Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | qwertyboy  | | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 19:32 | | Subject: | Re: Why is this green dot perpetually there? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Ziegelmeister writes:
| | For the neurotics in the room, you probably share my pain. What does this mean?
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See at the bottom of the "my discussion forum settings":
By ignoring 1 or more users or topics or setting your default message view
to "without replies", you will not see if there are new posts indicated
by a green dot in the "Community" tab.
So to get rid of the green dot, you simply have to ignore a random user. Just
pick one from the gummies-gang.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Apr 5, 2024 10:34 | | Subject: | Re: Order Item Removal Requests Too Complicated! | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, infinibrix writes:
| | My customers always seem to have trouble following the process of approving an
item removal request therefore can these steps not be simplified?
A buyer has asked me to reduce the quantities they have ordered on a couple of
items from their order and whilst I have no issue submitting the request they
always seem to struggle to approve it despite me spending lots of extra time
trying to explain and direct them to 'MY BL' and then 'MY ACTIVITY'
to locate and approve the request
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We always send them the link that goes directly to that page:
https://www.bricklink.com/retractOrderItem.asp
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 14:00 | | Subject: | Re: Incorrect parts price inflation | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I will be completely honest here.
We run a shop, and this is not done for charity purposes - it is very much a
part of our income. I am very happy if parts are priced high, as this will generate
more revenue. Consequently, I am no fan of a race to the bottom for every part
that suddenly sees a larger number offered. Compared to when we started, prices
have gone down for parts precisely because of this race to the bottom.
To be able to sell, and still make a living, we price our product according to
what the market does. If the market allows high prices - YAY! Low prices - BOO!
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2024 23:01 | | Subject: | Re: EU Right of Withdrawal/Selling fee | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, Legopapa writes:
| | Hello,
| | | | In Germany, but also in Europe, we have the so-called "right of withdrawal".
This also applies to all commercial dealers in Germany who sell on Bricklink.
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This also happened to me as the seller. The buyer sent back the order without
any reason and was refunded by me in his original payment method, so in the end
the order never took place
(cancelled from bookkeeping).
What happens with the selling fees for this order, especially $XXX or $XXXX orders?
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If you Cancelled it (IBAN...) or Refunded it then cancelled it (PayPal, Stripe...)
then no problem, fees has been deducted for your next fees.
In short, no fees.
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... but with Paypal you can kiss your PP fees goodbye.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2024 22:59 | | Subject: | Re: Identifying parts for a wagon | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, shabtwice writes:
| | Hello,
I was wondering if any parts of the wagon can be identified. Any help would be
appreciated. Thank you in advance!
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I don’t know about the handle, nor the exact ID for the hoses, for the rest:
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The square handle grip looks to be one of these with a piece of hose wedged in
it:
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2024 20:37 | | Subject: | Re: Bricksync 404 Not Found | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I was running bricksync like normal and randomly it went from working to bugged
out. is anyone else who uses bricksync having the same issue? for reference this
"==== HEADERS ====
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:09:10 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length:
153 Connection: keep-alive Server: nginx/1.18.0 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
==== DATA ====
404 Not Found
404 Not Found
nginx/1.18.0
==== END ====
"
is what the error message file says. and was wondering if anyone had any ideas
on possible fixes.
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"When in doubt, reboot."
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 23, 2024 15:38 | | Subject: | Re: Uninventorable sets | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Turez writes:
| | Existing inventories for unreleased items have been grandfathered in because
members have put work into them.
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Ouch.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 02:11 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off, are you ready? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | Don’t forget tonight at 2:00am to 3:00am the 95% off sale will be running.
My internet has been out since late Friday, and probably won’t be back up till
tomorrow minimum.(I’m using data)
But the sale will continue.
Happy buying tonight!
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Thank you for honoring your sale, a man of his word!
Order placed for all the minifigs, sets, and various parts (so no need for local
pick-up after all).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2024 17:10 | | Subject: | Re: Using BL messages when buyers won't | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, RubyGirl writes:
| | PS Thank you for the autoreply idea.
I had one buyer, I told him about the BL message thing, so he started abusing
me by email, and appearing "reasonable" by BL message.
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To keep a record of these messages, reply using the BL system and copy/paste
their message in your reply. It is not perfect, but at least that way their correspondence
gets attached to the order in question (or at least to their account).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 11:05 | | Subject: | Re: Futuron Monorail Trans Dark Blue Antenna | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, fj writes:
| | Hi all,
I recently bought 2 Futuron Monorail sets (6990). The trans blue antennas are
of a different color blue. See image. The ones on the left have the same color
blue as the other trans dark blue colors in the set, so I assume that the 'light
blue' antennas on the right do not belong to this set.
If I look in the catalogue however, it appears that trans light blue is not a
known color for round top antennas, there is one for sale though, for a huge
amount of money...
There is one set with trans medium blue antennas (4748), but the bricklink picture
of that color is darker than my antennas.
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The antennae in your picture definitely appear to be trans-medium blue. The BL
picture (I guess it's actually a render) of the trans-medium blue antenna
looks darker than it ought to be.
