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View Thread Re: Why can't I enlarge pics anymore? - Teup (6595)
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(58 months ago, Aug 13, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Either a bonafide brain-fart, or a seizure... - Teup (6595)
[...] You're here discussing its problems out of your own free will, who's silly now? :D
(58 months ago, Jul 26, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Either a bonafide brain-fart, or a seizure... - Teup (6595)
[...] Wow! :O Then my question changes... Why is this guy not selling any LEGO? :D
(58 months ago, Jul 26, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Either a bonafide brain-fart, or a seizure... - Teup (6595)
[...] I agree. But in all fairness we can't ignore the question in the back of our minds: When is this guy finally going to buy some more LEGO? :D
(58 months ago, Jul 26, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Either a bonafide brain-fart, or a seizure... - Teup (6595)
[...] I think it would rather be on an opt in basis, because doing it by default would be privacy violation. Reminds me of the trouble Amazon is in over looking into its sellers [...]
(58 months ago, Jul 25, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Plant 2417? - Teup (6595)
[...] I guess producing crude oil generates a lot of emissions. But I wonder how much less emissions their new production process really involves. I guess it kind of stands [...]
(58 months ago, Jul 24, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Plant 2417? - Teup (6595)
[...] It's the same plastic: Polyethylene. It's just made from fresh plants rather than from dinosaurs (oil). But it isn't biodegradable in any way and [...]
(58 months ago, Jul 23, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell - Teup (6595)
[...] I think you may be pretty exceptional in this. While you are right it could be a good decision to pay it, I think that the vast majority of people will not realize it [...]
(60 months ago, Jun 11, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell - Teup (6595)
[...] Agreed. It sounds absurdly consumer unfriendly and frankly hard to take seriously. Imagine going to the supermarket and being charged $1 upon entry that will not be refunded. [...]
(60 months ago, Jun 11, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Fair, safe and legal trading = BL principles - Teup (6595)
[...] Well, yes, you are right. The seller has to cancel when requested but is entitled to taking any measures they like. Especially since this Bricklink world is slightly [...]
(61 months ago, May 13, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Fair, safe and legal trading = BL principles - Teup (6595)
[...] I very much agree with your introduction, and I can't say I disagree with the rest, but to me the issue of customs delcarations seems really minor and anecdotal [...]
(61 months ago, May 13, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Coral - Teup (6595)
[...] Coral: What an unfortunate name for a colour. If there's one thing in the world that can have every colour imaginable... it's coral. But apparently that's [...]
(61 months ago, May 2, 2019, to Colors)
View Thread Re: Random Stockroom Items - Teup (6595)
[...] It's one of those persistent problems that Bricklink is trying to fix. I think something is really wrong in the bug fixing department, it seems their ability to isolate [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 22, 2019, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: What do the ! and * symbols mean under image? - Teup (6595)
[...] How is it confusing? Everybody knows that an asterisk is the symbol for "large" and an exclamation mark the universal symbol for 3D, right? Can't see why new users [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 20, 2019, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Lengths in “L” and 18654 - Teup (6595)
[...] How can factual correctness be less important than a choice of how to categorise it? I'd say #1 is to get the facts straight, and after that, we can go and organise [...]
(61 months ago, Apr 17, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - Teup (6595)
[...] Yeah... the fact that there's a variation that would span across categories if you take the groove as the defining factor, kind of kills that idea pretty effectively. [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: inconsistencies - Teup (6595)
[...] Exactly, the jumpers always seemed much more tile-like to me than that "tile". I guess the only relevant answer to this issue is: This was acknowledged by the previous [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Brickstock questions - Teup (6595)
[...] Well, I guess that's all true enough. Some take the priceguide as just a guide, some ignore it, some take it as some holy prescription. I tend to be kind of the latter [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 28, 2019, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Brickstock questions - Teup (6595)
[...] Well.... it does. I'm just saying that the averge price that you see here in Bricklink is not equal to the average price in Brickstock. These do not match. Parting [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 28, 2019, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Brickstock questions - Teup (6595)
[...] Brickstock prices are excluding VAT.. that is why I definitely recommend NOT using Brickstock for pricing if you are in the EU. You'll never be able to retrieve the [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 26, 2019, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Fine print regarding lot quanities - Teup (6595)
[...] Sounds a bit like this store has the rule only in text without having the option enabled :/ In that case, I would just go ahead and place the order in that case, screw [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 21, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need a modern way to part out sets. - Teup (6595)
It doesn't work, because not all items have the same distribution globally. Some are prevalent in the VAT zone (closer to 20% difference with the BL priceguide), [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 20, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need a modern way to part out sets. - Teup (6595)
[...] Yep, Brickstock is US oriented so it works for you, not for us ;) Prices exclude VAT, so it renders it useless to me. I'd rather go through the Bricklink part [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 17, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need a modern way to part out sets. - Teup (6595)
[...] You're right, that issue of fees not being represented in search listings, enabling sellers to pretend they are cheap, must be one of the factors in the race to the [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 16, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need a modern way to part out sets. - Teup (6595)
[...] +1 That's a very good way to put it - it's at hobby level. Nothing more or less. This is why for all hobby users, Bricklink work fine and they are nothing but [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 16, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need a modern way to part out sets. - Teup (6595)
[...] Agreed. Actually, the system as it is is already working in your favour as a buyer - thee part out system being so poorly designed and unstable drives alot of sellers [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 16, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: We need a modern way to part out sets. - Teup (6595)
[...] You're completely right, it should have been redone many years ago. If you compare the wanted list part-out screen with the seller's part-out screen, it becomes [...]
