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View Thread Re: My Store is NOT Closed - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I'd be less worried if they said it was sent in error.
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Technical Issues)
View Thread Re: Bogus message perhaps - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Bricklink have confirmed it is a fake / phishing attempt.
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Help)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] How would you feel if you placed an order for 100 of part A and 100 of part B with a bricklink seller, then they cancelled 80 of part A and 80 of part B because some [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: My Store is NOT Closed - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I reported it .. and got this reply. They are saying it is fake/phishing. So it looks another security breach as it appears to have come from a bricklink server. Thank [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Technical Issues)
View Thread Re: Bricklink Marketplace Panel: buyers - yorbrick (1185)
[...] This is the dilemma they have. Do they try to attract new buyers that have, for whatever reason, not already joined BL or do they retain features that existing users [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to General)
View Thread Re: 25% off everything, no fees, EUROPE ONLY - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Do you mean European Union rather than Europe?
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Sales)
View Thread Re: My Store is NOT Closed - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Do you have auto close turned on?
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Technical Issues)
View Thread Re: Lego Collection - yorbrick (1185)
[...] You can look up sold prices for sets here at bricklink. Although you will need to look lower than that if expecting to sell a lot in one go.
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: My Store is NOT Closed - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Hopefully they will notice quicky and then send an apology email to all affected saying that this message was sent by mistake. If they leave it for a few days without [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Technical Issues)
View Thread Re: My Store is NOT Closed - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Maybe everyone receiving the email should email them on that email address, so they know the extent of the problem they have caused today.
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Technical Issues)
View Thread Re: My Store is NOT Closed - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Same thing for me.
(35 months ago, Jul 15, 2021, to Technical Issues)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
Does anyone remember the crowd funded, for adults, FORMA sets. They sold 6673 sets during crowd funding. The original BL ADP sets sold 2500 copies each. So I understand the [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 14, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Really? I thought that they are quite popular with younger girls. My daughter has quite a few of them.
(35 months ago, Jul 14, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure hp184 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] That isn't Harry on page 51.
(35 months ago, Jul 14, 2021, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Actually they are NOT for children. The are aimed at 18+, as stated in the FAQ... Will the sets be suitable for children? The official target audience is 18+ so we do [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 14, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I don't think that threat will work. These sets sell out well enough anyway, so if someone refuses to buy them, then LEGO/BL have lost nothing as others will keep [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 14, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Complete vs Incomplete - yorbrick (1185)
[...] That sounds incomplete to me. Ask for a refund.
(35 months ago, Jul 14, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Should I liquidate? - yorbrick (1185)
You could remove any valuable parts and list them for sale, then sell by the pound on ebay. Or if they are sets just without figures, sell that way.
(35 months ago, Jul 14, 2021, to Help)
View Thread Re: 1970s Blue - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Or kept as filler for myself, and avoid the hassle of packing orders with low value parts. :-)
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Colors)
View Thread Re: Confused here - yorbrick (1185)
[...] The alternative logic is that if you attach the base of a widget to the top of a widget then you make a widget. Of course, in that case the naming doesn't help you [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Autographs - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Having a photo of them signing the item helps, although stars will often charge extra for taking their photo.
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: 1970s Blue - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Personally, I wouldn't list anything heavily discoloured but then I rarely sell heavily used parts as I don't buy to sell used lots. Even if I did, selling bad [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Colors)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] A single market does not mean that a company has to provide the same product/service or for the same price everywhere in that market. They can choose to restrict where [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Identification problem female head - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I haven't seen that exact part but I have come across other CMF heads that have the "wrong" stud in the build a minifigure section of LEGO stores.
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Catalog Identification)
View Thread Re: Confused here - yorbrick (1185)
I imagine as many people know it as a 1x4 hinge brick, and search for that. But yes, it is a bit strange.
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Did the pre authorisation go through OK? If payment was not authorised properly they could have cancelled.
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: 1970s Blue - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Same here, all the ones in this thread look like standard blue to me just different amounts of fading. Some parts have been abused over time. Sat in attics or garages [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Colors)
View Thread Re: Autographs - yorbrick (1185)
[...] There are many sets that have been autographed in store on the day of release by the designers that some people try to sell for large amounts although the designer might [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] They are limiting it to 1 going forward so they are even stricter than that.
