| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | MidwestBrick  | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 10:55 | | Subject: | Re: Been away a full year, what's new? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, zorbanj writes:
| | In General, MidwestBrick writes:
| | Happy 2022 everyone. 2021 was very busy for my family and I as we built a new
house and moved to a new area as well do i had to shut down the store in Feb
2021 to start packing everything up. There were plenty of delays in the home
building and overall a great experience but also an exhausting one too.
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Welcome back!
| | Just checking in to ask if someone is able to summarize what is new on BL from
early 2021 until now. Any big new develops or changes on how things are done
or is it pretty much the same as before? The last big thing I recall is implementing
the tax per sale based on the state making the purchase. Also, anything that
deals with international processes can be left of any summary. I only sell domestically.
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Off the top of my head:
* BL collects sales taxes for just about every state now. Still no mechanism
for accepting exemption certificates.
* You can't sell incomplete minifigs anymore. Listed minifigs have to include
everything shown in that minifig's inventory. If not, they have to be listed
as parts or as a custom listing.
* Most, if not all, PayPal users have been transitioned from Pitney Bowes to
Shipstation for shipping labels. The consensus here is that Shipstation sucks.
When I've been away for awhile, I skim through Admin Russell's posts:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageList.asp?nID=1315366&uID=919043&v=c&mTP=N&max=100
| | Hope all is well with everyone. I built my new Lego room all by myself and am
very pleased with how it has turned out. Everyday I'm putting in the work
to get organized more and more and although I could probably open later this
week, I want to put in some more improvements so picking orders csn be sped up
even more than I had it organized prior which takes further planning and organizers.
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Would love to see photos and/or a video of the Lego room when you're done.
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OMG, this probably scares me the most
* Most, if not all, PayPal users have been transitioned from Pitney Bowes to
Shipstation for shipping labels. The consensus here is that Shipstation sucks.
I think I just saw an advertisement for this on Hulu and heard the "it saves
me money" line and was just like Ohhh you mean commercial vs retail. Ya, everyone
gets commercial if you know how to print your own label. If it wasn't this
company, it was something quite similar in name.
Thanks for the heads up. I look forward to navigating this and seeing how much
pricing has gone up for shipping too!
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 10:11 | | Subject: | Re: Been away a full year, what's new? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, Teup writes:
| | In General, MidwestBrick writes:
| | Happy 2022 everyone. 2021 was very busy for my family and I as we built a new
house and moved to a new area as well do i had to shut down the store in Feb
2021 to start packing everything up. There were plenty of delays in the home
building and overall a great experience but also an exhausting one too.
Just checking in to ask if someone is able to summarize what is new on BL from
early 2021 until now. Any big new develops or changes on how things are done
or is it pretty much the same as before? The last big thing I recall is implementing
the tax per sale based on the state making the purchase. Also, anything that
deals with international processes can be left of any summary. I only sell domestically.
Hope all is well with everyone. I built my new Lego room all by myself and am
very pleased with how it has turned out. Everyday I'm putting in the work
to get organized more and more and although I could probably open later this
week, I want to put in some more improvements so picking orders csn be sped up
even more than I had it organized prior which takes further planning and organizers.
Thank you in advance to anyone that responds to this too.
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Business as usual, except that Bricklink now has a CEO from LEGO and LEGO wants
to have video sessions with the users with 'some' frequency, on hot topics
that arise or otherwise. The first session was at least refreshing. So hopefully
some long overdue things will finally start moving in the coming months/years..
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Very helpful information and thank you for the post. I will have to track down
this session if it was recorded and available for re-watching.
The 1st thing I encountered upon returning is the inability to get detailed sales
transactions for more than 6 months. That still drives me crazy that we can't
get at least a full year of detailed sales for our records (if not more than
a year). I usually download them every quarter but it was my mistake to forget
to do this last year.
It should almost be an automatic process that on Jan 1 of every year, every seller/buyer
has a emailed Detailed Transaction list for our records.
Anyway, thanks again for the post.
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 10:07 | | Subject: | Re: Been away a full year, what's new? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, SezaR writes:
| | In General, MidwestBrick writes:
| | Happy 2022 everyone. 2021 was very busy for my family and I as we built a new
house and moved to a new area as well do i had to shut down the store in Feb
2021 to start packing everything up. There were plenty of delays in the home
building and overall a great experience but also an exhausting one too.
