Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | MrPetovan  | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2022 01:30 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75880-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 6179pb215 White Tile, Modified 4 x 4 with Studs on Edge with Black and White McLaren 720S Car Pattern (Sticker) - Set 75880 (Alternate)
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2022 01:09 | | Subject: | Added 100+ instructions! | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| I'd never got around to inventory my collection of instructions, and thanks
to the help of my wonderful partner, it is now done!
Please check them out, there are some rarities in there and they are occupying
a whole cabinet in my apartment so every sale is reclaimed space!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Feb 3, 2022 17:42 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75888-1 | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 28802 Red Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 4 with Two Rounded Corners at the Bottom (Alternate) (match ID 1)
* Change 1 Part Red 2436b Bracket 1 x 2 - 1 x 4 with Rounded Corners {match ID 0 to 1}
Comments from Submitter:
Brand new parts bag
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Nov 4, 2021 03:30 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 70500-1 | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 14769pb472 Pearl Gold Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Bottom Stud Holder with White Lion Head in Red Circle Pattern (Sticker) - Set 70500 (Counterpart)
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Nov 3, 2021 08:24 | | Subject: | Re: Add an alternate stickered part | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | |
| Thanks, I submitted it successfully with 0 for the stud dimension, along with
the image.
[p=14769pb750,115]
In Catalog Requests, randyf writes:
| | I believe the reason it probably was not working for you was because you were
not entering a zero for the final stud dimension. You have to enter 2 x 2 x 0
on the form instead of just 2 x 2. I haven't tested this to be sure, but
I got it to work the first time with all of the information you provided plus
the added zero.
In any case, the part has been added as
You can now submit the Inventory Change Request to add it to set 70500.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Nov 2, 2021 20:12 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 41126-1 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 89801pb06 Light Bluish Gray Minifigure, Utensil Trophy Cup with Magenta Number 1 Pattern (Sticker) - Set 41122 (Counterpart)
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Nov 1, 2021 12:16 | | Subject: | Re: Remove my store from wanted lists | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| The Auto-Select feature isn't the only one that buyers use. But dredabeast's
store specifically stunts the Auto-Select engine with rock-bottom prices, a tiny
lot limit and a conditional but in practice unavoidable fee per order.
In Selling, tec writes:
| | and you will lose all your legitimate clients.
the proper way is to fix the engine asap.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2021 22:11 | | Subject: | Add an alternate stickered part | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
| Hi,
I tried to add a part but I kept getting the error "The page cannot be displayed
because an internal server error has occurred.". Please add the part manually
with the following data:
Required fields
- Category: Tile, Round, Decorated
- Item No: 14769pb750
- Item Name: Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Bottom Stud Holder with White Lion
Head in Red Circle Pattern (Sticker) - Set 70500
Optional Fields
- Weight: 0.33g
- Stud Dimensions: 2 x 2
- Packing Dimensions: 1.6cm x 1.6xm x 0.32cm
- Packing Type: Volume
- Note for Catalog Admin: Alternative to part 4150pb129 with the bottom
stud holder in the set 70500-1.
Please use the attached image. Credit would be nice but at this point I'm
just disappointed in the systematic error so I don't really care.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 23:52 | | Subject: | Re: Second round of crowdfunding for the BrickLink Designer Program opens November 9th featuring these nine LEGO® IDEAS 10k Club Projects! | | Viewed: | 104 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| Yes, after the first round debacle with a limit of 5, they reduced the limit
to 1, see https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/support/main.page
Section "July 7th Program Update", question "Why are additional pre-orders a
limit of 1 per customer when previously you could order 5?"
In Administrative, shumbu writes:
| | Will there be limits on how many a buyer can purchase? No one should be allowed to buy more than two, in my opinion.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 23:47 | | Subject: | Re: Second round of crowdfunding for the BrickLink Designer Program opens November 9th featuring these nine LEGO® IDEAS 10k Club Projects! | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| The shipping date is supposed to be earlier next year, but later than what they
announced initially (January) because they doubled the number of produced sets.
In Administrative, 3ofmomlego writes:
| | when does the Kakapo from round 1 get shipped out?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 18:51 | | Subject: | Re: exclusions or alerts | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I'm sorry you got Georgia Bricked.
As the others in this thread said:
- Always check carts created with Auto-Select before paying, several limits beyond
the lot limit aren't checked during the search.
- Least favorite the difficult and price-baiting stores.
I may add:
- You can convert the content of a cart into its own Wanted List so that you
can more easily order these parts only from different stores.
In Suggestions, Snippy1 writes:
| | I created a default list of approximately 800 items. The auto select returned
7 stores. I placed orders in the first 6, the 7th would not let me as the seller
had a limit of 3 lots per sale. My order with him was comprised 139 lots. He
has not responded to messages asking for a bypass password, an option he offers.
It would be nice if the auto select could either allow you to exclude particular
sellers, those with lot limits and/or provide some warning up front that a limit
exists prior to placing orders.
I have had to recreate the subset of items in another default list to only now
have another 5 carts created, one of which is the offending store.
I am unable to complete my in a logical manner. Were I able to manually do so,
it will be at significantly increased price do to the added shipping/handling.
I had 4 or 5 projects I was trying to complete. None of them can occur now.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2021 18:45 | | Subject: | Keep Have qty when updating Wanted qty in inv | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| After updating the Wanted quantity of a part through the wanted list modal on
a set inventory for example, I had the negative surprise of finding out the Have
quantity had been reset to 0.
Reproduction steps:
- Add a part to a wanted list, set the Have quantity to 1.
- On an inventory featuring the same part in the same color, click on the Add
to Wanted list heart-shaped link.
- In the modal, select the wanted list, the existing Wanted quantity shows.
- Change the Wanted quantity, click on the Update button.
- Go back to Wanted List.
- The Have quantity for this part is now 0.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2021 15:45 | | Subject: | Re: Architect turns 67,000 Lego pcs into Vatican | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| It's a micro scale model, so I'm not surprised about this relatively
low part count.
In My Own Creation, macebobo writes:
| | In My Own Creation, Llewyn writes:
| | In My Own Creation, macebobo writes:
| | I am impressed as well. Can we please have a link to the article.
My gut tells me that there is more there than 67,000 pieces in that work of art,
but willing to be wrong.
-- John
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It's what the artist himself claims at least. This (I think) is the first
Instagram post revealing the finished build last year: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYN_3Ppck5/
Similar parts total to his earlier Imperial Rome build, but dwarfed by this year's
114k piece 1st Century Jerusalem display!
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67,000+ (~1,300 unique) - I read that as at least 67,000 pieces, likely more.
Still impressive though.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 13, 2021 23:09 | | Subject: | Re: Label parts in orders with wanted list name | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| When you create a cart from the Auto-Select feature of the Wanted List Buy page,
the cart knows what wanted list the parts ordered come from. But once the order
is created, this information is lost and this feature is the only remaining way
to link an order with the Wanted Lists, but it matches by Element, which means
all the Wanted Lists including the same part with the same color will show up
in that search.
The main caveat is that a part ordered in a specific color from a "Not Applicable"
color wanted list item will not match the relevant item in the same wanted list
in the "filter by order" feature. But it will match all the items in the other
Wanted lists with the exact color ordered even though they weren't the "source"
of the ordered lot.
In Suggestions, Gaston.La.Brick writes:
| | I'm not sure I fully understand the suggestion, but I did want to mention
a feature you might not be aware of.
When you list your placed orders, you can select the scroll icon to see which
items in that order are on which wanted list.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2021 22:31 | | Subject: | Re: TAXES | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| Thank you for the tip!
In Off Topic, peregrinator writes:
| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | Oh great, shipping is included in this then, which may put some folks over the
line even if they didn't sell for $600 of actual merchandise.
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You have to report the income whether or not you get a 1099 from PayPal though.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2021 20:31 | | Subject: | Re: TAXES | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| Oh great, shipping is included in this then, which may put some folks over the
line even if they didn't sell for $600 of actual merchandise.