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] What does fair chance mean? They already told people when they would go live and let them order according to the published rules. How can they make it fairer than that?
(35 months ago, Jul 13, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Which sets do you think they are producing that nobody wants?
(35 months ago, Jul 12, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Inventory of non-seller - yorbrick (1185)
[...] You need to have seller status to have an inventory.
(35 months ago, Jul 12, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: Overseas order - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I don't think the refund button on BL will work in this case as they have done an offsite friends and family payment. It will have to be through PayPal. However if [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 12, 2021, to Help)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
It wouldn't surprise me if the ADP was the reason that LEGO bought BL. They had a ready made scheme that lego could use to do a bit more for the AFOL community but clearly [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 11, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Not only all that, but even if they did ship worldwide they'd probably find that 95% of business came from just 20-30 countries and the extra costs necessary to ship [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 11, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - on Ebay - yorbrick (1185)
[...] The seller won't be banned. The item will just be removed. Even if they did get banned, they can just start a new seller account, or sell it on amazon, BL or BO. [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 11, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Why would I sell sets any more? - yorbrick (1185)
I think you have to remember too that parting out is not always as good as it looks. Part out value may look high, but not everything will sell at average price and some parts [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 10, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Only to UK buyers though! But yeah, I think BL should advertise the benefits of buying parts through bricklink to all the new members of bricklink that have joined through [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 9, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Isn't this the problem. Some people want limits to be 5, some 1, 2, 3 and 4. Some no limit. LeGO cannot please everyone. If you want to make a castle bigger you can [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 9, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Is that meant to be a joke, or have you confused North and South Korea?
(35 months ago, Jul 9, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Seems most likely.
(35 months ago, Jul 9, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] And thousands more to come in the next two rounds and hopefully ongoing after that. Let's just hope the complainers don't get the program pulled completely.
(35 months ago, Jul 9, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] What do you propose? Submitting DNA samples as proof you are not related to another account holder?
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] LEGO already decided that these sets were not suitable for a normal Ideas set run, presumably as they won't sell in very large quantities. But if they want to overturn [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I was referring to personal budgets. If someone buys $1k of BDP sets that may be $1k less spent on LEGO sets. Plus they may have other sets in the pipeline that would [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] What I was meaning here is the goal of having equal numbers of each set. If one set turns out to be popular and gets say 20k orders, yet another gets 5k (and still [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: UNequal treatment :( - yorbrick (1185)
[...] So you think that they should cancel orders telling buyers that they cannot fulfill them, even though they can now fulfill them. Just so they can sell them to people [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] :-) Given they've already indicated sets and a timeline for later rounds, I'd hope they would still do rounds 2 and 3. But I could understand stopping after [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Do actual LEGO designers use Studio? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Yes, that's for production but the question was about the design process. The reality is probably a mixture of both as an iterative process until the design is finalised.
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to LEGO products)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] No, the Castle cannot be ordered. 10k have already sold.
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] It wouldn't surprise me if LEGO don't bother with continuing this after the announced rounds. Anything they try to do to please AFOLs seems to generate a lot [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
Seeing as there are lots of do it this way type posts ... Why not give priority to actual BRICKLINK users. Anyone involved in 10000 or more orders (as buyer or seller) [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Do actual LEGO designers use Studio? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I think they use physical bricks. Stability and function is important and is best tested using a real build.
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to LEGO products)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] How would you feel if that meant that you could not have the sets for 1.5 or 2 years. Adding a known quantity has increased the timescale for production, adding an unknown [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] It may be a good business decision if it takes away sales from LEGO's own sets. Who knows what official sets are coming.
