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 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Mar 16, 2024 09:57
 Subject: Re: Confirmation Code
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Location:  USA, Georgia
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In Selling, popsicle writes:
  In Selling, popsicle writes:
  In Selling, wanderer101 writes:
  Why am I being asked for a confirmation code ever time I log in to my Bricklink store on my Mobile phone?

  I think it is only on my phone not my home compute.

It should be both, and I believe you can opt out:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2615


In case you missed where, on this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/mystore/management.pag

Thank You, It was hard for me to enter the pin while on my phone. Am I getting
old?
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Mar 16, 2024 09:09
 Subject: Confirmation Code
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Location:  USA, Georgia
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Why am I being asked for a confirmation code ever time I log in to my Bricklink
store on my Mobile phone? I think it is only on my phone not my home compute.
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Apr 2, 2023 23:19
 Subject: Re: My Order Note field
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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In Technical Issues, wildchicken13 writes:
  I think I figured it out!

At the top of the orders placed/received pages, there is a drop-down menu for
"Show My Order Notes".

Select "As icons" instead of "On the right of each line".

Thank you, Thank You, That happened to me to and it was bugging me

Everytime saw it there.
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Nov 29, 2022 09:36
 Subject: Re: Original retail price
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In Retail, SylvainLS writes:
  In Retail, wanderer101 writes:
  Where can I go to find the original retail price of older sets. Like from 2005
forward. I used to look on Peeron.com but it does mot seem to work now.

Brickset has them.


Thanks, that will help!
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 Posted: Nov 29, 2022 06:35
 Subject: Original retail price
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Where can I go to find the original retail price of older sets. Like from 2005
forward. I used to look on Peeron.com but it does mot seem to work now.
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Oct 20, 2022 09:06
 Subject: adding items to Brickstore
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I recently started using Brickstore instead of Brickstock. When I go to add items
to the list of items I am going to upload, the item gets added 2-3 times even
though I am only clicking ADD 1 time. Than I have to go to the list and double
check all additions to make sure they are only listed once and also with the
correct amount and price. I thought it may be my mouse so I changed that and
it still happens. Any ideas why this is happening?
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Oct 20, 2022 04:51
 Subject: What is this part?
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 Topic: Catalog Identification
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Light grey, technic ? Can not find it. No number, has Lego
On studs.
 
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Aug 30, 2022 18:01
 Subject: Re: Organization System
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In Selling, DanialR writes:
  
  **Also, for all the color variations, I was thinking of pulling an actual Lego
plate in every color I have to put on a poster board. The tans, grays, and greens
are overwhelming, and I fear pulling the wrong color.

Here is a thread with info on what some of us are doing for color boards. A picture
of mine is below.

https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=317214&nID=1327813

As for organizing the Lego . . .

Let us know when you come up with the right solution. I'm on my 3rd major
and 7th minor iteration. All based on comments post here.

I'm sure some of the more experienced members can give some ideas that have
helped them.

Wow, that is the best color chartI have ever seen. How did you print the names
with
The color as a background ?
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Jul 30, 2022 18:44
 Subject: Re: International shipping using Pirate Ship
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In Shipping, miskox writes:
  You can use

https://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/

to track everything. This tracking service even shows next tracking numbers (when
for example Pirate Ship's AHOYxxx is replaced with GLS, DPD, national Post
Service's tracking number...

It can track (almost?) anything.

Saso

Thanks for the link. It will come in real handy!
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 Posted: Jul 30, 2022 12:30
 Subject: Re: International shipping using Pirate Ship
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In Shipping, brac.brick writes:
  For those of you who ship international and use Pirate ship, is it fairly straightforward
or do you have any tips ?

I used to do international shipping on Paypyal before COVID struck and then I
switched to just domestic US. Now I use Pirate ship and while it looks fairly
easy, I'd like to know what those of you have experienced, any issues with
the c

customs form or the new VAT (not hesure if applicable). Thanks in advance.


I have been using Pirate Ship exclusively for international orders for
Quite some time. No problems of any sort. The address is for a clearing station
before
The PKG. Is shipped overseas. They will give you a tracking
Number that starts with AHOY, This number will only track the
PKG. Until it leaves the USA. There will be a delivery tracking number available
later to
Track it to it's distinction. I try to get this to the customer ASAP . Customer
service
Is excellent and you can buy insurance under extra services right
On their site.
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Jul 18, 2022 17:40
 Subject: Re: Refund of Fees on order ref. due to lost ship
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In Selling, peregrinator writes:
  In Selling, wanderer101 writes:
  I have notified help desk twice on this matter. Original order fee was billed
on 3/04/2022,
Shipment was lost in transit and a full refund was issued thru Bricklink on 4/13/2022
to the customer. I am still waiting for the refund of seller fees. Not on July
statement yet. Am I going to the wrong place to report this, since I have not
gotten any results yet?

