.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 1, 2024 19:04 | | Subject: | Re: Reddish Orange error | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, crimson30 writes:
| | Efficient database fields strike again 😉
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In this case, it appears to be "just" the frontend that is limited. The
color ID for Reddish Orange looks to be OK in the database, judging by the nightly
brickstock/brickstore data dumps (they do show 256 as the ID - if the DB field
was too tight, it would show ID 0 if anything).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Dec 18, 2023 11:54 | | Subject: | Re: Order paid but not visible in BL | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, sonnich writes:
| | In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, sonnich writes:
| | […]
I will let it be this time.
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If there’s taxes and BL should have collected them, it’s not your choice: it’s
tax evasion.
See: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1401495
And if there’s no taxes, as the order is not in the Paid status, I think you
should be able to change the payment method or the status, maybe by editing the
invoice or something (don’t know, not a seller ).
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The right thing here would be a video, for first time buyers. I see this often,
that people do not know how to do this and that.
We should have a video on YouTube, that could share to new buyers.
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If you are required to let BL handle taxes, you want to prevent people from making
payments "the old-fashioned way":
- Make sure the email address you have with Paypal for deposits is different
from your BL email address (so people can't easily "guess" where
they send a manual payment to);
- Don't advertise that email address in any BL invoicing you send out.
This way, at least you prevent people from skipping the online PP option.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2023 13:33 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink vs. Rebrickable Discrepancies | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | Well, here is one example. For set 7649 Mars Mission, Part 61485 shows up in
WHITE on Rebrickable, and in BLACK on BrickLink
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Well, this is a turntable base:
It is used with a top:
Could it be that Rebrickable shows white on the assembly of the two? Like:
(which is in the "alternate items" on the inventory for your set).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 30, 2023 16:18 | | Subject: | Re: Dreaming of a white Christmas… | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Team86 writes:
| | Tomorrow is December 1st, so we are starting to dream of a white Christmas.
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You can keep the white cr*p there, that's more than fine with me.
We have an awesome season up to now (hope I didn't jinx it).
11 C coming Tuesday, yay!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2023 10:30 | | Subject: | Re: List of E-Mail Basic Macro Tags is broken | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, cosmicray writes:
For the tech people -
This is because the tag delimiters are not "HTML-escaped" - they should
be written out as "& lt ;" and "& gt ;" in the page to prevent
them from being interpreted as HTML code by the browser.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 19, 2023 10:53 | | Subject: | Re: Update on November 3rd incident | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
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| In Administrative, Almere_Bricks writes:
| | Please handle as promis feedback remove fast, waiting 4 days and no response
on removal or ticked, how much damage we as store need to take before you guys
help??
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Honestly, looking at your FB, I don't think the Nov 3 incident is your main
issue.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2023 19:39 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone looking for anything in bulk? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Zeldafan writes:
| | In Sales, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Sales, Stella2015 writes:
| | anyone looking for anything in bulk, check out our store. Willing to really work
with people that want any bricks, pleates or technic pieces in large bulk. Take
a look at our store:
Stella's Bricks.
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12,000 yellow hands !!!!!
impressive
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And they also have 1,480 1x1 orange bricks! I don't even have one! XD
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Sometimes you walk into bulk deals. At one time we had 5,313 yellow 2x4 bricks,
3,900 yellow 1x2 bricks, 4,001 yellow 1x1 bricks (still have 3,326 of those),
1,500 2x6 white Duplo plates, 20,500 black 1x2 plates etc. Not sure what we're
going to do with our 50,000 new LBG 1x1 round tiles ("only" listed 8,735
at the moment).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2023 17:47 | | Subject: | Re: Grand Opening!!! First Ten Orders get Coupons | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | In Announce, brandon.foley writes:
| | Announcing the Grand Opening of BBF Brick Store!!!
Star Wars and Marvel Minifigs!
Tons of Parts with more being added constantly.
First ten orders will receive a coupon for 3% off next purchase!!
Stop by and take a look.
Brandon F.
Owner
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i'll give anyone a 3% off coupon if you tell a joke in this feed...
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I didn't know you could give yourself a coupon.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2023 15:06 | | Subject: | Cookies? | | Viewed: | 112 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| As most of us, we have changed our password during the log-in process. We also
appreciate the email sent when a "new" device logs in.
However, I believe BL would need to take a look at how the site remembers a previously-authenticated
browser. After changing the password o on our account from my laptop, I refreshed
the BL page on my tablet, and it authenticated without asking for our new password.
I have to assume this is because of some cookies stored on my tablet.
Changing an account's password does not invalidate sessions which were authenticated
with the old password. It would be good to put in some logic that would kick
off these "old" sessions.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2023 14:41 | | Subject: | Re: Well, that was weird and stressful | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Fidelito writes:
| | As a seller, what measures will you take as a response of what we, as a community,
just experienced?
Safety measures, diversification of selling platforms, inventory backups, contingency
plans, etc...
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I was reading the FB sellers group, and there were quite a few shops relying
on the "remarks" field, as well as many shops without any regular backup
of their inventory. Several of these commenters also said their livelihood depended
on BL for a significant part of their income.
There was a discussion a while ago where inventory storage was discussed - using
"remarks" or using "category naming":
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=285809&nID=1259033
Some language was used (stores being "nuts" to use inventory storage
based on the catalog, and using that system "is trouble" that was a
bit harsh because clearly storing based on the "remarks" field is far
superior. Well, as I mentioned in that thread, each store has its preference,
but I also mentioned (and this is a literal quote): "If for whatever
reason that field goes belly-up, you are in deep doodoo, whereas catalog-based-sorted
stores can still easily find any part". I could not help but notice how relevant
that post was when reading the FB posts. Our shop (aside from obviously not getting
any new orders) had no issue whatsoever managing our inventory, and pulling existing
orders.
