Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | crazylegoman  | | Posted: | Jun 11, 2020 20:24 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Gift Cards | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
| PayPal offers gift cards. Many sellers here accept PayPal, so that would be
an option.
David
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | May 28, 2020 23:20 | | Subject: | Re: Retail Pricing | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Retail | |
| Bricklink tried that once years ago. A lot of people didn't like it, so
it didn't last long. You can always check retail prices on Brickset.
David
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | May 26, 2020 11:49 | | Subject: | Re: Don't show impossible discounts | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Why does bricklink show this? A simple IF statement could be used to only show
a discount when it is possible for a buyer to achieve. Then it doesn't make
the store look stupid by offering discounts that a buyer cannot possibly take
advantage of.
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The older version of Bricklink used to do this automatically. It's a bug
that they've never fixed.
David
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Yeah, I thought it used to work correctly but couldn't really remember. It
is difficult to tell whether something automatically disappeared or the seller
removed a discount.
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | May 26, 2020 09:01 | | Subject: | Re: Don't show impossible discounts | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Why does bricklink show this? A simple IF statement could be used to only show
a discount when it is possible for a buyer to achieve. Then it doesn't make
the store look stupid by offering discounts that a buyer cannot possibly take
advantage of.
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The older version of Bricklink used to do this automatically. It's a bug
that they've never fixed.
David
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | May 25, 2020 22:18 | | Subject: | Re: Comments during instant Checkout | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Suggestions, tEoS writes:
| | I have never seen a feedback, as long as, your most recent neutral. I thought
we were limited to 80 or so characters?
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Yeah, what's up with that? I thought all feedback (positive, negative and
neutral) had the same character length limit.
David
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| Author: | Acorn04 | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2020 14:50 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink Discord | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| | Could I get a discord invite? |
| Author: | rick_holl | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2020 13:04 | | Subject: | Re: 8 x 8 dish | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In Catalog, rick_holl writes:
| | Hi,
Anyone knows what finish the 8 x 8 DBG dish that is included in 75159 death star
comes into? There seems to be 2 variants of finish on this one (smooth and shiny)
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| Author: | Sadler_Bricks | | Posted: | Oct 10, 2019 03:37 | | Subject: | Re: mx1142m | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Nice mix here
I'm doing something similar to create a nice color grid for my store I do
3 high but yes will be harder to get all the colors I have most at the moment
Sadler_Bricks
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| Author: | maxx3001 | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2019 16:56 | | Subject: | Re: mx1142m | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In Modulex, yoavheskia writes:
| | Hi there.
Maybe one of the modulex experts here knows how many colours this brick have?
I have 14 colours and I know that I'm missing at list 4: mx medium blue,
mx violet, mx pink-red & mx light bluish grey.
Is there more colours I'm not aware of?
Thanks in advance,
Yoav
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There are two different M logo bricks, the old ones and the newer ones.
There are even a few very rare colors found, like dark red and a bluish green.
See picture for the standard colors, row one are the LEGO logo bricks, the middle
are the old M logo bricks etc.
Transparent M logo may not exist, I am still hoping to find one.
2. white, light gray, black, terracotta, buff, red , orange, lemon, pastel green,
pastel blue, pink
3. Light bluish gray, charcoal, light orange, light yellow, medium blue, aqua
green, pink, violet
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | May 1, 2019 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: Make website mobile-friendly | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.
David
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I use my tablet to pull orders and its meh, could be better, but I've used
my phone to check prices or sell rates when in a store sometimes and its awful.
I end up just doing "lego" + "set number" + "bricklink" in google to just skip
straight to the entry. It's faster to do it that way then through the BL
site, on my old phone at least.
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | May 1, 2019 12:36 | | Subject: | Re: Make website mobile-friendly | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.
David
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It depends what you are buying. If just minifigures, then a normal to larger
smart phone screen would be fine if there was a decent interface. Similarly,
if buying from an already set up wants list, a smaller screen is fine.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 1, 2019 11:17 | | Subject: | Re: Make website mobile-friendly | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, crazylegoman writes:
| | I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.
David
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Couldn't agree more. 
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | May 1, 2019 11:12 | | Subject: | Re: Make website mobile-friendly | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | General | |
| I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.
