Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | calsbricks  | | Posted: | Jun 3, 2021 10:56 | | Subject: | The New Brickstore | | Viewed: | 206 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| | Are print templates created in Ntickstock supported in the new Brickstore? |
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 27, 2021 13:46 | | Subject: | Re: Lego Ownership of Bricklink | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, StickyBrickit writes:
| | So it's been quite a while now since the bolt out of the blue announcement
that Lego had acquired this site. I remember at first there was quite a lot of
concern that they would ruin the site, or at least have an overall negative impact.
However I haven't really noticed any difference so far (perhaps a bit more
downtime from the server?).
Just wondering what other people's thoughts are now that they've had
control of the site for a while. Better, worse, about the same?
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Probably still too early to tell, Large corporations take a long time normally
to assimilate small acquisitions. Although the product is the same, that is where
the similarity ends. Different styles, thoughts and vision need to find common
ground to move forward and that may not be the case yet.BL is also a very mixed
and diverse community with small hobbyist sellers and much larger stores with
multiple employees. It still is the best place to find product but not the best
for certain types of stores who rely on information not the 'seat of their
trousers' to develop.
Having read the entire thread it is a good and very relevant question , but the
answers are not as easy as understanding the OP post.
Check back in a ouple years time 
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | May 16, 2021 13:20 | | Subject: | These don't normally get too far but .... | | Viewed: | 321 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Could the programmers take a half hour and add the following information to the
my inventory detail pages as appropriate. It would be a step that would help
in reconciling inventory quantities (It won't do it all but it will help)
The information has to be held somewhere in the system and it only, for the moment,
needs to populate when someone adds to a lot. It can help sellers to back track
to when they last added this item.
It is not a complex programming effort.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Apr 22, 2021 10:40 | | Subject: | Brown (Old) 3957 | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| We have 2 of these in stock and were about to submit a photo (none in catalogue)
when we saw that whilst it is listed as a known colour it is not shown in any
sets. I thought that was not the policy - if not in set not a known colour???
Clarification, please.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2021 09:57 | | Subject: | Re: New Packing Dimensions Feature | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, jennnifer writes:
| | In Catalog, tec writes:
| | My friend here likes this post
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That's a beauty! I definitely need one of those.
Jen
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Or you might want one of these
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2021 08:45 | | Subject: | Just a thought | | Viewed: | 146 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| In 13 years on the site I do not believe much as been implemmented that has been
suggested but here is another one to ponder.
Several times a year there are problems on the site regarding e-mails being sent
out. That pertains to either notifies, order notifications, etc. Most recently
there is a problem again with notifies. With orders you can simply check your
order detail page and see if there is something new on there. But with notifies
if you do not receive an email you have nothing. No idea whether the messages
went out nor to how many buyers. And even more importantly you cannot re-do it.
Opportunity lost for both your store and of course, Bricklink. Quite a dilemma
really as apart from your store page (And that is more than limited for this
day and age)there is no other marketing tool available to sellers.
What if the following were implemented
Create a notify log similar to the part out log (which is pretty underwhelming,
but at least it is something).
The notifies log could be created using a query on the SQL transaction log and
it could look something like this in the first instance:
Date No Lots (uniques) No Notifies Status
20/03/2021 333 1257 Success
21/03/2021 158 754 Success
This might take a non-sql person an hour or so to write the code but it would
be worth its weight in gold to sellers. The no of notifies could be a link to
the calendar file which shows the uniques listed and the status, provided it
shows success at least lets you know they were sent out.
Any thoughts?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2021 06:15 | | Subject: | Re: Brexit | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bje writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
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| | | | | | | | The OMP is liable. Not just for VAT, but also for the transaction to the buyer.
A BrickLink Order has become a transaction between 3 parties: the buyer, the
(overseas) seller, and BrickLink is now involed too.
All this because governments/countries want to VAT low valued transactions because
of the high volume and thus high 'income' there is to gain by taxing.
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So, what does the seller's invoice look like?
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The seller is not invoicing anymore. BrickLink is. The seller is merely a third-party
provider allowing BrickLink to sell their items. The customer buys from BrickLink.