I am grateful that BL came back in one piece, and I am happy for all shops that
(apparently) the remarks fields survived. I also mentioned in that thread, when
using the "remarks" field to manage your inventory, how important it
is to have a good (and verified working) backup. Now that everyone can wash their
soiled underpants and rejoice at seeing the remarks, are we actually going to
at least do sensible backups?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2023 13:17 | | Subject: | We are back! | | Viewed: | 211 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Many thanks to the admin team!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 22, 2023 11:07 | | Subject: | Re: part 30104 chain | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, mwright5 writes:
| | Set 7946 has 2 of these in light bluish gray according to the bricklink inventory
for the set. However, if you search for 30104 and click on it in light bluish
gray, in order to find which sets include this. 7946 Kings castle is not listed.
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The inv shows them as dark bluish gray ?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2023 18:04 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 20% discount on parts this wee | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, bricksbyrick writes:
I will try to explain once (but you just don't seem to understand what others
have been saying again and again) -
Every shop can set their prices to whatever they like. There is no issue at all
with any prices you set on your items.
The issue is with calling the same prices you use ALL THE TIME as being a sale.
If you sell items for the same price ALL THE TIME, it is NOT a sale. These would
be your normal prices.
In EVERY "SALE" you advertise you set the exact same discounts on your
items. These "sales" apparently never end. A sale is a temporary reduction
in prices on your goods.
Again, you can set your prices to whatever you like, nobody has any issue
with that. The issue is calling your every-day-prices a sale. It is NOT
a sale if your items are still priced to whatever they are ALWAYS priced.
Your shop gets advertised on the BrickLink main page under "store sales"
whenever you put out these forum messages. This is just false advertising. These
are NOT sales. BL should look into stopping these front-page advertisements for
bogus sales.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2023 15:56 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 20% discount on parts this wee | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, 1001bricks writes:
| | Just like for 1 year at least?
Simply decrease your regular prices.
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Nah. With this fake sales he manages to get on the BL front page every time.
Admin should really look into this.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 28, 2023 17:05 | | Subject: | Re: figure came in disgusting condition | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Repeatedly when buying used between 30-50% of parts in orders have bite marks,
cracks, yellowing, heavy damage and similar. I’ve placed 100+ orders for used
parts and have only ever had about 5 without quality issues the rest have countless
damaged parts
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Glad to see the two orders in our shop were part of those "5 without quality
issues".
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 25, 2023 12:01 | | Subject: | Re: someone know the counterpart number of 662826 | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Searching | |
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| In Searching, Steffen76 writes:
Kinda looks like a broken
* | | 63082 Plate, Modified 2 x 2 with Tow Ball Socket, Short, Flattened with Holes and Axle Hole in Center
Parts: Plate, Modified |
but with a pin instead of a 2x2 plate. There
is no such Lego part.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 23, 2023 17:30 | | Subject: | Re: 30% off - 200.000 parts 6500 lots >300 Figs | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Nubs_Select writes:
| | if im not mistaken most/all german stores have that by default or something
|
You are probably right. But I would not blame anyone for not working their way
through these long terms.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Sep 23, 2023 17:25 | | Subject: | Re: 30% off - 200.000 parts 6500 lots >300 Figs | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
|
| In Sales, tpbricks writes:
| | Dear all,
we have a sale with 30% off and we are shipping world wide. Check out our low
shipping fees on our splash site and our huge stock!
Over 300 Minifigs are available!
Link to our store: https://store.bricklink.com/tpbricks
|
Holy moly. That is quite the list of terms.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 25, 2023 21:08 | | Subject: | Re: Mail server setup misconfiguration | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
|
| In Technical Issues, cweir1969 writes:
| | Yes, I'm finally receiving notifications as well. Thanks for the fix Bricklink.
|
You're welcome.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 25, 2023 13:24 | | Subject: | Re: Mail server setup misconfiguration | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
|
| In Technical Issues, Stellar writes:
| | | | BL should at least include 54.208.31.131 in their SPF record, and possibly check
DKIM.
|
Just received my first order confirmation email half an hour ago since 2 weeks
without any, maybe something changed today.
|
I checked, and IT at BrickLink added IP 54.208.31.131 to the SPF record. Progress!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 12:01 | | Subject: | Mail server setup misconfiguration | | Viewed: | 140 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
|
| Seeing repeated messages in the forum about not receiving emails from BrickLink,
I did some checking.
The DNS for bricklink.com shows an SPF record like this (broken up for readability):
v=spf1
- include:spf.protection.outlook.com
- ip4:54.209.67.9
- ip4:18.210.58.96
- ip4:3.213.113.25
- -all
This tells the world that emails sent from the bricklink.com email domain should
only be sent out from "anything spf.protection.outlook.com" (these
are Microsoft servers), or IP addresses 54.209.67.9, 18.210.58.96 and 3.213.113.25.
Furthermore, there is a DMARC entry set that explicitly tells the world to reject
any email that doesn't pass the SPF record (and possibly any DKIM - I haven't
checked those - yes, I am lazy).
I checked my mail server, and at least the last 4 days, any email sent from BL
to us was sent from IP address 54.208.31.131 . This address is not
on the SPF record, so the current setup basically says to the world "please
reject BL emails from blsmtp.bricklink.com".
Fortunately (for quite a few BL users) many email servers don't yet follow
these directions, and accept BL email coming from a non-conformant address.
BL should at least include 54.208.31.131 in their SPF record, and possibly check
DKIM.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2023 13:43 | | Subject: | Re: Seller refusing my order | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, CNH1974 writes:
| | In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Help, CNH1974 writes:
| | If anyone wants to buy my entire stock; CMOTs Oblong Objects, please do!
|
Is your last name Dibbler? I have an internal server called "cmot"...
