BrickLink Discussion Forum

Yes sorry for any confusion, this is exactly what I'm referring too. It seems
like a simple setting to have.

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

Hello there.

I'd be shocked if this hasn't been requested. But why can't we have
a default setting for Items for Sale and set the seller location.

I'm not interested in "anywhere" and every time change this to my local region
australia. It's never not annoying to do this every time.

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

That's only for the price guide, not for when you are searching for or raking
prices on an items page.

I think the question is why isn't there an option to set the default seller
location on item pages (for example, this one https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3001
) to be the buyer's country.

It has been asked for multiple times in the past but ignored.

Author:

jennnifer

Posted:

Mar 31, 2022 14:58

Subject:

Re: Messages.

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In Suggestions, Audioanemone writes:

Who thinks bricklink should have a more advnaced messaging system?

Like messgae drafts because it is very frustrating when you acciedentally click
outside the message think or click backspacce it deletes ur whole message.

I think you might need a spell-checker too!

The only message system that works poorly is the one accessed through the storefront.
Use the old message system for better results. You can get there by clicking
on the little envelope on anyone's feedback card.

Good luck!
Jen

Author:

1001bricks

Posted:

Mar 31, 2022 13:57

Subject:

Re: Messages.

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In Suggestions, Audioanemone writes:

Who thinks bricklink should have a more advnaced messaging system?

I guess everyone?
Except I prefer e-mail and reply (almost) only using e-mail.

Like messgae drafts because it is very frustrating when you acciedentally click
outside the message think or click backspacce it deletes ur whole message.

For Firefox anyway there was an Add on that would memorise the form fields you
entered, and can fill them back after you used the history back, closed the page
- or simply want to retype the same thing...

Author:

Audioanemone

Posted:

Mar 31, 2022 12:33

Subject:

Messages.

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Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

popsicle

Posted:

Mar 30, 2022 13:19

Subject:

Re: What do you think?

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Thanks for taking the time, Jeff.

Much appreciated input

-Cory

In Suggestions, kantorj writes:

Replying to an old thread:

I LOVE the idea of a donations topic for the forum. I have a fair amount of
items in my store I could donate. Pieces that take up a lot of space, are older,
probably won't sell... this is a great idea.

If an Admin is listening- add my name to the list of supporters.

Jeff

In Suggestions, popsicle writes:

I’ve mentioned this before, but not as a site suggestion.

Add a Donation topic to the forum.

We’ve (my kids and I) have donated quite a few Lego items over the years, and
would like to choose a more specific topic when doing so here on BL. When I go
to give-away Lego, I’m compelled to use the contest mechanism in the forum, as
they’re is no other relative topics to just give away Lego.

Expand your thinking on this: It would not generate income for the site directly
(in fact can be viewed as pulling potential sellable inventory off the market)
but I think indirectly, the site revenue would increase.

In any case, wouldn’t it be fun? Add more excitement to the community? As well
as show the other relative sites, that we are more than about the $

-Cory, Jazz & Gavin

Author:

kantorj

Posted:

Mar 30, 2022 11:55

Subject:

Re: What do you think?

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Author:

CapemHamSolo

Posted:

Mar 29, 2022 05:41

Subject:

Re: Change order status to Completed

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In Suggestions, CapemHamSolo writes:

In Suggestions, TakeAbricK writes:

In my opinion the only one that knows if an order is 100% completed is the Buyer,
not the Seller. Only the buyer can change status to received, but both buyer
and seller can change status to completed.

Status Received:
Package has been received but the buyer has not yet verified the contents on
the package.

As a buyer I Always use this, until I verified the contents, which can take a
while, depending on how many orders I receive at once, how big the orders are
and if I can find time to check.

I like it to have this great reminder to do so:
... Orders received, change status when completed

Now I experienced several times, that the seller changed status to completed.
Which is not correct, because I still didn't check the order yet. Besides
I now lost my reminder which tells me I still have to verify this order and leave
feedback.

