Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | MidwestBrick  | | Posted: | Aug 25, 2022 12:53 | | Subject: | Re: buyers see ship to nowhere in my store. help | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, redsman writes:
| | In Help, jennnifer writes:
| | In Help, redsman writes:
| | I have not received orders for the last three days and buyers are now contacting
me to say my store says I ship to nowhere. I only ship to the U.S. but I have
changed nothing. What do I do ????? HELP
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I just checked and confirmed this.
Can you show us your shipping settings for the US?
Has anything changed with your payment settings?
Jen
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I have changed nothing in my settings since I opened my store 3 years ago. In
'my store settings" it shows I ship to no countries and does not let me change
it. This started 3 days ago but I just thought it was a slow time until buyers
started contacting me.
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Do you have shipping methods set up to ship domestically? I know you've
probably checked this but doesn't hurt to recheck.
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2022 16:19 | | Subject: | Re: Let's give away $100 to a fellow BL member! | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| In Contests, popsicle writes:
| | Guess the number of
contained within the vase pictured below.
Contest rules are few:
~ The first to enter the exact amount, wins
~ One guess per member per 24 hour period
~ Identical entries are adjudicated by timestamp
~ All members worldwide are welcome to participate
The winner will receive a $100 store coupon, or $50 cash. Your choice.
-Christman Family
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Aug 23, 2022 13:18 | | Subject: | Re: Let's give away $100 to a fellow BL member! | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Aug 18, 2022 21:24 | | Subject: | Re: UPDATE on the LEGO Sports haul | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, ImperialFleet writes:
| | Once everythings done and listed made $300 profit. All for sale now, so if you're
interested let me know!
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Unrealized Profit.
Nice haul and best of luck making it a realized profit.
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Aug 16, 2022 14:08 | | Subject: | Re: Getting close! Final update | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, popsicle writes:
What is so fascinating with the logistics of mail is how quickly packages can
go across the country.
If no one has ever visited a distribution center (of any capacity), I would strongly
encourage checking one out as it is just amazing on how fast everything moves
to get from point a to point b and back on a truck or plane to move to the next
location.
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Aug 9, 2022 15:52 | | Subject: | Free shipping on orders $25 or more 24/7/365 | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| Each and every day, any order $25 or more is free shipping. Any order less than
$25 is $4.99.
That's it. Nice and simple and instant checkout available on every purchase.
On top of all that, I get any orders to USPS or UPS quickly.
If today isn't a shopping day, simply adding my shop as a favorite to check
out later on may save some clicks another day.
Hope all is well and take care!
- Midwest Brick
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2022 11:24 | | Subject: | Re: Selling for a couple of months! Need Tips! | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
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| | | And finally, April is generally when sales start to slow for the year in my experience.
Very typically to see a decrease in sales from April through September.
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I was going to mention this more than anything else.
I would bet that anyone that sells consistently day after day, week after week,
saw a big decline about two weekends ago when the USA warmed up to 70+ nearly
everywhere so customers went outside to enjoy the outdoors rather than think
about their Lego builds. This period of the year is just dedicated to other
activities, vacations, get togethers with friends/family as the temps warm up
across the nation more consistently. Of which, I 100% understand. I'm the
same way and want to enjoy the outside too when it is warmer. It's been
a long winter and cold snap this year. In upper Wisconsin, hitting the 50's
these days is a huge win!
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2022 02:05 | | Subject: | Re: Looking to buy extensive parts list | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
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| In Wanted, RaptureNation writes:
| | If any sellers would be willing/able to put together a list of parts I need and
sell them(over 5000 pieces) I would be highly interested and greatly thankful.
This is my first post on this site so I apologize if I posted this in the wrong
section of formatted something wrong. I am not even sure if it is possible to
put together a list like this or if pieces are meant to be bought individually.
However if it is possible please contact me to discuss payment and other details.
