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It has been about a year since my store was last opened for a month or longer.
I'm presuming that there have been a number of significant policy changes
in that time, particularly for sellers. That being said, I do make every effort
to keep up; I read the Forum regularly, being especially alert for posts regarding
seller issues (and resolutions) and selling tips.

What I'm really jittery about is the potential for fraudulent PayPal chargeback
once I begin pushing out orders again. Out of my 776 feedback (775 positive,
1 neutral, and 0 complaint), 510 of the positives were for selling. Even my one
neutral reads "Awesome seller". So I'd like to think, at least, that
a potential buyer will trust me to get their order correct and sent to them in
undamaged condition.

But that, of course, does not stop a handful of buyers from pulling the ol'
chargeback lever despite the fact that they got their order complete and undamaged.
A lot of the posts I've read over the years from high-feedback sellers regarding
this nightmare is that, more often than not, the seller ends up on the losing
side of the dispute. This is the kind of thing that I'd like to avoid or
at least minimize.

Any advice? Any special tools or methods you use to keep fraudulent chargeback
to a minimum? Even basic advice regarding making the selling experience as issue-free
for the buyer would be welcome. I have initiated automated checkout.

- Bond

Author:

IVG_Bricks

Posted:

Mar 28, 2024 15:41

Subject:

'Contact me' Link Next To Store Name In Store

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Can someone please tell me how it is possible to add the 'contact me'
link next to my store name inside my store? I notice some sellers have this
but I just cant work out how to add it? I have annotated where I mean in the
image attached. Thanks

Author:

steffenme1

Posted:

Mar 26, 2024 18:12

Subject:

Moving, selling store. Looking for guidance.

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Hello Bricklink, I'm moving across country in a few months and I won't
be taking my store with me so I need to get working on offloading my inventory.
Would prefer to sell the whole lot rather than have a fire sale; would really
like to hear from any others who have had to do the same.

Author:

Dino

Posted:

Mar 26, 2024 12:08

Subject:

Stickers are replacements

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Hi,

is it allowed to sell sets when the stickers are replacements?

Regards
Werner

Author:

Dhobeck

Posted:

Mar 25, 2024 18:23

Subject:

A marbled Technic, Brick 1 x 2 with Holes

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Hi, I found this marbled part on in an unsorted lot and I have a few questions.

1. How would I got about listing this part?

2. What’s a good price for it?

Thanks
SirIceCreamMansBrixNFigs

Author:

pamjkunkel

Posted:

Mar 24, 2024 17:48

Subject:

lego Star Wars collection

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I am moving and I am looking for a buyer for my vintage lego set. Several sets
factory sealed. All sets are complete. Most sets were put together, and not
played with.

Author:

Debstarcrazy

Posted:

Mar 24, 2024 15:17

Subject:

Wheels and wheel and tire assemblies

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Hi all.

Just spent some time doing my least favourite task: Adding wheels and wheel assemblies
to inventory. Im wondering if it might be easier to separate all the wheels and
tyres and sell them that waY, as I find all the different combinations so difficult
to work with! What do other sellers do? Is there a better way that I have not
yet thought of?
Many thanks
Debbie

Author:

romax1989

Posted:

Mar 24, 2024 13:18

Subject:

Shipping from the US to Lithuania

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I had someone reach out asking to ship to Lithuania. I don't have experience
shipping international. The value of the order is $75 plus shipping. My question
is if there are any duties or customs I would be responsible for or if taxes
and such is taken out through bricklink. My understanding is there is like a
4.4% tax.

Author:

popsicle

Posted:

Mar 24, 2024 12:18

Subject:

After some 18 years of managing a store here

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... it was easily noted and rectified

Something odd while processing an order this morning: All items within the order
that were sold out, had the red zero active-link to stockroomed (zero) inventory
of that item. What you’d normally see when the “Retain items in store inventory
after items are sold out” is activated within store listings.