As a seller I understand that it's nice to know when an order is completed
and that buyer's do change order status, but it's not up to the seller
to decide if an order is received and 100% correct.

My Suggestion:

Only allow the Buyer to change status to Completed.

Diana

Late to the party but had a seller do this to me when I had a large number of
orders with various statuses. Seems status cannot be changed after a certain
period of time so by that logic a seller could set an order to completed and
if you do not realise and change it back in time it could get locked like that
despite never being received. Thankfully I was able to identify and change the
status back to shipped after reviewing a bunch of orders.

I use the statuses to mark off orders received and know which I am still waiting
for to arrive. Definitely if after a reasonable amount of time a buyer has not
updated the status but has not indicated the order was not received then the
status should automatically be set to completed and/or allow the seller to do
so. At the very least a seller should not be allowed to set it to completed after
1 day of marking it as shipped for an international order over a weekend! This
is what happened to me and it really annoyed me to the point I left neutral feedback
(was debating leaving negative as it was seemingly marked completed on a Sunday
after being shipped on the Saturday).

Just to add, it was a relatively expensive order too and has shaken my trust
in the seller and BrickLink processes in general.

Author:

CapemHamSolo

Posted:

Mar 29, 2022 05:38

Subject:

Re: Change order status to Completed

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In Suggestions, TakeAbricK writes:

Author:

kzinti

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 17:02

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Or a geographical setting, 50 km/miles from me, same country, postal code,
whatever. Narrow down the options a bit. I find myself wanting someone within
50 miles, because I know the post office MIGHT get things here quicker than say,
1,000 miles and thirteen Postal hops in between.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 04:50

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:

In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 04:12

Subject:

Re: Items for sale - Seller Location

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In Suggestions, hugibricks writes:

It already exists in the settings:
https://www.bricklink.com/priceGuideSettings.asp?viewFrom=P

Author:

hugibricks

Posted:

Mar 24, 2022 03:51

Subject:

Items for sale - Seller Location

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Open

Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

1001bricks

Posted:

Mar 22, 2022 10:41

Subject:

Re: Coupons

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In Suggestions, crimson30 writes:

Any chance on improving the interface when it comes to coupons? Not only are
there regular forum questions on how to use them, I miss using them all the time
because of how the dropdown is not visible without me scrolling down on the Payment
page (and why would I even scroll down on that page?).

Why not streamline it like on Amazon? Make it automatic, but visible in the
checkout calculation on the right-hand side so that if you *don't* want to
use the coupon for whatever reason, it will be obvious that one is being applied.

Make it CLEAR, BIG and AUTOMATIC, yes.

80% of my Coupons simply expire.

I personnaly lost 100€ or more in Coupons from others I never used for this reason.
It's stupid coupons are at the last page, small, and inactive by default.

It should be on top right:
Items: 100€
Shipping: 5€
Coupon: -2€
Total: 103€

There should be a way to change this, or pick another coupon of course.

But activated by default, clearly, bold!

Author:

crimson30

Posted:

Mar 22, 2022 09:53

Subject:

Coupons

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Vote:

[Yes|No]

Author:

infiniter

Posted:

Mar 21, 2022 07:42

Subject:

Re: Store search settings in cookie

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I meant "Ships from" - "Sellers location"

Author:

infiniter

Posted:

Mar 21, 2022 07:41

Subject:

Store search settings in cookie

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Vote:

[Yes|No]

I know there are global search settings, but they're only a few. I'm
in Germany and usually want to find parts from sellers in Germany, because of
shipping time and shipping costs.
So, by now, I have to activate "Ships from: Germany" every time I do a search.
Every time!

That is so annoying. My suggestion is: either make this a global search setting
or store my last settings in a cookie so that I don't have to select this
every time.
Thank you!

Author:

1001bricks

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 22:18

Subject:

Re: Please bring back the pop up price guide

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Check your inventory settings (My Store Settings Management - scroll down):

Impressive how BL developped it so fast!!

