Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL" - Teup (6608) | [...] It's surprising you're now defending Bricklink as a cash cow because that would mean they have plenty of budget to solve their problems, problems that you often [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL" - Teup (6608) | [...] Well here's my take on that: (URL) Of course LEGO is all for profit, but Bricklink is not a profitable site (at least, that's the general consensus). [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL" - Teup (6608) | [...] My goodness why the focus on all de doom thinkers, now it sounds like everyone assumes it will be terrible. That's neither correct, nor to our advantage. I thought [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 21, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] That is very well put, I second that. I appreciate the effort people are making, but to be honest I feel like the results would mostly satisfy some people's personal [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 14, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] Good thinking. Anyway the category became outdated as it was conceived back when we thought that minidolls would be Friends-only, but now we know they appear in different [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 14, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] I understand your reasoning, that's why I brought up the hinge vs plate modified issue. There is no logic, but it's how we learned it, and I find it convenient [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] I still think the latter 3 are ground-vehicle-with-wheels based but ok, Vehicle Base is a pretty good category. Though it would be better to me if cockpit parts are also [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] Sounds good to me! [...] Well, what makes it a little awkward is that vehicle is the term that contains them all, so to me it feels like we'd need a word that's [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] I like these ideas. It keeps things in tact while making it a lot easier to navigate. Have you considered this one? (or some variation of the idea) Vehicle - [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] I am thinking about BrickOwl, Brickscout and Rebrickable, which people also use for buying. Are there any trading sides I'm not aware of that use a fundamentally [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Parts Category Tree - Teup (6608) | [...] I think this is part of the cycle of this discussion: we spot imperfections, changing them have implications, we imagine some deeper more principal changes, realise we [...]
(54 months ago, Dec 9, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: 4150 not dead? - Teup (6608) | [...] Well, even if I have proof, maybe it is so rare that it's not worth complicating the catalog for. I parted out 2 copies of a lot of sets. Strangely, I have 4, and [...]
(55 months ago, Nov 23, 2019, to Catalog) |
| 4150 not dead? - Teup (6608) | That's funny. I just encountered 4 of these: (Part 4150) With "X" bottom in Light Bluish Gray in some 2019 sets. I mixed together many sets so unfortunately, I can't [...]
(55 months ago, Nov 23, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Mini minidolls? - Teup (6608) | [...] I vote microdolls :) Tiny versions of minifigs with regular minifig heads are called microfigures, so logically you'd call tiny versions of minidolls with regular [...]
(55 months ago, Nov 20, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Adding box contents for sets? - Teup (6608) | [...] Besides, I think you can figure out what you're missing from the instructions? As far as I know most sets are built a bag at a time, so if you follow through the [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 30, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Adding box contents for sets? - Teup (6608) | [...] I see why you need it, but I wouldn't count on this happening. Changing from set inventories to bag inventories would mean multiplying the entire inventory database [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 30, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Very necessary suggestion? - Teup (6608) | [...] It's probably a lot of catalog work to break sets into separate components, but I see a huge advantage: It would solve the pricing problem with "incomplete" sets. [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 17, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: 49699 a Panel?! - Teup (6608) | [...] Ok, yes, I can see why those should stick together. Random idea: Changing Vehicle Base into Vehicle Base & Roof. Move all these parts there, together with those car roofs [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 11, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: 49699 a Panel?! - Teup (6608) | [...] So it's a door/window/panel/technic/vehicle/slope/arch/brick modified/cylinder.. I think this part just broke the catalog :)
(56 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: 49699 a Panel?! - Teup (6608) | [...] Yep certainly a tough one. It's very clear what it is: A hatch. But how to catalog it in the existing categories? I'm voting Door Frame. Alternatively, Vehicle. [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: 49699 a Panel?! - Teup (6608) | [...] Also, it doesn't make much sense to call this part a cylinder: (Part 49949) When its own counterpart that fits into it is a Slope: (Part 45411) How about putting [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| 49699 a Panel?! - Teup (6608) | (Part 49699) I can't discover anything panel-ish about this part. I'd say it's window, door, technic, other, vehicle, or pretty much anything except a panel... :? [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 10, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: releasing items from the stockroom - Teup (6608) | [...] You wrote "a stockroom", so maybe you have the multiple stockrooms option switched on, but if you only have one stockroom, this is how to change the availability status: [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 9, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: How rare is a flat silver 2x4 brick? - Teup (6608) | [...] And another seven messages - you don't get it yet so I will repeat my advice again: Please use fewer messages for more content. It saves people time reading these [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 8, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: How rare is a flat silver 2x4 brick? - Teup (6608) | [...] If anything they'd be more concerned about some posting over 30 replies to a single topic. The whole forum is flooded with your topic now, the others have mostly [...]
