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View Thread Re: How do I get my double paid VAT back?? - WoutR (920)
[...] These are instructions for the SELLER. As it explains, the IOSS number must be submitted electronically by the shipping company. That information is provided by the seller [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 4, 2024, to Taxes)
View Thread Re: How do I get my double paid VAT back?? - WoutR (920)
[...] Ebay has instructions and a page for that. [...] This part is incorrect.
(4 months ago, Feb 4, 2024, to Taxes)
View Thread Re: Variants & Contests - WoutR (920)
[...] That, or the Milennium Falcon (Set 7190-1)
(4 months ago, Feb 4, 2024, to Contests)
View Thread Re: How do I get my double paid VAT back?? - WoutR (920)
- BrickLink collects the tax (1) - Buyer pays the tax - Customs does not receive that electronic number, so they collect the tax again (2) - Buyer has to pay [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 4, 2024, to Taxes)
View Thread Re: How do I get my double paid VAT back?? - WoutR (920)
[...] Even when the seller makes an error, the seller is not the one who can correct the mistake because he does not hold the money. BrickLink holds the money. BrickLink can [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 4, 2024, to Taxes)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] For all practical purposes, it is identical. You might want to include a note that it originally was seen as a decoration on that Light Gray base, not a separate color [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 4, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] 309 is probably not technically correct for the 2001 Hau. That color number was introduced later. At that time, the chrome silver was seen as a surface decoration pattern [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 4, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants & Contests - WoutR (920)
[...] I think that depends on which age you start. No point in waiting until a child is 3 years old, but you also don't want them eating all the smallest parts. [...] [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Contests)
View Thread Re: Variants & Contests - WoutR (920)
Or, even better, DUPLO 😉
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Contests)
View Thread Re: Variants & Contests - WoutR (920)
[...] A first set should have been Dulpo (Set 2691-1)
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Contests)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] I think we can probably separate them in the inventories. But if a seller finds some parts in a lot of used bricks, can he identify them correctly? I'd love to get [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] It is a similar situation, with a different cause. Some Light Gray parts also have this problem (URL)
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] I think that the difference between 22 and 221 will be extremely difficult for most sellers. Especially for the parts that were made during the transition period that [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] This is not about ALL Rust colored parts. BrickLink Rust is a group that currently contains: LEGO 13 Red Orange / Fabuland Red (URL) LEGO 216 Rust (URL) "Crappy [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] These colors are complicated, especially because of the reformulations, different materials and that fact that we did not have ANY official information before 2010. [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] We probably all started like NoGravitasHere. Noticing a problem and trying to figure it out. I have no doubt that NoGravitasHere wil be a better expert on Cool Silver [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Unknown yellow bird part - WoutR (920)
[...] (Part x682c01)
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog Identification)
View Thread Re: How do I get my double paid VAT back?? - WoutR (920)
[...] It is how this system was designed. Buyer pays twice and gets a refund from the marketplace. Only problem is that BrickLink has not implemented this yet...
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Taxes)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] I hope so, because some parts were made in both colors. For example: (Part x110c01,77)
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] It changes the names/color numbers. Probably not the groupings you made.
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] Directly from LEGO customer service.
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
The 150 parts NoGravitasHere identified and the 144 here4bricks614 identified could be a pretty good match also. I suspect both are 296 Cool Silver.
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] I agree. I think you are confusing 150 and 296. Confirmed 296, in rubbery material (polypropylene ?) because of the LEGO part name "Wing W. Holes Ø 4,84 [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] Also useful: (URL) where we could add these notes (9 years later):
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] Thanks
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
A LOT of work has been done to untangle the silver colors in recent years. It used to be a confusing mess, it is less so today. The work is not completed yet, but I have huge [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly - WoutR (920)
[...] Can you upload a higher quality version of this image? (Rotate 90 degrees if rescaling of the image by BrickLink causes the low resolution, rotated text is less of [...]
(4 months ago, Feb 3, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
That would be illegal here. You, as seller and sender, are resposible for the delivery of the goods that your customer ordered and paid for. You are the person who contracted [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 28, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Add figure for 71411 mighty Bowser - WoutR (920)
[...] they are getting exactly the same treatment as Bowser. The entire set is in the catalog, there is not part or subset for the figures.
(4 months ago, Jan 28, 2024, to Catalog Requests)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] True.
(4 months ago, Jan 28, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
I just made some photos of the hinges with 7 and 9 teeth. They show why they click into the same positions. I read a comment here on the forum that the 9 teeth hinge might be [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Various Threads - WoutR (920)
(Part 6251px2)
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Off Topic)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] I would be very interested to know if there are definitions of high/medium/low level variations that are currently being used for the BrickLink catalog, as guidance for [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] Good to hear that there are some ideas on how to better deal with variants. From my point of view, the more details the catalog can provide about historically correct [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
It is the same as the vertical ridges inside Duplo bricks. In this photo, you can see how they match the position and size of the studs. Because of their size, the Duplo bricks [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] The visual difference is important for some builders, so separating them could be a choice. For consistency we could separate the thick and thin walled bricks, but the [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] Not exactly. When you connect two bricks, the inner wall of a brick connects to the side of a stud. When a brick clamps the studs on the brick beneath by connecting [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] If you would like a larger image, you can download them from my Flickr page: brittle blue brick (URL) (URL) white brick (URL)
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] Yes.
(4 months ago, Jan 27, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variants Thread - January 26 - WoutR (920)
[...] The "frosted" appearance is caused by increased roughness of the inner surface of the brick. During moulding, bricks can stick on the wrong half of the mould [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 26, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Variant Merges and BL Moving Backwards - WoutR (920)
[...] As a collector of part variations, I think that most (but not all) of the variants that are now being merged are not more significant than variants that are currently [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 25, 2024, to Announce)
View Thread Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - WoutR (920)
[...] I still have not found this sub-version of 3626b (Part 3626b) After the merger, that will become even more challenging...
(4 months ago, Jan 24, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - WoutR (920)
[...] I have bought both. Without groove to restore old sets, with grooves to build and play. They are both useful. [...] True. It is a toy. [...] And they use BrickLink [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 24, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - WoutR (920)
[...] Thanks, I had missed that.
(4 months ago, Jan 24, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - WoutR (920)
[...] Most of these changes make some kind of sense. The transparent frosted parts use the same moulds as bricks with solid colors. The frost is simply hidden on the inside [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 24, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - WoutR (920)
[...] The parts will be renamed, but the version without groove will remain in the catalog. The initial message about what changes were intended was just poor, so everyone [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 24, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants - WoutR (920)
[...] Somewhere hidden in this thread:-)
(4 months ago, Jan 24, 2024, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Someone stepped on a LEGO, ouch. - WoutR (920)
[...] That is what I thought... until my feet got oversensitive due to nerve damage... suddenly ALL THE MEMES WERE TRUE!!!! (Feeling a lot better now, but still don't [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 22, 2024, to Off Topic)
View Thread Re: Is it fake? - WoutR (920)
[...] The injection point is inside that stud. I would expect them to look like " L dot O "
(4 months ago, Jan 21, 2024, to Help)
View Thread Re: Trying to post a subject line that is longer than 45 characters - I can! I have the power! - WoutR (920)
[...] No. Absolutely not. There are a few important differences here: 1) Posting off-topic on the forum is not the same as spamming 2) Nobody is trying to sell me something [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 15, 2024, to Off Topic)

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