Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | el_gordo  | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 08:24 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 1475-1 | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 2 Part Blue {3794 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type) to 3794a Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper)}
* Change 2 Part Yellow {3794 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type) to 3794a Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper)}
Comments from Submitter:
All jumper plates produced in the 20th century are the same, ungrooved type
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| Author: | bricks2you | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 06:49 | | Subject: | Re: Tax information in order export | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Should be there, might be called additional charges #2. Shows on invoices as
sales tax.
In Suggestions, NewTown_Bricks writes:
| | I'm working on my quarterly tax filing and was hoping to find a column in
the order export information for the tax that was collected on in-state sales.
Alas, it is not.
For those of us that collect sales tax, having that field in the order download
spreadsheet would be extremely helpful, along with the street address and city/zip
code. All of this information is required when filing sales taxes in NY.
Thank you for all you do!
Matt
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 05:28 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink: please clean up incomplete sets | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| "Sounds like a lot of work? You are probably losing money too. The average
sold price is lower than it should be because so many incomplete sets are being
sold as complete. If sellers saw the real average price they would set their
prices higher and Bricklink would benefit from the higher commission.""
Same for boxes of minifigs where SETS instead of boxes are listed, causing an
average price for the boxes far too low.
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 04:33 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 857-1 | | Viewed: | 16 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| A good photo of the box:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ntZG0QtAV-A/SzDuojs_WUI/AAAAAAAAAiY/rFLCCy_RJoA/s1600/PIC_0637.JPG
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | Now I remember better 
On the box, middle top, the gears on the engine are different than what we can
find in instructions. At the time, I was puzzled and proud for this discovery.
There were also some mistakes in the instructions.
We can see in the image that two small gears 3647 were used. Indeed, on the right
side, two
were replaced by one
and one
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There were a third 3647 as extra.
I don't know one 3647 should be added as regular and one as extra or two
as extras.
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | This may help:
One gear 3647 is used for the main model. If you check the instructions, after
the end of main model, it shows how to add a motor. I believe the second 3647
is meant for this putting on the motor. There was also an extra.
For many years, this set was my sole source of technic parts.
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | From my childhood collection: My precious!
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part x88 Black Rubber Band Small (Square Cross Section) (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3711 Black Technic, Link Chain (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3900 Light Gray Minifig, Utensil Signal Paddle (Extra)
* Add 2 Part 3647 Light Gray Technic, Gear 8 Tooth Type 1 (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3024 Trans-Red Plate 1 x 1 (Extra)
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 04:32 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 857-1 | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| Now I remember better
On the box, middle top, the gears on the engine are different than what we can
find in instructions. At the time, I was puzzled and proud for this discovery.
There were also some mistakes in the instructions.
We can see in the image that two small gears 3647 were used. Indeed, on the right
side, two
were replaced by one
and one
.
There were a third 3647 as extra.
I don't know one 3647 should be added as regular and one as extra or two
as extras.
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | This may help:
One gear 3647 is used for the main model. If you check the instructions, after
the end of main model, it shows how to add a motor. I believe the second 3647
is meant for this putting on the motor. There was also an extra.
For many years, this set was my sole source of technic parts.
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | From my childhood collection: My precious!
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part x88 Black Rubber Band Small (Square Cross Section) (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3711 Black Technic, Link Chain (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3900 Light Gray Minifig, Utensil Signal Paddle (Extra)
* Add 2 Part 3647 Light Gray Technic, Gear 8 Tooth Type 1 (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3024 Trans-Red Plate 1 x 1 (Extra)
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 04:05 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6872-1 | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
| | But which should be primaries? First one used, last onde used, most common, depicted
in manual/box art, other criteria?
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You can find that information on this page:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1562
The standard is that the most commonly-appearing part is the regular and the
less-common part is the alternate. I believe this standard was enacted to make
errors less likely when parting out sets.
