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Isn’t a lot of the problem the very poor communication though? If Bricklink said
“ VAT is now payable for imports, if sellers are registered charge VAT and ship
with proof, if not warn your buyers that VAT is payable on receipt and may incur
additional charges” then sellers could decide how to proceed for themselves.
But instead Bricklink said “we are registered and it’s our liability” with no
explanation how this will work and saying they can’t/won’t share VAT number.
No one knows where they stand.

VAT isn’t really a Brexit issue. As everyone will find out when EU VAT comes
in in July. Will the world stop selling to the EU then too???

And the UK still coming up in EU searches isn’t a tax advisor issue. It’s just
couldn’t be bothered to prepare for an event that had years’ of forewarning.

Author:

calsbricks

Posted:

Feb 21, 2021 05:18

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:

In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, bje writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..

BrickLink is busy with USA sales taxes, we really should not expect multitasking
in their attempts to break things. They did say they will address the Brexit
issues before 5 February (they did not say which aeon though).

No, we should expect. After all we pay fees for this site. It was long time known
Brexit was coming, they should have been ready for it.

As almost everyone on this forum knows I am not Bricklink's biggest fan as
far as developmenet work goes however I think in this case it is fair to say
that the UK hasn't yet got it right and neither does the rest of the EU -
Just look at the below from a site we use regularly. (Don't forget we still
have VAT to look forward to

I recently promised more details on our Brexit solution, but I will just be frank
with you, that what you have described is exactly the case. We are waiting to
hear from our tax professionals as to how we need to proceed, and they are waiting
to hear from the authorities. It feels as if we are actually further from a solution
at this point than we were at the beginning of the year.

I think most of us who are following this issue are well aware of the issues
you are facing. Personally I would much rather wait till more is known and all
aspects of the vat introduction are dealt with e..g non-registered vat stores.
I believe I worked out that there are possibly less than 1% of UK stores who
are registered and , in the main, their registration is not based on Bricklink
turnover alone.

So maybe with the delay we can sort out other things that are not working as
intended, or simply broken.

Using the development method that you guys do requires almost a constant stream
of patching and whilst that method has its followers and believers not everyone
agrees and the crux of using your chosen method is the need to patch and patch
and patch - and that does not look like it is happening.

Anyway good luck with the vat - in the meantime, like many others we have stopped
selling to non-domestic buyers - which has to be hitting BL's bottom line
as more and more stores choose that route.

Author:

Stacey_Love

Posted:

Feb 21, 2021 04:48

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:

In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, bje writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..

No, we should expect. After all we pay fees for this site. It was long time known
Brexit was coming, they should have been ready for it.

And what are we supposed to do in the meantime ?. ......... Is the only option
to register for england vat, or exclude selling to england ?.

And can you fix the selling zones as england is defiantly not in the EU. Thanks.

Author:

Admin_Russell

Posted:

Feb 21, 2021 04:31

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, bje writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..

No, we should expect. After all we pay fees for this site. It was long time known
Brexit was coming, they should have been ready for it.

Author:

calsbricks

Posted:

Feb 21, 2021 03:41

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, bje writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..

No, we should expect. After all we pay fees for this site. It was long time known
Brexit was coming, they should have been ready for it.

Author:

leggodtshop

Posted:

Feb 21, 2021 02:43

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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In Suggestions, bje writes:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..

No, we should expect. After all we pay fees for this site. It was long time known
Brexit was coming, they should have been ready for it.

Author:

bje

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 17:45

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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Topic:

In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:

In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..

Author:

leggodtshop

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 17:35

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..

Author:

Teup

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 16:56

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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Topic:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 16:27

Subject:

Re: Brexit

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In Suggestions, mvfisker writes:

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 14:43

Subject:

Re: Better view / functions

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In Suggestions, Thebrickaholicu writes:

Afternoon everyone!

I was wondering if there is any movement / thoughts towards a better website
experience on mobile /
Tablet.

https://www.bricklink.com/r3/main.page

I find it almost unusable and hard to believe in this day and age.

Author:

mvfisker

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 13:35

Subject:

Brexit

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Status:

Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Just wondering.
Chose "European Union" as seller - and Great Britain sellers still came up. Shouldn't
that be changed now after Brexit?
Cheers, Morten

Author:

Thebrickaholicu

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 13:03

Subject:

Better view / functions

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[Yes|No]

Afternoon everyone!

I was wondering if there is any movement / thoughts towards a better website
experience on mobile /
Tablet.

I find it almost unusable and hard to believe in this day and age.