In Off Topic, galeatter writes:
| | In Off Topic, galeatter writes:
| | our fine federal govt has thrown in a rule for paypal or similar users. Used
to be a cap of $20,000 of goods and services would trigger a 1099. As of Jan
1 2022 it is now $600.00 Probably not going to affect me finacially just going
to be a huge pain in the butt doing all the paper work to show costs of doing
my lego business. Anyone else just seeing this information? Don't want
others to be shocked at tax time. Thank you Joe Biden.
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third party network platforms like PayPal will be issuing forms and reporting
to the IRS for all accounts if the transactions exceed $600 for that year. Fortunately,
they did make the clarification that this will only apply to things that are
categorized as “Goods or Services” as opposed the “Friends and Family” option
with PayPal.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2021 18:45 | | Subject: | Re: fees for payment not for shipping | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
| What kind of fees were you expecting to apply to your orders?
In Payment Methods, Roxyncz writes:
| | Why isn't it possible to set payment fees in the Edit Store, but only for
shipping?
Wouldn't that be better?
Each payment has different fees.
thanks for the anwers
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 12, 2021 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: My model of an Office/Residential Tower in UK | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| Nice, how did it go?
In My Own Creation, neiluk88 writes:
| | I was on my local radio station today about this.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 11, 2021 21:27 | | Subject: | Re: How would you handle this? | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| In Selling, M.Boss writes:
| | In Selling, cosmicray writes:
| | To prevent this in the future, figure out how to set up Instant Checkout. That
will force the buyer to make a final decision before an order exists (and not
afterwards). It's really better for everyone, as it provides the maximum
information way up front.
Nita Rae
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Thanks.
I like to charge actual shipping cost. BrickLink still hasn’t implemented USPS
zone shipping methods correct? That is why I don’t have it enabled.
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I'm in the same boat, I quote the exact USPS shipping price and for First-Class
Package at least, it depends on the delivery state, which isn't included
in shipping zones yet. It also depends on the weight, and for used sets without
instructions not box it doesn't match the recorded weight in the catalog.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 11, 2021 12:08 | | Subject: | Re: Add filter by shipping time for auto-buy | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| This is tricky because shipping methods vary with an order size. It's barely
able to take into account the existing limits on order size (minimum order amount
is supported, maximum lot number isn't), so I don't think it would be
easy to filter on shipping carrier.
The closest we have right now is the filter on stores that don't ship to
your registered address. It isn't perfect, I've been suggested stores
supposed to ship to me but when going to check my cart out, it said that it wasn't
shipping to the state of New York.
In Suggestions, That_1_Guy writes:
| | Most stores provide information on what they use to ship, and it tends to be
pretty standard - USPS, DHL shipping (for international), et cetera. Information
on the average range of ship times for those shipping methods are available on
the site of the shipping method. So why not add the ability to filter for those?
Or, at least, filter by shipping method?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 11, 2021 12:02 | | Subject: | Re: 10294 Titanic | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| I've told several people getting into LEGO is the safest collection hobby
someone with kids can get into because if a model falls, it can be repaired.
It may not be the funniest, but at least it's possible, unlike several other
hobbies with variously fragile subjects like antique porcelain!
In LEGO, Hardstone writes:
| | In LEGO, axaday writes:
As an enthusiast of the Titanic, part of me feels like I may want to get that
set some day. Another part of me is worried about what might happen if someone
tries to move the ship from where I have it displayed and drops it.
You see, I don't live alone. I have relatives living with me. Should one
of them decide to take it upon themselves to clean my personal room without my
input someday. If while cleaning they try moving the ship and it flies apart
after being dropped, at over 9000 pieces, it will be a nightmare to find all
the pieces to put it back together.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 11, 2021 11:59 | | Subject: | Re: Really ????? | | Viewed: | 137 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Not going to lie, I'm not loving the bunch of older white men giving their
sadly predictable opinion on gender, diversity and inclusion in this thread.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 11, 2021 09:40 | | Subject: | Re: Slow orders, help a store out 5% sale | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| Hi, I'm sorry you are worried about sales, but also you only have had 45
orders so far, and only 14 of them were placed in the last 6 months. Please take
a deep breath, it's going to be okay.
If you are staking your livelihood on this activity, I suggest you start doing
some market research to figure either cheaper inventory sources or a more competitive
pricing.
In any case, if you're looking for gross sales, more inventory is always
better.
In Selling, jgrossman1025 writes:
| | Hello,
My sales are dwindling really fast, if i have anything in my store you could
be interested in please check it out.
Thanks for all your help, NG
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2021 18:45 | | Subject: | Re: My model of an Office/Residential Tower in UK | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| Did you use a Wanted List for this search? https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/list.page
And the associated Wanted List Buy page? https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/buy.page
In My Own Creation, neiluk88 writes:
| | Thanks for the excellent tips, I will print them and use for future models.
I did encounter quite a few issues with Brick Link. Some sellers said they had
300 parts, but then said they made a typo and only had 30, etc. This involved
lots of searching around, more expense, rebuild, etc.
This was the problem with making a model with most rare parts. I spent more than
I intended building this model. Originally it only came to £160, but in reality
it soon increased when parts were rare and people only had a few quantities of
each, meaning multiple purchases from several countries. I just hope I've
picked the right colour grey, after all the stress I've been through making
this.
In My Own Creation, SylvainLS writes:
| | In My Own Creation, neiluk88 writes:
Hi,
| | […]
What I found frustrating with Brick
Link, was that you didn't know a part was rare or out of stock, until you
had built it and imported it into Brick Link. So I had to go back into my design
a few times and replace types of brick and rebuild the model a few times. This
caused a lot of additional work.
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Actually, Studio tells you the price of each part (you can choose your currency
and if which value to consider) and which colours it comes in.
Method 0:
Select a part (or several!) in the build area and the price is indicated in the
status line (the semi-transparent line at the bottom of the build area).
Method 1:
Menu Model, entry Model Info opens a window with all the parts in the model that
shows their prices (per unit and total) and the total estimated price for the
whole model.
Method 2:
You can also check the box “Hide Unavailable Colors” in the colour palette and:
0. only the colours the selected parts come in are available in the colour palette,
1. dollar signs appear next to each colour: more $, more expensive,
2. the price is shown in a tooltip if you let the mouse over a colour for a couple
seconds.
Method 3:
There’s a similar box in the colour palette of the Building palette (the White/coloured
square at the left of the search box)… and then only the parts that exist in
that colour are available and their name is in Yellow if they are expensive.
(But be wary of this checkbox because many forget it’s on and then think parts
aren’t available at all while they are only not available in the selected colour.)
Method 4, sort-of (no price, only “known” or not):
In the steplist, parts that are in a colour that’s not “known” by the catalogue
(= they don’t appear in an inventory in that colour) have a yellow ! on the left
and a tooltip saying the colour is not available.
The old “check errors” at the bottom of the steplist or the new Color Validator
can tell you which parts don’t exist in the colour they are painted in. And
the Color Validator can also repaint all of them in one or two clicks.
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The other challenge I had was that I didn't know there were different versions
fo grey brick. I just hope that my choice of Light Grey (older style),is a right
one.
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It may be for the accuracy of your build but it’s definetely not for your wallet:
if, as you put it, Light Gray is “older style,” it’s because production has stopped
in the Great Colour Shift of 2003-2004 and now all bricks produced are Light
Bluish Gray.
Parts that are not produced anymore are generally more rare & expensive than
common nowadays parts.
| | The building does look white and silver, and grey. It catches the light,
so it depends on the angle of the sun. I hope it turns out well in real life
when I eventually finish it. I will aim to finish it before Christmas. Would
be keen to hear your comments. Cheers. Neil
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Nice build!
Don’t forget to post a pic once really built 
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2021 18:21 | | Subject: | Re: My model of an Office/Residential Tower in UK | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| About putting my BrickLink credentials inside a piece of software downloaded
from the same BrickLink website?
As a general rule I would tend to agree with you but in this case I feel like
it was a little too late for not sending them my credentials they themselves
store since I registered.
In My Own Creation, SylvainLS writes:
| | In My Own Creation, MrPetovan writes:
| | Great news, I readily logged in the software on Day 1 with my BL credentials
so I thought it was linked.
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You’re not paranoid enough  
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2021 18:01 | | Subject: | Re: My model of an Office/Residential Tower in UK | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| Great news, I readily logged in the software on Day 1 with my BL credentials
so I thought it was linked.