E.g. like bol.com
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If that becomes the case, and it has already been said by admin it won't
be (at least for the UK)
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Hmm, no actually, irrespective of admin says, there is something called a law.
As long as BL is registered as a marketplace, then they have to collect the VAT,
invoice the customer and be responsible for the goods, as Arnoud said. Sellers
are only fulfillment partners, like on Amazon.
If they do not meet ALL of the requirements for an OMP, they should not have
registered as such. They can still change their registration to an ordinary vendor
and actually inform sellers what they are doing while waiting. This dense wall
of non-communication about what they are doing is what is causing the confusion,
not HMRC or tax experts or whatever.
If they jumped the gun and thought they are the same as an American marketplace
for sales tax purposes, then they should just say so and fix it. It does not
take months and years to fix either. Tax is after all a question of law and fact.
If you factually do not meet the requirements for a legal registration, then
you go change it until you meet what is required. This is not a tax issue, it
is not a tax expert issue, it is not an HMRC issue, it is not even a VAT issue.
It is a management issue which must be managed for the benefit for all stakeholders.
Here is what an online marketplace for UK VAT purposes is - note the requirements
must ALL be met, else the platform cannot collect VAT as a platform and can only
collect VAT on their own turnover.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-and-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-in-the-uk-using-online-marketplaces
What is a marketplace?
"HMRC’s definition of an online marketplace is a business using a website
or mobile phone app (such as a marketplace, platform or portal) to handle the
sale of goods to customers which meets all of the following conditions:
in any way sets the terms and conditions on how goods are supplied to the
customer
is involved in any way in authorising or facilitating customers’ payments
is involved in the ordering or delivery of the goods
A business will not be classed as an online marketplace if it only provides one
of the following services:
processing of payments for the supply of the goods to the customer
listing or advertisement of goods
redirection or transferring of customers to other websites or mobile phone
apps where goods are offered for sale, without any further involvement in any
sale that might take place on that website or app"
| | then a lot of stores will disappear. They have said
repeatedly that they have no plans on charging vat on orders in the UK, other
than import/export situation.
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It would be dependent on what the domestic situation is for fulfillment partners
in terms of the actual laws enacted. Here, the platform takes the sale, is responsible
and collects and pays VAT, irrespective if the local partner is registered or
not. The VAT status of the domestic partner is immaterial.
With all due respect, that is what XP will be anyway, and because they are dumping
all the V3 stuff to the classic site to amke XP work, it will have to go that
way. What is the use of saying you do not have to have onsite as a store, but
then buyers cannot checkout if you do not have onsite?
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Mind you all of this is total speculation and that was mentioned by Russell in
this thread. They are lagging behind on getting this done, which is also increasingly
worrying. When it comes to making progrtammin chnages haste makes waste and they
are very much aware of that.
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I don't think there is a development team. There is a maintenance team (probably
plumbers) who comes in once a month and sweeps the floor.
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Hi Jean trust you are keeping safe and well
I pretty much agree with all you are saying but even that leaves all kinds of
questions. How have they registered as an OMP or not - they haven't said
directly. Russell has maintained in several threads and messages that the UK
will be treated differently to the EU. We will see about that.
As for collecting vat on orders he has denied that on several occasions. Hard
to go back on that now and it would be worse than spaghetti code trying to sort
that out. UK sellers prices are inclusive of VAT otherwise the seller is writing
off 20^ off the top and that is not healthy. So major changes would have to be
put in place to create fairness and transparency in pricing.
As for xp it has now been around for several years and to be honest we have nothing
- the claims that it will sit alongside classic are just to keep stores happy
as no one wants to maintain 2 separate systems. XP, in ours, and many others
opinions will not succeed for the majority of parts stores - it might work for
sets and one time buyers but the concept is wrong and unless they go back to
the drawing board (and they are not known for doing that) it will kill the site,
in our opinion or at least change the dimensions.
Having said all that the crystal ball is very murky over this entire thing. Lack
of detailed communication and much speculation just creates 'fake news'
really and we have had enough of that.
They definitely need to work more closely with the 'stakeholders' which
we thought would happen when TLG took over, but Bricklink are a small element
of a very large corporation so how much weight they carry remains to be seen.
