| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | hullboxer  | | Posted: | Jan 24, 2024 19:42 | | Subject: | Re: obvious drop shipper order | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, stranqe writes:
| | So someone just purchased a minifig and asked to ship "without invoice or
packing slip" which is against how I do business as I always include an invoice
inside the package in case of damage to package or whatnot and the post office/UPS
needs to find the address inside the package. This is the obvious sign of a
drop shipper purchasing off me to fulfill their order to someone else on a different
platform. What are you guys' thoughts on these kind of requests?
I half want to include a biz card with coupon code to entice their customer and
show how much cheaper they can purchase things on bricklink directly. lol.
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As a buyer only and having been on the receipt side and just a few weeks ago
sending side of a bricklink order where no pricing info inclusion was requested,
I appreciate the stores’ willingness to meet these requests. I also would find
another store if requested and the seller had an issue. If a request were in
violation of any laws, taxes or fee manipulation of course you shouldn’t be asked
to be complicit. But to be asked simply to not include cost info in something
that could just be a gift isn’t imo unreasonable. I needed a last minute holiday
gift delivered within days for a secret santa where it one of the match had fallen
out of communication so sending directly from the bricklink shop in the receiver’s
country was the only way to meet the timeline. Not primary in my situation but
why pay twice for shipping (ship to you then you ship) when you can send something
directly from the seller - potentially that translates to more money to spend
on the actual gift and to you the seller. All that said, as long as whatever
message, if any, I requested is included, I don’t have any issue with a business
card or store markings on boxes or such.
A longtime buyer’s 2 pennies for whatever it’s worth.
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2023 14:32 | | Subject: | Re: Bionicle Questions | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, popsicle writes:
| | In Help, hullboxer writes:
| | Not looking to do anything unofficially just trying to figure out possibilities.
I have over 150 pounds of bionicle parts. For many years I had my son, godsons
and a Cub Scout troop where bionicles were simply perfect for trips - creations
could be built in vehicles easily, and appealed to varying ability levels. So
I continuously purchased sets and bulk lots to keep a wide variety of on hand.
Now all my boys are well past bionicles and I am trying figure out best options.
Ideally, I would like to trade parts, or reconstruct some of the more popular
sets and trade them for store credit for regular system bricks and parts. Are
there other options/ideas? Also not sure how to identify which bionicle sets
would be most sought after that I could then see if I could put together, does
anyone know if this is possible here on BL? What I am not interested in is opening
a store or selling on eBay. Just the thought of trying to figure out how to
setup anything regarding shipping…….
Thanks Much!
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Though I have never dealt in Bionicle, it has intrigued me throughout my LEGO
years. Never really quantified exactly why though
The theme ran for 16 years from its inception in 2000, then stopped? I assumed
that TLG had, as they've done with so many other proprietary themes, jettisoned
the line. But I now see that it’s been resurrected with this 2023 set?
Back to the point of your post: if you were within face-to-face range (given
your reluctance with shipping) I’d being contacting you to try and grab the lot
and figure-out later what to do with it. But you’re not “in range” which is probably
fortunate for me
-popsicle
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My reluctance with shipping relates to running a store or selling items on eBay.
I am just finishing two years of consolidating 4 houses into 1 and a condo and
have donated thousands of dollars of collectibles, antiques and household items
which I don’t regret overall but might would have sold some of if I had the willingness
and where with all to do the work involved in figuring out all the shipping and
then of course the taxes and whatever else. Hats off to those of you who can
make it work for you.
Bionicles are not the most non-Lego Lego out there but close. The kids really
loved them though and they couldn’t be beat for long car trips as you didn’t
need flat stable places to build on. And the creatures could be anything and
any size no real limits with those joints plus could be as simple for young one
or complex for older ones just add different parts.
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2023 13:27 | | Subject: | Bionicle Questions | | Viewed: | 113 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Not looking to do anything unofficially just trying to figure out possibilities.
I have over 150 pounds of bionicle parts. For many years I had my son, godsons
and a Cub Scout troop where bionicles were simply perfect for trips - creations
could be built in vehicles easily, and appealed to varying ability levels. So
I continuously purchased sets and bulk lots to keep a wide variety of on hand.
Now all my boys are well past bionicles and I am trying figure out best options.
Ideally, I would like to trade parts, or reconstruct some of the more popular
sets and trade them for store credit for regular system bricks and parts. Are
there other options/ideas? Also not sure how to identify which bionicle sets
would be most sought after that I could then see if I could put together, does
anyone know if this is possible here on BL? What I am not interested in is opening
a store or selling on eBay. Just the thought of trying to figure out how to
setup anything regarding shipping…….