Author:

peregrinator

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 22:13

Subject:

Re: Please bring back the pop up price guide

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In Suggestions, Mortimer writes:

Hi everybody,

When adding parts manually from my Inventory (no part out), I used to adjust
quantity and pricing by quickly checking the Price Guide.

When I say quick, I mean I just clicked on the "Price" link and a pop up window
opened instantly, showing the Price Guide for that part. Then I closed the window
and adjusted my price. This was a 2 seconds procedure. I used that procedure
for several colors of the same part without leaving the page. Then I submitted
all these changes in one go. Nice and fast!

Today, for an unknown reason, the same link leads to another page showing the
complete Price Guide with all items for sale. This takes a loooong time to load.
For the most common parts, it can take up to 20 seconds to load!!! Yes, I might
have an old computer. But still.
Then, I have to come back to the previous Inventory page, which can take time
to load and at the top of the said page. Then I have to scroll down to find and
adjust the right color entry. That's for one color. If I have five entries
of the same part in various colors to adjust, I must repeat that process accordingly.

This is really time consuming (x10 at least), annoying, frustrating and painful.
I know there are other ways to adjust prices, but that's the way I used to
work for years and it was so easy. I can't think of any quicker way.

Please, just bring back the small pop up window... Please?

Thaks for reading my rant.

Frédéric

Check your inventory settings (My Store Settings Management - scroll down):

Author:

1001bricks

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 22:07

Subject:

Re: Please bring back the pop up price guide

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I can't believe sellers do this on BrickLink pages in 2022.

I started with early BrickStore in uhhh 2006 and never quit.

You simply can't imagine how life is easier, and FREE and open-source, and
economic (server friendly - cached), etc.

Hoping it helps?

Sylvain

Author:

jennnifer

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 17:48

Subject:

Re: Parts without homes

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In Suggestions, gunga writes:

Hi Jen,

My question/issue is how to tell if a stickered part had been submitted to be
added to the set inventory as a counterpart - not as a new entry in the catalog.
Every few months I go through those parts that people have added but then neglected
to add those parts to their respective sets. Basically get them out of no mans
land.

So, in the past I added a whole bunch to one of the mobile technic cranes, must've
been about 2 dozen. All were not in the counterpart section of the set. But
someone had beat me to it but there was no way to tell that until I hit submit.
And unfortunately it doesn't flag every part that has already been submitted.
It's one at a time. So you have to delete it, resubmit. Then repeat for
all submitted parts. I think I spent over an hour on that one set - if I recall
it had identical stickers on different parts so I had to go through the instructions
page by page trying to find the correct quantity of each stickered part. It
was tedious but eventually all for naught.

The link Paul supplied will definitely help in the future.

Bill

Ah, makes sense. It's really nice of you to do that. I've also added
orphaned parts occasionally if they have been laying around for a month or two.
'Fill in missing information' is a good place to waste an hour or two
if anyone is bored.

I spend so much time on the Approval Pending Overview that I take it for granted.
I don't do much of any catalog work without checking there first. I wish
they would fix the navigation tools there. It's a mess.

Jen

Author:

gunga

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 17:06

Subject:

Re: Parts without homes

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Author:

jennnifer

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 09:36

Subject:

Re: Parts without homes

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In Suggestions, paulvdb writes:

In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:

In Suggestions, gunga writes:
Incredibly frustrating as the time I used, which can be

significant, turned out to be wasted. And you don't find out until the very
last step - at submission. And it doesn't flag all the pieces - only the
first one it finds in the list that had been already submitted. So you can have
20+ parts and it turns out only 1 or 2 haven't been submitted. Good luck
finding out which ones quickly.

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but when you submit a part with a number already
in use, you get a ready banner saying that item is pending. It does NOT mean
that the exact item you are submitting is pending, only that the number is already
in use. All you have to do is increase the sequential number until your submission
goes through.