Niek.
|
I may be his long lost Roundworld cousin…..
|
Nice. Also had servers "carrot" and "vetinari", and a laptop
"vimes". Internal network was "ankh-morpork".
I also had laptops called "dirk" and "gently", and servers "trillian"
and "zaphod", obviously from another realm.
I didn't want to be on the band wagon where servers were called "dantooine",
"tatooine", "hoth" etc.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 16, 2023 18:03 | | Subject: | Re: Seller refusing my order | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, CNH1974 writes:
| | If anyone wants to buy my entire stock; CMOTs Oblong Objects, please do!
|
Is your last name Dibbler? I have an internal server called "cmot"...
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2023 20:23 | | Subject: | Re: What is this? | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, KACL writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, jandksleeper writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, KACL writes:
| | Hey everyone!
I’ve been searching the catalog trying to figure out what this part is and I’ve
had no luck. Does anyone happen to know what it is?
Thanks in advance,
Karen
|
Hi Karen!
Try using brickognize.com from your phone. Its my go to for figuring out part
numbers.
|
There’s an app for that? Neat! Thank you all for your help. I searched so many
categories of things that I thought it could be. I never would have guessed to
search plants.
|
Another victim...
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1112988
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 14, 2023 18:20 | | Subject: | Re: Torso? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
|
| In Catalog Identification, sasquatch_eater writes:
| | I'll do you one better:
with arms 
|
The question was for torso, not torso assembly, so Stuart's answer was better.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jun 7, 2023 21:57 | | Subject: | Re: Something strange has started to happen. | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
|
| In Buying, 2ndgen97 writes:
| | So this has just recently started.
I will send a request for a quote, and sometimes it takes a couple days to get
one back, no big deal, but once I have recieved the quote, I haven't even
half a day to respond and the order has been cancelled.
What the heck is going on ?
|
This has been an issue for over 8 years now:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=908179
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 17, 2023 23:42 | | Subject: | Re: Parting lego problems | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, mkbricksandmore writes:
| | In General, mkbricksandmore writes:
| | hi. I am having trouble with parting out my Lego friends sets. I keep pressing
the button but it shows an error due to a hyphen.
|
|
If you are trying to part out set 10189-1, you type in "10189" in the
"item no" and the "-1" is set by leaving the drop-down at "1".
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | May 16, 2023 11:23 | | Subject: | Re: API Question: How immutable are id values? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
|
| In Technical Issues, InanimateReason writes:
| | I would like to work with the assumption that certain values are essentially
primary keys. category IDs, color IDs, really anything named xxxx ID. It seems
to me that the nomenclature in use implies that anything called 'id'
is immutable while anything else is fair game for modification during catalog
updates.
|
There are precious few fields that can be considered a primary key. Part numbers
can (and do) change, people's login name can (and do) change. There is no
way for us mere mortals to access the actual primary key info for these entities.
If you are considering keeping things like parts history, be prepared to either
set up some links from old part IDs to new part IDs, or update your old data
with new IDs (finding out what the new part ID is when you only have the old
part ID is fun - what is the new part ID of "372"? - most times, the
old ID is kept as an alternative on the site, so you can search for it, but not
from the API). Some parts keep flip-flopping IDs (like 6093/x104, 41669/x346
etc).
Some things that do stay the same are order numbers, color IDs, lot IDs.
Enjoy!
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Apr 13, 2023 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: Verify email | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
|
| In Buying, tangpedersen writes:
| | I have verified my email, but it still asks me to do it and I cannot buy anything
|
After verification, clear cookies, restart web browser and log in.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2023 13:36 | | Subject: | Re: 20% Off Entire Store This Weekend | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
|
| In Sales, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | I’ll just have hope I remember to save and the weekly power shorts dont continue
|
Never use a production PC without an UPS (uninterruptible power supply).
|
Or try one of those new-fangled PCs-with-built-in-UPS.
I think they are called laptops.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Apr 2, 2023 18:36 | | Subject: | Re: Can't change quote status | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
|
| In Selling, ANHDesigns writes:
| | Received a quote for some items and went and got the shipping charges. I updated
the fields but i could not change the status from REQUESTED to READY so i can
send an invoice. There was no drop down like i had done before.
|
You need to click that "white paper sheet icon".
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2023 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: Quote cancellation | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
|
| In Suggestions, qwertyboy writes:
| | For a second time in two days, a quote which we replied to was automatically
canceled because an item was bought by another customer. This has left us with
very upset customers.
While I understand these quotes are no longer valid, having them canceled automatically
without any explanation (especially to the customer) is unacceptable. If
the system is able to cancel quotes for this reason, the system should at least
send a simple email to the parties involved.
As well, currently there is no way of telling why quotes were canceled. You cannot
even tell if the customer decided to cancel, and you cannot easily tell if the
system auto-canceled by comparing quote change and order creation times, as cancellation
appears to happen "some time" within an hour of order placement.
So my suggestion is twofold:
- Send both buyer and seller an email whenever a quote gets canceled and put
the cancel "trigger" in the message (like either "canceled by buyer" or "canceled
by system because item xxxx is no longer available";
- Record the reason for cancellation in the quote request, so this is available
for future reference.
|
Bumping this suggestion, as customers keep getting confused and upset about quotes
being canceled without any explanation.
Please consider sending a simple message to both seller and buyer when the system
decides to cancel a quote for this reason. It has been nearly 8 years since the
original suggestion. This should not be rocket science.
Thanks.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 12:47 | | Subject: | Re: Netiquette on the forum | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| Talking about too-lengthy posts, two that stood out fairly recently was a post
with what looked like the entire BL catalog, and a post that felt it necessary
to regurgitate Pi to 100,000 decimals.
