Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | mandr  | | Posted: | Apr 14, 2023 23:15 | | Subject: | Re: Buyer hasn't left feedback | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, BrickABrak101 writes:
| | Is this common practice on here for buyers to not leave feedback?
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Yes, as others have indicated. You probably shouldn’t worry about it. Your feedback
looks great.
Just for your info, the person who appears to not have left feedback for you,
seems to never leave feedback for any sellers. So you shouldn’t worry. You
can see this by clicking on his/her feedback and then click at the bottom on
show me the feedback that he/she has left others. You can see that he/she buys
a lot but just doesn’t do feedback. So it is better for you to not send multiple
emails asking for feedback, especially to a buyer who never leaves it.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2023 18:37 | | Subject: | Re: First neutral feedback, how should I respond? | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Given the comment in their neutral, which is quite positive sounding, it may
have been an error on the buyers part. In which case, perhaps the buyer may change
the feedback to positive. Hopefully.
But I would suggest that you shouldn’t leave a negative feedback. It makes you
look difficult (even though your other feedback indicates otherwise) especially
since the wording of your buyer’s neutral wasn’t nasty. Buyers do look at how
sellers respond to negative and neutral feedback, and if it is retaliatory, It
may affect whether or not they buy from you if they fear that any issues in their
order would cause ugly confrontations.
Be kind and understanding, especially as the buyer has probably gotten so used
to Paypal that they assume it as a basic. You could simply not give them any
feedback but reply to their feedback with an apology that you didn’t offer an
option that they needed. It makes you look really good and buyers usually would
not hold that neutral against you at all. It stings to get that neutral feedback
but I wouldn’t hesitate to buy from you if I saw that type of exchange. I buy
from lots of sellers with the odd neutral / negative.
In Help, 23thEmperor writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Help, 23thEmperor writes:
| | In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | | | Might I ask why you don’t accept PayPal
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I first used it when I opened my store but PayPal shut down my account soon after
that.
Tried for around 2-3 weeks to get it fixed but the customer service kept sending
me around and not actually helping.
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You must have done (must have done)
Something wrong (something wrong)
Said: you must have done (must have done)
Wo! Something wrong (something wrong)
Why you can't find the
Place where you belong?
Normally with PayPal it's for life (with or without them) 
You should try anyway to contact them from time to time, if you *really* think
you're in good faith...
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Yeah i tried many times but it seems its for life.
It is what it is but it was definitely a fun start to opening up my store.
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could you get a family member to setup a Paypal account since sales are under
30K (presumably) so its not like tax issues could make it complicated and then
they could withdraw it and then etranfer it to you once a week or month maybe?
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Sadly that is not something I can do.
Btw update on the neutral,
He read the message and no reply.
I will probably give a negative feedback if I get no response within 48hours.
Thanks for all the tips btw.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Feb 7, 2022 20:23 | | Subject: | Re: To touch or not to touch... | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Bfbrinkley writes:
| | Just got myself a Star Wars Cloud City Boba, but he's got a cracked left
arm. I previously posted asking for ideas on how to repair it and was met with
multiple suggestions. However, seeing the value of this figure and the fact I've
never experimented with this type of thing before, should I just leave it alone?
As my dad once told me about his coin collection- "Don't do anything to them
in an attempt to increase the value. It will only DECREASE the value." Is this
true with minifigs? I would obviously never try to pass off a repaired arm Boba
as a mint one, but should I just leave the guy alone or continue to pursue legit
ideas to repair a cracked arm? Are the even any benefits to having one with a
"repaired" arm as opposed to one with a "hairline crack?" Thanks!
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Agree, don't try to repair the cracked arm, and don't wait for an arm
to come up for sale without a crack - rarely happens and if so, will be expensive.