Jen

The post was not about adding new stickered counterparts to the catalog. It was
about stickered counterparts that are already in the catalog but have not yet
been added to inventories. Either because the change request is still pending
or because one had not yet been submitted.

Hmmm.. I guess I have always just compared the list of stickers already listed
in the set inventory with the ones that appear on a search. Annoying, yes, but
much less difficult then resubmitting all the parts just to see if they are there.

Jen

Author:

paulvdb

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 09:13

Subject:

Re: Parts without homes

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In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:

In Suggestions, gunga writes:
Incredibly frustrating as the time I used, which can be

Author:

jennnifer

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 09:09

Subject:

Re: Parts without homes

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In Suggestions, gunga writes:
Incredibly frustrating as the time I used, which can be

Author:

gunga

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 09:04

Subject:

Re: Parts without homes

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Many thanks, Paul!

Author:

paulvdb

Posted:

Mar 14, 2022 00:22

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Re: Parts without homes

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In Suggestions, gunga writes:

One of things I like to do from time to time is to assign those decorated parts
that have been added to the catalog but not added as counterparts to their appropriate
set.
For example:

6178pb037 Tile, Modified 6 x 12 with Studs on Edges with Star Wars Logo and 'R2-D2' Pattern (Sticker) - Set 75308
Parts: Tile, Modified, Decorated {Black}

It was added Dec 8,2021 but it is currently not listed in 75308's inventory.
So an Inventory Change request would need to be made to list it as a counterpart
(I have since submitted the request). Now this is the easiest example as that
is the ONLY stickered piece in the set. Some sets have dozens that need to be
added. I have submitted requests for such sets only to find out someone else
had beaten me to it. Incredibly frustrating as the time I used, which can be
significant, turned out to be wasted. And you don't find out until the very
last step - at submission. And it doesn't flag all the pieces - only the
first one it finds in the list that had been already submitted. So you can have
20+ parts and it turns out only 1 or 2 haven't been submitted. Good luck
finding out which ones quickly.

What I would suggest is something similar to when someone has reserved a set
to inventory. You immediately know if a set has been reserved as it states on
its catalog page under 'Item Consists Of', 'Inventory in Progress'
or something similar. So is there a way to tag or reserve those parts that have
been submitted waiting for approval to their appropriate sets so that when you
go to its catalog page you can see a message like 'Pending Approval'
under 'Item Appears In'?

I know adding stickered counterparts is way down on the list for catalog priorities
so adding such a feature could save lots of duplicate work/time from submitters.
Especially since there is an apparent backlog of stickered counterparts waiting
to be approved.

Of course, if such a thing already exists, could someone point it out to me?

Bill

You can find this through the pending approval page. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogInvChangeItem.asp?viewStatus=0&itemType=S

Put the set number in the search box at the top of tha page (without the -1 suffix
or else it won't work). This will show all pending change requests for a
specific set.

Author:

Hexy

Posted:

Mar 13, 2022 19:01

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Re: Parts without homes

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What I would suggest is something similar to when someone has reserved a set
to inventory. You immediately know if a set has been reserved as it states on
its catalog page under 'Item Consists Of', 'Inventory in Progress'
or something similar. So is there a way to tag or reserve those parts that have
been submitted waiting for approval to their appropriate sets so that when you
go to its catalog page you can see a message like 'Pending Approval'
under 'Item Appears In'?

+1. Although it has never happened to me, I've always imagined adding stickered
counterparts for a set, but then finding all my hard work with naming, measuring,
photographing etc. has gone to waste and could have been spent elsewhere.

