Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Brickitty  | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2023 22:15 | | Subject: | Re: usa shipstation through paypal down? | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, BrickfordBricks writes:
| | Is anyone else having issues with shipping using shipstation through paypal in
the USA today?
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It's been having issues since yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon. I was able to
get it to work eventually by continually reopening the page through PayPal's
Ready To Ship orders rather than directly through ShipStation's order-aggregator
page for 5-10 minutes.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2023 20:31 | | Subject: | Re: More unpopular color Lime or Orange??? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
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| In Colors, peregrinator writes:
| | In Colors, rainbowmist writes:
| | Which color does everyone think is more unpopular right now Lime or Orange? Or
is there another color that is not popular either, maybe Red?
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Lime
Dark Purple
Medium Lavender
Bright Pink
Medium Azure
Magenta
colors typically associated with Friends sets
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I sell a lot of Medium Azure, though not as much as Medium Blue, which is extremely
popular over the past year. I also sell a lot of Dark Purple, though far more
specialty parts than regular bricks, plates, or tiles. And I sell a TON of Lime.
Out of all of those, Magenta is easily the worst seller for me, and Medium Lavender
and Bright Pink are also low, about the same level as Dark Pink, Medium Nougat,
and Trans-Orange. As to the OP, Lime sells far better than Orange. But IMO, Magenta
is the lowest seller.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 13, 2023 14:26 | | Subject: | Re: ShipStation vs other, please guide me | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, popsicle writes:
| | To the contrary, I find it helpful. So far, that is
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It can definitely be helpful for verification and adding the last 4 digits of
a zip code! But I find it so weird that 75% of the time it changes Unit to Apt,
but also changes Apt to Unit 75% of the time. One time it changed the house number
for no apparent reason. And occasionally, it just completely deletes important
information in non-traditional addresses (like building numbers in addition to
apt numbers), to the point where the package would've been Returned to Sender
if I hadn't caught it. And until last August/September, when it presented
the option to use the corrected address or the original one, choosing the original
address wouldn't work. It would change it to the corrected one regardless
of your choice, and you'd have to manually edit it to change it back.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 13, 2023 12:01 | | Subject: | Re: ShipStation vs other, please guide me | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, fignbrick writes:
| | I took a break from selling on bricklink and now that I am back, I see they have
moved to using ShipStation from their previous way. This has proven very frustrating
as the tracking number is not part of the purchase. The options are also more
limiting.
Is there another shipping service that is super easy, free, offers the discount
from retail and provides tracking?
Thank you in advance!
Jenn
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There actually is a tracking number included with every postage purchase on ShipStation.
It'll appear on the screen after you purchase postage below the Print Shipping
Label option, usually as a link that can be copy-pasted onto Bricklink. I was
frustrated with ShipStation at first too, but it's grown on me and I actually
think it's better than Pitney Bowes was. The only exception being the address
auto-correction, which can be extremely annoying and unhelpful.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 12, 2023 20:39 | | Subject: | Re: Auto-Select Stores issue | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | No offense, but none of this was helpful.
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I didn't imagine BL could handle +1000 lots in a Buy List.
I don't know BL computing power resources, but this may use 'a lot'
of them (proportionnaly), which could make this kind of request kind of 'borderline',
hence a reason for your problems today?
HTH, sincerely.
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Sorry for being brusque; I was frustrated since I was hoping to start this big
buy a few hours ago and the technical issues prevented me from doing so. Yeah,
running the Buy function with that many lots certainly taxes Bricklink's
system -- it usually takes about 5 minutes to run a 1,500-lot-ish query.
So if the server was already having issues today, it makes sense that a query
that large would overload them. But I wasn't sure what was happening --
for example, if it might've just been single item with a text string that
was causing issues -- so I figured I'd ask if anyone was having similar
issues. I'm fairly experienced with the average times it takes Bricklink
to run queries or load pages, so it's very noticeable when they take significantly
longer.