In all our years operating as a vendor here, we’ve used that feature on a handful
of specific listings only, rarely iow. But every listing within this morning’s
order with zero remaining, linked to a stockroom listing of said item. I knew
straight away what the issue was, that the feature had been activated over all
of our inventory. After processing the order, I simply went into our inventory
management page and reset it.

Really don’t know how the change occurred other than not by us. First off, I’m
hardly on that page anymore. Secondly, as said; we've never used that feature
in that manner before. Maybe last night’s update/maintenance or some other event,
who knows

This interrupts how we utilize the very useful Stockroom feature here on BrickLink.
So yeah, perhaps more salient an issue for us than maybe some other vendors.

Nonetheless, just a heads-up to check yours

Author:

rickcraine

Posted:

Mar 24, 2024 11:10

Subject:

Store with no shipping methods?

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Looking through some stores for some stuff when I came across the store known
as Squidwards-Brickstore by member jamesgregurich. As this store had some of
the stuff I was looking for, I made a cart, just in cases I did end up wanting
to get the stuff and left it alone for a few days.
Now comes the strange part.
I entered the cart today to find that there were "No shipping methods available"
for the things in my cart. I was mystified, as my cart had normal things easy
to ship. I tried emptying the cart and putting other things into it only to come
up with the same result.
I then happened to notice this store has been open for a month with a good quantity
and in demand pieces, yet has no feedback, probably because any carts made came
to the same screen as me.
Do some members simply take the shipping methods off their store instead of just
closing it when they want a break?
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here, LOL.

Author:

ANDO95

Posted:

Mar 23, 2024 06:47

Subject:

Price

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Good morning everyone. I have been an Italian seller for a few years.

But I've never figured out if the amounts I put on individual pieces can
be automatically updated every x time based on the average price.

Thanks to those who will be able to answer me!

Alessandro

Author:

kittybrickz

Posted:

Mar 22, 2024 15:16

Subject:

Received/Completed

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Hello there!

I got so many orders that have shipped and delivered, where the customers have
not changed the order status to Received/Completed. Do you folks email them to
make sure they got their package, or just forget about it?

Have an epic day! ---Katrina

Author:

Nelleretnot

Posted:

Mar 22, 2024 04:58

Subject:

Seller Privileges Revoked

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Can anyone tell me what the problem could be ?

What can I do to receive my privileges back ?

Thanks
WJZIWJK
Ton ter Ellen

Author:

MontagueBrick

Posted:

Mar 21, 2024 21:21

Subject:

Chrome Extension for Listing Faster?

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Hi,
I am reopening my store after a few years, and while I was listing inventory
again, I noticed that the listing process is a bit cumbersome. I have lots of
experience in software development now, and I am building a chrome extension
to make listing as fast as possible. Some features I will be including are:

You will navigate in the Bricklink catalog to an item. Click the "Add to
Inventory" link, which will open the extension's popup

The popup will have a single form that will list all the colors available for
the selected catalog item with 6 month average sales prices and an input for
quantity. This will allow you to add all colors of the part all at once.

Once submitted, the item will be added to store inventory in all colors with
a quantity above 0, at the 6 month average sales price.

Later I can add more customizability features.

Bricklink blocks requests from their own address with the CORS policy, so I will
have to build a Proxy api with a database to manage API keys.

Because the proxy makes things more complicated, I think I will use React.js
to build the interface in the popup. I would have a settings page where users
can add/update api keys. this page would be password protected with JWT.

Voice your inputs. I think this would be a welcome feature for sellers to increase
profitability, I am interested if other sellers think the same, or what features
they think would be bennificial.

Author:

Catfish240

Posted:

Mar 21, 2024 12:16

Subject:

Selling bulk Lego help

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Hi, I am relocating to another country and want to sell my kids Lego. I don’t
have time to create an inventory of each individual piece. But have separated
it into colors and figures.
What is the best way to get a good price to sell it this way?
Thanks!