However, I'm rather dissatisfied with that standard because it's somewhat
difficult to know which version of a part appeared more frequently, especially
for older sets. I'd prefer to see the variation which appeared first listed
as regular and any later variations listed as an alternates.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 03:58 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 7824-1 | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | I try to keep one inventory change request for each day. How many days in a row
we have got inventory change requests now?
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I don't really keep track of that. You can find the information here, though:
https://www.bricklink.com/calendar.asp?v=C
It looks like the most recent day with no inventory requests approved was February
7th.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 03:39 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6590-1 | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
| | I notice however an inconsistency in your last paragraph: if there is never
a 100% reliable way to know which extras come in which set, and it is
an exercise in probability anyway, then it becomes a matter of faith to consider
any extra part. Which ones do you choose to validate/discard, then?
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I'm not sure I would consider it an inconsistency. It's more of a general
misunderstanding of the purpose of the Extra Items section of an inventory.
This section exists to make it easier to deal with potentially-appearing
extras when parting out sets.
When extras are added to inventories only after being verified as appearing in
brand new sets, then I think the extras section is reliable enough to fulfill
its purpose. What I'd like to avoid are extras submitted because 49 sets
contained the extra so it is assumed the 50th must, too. I gathered this was
the approach you might be taking with the red 3070b, which is why I questioned
you on the white lever.
As for which extras are approved or not approved, I admit that there are few
ways to verify the veracity of these types of requests. I look at the totality
of the circumstances and make a decision.
| | For example, I submit to you that not a single set from my childhood, no matter
how small, came with a solitary lever in it
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This is a good observation, but a small sample size and likely only representative
of a single area of production. Nevertheless, I agree that some extras are nearly
guaranteed to appear in a set no matter when or where it was purchased. And
you finding extra levers in all of those new sets means that every set in which
you found an extra lever should have the extra listed as such in the inventory.
| | I do not add what I am not sure of.
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Thank you for that.
Your request has been approved.
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 23:53 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 7824-1 | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| I try to keep one inventory change request for each day. How many days in a row
we have got inventory change requests now?
This set is from 1983 so the early version hinges were used.
Otherwise, this blogger did our job easier. He opened a sealed set and took photos
If you use translater, he states that the bags were sealed (except some bigger
parts that did not come in a bag)
https://steinwurf.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/bahnhof-7824/
The relevent photos are (photos 1-3 attached):
https://steinwurf.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/7824-01.jpg
https://steinwurf.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/7824-04.jpg
We can see all red hinges and half of black hinges in the photo.
Note that this is not the earliest release of this set, even if the clips 4081a
are the earlier version. The earliest release of this set had a different kind
of box (4th photo attached):
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/1/1c/7824-1-3.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110820235447
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 4276a Black Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 3)
* Add 4 Part 4275a Black Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 4)
* Add 4 Part 4276a Red Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 5)
* Add 6 Part 4275a Red Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 6)
* Change 4 Part Black 4276 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 3}
* Change 4 Part Black 4275 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 4}
* Change 4 Part Red 4276 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 5}
* Change 6 Part Red 4275 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 6}
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| Author: | SezaR | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 23:41 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7824-1 | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 4276a Black Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 3)
* Add 4 Part 4275a Black Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 4)
* Add 4 Part 4276a Red Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 5)
* Add 6 Part 4275a Red Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers and Solid Studs (match ID 6)
* Change 4 Part Black 4276 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 3}
* Change 4 Part Black 4275 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 4}
* Change 4 Part Red 4276 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 5}
* Change 6 Part Red 4275 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 6}
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| Author: | VorpalRyu | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 22:10 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75199-1 | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 2780 Black Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise WITH Center Slots (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3024 Trans-Light Blue Plate 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 4592c02 Light Bluish Gray Lever Small Base with Black Lever (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 64567 Metallic Silver Minifig, Weapon Lightsaber Hilt Straight (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
Built set, these parts were left over in addition to a pair of arms for General Grievous.