If this was implemented, it would also make the admin's jobs easier to approve
stickered counterparts, as they would know what set they come from (assuming
you have reserved it)

- Theo

Author:

gunga

Posted:

Mar 13, 2022 14:51

Subject:

Parts without homes

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Vote:

[Yes|No]

One of things I like to do from time to time is to assign those decorated parts
that have been added to the catalog but not added as counterparts to their appropriate
set.
For example:

6178pb037 Tile, Modified 6 x 12 with Studs on Edges with Star Wars Logo and 'R2-D2' Pattern (Sticker) - Set 75308
Parts: Tile, Modified, Decorated {Black}

Bill

Author:

peregrinator

Posted:

Mar 12, 2022 09:18

Subject:

Re: Improve all user experience

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In Suggestions, Wishfour writes:

It's not in TLG's interests to undermine the seller base of Bricklink

Consider that this is exactly why TLG hasn't opened a "Bricks & Pieces" store
on BrickLink.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Mar 12, 2022 09:12

Subject:

Re: Improve all user experience

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In Suggestions, Wishfour writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

The day lego starts selling here, competing with sellers that pay fees to sell
here, is the day brickowl gets a sudden increase in seller numbers.

Buying from TLG is something that can already be done. This change would simply
improve the buying experience.

It would also manipulate the prices here, and LEGO said they would not do that
when they bought Bricklink.

Author:

Wishfour

Posted:

Mar 12, 2022 06:41

Subject:

Re: Improve all user experience

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In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

The day lego starts selling here, competing with sellers that pay fees to sell
here, is the day brickowl gets a sudden increase in seller numbers.

Buying from TLG is something that can already be done. This change would simply
improve the buying experience. It's not in TLG's interests to undermine
the seller base of Bricklink, and the idea that sellers would migrate to Brickowl
doesn't make sense; it wouldn't achieve anything from the sellers'
perspective.

Author:

1001bricks

Posted:

Mar 11, 2022 13:02

Subject:

Re: Search Wanted Lists

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In Suggestions, lcgs13 writes:

Hi, I love BrickLink!!!

As a user I would like to be able to sort the results of a search in my wanted
lists by
- List Name
- List completion

List completion should apeear in front of list name.

Thank you all!

Is there a way to get feedback on this sugestion?

I'd say: forget it.

Just download BrickStore, it's FREE and OPEN-SOURCE.
It can do (almost) whatever you wish, especially this.

Author:

lcgs13

Posted:

Mar 11, 2022 12:55

Subject:

Re: Search Wanted Lists

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In Suggestions, lcgs13 writes:

Is there a way to get feedback on this sugestion?

Author:

jbroman

Posted:

Mar 8, 2022 09:43

Subject:

Re: SALES TAX - Canadian sellers

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In Suggestions, leopard37 writes:

In Suggestions, jbroman writes:

In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:

Is there such a “marketplace law” in Canada yet?

Three provinces already have a marketplace law: Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
BC will have one effective 1 July 2022.
That’s four out of nine provinces (Alberta doesn’t have a PST).

Links? Or are you just talking about their tax laws. They don't call out
marketplace.

Saskatchewan law is the best. Residence if buying goods from outside of the province
are supposed to voluntarily pay the tax they should have been charged to the
province.

That's some gutsy law writing.

Tyson.

Here are some links:

BC - https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/taxes/sales-taxes/publications/pst-142-marketplace-facilitators.pdf
Manitoba- https://gov.mb.ca/finance/taxation/pubs/bulletins/064.pdf
Saskatchewan- https://sets.saskatchewan.ca/rptp/wcm/connect/e1813f7a-3cb8-4e62-85a9-d12f2db16f58/IN+2020-08+Electronic+Distribution+Platforms%2C+Online+Accommodation+Platforms+and+Marketplace+Facilitators.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE-e1813f7a-3cb8-4e62-85a9-d12f2db16f58-nbdIiEB
Quebec- https://baranovcpa.ca/quebec-tax-ecommerce/

For SK, the self declaration for paying tax is for cross border shopping. The
marketplace law changes that for online sales

The Canadian government has also enacted a federal law for online sales. This
will force the payment of GST or HST on sales. https://www.budget.gc.ca/2021/report-rapport/anx6-en.html#application-of-the-gst-hst-to-e-commerce

I believe the above provinces do not have HST, and have therefore made their
own laws to collect their PST

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Mar 8, 2022 03:27

Subject:

Re: SALES TAX - Canadian sellers

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In Suggestions, randyf writes:

USE Tax, not USED.