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Why not also cancel all orders for just one set too? If buyers placing orders in line with the rules have orders cancelled, then all orders should be cancelled. If buyers [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] This was addressed in the statement. They want each of the sets to have the same number produced to be fair to the designers, which is understandable. Would they sell [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] The limit was 5. 5 is not greater than 5, it is equal to 5. Not fulfilling orders placed in line with advertised purchase limits would not be fair on the people that [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] This was made clear before purchase. If you want printed instructions, you could buy one of the 700-800 other sets that LEGO produce each year. Printing a small run of [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Clearly it is down to production timescales. They have announced another 5k allocation and look at what that does to production timescales, it will be a year before those [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] You can cancel your order if the lack of exclusivity is a problem.
(35 months ago, Jul 8, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Selling entire Massive lego collection - yorbrick (1185)
[...] You need to reopen your store.
(35 months ago, Jul 7, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: issues.....and I managed to bag 4 of the 5!!! - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I doubt it is worth them, printing small runs of 5000 instructions. Their team would gave to typeset all of them to lego, not worth it for these sets. As I understand [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 7, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Is this definition correct? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] It is correct as the top is curved compared to the flat top ones, such as (Part 12939)
(35 months ago, Jul 7, 2021, to Catalog Identification)
View Thread Re: issues.....and I managed to bag 4 of the 5!!! - yorbrick (1185)
[...] So now they must print an extra 5000 booklets per set that were not planned, they have to print certificates and then someone has to humber them? If someone wants to [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 7, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: issues.....and I managed to bag 4 of the 5!!! - yorbrick (1185)
[...] They would probably have to renegotiate contracts with all the designers. Plus at least one of them already released instructions for their original submission. LEGO [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 6, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Petition to the LEGO Group - yorbrick (1185)
[...] This isn't true. LEGO could have chosen two, or three, or four, ... or even zero. They decide to pass however many they decide to pass.
(35 months ago, Jul 6, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Cloves (see e.g. 3846pb11eu) - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I remember searching for that in the past ... clubs, clover, trefoil, ...
(35 months ago, Jul 6, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Lack of Features and UI Design / Difficult - yorbrick (1185)
[...] I doubt they revenue per minute is equal throughout the day. It is timed when most users are not busy, presumably to minimise disruption. A bigger issue for me is when [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 6, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Can you sell a single figure leg? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Is this correct? I know minifigures must contain all their inventoried parts otherwise they are removed if reported but is the same true for parts? There are many parts [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 6, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: Offer an option to "Cancel without feedback" - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Why would a buyer leave negative feedback after asking for a seller to cancel an order and the seller complying with their wishes? I've cancelled orders in the past [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 5, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: Castle In The Forest - yorbrick (1185)
. Not a single time did I get the notion that the sets were going to sell out fast. Here is a tip- if it is lego and limited edition, it will sell out fast.
(35 months ago, Jul 4, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Northern Irish buyers and UK stores / EU - yorbrick (1185)
Reading this ... (URL) in particular this sentence ... If your business on BrickLink sells goods in any European Union country or Northern Ireland (“EU”) ... Does [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 4, 2021, to Shipping)
View Thread Re: Castle In The Forest - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Even if you purchase the set in the first round, they aren't doing printed instructions. You have to use an app - presumably so people don't distribute a pdf [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 4, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Selling an incomplete used set - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Take a look here (URL) I'd make sure your potential buyers know they are not getting everything in the inventory, especially if they are expensive plumes or feathers.
(35 months ago, Jul 3, 2021, to Selling)
View Thread Re: Castle In The Forest - yorbrick (1185)
I don't think they should make more, as it was advertised as a limited run of 5000. However, releasing the instructions along with a xml wants list file with a pointer to [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 3, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Really bummed how designer castle happened .. - yorbrick (1185)
[...] (URL)
(35 months ago, Jul 3, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: So now what? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Are you sure they have charged your card, and not just done a pre authorisation? Isn't shipping at the start of 2022, or something similar?
(35 months ago, Jul 3, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: FYI: Crowdfunding is live - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Sold out in UK too. The "still available (but not really)" type of advertising is annoying but not really unexpected.
(35 months ago, Jul 2, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Credit Card required to sell on BrickLink - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Do you realise that suggestion is over 10 years old?
(35 months ago, Jul 2, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: FYI: Crowdfunding is live - yorbrick (1185)
It is a shame that bricklink didn't get more of an advertising push with this. Such as only registered BL users get priority to order, or users with 10 feedback, or even [...]
