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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 9, 2012 17:29 | | Subject: | Re: Changes to inventories | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | I'm not sure if this could be implemented or not, but I do think that this would
be a good feature.
You know how it is where a new set gets added to the BL catalogue, with (at the
time) correct inventory, and as some get parted-out, there are several discrepancies
within the inventory and so an inventory change gets submitted?
Well, I have found that if some people part-out a set prior to the inventory
change, they wouldn't know about the differences in the parts/quantity unless
they checked 100% accurately.
Would it not be possible for the BL system send a message to the persons who
had parted-out that set PRIOR to the inventory change request and inform them
of the different items?
(Obviously this would have to be within a time frame of say, 6 months of the
set being first released)
I'm pretty sure that this is the reason for SOME of the inventory differences
in seller's stores.
The most recent issue I found was that the inventory for this
The original inventory stated that the round 1x1 plate was Black.
The 14 sets that I parted-out has Reddish Brown, with the instructions showing
it to be Reddish Brown.
So, if I hadn't checked as I was sorting the parts, I'd have been out of 14 black
1x1 round plates.
Also, there was, in 2 of the sets, the newer version of the Jumper plates (with
the bottom grove)
Could this feature be implemented in the BL2?
Paul
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bump for evening crowd
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I've liked this idea before if the site would send out a notice of inventory
change to sellers that parted-out a set in question, but it could only work if
sellers used Bricklink's part-out mechanism. I and other sellers use 3rd-party
and manual XML uploads to part-out sets and Bricklink couldn't monitor what raw
date coming in means.
-Ash
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Why do you use 3rd party upload data streams?
I've always used the BL one, and I have found it easy to use.
Paul
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I may part-out 2-5 different sets at once and I populate the remarks fields with
drawer ID's to know where everything is physically located in my inventory.
With Bricklink, I have to manually type "P11" for every round 1x1 plate. With
brickstore I can consolidtae lots from all the sets at once, select all the round
1x1 plates and apply "P11" to all of them at once, regardless of color.
Also, once I part out one set that way and later on par out another it's a simple
re-upload of the file and I can skip the other steps AND I can save the remark-field
data to actually put the parts where they go before uploading it and not fear
the Bricklink page refreshing and I lose ALL of that work.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Nov 9, 2012 17:10 | | Subject: | Re: Changes to inventories | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | In Suggestions, WhiteVanMan writes:
| | I'm not sure if this could be implemented or not, but I do think that this would
be a good feature.
You know how it is where a new set gets added to the BL catalogue, with (at the
time) correct inventory, and as some get parted-out, there are several discrepancies
within the inventory and so an inventory change gets submitted?
Well, I have found that if some people part-out a set prior to the inventory
change, they wouldn't know about the differences in the parts/quantity unless
they checked 100% accurately.
Would it not be possible for the BL system send a message to the persons who
had parted-out that set PRIOR to the inventory change request and inform them
of the different items?
(Obviously this would have to be within a time frame of say, 6 months of the
set being first released)
I'm pretty sure that this is the reason for SOME of the inventory differences
in seller's stores.
The most recent issue I found was that the inventory for this
The original inventory stated that the round 1x1 plate was Black.
The 14 sets that I parted-out has Reddish Brown, with the instructions showing
it to be Reddish Brown.
So, if I hadn't checked as I was sorting the parts, I'd have been out of 14 black
1x1 round plates.
Also, there was, in 2 of the sets, the newer version of the Jumper plates (with
the bottom grove)
Could this feature be implemented in the BL2?
Paul
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bump for evening crowd
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I've liked this idea before if the site would send out a notice of inventory
change to sellers that parted-out a set in question, but it could only work if
sellers used Bricklink's part-out mechanism. I and other sellers use 3rd-party
and manual XML uploads to part-out sets and Bricklink couldn't monitor what raw
date coming in means.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2012 11:53 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution (Requirements by German Law) | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, DagsBricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, brasletty writes:
| | In Suggestions, Reki_Lobsheek writes:
| | It's a nice dream, but I'm afraid it's nothing more than that.
When ordering on BL the system uses the weight as mentioned in the catalog.
That weight is supplied by BL users and for new(-er) or very rare items (that
cannot be double-checked) that information might be incorrect or, as in a lot
of cases now, not mentioned at all.
Are you German sellers, by law, obligated to honour the shipping quote mentioned
on the checkout page, even if this price might not even come close to the actual
price paid?
I see a huge window of oportunity for BL users to seriously abuse German seller
by ordering items that do not have the weight added to the catalog (yet).
I could for example order 200 minifigs of which only one lot shows the weight
and then pay the price of 2-3€ for shipment, whereas the seller will pay a multitude
of that.
On Amazon, Ebay and so on the sellers (apparently) weigh the item before putting
it up for sale, thus having reliable figures to base their shipping quotes on
OR they use flat rates for shipment.
Only in that case (using flat rate) I see this proposition have any chance of
actually working (but still with room to abuse).
I am curious how they are going to find solutions for all the issues this proposition
is showing, but am not very optimistic.
Let's say it does work in the end (perhaps on BL 2.0): doesn't that create a
very unfair advantage of professional sellers towards "lay people" sellers as
those people will not be able to use flat rates and thus have very little use
for that system?
I know we're at a very early stage in this and many things have to be thought
through before proceeding, but thus far this "button" seems to raise a lot more
questions than it answers (IMO).
Reki
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ebay sellers use corect shipping rate for every item what you buy ? the problem
is there if you buy 4 sealed boxes of 60 minifigures in 4 auction with one seller
and you like to pay befor the seller change the shipping cost , ebay give the
buyer 4 times the shipping cost ? if the buyer and seller are from germany the
seller can send all 4 auctions in one packaging box for 6.90 euro up to 30 kilo
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my last 2 items what i buy in ebay with one seller have cost me 17 euro shipping
, seller dont like to change the invois ?
regards r
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So the more upstanding sellers will just refund any significant difference after
they post. That's what I would do; bid high on shipping, give back the unused
portion.
Brian
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It's a shame that PayPal keeps 30 cents of any refund, regardless of the amount
refunded. For larger orders it's OK, but for small orders? You could get around
it by, instead of refunding, sending "personal payments" back to the buyer; but
Paypal gets fussy about people sending a lot of "personal payments"
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Aug 3, 2012 20:36 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink fees via PayPal micropayments | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | In Suggestions, ash_274 writes:
| | In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | back story: Some, or many, sellers here have monthly fees due to BL that are
less than $12. For PP payments of less than $12, BL would keep more money by
having a second PP fee payment account for smaller payments.
The BL system could easily look at the amount the seller is sending, and direct
to the PP account with the best fee rate. Please add a second BL PayPal account,
one that uses micropayments.
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What is the fee schedule for SERVICES?
-Ash
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When I paid my BL fees, it said "Ship To address". Doesn't sound like a service
payment to me.
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Maybe Admin should look into that.
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It's intentional to be a check against what the seller has for their registered
address.
-Ash
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| Author: | ash_274 | | Posted: | Aug 3, 2012 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink fees via PayPal micropayments | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | back story: Some, or many, sellers here have monthly fees due to BL that are
less than $12. For PP payments of less than $12, BL would keep more money by
having a second PP fee payment account for smaller payments.
The BL system could easily look at the amount the seller is sending, and direct
to the PP account with the best fee rate. Please add a second BL PayPal account,
one that uses micropayments.
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What is the fee schedule for SERVICES?
-Ash
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