Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Dhobeck  | | Posted: | May 10, 2024 17:25 | | Subject: | Re: Really old Samsonite Green Plates | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, goldknight writes:
| | In General, Sterra writes:
| | Hi,
Bought a 3# bag for $6 at the thrift store today of visibly vintage bricks.
Along with the milky white hinge coupling nylon and printed 'Garage'
and 'Theatre" bricks it also had a large handful of green 1x2, 2x2, 2x3
and 2x4 CA plates. After some research I found that they were only produced
in North America for a couple years (1963-1965) and never apart of a set just
an accessory box. Is there a market for these and how would I go about selling
them?
Also, a few of the pieces have the logos not squared up. One stud will be 'printed'
at an angle. How does this even happen?
Vintage needs to be more than 50 years old not 20, in my opinion.
Sandra
TerraBrick
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Hi Sandra--I collect the 1x2 plates 3023old in all colors especially green.
I will pm you
thank you
Kevin
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How extensive is your collection? I would love to start collecting some unique
parts just not sure where I want to take it.
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| Author: | goldknight | | Posted: | May 10, 2024 16:30 | | Subject: | Re: Really old Samsonite Green Plates | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Sterra writes:
| | Hi,
Bought a 3# bag for $6 at the thrift store today of visibly vintage bricks.
Along with the milky white hinge coupling nylon and printed 'Garage'
and 'Theatre" bricks it also had a large handful of green 1x2, 2x2, 2x3
and 2x4 CA plates. After some research I found that they were only produced
in North America for a couple years (1963-1965) and never apart of a set just
an accessory box. Is there a market for these and how would I go about selling
them?
Also, a few of the pieces have the logos not squared up. One stud will be 'printed'
at an angle. How does this even happen?
Vintage needs to be more than 50 years old not 20, in my opinion.
Sandra
TerraBrick
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Hi Sandra--I collect the 1x2 plates 3023old in all colors especially green.
I will pm you
thank you
Kevin
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| Author: | maxx3001 | | Posted: | May 10, 2024 16:22 | | Subject: | Re: Really old Samsonite Green Plates | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Sterra writes:
| | Hi,
Bought a 3# bag for $6 at the thrift store today of visibly vintage bricks.
Along with the milky white hinge coupling nylon and printed 'Garage'
and 'Theatre" bricks it also had a large handful of green 1x2, 2x2, 2x3
and 2x4 CA plates. After some research I found that they were only produced
in North America for a couple years (1963-1965) and never apart of a set just
an accessory box. Is there a market for these and how would I go about selling
them?
Also, a few of the pieces have the logos not squared up. One stud will be 'printed'
at an angle. How does this even happen?
Vintage needs to be more than 50 years old not 20, in my opinion.
Sandra
TerraBrick
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Hi Sandra,
Yes there are collectors out there for these parts.
The misaligned logos is pretty standard for Samsonite bricks, see picture.
The studs are loose mold pieces and can be removed and or replaced.
Samsonite just didn’t care about quality and so we get these nice all over the
place logos 😁
You can list these parts under their normal,listing, just add Samsonite, CA and
Pat.pend to the description.
If you want I can guide you to interested people.
Prices for these plates can give you a nice return on your $6 investment 👍
I myself am still looking for a green Samsonite 2x4, but in brick form.
If you have more questions, just ask.
Cheers,
Maxx
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| Author: | UTLF | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 18:17 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | | But UTLF point may be that time, energy and money spent on those weren't
used to fix or upgrade our day to day use of the current BrickLink.
For a few years we only see as upgrades: more taxes, documents and procedures
to follow.
I don't blame BrickLink, it's everywhere - the legalized income pressure
gets higher and higher on small people, with nothing/few in compensation.
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Yeah, that's what I was getting at: pouring resources into useless changes
that nobody asked for and acting like they're doing work when the important
stuff gets swept under the rug
But hey, make sure you pay your seller fees or else we'll shut your store
down! We need to fund more useless projects instead of tackling things people
have been asking for for years now!
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 17:40 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, UTLF writes:
none of these touches the old spaghetti code:
— the MOC Pop-up Shop is (was/will be again?) on the v2/v3 part of the website,
— the Studio forum is totally separate code but for the shared authentication
which is on the v2/v3 side,
— ditto BDP, which is also, IIUC, how BL is making money and why TLG bought BL,
— and the merges don’t touch the code at all, which is why it’s painfully done
manually over several months rather than with a simple scripted database update
in one fell.
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Agreed with this - and I love the recent Catalog merges.
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| | But UTLF point may be that time, energy and money spent on those weren't
used to fix or upgrade our day to day use of the current BrickLink.
For a few years we only see as upgrades: more taxes, documents and procedures
to follow.
I don't blame BrickLink, it's everywhere - the legalized income pressure
gets higher and higher on small people, with nothing/few in compensation.
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Finally some thing we all can agree on.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 16:09 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, UTLF writes:
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"It's the spaghetti code though! it's impossible to tackle!!!!"
Is that why they've done umpteen complex & pointless changes that no one
asked for while ignoring real issues? Implementing a MOC pop-up shop, a designer
program, a 2nd forum for Studio, and merging a bunch of parts for no reason?
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To nitpick
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As always!
| | none of these touches the old spaghetti code:
— the MOC Pop-up Shop is (was/will be again?) on the v2/v3 part of the website,
— the Studio forum is totally separate code but for the shared authentication
which is on the v2/v3 side,
— ditto BDP, which is also, IIUC, how BL is making money and why TLG bought BL,
— and the merges don’t touch the code at all, which is why it’s painfully done
manually over several months rather than with a simple scripted database update
in one fell.