Just checking in to ask if someone is able to summarize what is new on BL from
early 2021 until now. Any big new develops or changes on how things are done
or is it pretty much the same as before? The last big thing I recall is implementing
the tax per sale based on the state making the purchase. Also, anything that
deals with international processes can be left of any summary. I only sell domestically.
Hope all is well with everyone. I built my new Lego room all by myself and am
very pleased with how it has turned out. Everyday I'm putting in the work
to get organized more and more and although I could probably open later this
week, I want to put in some more improvements so picking orders csn be sped up
even more than I had it organized prior which takes further planning and organizers.
Thank you in advance to anyone that responds to this too.
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I was actually thinking about you as you did not write any thing in the forum
for some time.
News?
I received my first bad feedback  o
Other than that, I think you may need to check VAT for Europe and VAT for UK
is implemented and this means extra work for sellers. The situation can be a
mess sometimes. Check few threads on the forum in regards to VAT.
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Oof, bad feedback is not want I want to hear about!! Sorry to see that happen!
Thanks for the reply and thankfully for me, I shouldn't have to deal with
VAT. This is what largely keeps me away from the international scene (things
like this) as I simply do not have the time or energy to figure out every nation's
rules. Tough enough knowing the tax codes of USA!
I feels good already to be posting again in this forum. I knew I wouldn't
go away, but I didn't think it would take me a year to get everything up
to snuff again either (the house was originally to be completed in July, which
then stalled until nearly October due to shortages of products. Just too many
things out of my control!
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 00:44 | | Subject: | Been away a full year, what's new? | | Viewed: | 253 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Happy 2022 everyone. 2021 was very busy for my family and I as we built a new
house and moved to a new area as well do i had to shut down the store in Feb
2021 to start packing everything up. There were plenty of delays in the home
building and overall a great experience but also an exhausting one too.
Just checking in to ask if someone is able to summarize what is new on BL from
early 2021 until now. Any big new develops or changes on how things are done
or is it pretty much the same as before? The last big thing I recall is implementing
the tax per sale based on the state making the purchase. Also, anything that
deals with international processes can be left of any summary. I only sell domestically.
Hope all is well with everyone. I built my new Lego room all by myself and am
very pleased with how it has turned out. Everyday I'm putting in the work
to get organized more and more and although I could probably open later this
week, I want to put in some more improvements so picking orders csn be sped up
even more than I had it organized prior which takes further planning and organizers.
Thank you in advance to anyone that responds to this too.
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2020 01:38 | | Subject: | Re: how to approximate value of inventory | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, courpee writes:
| | In Inventories, faro writes:
| | In Inventories, jbroman writes:
| | In Inventories, courpee writes:
| | what I'm wondering is if there is a way to determine if it would be better
to part out a set or sell complete set value-wise?
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You could start the part out process and see what the value is.
Use default price as last 6 month average. Submit for edit. Verify items.
The next page will have the value at the bottom of the page.
Now you have the choice to upload the items, or if you don't want to, just
close the tab in your browser. As long as you don't click on the upload
items button, the parts won't be added to your inventory.
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Do not Forget to take the time into consideration. Selling the parts takes normally
longer...
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thnks you guys
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Ask yourself what your goals are... is it to make a few bucks, is it to make
your money back, is it to support a hobby?
If you answered yes for any of those, then don't do it.
You need to go all in and be ready to fully support a store, otherwise here is
what will happen.
You part out a few sets, great, people buy from you, but the pieces bought are
highly sought after and the rest of your pieces lay around waiting for a suitor
that never comes.
If this was easy everyone would be doing it. Let me tell you, it is not easy.
It takes dedication, daily dedication, every night, every weekend, you need
to be constantly scouring for deals to fuel your store and keep pieces in stock
that are purchased often even if the % profit on them is minimal. The list goes
on and on as you need to be on top of your game at all times.
All I'm saying is, part out for the right reasons, not the hopes and dreams
if you don't actually have the time, patience, and ability to build a store
that will satisfy your goals.
Best of luck in your decision.
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