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Create a wanted list and see where you can get the items you need from, then
shop around.
I may have quite a bit that you need but no idea to what extent.
I'll just say this... At my Store it is Free Shipping on any order once you
spend at least $25 (USA only)
Best of luck in your journey in getting everything you need!
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2022 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Got my Orange Brick! | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, par016 writes:
| | I finally got my orange brick over the weekend; no negative or neutral feedback
yet (knock on wood). Maybe I should update my profile picture to be holding
an orange brick.
Next goal is pink; hopefully it doesn't take another 10 years.
-Pete
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Congrats!
Update picture to hold red and orange. capture both 
Best of luck on your next goal
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| Author: | MidwestBrick | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2022 09:56 | | Subject: | Re: New IRS $700 selling threshold | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In General, aboyer writes:
| | In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | In General, aboyer writes:
| | […]
In H&R Block, on the Deductions page, there’s a single field for hobby expenses.
If you sold a $15 set for $20, you’d put $15 in that field and be done with it.
Presumably TurboTax is similar.
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Isn’t there a code for each field in your forms?
That’s useful to communicate. We have them in France (things like “2CA” “3VC”).
When we get papers from banks (yearly reports of interests, capital gain, deductible
fees, what we already paid…) or corporations (shareholder dividends…) or anything
that has to be reported, we know where to report/check them on the standard form.
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That is true if you are filling out the forms yourself, but no sane American
does so directly. We pay $35-$100/year for tax software that does it for us or
even more for a pro to take care of it.
The US filing system is ridiculous, at least partly on account of lobbying by
an alliance of anti-tax conservatives (who want people to hate the IRS) and the
tax prep companies (who depend on it for their livelihood). The IRS already has
almost all of this information; all they do with your filed return is double-check
that it matches what's already on file.
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Sorry but I do not agree with this take. For a large percentage of Americans
that just have a W2 and take the standard deduction, yes they know "enough" about
you cause it is easier to track, but for everyone else, no, they do not know
everything about you. They have no idea which purchases are business expenses,
they can not track cash transactions as in they do not know what a payment is
for, so if we would like the American government to tax us based on all cash
flows into our bank accounts, we would all have much higher tax liabilities as
each transaction that increases our balances would get scrutinized to the highest
degree and be assumed to be revenue and taxable, and it would be on every person
to break out what is revenue vs what is not and we would have to trust each other
that friends/family would report the same gifts/trading of cash the same ; which
IMO, would be far worse than it is now.
As an example, imagine going out to dinner with a group of friends, you split
the bill with one person paying the tab and 7 others Venmo you their share to
you. The government would see all those Venmo's as revenue to you and then
2 of the 7 friends want to deduct the payments as expenses cause they want to
cheat the system. It could be an absolute nightmare and it would be.
Or you buy something at a store for $200, use it for a year, end up not liking
it so you sell it for $50 cash, then deposit that cash into your bank and boom,
another item to report as revenue, that you took a loss on (not counting depreciation
here) but the government sees it as revenue to report. An example of how keeping
money out of banks would be a valid tactic to avoid taxation.
For purposes on this topic, when I knew I was going to start selling Lego, I
immediately kept track of every purchase I ever made, every set from a store,
every expense incurred, every cash transaction through craigslist, every mile
driven, etc... to keep records of it all. This is what is expected of any citizen
that is selling anything cause it is the law. Now, there are differences between
a Hobby and Business; of which, I made sure to meet the business criteria to
be able to gain all those deductions. Thousands and thousands of records; thank
god most stores allow us to buy more than 2-3 sets at a time to reduce the paperwork.
For anyone out there that is worried about paying taxes on their revenue here,
report it to the best of your ability and expect the government to know about
it from paypal transactions. In reality, just about every State requires selling
permits, tax to be paid to your home state, and every person should be reporting
every craigslist item sold or facebook marketplace sale, etc... It all falls
under revenue/sales for taxation.
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