Author:

suzanator

Posted:

Feb 20, 2021 00:27

Subject:

Wanted List Organization

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Vote:

[Yes|No]

I have a bunch of wanted lists, and I like to prioritize my lists in order to
keep track of the ones for which I am actively purchasing parts. Can you please
make it so that the organization selection of choice (in my case by "Name") stays?
Currently, when I leave wanted list and come back, the organization reverts
back to the default to arrange by "Newest". TIA!

Author:

0to60

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 11:45

Subject:

Re: auto-fill [min | max]

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In Suggestions, BasKrie writes:

In Suggestions, Stellar writes:

In Suggestions, mike1burns writes:

When you are in a store and filter by items on your wanted list the auto-fill
[min | max] option appears. However, it seems as both of these options are useless
in their current state and a different option would be useful.

auto-fill max automatically adds all pieces a seller has available to your cart.
If you want 1 and the seller has 14,000 you get 14,000 added. I'm not sure
how that is useful. You have to manually adjust every lot to the correct qty.

The max is good when you have a wanted list of items you want to get in high
qtys, so whenever you find a store with good prices, you can open that WL and
click max.

auto-fill min automatically selects the number you have set in your wanted list
but ignores price, so if a seller has a $.01 piece listed for $400 you get that
in your cart. You again have to manually adjust every lot.

Yeah, it would be great if the max price would do something when auto-filling
min

A much more useful feature would be an autofill like the autofill min that fills
in the correct qty, but one that also accounts for the max price that you have
set in your wanted list and does not add pieces to your cart that are more than
you want to pay.

Maybe an extra filter option would do the trick
"Hide Items if Price is ≥ Max price"
That way you you could see only the items you want from the store and use the
min/max options as they are.

I love this suggestion as an extra filter option.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 05:45

Subject:

Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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In Suggestions, SezaR writes:

In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, BrickEmAll writes:

Hi,

I was wondering if it’s possible to let people see which country they’re from
(little flags). For instance: at the feedback page of a store. So new buyers
can see directly (flag) the feedback posts of fellow countrymen. It would be
more convincing for them to buy from other countries. And with this COVID it
will help to convince them that shipping is ok from other countries.

There are already national flags on feedback pages.

https://www.bricklink.com/feedbackSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

hey Wilbo,
While I see many of your comments repeatedly, I had not seen this one before
in the past few year, and I already checked the box. It's so cool

👍

Author:

BrickEmAll

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 03:45

Subject:

Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, BrickEmAll writes:

There are already national flags on feedback pages.

https://www.bricklink.com/feedbackSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Hi again,

If you visit a store and go to feedback people can’t instantly see the flag.

Author:

Hurt

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 03:44

Subject:

Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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While I knew about the setting to show flags on the regular feedback page, I'd
love to see them in a store's feedback page (when you click on "Orders" or
feedback rating in the top right corner) as well!

In Suggestions, BrickEmAll writes:

Author:

SezaR

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 03:40

Subject:

Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, BrickEmAll writes:

There are already national flags on feedback pages.

https://www.bricklink.com/feedbackSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

hey Wilbo,
While I see many of your comments repeatedly, I had not seen this one before
in the past few year, and I already checked the box. It's so cool

Author:

StephenB76

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 03:37

Subject:

Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, BrickEmAll writes:

There are already national flags on feedback pages.

https://www.bricklink.com/feedbackSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

I think you'll find he means when you go to a store's feedback page rather
than a personal feedback page. So that way although they may have shipping to
your country selected as an option you can see if anyone from your country has
bought from them recently and what the transaction was like.

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 03:25

Subject:

Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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https://www.bricklink.com/feedbackSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, BrickEmAll writes:

There are already national flags on feedback pages.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 03:19

Subject:

Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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In Suggestions, BrickEmAll writes:

There are already national flags on feedback pages.

Author:

BrickEmAll

Posted:

Feb 19, 2021 02:57

Subject:

Country flags by usernames, feedback support

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Status:

Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

cosmicray

Posted:

Feb 18, 2021 08:10

Subject:

Re: Adjusting Colour Names such as Bluish Grey?

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In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:

How about we rename Light Bluish Gray to Light Grey, and retain the "A" for the
older color:

Light Gray (1970s through 2003)
Light Grey (2004 though the present)

To satisfy my own curiosity, BL did spell them as 'GREY' up until somewhere
around late Summer or early Fall of 2002, then they flipped to 'GRAY'.
This was, IIRC, just before the new shades of gray came out, and was changed
because some felt that spelling it as GREY was a Euro spelling. Something like
that. This is based on old email archives (which I still have until the HD dies).

Then the bleys arrived, and much hair was pulled out.

Nita Rae

Author:

tec

Posted:

Feb 18, 2021 05:07

Subject:

Re: Adjusting Colour Names such as Bluish Grey?

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