As Stellar notes, the only thing you need to is cancel the order, and as the
seller, you can cancel once you file the order cancellation request.

Note that seller fees for the cancelled order will be credited to your account
and not refunded.

Thanks, both of you for the help. I did not realize that I
Also had to cancel the order.
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Jul 18, 2022 04:57
 Subject: Refund of Fees on order ref. due to lost ship
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I have notified help desk twice on this matter. Original order fee was billed
on 3/04/2022,
Shipment was lost in transit and a full refund was issued thru Bricklink on 4/13/2022
to the customer. I am still waiting for the refund of seller fees. Not on July
statement yet. Am I going to the wrong place to report this, since I have not
gotten any results yet?
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Mar 23, 2022 18:28
 Subject: Re: Listing Custom Solid Color Minifigs
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In Help, SellingRonsBrx writes:
  Greetings, my husband has a bunch of minifigs, that I think he put together himself
a long time ago, which seem to be all the same color or a few have different
color hands and heads. How can I list these please? Being that he told me to
burn the lego, he is of zero help and not interested in anything I am doing to
try and give this stuff a new home. Everyday I learn a new part and if I have
some, I list it for sale.

Thanks for any help,

Butsaba


You are a good person to save the Lego and find them a new home. If a minifig
is all one
color it is called a Monochrome minifig. They will sell or you can take them
apart and sell
the torso with arms and hands, legs, and head separately. Minifig parts also
sell well.
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 Posted: Mar 18, 2022 17:44
 Subject: Set Lost UPS shipping!
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This is the first order I have had go missing in 11 years of sales. Can some
of you
who may have gone thru this give me tips on how to proceed? Claim has been filed
with
UPS, They say it is lost after only two days of investigation. It was over $500.00
set
and unfortunately I did not buy extra insurance. On pirate ship they said it
had
$100.00 insurance. Do I notify Bricklink first?
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Oct 30, 2021 14:52
 Subject: Re: Find All Colors of 1x1 Plates and Buy
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In Help, maroonedsia writes:
  Hi, this is Sia, I'm very new in the Lego world, and I have difficulties
navigating this website for buying items. I hope someone here can help me.

I want to work on a pixel art frame project, So I need two things as starting
steps:

1. Find all the possible colors of 1x1 plates. Ideally, if the info includes
the color code, and images, it will be very great. It seems the "Color Catalog"
page is not very useful.

2. Then, after figuring out which colors I want, I would like to order the items
by certain quantities. Again, "Color Catalog" is not useful and takes me to pages
that I don't understand what they are (They show other parts in various colors!!)

Could anyone tell me what's the best way to do these 2 steps, please?

Thank you so much.
Cheers,
Sia

Go to this page: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3024#T=C

Look on the right side of the page under Known Colors It is the last colum
to the right.
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Oct 30, 2021 14:32
 Subject: Re: Find All Colors of 1x1 Plates and Buy
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In Help, maroonedsia writes:
  Hi, this is Sia, I'm very new in the Lego world, and I have difficulties
navigating this website for buying items. I hope someone here can help me.

I want to work on a pixel art frame project, So I need two things as starting
steps:

1. Find all the possible colors of 1x1 plates. Ideally, if the info includes
the color code, and images, it will be very great. It seems the "Color Catalog"
page is not very useful.

2. Then, after figuring out which colors I want, I would like to order the items
by certain quantities. Again, "Color Catalog" is not useful and takes me to pages
that I don't understand what they are (They show other parts in various colors!!)

Could anyone tell me what's the best way to do these 2 steps, please?

Thank you so much.
Cheers,
Sia

Hi, I have quite a few colors of 1 x 1 plates in my store!
https://store.bricklink.com/wanderer101?p=wanderer101#/shop

feel free to message me if you have any questions.
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 Posted: Jul 10, 2020 07:35
 Subject: Re: Am I right and everyone else wrong?
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In Colors, Superbar writes:
  Hi,

So I'd like someone to have a look at this and see if I am going mad please.
Have a look at the first picture without looking at the second you will see both
parts stuck together look identical in colour. Both are brown. Now look at the
second picture the same part Plate 1x1 with the design on that side of it is
listed only as reddish brown and never as brown. Should this not be listed as
brown?