Both are still accessible.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: Netiquette on the forum | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | Could you please make the effort of cutting out unnecessary quotes when you answer
a post?
|
Hear hear. Especially with messages with an entire pages-long quoted post, and
the new info is "+1".
So a "+1" from me on your request.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2023 16:05 | | Subject: | Re: Rename part 17114 ? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| While I don't fully agree with your reasoning, I do appreciate the feedback.
We'll leave the naming as-is.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 25, 2023 11:10 | | Subject: | Re: Messaged tied to orders get purged? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| | In Help, Emporiosa writes:
| | I just noticed something when trying to check something in old messages, and
I assume this is the case but couldn't find any info on it when searching
the forums. I can see history of old messages sent/received dating back to when
I started on BL, but it looks like anything that was a response to an order (such
as if I used the "message" link in the order itself) may purge along
with the order. Is this what's happening?
I double checked that recent messages that were sent this way show properly in
the outbox in the messages right now, and also show on the order itself. Does
this mean that in theory we shouldn't be using the "message" feature
in orders to keep a longer history in the messages?
Thanks!
-Sarah
|
I would be interested to know if adding a NEW Message attached to an old order
will prevent the entire order from being purged. Will a new message re-set the
clock on that order?
|
This I can say is not the case. We allow customers to keep their order open,
but on one occasion the order got purged at the expected date even after sending
the customer a message through the order form.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2023 10:37 | | Subject: | Re: Rename part 17114 ? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog Requests, edk writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, qwertyboy writes:
| | I requested a name change for
from "Technic, Brick Modified 2 x 2 with 2 Ball Joints and Axle Hole"
to "Technic, Brick Modified 2 x 2 with Ball Joint and Axle Hole with 6
Holes in Each Ball". This was rejected without any explanation.
Seeing as these holes are a fairly visible feature of this part as compared to
and also described with these two:
Why can these holes not be in the name of this part?
Just curious.
Niek.
|
Maybe it was rejected because you said "ball joint" when the part has
two balls.
|
Jeez, my bad. I will try again.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2023 10:17 | | Subject: | Rename part 17114 ? | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Discarded | |
|
| I requested a name change for
from "Technic, Brick Modified 2 x 2 with 2 Ball Joints and Axle Hole"
to "Technic, Brick Modified 2 x 2 with Ball Joint and Axle Hole with 6
Holes in Each Ball". This was rejected without any explanation.
Seeing as these holes are a fairly visible feature of this part as compared to
and also described with these two:
Why can these holes not be in the name of this part?
Just curious.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 22, 2023 10:06 | | Subject: | Re: Smoke / Soot Damage Bricks | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, LegoLagasse writes:
| | Has anyone successfully restored smoke or soot damaged bricks? I was given
a lego collection that came out of house fire and was curious if there was any
hope. Seems like a TON of work, but there are some great figs that need help.
My standard cleaners do not cut through the grime very well.
|
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=336173
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2023 17:34 | | Subject: | Re: Seller privileges revoked | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, little_quark writes:
| | In Help, iprice writes:
| | In Help, little_quark writes:
| | Reason: temporary ban. Even though he hadn't done anything illegal before.
What could be the reason? And what does "temporary ban" mean?
|
Aren't all BL sales to/from Russia prohibited due to the war in Ukraine?
I presume that once hostilities cease trade will resume.
But it could be for other reasons.
|
That's right, support answered me the same way. HOWEVER! Before that, there
was access to the store and inventory, but it was impossible to accept and leave
orders. Ban now.
|
You were advertising on your store that you were accepting orders by people sending
you a snapshot of their order. This not only tries to circumvent the ban-on-sales,
but promotes sales facilitated by BL but transacting outside BL, a violation
of the Terms of Service.
So take your pick, either one would likely be sufficient for a ban.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2023 18:21 | | Subject: | Re: Why aren't Quotes purged? | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | General | |
|
| In General, UTLF writes:
| | I've got 11 pages worth of quotes that stretch all the way back to 2018,
which is 5 years ago now (dang...) and I've been wondering for a while: why
aren't quotes purged the same way orders are? One would think that quotes
aren't nearly as important as orders, yet these are saved for years upon
years while actual orders are purged every 6 months. (It should be the other
way around, in my opinion.)
|
Yah. Ours go back to the very start of quotes, in 2015 (22 pages now).
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2023 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: My tools | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
|
| In Catalog, calebfishn writes:
| | Ah yes. The Slot of Doom! An absolute must for Canadian sellers. When I started
the store I made my own out of cardboard, but yours is awesome.
|
Our post office manager sold me an official Canada Post one at cost, but I don't
think she was supposed to do that.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2023 15:48 | | Subject: | Re: Guidelines is needed | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, BricksOfFaith writes:
| | nobody has said anything against it
|
This is a common excuse that never flies. There are sellers (still) that put
up incomplete minifigs for sale. "Nobody has said anything, so it is OK".
It is like saying "oh, I always run this red light, and nobody has said anything
yet, so it is OK".
Not saying an external splash page is like running a red light, I'm saying
that "haven't been caught yet" is not the same as "therefore
it is allowed".
Also not saying that an external splash page is not allowed - it apparently is
(as is somewhat evident by the option being available on the management page).
All I am saying is that to me there is a contradiction with the ToS. It either
needs an adjustment, or some clarification from our overlord.
I'm sorry, I can't be any clearer than this.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2023 13:55 | | Subject: | Re: Guidelines is needed | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | […]
I am just quoting the ToS which we all agreed on. If an external page is allowed
without any permission, BL should make this more clear.