In My Own Creation, SylvainLS writes:
| | In My Own Creation, MrPetovan writes:
| | […]
- Studio has a BrickLink integration once you log in with your credentials […]
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You actually don’t need to be logged in for that.
Logging in allows to upload your model to the Gallery or to your Wanted List
but the prices are available for everybody
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2021 17:59 | | Subject: | Re: 150+ sets need to be sold (mixed pieces) | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Hi,
here’s the blunt of it: Bricklink isn’t suited for selling in bulk. If you do
not want to make sure your sets are complete or inventory every single part,
your best bet is to sell the whole lot on local marketplaces like Craigslist,
Facebook Marketplace, even NextDoor.
Estimating the worth of a bulk lot without knowing the sets that came into it
and whether there are minifigures or not is futile, but BL sellers usually buy
bulk LEGO by the pound between $2 and $10 per pound.
In General, shadowlinks writes:
| | Hello all,
hopefully there's a suggestion that helps...my kids (and myself) have over
150 sets all complete that I would like to sell, I can't sort them, its a
ton, currently occupying 4+ 20gl storage containers. Is there any ideas on how
to set a value to this? How/Where to sell it bulk? (I realize im on brick link
lol).
Any ideas or suggestions welcome,
Thank you
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2021 17:53 | | Subject: | Re: My model of an Office/Residential Tower in UK | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| First of all congratulations on your design and buying parts for it! Building
a self-designed MOC is a great if a little expensive experience.
I remember your recent post about the cost of your MOC and I replied some general
cost-saving techniques, I hope some were useful to you but I feel like I was
already too late for this particular project.
A few thoughts:
- “Light Gray” refers to a color LEGo stopped producing parts for in 2003, going
instead with “Light Bluish Gray”, same with “Dark Grey”/“Dark Bluish Grey” and
“Brown”/“Reddish Brown. As a result, “Light Gray” parts availability has been
decreasing over time as LEGO doesn’t make them anymore, and their price is generally
higher than “Light Bluish Gray” counterparts LEGO started producing from 2003
on.
- As I suspected from your original succinct description of a “tower building”,
you probably have a lot of structural parts hidden inside the model that you
could have ordered in the cheapest color available.
- Studio has a BrickLink integration once you log in with your credentials where
average prices for different parts/colors are shown directly in the editor, including
an estimate of the model’s average cost. This allows for cost optimization directly
in the editor long before the first part list export in a Wanted List.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 9, 2021 15:31 | | Subject: | Re: Buying MOC Instructions Online/Facebook | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| There's a link to the instruction page on Rebrickable for this MOC in the
description of the YouTube video: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-76959/M_longer/42114-mining-dump-truck/#details
From there you can purchase a copy of the instructions by creating an account
and submitting your payment.
I've bought several instructions from Rebrickable and the quality has been
mostly good, however I've never bought from this designer. The Rebrickable
page states that Eric Trax designed and built the model, but M_Lauder made the
instructions for it.
In My Own Creation, mj_janssenhotm writes:
| | Hi everyone,
I would like to procure the instructions to the MOC 42114-B Dump Truck by Eric
Trax.
-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od9x4s3mrEo
Does anyone here have any experience w/ Eric's instructions and how/where
to procure them.
Eric only has a Facebook page which forwards me to Rebrickable?
Thanks!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 22:03 | | Subject: | Re: Completing Lego Set on Brick Link | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| Sorry about that, on top of straight up removing parts, here are a couple additional
general strategies for reducing the part price of a MOC:
- Reducing the number of lots: this might sound counter-intuitive because it
increases the total number of parts, but oftentimes splitting a large part into
2 smaller might bring the total cost down. This may lower the model strength
and stability but in the case of a square tower building, it should be pretty
safe to do so.
- Switching colors: some parts are only really expensive in specific colors.
Switching from Flat Silver/Metallic Silver to Light or Dark Bluish Gray may bring
the part cost down.
- Filler bricks: Identify the structural parts that never appear in the finished
model. You can use any color parts and especially any condition. Sellers will
usually slash prices for parts with heavy playwear, nicks, dents, scratches,
etc...
If you're using the Auto-Select feature of the Wanted List Buy page, here
are additional suggestions to optimize the total price:
- You can set the color of filler parts to "Not Applicable" in your wanted list
and the search will often give you the cheapest color for the relevant part.
- For expensive parts, the search might select stores carrying a more expensive
than average lot because the store is also selected for other parts. You can
set a Maximum Price in your wanted list for these parts so that these lots will
be excluded. I usually pick something close to the Average or Quantity Average
you can get from the Price Guide for the relevant part. It keeps a good parts
availability while hopefully saving on the total parts cost.
- Watch out for shipping fees. Every time you run the search, pay attention to
the number of stores the search suggest. Every store will require a separate
shipping fee, and sometimes saving £5 on the parts total isn't worth it if
it adds a couple more stores to the cart suggestion.
In Buying, neiluk88 writes:
| | Thanks for this info, that's a shame.
I have designed a lego model of the tower in my town and its over 1,700 pieces.
A lot of the pieces are rare and I'm getting quite a high price for all the
pieces. (£350). I have tried reducing the number of bricks down but its still
rather high. I guess I'll have to just save up or keep trying to refresh
it daily.
Neil
In Buying, MrPetovan writes:
| | Hi, there's no automatic relationship between orders and wanted lists. There's
a manual way to fill your wanted list with your orders though.
Once on your wanted list, click on "Apply Order" and pick the desired order,
it should increased the Have quantities of the lots you purchased.
There's a caveat though, since orders don't track which wanted list they
were created from, if you have multiple Wanted lists with the same part in the
same color, applying the same order will increase the Have quantity in each of
them, even if it wasn't meant to.
Additionally, not all orders come with perfect accuracy, so you may have to adjust
some Have quantity down if some parts of your orders end up missing/damaged/wrong
mold/wrong color.
In Buying, neiluk88 writes:
| | Hi all
I am new to this. I have designed a lego model and want to buy the pieces - if
I buy them on here stage by stage, does the percentage of completion automatically
increase, or do I have to manually input all lego pieces I have so far?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 21:19 | | Subject: | Re: Identify set by Parts | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Set is
I identified the number from the sticker that says "7703: .
For digital instructions, check Rebrickable: https://rebrickable.com/sets/7703-1/fire-vulture/#bi
Otherwise, it's available for purchase here:
In Help, Titch1949 writes:
| | Can anyone identify these parts.
I am sure they are a complete set and would like to know what set and get instructions
for it. Thank you
Titch1949
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 21:16 | | Subject: | Re: Completing Lego Set on Brick Link | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| Hi, there's no automatic relationship between orders and wanted lists. There's
a manual way to fill your wanted list with your orders though.
Once on your wanted list, click on "Apply Order" and pick the desired order,
it should increased the Have quantities of the lots you purchased.
There's a caveat though, since orders don't track which wanted list they
were created from, if you have multiple Wanted lists with the same part in the
same color, applying the same order will increase the Have quantity in each of
them, even if it wasn't meant to.
Additionally, not all orders come with perfect accuracy, so you may have to adjust
some Have quantity down if some parts of your orders end up missing/damaged/wrong
mold/wrong color.
In Buying, neiluk88 writes:
| | Hi all
I am new to this. I have designed a lego model and want to buy the pieces - if
I buy them on here stage by stage, does the percentage of completion automatically
increase, or do I have to manually input all lego pieces I have so far?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 15:18 | | Subject: | Re: UK buying? Not anymore, thanks to Brexit..... | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | General | |
| I'm not sure on which side of the Brexit you are, but in this case, it has
made shipping from the UK to the Netherlands as challenging as shipping from
Canada to the Netherlands which is NOT a not a good thing.
In General, LegoLDK writes:
| | But that can't be true, we've been told it's all Brexit's fault
and Canada hasn't Brexited has it????
In General, SezaR writes:
| | My buyer paid twice too. I followed the instructions of BL very accurately.
So is this the way to go for Dutch buyers?