I similarly did sell our Cloud City Boba Fett some years ago, and he too had
a cracked left arm. I took probably about 5 or 6 pictures, and included the
pictures in the listing (HTML) so that the buyer could see how it impacted the
overall look of the figure. I sold it with the Cloud City set, and priced it
accordingly at the time, knowing that Boba Fett was one of the main attractions
to the set. I had no trouble selling it immediately.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Nov 21, 2021 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Please add notes for set/OB 4940-1 | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | |
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| I have a few pictures of the front of one of my sets, prior to selling, that
show the difference.
In Catalog Requests, cosmicray writes:
| | Certain production runs of this set
came with a Rock Raiders comic book, while others did not.
If you look closely at the Original Box image, you will note the orange outlined
item in the lower right corner of the front surface. That is the indicator that
this was the run with the comic book.
The copies I have remaining (one of which has a good condition front panel) do
not have that orange outlined flash message. Of the 20-30 copies I obtained (between
2001 and 2002) I do not ever recall seeing a comic book. It possible (just a
hunch tho) that the comic book was primarily shipped in EU productions runs.
I'll try to get a good image of this box front to illustrate the difference.
This may also necessitate some adjustment to the inventory to show the comic
book to be optional.
thanks, Nita Rae
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Nov 19, 2021 21:04 | | Subject: | Re: Set 4940 comic book | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, cosmicray writes:
| | Does anyone know for sure, that the NA release of 4940-1 contained the comic
book? I do not recall ever seeing it, and I broke up 10-15 copies back in the
early days of BL. Most of the contributors for the comic catalog entry are in
EU.
Nita Rae
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Nita Rae, Probably of not much help; I can’t answer for sure. In Canada - we
also had 2 copies of the set - birthday presents - and I saved everything. Boxes,
Lego catalogues, bionicle containers, and especially comic books from sets and
the Lego catalogues. (As an aside, for a time I had two copies of the bionicle
comic books in pristine condition from the free lego catalogues from about 2001
to 2008 and I was stunned when people wanted these items.)
But, when I went to sell both copies of the 4940 Granite Grinder, I couldn’t
find the comic books anywhere. I tore up my house looking for them, assuming
I would not have thrown them away. And I can still see the old listing in my
inventory (as I retained it) and it indicates that the comic book is not included.
Since I never found them, both copies since I had 2 sets, I also wondered at
the time if they were actually present or not. I don’t think so as I had a tendency
to keep everything, but I am not sure.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2019 15:41 | | Subject: | Re: 44140 coloration | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, Shrapnil writes:
| | I have multiple colors of 44140. One of the colors seems to not match anything
in the system. There are two sets that say they have pearl dark grey but the
pictures have different colors on each set. Set 8811-1 shows the exact color
that I have but says that it should be pearl dark grey. Set 8593-1 shows the
same part as supposed to be pearl dark grey but shows a different coloration
from the one I have. Does anyone know if this is just a different color and should
be added to the system? Or do the pearl dark grey ones always look like more
of a greenish color(like in the picture for set 8811-1)
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Not sure if I can be of any help, but here are two pictures of my sets 8593 and
8811.
I do notice on set 8811 that the part does look slightly greenish on my monitor,
but then again, set 8811 is made with the Dark-Bluish Grays whereas the 8593
set is an older set made with the older Dark-Gray. So I thought the greenish
tone was because the part is side-by-side a bluish gray (in 8811) rather than
a somewhat greenish-gray (8593). Also I took the pictures in different settings,
so that might have an effect, and I am not a photographer.