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Agreed with this - and I love the recent Catalog merges.
But UTLF point may be that time, energy and money spent on those weren't
used to fix or upgrade our day to day use of the current BrickLink.
For a few years we only see as upgrades: more taxes, documents and procedures
to follow.
I don't blame BrickLink, it's everywhere - the legalized income pressure
gets higher and higher on small people, with nothing/few in compensation.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 16:00 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, UTLF writes:
| | […]
"It's the spaghetti code though! it's impossible to tackle!!!!"
Is that why they've done umpteen complex & pointless changes that no one
asked for while ignoring real issues? Implementing a MOC pop-up shop, a designer
program, a 2nd forum for Studio, and merging a bunch of parts for no reason?
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To nitpick (who said “as always”?!) on this specific part of your post, none
of these touches the old spaghetti code:
— the MOC Pop-up Shop is (was/will be again?) on the v2/v3 part of the website,
— the Studio forum is totally separate code but for the shared authentication
which is on the v2/v3 side,
— ditto BDP, which is also, IIUC, how BL is making money and why TLG bought BL,
— and the merges don’t touch the code at all, which is why it’s painfully done
manually over several months rather than with a simple scripted database update
in one fell.
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| Author: | sasquatch_eater | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 15:25 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, Jkbvmartinez04 writes:
| | No mustard-flavored Spam? I'm very surprised...
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Have you tried it? The mustard-flavored one isn't spam.
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How about pizza with ham?
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How about this?
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| Author: | UTLF | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:48 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| I don't care about the spam itself, I'm more-so bothered by the fact
that the Admins in charge allow it in the first place; it may be an insignificant
annoyance, but for me, it shows they don't care. Action speaks louder than
words, and they're full of empty promises.
They can say they care, they can give as much lip-service as they'd like,
but it's been going on for years now and they still haven't come up with
a simple solution to forum spam. I've said it in the past, but it doesn't
really make me feel confident in the site's security when they can't
even deal with simple spam being posted daily for the past 3 or so years.
"It's the spaghetti code though! it's impossible to tackle!!!!"
Is that why they've done umpteen complex & pointless changes that no one
asked for while ignoring real issues? Implementing a MOC pop-up shop, a designer
program, a 2nd forum for Studio, and merging a bunch of parts for no reason?
It's extremely frustrating to watch, especially when some changes have been
protested for weeks before they implemented them. But "muh spaghetti code"
prevents them from implementing a requirement or filter for forum posts. Makes
sense.
I personally think the whole Bricklink team needs a restructuring or needs to
be replaced entirely. Sorry to say, but this seems to have been an issue for
way longer than I've even been on the website judging by other posts that
have been brought up over the years.
They hired more helpdesk staff back around Fall 2022, then on top of that they
had Lego step in and provide customer service reps this year, and that STILL
hasn't helped the help desk backlog, that has been "months behind"
for months now with no real info as to how bad it is, we can only go off of what
regular forum members parrot in their posts.
On top of that, the community engagement people hardly communicate with us...
the only admin that actually seems to acknowledge posts is Russell, but even
then a lot gets ignored and looked over (I know he can't reply to everything
and read everything, but there are a lot of popular forum posts that have valid
concerns that get ignored)
I love Bricklink, just hate to see it mishandled and stomped on like it has been
for the past while now.
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:37 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe 
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Says the one who spammed the forum with over 6,500 messages
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Profession: spreader.
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Confession: spammer.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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Says the one who spammed the forum with over 6,500 messages
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Profession: spreader.
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, Jkbvmartinez04 writes:
| | No mustard-flavored Spam? I'm very surprised...
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Have you tried it? The mustard-flavored one isn't spam.
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How about pizza with ham?
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:10 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Jkbvmartinez04 writes:
| | No mustard-flavored Spam? I'm very surprised...
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Have you tried it? The mustard-flavored one isn't spam.
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| Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:10 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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I understand. From the posted suggestion "Personally don't find the
spam posts all that bothersome. Many do though, and if there's an easy fix
to tidy things up a bit..."
But whether you, I or some others are overly bothered, is not the point of the
suggestion. Betterment of the site, if for no other reason
Anyway, it's just a suggestion of how something that does bother others,
could be handled. A few analogies leap to mind, things that should not be allowed
as being disruptive or subversive to the accustomed functioning of a given community.
In other words, things which though don't particularly bother you or I, might
be addressed nonetheless
But like I said, just a suggestion
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 14:07 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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Says the one who spammed the forum with over 6,500 messages
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| Author: | sasquatch_eater | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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| Author: | Jkbvmartinez04 | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | No mustard-flavored Spam? I'm very surprised... |
| Author: | Tracyd | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 13:41 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Dhobeck writes:
| | In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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Many different types of spam indeed
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https://youtu.be/cFrtpT1mKy8
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| Author: | Dhobeck | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 13:27 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, 1001bricks writes:
| | In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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Many different types of spam indeed
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | May 9, 2024 13:23 | | Subject: | Re: Continued Forum Spam | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, popsicle writes:
I just ignore it and it doesn't hurt me at all.
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Same!
Gummies, Pizzas, Mustard, various GPTusers, mods with far too much time and knowledge
(and no Selling Feedback, imagine!), silly contests, Inventory Requests - there
are many different forms of SPAM - depending the POV maybe
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