Any info on how to resolve the same issue for other European countries?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 09:41 | | Subject: | Re: Where did my designer order go? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Designer Program | |
| I remember January 2022 as well, but I wouldn't bet too much on that. I expect
a delay related to the increase in available sets which I'm grateful about
even if I was able to squeeze in among the first 3,000.
In Designer Program, firestar246 writes:
| | Ok, thank you! Btw, do you know when they are supposed to ship out? I'm thinking
January, but I can't remember.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 07:16 | | Subject: | Re: New store | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
| Keep adding lots, and buyers will come. If you’re impatient for sales, lower
your prices, either temporarily with a time-limited discount, or permanently
by adjusting prices.
In Announce, Oliverbricks writes:
| | Please support my store
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 07:12 | | Subject: | Re: 10294 Titanic | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| It depends on the number of lots, not on the total number of parts. I doubt this
very repetitive build will reach 1,000 like the infamous Ninjago Gardens did.
In LEGO, cosmicray writes:
| | I wonder if BL can withstand a part-out command for that set.
Nita Rae
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 23:30 | | Subject: | Re: 10294 Titanic | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, Yellow.Brick writes:
Where did you get this link? It includes an affiliate tracker that would award
their owner some sort of reward for any purchase made on the LEGO.com website
after having accessed the website through it?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 17:23 | | Subject: | Re: Unfulfilled order tax return | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| Yes, the BrickLink refund page shows the amount that comes from the seller and
the amount that comes from Bricklink.
The problem is that the page cuts the tax amount from the refund amount submitted
by the seller, this means that the seller has to play over/under with the submitted
amount to refund the correct amount for the missing parts since it needs to include
the tax in the first place which isn't intuitive.
Instead they should have added the tax amount refunded by BrickLink to the submitted
refund amount by the seller. I don't know what they were going for with this.
In Buying, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Buying, SkippersMJ writes:
| | I ordered 3 items and 1 of them could not be fulfilled but I was taxed for all
3. I got a refund for the item that could not be sent but I didn’t see any refund
for the tax on the item. The seller says taxes are taken by Bricklink. Can anyone
tell me how Bricklink refunds the tax money?
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AFAICT, the seller needs to use the “refund” button on BL to make a refund when
taxes were collected by BL.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 17:11 | | Subject: | Re: What should I buy? | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| The easiest way to find stores for specific part/minifigures is to fill a Wanted
List
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/list.page
Then you can choose between these Pirates minifigures and add them to your wanted
list with the desired quantity:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=M&catString=61
Then you can go over to the Wanted List Buy page where you will be suggested
stores carrying the selected minifigures:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/buy.page
You may have to do a little bit of legwork to determine the cheapest minifigure
for a given look you're going for as the theme as an extensive history and
1990's minifigures are likely to be more expensive than more recent ones.
In Suggestions, Thestudfinder writes:
| | Hello, I need suggestions on what stores to shop for Lego Pirates. Preferably
with imperial soldiers and Minifigures.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 13:29 | | Subject: | Re: How to ship via Stripe | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Then you have the choice between these popular third-party shipping label providers:
- Pirate Ship https://www.pirateship.com
- Shipstation https://www.shipstation.com/
- Sendle https://www.sendle.com
- Stamps.com https://www.stamps.com
In Help, godfrey writes:
| | Right, but I'm trying to close my PayPal account since they charge you monthly
fees now if you have no transaction. If I move my payment to Stripe, then it's
likely that my PayPal will no longer have any sort of transaction going forward.
PayPal is such a ripoff when other Fintechs charge way less per transaction.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 12:46 | | Subject: | Re: How to ship via Stripe | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Good point, for single shipments I simply use
https://www.paypal.com/shiplabel/create
Not sure how much they differ though.
In Help, ManyMiniBricks writes:
| | You can create shipping labels in paypal without having the payment go through
paypal. If you have a stripe payment copy and paste the name/address into paypal
multi-order shipping.
https://www.paypal.com/shiplabel/createbulk
Click "create shipment".
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 10:19 | | Subject: | Re: Missing pages in stores!!! | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| There are many, many theories about what de BrickLink developer team is doing,
most of them wrong, simply because they aren't telling members what exactly
they are working on at any given time.
The best we have is the roadmap help page: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2453
In Technical Issues, Hypertrophy writes:
| | In Technical Issues, JulieK writes:
| | I received a reply that developers are aware and working on a fix.
Julie
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Thanks for reporting it. I reported on 9/28 and also received a reply and here
we are still. I want to know what takes priority over customers not being able
to see what is listed for sale on this website!? I truly don't understand.
-Robb
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 10:15 | | Subject: | Re: How to set free postage for orders over £50? | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| This method will limit the amount of shipping methods you have to create, while
firestar246's method will enable you to have a specific label for your free
shipping method.
In Shipping, peregrinator writes:
| | In Shipping, firestar246 writes:
| | Easy, shipping options can have minimum buys. So I made a price band shipping
option with a $0 shipping charge and set the minimum buy to $60. Anyone with
$60 or more in their cart will see the shipping option, anyone under that cannot.
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You can also set a discount rule on a shipping method and discount 100% of the
shipping when the order is more than $X
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 7, 2021 10:09 | | Subject: | Re: Possibility to block or ban buyer ? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| Your technical question has been answered, but as for the original matter, I
don't think it was for nothing. Your terms don't shield you from legal
responsibility (for the condition of the package until reception) nor from negative
feedback.
It is always disappointing to receive parts more damaged than expected, no matter
what the lot description or the store terms say, and the least you can do is
sympathize with the buyer instead of publicly castigating them.
Selling less than ideal parts is an ongoing contentious subject, some buyers
are looking for these as filler because they're usually cheaper, and some
others don't want them at all. Bricklink doesn't make it easy so filter
them out, because the "Used" condition is currently too broad, it probably needs
a "Filler" condition that would help reduce expectation discrepancies between
sellers and buyers.
In the mean time, I think you'd be better off making your buyers happy than
asserting an irrelevant "conformity" in this case where subjectivity is key.
In Problem, Bricks_Planet writes:
| | Hello,
I have had very bad situation with one buyer. Not nice person and I don't
know to see this buyer once again in my store. I got negative feedback for nothing.
Order was conform. It's frustrating to get my first negative feedback for
nothing ! There is any possibility to ban buyer from my store ?
Thanks in advance.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2021 19:33 | | Subject: | Re: Pain in the butt… | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, jennnifer writes:
| | In Off Topic, MrPetovan writes:
| | Without switching to an entirely different solution, this forum's behavior
could be overhauled to match modern forum expectations, like having the most
recent commented threads at the top of a top-level post list, instead of listing
a combination of top-level posts and comments in their publication time order.
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Honestly, I much prefer to read comments in order of publication. It doesn't
mean that our Forum is out of date as my discord works the same way. It's
just a preference.
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It wouldn't change in that regards, you'd still get the freshest topics
at the top by order of last comment, and then a click on it would bring you to
the regular thread view.
| | | | This would limit heated discussions to a single row in the topic list, even if
it would regularly stay at or near the top of the list.
Being notified of replies on one's own posts would also be nice, and it's
a piece of data BrickLink already has.
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Yes. But I don't know that it can be easily implemented. Don't wanna
mess with the spaghetti code. I know it is too much to expect people to search
for replies. I just developed a habit of searching for my name or posts by me
whenever I check in here to keep up with things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I can't speak about the ease of implementation either. I know a couple of
the technical prerequisites exist, but it just means it wouldn't be even
harder to implement.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2021 16:08 | | Subject: | Re: Pain in the butt… | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| Without switching to an entirely different solution, this forum's behavior
could be overhauled to match modern forum expectations, like having the most
recent commented threads at the top of a top-level post list, instead of listing
a combination of top-level posts and comments in their publication time order.
This would limit heated discussions to a single row in the topic list, even if
it would regularly stay at or near the top of the list.
Being notified of replies on one's own posts would also be nice, and it's
a piece of data BrickLink already has.
In Off Topic, jennnifer writes:
| | The Forum is also an integral part of the design of our crowd-sourced Catalog.
Some inventory and catalog requests work through the Forum and are the primary
way in which new members become involved in sharing their data and expertise.
I think many of the people who insist on a more 'modern' Forum aren't
aware of these key functions.