First picture is 8811. Second picture, 8593
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2018 19:31 | | Subject: | Re: Brown vs reddish brown cape | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, mandr writes:
| | Maybe my monitor, but your cape looks reddish brown to me. I have two pictures
of mine, the first with a Brown cape (set 7163), and the second with a Reddish
Brown cape (7255)
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Woops my pictures were in the wrong order somehow. But the guy with the flesh
head has a reddish brown cape from set 7255. The guy with the yellow head has
a brown cape from set 7163. Sorry for the confusion.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2018 17:37 | | Subject: | Re: Brown vs reddish brown cape | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| Maybe my monitor, but your cape looks reddish brown to me. I have two pictures
of mine, the first with a Brown cape (set 7163), and the second with a Reddish
Brown cape (7255)
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2018 14:11 | | Subject: | Re: Clone Turbo Tank Instructions version 7261-1 | | Viewed: | 14 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| It sounds like you now have the instructions you need. I'll just point out
that the 7261-2 uses 8 more of the pins with stop bush than the 7261-1. 4 of
them are accounted for in my previous pictures.
For the remaining ones, from my previous pictures, you could see 2 additional
black pins - these also end up being pins with the stop bush (Page 45 Step 8
to Page 49 Step 17).
Then lastly, Page 55-56, Step 7 to 11 is where the remaining pins with stop bush
are used differently.
I also think that there was a difference in the colour of the 4x4265c Tan versus
Yellow.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2018 13:54 | | Subject: | Re: Clone Turbo Tank Instructions version 7261-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| There are a number of places where Black pins are used instead of LBG:
a) Step 5 Page 22: 4 black plus 4 LBG INSTEAD of 8 LBG
b) Step 23 Page 30: 2 black plus 2 LBG INSTEAD of 4 LBG
c) Step 25 Page 32: 2 black plus 2 LBG INSTEAD of 4 LBG
Back to the original question, on Page 46 step 12: The way the two tan connectors
#1 connect to the assembly are different as per the pictures. One uses two black
pins, and the other uses two pins with stop bush. There is another difference
in the pictures, but
I'll look a bit further into it.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2018 13:25 | | Subject: | Re: Clone Turbo Tank Instructions version 7261-1 | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| If you can't find the online instructions, I might be able to help.
Here is the first place where the different pieces are used:
About page 17, Step 16, one set of instructions uses 10 black plus 4 LBG pins
whereas the other set of instructions uses instead 12 LBG pins and 2 black pins
with stop bush. See pictures, and I'll post pictures of the next difference
in a few minutes.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Dec 28, 2017 12:50 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10243-1 | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 33078 Red Hot Dog / Sausage (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
My 10243 set came with 3 Red Hot Dogs, 1 of them an extra part.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2017 21:20 | | Subject: | Re: Admin: complete Store verification process | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, chadrobb4 writes:
| | This topic was very helpful, seeing that other people are going through the same
issues. I'm still waiting for the Bricklink admins to approve my New Seller
Verification. I have the 5 positive feedbacks and have been a user for over 100
days but for some reason I haven't been approved to open my Bricklink store.
I've sent the request via email to get approved, but I have not heard back
and it's been a week already. I'll probably give it one more week, and
if I'm not approved I'll look into other Brick/Lego websites. Thanks.
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chadrobb, you don't seem to have any payment methods. I believe new sellers
might have to offer PayPal (onsite), but I can't find where this is documented.
In any case, you need to offer some payment methods. And as per the opening
post, it appears to take maybe 6 weeks from the time you submit your email for
approval.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2017 11:34 | | Subject: | Re: Reduce Store Verification Time | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, redimension writes:
| | Team,
I have been waiting to open my store for over a month. I am more than ready to
start selling. Do you need help in this department? Volunteers to assist in matters
like this?
Cheers!
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From what I understand, if you upgrade from a buyer to a seller and if you are
a member in good standing (active 100 days and received 5 positive feedback),
then opening the store is automatically allowed.
You are a member in good standing, but you were not at the time that you tried
to upgrade as you just got the feedback last week. If I were you, I'd send
another email to Admin to try to kick-start the process again, perhaps with attention
to Jaclyn. For you it shouldn't take so long to open at this point, but
because you arrived at this point in a different way, it may unfortunately be
as MariaA says, take a few weeks. Hopefully not though. Good luck.
