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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| 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
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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 | |
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| 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
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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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| In Technical Issues, Stellar writes:
| | | | BL should at least include 54.208.31.131 in their SPF record, and possibly check
DKIM.
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Just received my first order confirmation email half an hour ago since 2 weeks
without any, maybe something changed today.
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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 | |
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| 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!
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Is your last name Dibbler? I have an internal server called "cmot"...
Niek.
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I may be his long lost Roundworld cousin…..
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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 | |
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| In Help, CNH1974 writes:
| | If anyone wants to buy my entire stock; CMOTs Oblong Objects, please do!
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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
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Hi Karen!
Try using brickognize.com from your phone. Its my go to for figuring out part
numbers.
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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.
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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 | |
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| In Catalog Identification, sasquatch_eater writes:
| | I'll do you one better:
with arms 
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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 | |
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| 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 ?
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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 | |
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| 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.
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|
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 | |
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| 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.
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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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