Anyway take care of yourself and family - get your jab when you can and in the
meantime keep safe
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2021 03:56 | | Subject: | Re: Brexit | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
| | In Suggestions, Teup writes:
[snip]
| | Everything is just so backwards, I am not a tax expert by a long shot but let's
just look at this from a logic perspective:
If it was legally valid to write "Bricklink order" on your invoice, then the
EU and the UK would have had an emergency meeting by now because they realised
that almost all of the international trade is being labelled "Bricklink order"
It can't work like that. So yeah, EITHER Bricklink is the seller and WE sell
to Bricklink - thus a US export, export to US rules apply - OR we sell to the
customer in their country AND that country's rules apply.
From the persective of the seller, these are simply the only two ways. As a seller
you need to have invoices that mention the country, and then apply the rules
for THAT country. There is only "United States" or "United Kingdom". There's
simply no such thing as "United Kingdom-but-it's-a-Bricklink-order-and-Bricklink-said-it's-fine"
Or am I too pessimstic about the amount of patience tax agencies have when doing
audits and people come up with stories about platform selling (without hard evidence)?
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Read the link below, this is not something new. The UK already started in 2016
with quote: "special provisions for online marketplaces".
http://kluwertaxblog.com/2020/02/26/online-marketplaces-and-eu-vat-global-reach-but-compliance-still-local/
These changes to come have been known for 4 years up until Jan 1, 2021.
The OMP is liable. Not just for VAT, but also for the transaction to the buyer.
A BrickLink Order has become a transaction between 3 parties: the buyer, the
(overseas) seller, and BrickLink is now involed too.
All this because governments/countries want to VAT low valued transactions because
of the high volume and thus high 'income' there is to gain by taxing.
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So, what does the seller's invoice look like?
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The seller is not invoicing anymore. BrickLink is. The seller is merely a third-party
provider allowing BrickLink to sell their items. The customer buys from BrickLink.
E.g. like bol.com
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If that becomes the case, and it has already been said by admin it won't
be (at least for the UK) then a lot of stores will disappear. They have said
repeatedly that they have no plans on charging vat on orders in the UK, other
than import/export situation.
Mind you all of this is total speculation and that was mentioned by Russell in
this thread. They are lagging behind on getting this done, which is also increasingly
worrying. When it comes to making progrtammin chnages haste makes waste and they
are very much aware of that.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2021 09:02 | | Subject: | Re: Brexit | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, patpendlego 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
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Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.
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I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..
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TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..
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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).
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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.
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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 
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Yes, true. UK hasn't got it on the track. EU does however. On the short term
EU draws the longest straw, more and more companies are moving away from UK in
favor of EU or elsewhere. That is a loss for the UK regrettably, but needles
to say UK wanted the Brexit no the EU. On the long run it is inconclusive if
this development is a good thing. Cooperation is imo the better road how complicated
it might be.
So maybe it is the best of worst to exclude UK for now. Until they got their
things together. But I give you this, it is very complicated.
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We will bide our time before we make up our mind on the way forward - a lot depends
o how BL deal with it and that, according to them, is still pretty much unknown.
We have turned away a few orders since Jan 1 from different areas in the EU -
ione we processed and a simple cn22 - posted it and the buyer got it in good
time and here were no snags (Switzerland - which isn't really part of the
EU but all went okay).
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2021 05:18 | | Subject: | Re: Brexit | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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
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Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.
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I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..
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TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2021 03:41 | | Subject: | Re: Brexit | | Viewed: | 103 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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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
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Bricklink time is currently somewhere in about 2004.
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I think they already had websites with timezones in 2004..
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TLG had big plans with BrickLink but is choking now..
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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).
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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.
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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
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2021 10:35 | | Subject: | Re: monthly maintenance downtime | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, novabrick writes:
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wait... did I mix up east and west?
[P=3070bpb106]
Yep.... Well then it's around New York and -5 hours.
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New Jersey, where BL was incorporated.
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PS: I have never used a compass since I was born in the GPS generation *downs
head in shame*
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Pfough, compasses! No need for technology: use the sun or the stars¹ and moss
on trees!
