Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bje  | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2018 16:09 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 20206-1 | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 30350 Dark Bluish Gray Tile, Modified 2 x 3 with 2 Clips (undetermined clip type)
* Add 1 Part 30350b Dark Bluish Gray Tile, Modified 2 x 3 with 2 Clips (thick open O clips)
* Delete 2 Part 3794 Reddish Brown Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type)
* Add 2 Part 3794a Reddish Brown Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper)
Comments from Submitter:
From MISB set, variants confirmed. No need for undetermined as these are the set variants
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Aug 5, 2018 09:23 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 20202-1 | | Viewed: | 15 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 60470b Light Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Clips Horizontal (thick open O clips) (Alternate) (match ID 1)
Comments from Submitter:
From MISB parted out
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Aug 5, 2018 09:19 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 20201-1 | | Viewed: | 13 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 30152c01 Black Minifig, Utensil Magnifying Glass with Trans-Clear Lens - Undetermined Frame Thickness and Handle
* Add 1 Part 30152c03 Black Minifig, Utensil Magnifying Glass Thin Frame and Hollow Handle with Trans-Clear Lens
Comments from Submitter:
From MISB parted out - no need for undetermined part. 30152c03 is the variant in the set
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Aug 5, 2018 09:14 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 20200-1 | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3794 Dark Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type)
* Add 1 Part 3794a Dark Bluish Gray Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper)
* Delete 2 Part 3794 Green Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type)
* Add 2 Part 3794a Green Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper)
Comments from Submitter:
From MISB parted out - no need for undetermined part. 3794a is the variant in the set
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2018 09:34 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Gear 40158 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, Abels_Bricks writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, elias3 writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory: [G=40158]
* Change 2 Part Red {4495 Flag 4 x 1 Wave Undetermined to 4495b Flag 4 x 1 Wave Right}
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OMG.... your a damn robot.
we are not worthy.
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+1000
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Jun 1, 2018 11:18 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set kabcreat-1 | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Set 4016-1 Racer polybag
* Add 1 Set 4016-2 Racer - Boxed Kabaya Version
Comments from Submitter:
All the sets in this 4-pack are boxed
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 29, 2018 06:26 | | Subject: | Re: Remove clutter from listings | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Hi
It might be that the seller purchased at different prices and to keep the margin
the same are listing at different selling prices as well. Also might be that
the seller wants to sell old stock quicker on fifo basis. Also might items parted
from sets as opposed to bulk purchases of the same item. Might be different warehousing
options. Could also be differnt remarks for sales purposes, which cannot be done
for tiered prices. Who knows, the reasons can be myriad and all perfectly reasonable. 
Personally I would not use tiered pricing for any of the above.
Just a thought
J
In Suggestions, Pazzo writes:
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I wonder if sellers could be limited in cluttering the price-list.
We have tiered price possibilities, but some sellers like to clutter the price-list
with more than 1 listing. In the example it is 11 times for the same item!!!!!
Why???
I would suggest if it is exactly the same item, either use tiered pricing....or
maximum of 3.
Anyone else has an opinion?
Be cool and have fun!
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 15, 2018 19:23 | | Subject: | WeChat Pay as an offsite payment option | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Discarded | |
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| | Please add as an offsite payment option. |
| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 11, 2018 17:10 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 41614-1 | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 2 Part 4085d Sand Green Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Vertical - Type 4 (thick open O clip)
* Add 2 Part 61252 Sand Green Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Horizontal (thick open O clip)
Comments from Submitter:
From instructions as well as LEGO replacement parts orders
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2011 17:37 | | Subject: | Another problem order category | | Viewed: | 173 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Can another problem order category be created? We've got NRS, NSS and NPB. Seems
we also need Order Not Complete. There is already an order item removal request
for sellers that don't, for one reason or another, have all the parts that may
be on a valid order. It has been my experience that this is a little used function,
sometimes much to my dismay, and that some sellers merely prefer to straight
refund or issue a coupon, however, there appear to be some instances where sellers
do nothing, including not communicating with the buyer.
In such cases, buyers should have the ability to make it a problem order with
the same provisos as NRS/NSS. Clearly buyers can't underpay, they can either
pay the whole amount on the invoice or nothing at all, there is no middle ground
or 99.9999% payment. Wouldn't it be more fair if buyers can be placed in the
same position as regards the actual physical items they order? Is it really fair
for a seller to continually not have a few dollars worth of parts not shipped,
for which payment was made? Think of it this way: if a seller habitually do this,
it can turn into a nice profit center by itself, with hardly any recourse for
the buyer.