(35 months ago, Jul 2, 2021, to Designer Program)
View Thread Re: Hack or workaround for not yet released sets? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] No
(37 months ago, May 13, 2021, to Inventories)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 5956-1 - yorbrick (1185)
[...] This could well be a mistake rather than a widespread extra. I've had two sticker sheets in sets before when there is meant to be one. They sometimes stick together [...]
(37 months ago, May 9, 2021, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: Kraata Color Specificity - yorbrick (1185)
[...] So you think that bricklink needs a complete rewrite to allow parts to have multiple colours per part rather than just adding these in the description? It seems unlikely [...]
(37 months ago, May 9, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: baseplate 16 x 21 - yorbrick (1185)
Yeah. Listing as a custom item probably is best here, so the customer really knows what size they are getting. Baseplates can be manually cut and finished to look quite professional [...]
(37 months ago, May 6, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: List of most wanted items - yorbrick (1185)
[...] What do you mean by this? The most wanted or the most expensive? These are two different concepts. You can find the most wanted animal (in each category) by using [...]
(37 months ago, May 5, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: List of most wanted items - yorbrick (1185)
The most wanted parts are often some of the most highly listed quantities, and cheapest parts. They are often most wanted as they have been in many sets, so get added to many [...]
(37 months ago, May 5, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: List of most wanted items - yorbrick (1185)
[...] It is amazing how black-white-grey that list is.
(37 months ago, May 5, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Original or coming from Ali? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Mine don't have the lego sign. Although they are not as fat looking as yours. Mine are from 2013 #60004.
(37 months ago, Apr 29, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Original or coming from Ali? - yorbrick (1185)
I have a couple of used, genuine of the 32 long axles. They do not have dimples on the ends, they are flat ends. They also appear slightly lighter than flat yellow parts but [...]
(37 months ago, Apr 29, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: New beta page - yorbrick (1185)
[...] While I agree with you about how bad XP is, this was coming long before lego took over.
(37 months ago, Apr 27, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Multipack - yorbrick (1185)
[...] They are already in the inventory, as regular and extra parts. This is similar to other parts that come in card boxes to protect them.
(37 months ago, Apr 25, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Misprint or am I being silly? - yorbrick (1185)
[...] This will be worth more, as it is a nice one that can also be used for variation and not just curiousity. Did you get it in a set, or in a lot? I think one of the Chinese [...]
(37 months ago, Apr 23, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Changes involving the CEP - yorbrick (1185)
[...] There are two different types of transparency here though - transparency about decisions concerning the catalogue and transparency about decisions concerning employment [...]
(37 months ago, Apr 21, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Changes involving the CEP - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Why? The reason that a volunteer no longer volunteers is nothing to do with anyone else. If the volunteer wants to say why then that's fine, but a company should [...]
(37 months ago, Apr 21, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Monochrome Minifigures - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Not really, you can often see a different surface when it is wiped, so not 100% and it does matter.
(38 months ago, Apr 16, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Monochrome Minifigures - yorbrick (1185)
[...] They can also "clean" a part and list it as the plain torso, that is nothing new. I'd hope anyone doing that would list them as used or at least indicate the parts [...]
(38 months ago, Apr 16, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Monochrome Minifigures - yorbrick (1185)
[...] There are other monochrome figures too, just with accessories/headgear (Minifigure hp204) (Minifigure sh352) (Minifigure old045) As "standard" monochromes are not [...]
(38 months ago, Apr 16, 2021, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Minecraft Water Animal should be minifigures - yorbrick (1185)
[...] Animals vs minifigures is a real mess for what gets included. Not just in Minecraft but across all themes. It happens in other animals sections too, air for example ... [...]
(38 months ago, Apr 15, 2021, to Catalog)
View Thread Re: Items Moved Today - yorbrick (1185)
[...] You seems to be favouring twice yearly large moves instead of smaller ones, but then go on to say there were too many to move. What is the plan here, to roll those over [...]
(38 months ago, Apr 12, 2021, to Catalog)

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