Jen
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2021 14:30 | | Subject: | Re: Forum message locked | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | General | |
| This is a good reason to lock a thread.
In General, legoman77 writes:
| | In General, Stuart9 writes:
I know that the Admins can do what ever they want to do. But to lock the thread
and cancel all replies was uncalled for. There were no threats, no name calling,
no wrong information. A lot of members felt strongly about what was being discussed.
There should be a valid reason for cancelling a thread. Now, let's lock
the thread because some feelings were hurt.
John P
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2021 11:17 | | Subject: | Re: Finding parts and sellers | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Yes, please create a Wanted list and start filling it with the parts you want:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/list.page
Then when you're done you can use the Buy page to find an optimal assortment
of buyers. You will have to fiddle with the filters of the search, but I've
had good experience with it.
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/buy.page
In Help, Phhpph writes:
| | Hi, my English is not very good so I hope u understand
Can i make list of all parts that i need and after that can I see all sellers
who have those parts? I want buy as much as possible from same sellers. I'm
not sure do u understand but i hope its little painful to try find separately
sellers who have most of those parts
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 6, 2021 11:16 | | Subject: | Re: Any sellers interested? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| I'm sorry for your loss, however BrickLink isn't suited to sell bulk
LEGO lots without having a seller account. I'd suggest you use eBay or
your local classifieds (like Craigslist in the US, Facebook Marketplace, etc...).
However if you take several pictures of the collection and post them here you
may get a good estimation of its worth from BrickLink members.
In Help, Snezange writes:
| | Hi
My husband used to collect Lego and passed away last year. It’s all in pieces
not sets and there’s a lot of mini figures too. I wonder if any of the sellers
on here would be interested in it. I would rather sell it all off in one go to
someone who could collect it. Years ago my husband used to buy from this site
I am not really sure how else to sell it. I am in the South Wales area.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2021 14:37 | | Subject: | Re: Oops! | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | General | |
| First of all congratulations on creating a full game!
I would suggest you (or anyone else, really) to avoid LEGO Ideas. I've explained
my opinion on my blog so I won't repeat myself here: https://blog.mrpetovan.com/rant/i-dont-like-lego-ideas-anymore/
About Kickstarter campaigns: they require a lot of work over a limited timeframe.
You have to create the campaign, drum up support, set a realistic initial goal,
plan for rewards, stretch goals if it catches on, sourcing bricks to ship full
games, assemble and ship them in a timely manner once the campaign hopefully
succeeds.
About Patreon: I feel like they work better for people producing a constant stream
of content where the subscription model matches the work output. In your context,
this seems to me to be the least committal option while also offering very low
income expectations.
Good luck for whatever option you choose!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2021 10:23 | | Subject: | Re: Bug in Studio v2.2.9(1) ? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| Hi, the Studio-specific forum is independent from this one, you may have better
luck with your issue over there:
https://forum.bricklink.com/
In Related Software, gmanjozi writes:
| | When importing an LXF file, program no longer shows you all the parts in the
right list in the steps section on certain lxf files.
Clicking on a part also does not highlight the part on the model, and also because
there is no list on the right, you can't see the relevant part and in what
step it is.
You also can't insert and snap any new parts to any of the parts in the model
unless you delete a part and undo, then the original lxf part can be snapped
to.
Doesn't even work if I save the model immediately after opening the lxf to
a .oi file. Upon opening the .io file, the same issues still present.
Also, from time to time, the project name tab that normally sits at the top doesn't
display, other times when importing the lxf the tab simply says "untitled model"
instead of the file name.
In the two files attached you can see one lxf works fine, another doesn't.
Any idea why this would be happening?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 5, 2021 08:05 | | Subject: | Re: Grand Soft Opening | | Viewed: | 66 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
| Hey, thanks to the shout-out, you did the right thing opening right away. This
"soft opening" should get you slightly less orders than if you had thrice the
amount of parts available for sale, which will enable you to find your groove
preparing orders.
And if you don't get that many orders right away, you'll have time to
inventory the remaining parts.
Good luck!
In Announce, Yellow.Brick writes:
| | I had every intention to have all 150,000 new parts ready to go but holy snots
life loves to get in the way doesn't it?
SO! When I got the email this morning that I was now a verified seller, I had
two options... Sit on it and wait another month or so to have everything sorted
out, or go ahead and open up shop with ~54,000 new pieces and ~500 vintage used...
I chose the latter.
Special thanks to MrPetovan for his numerous responses when I had questions on
the forums.
Swing by and take a peek. https://store.bricklink.com/Yellow.Brick&utm_content=globalnav#/shop
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 19:46 | | Subject: | Re: Seller cancels order without communicating | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| You're right, my mistake, I thought I received a Neutral feedback as a seller
when I only received one as a buyer. I'm surprised I was even partially right.
It still isn't great on its own. It needs a comparison with the other stores
to be meaningful, like "this store is doing better than 50% of the other stores"
or something like this.
But ultimately the feedback needs to be read.
In Buying, firestar246 writes:
| | In Buying, MrPetovan writes:
| | And there’s the fact that the feedback score only factors feedback left less
than six months ago while it’s available to read forever on the seller’s profile.
🤷♂️
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That's partly incorrect. The feedback score on the top right is total all
time feedback. Click on it and then it'll show the six month scores.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 18:21 | | Subject: | Re: Seller cancels order without communicating | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| And there’s the fact that the feedback score only factors feedback left less
than six months ago while it’s available to read forever on the seller’s profile.
🤷♂️
In Buying, eileenkeeney writes:
| | In Buying, StonesHeart writes:
| | "The Positive Feedback percentage value is absolutely meaningless, even for
buyers,
since it only goes down to about 95% for the worst of the worst sellers until
they eventually get closed down for collecting too many completed NSS alerts.
Are you sure about this? I have seen lower percentage sellers.....
Please make sure you state the truth and nothing but the truth.
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"absolutely meaningless" is pretty interpretable, so truth vs non truth, of such
a statement, is not absolute.
A seller just starting, might have 50% positive, due to one jerk buyer. So of
course I read the comment and the seller's response before deciding this
is a bad seller. I like to give new sellers a chance, but I don't make large
high cost orders with them.
A seller that has been selling for years might have 99.X and have a string of
comments and/or responses to comments, that have me avoiding that store (unless
they have a rare part I really want).
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 15:01 | | Subject: | Re: Seller cancels order without communicating | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| The Positive Feedback percentage value is absolutely meaningless, even for buyers,
since it only goes down to about 95% for the worst of the worst sellers until
they eventually get closed down for collecting too many completed NSS alerts.
Additionally, a perfect 100% score doesn't tell you much more than 99% as
buyers regularly leave bad faith Negative feedbacks or good faith Neutral
feedbacks, so any store with more than a hundred orders is likely to have a less
than perfect feedback score even if they are beyond reproach.
That said, in this case I would say "no harm no foul". You didn't spend any
money and you can't order the parts from them anymore, so I'd suggest
you to move on like you initially intended to.
In Buying, eileenkeeney writes:
| | I had been waiting for an invoice for over a week, and when I checked on the
order this morning I saw it was cancelled. The reason is "System Problem".
Then I checked the sellers inventory to see if the parts had been relisted, and
saw that the parts I most wanted were not relisted
Seller might just be unorganized and didn't have the parts, in which case
canceling is what I would have opted for had they asked me. But no communication?
I could leave feedback, but probably won't. It is not as if the seller has
a good feedback record anyway, and had it not been for those few rare parts I
likely would not have placed an order with them. I kept the order small (under
my risk limit).
Would other folks leave any feedback in this case, maybe a neutral? Even a neutral
goes against positive percent, which is what buyers first see.
I am not sure how many buyers look deeper.
Seller is not in an English speaking country, so lack of communication could
really be just a language problem.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 12:14 | | Subject: | Re: Frequent forum posters-please give me a break | | Viewed: | 150 times | | Topic: | General | |
| I know I'm not helping by replying, but I wanted to say I'm sorry about
the noise. It so happens that I currently have 17 open orders I'm eager to
see their status update, so I'm checking BL frequently, and while I'm
checking BL I might as well check the forum, and when I have something to reply
to people I do.