Sure, paypal chargebacks, SNAD claims and criminal action can help, and there
seem to be a concerted effort from Admin to weed out the scammers, but that type
of recourse does not help the buyer when the seller merely ignores a request
for small amounts or few parts until the time to take the above actions have
lapsed. The idea is to be fair. If buyers are willing to pay the full invoice,
surely full 100% value can be expected? If the seller does not have all the items
in stock, that in itself is already problem (see the ToS). It can only get compounded
with small value missing items. I know the frustration of not getting what you've
paid for, and your complaints, nice requests, e-mails and eventual neutral or
negative feedback, disappearing into the black hole of blissful ignorance.
Obviously, a fair and reasonable buyer would not expect a seller to ship 1 little
part halfway around the world. But, a fair and reasonable buyer can at least
expect a seller to communicate or in some way acknowledge that there is a problem,
and not just be ignored. If and when this happens, sellers should be penalized,
as it is just plain not fair to the site and its members. There might not be
a great many of these occurring, but the maxim for potato chip manufacturers
always holds: one glassy potato ruins the whole batch. BL and our experience
should not be ruined. Besides, I want bricks, not money!
Please forgive an old grumpy if this has been previously discussed, beaten to
death or generally just ignored.
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2011 15:02 | | Subject: | Re: Shunning | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, dvsntt writes:
| | In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | In Suggestions, legoman77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Master_Jedi_Rob writes:
| | I would like the ability to not "Ignore" but "Shun"
When someone is being a Troll, or even being somewhat unhelpful, and also posting
on the wrong thread...
Shun, not block, just list in red. That way, I know he's being a "Troll light."
Posting relevant comments, but in the wrong thread...
Or, Reconnect would be good... Remove the posts from Brasletty's post, and put
them where they belong...
Or... Posters could bother to rename the thread (lazy BrickLinkers!)
-R (also with many  's)
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I voted no, those are the ones I want to read.
John P
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That's why not "Ignored" but in red, so you know which ones you want to read,
or not... 
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Yeah, I've already got two people ignoring me, so anything I type makes no difference
to them as it stands now. But if it gave them the option to read or not read,
depending on the subject, that might be helpful. Don't we have enough watchlists
as it is nowadays?
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How do I know if I'm on someones ignore list?
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Go to "my Bricklink", click on "My Activity" and scroll down to "My community
activity", you'll see it there
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2011 18:03 | | Subject: | Standardizing shipping terms | | Viewed: | 156 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Since 1 January 2011, the new set of international shipping terms have been in
place for use (these are known as INCOTERMS 2010, see the link below for full
detail).
In essence, these terms are now applicable to domestic as well as international
shipping, and is furthermore also applicable to all modes of transport, whereas
in the past it was used solely for international shipping by sea.
As with the standards applied on the site for currencies, shouldn't some standard
be adopted for shipping as well? INCOTERMS have the following benefits:
1. The point of where the risk transfers from seller to buyer is clearly defined;
2. The point at which insurance becomes applicable to the transaction is clearly
defined;
3. The party responsible for insurance is clearly defined;
4. The party responsible for costs is clearly defined.
5. Each party to the transaction's duties are clearly defined insofar as shipping
is concerned.
All that needs to be done is that site standardizes the shipping terms. There
should in reality only be two terms that need be used - EXW and FCA (DDP might
be of use where local taxes are an issue). Those terms can be expanded, but it
leaves the entire choice as to how shipping should occur, the insurance, carriage
cost, delivery and duties solely in the hands of the buyer.
As we should all be careful in dealing with scammers and other assorted misfits,
we should at all times be aware of where the risks in our transactions lie. This
could be a help in cases where buyers disputes the veracity of sellers' claims
as to shipping. Surely if all the options and choices are made by buyers and
the risks are clearly defined according to internationally accepted best practice,
this would reduce the overall risk both buyers and sellers face in dealing with
non face to face transactions.
A sample store term would be: We ship FCA from our named post office. Should
you require proof of shipping and/or tracking and/or insurance on your order,
please indicate your preference on the checkout page.
On the checkout page, where the radio button for insurance is, add two more,
one for proof of shipping and one for tracking.