Kind regards

Barry

What I would do is ask on the forum which sellers are experts in colors,
Than order 1 of each color in 2 x 4 bricks . Than make a color chárt on a large
Baseplate and label each color Next to it's brick. If the seller is
Really helpful they will put each brick in it's own little Baggie
And write the color on it.Sometimes you have to go out in the sunlight to really
See the difference.
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 Posted: Nov 28, 2017 14:42
 Subject: Re: Force sellers to ship in boxes
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In Suggestions, tonnic writes:
  I would like to vote ‘yes’ but will vote ‘no’.

The smallest cardboard box/envelope I use is already 32,8 grams, the smallest
bubblewrap envelope is about 6 to 7 grams.

I believe USA shipping outside the USA or Northern America is already $10+ with
a decent amount of weight, weight enough to leave the seller room for a much
heavier cardboard envelope.

In the Netherlands I can ship a total weight below 20 grams international for
€1,33.
A cardboard envelope would give at least twice these shippingcosts, maybe even
triple.

Although I like and use cardboard envelopes for their protection and easier way
of packing/filling an envelope it would be too expensive for buyers with a low
value order to pay for this extra weight. They might walk away from these shippingcosts.

Saying this, I do believe your order was of enough weight to pack it into a cardboard
box and some extra ziplockbags.

Also it would never hurt Lego parts to use some extra lightweight bubblewrap
sheets.
And some parts or lage volume or large amount of parts should be packed much
better.
Use of extra bubblewrap, extra dividing parts by extra ziplockbags and maybe
some supporting tape to not let the ziplockbags slide over eachother will help
too.

I feel that a seller that is not conscious of protecting the customers order
will pack it in a shoddy manner no matter weather it is in a bubble mailer
or a box. I use bubble mailers for 95% of our orders, but each lot is packed
in a separate ziploc bag and than all those ziploc bags are protected with another
larger bag, usually more bubble wrap or other protective material. The boxes
cause so much more weight that it can raise the shipping costs quite a bit. I
have never had a complaint about the packing method of my orders. Plus I am super
cautious about items that could be damaged easily like trans clear parts etc.
 Author: wanderer101 View Messages Posted By wanderer101
 Posted: Aug 7, 2017 09:27
 Subject: Re: Quotes need to be highlighted
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In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
  In Suggestions, BRWA writes:
  Hi,
I would like to see quotes highlighted like invoices are, so that when a quote
comes in I see that I need to act on it - I keep missing them and the sales that
go with it.

I do find value in them, so please those that hate them or wish for them to go
away, please respect this and reserve your negativity for another location and
stay away from this post - we all do business in our own way - thank you.

So it would be good that when I click on the store I get the following messages:

X orders not invoiced
x orders not shipped
x feedback not completed
x quotes not quoted

Thank you,
Kind regards,
Dave
Brick Recycling WA

Change your settings to receive an email when there's a new Quote.

Where do you change this setting. I can not seem to find it. Thanks~
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 Posted: Mar 8, 2017 00:26
 Subject: Re: "Help" and "To Top" icons, what gives?
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In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
  In Suggestions, Jan_K writes:
  In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
  In Suggestions, Jan_K writes:

  Just curious...don't you find that the Page Up, Page Down, Home and End buttons
on your keyboard are a thousand times more efficient then using the scroll bar
or any floating buttons you have to find and click?

No, I don't. I browse with my right hand on the mouse, not on the keyboard.
I tend to use buttons all over the page when browsing, so keeping my right hand
on the mouse appears to be the best way for me.


Interesting...I use these keys with my left hand, but I am extremely fond of
keyboard shortcuts.

  
  The little arrow on the eBay pages does not cover up any content on the site.
Navigation aids are all well and good (especially for mobile devices) but covering
actual content with them is as bad as any pop-up ad in my opinion.

Honestly, I wonder which screens are actually affected - I do not even use full
HD screens (but 1680x1050 on two different computers) and nothing* is covered
when I brwose the site...

I always have at least 3 or 4 windows open so I have them side by side on my
screen. I couldn't work without this! It is also a pain when using my tablet
for inventory work.

Hopefully, the BL team can find a solution that works for a variety of users.
In the meantime, I was able to block the intrusive things with Adblock Element
Hiding Helper on Firefox.

Thank You for the Adblock tip. I did not know that existed. It has solved the
Brinklink issues and also tons of unwanted ads as I browse the internet
  
Take care,
Jen

  
Cheers,
Jan

*I just noticed an exception: when browsing a store, the green "Add Items to
Cart" button is indeed covered for a moment if I do not scoll to the very end
of the page.
That's stupid, of course - and should have been spotted by this "world class
development team" before implementation, no excuse.

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