However, I resent a little bit the comparison between my forum verbosity with
the size of my store. I know seniority plays an important part in legitimacy
on Internet forums, but how big someone's store is, really?
Also, this definitely should have been a private message. I guess I'll refrain
from checking this thread from which absolutely no good can come out from.
In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I find myself getting a bit annoyed by the ubiquity of the number of messages
from MrPetovan on this forum lately.
Although MrPetovan messages are more or less on topic, the sheer number of them
-- 827 in the last six months, 4-5 per day -- I feel it's just too
much.
Nothing personal here, but I just don't get why someone who joined BL in
June 2019 and has a very small shop (732 items in 428 lots and an average of
8 sales per months) is so dominant on this forum.
It's great that this member shows his commitment, but can it please be a
little less?
I'm aware that my post may be a bit uncomfortable for some people and probably
mainly for the person I mentioned. Sorry about that.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 11:08 | | Subject: | Re: Nexo Knight display model | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| Last one sold for US$900 complete, not too shabby.
In Help, jethroo writes:
| | In Help, jkelectric80 writes:
| | I’m looking for more information on a my Nexo Knights talking micro figure. I
bought it without the remote and it also is missing his sword (still has shield)
where could I possibly find these bits?
Thanks so much
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here is the catalog entry, seems to be not much offered here on BL, not to mentione
spare parts oO
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 09:18 | | Subject: | Re: Is this LEGO parts ? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| When buying used "LEGO" parts in the USA, I have been finding Tyco parts and
Megablocks parts among mostly genuine LEGO parts. Only on BrickLink do we concern
ourselves with genuine LEGO parts, regular people can and will gift each other
sets from additional building toy brands.
In Catalog Identification, jkmjp writes:
| | It is used, not new.
It was found in used LEGO parts.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 09:15 | | Subject: | Re: Is this LEGO parts ? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| You are right that not all LEGO parts have a logo on them, but the shape of this
part is particular enough that we can know it isn't part of the BrickLink
catalog.
In Catalog Identification, jkmjp writes:
| | I have never seen three-pronged axle type.
If it's the design grabs the bar with three claws, I thought it's a torch
accessory.
We know some parts don't have a logo.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 08:49 | | Subject: | Re: Seller is not aware of order I made? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
| You are right, it should be a NSS (Non Shipping Seller) alert: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=110&q=nss
In Problem Order, peregrinator writes:
| | I think an NRS is for orders that aren't paid (e.g. if you're waiting
for an invoice from a seller). This would be an NSS
In Problem Order, MrPetovan writes:
| | After 7 days have passed, you can start a NRS (Non-Responsive Seller) alert:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1111
In Problem Order, yoavheskia writes:
| | Another day passed.
Yesterday I sent a message to the seller. he didn't read it. 5 days since
paying and still not even a single word from the seller.
What can I do next?
Thanks, Yoav
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 08:36 | | Subject: | Re: Seller is not aware of order I made? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
| After 7 days have passed, you can start a NRS (Non-Responsive Seller) alert:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1111
In Problem Order, yoavheskia writes:
| | Another day passed.
Yesterday I sent a message to the seller. he didn't read it. 5 days since
paying and still not even a single word from the seller.
What can I do next?
Thanks, Yoav
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 08:33 | | Subject: | Re: Is this LEGO parts ? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| Because the shape doesn't match any LEGO part known to them?
I would also say it isn't LEGO. I don't know what brand it is, but I've
never seen anything like this in my modest LEGO experience.
In Catalog Identification, jkmjp writes:
| | Why do you think this is not LEGO ?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 23:02 | | Subject: | Re: Is this counterfeit Lego? | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| Thank you! That’s the one.
Part Markings https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2505
In Catalog Identification, Cob writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, MrPetovan writes:
| | When there's a © stamped on a part, it's probably LEGO.
I seem to remember BrickLink had a Help page about identifying genuine LEGO parts,
or more to the point how difficult it is because the stamps aren't necessarily
present on all genuine LEGO parts, but I can't find it anymore.
In Catalog Identification, jbo210 writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, tEoS writes:
| | This statement is false. There are plenty of legitimate parts that did not have
Lego on them.
| | I am going off the basic understanding
that if a single part does NOT have the "LEGO" stamp on the plastic somewhere,
it is counterfeit.
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tEoS,
I have found a lot of battle droid parts with no "LEGO" stamped on them. They
do have numbers stamped on them and a copyright "C" inside a circle.
Would you say they are legitimate? I just don't want to list them unless
I find a way to confirm.
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https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1256183
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 21:05 | | Subject: | Re: Racist Seller asked me to fight him. AVOID! | | Viewed: | 126 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| It's probably a lie, but to be fair, there used to be a big fuss about an
underage buyer ordering one of the largest seller's entire store, and when
the order was rightfully canceled, it broke the script to return the items to
the inventory (with the custom description), the BrickLink developers had to
assist for several days to restore the shop, and it prompted Admin_Russell to
recommend sellers to set a max lot limit of 1,000 for this case never to happen
again.
See https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1265572
In Feedback, SezaR writes:
| | He replied to the feedback
"User ordered entire store..."
Is this a bad thing?!
For the past few years, my dream has been to sell my entire inventory at once!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 20:48 | | Subject: | Re: Is this counterfeit Lego? | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| When there's a © stamped on a part, it's probably LEGO.
I seem to remember BrickLink had a Help page about identifying genuine LEGO parts,
or more to the point how difficult it is because the stamps aren't necessarily
present on all genuine LEGO parts, but I can't find it anymore.
In Catalog Identification, jbo210 writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, tEoS writes:
| | This statement is false. There are plenty of legitimate parts that did not have
Lego on them.
| | I am going off the basic understanding
that if a single part does NOT have the "LEGO" stamp on the plastic somewhere,
it is counterfeit.
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tEoS,
I have found a lot of battle droid parts with no "LEGO" stamped on them. They
do have numbers stamped on them and a copyright "C" inside a circle.
Would you say they are legitimate? I just don't want to list them unless
I find a way to confirm.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 20:22 | | Subject: | Re: Settings to force instant checkout | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Sorry for the irrelevant reply, but: 😱
In General, macebobo writes:
| | Done! What happens now if you try to buy my
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 13:39 | | Subject: | Re: determine what sett these parts belongs too | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| The basic strategy is to look for the base part number of the stickered part.
For this stickered part:
The base part is:
So you can start looking for "15068*" where the wildcard symbol catches all the
part numbers that start with "15068".
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=15068*&tab=P
If there are too many results, you can filter by color in More Options:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=15068*&color=3&tab=P
After a while, you'll start noticing the naming patterns for the stickers,
and you will be able to refine your search to the actual picture of the sticker.
If a sticker has something written on it, it will be in the catalog item name,
for example.
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=15068*&color=3&tab=P
Good luck!
In Announce, Legoplay writes:
| | Hello,
I found the numbers and it helped us find many sets. thanks! never knew
but how do you find parts that have stickers? I remember that I have seen a list
of an item with stickers, but I cant find ik this time.
for example: 15068
I have these with two distinct stickers on it that hopefully can help me find
a set. But where can i find these parts with the sticker on it?
thankyou!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 12:14 | | Subject: | Re: Racist Seller asked me to fight him. AVOID! | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| Agreed here, reading the negative feedback is paramount, the number is absolutely
meaningless and should be removed as it is misleading.
In Feedback, OscarMauros writes:
| | In Feedback, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Feedback, JEEOHCHAD writes:
| | Everyone please excuse my english. Its not great because I am non native english
speaker.
Yesterday at night I have placed an large order with Letgomybricks and he cancelled
it before invoicing me. I was buying because I wanted to have inventory to open
my own store and he had good prices. He then messaged me saying that he cancelled
the order before I could pay. I sent him email asking why and if he could fast
ship. Then I look at message on bricklinks and he changed it to a completely
different message. Then he started saying my englsih is bad and that I'm
a little bitch for not speaking proper english. Then he send me a LOT of email
telling me to fight him and calling me a libtard? I had to google to make sure
what it is was.
Now he has my work address and I am scared he will try to come hurt me if he
is able to.