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| Author: | EmpireBricksNY | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 20:46 | | Subject: | Tax information in order export | | Viewed: | 139 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I'm working on my quarterly tax filing and was hoping to find a column in
the order export information for the tax that was collected on in-state sales.
Alas, it is not.
For those of us that collect sales tax, having that field in the order download
spreadsheet would be extremely helpful, along with the street address and city/zip
code. All of this information is required when filing sales taxes in NY.
Thank you for all you do!
Matt
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| Author: | el_gordo | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 19:20 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 6590-1 | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Blue {3183 Plate, Modified 1 x 4 with Towball Socket, Undetermined Type to 3183a Plate, Modified 1 x 4 with Towball Socket, Long, 2 Slots}
Comments from Submitter:
From a MISB set, built some three decades ago, never taken apart.
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| Author: | el_gordo | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 19:10 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6590-1 | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, StormChaser writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
That sounds a little vague. Are you absolutely sure the set included an extra
lever?
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Absolutely sure, regarding the lever (which I kept as the car radio antenna from
the day I got the MISB set until last December, when it was taken off for display).
My set was never - ever - mixed.
I was admittedly vague regarding the aforementioned red tile - please see below.
| | | | there was an extra red 3070b in this set. Is it consistent with LEGO extra-part policy at the time?
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As far as I'm aware, there was and is no official LEGO extra-part policy
(although I'm willing to admit that such a policy may exist).
Extras can vary by region and date of manufacture. Some occur with far greater
reliability than others, but none should be assumed to be included just because
they came in every other set released.
That's why extras should only be added to an inventory when a member has
found them in a brand new set.
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That is precisely why I did not add the red tile. I vaguely remember one kept
inside the grey suitcase, but it wasn't there now. Did I take it out long
ago? Did it fell? Was it ever even there? Not sure, ergo - not added.
If anything, take my comment as a "heads up" to anyone about to engage in the
more or less improbable exercise of doing a repeat inventory of this 30-year-old
MISB set
I notice however an inconsistency in your last paragraph: if there is never
a 100% reliable way to know which extras come in which set, and it is
an exercise in probability anyway, then it becomes a matter of faith to consider
any extra part. Which ones do you choose to validate/discard, then? 
For example, I submit to you that not a single set from my childhood, no matter
how small, came with a solitary lever in it; let's say the universe is 50
sets with levers. Thus (and feel free to correct my rusty statistical skills)
I'm fairly sure it's more unlikely to have been a simple coincidence
than to have been an "undeclared policy".
One can refute such claim rather easily - provide one MISB set from the
mid- to late-eighties with no extra levers. From a philosophical POV, it is enough
to deny my inference, and I'll gladly yield. And consider myself blessed
for all those levers I shouldn't have gotten 
Again, I maintain that I do not add what I am not sure of. This particular lever
DOES appear in my set as extra. The above consideration is not to be understood
as more than an invitation for reflection, regarding the inevitable uncertainty
around extras.
Pedro
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| Author: | el_gordo | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 19:00 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6872-1 | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, elias3 writes:
| | Best to have both in the set, first the -a and as alternate the -b type.
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Agree.
But which should be primaries? First one used, last onde used, most common, depicted
in manual/box art, other criteria?
Pedro
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| Author: | PaulOfBricks | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 15:21 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10179-1 | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 92 Part 3794a Dark Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper) (match ID 3)
* Change 92 Part Dark Bluish Gray 3794 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type) {Regular to Alternate} {match ID 0 to 3}
Comments from Submitter:
I parted out this set with (3794a without groove) was in the set, with groove 3794 in later sets
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 15:16 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6590-1 | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
That sounds a little vague. Are you absolutely sure the set included an extra
lever?
| | there was an extra red 3070b in this set. Is it consistent with LEGO extra-part policy at the time?
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As far as I'm aware, there was and is no official LEGO extra-part policy
(although I'm willing to admit that such a policy may exist).
