| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Leftoverbricks  | | Posted: | Apr 12, 2024 11:38 | | Subject: | Movements in Item Type and Category #7 | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| Today we received this update of items that were moved to another category:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2599
I strongly object to the movement of below parts to the Arch category.
and
The definition of an arch according to the Oxford dictionary is:
a curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting
the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.
Neither of those parts fulfil that description. They do not span an opening.
They maybe help to raise an adjoining element.
This becomes more obvious if you look at the 39 parts that are now categorized
as Arch.
There are exactly two parts that don't look like any other part in this category,
the other 37 parts do.
See picture below or this link: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catString=6
I strongly suggest to undo the movement since it is not at all logical, not following
the definition of an arch and certainly doesn't a help a user to search for
an item like 4190 or 73682.
My suggestion is to move these items to Plate, Modified or Tile, Modified.
Please support my suggestion by replying with an upvote -- no need to cite
my post, just say +1
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 3, 2024 11:59 | | Subject: | Incorrect parts price inflation | | Viewed: | 298 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| I observe that some parts are regularly offered for exorbitant prices when there
is actually no reason for this.
Take for example this part
This was previously only available in set and
These sets were limited in number and are much sought after.
Since 2024, a new set has been available that contains this part.
It can be purchased in any LEGO store or reseller. But I still see that every
new seller of this part bases their price on the original price when this part
was still rare.
This it totally nuts imo.
I'm thinking of parting out 10 sets containing this part and pricing them
at around 50 cents to change the price guide which will force future sellers
of this item to sell this item cheaper.
To the sellers: do you also experience these kinds of crazy things?
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2024 08:02 | | Subject: | How to delete the contents of a stockroom? | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| How to delete the contents of a certain stockroom (A, B, C) and not make changes
to the available items?
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Mar 4, 2024 10:49 | | Subject: | Proposal: new organization of magazine sets | | Viewed: | 114 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Open | |
| How to better deal with the sets that come with LEGO magazines?
situation
Currently there are LEGO magazines with added sets (they are glued to the magazine)
in 6 countries, each in the language from the country where they are published.
- Germany
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- Netherlands
- France
- Sweden
It is painfully obvious that there are no English speaking countries in this
list.
The frequency in which they appear varies a bit. I have no exact data but 6-8
magazines per year seems to be sort of average.
themes
The magazines come in 8 themes (not each country get the same themes covered):
- Avengers
- Batman
- City
- Friends (this is the oldest one)
- Jurassic World
- Minecraft
- Ninjago
- Spiderman
current Bricklink coverage
The extent to which all these items are included in the catalogue depends on
the cooperation of volunteers in different countries. As far as I have been able
to determine, the sets are always added to the catalogue, but the magazines in
which they appear are not always added - they need a separate entry in the catalogue.
how to find these magazine sets on Bricklink?
Until recently you could find them by searching for the theme and add 'foil
pack' to your search criteria.
For example here is the list of Minecraft Foil Packs: minecraft+foil+pack
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=foil+pack+minecraft&tab=S#T=S
However, somewhere in 2023 TLG began to replace the foil packs by paper bags
glued to the magazine. Accordingly, Bricklink catalogue admins understandably
changed the description from foil pack to paper bag.
The result is that you now also have to search for the paper bags minecraft+paper+bag:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=paper+bag+minecraft&tab=S#T=S
Currently there are about 500-600 sets that are part of a magazine. And there's
no easy way to find them all in a single search or a limited search by theme.
therefore my suggestion about how to deal with this
I looked at the way how Brickset deals with the same problem and they have a
very clever and simple solution for it. They just call all the foil packs and
paper bags 'magazine gifts'.
If you want to search for these items you can do so: https://brickset.com/sets/subtheme-Magazine-Gift
My suggestion is to follow this example and change the description of all those
sets. For example
would become: Alex, Baby Llama and Bee - Magazine Gift
Even more nice would it be to make additional changes to the sets catalogue tree:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=S
and add a new subtheme called 'Magazine Gift' for each of the 8 themes
TLG has magazines with sets. Star Wars already has 45 subthemes so one more wouldn't
hurt 
This way we have several options to search for the magazine sets: by keyword
(Magazine Gift) or by browsing/searching for the theme and selecting the subtheme.
Martin
(And of course I offer to help with this. I have lots of free time.)
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2024 10:52 | | Subject: | about latest additions to minecraft minifigs | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| I notice that the latest additions to the Minecraft minifigures were
and
What happened to min167?
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 17, 2024 12:03 | | Subject: | Ladekastjes te koop | | Viewed: | 146 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| Ik heb mijn Leftoverbricks winkel verkocht
De kopers wilden echter niet al mijn ladekastjes overnemen dus ik zit met een
overschot.
Als iemand geïnteresseerd is hoor ik het graag. De meeste zijn van Raaco. Het
gaat om 8-12 kastjes, zie foto.
Martin
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2024 11:17 | | Subject: | Which part isthis (helmet, dbg) | | Viewed: | 145 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| Instabrick couldn't identify but I'm sure you can.
Picture shows outside and inside. 
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2024 11:10 | | Subject: | Sharing wanted list feature coming soon | | Viewed: | 163 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
| I think it's a year or two or three (or longer) that I see this message in
the set-up of a wanted list:
Share Wanted List - Feature coming soon!
So I wonder: what is 'soon' in the perception of Bricklink?