Thanks Much!
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2022 12:32 | | Subject: | Boy Scout Minifig | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| Hi all,
Search for Boy Scout in the catalog wide open but no results. It didn’t show
under scout & minifigure either. Anyone know how to find?
Thanks!
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Jun 16, 2022 22:08 | | Subject: | Re: Grow a pair! | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | I said “fine, here you go” 
But seriously, this is an update to a post some have asked about in the interum:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1302554
Almost lost them over the winter. Not so much the lack of UV or growth cycles,
but because of a toxic-to-plants substance, I knew nothing about: cat piss! I
understand it's use as a derogatory, now
My son was away on business and had us sit his (unbeknownst to us) pregnant cat,
this she-demon: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1329051 She had for
some reason been pissing in the saplings' pots at night. Almost killing them
within hours. I have never smelt ammonia as strongly as her urine, pungent as
Hell itself.
Well, I did the Botany ER thing with them for two months, I wasn't gonna
give up on them! I believe they’ll pull-through, against all odds.
The First is now nearly 5 feet tall now, she is Jazz. The second is doing well
too with beautiful dark green foliage, is Gavin.
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If you cat sit again, put aluminum foil in pots. The cats hate the foil and
it will keep them form climbing into pots to do business. Another option is
to put some tape sticky side up across tops of pots and they won’t mess with.
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2022 20:55 | | Subject: | Re: what is in my back yard | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, popsicle writes:
| | In Off Topic, legoman77 writes:
| | More cats to feed.
John P
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A couple of months ago, my son while sitting in his vehicle after starting it
one very cold morning, was startled by this creature jumping into his lap.
After greeting her with some petting, he lifted her from his lap, placing her
on the ground outside the car. He then got back to loading the vehicle for his
trip, walking back into his place a few more times in the interim. He was just
about to lock the front-door when he noticed the cat starring back at him from
inside his place.
Being somewhat emaciated and dirty, he found it hard to simply place feline back
out into the cold. So, he decided to turn his attention towards the cat, cancelling
his trip to Bend, OR. Which sums up my son, knowing how important the weekend
trip was to him and of his allergies.
We tried bathing some of the filth off, see if there was a cat somewhere underneath,
maybe check for injuries. My son held the cat while my daughter and I did the
washing. The result was a much cleaner cat, water everywhere and two mauled hands
(my son’s). The pic below is after a month of my son’s nurturing. Completely
recovered, it seems.
She's very tiny, but proportionally so. Are there pigmy cat breeds?
Any of you cat folks know how to bath a cat? I’m sure there’s better method,
that doesn’t involve blood loss or the wearing of body armor
btw, he named her Drusilla, after Emperor Augustus third wife, Liva Drusilla
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She’s beautiful. Been a while since I had cats (current rescue dogs grew up
without as my last cat passed before they came) but I used to do an oil rinse
after bathing that really worked on keeping allergies down - cats and dogs weren’t
greasy either. Cardinal was name brand I used years ago.
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2021 15:32 | | Subject: | Santa’s Visit Set | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Colors | | Status: | Open | |
| | What brinklink color does the blue correspond to? Thanks, Lois |
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| Author: | hullboxer | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2018 14:55 | | Subject: | Re: New parameter for lots: max per buyer | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| As a buyer, I would not place an order in a store with this type of restriction.
I would pay more, likely more than an additional orders shipping (which would
be the proposed ‘penalty’ for a full/larger above the restricted size order)
for the items in a store without these restrictions. Further, I would be inclined
not to revisit stores using these restrictions just to reduce my own frustration
with stores penalizing me for ordering more of an item(s).
Don’t care for it at Lego store either and have left before and purchased here
or other retail outlets. Just my 2 cents but can’t imagine many buyers seeing
this in a positive light.
Lois
Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | I would really like to see a new parameter for lots that limits the amount a
buyer can buy of a certain part in any one order. The part would then turn up
in search results and in store inventory showing not more than the value specified.
It's something that many online stores use, notably also LEGO themselves.
So far the way to do this is to offer the desired max amount, put in remarks
how much is left, and put the item on retain. This has several drawbacks, most
of all:
- You have to manually reoffer and modify the remarks all the time
- You cannot see or accurately modify the price and other stats of your inventory
because part of the amount of what you have is hidden in remarks
This could all be solved by 1 simple extra field, that is left on 0 when unused.
Of course, the item should not appear updated for users that still have an order
that has not yet reached the packed status. Of course buyers can buy again after
that, but separate shipping and handling fees should be sufficient to bar the
effect of buyers blowing sudden holes in your inventory.
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