I found forum and found other post about him after problem start and now I wish
I did not put an order in with him. I think I might delete my account and go
to Bricker or Brickowl so that my address's hidden from him.
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To all new buyers on BL I would advice to check the the 'praise' section
on the top right of your screen, see picture.
If it reads lower than 99% you should start to worry. If it's lower than
98% than contact the seller before placing an order. If it's lower than 97%:
avoid the seller!
In your case I'm sure all will eventually work out right for you because
you will get support from the admins here.
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While I agree with this - I wouldn't necessarily advise anything under 99%
to be worried. I've got a neutral and a negative from two customers that
I couldn't please with my customer service, but the rest of my feedback is
positive. I'd say it varies on the feedback % and the number of orders. Feedback
is definitely something every buyer should read before they buy though.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: Buyer Privileges revoked | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| It's a legal matter at least in the US, it's illegal to sell anything
on the Internet to underage people.
In Buying, Deedesria writes:
| | In Buying, Ilovethebrick69 writes:
| | Are you underage? Usually if you are, and they find out they dont tell you and
just ban you.
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and now im curious... why does age matter in this circumstance?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 11:04 | | Subject: | Re: Racist Seller asked me to fight him. AVOID! | | Viewed: | 116 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| Sorry about that, the regular way of reporting a user is here: https://www.bricklink.com/problemMember.asp
I'm sorry about the trouble, many other buyers have had problems with them,
but for all the worry I don't think they will show up at your workplace,
this looks like the "all bark and no bite" type to me. And moving away from BrickLink
won't hide your address from them now that you have had a cancelled order
with them.
In Feedback, JEEOHCHAD writes:
| | Everyone please excuse my english. Its not great because I am non native english
speaker.
Yesterday at night I have placed an large order with Letgomybricks and he cancelled
it before invoicing me. I was buying because I wanted to have inventory to open
my own store and he had good prices. He then messaged me saying that he cancelled
the order before I could pay. I sent him email asking why and if he could fast
ship. Then I look at message on bricklinks and he changed it to a completely
different message. Then he started saying my englsih is bad and that I'm
a little bitch for not speaking proper english. Then he send me a LOT of email
telling me to fight him and calling me a libtard? I had to google to make sure
what it is was.
Now he has my work address and I am scared he will try to come hurt me if he
is able to.
I found forum and found other post about him after problem start and now I wish
I did not put an order in with him. I think I might delete my account and go
to Bricker or Brickowl so that my address's hidden from him.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 08:44 | | Subject: | Re: Clarification of Forum posting | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| | I support this. |
| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 08:43 | | Subject: | Auto-Select: add support for max. lot limit | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| I ran an Auto-Select search yesterday and it suggested me to create a cart with
24 lots in a store that has a maximum lot limit of 20 lots. This required me
to manually remove items from the suggested cart and find them in other stores
I already had a suggested cart with.
I was able to find a solution without having to fiddle too much this time but
it wasn't very practical.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 08:40 | | Subject: | Re: Excluded stoplisting stores from Auto-Select | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Had the same issue yesterday, from the Auto-select feature I created a cart in
a store that I found out had stop-listed me. Had to scrap all the carts I created,
put this store on my own Least Favorite list and run the store search again.
In Suggestions, MrPetovan writes:
| | Today I ran a Wanted List Buy Auto-Select search, and I was surprised to see
that it picked a store I know has stoplisted me. It even created the cart, but
then I wouldn't have been able to pay for it because they put me on their
stoplist.
Please exclude from the list of available stores for a given set of parts the
ones that stoplisted the user.
The workaround is to add these stores to the Disliked stores for them to be excluded
with the corresponding option, but in this case I knew in advance I was stoplisted,
which isn't always the case.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 07:16 | | Subject: | Re: Is it OK to not accept quotes? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Short answer is that you can freely refuse quotes, on the other hand you can't
refuse invoices as easily.
In Help, tommykneip writes:
| | Hi guys, I'm fairly new to bricklink, so I'm still trying to figure some
stuff out.
So, I'm interested in buying some sets from a seller, and I'd like to
know the sizes of parcels and shipping costs to figure out how many sets I could
get from one shipping. The thing is, they don't answer to my message, so
I'd like to know if it's ok for me to request a quote and then simply
deny/cancel it if the price is not OK for me. And in this case, is it ok to then
ask for another quote with less stuff on the cart? Obviously I'd like to
sort this out beforehand, but I've been waiting for a few days now and no
answer.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 3, 2021 06:27 | | Subject: | Re: Custom sorting wanted lists | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
| Hi, it probably could, but it probably won't.
In the mean time, please move your message to the appropriate "Suggestions" forum
category: https://www.bricklink.com/messageList.asp?ID=8
You can move your message using the select list at the bottom of the page when
viewing your own message.
In Wanted, foxbricks2009 writes:
| | Hello!
In Bricklink, when you are looking at your wanted list, it can be sorted 4 ways:
Newest, Alphabetically, Lots, & Completion. When adding an item to a wanted list,
it shows in order of creating list from top (oldest) to bottom (newest). Could
a feature be added to custom sort the wanted lists?
Possibly by clicking an "Edit" button, and then dragging around the lists. It
would also show "Custom" in the Sort By tab.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 2, 2021 15:59 | | Subject: | Re: Want lists and orders | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Pergrinator is correct, but I would discourage you from doing so. Orders regularly
have missing/wrong/broken parts, so if you're applying an order to your want
lists before receiving it, you will have to go back and update the quantities
of the missing/wrong/broken parts.
To efficiently order all your wanted parts from several stores at once, please
consider using the Auto-Select feature on the Wanted List Buy page: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/buy.page
In Help, peregrinator writes:
| | In Help, ghmd writes:
| | Hello,
I am working on a rather big project. I have a giant want list for it and of
course, no seller has all the parts I need in store.
One seller has about 80% of the parts I need.
Is there any way for me to purge the want list after an order has been placed,
to so any item on that want list, which I already ordered, is deleted, and only
the ones not ordered yet, remain on the list?
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After placing the order you can use the "Apply Order" functionality. But caveat:
the system doesn't remember which orders you applied to your Want List, so
it's possible to apply it twice.
After applying the order, the quantities will be adjusted, so if you use the
"Buy" functionality from the Want List it won't look for items where the
quantity you have is greater than or equal to the quantity wanted.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 2, 2021 15:56 | | Subject: | Re: how do i turn technic arms | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
| Are you asking about the virtual designer software Studio or in real life?
In Related Software, patrikipol writes:
| | i am trying to build pahrak form bionicles and need to know how to turn the technic
arms ( view attachments)(i am on step 6)
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 2, 2021 15:55 | | Subject: | Re: What is a brick and mortar store? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | General | |
| A brick and mortar store is an actual physical store (like in a mall) compared
to the BrickLink stores which are virtual.
They asked you in essence if you had an actual store they could visit in person.
They may have been hoping for a free Hold for Pick-Up shipping option.
In General, rainbowmist writes:
| | Hello. A potential buyer asked me the other day if I had a brick and mortar store.
I never heard of that before. What is that? Thank you in advance
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 13:43 | | Subject: | Re: Leaving Bricklink | | Viewed: | 123 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| Bye!?
In Announce, solek1 writes:
| | I am leaving bricklink to focus on ebay, i have better things to do with my time.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 12:58 | | Subject: | Re: Pearl Dark Gray | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| You've already posted the same exact message here: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1306706
Please cancel this one to avoid confusion.
In Colors, mrmixybricks writes:
| | Hi all Bricklinkers,
Does anyone know if the shade of Pearl Dark Gray has changed over the years?
I have some bionicle pieces and looking at the available colours they could only
be Pearl Dark Gray, but some other (perhaps newer) pieces must also be Pearl
Dark Gray, but they are a bit different.
I am think that maybe the earlier PDG was based on the old Dark Gray, and the
newer ones on the Dark Bluish Gray - any ideas?
Wayne
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 11:48 | | Subject: | Re: Lego legs help | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| I can at least confirm for the green legs and brown hips, they aren't referenced
in any minifigure.