Anyway, thanks for your thoughts, sincerely  I'm just glad everything
is working again and I can spend a couple grand on some Lego!
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 12, 2023 19:33 | | Subject: | Re: Auto-Select Stores issue | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Buying, Brickitty writes:
| | Is anyone else experiencing issues with the Buy function today or recently? Compared
to the previous few years, it seems to be taking twice as long to find stores
after clicking Apply for Wanted Lists and after clicking Auto-Select.
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More shops, more buyers, more lots, more wanted-lists, more shipping methods,
more taxes involved...
| | And whenever I try it with my primary wanted list of 1,100 items, it times out
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Guessing you're talking about LOTS and not items, because items quantity
won't change much the calculation time. You could make a WL for 1 million
2780 Black, it'll quickly reply I guess.
If lots, frankly, apart for making a study of the global prices or such (?),
I'm not sure to see the interest of making a 2500 or 1000 LOTS wanted-list.
I'd (and I do) manage my "wanted-lists" locally (BrickStore?), then
when you're ready to buy, try to acquire 100 lots or 200 maximum: it's
already probably 10 or 20 orders to manage...
If you wish a simple pricing, both rebrickable, studio and BrickStore will provide
you with an average.
HTH?
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No offense, but none of this was helpful. I wanted to see if others were having
the same issue, or if someone could provide technical assistance -- I'm
not going to rethink the entire way I buy after years of perfecting it (and it
working well every time), and I'm certainly not going to max out at 200 lots
per list. That's ridiculous. I suppose you don't build many large MOCs,
but I've bought parts for individual MOCs with more than 1,100 lots, and
I've made as many as 80 orders in one part buy. In my experience, it's
not cost-effective unless I buy at least 500 lots from at least 25 sellers each
time I do a part buy.
It does seem as if there was a server problem, since the function wasn't
working well for hours, then Bricklink completely went down for a few minutes,
and now it's suddenly MUCH faster (the same query took about 1/4 of the time)
and I'm not getting the error message any longer. Hence why I cancelled the
message.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 11, 2023 17:20 | | Subject: | Re: 4070a Dark Blue how to list | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Tiggy2 writes:
| | Hi
I have a 4070a in Dark Blue. First the 4070a is marked for deletion and 2nd there
is no Dark Blue in the known list.
So how do I list this item? Is it important enough to list under 4070 and state
it has a slot?
Thank You for your help
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As the note on the page says, the presence or absence of the slot is inconsequential,
and it's believed that this may be a minor manufacturing variation/defect
over various time periods rather than an actual deliberate mold difference. Hence
why it's marked for deletion. So list it under 4070, and no need for a comment.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2023 17:05 | | Subject: | Re: Anybody have the box for 75870? | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
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| In Wanted, Poncke writes:
| | I dont understand point 2. How does selling it with a box increase reputation
and respectability? If you sell it with the correct condition then you are just
being as honest. Having a box doesnt change that imo. For me personally the condition
of an item doesnt increase or decrease the reputation and respectability of a
seller. The actual sales process and customer service does though.
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I think it's as simple as the fact that laypeople or people who are just
starting a hobby aren't familiar with the standards for that hobby. The box
thing is an easy assumption to make for someone who hasn't been in the Lego
community long, especially someone who tends to be a completionist.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2023 17:01 | | Subject: | Re: Anybody have the box for 75870? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
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| In Wanted, Brandish_Jaye writes:
| | 2) thanks for the advice. Like I said earlier I probably will list without the
box, I just try to go that extra mile when possible. It's not so much increasing
the sale as it is increasing reputation and respectability.
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Oh sure, I get that desire. I'm a detail-oriented perfectionist, so I did
that too -- along with spending hours of extra time picking period-accurate
parts based on glossiness, stud design, and hollow vs. solid underside tubes.