If you are selling parts, it might be helpful to include a shipping chart and
a few more details in your terms to help encourage buyers. I'm not in the
US, but I got the impression from buying in the US that there are shipping categories.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | May 6, 2017 21:46 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 8813-1 | | Viewed: | 16 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| | Picture from page 7 of the manual for 8813-1 |
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | May 6, 2017 21:43 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 8813-1 | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 3 Part 32064 Black Technic, Brick 1 x 2 with Axle Hole (Alternate) (match ID 3)
* Change 3 Part Black 32064b Technic, Brick 1 x 2 with Axle Hole - New Style with X Opening {match ID 0 to 3}
Comments from Submitter:
My instruction manual for set 8813-1 shows the Technic Brick 1x2 with Axle Hole instead of the same brick but with the "New Style with X Opening".
So unless it is a mistake in the drawing in the manual, I assume that the old style of brick is possible in the set. Picture attached.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Mar 12, 2017 11:51 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6602-2 | | Viewed: | 14 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, dhayes32 writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part x42 Red Minifig, Visor with Horizontal Slit and Antenna
Comments from Submitter:
This should be X42 RED Visor with Antennae not X70 bandana
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Both the red visor and the bandana are part of the set. On page 11, you can
see the mini-fig wearing the bandana instead of the visor.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2017 16:28 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 7019-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, mandr writes:
| | To follow-up, as I indicated in a PM to you, I did find a number of other inventory
errors in this set, as you say above, but all of the errors were in excess pieces,
whereas the 49 1x4 brick-logs seems to be a shortage. Which is why I've
raised the inventory change request twice - I built the set twice in the past
two years, and both times found the shortage. And both times I found the same
excess pieces.
The quantity of 49 seems odd to me given that the build is very symmetrical -
3 bricks on one side and 3 bricks on the other, etc. etc. So, the nature of
the build seems to me that there would always be an EVEN number of bricks, not
an ODD number of bricks. Having said that, maybe there is an instruction booklet
out there with 49 brick-logs.
I'm going to go through the build once more and I will compile a list of
the errors as I see them, and I'll post them here.
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As a follow up to the above post, I said that I'd post a list of the other
errors. However, I subsequently realized that there are two outstanding inventory
change requests for this particular Lego set. If those change requests are indeed
implemented, they would correct the errors that I found. So I won't post
the corrections here, and a PM has been sent to Russell with the details.
But hopefully it will be noted in the inventory that there are versions of the
7019 set with 50 instead of 49 Reddish Brown 30137 Brick, Modified 1x4 Log.
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2017 11:19 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 7019-1 | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| To follow-up, as I indicated in a PM to you, I did find a number of other inventory
errors in this set, as you say above, but all of the errors were in excess pieces,
whereas the 49 1x4 brick-logs seems to be a shortage. Which is why I've
raised the inventory change request twice - I built the set twice in the past
two years, and both times found the shortage. And both times I found the same
excess pieces.
The quantity of 49 seems odd to me given that the build is very symmetrical -
3 bricks on one side and 3 bricks on the other, etc. etc. So, the nature of
the build seems to me that there would always be an EVEN number of bricks, not
an ODD number of bricks. Having said that, maybe there is an instruction booklet
out there with 49 brick-logs.
I'm going to go through the build once more and I will compile a list of
the errors as I see them, and I'll post them here.
In Inventories Requests, viejos writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, viejos writes:
| | Let me look into it. Since the original inventory is considered solid, I think
the alternate exchange can be done with just one set of instructions.
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OK, after studying this inventory a bit and hearing from a couple people offering
different pieces of the puzzle, I am ready to pronounce this inventory to be
the textbook definition of a MESS. Not the worst I've seen on BL, but pretty
bad.
The root of the problem as I see it now is that the original inventory was compiled
from two different versions of the set - a very early version (whose production
run may have been cut short) and the "regular" early version. Alternate quantities
were listed in the Regular section alongside the Regular quantities, with no
distinguishing markings.