(56 months ago, Oct 8, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: How rare is a flat silver 2x4 brick? - Teup (6608) | [...] Note that private trades, as in: trades outside the Bricklink order system, are not allowed, and are therefore not allowed to be discussed at all - whether in the forum [...]
(57 months ago, Oct 6, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: Request a Quote - Teup (6608) | [...] Those are problems of IC.. but a relevant point because it makes the thunderbolt misleading. Maybe the system should be made such that if an order doesn't qualify [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 17, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Request a Quote - Teup (6608) | [...] Part of what you suggest exists: Stores with a thunderbolt icon have instant checkout, which means that you see the grand total before you order. There isn't an icon [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 17, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Change time zone - Teup (6608) | [...] I thought it would be a sarcastic video. As you say, there's really no need to reinvent the wheel, this has been done so many times over there must be plenty of resources [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 12, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Change NPB Timeline - Teup (6608) | [...] Maybe it's a cultural difference. If the code of conduct is different in the US, then I do understand you'd expect Bricklink to match with that. As for freaking [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 12, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Change NPB Timeline - Teup (6608) | [...] +1 14 days is the basic level of customer service. And if nothing is defined in the terms, the legal term is even 30 days. 14 days is also the legal amount of time a [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 12, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Change NPB Timeline - Teup (6608) | [...] I don't know about other countries but over here 14 days is a widely accepted standard term for invoices to be paid. Sometimes it's longer, but it's never [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 12, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Change time zone - Teup (6608) | [...] ...and actually know when stuff happened on Bricklink? Like knowing when messages between buyers and sellers were sent, or when an order status changed?! No way, don't [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 12, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Can we have another order status? - Teup (6608) | [...] Those mostly already exist in the interface - invoiced by the invoice icon, payment pending by the grand total in regular letters, payment initiated by the grand total [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 11, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: More stockrooms! - Teup (6608) | [...] I see, I think all in all it's a fair bottom line that this is just a plan that was cooked up at someone's desk who just figured this would be kinda cool - ignoring [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 9, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: More stockrooms! - Teup (6608) | [...] (...) [...] And this is where it goes totally wrong. On the one hand, they seem to aim at the broad casual consumer market, on the other hand, they force a [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 9, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: More stockrooms! - Teup (6608) | [...] I think it will be ok :) I am more afraid of stupid changes than of Bricklink's inertia. I'm not going to participate in this new Bricklink XP they're [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 9, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: More stockrooms! - Teup (6608) | [...] I don't get the idea of "multiple stockrooms" in the first place. The way I see it, it is a binary thing: something can either be for sale or not for sale. (Maybe [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 9, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: found wrong category - Teup (6608) | [...] You're probably right, a lot if this may have to do with the fact that catalog work is unpaid work for Bricklink. Why waste time on making something that's free [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 7, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: found wrong category - Teup (6608) | [...] Interesting. Why can printed versions of parts even have different categories than their parent part? Is there even a case where that is needed? I can think of one case: [...]
(57 months ago, Sep 7, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Do part numbers change? - Teup (6608) | [...] The programmer only asked for €13 for the tasks I gave him but I added a tip, considering that programmers are usually too expensive and too busy :)
(58 months ago, Aug 26, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Do part numbers change? - Teup (6608) | [...] Thanks for the advice. Actually I'm not "using" Bricklink part numbers - my sync system just needs to know what is what, so for that part, it's essential that [...]
(58 months ago, Aug 26, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Do part numbers change? - Teup (6608) | [...] Thanks! You're right! Someone I know put me on the right track with a content management system that's featured in my hosting package. I'm essentially able [...]