Obviously some of the terms would not ever applicable, but again, it leaves the
choices to buyers and sellers as to what should be included in the transaction,
based on a standard that can be used throughout the site and is easily understandable
and easily incorporated into the help pages.
For full detail on INCOTERMS 2011, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incoterms
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Jan 3, 2011 04:57 | | Subject: | Re: Payment Charges to be included in list price | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Thanks everybody for the replies and the suggestions posted. I guess I was hoping
to encourage stores to list, which in my view is the same as advertise, items
at the price that they are willing to accept as the item final price, excluding
shipping and handling of course, and without adding a % here and % there to the
detriment of other stores that already include all of those costs in their price
and list at that price.
I'm sorry also if this appeared to be re-hashing of a tired old subject, but
the intention was solely to promote fair viewing in the the price guide and listings
of items, and not to try and tell sellers how to run operations or how to price
in their stores. It remains my obvious duty to be the willing buyer in the contract
at the final price of the item, even it does eventually differ from the listed/advertised
price that took me to that 1 in 4000+ stores in the first case.
Thanks again all
Jean
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Jan 2, 2011 16:58 | | Subject: | Payment Charges to be included in list price | | Viewed: | 279 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| This might mean nothing, and might be just a personal pain in the ass, but can
the Bricklink ToS please be revised to force list prices to include paypal and
other payment processing charges?
Example - Search item, find store with correct quantity and reasonable price.
Go to Store, item listed at EUR1.00, find terms page, store only accept paypal
or IBAN, so far so good, little bit further down, store charges 4% paypal fee
and IBAN fee is for buyer. WTF!!!  Climb screaming down from the
wall, close store window, restart search etc etc.
On a more serious note, if a seller is never going to charge the price he lists
at, surely it makes no sense to allow sellers to list at that price? Some might
argue that its the sellers prerogative to add whatever he wants, and the payment
charge is the same as shipping and handling. Its actually not, as the paypal
charge refers to the entire order and will make the shipping also more expensive,
same with IBAN and other payment processing charges.
If seller A lists $100 with a 4% paypal surcharge that is never disclosed except
for the store terms, and seller B lists $101 with no surcharges and other funnies,
surely seller B is not only the more honest, but his price is actually the price
that is going to be charged, whereas seller A is actually going to charge $104,
which makes him more expensive than seller B, makes a mockery of the price guide,
gives him an unfair advantage in the listings, makes the term "only charges actual
shipping costs" utterly stupid and is generally a waste of my time.
Try to think of the list price as an advertised price - if that is the price,
surely you would expect that this is what you would pay upon visiting the store?
Does this practice not skew the price guide and sales histories? And shouldn't
the list prices give every seller a reasonable chance of his store being visited,
without the possibility of some back-door charging actually leading buyers astray?
I've seen sale items being listed at higher prices than normal listings, until
you visit the normal price stores , add the 4% and then realise you've been had.
Can buyers please have the expectation that they pay the price they see, not
some back-door inflated price ?
Thanks
Jean
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Oct 20, 2010 15:02 | | Subject: | Re: Allow Banned Subjects. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, TorontoLego writes:
| | I propose that the Forum rules that outlaw discussion of Religion or Politics
should be lifted in times of
"Extreme discourse".
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"Extreme Yawn"
No - Just watch the news; that should be enough to get a daily fix of dumb, dumber
and dumbest if you want it. Don't need it here!!
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Oct 20, 2010 10:41 | | Subject: | Re: Automated Immediate Invoicing on Check-Out | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, fosterbengoshi writes:
| | In Suggestions, JasonLEGO77 writes:
| | In Suggestions, fleury writes:
| | In Suggestions, atkk writes:
| | In Suggestions, fleury writes:
| | In Suggestions, atkk writes:
| | Yes...please...I really want this.
Weight is already known, by BrickLink. You could enter various known shipping
costs according to known weights, and a spot to include packing materials weight.
Also, the shipping would have to depend on size. For example, CanadaPost allows
you to send lettermail up to 2cm. So, the system would have to know if the parts
are thicker than that...this already exists (dimensions) for most items. Additionally,
there could be a checkbox that sellers would select stating that "this item must
be shipped as a package".
A third condition would be based on the quantity of parts in the order...I accept
up to 150 parts for lettermail.
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Those are the types of tweaks that make the suggestion very difficult to implement.
I think if the suggestion is going to work, it needs to be a lot simpler than
that. As Foster described: fixed, tiered, or percentage.