Things like that. But after a little while, I saw that those efforts were wasted;
buyers never noticed or cared. So I honestly doubt that going the extra mile
with boxes will do anything for your reputation or respectability.
What will affect those, however, is whether or not you send out complete, correct,
undamaged sets. The majority of sellers here and on the auction site constantly
send out sets with missing parts, damaged parts, or incorrect mold variations,
even if it's just one or two. Probably 90% of the sets I've ever bought
have had something wrong with them... but 99% of the ones I sold had every single
correct part, clean and undamaged. I triple-checked the inventory to ensure it.
Spending that extra time is worth it for your reputation, whereas spending that
time on boxes won't affect it.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2023 15:41 | | Subject: | Re: Original set from 1976 | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, RR395 writes:
| | Dear Experts,
I have the chance to buy a set from 1976. The seller is telling me that the set
is completely new and was just accidently opened. And the set looks really very
good and the seller sent a photo from the opened box with all the parts inside.
I'm just wondering that the parts are not packed up in a transparent plastic
bag - although the set is declared as new.
Does anybody know if lego uses plastic bags for the parts in 1976?
Of course, my question is a little bit strange, but maybe someone can help.
Best regards and thanks for every hint in advance
Steven
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In the past year, I've opened sealed sets from 1973 and 1978, and neither
had bags of any type inside the box. All of the parts were just loose in the
box.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 10, 2023 15:38 | | Subject: | Re: Anybody have the box for 75870? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
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| In Wanted, Brandish_Jaye writes:
| | Hi. I'm looking to complete a set but no one anywhere is selling the packaging.
If anyone has one (USA preferred) drop me message and I'll buy it from your
store if at a reasonable price. Thanks!
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First, absolutely love your store logo and name!
Second, if you haven't seen the Items For Sale Condition page, it specifies
that used sets do not need to contain the box or extra parts to be listed
as Complete: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=102
So you don't actually need the box, and from 7+ years of experience selling
used sets here and the auction site (before launching my parts store), including
the box with a set rarely helps it sell for more. Especially for a set that small.
In fact, the majority of buyers won't want the box if it increases the shipping
cost by even $1 -- which it almost always does. It's one thing if you
want to include the box as an option if you already have it, but even then most
buyers will opt for no box. In my opinion, hunting down and purchasing a box
to sell it with a set will only lose you money and time.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2023 14:32 | | Subject: | Re: Music | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, s0l0kr writes:
| | Hey everyone, I can't do anything without music, but for like a month I can't
find any music which I would like to hear. Maybe can I have some suggestions
please.
Any genre is fine!
Thank you everyone, I hope you will give me something interesting
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I play music all day every day, and I listen to almost everything, but lately
I've been on a huge indie rock kick, especially indie rock with synthesizers.
Lots of artists from Canada and England. Here's some recent favorites:
Metric (start with their brilliant new release Formentera and work backwards)
We Are Scientists
White Lies
Editors
Arkells
Silversun Pickups
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Interpol
Foals
Beach Weather
Wildermiss
Super Furry Animals
Aviators
The Wombats
The Vaccines
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:34 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 4093-1 | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Trans-Yellow {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192a Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double without Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents, parted out years ago but never sold or mixed.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:32 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 71756-1 | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Tan {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192b Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double with Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:31 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7257-1 | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 9 Part Reddish Brown {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192a Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double without Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents, bought and opened and built about 5 years ago, never deconstructed.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:27 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 75312-1 | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Dark Green {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192b Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double with Groove}
* Change 3 Part Light Bluish Gray {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192b Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double with Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:26 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10269-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Dark Bluish Gray {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192b Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double with Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:25 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 21047-1 | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Light Bluish Gray {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192b Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double with Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:23 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 70657-1 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part Dark Bluish Gray {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192b Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double with Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 31, 2023 16:21 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10260-1 | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 10 Part Dark Turquoise {6192 Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double (Undetermined Type) to 6192b Slope, Curved 2 x 4 Double with Groove}
Comments from Submitter:
Sealed set contents
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 28, 2023 14:34 | | Subject: | Re: 2 MILLION parts! | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, WildBricks writes:
| | We did it! We finally hit the 2 million mark.