It sounds from your interpretation that a hosted splash page becomes "the
splash page" - so what would the phrase "users must not link from their
splash page ... to another site" mean? No links to pages outside the splash
page site?
|
Or: no links to pages outside BL = your splash page must link to BL only, even
when hosted elsewhere (except maybe images?).
|
That would mean no links to CSS file(s) (and - haven't tried this - JavaScript...)
either, so only inline CSS allowed.
| | Complicated. Happy not to be a seller
|
Or don't do it externally, you can do enough on the locally hosted page.
Or better yet, just forget about the splash page. The only info that really matters
to a customer should be in the shop terms.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2023 13:18 | | Subject: | Re: Guidelines is needed | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Help, s0l0kr writes:
You will need permissions from BL to set up an external web page on your splash
page, else you are in violation of rule 10.5 of the ToS.
Linking: Link to pages outside of the Site. Users must not link from their Splash
Page, Terms & Conditions, Shipping Policy, About Me page or from their listings
of items for sale, to another site.
Niek.
|
Also reading that it says a link from your splash page to another site isn’t
allowed not you aren’t allowed to host a splash page externally
|
I am just quoting the ToS which we all agreed on. If an external page is allowed
without any permission, BL should make this more clear.
It sounds from your interpretation that a hosted splash page becomes "the
splash page" - so what would the phrase "users must not link from their
splash page ... to another site" mean? No links to pages outside the splash
page site?
Niek.
|
|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2023 12:57 | | Subject: | Re: Guidelines is needed | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| In Help, s0l0kr writes:
You will need permissions from BL to set up an external web page on your splash
page, else you are in violation of rule 10.5 of the ToS.
Linking: Link to pages outside of the Site. Users must not link from their Splash
Page, Terms & Conditions, Shipping Policy, About Me page or from their listings
of items for sale, to another site.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2023 11:28 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 20% discount | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
|
| In Sales, bricksbyrick writes:
| | only the big boys react gosh how strange and strange that you haven't looked
in my store yet and possibly placed an order then you can see that I do deliver
quality and try to get my feedback to 100% and I think that a lot small shops
suffer from this
|
FYI - you would need to raise another 160.000 positive feedbacks to get your
FB to 100%.
All I am saying is two things (before, it was only one thing):
- A sale every day for about the same percentage is not a sale;
- Posting factually wrong info is not going to help you.
I am not arguing your quality, I am trying to give you some advice, which you
are obviously unwilling to take into account. That is fine, I will stop.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2023 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 20% discount | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
|
| In Sales, bricksbyrick writes:
| | well I'm not going to defend myself because someone thinks something and
if you are not allowed to advertise here I think you should just take out the
entire sales page because you can never do anything against the big boys here
even if you have a million bricks are online because they are covered by lego
itself
|
You are perfectly allowed to post sales here, even once every day, but I mentioned
this before - putting your inventory up with a sale of 15% every day is
not a sale, that is your normal price. Advertising this on the forum every day
and being seen by (mostly) the same people every day is not going to increase
your sales, it will make you look silly.
Niek.
|
|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2023 11:10 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 20% discount | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
|
| In Sales, bricksbyrick writes:
| | but it is allowed since the parts are different from the day before and I can't
put 20k online now like most here but I have already removed it, you will be
made difficult to sell even a stone
|
Unfortunately for you, this is easily checked. Your last parts addition was March
6, which is more than "... the day before".
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2023 17:33 | | Subject: | Re: Macro Economics | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
|
| In Off Topic, s0l0kr writes:
| | Yeah but you don't cry that bricklink is low profitable That's the
difference
|
Just to make sure - nobody is crying that BL is low profitable. Speaking for
myself -
You started this thread asking anyone to explain how the Swan model works, because
"... sometimes university needs to much". You also mentioned you wanted
to use your BL shop to augment your income. I advised you several times that
running a small BL shop to get money in is a very bad way of spending your time.
I don't think anyone else in this thread is going to dispute that.
I will try one last time:
- For your study, you need to put time and effort in, asking for shortcuts is
lazy.
- You believe university is claiming too much time, and you think/hope
you can earn enough money with your BL shop - these two things are incompatible
doing at the same time. Both take a lot of time to achieve.
So, I believe you need to make a choice: go study and pick a more profitable
way of augmenting your income, or build your BL store to the point where it can
make money. IMHO you cannot do both at the same time. What you can do (and nobody
is disputing this) is to have a small shop on the side while studying, but there
is simply no way you can rely on its profitability to pay for your lifestyle
while at the same time doing a fulltime university study. Your shop is not large
enough to provide that.
So I am going to change my advice (assuming you continue your study): spend your
time with your books, keep your BL shop for fun (and not rely on it for income),
and look for other, more realistic, ways of augmenting your income.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2023 15:21 | | Subject: | Re: Macro Economics | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
|
| In Off Topic, s0l0kr writes:
| | I want to give myself a chance with it, and see where it will get me
|
So you have decided that your studies are not your priority. That is fine, as
long as you admit that to yourself.
Niek.
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|
| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2023 15:12 | | Subject: | Re: Macro Economics | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
|
| In Off Topic, s0l0kr writes:
| | Mostly I am selling lego not for huge profits, but for emotions I get when someone
orders something, your shops looks kinda big, doesn't you make like 50% gross
profit on every sale?
|
Apparently your studies haven't reached the point yet where profit is not
just the difference between buy-price and sell-price. Our shop mostly sells used
parts. If I were to define my profit as just that difference, it would be over
90%. Think that sounds great? I did not mention the time it takes to get
from a bulk eBay buy to having it in the shop. Hunting for Lego to buy, cleaning
it, sorting (and discarding any non-Lego), uploading to BL and storing it away.
For our shop, this is a 60-hour-a-week job, and the profits are less than what
I would make with literally any other job (paper route, dish washing at
restaurants, you name it). You need to build a large shop for it to become profitable.