So something like:
Orders up to $X ship for $a.aa
For orders above $X, shipping is b% of the total order.
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That is no go for us shipping with CanadaPost...it goes by weight AND dimensions
AND location.
Anything less will not work.
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It can work, it just won't be exact shipping. Or even approximate shipping in
some cases. It will simply be what it is.
If I were to implement this in my store, it would likely be something like:
Shipping for orders up to $30 is $11
and for orders above $30 it is $8 plus 10% of the order value.
As I wrote earlier, though, I would need a different calculation for boxed sets.
--
Marc.
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So under this system, if I wanted to buy your Luke Skywalker minifig for 6 bucks,
I would pay $11 shipping. It costs 67¢ to mail that in a bubblelope within Canada,
as I have done in the past. So the buyer pays an extra $10.33 for this transaction.
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Yes. You could also order 1400 1x2 bricks for $28.00 and pay only $5.00 to ship
a package that weighs over 1.2 kg that would normally require more than $10.00
in postage.
| | Sounds like a great system to me!
Reality is, there are too many variables when dealing with part counts, size,
weights, thickness etc. when you sell individual pieces. The customer will get
burned. How is that a better system? Sets would be the only product you could
sell with any shipping cost accuracy.
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LS@H and thousands of other online retailers and their customers don't seem to
have a problem with fixed shipping. How many times have we read here about new
buyers being afraid to place orders with BL sellers because they don't know what
shipping will be? In fact, online and mail order customers are used to paying
fixed shipping. They care about certainty more than accuracy.
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Isn't the reason for this that major online retailers and mail order companies
have preferential rates when it comes to shipping? As an example - a major local
online retailer offers free domestic overnight shipping on all orders above $70.00,
another local online retailer can ship sets to me overnight irrespective of weight,
for a fixed fee of less than $10.00. If I were to run a BrickLink shop, this
would be impossible, even for local orders, as the actual shipping would be by
far in excess of those kind of rates. This is most probably the reason mail order
companies can offer cheaper rates than most and I personally don't think it is
because they absorb the cost in margin, they can in fact offer a fixed rate because
they themselves get a fixed rate from the carriers.
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BrickLink is the ONLY website I know where buyers are asked to commit to an order
before knowing what shipping will cost. I understand the reasons why the BrickLink
system is the way it is. But I don't see how giving sellers and buyers the OPTION
of immediately checking out and paying with fixed shipping is so unfair or impossible
when virtually ever other online retailer REQUIRES such. Even LS@H does this
when customers order PaB. LS@H offers over 1500 choices of parts from their online
PaB section. They have no idea of what customers might order or the weight and
size of customer orders in advance of those orders. Yet LS@H and its customers
don't seem to have any problem with fixed tiered shipping rates - nor have I
ever read about LS@H "burning" a customer because thier fixed tiered shipping
rates were more than actual postage.
Thor
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I've been holding opinion back on this one for a reason, and its this: Its fine
to pay an estimated shipping cost on checkout as it were, but what guarantees
would be in place that this preferential payment, receives preferential attention
from the seller? If it is to be combined, purely speaking as a buyer, with a
guarantee of same day or next day shipping if the order is placed and paid after
a certain cut-off time, then it is all fair, as IMO, you could always pay a bit
more for special treatment.
Like everything in free countries - choice is what it is about. I am all for
it - if I can get the choice of paying immediatly and get the order shipped same
day or next day if it is after a certain cut-off time guaranteed, as opposed
to waiting for an invoice and then pay and then wait for packing etc etc, this
could work. I also don't think it should be such a major tweak in the system
- upon checkout simply give the buyer a choice - do you want instant checkout
or would you prefer to wait for an invoice? Instant checkout would work the
same way as all online retailers. I don't see how it would be difficult for all
retailers based in the same country to have a an add-on to the webpage with fixed
shipping tiers, both for local and international. Most German sellers I've dealt
with already mostly have this on their splash pages and its virtually the same
for every order, so I know already that a registered letter airmail from Germany
is a certain amount for a certain weight, or very close to it. Why should I actually
have to wait for an invoice in those cases?
On the other hand, you will always have children in adult bodies - so just be
prepared for all the bitching that will occur when some people realise that the
actual shipping rate might have been lower. Maybe put a huge red banner on the
bottom that says: this might differ from actual shipping rates - read (if it
doesn't fry your brain in the process) and understand before you order!!
Jean
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