Thanks to my amazing team for their help in making this crazy dream work. Thanks
to all of you awesome BL'ers for your help with my myriad of questions. And
a great big THANK YOU to all of the buyer's who have shopped with us along
the way.
Ginny
Wild Bricks GA
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Congratulations, Ginny! You've been one of my favorite stores since I first
ordered soon after you launched, and you should be proud of building such a great
inventory and store!
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 26, 2023 15:31 | | Subject: | Re: Store suspended due to FEE Avoidance? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help Desk Missing Ticket, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help Desk Missing Ticket, rankster writes:
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I guess that insane extra fee has something to do with taxation of used products
since more than 94% of his items are used. The banners says "Vatsystem problems
pre-owned bricks".
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25% is Denmark’s VAT rate.
They are VAT-registered in EU. They use BL’s VAT mechanism and they charge VAT
to EU buyers (at buyer’s rate).
For non-EU buyers, the VAT is set at 0% by BL’s VAT mechanism (as usual).
So, they are reapplying Denmark’s VAT rate to non-EU exports.
Thing is, IIUC, under the margin VAT scheme, the seller has more conditions to
meet to be able to export at 0% (time limit and paperwork).
So, maybe that’s their problem with the VAT mechanism: they can’t meet the 0%
conditions but they need to use BL’s mechanism for EU.
| | The bigger issue with that store seems to be that the shipping costs and fees
are not provided beforehand. No exact shipping costs visible in his terms or
during checkout so basicly he can charge whatever he wants.
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I'm sorry, maybe I don't understand VAT, but why is this being charged
to the buyer? When I ordered from this seller, I was charged tax at the full
Colorado, USA rate. Why should I have to pay VAT in addition to tax? And not
only that, but pay VAT on the tax I already paid? I made a $105 order that turned
into $178 after shipping, tax, 10% handling, and the 25% charge. That's absolutely
ridiculous. And to rankster's point, I believe that the seller is overcharging
shipping too, since the same weight, same postal service, same package size is
significantly cheaper from other Danish sellers.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 26, 2023 14:19 | | Subject: | Re: Store suspended due to FEE Avoidance? | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help Desk Missing Ticket, axaday writes:
| | A handling fee is okay as long as it isn't a percentage or really big.
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And yet MY OWN STORE in Denmark is charging a 35% fee on non-EU orders (10% handling
mentioned in terms and 25% international fee only mentioned in the banner and
nowhere in the terms, which seems like it's also breaking the rules --
and both are charged on the total including shipping and tax, which is extra
ridiculous) and has been allowed to continue. I reported them months ago, but
nothing happened. I don't understand why the big sellers who do this blatantly
get away with it for months or years, while the 80-feedback sellers get banned
quickly.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2023 12:58 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 20% discount on parts | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, legomalego writes:
| | You must be an adult to operate a store on Bricklink.
Sorry.
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I assume Bricklink management checked the age on their ID when they opened/reopened
their store. But yeah, between the "lying about a new owner" fiasco,
their reactions to any criticism or advice, and their responses in this thread,
this person certainly seems like a teenager.
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| Author: | Brickitty | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2023 20:55 | | Subject: | Re: How to get rid of a bad smell on some Lego | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Adrienhb writes:
| | Hi,
I've bought some Lego that must have been stored in a cave. And now they
smell like a cave. They are not dirty, just smelly.
Any advice on how to get rid of the smell ?
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Place in a dryer bag. Soak in a mixture of white vinegar and water (1 part vinegar
to 4-5 parts water) for at least 48 hours, rinse with water, lay out on a towel
to air dry for least 72 hours. Repeat if needed.
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