(63 months ago, Feb 16, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Allow AFOLs to "Bricklink" the ADP sets - Teup (6595)
[...] They're still more official than BrickArms, which is also in the catalog... Plus, the whole "exciting" part about the whole project, according to BL itself, is the [...]
(64 months ago, Feb 12, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Parting out - Teup (6595)
[...] Aha, it's because of remark based sorting.. I've never tried it and never know how it really works. I always assumed people use software to generate the locations [...]
(64 months ago, Jan 27, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Feedback removal - Teup (6595)
[...] I must agree with what the others have said... you see what you pay, you can agree or disagree. I don't see why your stance would shift from agree to disagree if [...]
(64 months ago, Jan 24, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Parting out - Teup (6595)
[...] Perhaps you can change the way you work, because in my routine this is absolutely no problem, and it's unlikely that Bricklink will change or upgrade anything.
(65 months ago, Jan 15, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Request official BrickLink app - Teup (6595)
[...] It's still a work in progress I think and it will be released at some point when Bricklink feels like it. But until they will add payment methods other than PayPal [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 9, 2019, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: New Part Category - Teup (6595)
[...] That's a nice idea, thanks! And don't have to move anything around in my alphabetical storage either :)
(65 months ago, Jan 7, 2019, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Move header buttons to the left side screen - Teup (6595)
[...] This still annoys me every single day but probably won't ever be fixed? I need to choose between zooming down 30% from how I'd like to view the site and stare [...]
(65 months ago, Dec 26, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Coupons improvement - Teup (6595)
[...] You're not using instant checkout, so what you could do is mail an advertisement to your store mailing list and tell them that you'll apply a discount if they [...]
(66 months ago, Dec 12, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Automatic price while listing items - Teup (6595)
[...] They do, but they won't do anything.
(66 months ago, Dec 5, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: 40292 minifig error - Teup (6595)
[...] Well, I actually agree with yorbrick the "boy" should be added to the catalog. I understand the Bricklink catalog follows the instructions and that is a good and smart [...]
(66 months ago, Dec 4, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: 40292 minifig error - Teup (6595)
[...] I guess if dad really is a hairdresser or fashion designer, the girl's hair could be even better :D
(66 months ago, Dec 4, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: 40292 minifig error - Teup (6595)
[...] :O Haha that's crazy, seems the person making the instructions made the mistake. I guess Bricklink follows the instructions and not the box, so probably it should [...]
(66 months ago, Dec 4, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread 40292 minifig error - Teup (6595)
(Set 40292-1) LOL, so the Christmas giftset 40292 has a male and a female hairpiece so that the child can be a boy or a girl (and they're both on the box). But someone [...]
(66 months ago, Dec 4, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Something I Just Threw Together - Teup (6595)
I think "figures" is good, as in my understanding of English it refers more to physical shape than "characters". "Characters" I expect to be animate, while the category also [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 26, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Part out value may not always be accurate - Teup (6595)
[...] Agreed. And then there's VAT.... Even if Bricklink would have only 1 store, that store could still find itself in a race to the bottom. They list things, some sell [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 23, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Projectile Launcher - Teup (6595)
[...] Ok yeah.. that one is weird.. I didn't think about these :) But not a slope either, just the most random shape ever.. I would say Wedge or Vehicle... Same for [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 21, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Projectile Launcher - Teup (6595)
[...] But do you know that all the ones in Brick,Modified have a circular curve and the ones in slope all have an arbitrary curve? Maybe that helps telling them apart. The [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 21, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Projectile Launcher - Teup (6595)
[...] Well, I think there's a fairly clear-cut difference between shooters that shoot existing parts and shooters that have specifically designed projectiles for them. [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 21, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Projectile Launcher - Teup (6595)
[...] To me Brick,Modified vs Slope,Curved is absolutely fine. I never have any doubts or troubles with it. Brick,Round is round in the XY dimension, Brick,Modified is round [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 21, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Projectile Launcher - Teup (6595)
[...] Thanks, ok, that makes sense - then my list is just for future reference :) Personally I'd propose including the projectiles into the category, whenever at least [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 21, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Projectile Launcher - Teup (6595)
So.. what's the deal with the Projectile Launcher category? Currently has one item: (Part 15301c01) I proposed this category so various shooters can be grouped together, [...]
(66 months ago, Nov 21, 2018, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" - Teup (6595)
[...] I don't know about legal but BrickOwl has it and I think it's quite useful. If it's not legal, it could at the least be recorded internally and scammers could [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 12, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Mark a buyer as "Refunded due to non-arrival" - Teup (6595)
[...] It's again one of those features that BrickOwl has but Bricklink probably never will because of lack of development. I would vote yes, but I've been doing that [...]
(67 months ago, Nov 11, 2018, to Suggestions)

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