(¹Yes, it’s a problem when it’s cloudy or when you don’t know the time….)
(²Yes, it’s a problem where there’s no tree… or no moss… or you’re _in_ the forest
and moss is all around every tree and rock…
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as most everyone has a phone nowadays - just look on there .)
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2020 09:46 | | Subject: | One last thought for today | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently when an order is placed there is an original order date on that order
however when someone updates the order, say with another batch, the order date
changes to the date of the change and we lose the original order date. It would
be better if the original order date was held - that way the orders would stay
in chronological order rather than orders jumping all over the place.
No more for today but we might be back over the weekend. Lots going on at present.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2020 09:25 | | Subject: | Another one for the sellers | | Viewed: | 122 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Those of us who still use the order detail page would like the following changes
to make our lives easier and us more productive
Instead of a single filter line at the top please add an 'and/or' to
allow multiple conditions to restrict the lines you are working on. For example
we use this filter to switch to all orders packed to alter the status to shipped
but if we could add another condition we could do packed to shipped - mass drive
thru and feedback all in one'ish operation
Secondly please make the column headings on the orders themselves clickable to
allow sorting by any of the columns (as you have done on the inventory front
page)
And lastly, please add color on the inventory front page as one of the filters
(a drop down list box would be fine). I am aware that you may already be able
to do this with the keyword field but why does it need to be so complicated -
just give us a chance to choose the colors.
Thank you
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Nov 17, 2020 10:18 | | Subject: | Please allow stores to order shipping methods | | Viewed: | 117 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently there is not an easy way for a store to order their shipping methods.
The system appears to take the last one created and make that the default. This
is not helpful. Please ask your development team to take a few minutes and add
a list order to this feature so stores can choose a default or an order.
We appreciate development is extremely busy at present with the tax changes and
correcting issues (Order status changes, refund (altering print order detail
screen, my inventory pages, etc so we believe you are busy, however this has
long been needed and should not take a developer long to add).
Thanks.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2020 14:56 | | Subject: | Re: Minifigure names and punctuation | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, Hygrotus writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, yorbrick writes:
| | I know BL is quite strict about names and using the correct diacritics, umluats,
accents, and so on.
For example, ages ago I asked if "Mesut Özil" could be called "Mesut Özil (Mesut
Ozil)" (and similar requests for the others) to help out English speakers searching
for him but it was denied and only the correct spelling retained.
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When typing German, if umlaut letters are not available, it is usual to replace
them with the underlying vowel followed by an ⟨e⟩. So, for example, "Schröder"
becomes "Schroeder"
So should be correctly then Oezil not Ozil
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Yes, that would linguistically correct, but the issue is that people need to
be able to find items in the catalog. If they know it is officially called Özil
they are far more likely to search for Ozil instead of Oezil.
Niek.
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And for that reason, we did the following:
It ain't pretty, but it works.
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I thought some time ago the site was considering tags in the catalog. They would
be much more useful and not clutter the description
Was this discarded?
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Not discarded, but postponed.
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Shane this is a classic reason for implementing it
one day it might be useful to review the postponed enhancements and re-evaluate
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2020 13:47 | | Subject: | Re: Minifigure names and punctuation | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, qwertyboy writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, Hygrotus writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, yorbrick writes:
| | I know BL is quite strict about names and using the correct diacritics, umluats,
accents, and so on.
For example, ages ago I asked if "Mesut Özil" could be called "Mesut Özil (Mesut
Ozil)" (and similar requests for the others) to help out English speakers searching
for him but it was denied and only the correct spelling retained.
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When typing German, if umlaut letters are not available, it is usual to replace
them with the underlying vowel followed by an ⟨e⟩. So, for example, "Schröder"
becomes "Schroeder"
So should be correctly then Oezil not Ozil
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Yes, that would linguistically correct, but the issue is that people need to
be able to find items in the catalog. If they know it is officially called Özil
they are far more likely to search for Ozil instead of Oezil.
Niek.
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And for that reason, we did the following:
It ain't pretty, but it works.
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I thought some time ago the site was considering tags in the catalog. They would
be much more useful and not clutter the description
Was this discarded?