To simplify things, if you can't hire someone and pay at least minimum wage
to do what you do in your BL shop, you are not profitable.
You need to determine your priorities. If you wish to pay for and finish your
studies, stop with your BL shop, as the "money earned" divided by "time
spent" is about as bad as you can get. Find a different way to augment your
income.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2023 14:50 | | Subject: | Re: Macro Economics | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, s0l0kr writes:
| | Yeah I know, to be honest I am not lazy at all, I just study in one university
which is 1st in baltics and nordic, you can check Stockholm School of Economics.
I am trying to grow my lego shop, because I love lego since childhood, I really
hope that my shop will become bigger, I am trying to do my best with it and everytime
checking bricklink how much visitors and orders I have, for me it is very exciting,
I am also stock,forex and crypto trader, but now I am mostly trying to use my
trading abilities only to get money to pay for rent, university and buy more
lego for the shop. Because every order gets me really happy that my work is not
useless
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In that case, I will give you some brutal honest advice. Stop selling Lego on
BrickLink now, and get a different side job. BL will not give you anywhere the
ROI that you need. It takes way too much time (time you need for your studies)
for peanuts of profit. As you apparently study economics, apply your knowledge
to your own activities and start maximizing the money you make per each hour
you spend not studying.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2023 14:31 | | Subject: | Re: Macro Economics | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, s0l0kr writes:
| | I perfectly know my certification notes, just sometimes university needs to much
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Sometimes youngsters are too lazy to put in the work needed. If you think university
studies is "too much", wait until real life catches up with you. You
will realize university is a walk in the park (and yes, I did all the studying
pre-Internet in the 80s, and have finished university).
Buck up and start reading your books like everyone else.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2023 14:18 | | Subject: | Re: Macro Economics | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, s0l0kr writes:
| | Hey everyone, I have macroeconomics exam in a week, and I know something around
nothing. Can someone say to me how the Swan model works please
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I suggest you study using your assigned books like everyone else who took that
exam. There should not be any shortcuts for those not wanting to put in the work.
If it is too much or too difficult, you might want to rethink your certification
goals.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2023 14:43 | | Subject: | Re: Red feedback received w/o any transaction !! | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | The seller has 65 lots for sale. I can understand why he is upset when a buyer
cancels the order. Please be kind.
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He asked for people's opinion. People gave their honest opinion, without
being rude (contrary to what this seller did in his message). I don't see
why the concern to "be kind" is needed.
Is "being kind" the same as "not giving an honest answer"? As
long as the answers are not rude (which is the point of almost all replies),
I don't see a need for anyone to respond in a different way.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2023 10:40 | | Subject: | Re: Red feedback received w/o any transaction !! | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, papounetjoli writes:
| | Ok
So he acted wrong (order w/o asking about costs before , he asked in comment
in the order) and finally I'm penalized for that .
I find that incredible ...
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You received several answers, all explaining the same issue, yet you insist on
arguing you are right.
If you are not willing to listen and learn, why did you start this thread?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2023 23:13 | | Subject: | Re: Foolishness | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| Sounds an aweful lot like buying a lottery ticket. My CFO does that regularly.
For me it's a win-win - if she doesn't score the jackpot I get to say
"told you so". If she does, I'm rich as well.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2023 19:29 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 15% off on parts 41k | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| Just some friendly advice -
Most people who read the forum, read it regularly. Advertising the same "15%
sale" every day will not get you more orders,. Rather, it looks silly,
and you will actually lower the number of people reading your "sale"
message.
I suggest you put your non-sale prices at that 15%-off, and then doing an actual
sale every now and then (not every day).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2023 00:13 | | Subject: | Re: Warnings with NetParcel | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, SezaR writes:
| | In Shipping, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Shipping, SezaR writes:
| | The return shipping using NetParcel means they will charge me the standard shipping
costs with UPS. That is way too high and we all know that. Indeed, it was higher
than what I could get with my normal UPS account. I think I got something between
$100-150 cad but they wanted soemthing about $350-400 (forgot the exact amount
but can verify it if you want).
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To be fair, Canada Post does the exact same thing - if you create a domestic
shipping label for a parcel, at the bottom in small letters it reads that upon
non-delivery they will return the parcel at counter rates.
Niek.
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They may do the exact same thing but it is not the exact same thing happening
to us:
1) I ship for $20 with CanadaPost. It gets returned for $25. Ok, no problem.
2) I ship with UPS, using my own account. It does not leave the country (i.e.
Canada if I ship it myself). The package gets returned to the address of sender
at no extra cost.
3) I ship with UPS, using my own account. It reaches the other country but the
package does not get delivered. I don't know how this gets handled by UPS.
Do they charge to return it?
4) I ship with UPS, with NetParcel, for $70. It reaches the other country
but the package does not get delivered. They ask $400 to return it. This is why
I think you should know if you use NetParcel.
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I was referring to the carrier charging for return delivery (so in effect point
3 of your reply), plus the fact CP charges counter rates. I don't know what
the UPS counter rate would be for shipping back from your customer's country,
but (supposedly, if I believe the NetParcel site) my price for some US-bound
shipments with UPS is CAD 11, and the "normal" rate is CAD 45+, so the
difference of your account rate of CAD 70 vs a counter rate of CAD 400 is in
the same silly ballpark.