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 11:33 | | Subject: | Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 316 times | | Topic: | General | |
| This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2024 10:23 | | Subject: | Catmins: What happened to min094? | | Viewed: | 126 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| Hi,
Minecraft minifigure min094 is missing in the catalog. We have a continuous range
from min001 until min159. But 094 is not there 
Is there a catalogue admin who knows the story? It must happened somewhere in
2021.
And can we fill up the gap somehow?
For instance with the next variant of the Iron Golem which now counts 4: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=iron%20golem#T=M
Another suggestion is to use min094 for a future variant of Steve (009) or
Alex (017), like when they appear with legs or helmets in a new colour.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 11:44 | | Subject: | Shop Leftoverbricks te koop | | Viewed: | 214 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| Hoi,
Ik overweeg om mijn shop te verkopen. De voornaamste reden is dat ik de afgelopen
twee jaar minder belangstelling voor LEGO heb gekregen en ben geswitcht naar
een andere hobby.
Voorheen gebruikte ik mijn BL winkeltje voornamelijk als inkomstenbron om daarmee
nieuwe LEGO sets te kopen. Maar ik koop nauwelijks nog nieuwe LEGO.
Ik heb mijn winkeltje in een eigen kamer en alles is goed georganiseerd met veel
ladekastjes. Foto's op verzoek.
Behalve de voorraad wil ik ook af van de ladekastjes en een flinke voorraad aan
luchtkussenenveloppen en ander verpakkingsmateriaal.
Ik prijs mijn artikelen meestal op het niveau van 6 months average. Zie plaatje
Mijn winkel is in Zwolle.
Als je geïnteresseerd bent ga dan naar mijn winkel en klik op Contact. Ik heb
er geen haast mee. En het kan ook een paar dagen duren voor ik reageer
Martin
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jun 15, 2023 11:40 | | Subject: | sick and tired about selling to England | | Viewed: | 251 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| I have no minimum order amount in my shop. I compensate for (very) small orders
by adjusting my shipping price.
However: shipping small orders to the UK requires filling in custom forms and
for an order of 59 cents I do not want to do that. Currently there's no way
to tweak your shipping options to exclude the minimum order amount for specific
countries.
Therefore I have decided to completely stop shipping to England unless I'm
allowed to add a handling cost for England.
Personal note: the Brits who voted for secession should know that this is one
of the consequences....
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 09:18 | | Subject: | how to upload xml file to wanted list | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| I can't find where or how to upload a .xml file into a new or existing wanted
list.
It should be possible since you can download a wanted list to a .xml file.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2023 11:30 | | Subject: | Error or bug when buying from selected stores | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| I searched for a part to buy and selected "Shipping to The Netherlands"
as a preset.
On the search result page I click on the item I want to buy.
However when I go the shop I see that the seller doesn't ship to my country.
Question: Why did this item show up in my search results?
The accompanying images speak for themselves.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2023 04:29 | | Subject: | How do I delete my entire store inventory? | | Viewed: | 106 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| | How do I delete my entire store inventory? |
| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Mar 22, 2023 06:12 | | Subject: | IS MY STORE HACKED? | | Viewed: | 320 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| Closed my store last weekend. Was about to open it again today and saw that my
inventory almost doubled in lots as well as items! I did nothing in between,
except from packing orders. Had my Brick Owl shop closed as well.
What could have happened?
Can I revert to my inventory from Sunday?
Help needed!
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2023 11:46 | | Subject: | problemen met downloaden labels postnl | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| Ik kan vandaag geen verzendlabels meer downloaden van de zakelijke Postnl omgeving.
De orders worden aangemaakt, ik ga naar voorbereide zendingen en klik op printen.
Normaal verschijnt er dan een download button maar nu dus niet.
Iemand die dit ook heeft?
Ik heb 2 browsers geprobeerd: firefox en chrome.
(Om reacties te voorkomen als 'waarom meld je dit niet bij Postnl': Ik
ga vooralsnog geen contact opnemen met postnl omdat deze een zodanige barrière
voor klachten of vragen heeft opgeworpen dat ik er compleet van in de stress
schiet en ik weet dat het je uren gaat kosten om alleen al een reactie te krijgen
etc. etc. etc.)
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 28, 2023 11:36 | | Subject: | question about new unoffical parts in stud.io | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| I've downloaded a couple of .dat files from Ldraw that are still unofficial
and copied them to C:\Program Files\Studio 2.0\ldraw\UnOfficial\parts but they
don't show up in Stud.io.
What's the trick?
(I did the same for MLCad where they showed up and were useable, so it's
not a problem with the parts themselves)
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 23, 2023 11:28 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink Catalog Newsletter - Feb 2023 | | Viewed: | 154 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| You did a bad job here: black lettering on a dark blue background.
Apparently you don't have graphical designers in your team. Or everyone in
your team is aged below 30.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2023 10:06 | | Subject: | Question about printed tiles 3069 | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| I've got a question. Is there a reason why some -- to be precise 39 --
1x2 tiles (3069) were numbered 3069bpx + a sequential number instead of
3069bpb0000 where 0000 is a number?
Below is merely an illustration:
[P=3069bpx40,1]
and
[P=3069bpb0779,1]
[P=3069bpx6,1]
and
[P=3069bpb0264,1]
Also: while there are 39 tiles in the bpx category, they are not numbered in
a sequential way like 1-39 but completely random: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=3069bpx*&rpp=50&tab=P#T=P
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