Oopsies… but it’s been assembled!

Author:

randyf

Posted:

Mar 8, 2022 02:59

Subject:

Re: SALES TAX - Canadian sellers

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USE Tax, not USED.

In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:

In Suggestions, leopard37 writes:

[…]
Saskatchewan law is the best. Residence if buying goods from outside of the province
are supposed to voluntarily pay the tax they should have been charged to the
province.

It’s supposed to work that way in the USA too: some states call it Used tax.
You buy in your state: you pay Sales tax to the seller. You buy from another
state: you report and pay Used tax on your own.

Thing is, no one did it and big internet sellers, 1. have their HQ in tax-friendly
states, and, 2. put their warehouses just over the state border for those states
that were a bit more clever and phrased their tax law to account for warehouses
and not HQs.

(It’s the same for import VAT: if you should have paid and didn’t and Customs
didn’t spot it, you are supposed to declare on your own.)

That's some gutsy law writing.

I’d have said naive… but English is not my first language

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Mar 8, 2022 01:20

Subject:

Re: SALES TAX - Canadian sellers

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In Suggestions, leopard37 writes:

[…]
Saskatchewan law is the best. Residence if buying goods from outside of the province
are supposed to voluntarily pay the tax they should have been charged to the
province.

That's some gutsy law writing.

I’d have said naive… but English is not my first language

Author:

leopard37

Posted:

Mar 7, 2022 22:29

Subject:

Re: SALES TAX - Canadian sellers

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In Suggestions, jbroman writes:

In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:

Is there such a “marketplace law” in Canada yet?

Three provinces already have a marketplace law: Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
BC will have one effective 1 July 2022.
That’s four out of nine provinces (Alberta doesn’t have a PST).

Author:

jbroman

Posted:

Mar 7, 2022 22:22

Subject:

Re: SALES TAX - Canadian sellers

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In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:

Is there such a “marketplace law” in Canada yet?

Three provinces already have a marketplace law: Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
BC will have one effective 1 July 2022.
That’s four out of nine provinces (Alberta doesn’t have a PST).

Author:

jennnifer

Posted:

Mar 7, 2022 19:14

Subject:

Re: My inventory (non-seller)

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In Suggestions, i_r_on writes:

In Suggestions, iprice writes:

In Suggestions, antant7 writes:

In Suggestions, stasher writes:

Hello. This is my first post. Be patient with me.

I would like to be able to mark a set as in my inventory. I would like to mark
individual bricks as in my inventory. I would like to go to a random set and
then this site lets me know if I have enough pieces in my inventory to build
that set.

(this is implemented on Peeron but not here, from what I can see)

Thank you.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think what you are describing is closer
to the functionality of rebrickable.

Brickset is closer to what the OP wants if I'm not mistaken, although Rebrickable
does offer some of the reuired features I don't think it enables you to store
your sets like Brickset (I most definitely could be wrong though).

I don't think anyone would want Brickset though, it's a site with tons
of advertisements and content taking only the 20/30% of the screen space... One
of the rare web sites that have ridiculous video ads too...

Yes, but all you have to do is log in and it all goes away.

Jen

Author:

i_r_on

Posted:

Mar 7, 2022 18:16

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Re: My inventory (non-seller)

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In Suggestions, iprice writes:

In Suggestions, antant7 writes:

In Suggestions, stasher writes:

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think what you are describing is closer
to the functionality of rebrickable.

Author:

randyipp

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 17:53

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Re: Separate buyer and seller addresses

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In Suggestions, Dino1 writes:

In Suggestions, wildchicken13 writes:

Step 2 of the checkout process lets you ship to any address without having your
store closed.