David
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| Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2018 00:33 | | Subject: | Re: Negative feedback on orders that are "purged" | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| No feedback, whether positive, neutral or negative, ever expires. It
lasts as long as your account exists.
David
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| Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Mar 3, 2018 11:45 | | Subject: | Re: "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty" option | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Suggestions, othellico writes:
| | Hi,
the "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty" option in wishlists does not work
any more.
Thanks
Claudio
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It's a known technical issue.
Report to the Helpdesk https://www.bricklink.com/helpDesk.asp?helpDeskID=114
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 22:56 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 113 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, tEoS writes:
| | It seems that I don't have a choice of what I offer for PayPal payments,
even though BL says I have a choice between onsite and offsite.
|
So...if someone switched to Onsite Paypal, it sounds like that's been shut
down to force users to sign up for Marketplace. If you have Instant Checkout,
I'm assuming the same applies. For Non-Broken Paypal, they probably shut
off the ability to add it to your store as an option if it's not already
there. But I just placed several orders last weekend, and all of them were offering
Actually-Works Paypal as a payment option. And of course, since that's what
I selected for all of them, all I had to do was log onto that site that didn't
grind to a halt after being hacked...twice, type in some payment info, and wait
for the shipments to arrive.
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| Author: | tEoS | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 22:33 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| It seems that I don't have a choice of what I offer for PayPal payments,
even though BL says I have a choice between onsite and offsite.
There is an option to select PayPal marketplace.
| | It's working fine for me. All I do is select standard "Paypal" as the payment
option (or empty my cart if it's not available), wait for the invoice to
come in, and then log in to Paypal to submit payment. Now, come late April,
it'll be jacked twelve ways from Sunday...
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 20:39 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, leopard37 writes:
| | I've had two quotes within the last two days and the quotes have been accepted
and the system has created blank invoices send to the customer multiple times.
I then have to send an invoice manually afterwards for them to pay.
It is most definitely not working fine.
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It's working fine for me. All I do is select standard "Paypal" as the payment
option (or empty my cart if it's not available), wait for the invoice to
come in, and then log in to Paypal to submit payment. Now, come late April,
it'll be jacked twelve ways from Sunday...
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| Author: | leopard37 | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 17:45 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, BigBBricks writes:
| | In Problem, Admin_Jaclyn writes:
| | | | Is the quote function broken? I had a quote come in 5 days ago and I had no notification
or anything regarding it. I only knew because the buyer messaged me last night.
This is not acceptable.
|
Hi there,
Fortunately, the quote system is working just fine. Even if you did not receive
an email, the quote notification was displayed on your My BL page, on the My
BL hover icon in the navigation bar, and a count of all pending quotes would
have shown when you hovered over the My Store icon as well.
|
Jac, I had a buyer submit a quote last week and it came through as a purchase
with an unknown shipping type. It is definitely not working just fine. Luckily
I knew it was a quote as they had messaged me before had asking what it cost
to ship to HK and I asked them to submit a quote. This was an experienced buyer,
not a newbie that clicked the wrong button.
BL has tons of bugs preventing people from checking out correctly. Either your
devs and/or support people are lying to you or they are unaware due to lack of
diligence/testing/troubleshooting.
|
I've had two quotes within the last two days and the quotes have been accepted
and the system has created blank invoices send to the customer multiple times.
I then have to send an invoice manually afterwards for them to pay.
It is most definitely not working fine.
Tyson.
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| Author: | BigBBricks | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 17:00 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 124 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, Admin_Jaclyn writes:
| | | | Is the quote function broken? I had a quote come in 5 days ago and I had no notification
or anything regarding it. I only knew because the buyer messaged me last night.
This is not acceptable.
|
Hi there,
Fortunately, the quote system is working just fine. Even if you did not receive
an email, the quote notification was displayed on your My BL page, on the My
BL hover icon in the navigation bar, and a count of all pending quotes would
have shown when you hovered over the My Store icon as well.
|
Jac, I had a buyer submit a quote last week and it came through as a purchase
with an unknown shipping type. It is definitely not working just fine. Luckily
I knew it was a quote as they had messaged me before had asking what it cost
to ship to HK and I asked them to submit a quote. This was an experienced buyer,
not a newbie that clicked the wrong button.