A late version which had a supplemental instructions sheet (showing the lengthening
of two pairs of plates - see images below) was then discovered and the differences
were added to the BL inventory within a month.
At the time this inventory was added (2005), sellers were fully expected to manually
confirm the contents of their particular sets during partout. That's how
a "fusion" inventory like this one could be made to work. This goes as a reminder
that the BL partout feature (similar to the recent populate new inventory feature)
was never intended to be a one-click operation. Rather, it was designed only
to take the brunt of the catalog work out of the partout process.
Anyhow, the change log is filled with a variety of things. The fixing of clerical
errors, attempts to separate extras, attempts to account for the two early versions,
standard system upgrades, the adding of mold variants, and a whole lot of match
ID changes. In addition, there are currently a number of pending requests from
two different members. But with a little patience, it will get fixed. I have
an idea in mind.
As a point of interest, if our current Inv Admin (Jen) at some point adds her
blue squares to this change log, it will likely set a record for the most Inv
Admins to work on a given inventory (six!).
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| Author: | mandr | | Posted: | Feb 1, 2017 10:49 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 7019-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, viejos writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, mandr writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* | | 7019-1 (Inv) Viking Fortress against the Fafnir Dragon
979 Parts, 6 Minifigures, 2005
Sets: Vikings |
* Change {49 to 50} Part Reddish Brown 30137 Brick, Modified 1 x 4 Log
Comments from Submitter:
On Nov 7/2005 the quantity for this part was changed from 50 to 49. About a year or two ago, I requested to change the quantity back to 50, however, my request was rejected or discarded.
However, I rebuilt the set and my set requires 50 pieces as follows:
Page 17 - 8 required
Page 19 - 6
Page 31 - 6
Page 32 - 4
Page 38 - 2
Page 70 - 4
Page 71 - 8
Page 70, 71 repeated x 2.
For a total of 50. I checked the two different versions of the instruction booklets on brickinstructions.com and both required 50. So at the very least, there are some instruction booklets that need 50 pieces, not 49. The quantity of 50 could be an alternate version, or at least make a note for the set.
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As per your message here:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=865715
...there are other differences as well. All of these differences need to be accounted
for in order to change the one. It is hardly possible, given the original submitter
of the inventory (and the source) that these would just be errors. In fact, multiple
versions are mentioned in the note to the set.
See if the other 3 differences are already listed in the alternate section. The
problem you're having is assuming that all versions of the instructions are
listed on the Lego site. What you see there are likely two regional printings
of the same version of the set. Lego tends to delete old versions from their
site. Check on some of the other instruction sites for the real alternate version.
Russell
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Hi Russell, I am not familiar with the various instruction sites - but just going
through the first few pages of google and picking off a few (lego.brickinstructions,
repubrick, brickset, swooshable, peeron, brickowl, bricks.argz.com) I haven't
been able to find the alternate version of the instructions. (I started off looking
for the green plate in the booklet because it has an alternate size, so is easy
to spot. But all of the booklets have the 4x6 plate instead of the 4x8. Also
counted the 1x4 logs, and all appear to have 50 like I do).
Is it possible for me to add an alternate for the brown 1x4 log with a quantity
of 50? Or will they not accept this unless I tie some of the alternates together?
I could guess that Alternates 1 and 2 are most likely related since they would
probably be needed to make the front gate wider/narrower and make it look balanced.
Alternate 7 is odd because the holes in the Technic 1x4 brick would to me, ruin
the look of the base of the fortress and I can't see why the holes would
be needed when a plain 1x4 brick would do.
Should I be looking at specific European sites for the instructions? If I can't
find anything, I'll just cancel this inventory change. I was just worried
that some people would be putting their sets together for sale with only 49 of
the logs when 50 are needed in some of the booklets.
Thanks for your help.
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