| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | hpoort  | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2024 05:37 | | Subject: | Re: Status cannot change to paid. | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, mocsrus writes:
| | In Help, kittybrickz writes:
| | Hi is there taxes collected for the sale from Bricklink?
|
yes
|
So then the offsite payment was not a valid payment as it included tax which
was not to be paid to you.
The only way forward is:
(1) to refund the payment fully
(2) to tell the customer to pay again, but this time through the OnSite link
only
(3) to change your templates so that customers won't pay you offsite by mistake
(have a different e-mail address for PayPal)
And finally, enjoy the lesson learned though be it the hard way.
|
 |
| Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2024 03:38 | | Subject: | Re: Has anyone counted the number of variations? | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Kuboteka writes:
| | Who knows how to find out the number of types of parts based on color for each
Bricklink category?
Roughly speaking, there are 100 articles in the category, each of which exists
in a certain number of colors. How can I find out the total number of unique
SKU-color combinations for a category? Thank you!
|
That all depends on how you define 'exists'.
The Bricklink catalogue lists 'known' meaning that the part appears in
sets in that colour.
You could download the catalog to find out all part numbers, but that would not
tell you all the known colours. See https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp
You could download the PCC catalog to find out all combinations that we know
a PCC for, but that would not tell you the known colours of older parts nor the
part that we do not know the PCC for.
When you use Studio, you could consult the downloaded BricklinkMetaData that
Studio caches. This includes the price and colour availability for the parts
known to Studio.
Finally, you could go the other way round and start with the colour (https://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp)
and there the number of distinct known or available parts for each colour is
listed.
|
|
| Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Feb 9, 2024 12:38 | | Subject: | Re: 'Tan' Hau - any ideas? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, NoGravitasHere writes:
| | This mask genuinely keeps me up at night. It shouldn't exist, and yet...
This mask came to me from a guy here in NZ, who owned it since he was a kid.
His parents owned a toy shop in the 2000s, which might be relevant. He claims
he never painted, dyed, or otherwise modified this piece, and sold it to me as
a sundamaged white Hau. I have no clue what it is.
Theory 1: Prototype/Test Tan Hau
Counterpoint: the mask is white underneath, note the small scratches around the
mouth stud showing white plastic.
Theory 2: Sun Damage
Counterpoint: the colouration is perfect. No inconsistency whatsoever, all facets
are equally tan. Coverage is also perfect, even inside the mouth stud, all facets
of the grills, the inside of the mouth hole etc.
Theory 3: Modified white Hau
Counterpoint: sole previous owner is just as confused as I am, and genuinely
believed it was just sun damaged. He had no idea how said damage would have occurred,
he just assumed it was once white and copped some sun.
Help?
|
What is often called 'sun damage' is not actually caused by the UV light
in sun beams, although might help to speed up the process. It is a chemical change
of the plastic or additives inside the plastic itself and may show throughout
the part. So theory 2 sounds about right.
I see this every day in my kitchen: only a year after buying, my white microwave
started showing a tan front and a white button whilst before they were the same.
Both plastics must have different composition and age differently.
|
|
|
| Author: | hpoort | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2024 06:40 | | Subject: | Re: Potato Servers | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, PupKiwi writes:
| | When will Bricklink update its servers?
It seems like they are incredibly outdated because of daily maintenance that
lasts too long, as well as the designer program orders breaking the website as
well.
I am struggling to do any order processing because of this.
|
Daily maintenance does not have to do anything with the state of their servers.
It is part of Bricklink's database design that it clusters all statistical
operations into a single daily batch so as to guarantee consistency and not interrupt
daily operations. This is by design, not by outdated servers.
As Russell has written in a recent post, the peak for the BDP far outweighed
their already very high expectancy and planning for much increased bandwidth.
AFAIK, updating their servers is one of the things that Bricklink has done during
the years.
|
|
Next Page: 5 More | 10 More | 25 More | 50 More | 100 More
|
|