BL has tons of bugs preventing people from checking out correctly. Either your
devs and/or support people are lying to you or they are unaware due to lack of
diligence/testing/troubleshooting.
|
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| Author: | bagelboybugle | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 16:18 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Problem, bagelboybugle writes:
| | In Problem, legoman77 writes:
| |
Then why not hire someone that is capable of dealing with older coding or whatever
it is called?
|
I seem to recall it was mentioned long before the current team joined us that
it is not so much the coding thats the issue, its that there isnt a map of the
codes architecture (sorry I cant remember the proper technical words) which makes
it hard, even for experts to unpick when redesigning because its hard to know
which bit of code does what? or something like that.
|
A web application has multiple entry points (= pages), so it’s a bit more loose
and confusing than an application (which generally has only one main executable).
But frankly, starting from the database, the code, and actual use cases (just
asking users what they do and how they do it), you can reverse engineer and document
any system.
You just need someone with the proper skills.
From that point, YOU DON’T PATCH the mess, you rewrite it cleanly. (You might
have a team who patches the blurb while you redesign the system, but you don’t
make the new version from the previous one’s spaghetti code, especially not if
you’re still in the “what’s that stuff?” phase.)
Think about an old stone bridge, with a few houses haphazardly built on its top,
that you want to upgrade. You don’t replace every stone arch with a new steel
one one at a time (even though with computers, you can do that magically and
instantaneously). You build a brand new bridge, with brand new, well structured
houses, with all the modern stuff, a bit farther, and when it’s ready, you move
people and trafic to it, just before blowing up the old one.
People have trouble abandoning the old bridge’s stones / the old code. They
don’t understand the stones aren’t really important, it’s the bridge that is.
The knowledge, the processes, the database, all are important, not the code.
(Yes, I’ve done this a few times.)
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I think I remembered a right comment from the admins of the time but my lack
of code knowledge led to me asking a totally out of context question, appreciate
the pointer, thankyou 
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 16:03 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| well said!
Reki
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 14:36 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, bagelboybugle writes:
| | In Problem, legoman77 writes:
| |
Then why not hire someone that is capable of dealing with older coding or whatever
it is called?
|
I seem to recall it was mentioned long before the current team joined us that
it is not so much the coding thats the issue, its that there isnt a map of the
codes architecture (sorry I cant remember the proper technical words) which makes
it hard, even for experts to unpick when redesigning because its hard to know
which bit of code does what? or something like that.
|
A web application has multiple entry points (= pages), so it’s a bit more loose
and confusing than an application (which generally has only one main executable).
But frankly, starting from the database, the code, and actual use cases (just
asking users what they do and how they do it), you can reverse engineer and document
any system.
You just need someone with the proper skills.
From that point, YOU DON’T PATCH the mess, you rewrite it cleanly. (You might
have a team who patches the blurb while you redesign the system, but you don’t
make the new version from the previous one’s spaghetti code, especially not if
you’re still in the “what’s that stuff?” phase.)
Think about an old stone bridge, with a few houses haphazardly built on its top,
that you want to upgrade. You don’t replace every stone arch with a new steel
one one at a time (even though with computers, you can do that magically and
instantaneously). You build a brand new bridge, with brand new, well structured
houses, with all the modern stuff, a bit farther, and when it’s ready, you move
people and trafic to it, just before blowing up the old one.
People have trouble abandoning the old bridge’s stones / the old code. They
don’t understand the stones aren’t really important, it’s the bridge that is.
The knowledge, the processes, the database, all are important, not the code.
(Yes, I’ve done this a few times.)
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| Author: | bagelboybugle | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 101 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, legoman77 writes:
| |
Then why not hire someone that is capable of dealing with older coding or whatever
it is called?
|
I seem to recall it was mentioned long before the current team joined us that
it is not so much the coding thats the issue, its that there isnt a map of the
codes architecture (sorry I cant remember the proper technical words) which makes
it hard, even for experts to unpick when redesigning because its hard to know
which bit of code does what? or something like that.
Gareth
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 12:08 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| | | This website so slow and frustrating to work with.
It took me over 15 mins. to leave feedback for 10 customers today. This is a
1 min task at most. I am so sick of this.
I have sent an email to IT and still no answer.
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Why did it take so long? Was the site slow when you were leaving feedback, or
are you doing it in some convoluted way?
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