(58 months ago, Aug 26, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Do part numbers change? - Teup (6608) | [...] Thanks Marek, that's useful! Looks quite intimidating anyway, all those changes. I've now put a module into place that recognises "new" parts that have new part [...]
(58 months ago, Aug 26, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Do part numbers change? - Teup (6608) | [...] Yes, I noticed some added 0's in the pattern numbers of some parts, because the Bricklink number did not match with what Rebrickable thought was the Bricklink number. [...]
(58 months ago, Aug 26, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Do part numbers change? - Teup (6608) | I'm working on my own webshop and want it to synchronise well with my Bricklink store. My software seems to work pretty well, but now I'm wondering, does it happen that [...]
(58 months ago, Aug 26, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Plant 2417? - Teup (6608) | [...] I guess producing crude oil generates a lot of emissions. But I wonder how much less emissions their new production process really involves. I guess it kind of stands [...]
(59 months ago, Jul 24, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Plant 2417? - Teup (6608) | [...] It's the same plastic: Polyethylene. It's just made from fresh plants rather than from dinosaurs (oil). But it isn't biodegradable in any way and [...]
(59 months ago, Jul 23, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Coral - Teup (6608) | [...] Coral: What an unfortunate name for a colour. If there's one thing in the world that can have every colour imaginable... it's coral. But apparently that's [...]
(62 months ago, May 2, 2019, to Colors) |
| Re: Random Stockroom Items - Teup (6608) | [...] It's one of those persistent problems that Bricklink is trying to fix. I think something is really wrong in the bug fixing department, it seems their ability to isolate [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 22, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Lengths in “L” and 18654 - Teup (6608) | [...] How can factual correctness be less important than a choice of how to categorise it? I'd say #1 is to get the facts straight, and after that, we can go and organise [...]
(62 months ago, Apr 17, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: inconsistencies - Teup (6608) | [...] Yeah... the fact that there's a variation that would span across categories if you take the groove as the defining factor, kind of kills that idea pretty effectively. [...]
(63 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: inconsistencies - Teup (6608) | [...] Exactly, the jumpers always seemed much more tile-like to me than that "tile". I guess the only relevant answer to this issue is: This was acknowledged by the previous [...]
(63 months ago, Apr 9, 2019, to Catalog) |
| Re: Brickstock questions - Teup (6608) | [...] Well, I guess that's all true enough. Some take the priceguide as just a guide, some ignore it, some take it as some holy prescription. I tend to be kind of the latter [...]
(64 months ago, Feb 28, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Brickstock questions - Teup (6608) | [...] Well.... it does. I'm just saying that the averge price that you see here in Bricklink is not equal to the average price in Brickstock. These do not match. Parting [...]
(64 months ago, Feb 28, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Brickstock questions - Teup (6608) | [...] Brickstock prices are excluding VAT.. that is why I definitely recommend NOT using Brickstock for pricing if you are in the EU. You'll never be able to retrieve the [...]
(64 months ago, Feb 26, 2019, to Inventories) |
| Re: Fine print regarding lot quanities - Teup (6608) | [...] Sounds a bit like this store has the rule only in text without having the option enabled :/ In that case, I would just go ahead and place the order in that case, screw [...]
(64 months ago, Feb 21, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Parting out - Teup (6608) | [...] Aha, it's because of remark based sorting.. I've never tried it and never know how it really works. I always assumed people use software to generate the locations [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 27, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Feedback removal - Teup (6608) | [...] I must agree with what the others have said... you see what you pay, you can agree or disagree. I don't see why your stance would shift from agree to disagree if [...]
(65 months ago, Jan 24, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Parting out - Teup (6608) | [...] Perhaps you can change the way you work, because in my routine this is absolutely no problem, and it's unlikely that Bricklink will change or upgrade anything.
(65 months ago, Jan 15, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: Request official BrickLink app - Teup (6608) | [...] It's still a work in progress I think and it will be released at some point when Bricklink feels like it. But until they will add payment methods other than PayPal [...]
(66 months ago, Jan 9, 2019, to Suggestions) |
| Re: New Part Category - Teup (6608) | [...] That's a nice idea, thanks! And don't have to move anything around in my alphabetical storage either :)
(66 months ago, Jan 7, 2019, to Catalog) |
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