Extras can vary by region and date of manufacture. Some occur with far greater
reliability than others, but none should be assumed to be included just because
they came in every other set released.
That's why extras should only be added to an inventory when a member has
found them in a brand new set.
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| Author: | el_gordo | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 15:00 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 6590-1 | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 4592c02 White Lever Small Base with Black Lever (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
I seem to recall there was an extra red 3070b in this set, along with this lever. Is it consistent with LEGO extra-part policy at the time?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 10:58 | | Subject: | Re: Classic Wanted List Unavailable on June 5th | | Viewed: | 92 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Administrative, pedrogcosta writes:
| | Hi,
There is any way to see, in the new wanted list, the most cheap stores for each
part in a wanted list as I can do in the old/classic wanted list?
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Yes.
Open a WL.
Click “More Options” next to its search field.
Right column, “Items for Sale Options:” click “Show” and look at the options
below, especially the sorting option as by “Store Name” is the stupid and useless
default.
Then click “Apply”.
Note that there’s a “Best Price” sorting option next to “Lowest” and “Highest”
but no one knows what that means.
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| Author: | Brick.Door | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink: please clean up incomplete sets | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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I hope your not suggestion that BL do a sweep by checking each and every listing
of every set listed by every seller or even just the least expensive listing
of each and every set? If you are then that would take so much time and effort
that it would be, well for lack of a better word, ridiculous. If I have miss
understand you then I apologize.
Jim
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Yes all of them - I was thinking of a database query and automated email or
something like that. But really I was just venting some frustration. I know Bricklink
isn't going to do anything about this.
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| Author: | pedrogcosta | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 10:52 | | Subject: | Re: Classic Wanted List Unavailable on June 5th | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Hi,
There is any way to see, in the new wanted list, the most cheap stores for each
part in a wanted list as I can do in the old/classic wanted list?
Thank you!
Pedro C.
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| Author: | Brick.Door | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 10:03 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10179-1 | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3069bpb620 Light Bluish Gray Tile 1 x 2 with Silver Controls and Blue and Red Dots Pattern (Sticker) - Set 10179 (Counterpart)
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| Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 08:23 | | Subject: | Re: Minibuilds | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Lauren_Luke writes:
| | I don’t want to open a can of worms here, but I think this is a valid suggestion.
Can BL create a fourth entry for a set where is states:
‘Set Entry | Instructions Entry | Original Box Entry’
to become
‘Set Entry | Minibuild Entry | Instructions Entry | Original Box Entry’ ?
The ‘Minibuild Entry’ would contain the valid minibuilds (new and used) from
a set. Sellers are selling minibuilds anyway under 'Set Entry' as new-incomplete
and used-incomplete with the minibuld definition the description.
Separating out the minibuilds would...
- clean up the 'Set Entry';
- improve average pricing effectiveness;
- create an additional avenue for buyers and sellers
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See also
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=199990
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| Author: | elias3 | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 08:10 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6872-1 | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 2 Part Light Gray {4085b Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 2 (thin U clip) to 4085a Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 1 (thin open O clip)}
Comments from Submitter:
Based on my own copy of the set (acquired in late 1986). None of my sets dated before 1987 ever had any "type 2", although perhaps they could have been alternates in sets with longer production runs.
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Hi
Set was available till 1987.
Maybe type 2 came in the last run?
Same for the 4081a or -b part.
Best to have both in the set, first the -a and as alternate the -b type.
Part 4276a and -b already in inv.
Stefaan
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| Author: | el_gordo | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2018 06:59 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 6872-1 | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 2 Part Light Gray {4085b Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 2 (thin U clip) to 4085a Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 1 (thin open O clip)}
Comments from Submitter:
Based on my own copy of the set (acquired in late 1986). None of my sets dated before 1987 ever had any "type 2", although perhaps they could have been alternates in sets with longer production runs.
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