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: | 32 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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