Off-topic - CP is adding more and more costs to their parcel shipments, so prices
keep going up. Not so for their flat-rate boxes. At this point, pretty much all
domestic parcels for us are cheaper in a FRB than with a "normal" parcel,
even with our business account (but I'm sure your sets won't fit any
FRB they have).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2023 23:26 | | Subject: | Re: Warnings with NetParcel | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, SezaR writes:
| | The return shipping using NetParcel means they will charge me the standard shipping
costs with UPS. That is way too high and we all know that. Indeed, it was higher
than what I could get with my normal UPS account. I think I got something between
$100-150 cad but they wanted soemthing about $350-400 (forgot the exact amount
but can verify it if you want).
|
To be fair, Canada Post does the exact same thing - if you create a domestic
shipping label for a parcel, at the bottom in small letters it reads that upon
non-delivery they will return the parcel at counter rates.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2023 18:52 | | Subject: | Re: One of the best stores on Bricklink | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SezaR writes:
| | I received a "quote request" from a country I did not know where it was!
The name of country is Macau. This is not yet an order but this gives
a very good feeling I can provide good quality vintage sets and catalogs to such
a small country
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We had an order from Macau back in 2016.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2023 18:50 | | Subject: | Re: One of the best stores on Bricklink | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SezaR writes:
| | NetParcel is really annoying and I have decided not to ship with them any more.
I will write another post about them to warn my fellow Canadian sellers.
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We have had no issues so far (but we currently don't ship outside NA).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2023 13:23 | | Subject: | Re: Help available | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In Taxes, spacemonk32 writes:
| | I just reopened my store after being closed while studying for my CPA. If you
are in the US and would like help filing your return I would be ok with a store
credit trade.
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While I appreciate the thought behind the offer and I don't want to rain
on your parade, but taking tax advice from an unknown Internet user and use it
to file your returns would be a bad idea. Same goes for medical advice, legal
advice etc.
And to be even more cynical, you said you studied for your CPA, but you didn't
mention you actually finished your studies with a certification status (not that
it matters in this context).
Anyways, congrats (if you graduated) and Happy Friday!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 18:49 | | Subject: | Re: Anything else doing besides Lego work? | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | I gotta say it looks and sounds delicious, your take on nasi goreng. What time
should I be there?
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Ah - that pic was from the chicken curry spread. The prep for the nasi goreng
meal (Indonesian for "rice fried" consisted of marinating chicken and
cooking rice. The marinating in advance is obvious, the rice cooking is needed
because for a proper fried rice the rice must be cooked and then completely cooled
off before frying it.
You can drop by any time for a meal, I can always whip something up.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 14:23 | | Subject: | Anything else doing besides Lego work? | | Viewed: | 136 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Interested to hear what others are doing besides working with the plastic brick
and reading the forum (yes, I see you do).
I prepped tonight's dinner (nasi goreng with chicken satays), made a batch
of chicken curry salad (which sounds way healthier than it is - "chicken
curry spread" would probably be a better term), now doing some home cleaning.
I was hoping to take a brisk walk outside, but it looks like there is still too
much ice on the sidewalks, and I can't risk toppling over again after two
back surgeries (if that wouldn't have killed me, my wife would have finished
the job).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 14:03 | | Subject: | Re: Store Suspended On Feb 15, 2023 | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Baarlo_Bricks writes:
| | There never was a transfer. He just let us believe he sold it to another person.
Both stores are located in Groningen, both owners are/were 41 at the same time
and they both never ever heard of punctuation? I doubt it. Is this, however,
a reason for a ban?
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There is no ban (yet), the store is closed because of "Preventive Action".
If I were to go out on the street and start claiming I broke into my neighbor's
house, you bet the police would be interested to have a chat with me. I won't
get sentenced right away (in this case, banned from BL), but they sure would
want to get to the bottom of this while they invite me to have a little stay
at the police station (preventive action).
So yes, if someone claims they bought the store from a previous owner, this would
(in my eyes) very much warrant a temporary store closure until this is sorted
out.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 13:05 | | Subject: | Re: Store Suspended On Feb 15, 2023 | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, bricksbyrick writes:
| | In Problem, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Problem, bricksbyrick writes:
| | what do you mean my attitude yes i am pissed because without warning my store
will be closed if they just said delete first the store you have taken over and
then open another then it would have been good but not this way because now you
can know I will wait how many weeks for answers that I already know and give
above, but in the meantime I want to catch the fees of a store that is closed
so I can't delete it myself now and create a new account
|
Well, in a previous thread you were explicitly warned you were breaking the Terms
of Service:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1390490
While this is not a warning from the BrickLink admins themselves, it does point
you to a big issue with your shop. If you did some research at that point and
followed the ToS, you should have taken action then. Shop owners agree to the
ToS, and as in real life, not knowing the rules you agreed to is no defense.
| | and yes the Dutch
say things straight to the point even if it is hard for some people
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I am Dutch, is my response "straight to the point" enough?
Niek.
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I don't care so if I were to delete the entire account and create a new one
first pay the bricklink fees. then this whole thing should be ove
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No. I would STRONGLY suggest to follow the advice Admin_Russell has given
you a few posts before:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1393446
He is the BL overlord, his word is rule. Don't take actions unilaterally
- work with Customer Service to get things straightened out. Yes, that will take
a while, but continuing to pioneer all by yourself can get you into more trouble.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 12:51 | | Subject: | Re: Store Suspended On Feb 15, 2023 | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, bricksbyrick writes:
| | what do you mean my attitude yes i am pissed because without warning my store
will be closed if they just said delete first the store you have taken over and
then open another then it would have been good but not this way because now you
can know I will wait how many weeks for answers that I already know and give
above, but in the meantime I want to catch the fees of a store that is closed
so I can't delete it myself now and create a new account
|
Well, in a previous thread you were explicitly warned you were breaking the Terms
of Service:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1390490
While this is not a warning from the BrickLink admins themselves, it does point
you to a big issue with your shop. If you did some research at that point and
followed the ToS, you should have taken action then. Shop owners agree to the
ToS, and as in real life, not knowing the rules you agreed to is no defense.
| | and yes the Dutch
say things straight to the point even if it is hard for some people
|
I am Dutch, is my response "straight to the point" enough?