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2020 12:04 | | Subject: | Re: Afterthoughts on Part Movements | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Gmid writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | surely this is more appropriate in Bricks, arch
it just seems odd that they are now in slopes
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I understand it's frustrating when you get used to something being in one
place and it's somewhere else. Defining categories with written definitions
is something new on BrickLink and did/will require moving some things around.
It's likely to be a work in progress for a while and we may make some missteps
along the way.
In this case, the curved slopes that are now curved slopes are curved slopes
and, even though it will take a little getting used to, I think we got that part
right. By the way, this has been a curved slope since it was added to the catalog
in 2005 and no one seems to mind:
We mentioned the possibility of moving some parts in June:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1200979
We gave everyone the month of August to provide commentary on the proposed change
in this 150+ message thread:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1213696
We provided multiple reminders of the coming changes during September:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1221489
The parts were moved on October 1st and now it is October 12th.
As for the concern that these parts should be Brick, Arch: they came from the
Brick, Modified category and we weren't inundated with requests to move them
to Brick, Arch prior to them moving to Slope, Curved.
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Understand that completely but a couple of things for you to coonsider
1. Not everyone is as into the technicalities of the catalog as you and your
colleagues are - nothing wrong with that but it does mean many of the threads
etc were only casually looked at.
2. We are noticing on orders we receive the changes that you have implemented
and it means we have to re-organise our storage system as our main filing elements
are colour and then category with part no being the final .
So for example the 6091 which I referred to and is referred to by TLG as Brick,
Arch was stored in our bricks modified section. The first order that came in
after 1 oct with that a a slope curved meant we went to the brick modified section
and took all the 6091's (Lots of them) and moved them to the various colour
sections as slopes curved.
We, like others will cope with the catalog changes cause that is what you have
done and we leave that to the cat techies. It simply seemed strange for that
part to be moved to slopes, curved when it clearly is not a slope, even according
to Lego
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I know you're much bigger, and have had many more orders than I did, but
I do question your storage here. Genuinely curious, why do you rely on an arbitrary
category assigned by Bricklink in the 90's, over a location system, numbered
shelfs/drawers/whatever, added to the remark?
I would be very nervous leaving my parts somewhere in a black hole, trusting
myself when order picking to head to the right category/subcategory.
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Interesting - we do use the remarks for location but our storage system may not
be what you think. We have a section for bulk items (lots of standard parts are
held in bulk) that is all drawers. The rest of the system is organizer trays
from Really Useful Products which in the first instance are broken down into
colour sections and then category withing colour. This has worked fine for us,
although we are always trying to improve it with more drawer units rather than
trays.
Our orders are printed to pdf in the order that suits our system - and that is
what the chaps in the picking department want to keep - personally I would opt
for changing it all to drawers but we would have to close for a while if we did
that and they are against it.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2020 11:49 | | Subject: | Re: Reasons for | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | In Catalog, Stellar writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | being moved to slopes - surely this is more appropriate in Bricks, arch
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What if the category was named Slope, round? Would that fit better all slope,
curved plus a couple more items?
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Really not sure. TLG call slopes - roof tiles;
6091 is called Brick with Arvh - it just seems odd that they are now in slopes
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You are long enough around here to know that TLG names are very vague and not
really helpful for people searching for certain bricks.
That's one of the reasons Bricklink was created.
is called LIMB ELEMENT SMALL by TLG
is called: PLATE 1X1 W. HOLDER by TLG
Please tell me what a limb is or a holder and how those terms would be helpful
in identifying a LEGO element.
Personally I consider your post as not helpful at all. Please read the
posts (with extensive explanations) from catalogue admin Stormchaser.
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I see no reason why the post was unhelpful. It simply asked for the reasons why
that was moved. How is that unhelpful
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(and install a spell check plug-in to your browser or phone --- "arvh")
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There is one that just got missed No one, including you , is perfect.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2020 11:44 | | Subject: | Re: Afterthoughts on Part Movements | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | surely this is more appropriate in Bricks, arch
it just seems odd that they are now in slopes
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I understand it's frustrating when you get used to something being in one
place and it's somewhere else. Defining categories with written definitions
is something new on BrickLink and did/will require moving some things around.
