Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Ber_i  | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 13:23 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping options not showing at checkout | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Dad275 writes:
| | Hello everyone
I have been having problems with my Shipping options showing, when someone buys
from my store. The thing is, that when a customer goes to checkout it will show
them only the cheapest shipping option. Ive looked at all the settings, when
it comes to shipping and store settings and i just can not find what is causing
this, therefore i sent a message to Bricklink, however they have not responded
for a very long time.
Thank you ahead of time for any answer!
Dan
NO tricks Just Bricks!
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Did you put al of you shipping methods in the same group?
Only the cheapest option of a group is shown.
Select group ‘none’ and al the options meeting dimension and weight requirements
should show.
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| Author: | Dad275 | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 13:16 | | Subject: | Shipping options not showing at checkout | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| Hello everyone
I have been having problems with my Shipping options showing, when someone buys
from my store. The thing is, that when a customer goes to checkout it will show
them only the cheapest shipping option. Ive looked at all the settings, when
it comes to shipping and store settings and i just can not find what is causing
this, therefore i sent a message to Bricklink, however they have not responded
for a very long time.
Thank you ahead of time for any answer!
Dan
NO tricks Just Bricks!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 12:21 | | Subject: | Re: International Paypal Issues | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Dadueven writes:
| | […]
We prefer to use paypal but it isn't working for the onsite payment the EU
customer says when they push the button that error comes up. So after several
attempts he just sent payment to our paypal, when we contacted BL to get this
set to paid and find out how the VAT that was deducted is handled they didn't
address the issue that we tried for a week adjusting settings. So currently we
have a EU order that we cant mark paid, we can't mark shipped sitting in
our order list. They said to refund the customer but now they still can't
pay onsite. Paypal says all is okay on their end.
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Ah, then that would be the major problem: you aren’t allowed to be paid offsite
when BL has to collect taxes (be it because you asked the buyer or because the
buyer took it upon themselves to pay that way).
You aren’t registered with the EU to collect EU VAT. BL is the one that’s registered
and that has to collect the VAT, not you.
When you do that, you’re committing tax fraud: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1401495
The only way is to refund and go through Onsite.
That being said, it seems the Help Desk just focused on that first part (offsite
payment) and didn’t look into why there’s an error when the buyer tries to pay.
I’d try contacting them again _but only for that problem_. Don’t talk about
offsite or finding another way to pay or making an exception focus on the error
message. Otherwise they may again be stuck on it.
Also, maybe there’s still a problem with PayPal: I think some have reported problems
here when a buyer was trying to use some PayPal options, like “PayPal credit”
or something like that (sorry, I’m not a PayPal specialist).
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| Author: | Dadueven | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 11:55 | | Subject: | Re: International Paypal Issues | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Technical Issues, Dadueven writes:
| | Hi,
We are in South Africa and decided to open up to EU. We are having an issue with
EU customers paying onsite. They keep getting an error. We accepted Euro as payment,
our Paypal has been linked for two years.
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Hi,
From what I can see in your terms, it seems to be properly set (I don’t think
there’s anything else to do than have Onsite and associate it to a shipping method).
| | We contacted BL customer service which they admonished us for trying to avoid
fees which we are absolutely not doing we appreciate the service BL provides
and have no problem paying our dues. What we needed was help, so our EU customers
could pay onsite, because of VAT being deducted for orders under 150 Euros. We
still have no assistance and no solution.
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Maybe there was a misunderstanding… or are you asking your buyers to pay offsite?
Did you give Help Desk the error message & reference number?
Have you tried contacting PayPal? (I guess they’ll say it’s BL’s problem… but
well, maybe not.)
| | Anyone familiar with settings as we have Euro enabled in PayPal and in Bricklink
and our current customers are unable to pay so we have had to close international
as an option.
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Looks open to me.
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We prefer to use paypal but it isn't working for the onsite payment the EU
customer says when they push the button that error comes up. So after several
attempts he just sent payment to our paypal, when we contacted BL to get this
set to paid and find out how the VAT that was deducted is handled they didn't
address the issue that we tried for a week adjusting settings. So currently we
have a EU order that we cant mark paid, we can't mark shipped sitting in
our order list. They said to refund the customer but now they still can't
pay onsite. Paypal says all is okay on their end.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 11:34 | | Subject: | Re: part out log | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, jbricks writes:
| | […]
According to you feedback you are still a rooky  so i forgive you,
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You know what happens when someone gets old: they become young again… in some
ways
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| Author: | dlaw1_lego | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 11:30 | | Subject: | Re: part out log | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| | Thanks Janet I knew it was there somewhere just couldn't find it. |
| Author: | jbricks | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 11:27 | | Subject: | Re: part out log | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Help, dlaw1_lego writes:
| | Where can I find the list of sets I parted out?
