| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | ash_274  | | Posted: | Jan 12, 2013 17:54 | | Subject: | Re: Lot Limits | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, niemand writes:
| | In Suggestions, pikachu3 writes:
| | Maybe I misunderstand, but I would much rather have the option of paying the
seller's lot fees than not be able to place the order at all.
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I agree. Furthermore I would like better minimum order to disappear and pay handling
fees instead, what I sometimes did...
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Ask the seller. 99% of the time if I had an order below their minimum they would
waive the minimum for me. Only a few times they charged for that "service" but
they were still the best source for what I needed (sometimes the only source)
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Dec 26, 2012 19:50 | | Subject: | Re: Photo or Bag # next to each part | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, ScoopShovel writes:
| | Hello,
As a favorite website for both fans and LEGO customers, has it been considered
listing next to each part in Catalog Entry the # of the bag it is in, within
the boxed set? Possibly note if it is within a small bag within a numbered bag.
Helpful when trying to determine if all the pieces are missing out of a bag.
Thank you,
Scoop Shovel
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It's an idea... but:
Not all sets have numbered bags
Some parts appear in more than one numbered bag
Some parts are loose in the box and not bagged and/or are in unnumbered bags
in sets that also use bag numbers
Some sets will have packing variations (especially between NA and EU packaging)
Some bags have more than one inner bag
That's a lot of extra work for inventory creators/verifiers to do and wouldn't
be possible to do retroactively for "retired" sets
I see what you are going for, but remember that the catalog isn't meant to be
a Lego Database. The charter for the site is for buying and selling. I'm not
seeing a clear return for the investment of the time needed to implement and
regulate.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2012 20:49 | | Subject: | Re: Please clearly define "custom" | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
| | In Suggestions, j7r7o7c7k7 writes:
| | I really don't see how there is any fine line or room for interpretation or whatever
other garbage someone wants to throw out there.
If Lego made it, then sell it here.
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If LEGO made it, it's not custom.
There's a long-standing tradition of allowing BLers to sell fan-created items.
Items which fill a gap, not items which replace standard pieces.
3x5 brick? Custom.
2x4, not custom.
See how easy it is? Why make it more difficult?
If somebody is selling home-made recreations of items Lego makes, that's a clone
piece.
Cutting capes from your own material is forbidden. Molding weapons Lego doesn't
use, not forbidden.
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Making leaves (Lego's shape and design) but in a new color: allowed?
Taking a piece Lego made in chrome but taking plain ones and chroming your own
supply of them: allowed?
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2012 19:36 | | Subject: | Re: Please clearly define "custom" | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Rolf writes:
| | In Off Topic, ash_274 writes:
| | MegaBloks has been making minifig packs for Halo for a while now, like Lego's
Collectible Minifigures. K'nex did that with the MarioKart characters, though
they told you which one was inside. Now K'nex has all 8 of their Kart characters
in a "blind" package. However, their character design and packaging makes it
very easy to figure out which one is inside.
-Ash
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Yeah one of Halo packs is what my nephew got. I bought 3 of 4 orginial K'nex
figures. I do like Mario, his bro and that dino one, but it sucks that they cut
numbers on Bowser so hard. I never could find one.
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I was able to get two Bowsers. One is still sealed.
| | That said, K'nex figures is pretty darn low quality. I bought em just because
hey why not. lol
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Very low quality compared to Lego, but I've liked Mario Kart since it was on
the SNES and Boswer was always cool. I also have Diddy, Mario, and Toad (and
the spiney blue shell)
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2012 19:28 | | Subject: | Re: Please clearly define "custom" | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Suggestions, Rolf writes:
| | In Suggestions, j7r7o7c7k7 writes:
| | | | Therein lays the problem. We simply cannot draw a perfectly thin line. There
will always be some blur in line. Maybe terms should define few parameters to
draw line as best as they can. Custom parts can be cool.
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Why cant we? If Lego made it, then it can be sold here. If not then it shouldn't
be here. Pretty easy line to draw to me. Maybe im crazy. lol 
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See my other post about Lego licensed items.
| | | | Yeah but then same argument can be sued with megablok. What if seller is selling
megablok as megablok and not as lego? I certainly do not want megablok to be
legit here for any reason period.
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So you are OK with one persons brand but not another persons? Not liking a brand
its one thing, bending a rule to allow the brand you do like is playing favorites
and not right. But thats my opinion.
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Megalok is brand designed specifically to be competitor with Lego. Custom items
does not. Problem is blurness in definition of "Custom" and "Clone".
| | What is so bad about mega blocks? I have built with them, they are not that bad.
Yes they are not the same quality as Lego, but there are poor kids out there
that would fall over if you gave them a mega blocks set! After all these are
toys, most meant for kids. Do you want your kids growing up saying we can play
with these friends, but our parents said we cant play with those kids because
there parents don't have as much money as us. Yes kinda extreme, but kinda the
same idea with Lego vs Megablocks.
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Yeah my nephew had megablok. He made few comments on quality, and he was around
10 then. He kept it though as he loves Halo.
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MegaBloks has been making minifig packs for Halo for a while now, like Lego's
Collectible Minifigures. K'nex did that with the MarioKart characters, though
they told you which one was inside. Now K'nex has all 8 of their Kart characters
in a "blind" package. However, their character design and packaging makes it
very easy to figure out which one is inside.
-Ash
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