In Catalog Identification, Zab3uk75 writes:
| | Hi,
Hoping that you may be able to identify these legs for me, I am thinking that
they may have had leg transplants, green legs have brown hips, light grey hips
have dark bluish grey legs 
Thanks
June
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 10:34 | | Subject: | Re: Unpopular Opinion | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| It's way less unpopular than that time I wrote on the forum I was bagging
the used parts I sell by most frequent colors, with a mixed bag for the less
frequent ones.
In Off Topic, zorbanj writes:
| | I think your opinion is less unpopular than you think
[...]
In Off Topic, chuckondrums writes:
| | I've got maybe an unpopular opinion here:
[...]
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 10:25 | | Subject: | Re: Unpopular Opinion | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| Best response right here, makes me curious to order from your store.
In Off Topic, Macaronis writes:
| | In Off Topic, chuckondrums writes:
| | I've got maybe an unpopular opinion here:
Unpacking dozens of small baggies with only a few parts in them is way more work
than sorting them from one bigger bag. ESPECIALLY little 1.5" bags that have
ONE FREAKING PART in them!!!!
This order I just got has a bag for every lot, 120 bags!! I'm gonna weigh
them after to see how much the packaging added to the shipping weight. And I
specifically asked for fewer packing bags. Some sellers are apparently confused
by this. I don't see the draw of having parts packed more carefully than
they would ever come new from LEGO in a set. And even more absurd for used parts
that the seller has also clutched together in their individual baggies?! Come
on man!!
OK, Rant over.
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As someone who has Self Diagnosed Symmetrical OCD I have to say please do not
buy from me. Not only will you get the best packing in your life but it becomes
a Game of Even numbers in each bag along with colors and parts. God Forbid you
order odd number of parts. If you do happen to buy from me though Just use the
Words, I require "CHAOS" in my order.
W
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 00:59 | | Subject: | Re: Export inventory from BL to Brickstore? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| My Store - Inventory - "Download" all the way at the bottom of the page.
Direct link: https://www.bricklink.com/invExcel.asp
In Selling, Yellow.Brick writes:
| | I know we can go from BrickStore to BrickLink, but can we export (and/or print
out) our inventory from Bricklink to BrickStore?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Oct 1, 2021 00:58 | | Subject: | Re: Will Studio 2.0 work on Windows 11? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| Hi, I don't have an answer to your question but someone a the official Studio
forum may: https://forum.bricklink.com/
In Help, CompactRcrBrik writes:
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 21:37 | | Subject: | Re: USPS Increasing Prices | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| Unfortunately not. For better or for worse, shipping methods are manually entered,
including the weight tables.
This means most of the shipping methods you can currently borrow from other sellers
are already obsolete, incomplete, inaccurate or a mix of all three.
If you do not want to lose money on shipping at all, switch to Invoice only (like
I do) which allows you to charge shipping to the exact cent you spent on it.
Instant Checkout is meant to be convenient for buyers, at a marginal cost for
sellers when automatic shipping charges aren't set up properly.
Especially with First-Class Package where domestic zoning isn't supported
in the Bricklink shipping method weight table, US sellers have to pick a single
cost for each weight band for all of the US. It can be the average of zone prices,
it can be the maximum possible, but there's no exact correspondence with
USPS prices, especially not when they change.
Good luck updating your shipping method, I suggest you get to it soon!
In Shipping, PickBrix writes:
| | I was wondering since tomorrow, USPS will increase prices on most shipping methods.
If I have it set up where Bricklink automatically charges customers the prices
via the weight table, will that be updated and reflect the new prices for shipping?
I don't want to lose money if it doesn't. Thanks for any help!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 19:14 | | Subject: | Re: Part Identification (Episode 9) | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| You're welcome!
In Catalog Identification, BricksterXD writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, BricksterXD writes:
| | Hello again! Final request tonight. Frantic (but not rushed) listing while friends
are tugging at me to play games with them.
Any and all help appreciated, thank you!
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In all honesty, I've been sat at my desk since midday listing everything.
It's now nearly midnight and I've gotten a lot of lots listed. Thanks
again for helping me out.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 18:15 | | Subject: | Re: Part Identification (Episode 9) | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| I just found the stickered part:
In Catalog Identification, MrPetovan writes:
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In Catalog Identification, BricksterXD writes:
| | Hello again! Final request tonight. Frantic (but not rushed) listing while friends
are tugging at me to play games with them.
Any and all help appreciated, thank you!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 18:13 | | Subject: | Re: Part Identification (Episode 9) | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
|
And the stickered part is underneath but I couldn't find an
actual catalog entry for it.
In Catalog Identification, BricksterXD writes:
| | Hello again! Final request tonight. Frantic (but not rushed) listing while friends
are tugging at me to play games with them.
Any and all help appreciated, thank you!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 16:33 | | Subject: | Re: Part Identification (Episode 8) | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| These requests have devolved into a speed contest and I'm here for that.
In Catalog Identification, runner.caller writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, BricksterXD writes:
| | Hello!
A few more parts that need identification.
Thank you!
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 13:11 | | Subject: | Re: Part Identification (Episode 7) | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| Wow that was fast! Good job!
In Catalog Identification, par016 writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, BricksterXD writes:
| | Hello! I'd like to identify the two pieces shown in the below photo.
Any and all help appreciated.
Thank you!
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-Pete
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: ConstrucToys | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
| $100,000 of Star Wars minifigures! 😱
Time to complete a few of my Incomplete sets.
In Announce, popsicle writes:
| | The keys to the store (password) for private shopping, are available for the
asking to anyone that’s purchased from us in the past, patrons of ConstrucToys.
Otherwise the store for the most part, will remain closed. But as we’re sitting
on a significant amount of inventory, we’ll try to open periodically as we get
the time necessary to maintain our service at the level that you’ve come to expect.
Though for the foreseeable future the store openings will be sporadic, someone
will always be available via our contact tab, when closed.
The back-of-the-store screenshot below, shows much (not all) of our remaining
inventory by category. Hopefully narrowing-down interest.
Thanks, and have a wonderful day
-Christman Family
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 30, 2021 10:42 | | Subject: | Re: Shipstation now live and it is horrible. | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| In Shipping, macebobo writes:
| | PayPal lied when they said we would not be impacted by this change since they
do not provide a way to add insurance beyond what is provided by default by USPS
($100 on Priority/Priority Express) and nothing for FCP. Which is a big issue
for me, since I require it for any purchased over $50, and most of my current
items that ship priority are over $100.
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Ah, yes, I've been using InsurePost (https://www.insurepost.com) instead
of USPS insurance so I've never the insurance inside of the PayPal label
creation form but again, it's a setback for you.
Glad you found your solace in PirateShip, I don't have nearly enough sales
volume for it to be interesting to me yet.
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2021 16:58 | | Subject: | Re: Piece price on Bricklink vs Rebrickable | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
| Rebrickable seems to use a simple average between all the available prices it
knows about, and since BrickLink has both many similar low prices and a few very
high prices, the average tends to not be close to most of BL prices.
In Selling, MissMars writes:
| | Why is there such a vast difference between what Rebrickable says the piece is
worth vs. the price of the piece on Bricklink?
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| Author: | MrPetovan | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2021 16:56 | | Subject: | Re: Shipstation now live and it is horrible. | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| Sorry about all of this, for the shipping notification to the buyer I prefer
to use the "Thank you, Drive Thru!" email feature in BrickLink, since there can
be several hours between the creation of the label and the actual shipping.
Since I have disabled sending a notification to the buyer when I purchase a label
from PayPal, its removal in Shipstation wouldn't affect my own workflow.
But I feel you for all the rest. Especially the double email for the receipt
and the label, for some reason.
In Shipping, macebobo writes:
| | I just had my first experience with PayPal ship station and it sucks.
You have to enter dimensions for EVERY FLIPPING PACKAGE!
It ships in my name with my company name, something I prefer not to do.
It insists on correcting every address that I had to ship to this morning.
It prints the label in a different orientation which impacts my process of adding
the order number to the label.
I could not find a way to add a note for the customer to let them know the package
is on the way.
You get two e-mails for each label, the label itself and a receipt for said label.
You have to give it permissions to see just about everything in your PayPal account,
which makes me a bit uncomfortable.
I feel like there must be some pros to the new system, but I am having a very
hard time finding them.
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