You can't change the country.

Right, There was a post made about this very specific situation from Russell:

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1253276

I would reach out and see if any determination on this has been made.

Author:

yorbrick

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Mar 5, 2022 17:29

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Besides, didn't TLG get rid of Bricks
& Pieces? When I go to LEGO.com I see only Pick-A-Brick now.

They have combined the front ends of the two but they are still separate services.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 17:27

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Re: Improve all user experience

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3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

The day lego starts selling here, competing with sellers that pay fees to sell
here, is the day brickowl gets a sudden increase in seller numbers.

Author:

Fenneke_Jose

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 16:57

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Re: Improve all user experience

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3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

I think it's not a core business for Lego. Otherwhise you wouldn't expect
to wait at least 5-6 week (or more) to get your order from Lego (if you order
from the new bricks and pieces). Even if they would open a Lego BL B&P shop,
they have to speed up their game. Order within the Netherlands I receive within
a couple of days. If Lego does this centralized in Poland, it still takes a week
to reach me (and that's only shipping time). So this means they have to extend
their capacity a lot and people are very expensive, so I don't thing they
want to get more order, then they now allready get. I think it's for Lego
an extra service with which they earn little. For little orders with a lot of
different pieces, sets, minifigs, gear, instructions, etc they have Bricklink!

Kind regards,

José

Author:

Nubs_Select

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:48

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Re: Improve all user experience

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Perhaps a logistical thing. They still get money every time a person buys a (new)
set for resale so they probably figure they wouldn't make much money from
it after it all said and done compared to just selling the sets to resellers
plus maybe they know people like places like Bricklink which have parts from
all eras which promotes the lego brand non-stop which also leads to more sales.
Just a guess tho

Author:

wildchicken13

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:45

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Re: Improve all user experience

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In Suggestions, Nubs_Select writes:

3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

Yah... No...
Bricklink is different from lego bricks and pieces if lego flooded bricklink
with its on service it would be very bad for sellers

I honestly wonder why TLG doesn't do this to begin with. Is there some sort
of logistical challenge associated with selling individual parts as compared
to sets? I know that this isn't TLG's main business model, but if BrickLink
is any indicator, there is a strong demand for parts.

Author:

wildchicken13

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:40

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Re: Improve all user experience

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In Suggestions, Wishfour writes:

I'm sorry to say that the user experience on Bricklink is terrible. I'd
thought that the acquisition by The Lego Group would bring investment to improve
usability, but nothing has happened. It's immensely disappointing.

1. The search function seems to be geared around buying pieces, not simply searching
the database. Why does it bring up items for sale by default? Why does it order
search results in such a strange way by default?
2. Features for managing parts lists are poor. There's no ability to merge
lists that have parts in common (BL just complains that the parts already exist).
Indeed, it's not even possible to use the 'upload' function to upload
an xml file that has previously been downloaded from Bricklink. Despite that,
it is possible to use an xml file to create a new wanted list. This is obviously
completely unintuitive.
3. It's still not possible to order Bricks and Pieces from Bricklink. This
is such an obvious thing to do that it shouldn't need to be said.

It is definitely possible to order bricks and pieces from BrickLink, just go
to just about any store…

TLG may own BL, but they are still separate companies with separate staff, websites,
etc. When you buy parts on BrickLink, you are buying them from independent sellers
generally not affiliated with TLG, whereas when you buy parts on LEGO.com you
are getting them directly from TLG. Besides, didn't TLG get rid of Bricks
& Pieces? When I go to LEGO.com I see only Pick-A-Brick now.

4. Orders seem to be deleted from the order list after only a few months. Why
is this necessary?
5. It is not possible to automatically mark pieces as bought when they have been
ordered.

Author:

Nubs_Select

Posted:

Mar 5, 2022 15:40

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Re: Improve all user experience

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