| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | dcarmine  | | Posted: | Dec 26, 2021 17:24 | | Subject: | Re: bricklink global gift cards | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| A bit off topic, but maybe informative for someone. About 20% of all gift cards
are never redeemed. 
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| Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2021 17:26 | | Subject: | Re: Wicked Brick Wall-Mounted Minifigure Displays | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, stecre writes:
| | Does anyone here have any experience of the wall-mounted minifigure display solutions
from Wicked Brick?
https://www.wickedbrick.com/collections/wall-mounted-display-cases-for-lego-minifigures
I'm thinking about getting the 25-wide version in 6 tiers or 2 x 3 tiers
for my Star Wars collection.
I have some of their other products such as the base for the Old Trafford Stadium
and a couple of smaller mounts for displaying Star Wars ships and the quality
of the product itself is not in doubt.
My concerns however with the minifigure displays specifically are:
1) Might the shelves sag over time, especially on the very wide versions?
2) How easy/difficult is it to remove the front? It looks like it's held
in by small screws so I have visions of the corners breaking when trying to fit/remove
it especially when it's wall mounted. Or perhaps it's easier/better
to take it off the wall before trying to remove the front?
Thanks,
Steve
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If you look closely at the pictures, you can clearly see the shelves bowing.
That would be a problem for me. Maybe stick to the shorter widths.
Donna
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| Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2021 11:32 | | Subject: | Re: Not convinved this is correct | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | In Problem, StarBrick writes:
| | In Problem, calsbricks writes:
| | with. What a convoluted mess, with or without Brexit. Do they actually pay these
people to come up with these hair brained schemes (Not Bricklink, by the way
- they are just trying to implement this hair brained scheme)
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Frustration noted, but it doesn't bring you into a better environment....
Actually, we make it possible to have these people paid to come up with these
schemes....
They are funded by OUR taxes, so indirectly when we stop paying taxes, these
people are no longer being paid for there brained scheme productions. However,
it takes about 55 steps in the system to get from your tax payments to these
people.
All these systems worldwide are broken or at the verge of breaking. As long as
we abide by these insane rules, insane schemes and insane solutions, these insane
systems will be held in place.
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One lingering question. A seller putting bl's gb vat id on a cn232b is open
to problems,, especially as you now have to put the business name and address
details on the cn22. To me that is not sensible and very much open to fraud.
How does the system deal with that, if it does at all?
| | When we bring back understanding and logic that operates on a higher level and
not different logic for every lower level, we will gradually begin to see a change
for the better.
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I am not, in any way, fully understanding this system. But from listening to
others, the IOSS system is used to report the paid VAT to a database that can
be used by the receiving country to see if the VAT was paid on the sending side
of the transaction.
Maybe you can look that up and see if that is true.
HTH
Donna
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| Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2021 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: "lost" package rant | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Brickwilbo writes:
| | In Selling, Poncke writes:
| | In Selling, helge writes:
| | You know that the package will end up being "lost" when this is the first communication
you receive from a buyer:
"It has been 2 weeks since you claimed you shipped this order and have not recieved
it yet. Since you are not able to give me a tracking number I will have to start
a claim if O\I do not get it by friday."
And when you check his feedback you see that he has a long list of negative feedbacks
and is described as "1 of the worst buyers and sellers on Bricklink", "Compulsive
liar.", "very rude" (multiple times), "Lowsy Buyer", "100% unreasonable buyer"
and "Crazy Swindler" among other things.
Strange that it is only when a buyer has this attitude that packages gets lost.
Thankfully most buyers are nice, honest and decent people. When a buyer is patient
and understanding over a delayed shipment, it always shows up sooner or later.
But when the buyers starts to send threats after two weeks, it is a near 100%
guaranty that the package will be lost, or rather: "lost"
And yes, I know that some will respond with "always send with tracking", but
that is too expensive here for low value shipments, and I do not want to punish
all the honest buyers for the actions of the very few dishonest ones.
This was just a small order, so no real consequents, but this will end in a negative
feedback, completed Paypal claim, and the buyer gets away with theft. And he
will continue to do the same to other sellers.
Regards,
Helge
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Been thinking, you should actually write to him exactly what you wrote here.
Tell him he's a fraud and that you got him figured out. Tell him he will
open a claim for NR with Paypal but that you have already informed Paypal, and
actually call them and tell them in advance he is going to file a claim. Just
call him out, what more do you have to lose? Just try and make it as difficult
possible for him. Inform BL and report him, get his account closed. Call the
courier and recall the package if possible. This guy seems to keep making victims
and BL has a responsibility here. Maybe name and shame on the forum so everyone
can stop list him. Etc etc.
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https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=126
When feedback is posted and received it's easy to figure out who it is.
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It's true you can figure it out. The terms of use of the forum do not include
sharing a username. I'd be interested in knowing the username of this "buyer".
Donna
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| Author: | dcarmine | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2021 11:06 | | Subject: | Re: "lost" package rant | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, helge writes:
| | In Selling, zorbanj writes:
| | PayPal is completely incompatible with untracked shipping, but it sounds like
you know this and have built the cost of fraudulent claims into your prices.
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I have 
| | If you fight a PayPal claim you will be charged a $15 US fee, which is likely
more than the cost of the order itself and you will lose if there is no tracking
number.
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Correct.
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Only thing I can suggest is to tell the buyer that if a claim is filed, call
PayPal and ask them to look at the buyer's account. If the buyer has a high
number of claims versus purchases you might get lucky. Based on the buyer feedback
you quoted, it sounds like they do this often.
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I actually did that once, though not with the exact same situation. They came
back to me within minutes as agreed that it was a scam, that the person had done
the same to others, and that they now had closed his account so that he could
not make more payments. But when I asked if they would stop the payment reversal,
they said "No, we will complete the refund. But you may ask him to resend the
payment afterwards"...
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How is the buyer going to resend the payment after PayPal closes their account?
Doesn't make sense.
Donna
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