One way to tell for sure would be to put the ones you have under a blacklight
- IIRC, trans-medium blue fluoresces.
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The new feature of showing-parts-with-the-requested-color helps here as well:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&colorPart=74
If you compare the pic of the antenna with others, it is obvious the color is
not very well presented for that part.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 10:40 | | Subject: | Re: Is this a legit email? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Ziegelmeister writes:
| | downloading my store inventory before someone clicks a link they're not supposed
to again.
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A sensible precaution at any time. But just to be clear and summarize all the
technical mumbo-jumbo -
If you receive emails through a reputable mail service, and you receive
an email sent by [something]@bricklink.com, you can rest assured that this email
is actually sent by an official BL mail server.
Obviously, clicking links in any email sent by bricklinks.com etc is asking
for trouble. BrickLink however should also step up a bit, and in light of these
scams should refrain from sending out emails where people need to click a link.
Instead, they should send out emails describing what people should do - something
like this:
We noticed a login from a new device at IP in COUNTRY. If you are unsure about
whether this is legit, please log into your account and change your password,
or contact our support team.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2024 10:08 | | Subject: | Re: Is this a legit email? | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | The DKIM-Signature is more secure but it needs to be verified: you can’t do it
‘manually.’ That depends on your mail provider.
Mails that don’t pass the verification don’t make it to your mailbox.
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To be precise, they won't make it to your inbox if there also is a DMARC
record that says emails that fail DKIM and/or SPF are to be quarantined or flat-out
rejected.
BrickLink has DKIM set up, and the DMARC record says mail servers should reject
emails that fail DKIM/SPF. Therefore, emails received from bricklink.com and
received by properly configured mail servers pretty much are guaranteed to be
sent by an official BL server. (Note the caveat there - if the receiving mail
server - your provider - does not do its due diligence to check SPF, DKIM and
DMARC, forged emails could seep through.)
Just to be sure, this authentication trail verifies that the mail server that
sent the email to you has all the "sending" security credentials for
a BL mail server - it does not guarantee anything about any issues that might
have happened before said email was handed to the BL mail server to be sent to
the outside world.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 16:12 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off, are you ready? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | Just added restrictions last month, but just this Monday someone ordered a 3
cent part that was right on the limit so with the packaging it was like 1 mm
to much.
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You should set your maximum dimensions to the inner dimensions you want
to allow. So for instance, if you ship with bubble mailers, you should allow
for about 4mm for the thickness of the mailer, and so you set your maximum dimensions
for a mailer to something like 360mm x 240mm x 16mm (which sets the maximum thickness
of whatever needs to be shipped to the width of a 2x2 brick or 5 stacked tiles).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 15:13 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off, are you ready? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | Are you trying to get someone else to beat me up? 
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No beating up will happen I'm sure. Just sayin' he does not need any
additional "tools" to make any point across. I used to golf with him,
and he managed to cave in two driver heads (he claimed because of his power,
we always said it was his lack of subtlety and technique).
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 14:53 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off, are you ready? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Sales, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Sales, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | You will see, just make sure your shipping method is the right one.
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No worries. I have friends in Thunder Bay, they will accommodate any place and
time you wish.
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Tell them to bring an heavy duty wrench in case seller is kind of reluctant to
proceed
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My friend used to own a restaurant here in Calgary before things went South with
Covid and he moved back to Thunder Bay. He does not need a wrench to be intimidating.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 14:46 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off, are you ready? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | In Sales, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Sales, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | The sale is still ON for the 21st just because I make a announcement saying that
the sale date is moved to a closer date dose NOT mean the first sale is over.
And yes 95% will still be there.
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OK, we will see.
Niek.
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You will see, just make sure your shipping method is the right one.
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No worries. I have friends in Thunder Bay, they will accommodate any place and
time you wish.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 14:41 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off, are you ready? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | The sale is still ON for the 21st just because I make a announcement saying that
the sale date is moved to a closer date dose NOT mean the first sale is over.
And yes 95% will still be there.
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OK, we will see.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 14:27 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off, are you ready? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | Guess what?!
Due to the overwhelming success of the test run we are moving the sale date to
March 10!!!
Still will be at 2:00A.M. to 3:00A.M.
And ALL items will be a guaranteed 95% OFF!!!!
No joke, but if you can’t wait, there will be a 50% sale March 7 starting at
9:00A.M. to 9:30A.M.!!!
SO DON’T MISS OUT!!!!
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You are posting on a forum that is used by serious people as well. You need to
be aware that posts you make can have consequences. You can't always hide
behind the (relative) anonymity of the Internet, and laugh your posts off as
a joke. One day your silly posts will get you into REAL trouble.
But I am sure this will also be shrugged off with a laugh. Sad really.
Niek.
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| Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2024 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: Spring flash sale!! 95% off so get ready! | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | I just put EVERYTHING on 95% sale just for a split second to see if you where
right annnddd, it’s $40 CAD!
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Don't you worry. We have bought up inventories 200 times your valuation.
I think we can come up with CAD 40 and handle the shipping.
Niek.
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