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In your head, or the lists you made in a text file, a Text processor, a Spread
Sheet, on post-it notes, anything.
Apart this; not on BrickLink.
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Ofcourse you can
https://www.bricklink.com/inventoryInvLog.asp
According to you feedback you are still a rooky so i forgive you,
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| Author: | jbricks | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 11:26 | | Subject: | Re: part out log | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| on the my inventory page, all the way down.
https://www.bricklink.com/inventoryInvLog.asp
Best regards
Janet
In Help, dlaw1_lego writes:
| | Where can I find the list of sets I parted out?
Thanks in advance
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 11:22 | | Subject: | Re: part out log | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, dlaw1_lego writes:
| | Where can I find the list of sets I parted out?
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In your head, or the lists you made in a text file, a Text processor, a Spread
Sheet, on post-it notes, anything.
Apart this; not on BrickLink.
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| Author: | tons_of_bricks | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 10:45 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I just broke a piece off of a dark green 2x16 plate the other day when cleaning
and rebuilding my Sopwith Camel. Not fun since that's the only set with that
piece... Thankfully it was still usable and I was able to put it in a spot where
you can't see the damage.
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| Author: | 0v0c05 | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 10:38 | | Subject: | Re: Add Inventory items to a Wanted List | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, 0v0c05 writes:
| | Hello – I have a Wanted list called Up House Modular and I also have an inventory
list that I know contains parts that are needed in the Up House Modular wanted
list. However, I ‘m stuck as to how I can apply the ‘inventory list’ to the ‘wanted
list’ so I get a true picture/account of what I need to order. Is anyone able
to guide me please.
Thank you.
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Hi,
Unfortunately, you can’t substract, merge, or intersect Wanted Lists on BrickLink.
You’ll need to use third-party tools, like BrickStore (application) or Rebrickable
(website).
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That'll be why I can't work it out. Thanks for letting me know.
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 08:00 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, robross987 writes:
| | I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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I've had a ton of Dark Red and Reddish Brown parts break in my early Winter
Village sets. Between uses, they have always been stored carefully unbuilt and
indoors. I expect my LotR will behave the same way if I ever risk building them
again. 
~Jen
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| Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 03:57 | | Subject: | Re: When tax becomes governmental theft | | Viewed: | 92 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
| | If this is right, something must be very wrong....
2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
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This happens sometimes when a seller has set up a shipping method that doesn't
show the estimated cost to the buyer cart, in this case the seller is probably
using a 10.000 USD value as a default that manually changes when invoicing after
placing the order.
(10,000 + 32.06) x 0,21 (VAT %) = 2106,73
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| Author: | iprice | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 02:45 | | Subject: | Re: When tax becomes governmental theft | | Viewed: | 87 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
| | If this is right, something must be very wrong....
2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
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I posted something similar in April - https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=337609&nID=1403718
Yours is a tad harder in the pocket than mine though!
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| Author: | iprice | | Posted: | May 31, 2023 02:42 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, BricksOfFaith writes:
| | In Help, robross987 writes:
| | I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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Dark red breaks very very often. I had found a in a used lot, and
when taken apart, 25% of the dark red pieces ended up either breaking or at least
cracking. Brown is even worse.
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I lost numerous dark red parts taking this ship apart too. :'
In fact, I've lost more dark red parts than reddish brown (although there've
been a fair few of those too).
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| Author: | MarioBrickz | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 20:42 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, robross987 writes:
| | I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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Earlier this year, I purchased a custom LEGO set from Heart Bricker's Ebay
store that used reddish brown pieces to create a custom car based on a 1969 Ford
Mustang. Included in the set was a bag with some extra 1x4 reddish brown tiles,
and it had a note on the bag that basically stated that these particular pieces
were notorious for being brittle, and the parts in the bag were extras just in
case they were needed. Well... they certainly WERE needed, as three of the 1x4
reddish brown tiles in the main set literally snapped in two while I was building
the car! It's a good thing those extra 1x4 tiles were included, or I would
have had to get on BrickLink and order replacements... and THOSE potentially
could have snapped apart too!
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| Author: | Brockmeister | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 19:41 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, robross987 writes:
| | I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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Depending on the era, and what type of climate/conditions/storage it was subjected
to, Dark Red can be extremely brittle! I have broken a large amount of Dark
Red and Reddish Brown parts during disassembly using a brick separator. Once
I have a suspect batch, I start grabbing the parts and give them a slight bend-
and they snap like crackers in my hands. Then into the circular file (trash)
they go.
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| Author: | bengreen28 | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 18:43 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I have had 1x8 tiles, 4x6 plates, 2x8 plates, the curved slope 2 x 1 x 1 1/3
with Recessed Stud, to name a few, break even when being super careful in taking
them apart all in dark red, there was a few years when dark red as well as reddish
brown were very brittle.