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 12:39 | | Subject: | Re: Stats can be fun... | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | I can't speak for Nubs_Select, but in our case, our top customer on BO always
places an initial order, and then starts adding batches to it. BO doesn't
actually "expand" the order. Rather, it creates a new order, and "links"
it to the original one. The number of orders on BO for our top customer is 140,
but the actual shipments for him is more like 40-50.
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|
| | They started like that with adding 1 or 2 items but then since I kept losing
money on fees I added a .30 (might have been .50) fee for combining orders and
then it’s now for the most part in 1 or 2 orders (first 20 or so were like that)
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Yup - we have that set to CAD 0.49 (which matches the base fee Paypal charges,
so in revenue it doesn't matter anymore whether they place an order in one
go or in several installments).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 12:24 | | Subject: | Re: Stats can be fun... | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, popsicle writes:
| | In Selling, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Selling, popsicle writes:
| | if not obsessed over and perhaps trying to avoid work
Actually, I was processing this morning an order by the top (63) repeat buyer,
that got me looking into the stats.
Sorting buyers by number of orders placed within store:
https://www.bricklink.com/orderSummary.asp?a=r
My Orders Received: Summary - Orders - Down - Count
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Stats are fun! On the owl site I’ve got 1 or 2 that are almost at 40
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You're doing well over on BO? Nice!
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I can't speak for Nubs_Select, but in our case, our top customer on BO always
places an initial order, and then starts adding batches to it. BO doesn't
actually "expand" the order. Rather, it creates a new order, and "links"
it to the original one. The number of orders on BO for our top customer is 140,
but the actual shipments for him is more like 40-50.
And on a completely unrelated note - yay! - there is a grater in our street scraping
up the ice sheets!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 15, 2023 12:08 | | Subject: | Re: Stats can be fun... | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Stats and graphs are cool. If enough data and some smart reporting, you can actually
distill some useful information to further your take-over of the plastic brick
market (not so much with the top-20-or-so customers, but with stuff like sales
per item ("what are best-selling items in my shop setup", turn-over
speed per item ("hm - I should really up the pricing on that item" etc.
Anywho, below is our top-20 customers for BrickLink and a top-20 customers for
all market places combined. Note that there are discrepancies in the reported
orders on BrickLink and the ones across all market places. This is because the
BL API only returns the customer's login name (which can change over time),
and not the customer's BL ID.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2023 21:20 | | Subject: | Re: Viewing items with no packing dimensions. | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, joesecc writes:
| | When trying to locate my inventory items that are missing the packing dimensions,
I am only able to view the first screen full of items (max 100 items). When I
try to select the next lot of items, I am taken back to the main inventory screen
(showing all of the selection options) not to the next group of items. Is this
a known bug?
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Don't know if it is new or not, but this is confirmed on our end.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2023 13:24 | | Subject: | Re: GLITCH PROBLEM | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Yup, something is afoot. Through the API I received a message that we received
order:
- 21378384
But I can't download it now, nor do I see it in the orders overview on the
site.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Feb 1, 2023 17:53 | | Subject: | Re: I feel like theres a story here... | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, ImperialFleet writes:
| |
Any reason for the price? I suspect something like the dark purple motorcycle
helmet and air tanks happened to this. Please explain if you do know.
Btw, I did sell one of these last year.
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The price is about 15% higher compared to what it was in 2019 (sold 2 then),
so not a shocking price increase.
Niek
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 30, 2023 16:19 | | Subject: | Re: Amazing fees | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| In Problem Order, niko14 writes:
| | Actually, there were 538 lines in my order. Sometimes, in other orders I did
(just a few so far...), identical items were split into several lots, but I didn't
care because there was no fee per lot. In this problematic case (again, because
of my lack of experience...), I thought that the fee would apply on each lot
(74) and not on each line (538). I was not able to imagine that a seller could
be so unhonest that he would split 100 identical items into 100 different lots...
My bad!
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While I don't agree with these types of selling practices, technically the
seller did what was advertised in his terms. A single line in your item represents
a lot. It doesn't matter whether several lines in your order are for the
same type of item (itemID+color+condition), you have ordered 538 lots. Their
terms say they charge EUR 0.25 per lot, so you got charged an additional EUR
134.50.
Again, not saying I condone these "EUR 0.25 per lot" practices. I firmly
believe sellers should charge the prices (which is the result of amount times
the list price) plus a shipping fee, and not tack on any additional nonsense
fees (if sellers believe they get short-changed with such a setup, they should
increase their item pricing). But technically, the seller charged you what is
in their terms (however stupid they are). You agreed to the order terms, this
is a valid order. I can't see BL intervening with this particular order.
I can (and hope to) see BL taking action to stop these silly terms going forward.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2023 10:37 | | Subject: | Re: If your feedback number.. | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Witch writes:
| | Hi. This is meant to be like a game, or like for fun. So if the amount of
your feedback numbers would have a personal meaning in your life, would the number
be closer to a. your age b. your shoe size c. your rent d. the amount of the
children you have e. the price of car/bike f. your salary g. number of movies
you have at home h. number of tries to get a job or i. something other, then
what? I hope at least 1 person could answer, thanks. Mine is closer to my shoe
size and less than my age.
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It turns out our FB number is about 0.25% off from the distance in kms from where
I was born to where I live now.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Jan 26, 2023 19:52 | | Subject: | Re: Feedback not released | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Feedback, qwertyboy writes:
| | 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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The word "satisfy" does not have a sexual connotation in American English.
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Unfortunately we can't tell that to John Belushi anymore:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhKoI2eXdRc
(at the 3:09 mark)
Anywho, my post was a poor attempt at some humor. My apologies if I offended
anyone.
Niek.
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