Author:

Akir

Posted:

Mar 21, 2024 07:10

Subject:

Paypal package tracking

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Hey,
I just got a message from paypal saying that from April 15 they offer package
tracking for products paid for with paypal. Does bricklink know about this, and
will it make any changes necessary, on the page and/or for sellers?
Thanks and greetings,
Patrick

Author:

Wesza

Posted:

Mar 20, 2024 16:01

Subject:

Parting out and selling as new

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Noob (and probably silly) question but if I buy a set new, then part it out and
sell it on BL is it ok that the parts won’t be in original packaging? It will
just be individually wrapped and in new condition (never used as it went straight
from the original packaging into a seperate bag).
Thanks!

Author:

RubyGirl

Posted:

Mar 20, 2024 15:41

Subject:

Messages about orders

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Hi Everyone
When orders are purged, are messages about them also deleted? Thanks for reading

Author:

BigBrickLab

Posted:

Mar 20, 2024 08:39

Subject:

Sales to new members

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I know that you can choose not to sell to members with no feedback. I do sell
to new members but I was wondering if anyone has set up a dollar limit on what
a new member can purchase. I have someone asking about a $900 set as a new member
and I feel reluctant to move forward with a purchase that large to someone with
no buyer feedback. What are your thoughts?

Author:

pikamatt

Posted:

Mar 19, 2024 13:09

Subject:

The Llama Village

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I have a Minecraft Llama Village that is unopened that I had intended on gifting
my son, but he recently communicated that he's no longer interested in Minecraft
sets. I would like to find a buyer at close to the original price ($150). I'm
open to offers, including trades. We like Star Wars UCS and City sets. We already
have a LOT of sets, so it'll be hard to find something we don't have,
but I'm open to discussion. I'm located in the US and willing to ship
to US and Canada.

21188-1 (Inv) The Llama Village
1232 Parts, 6 Minifigures, 2022
Sets: Minecraft

Author:

Ziegelmeister

Posted:

Mar 18, 2024 22:06

Subject:

Dark Stone Grey v. Dark Blueish Grey

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I've been trying to find a part on PAB for a few hours now (not going to
get in to why things are called one thing here and another there) and I think
I finally found it - but they have it listed as Dark Stone Grey; is that the
same?

Author:

aaronaar

Posted:

Mar 18, 2024 13:48

Subject:

Need "Item For Sale Condition" Clarification

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Hi!

I didn't get a response from the help desk, so I'm asking here.

I noticed that I can part together some official sets using 100% new parts. Am
I allowed to list those sets as "new incomplete" if I mention in the
comments that I parted together the set myself using new parts and am missing
box/instructions/stickers? Or are you only allowed to list a set as "new
incomplete" if you only took items out of a NISB set?

If you are not allowed to list it as "new incomplete", could you list
it as "used incomplete" and say in the comments that you parted it together
using new parts and am missing box/instructions/stickers?

Given that:

"Custom sets or instructions may be listed, provided they do not infringe
on any intellectual property rights, including those of the LEGO Group."

I do not believe I could list it as a custom set instead?

Thanks for information and if possible would like clarification from an admin.

Author:

72481064

Posted:

Mar 17, 2024 12:11

Subject:

Autographed lego star wars minifigure

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I have a question for the Lego community. Have you ever come across a signed
Lego minifigure? This means that he has been signed across the torso or back
by a famous actor or person related to star wars. If you have did you see any
value in collecting it or even buying it and then reselling it? Do you recommend
people to invest in it? I'm trying to see if there is a market for something
like this and there don't seem to be a lot available.

Thanks

Author:

RyanJatho

Posted:

Mar 16, 2024 10:42

Subject:

Huge lot of 90s-00s Star Wars and HP

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Hey guys my older brother is ready to get rid of his legos. We have like every
harry potter set, star wars sets, ships, bionicals, everything and I have no
idea where to start. They are loose sets like 95% complete and we have bins full
of loose bricks that belong to said sets.

Right now someone is offering me $200 for it all and it just seems low. Im on
mobile so its kinda hard to post everything here.

But how should I start?

Author:

wanderer101

Posted:

Mar 16, 2024 09:09

Subject:

Confirmation Code

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