It's likely to be a work in progress for a while and we may make some missteps
along the way.
In this case, the curved slopes that are now curved slopes are curved slopes
and, even though it will take a little getting used to, I think we got that part
right. By the way, this has been a curved slope since it was added to the catalog
in 2005 and no one seems to mind:
We mentioned the possibility of moving some parts in June:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1200979
We gave everyone the month of August to provide commentary on the proposed change
in this 150+ message thread:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1213696
We provided multiple reminders of the coming changes during September:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1221489
The parts were moved on October 1st and now it is October 12th.
As for the concern that these parts should be Brick, Arch: they came from the
Brick, Modified category and we weren't inundated with requests to move them
to Brick, Arch prior to them moving to Slope, Curved.
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Understand that completely but a couple of things for you to coonsider
1. Not everyone is as into the technicalities of the catalog as you and your
colleagues are - nothing wrong with that but it does mean many of the threads
etc were only casually looked at.
2. We are noticing on orders we receive the changes that you have implemented
and it means we have to re-organise our storage system as our main filing elements
are colour and then category with part no being the final .
So for example the 6091 which I referred to and is referred to by TLG as Brick,
Arch was stored in our bricks modified section. The first order that came in
after 1 oct with that a a slope curved meant we went to the brick modified section
and took all the 6091's (Lots of them) and moved them to the various colour
sections as slopes curved.
We, like others will cope with the catalog changes cause that is what you have
done and we leave that to the cat techies. It simply seemed strange for that
part to be moved to slopes, curved when it clearly is not a slope, even according
to Lego
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2020 11:00 | | Subject: | Re: Reasons for | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Stellar writes:
| | In Catalog, calsbricks writes:
| | being moved to slopes - surely this is more appropriate in Bricks, arch
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What if the category was named Slope, round? Would that fit better all slope,
curved plus a couple more items?
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Really not sure. TLG call slopes - roof tiles;
6091 is called Brick with Arvh - it just seems odd that they are now in slopes
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2020 10:19 | | Subject: | Reasons for | | Viewed: | 139 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| | being moved to slopes - surely this is more appropriate in Bricks, arch |
| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Sep 7, 2020 08:40 | | Subject: | Re: Create a Technical Issues forum topic | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jenwick writes:
+1
How about a knowledgebase topic where responses to common (and oft repeated)
threads can be put.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 16, 2020 05:41 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink admin - please help us out here | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
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Not sure where you got that idea from. The onsite payment thing, at the moment,
is only for US sales tax purposes (Ca and Co, initially).
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“Co” meaning Connecticut, so CT  
(Just to prevent the “OMG! Colorado too now?!  ”)
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are still looking at other payment methods including offsite. This thread was
started to encourage them to give us some data on currently used payment methods
as a 'usage guide' and Russell has said he is going to ask.
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Ooops forgot - you are right - but I am sure it won't be long for all of
them to jump on the bandwagon.
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| Author: | calsbricks | | Posted: | Aug 16, 2020 04:03 | | Subject: | Re: Bricklink admin - please help us out here | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, kzinti writes:
| | In Suggestions, Golbsbricks writes:
| | Stopping using PayPal would cripple you. it's the standard for online transactions.
I just stopped using Stripe because while it provides all the sales info you
could need, it doesn't integrate with anything outside of USA. It's pointless
in the UK.
Payouts are SLOW and you can't export shipping data to print labels with.
This means you have to transfer addresses manually to something like Royal Mail
Click & Drop, which is it's own disaster of a website. Paypal is the best,
and pretty much only option.
Also, i'm not sure the admins have any spare time to deal with any more of
your complaints /S
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Since we've been told that any store NOT using an onsite payment method will
be unable sell in the near future, and we wish to continue to do so, we've
been forced to enable them.
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Not sure where you got that idea from. The onsite payment thing, at the moment,
is only for US sales tax purposes (Ca and Co, initially). Admins have said they
are still looking at other payment methods including offsite. This thread was
started to encourage them to give us some data on currently used payment methods
as a 'usage guide' and Russell has said he is going to ask.
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