In Help, here4bricks614 writes:
| | In Help, robross987 writes:
| | I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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The only Dark Red pieces to break on me were 2x4s rolled over with an office
chair.
Currently sorting through my 2012 collection and only 5 Reddish Brown pieces
have snapped!
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| Author: | BricksOfFaith | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 18:43 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, robross987 writes:
| | I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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Dark red breaks very very often. I had found a in a used lot, and
when taken apart, 25% of the dark red pieces ended up either breaking or at least
cracking. Brown is even worse.
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| Author: | here4bricks614 | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 18:13 | | Subject: | Re: How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, robross987 writes:
| | I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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The only Dark Red pieces to break on me were 2x4s rolled over with an office
chair.
Currently sorting through my 2012 collection and only 5 Reddish Brown pieces
have snapped!
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| Author: | LordBricks | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 17:38 | | Subject: | How often does Dark Red break? | | Viewed: | 117 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I broke my first LEGO piece today. I’ve never actually broken one myself, I’ve
just seen the occasional broken part in a bulk brick acquisition. I had heard
that reddish-brown was problematic, but this was a dark red Slope, Curved 2
x 1 x 2/3. It broke in half when I tried to pull it off a 2 x 4 plate! I needed
2 of them for the top of an arch thing I am making, and I only had 3 in my whole
collection! (Only 2 now.) So luckily I had exactly one to spare. But it kinda
startled me because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 15:18 | | Subject: | Re: When tax becomes governmental theft | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Taxes, UTLF writes:
| | This sounds like something the government would say... 
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| Author: | 1974 | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 15:11 | | Subject: | Re: When tax becomes governmental theft | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| That headline is very uncool ... and quite political to boot
Either it's a (BL?) glitch or a seller manipulating
It's _NOT_ the "government" (whatever that might be) robbing you
Cheers,
Ole
In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
| | If this is right, something must be very wrong....
2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 14:44 | | Subject: | Re: When tax becomes governmental theft | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
| | If this is right, something must be very wrong....
2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
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| Author: | StarBrick | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 14:41 | | Subject: | When tax becomes governmental theft | | Viewed: | 257 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| If this is right, something must be very wrong....
2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 11:52 | | Subject: | Re: Add Inventory items to a Wanted List | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, 0v0c05 writes:
| | Hello – I have a Wanted list called Up House Modular and I also have an inventory
list that I know contains parts that are needed in the Up House Modular wanted
list. However, I ‘m stuck as to how I can apply the ‘inventory list’ to the ‘wanted
list’ so I get a true picture/account of what I need to order. Is anyone able
to guide me please.
Thank you.
|
Hi,
Unfortunately, you can’t substract, merge, or intersect Wanted Lists on BrickLink.
You’ll need to use third-party tools, like BrickStore (application) or Rebrickable
(website).
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| Author: | 0v0c05 | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 11:39 | | Subject: | Add Inventory items to a Wanted List | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Hello – I have a Wanted list called Up House Modular and I also have an inventory
list that I know contains parts that are needed in the Up House Modular wanted
list. However, I ‘m stuck as to how I can apply the ‘inventory list’ to the ‘wanted
list’ so I get a true picture/account of what I need to order. Is anyone able
to guide me please.
Thank you.
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| Author: | axaday | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 09:20 | | Subject: | Re: Why did they jump the the model 76913 ? | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, M_SKIPPER writes:
| | Hi all
Does anyone know why they did jump the 76913 model in the Speed Champions set
?
Regards
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You may be asking for deeper information than this, but I would say they developed
a set and then decided not to release it, so a number got assigned and they don't
want to complicate their stuff, so they didn't reassign the number.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 08:33 | | Subject: | Re: Shopping cart showing less lots? | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Cepullio writes:
| | How come when I add the items on my wanted list to the cart, the lot number lessens??
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Hi,
What are you calling “the lot number”? The quantity? Which one, in the store
or in your WL?
Could you be a bit more precise on what you do? (Give an example. Are you using
auto-fill feature?)
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 08:30 | | Subject: | Re: International Paypal Issues | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Dadueven writes:
| | Hi,
We are in South Africa and decided to open up to EU. We are having an issue with
EU customers paying onsite. They keep getting an error. We accepted Euro as payment,
our Paypal has been linked for two years.
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Hi,
From what I can see in your terms, it seems to be properly set (I don’t think
there’s anything else to do than have Onsite and associate it to a shipping method).
| | We contacted BL customer service which they admonished us for trying to avoid
fees which we are absolutely not doing we appreciate the service BL provides
and have no problem paying our dues. What we needed was help, so our EU customers
could pay onsite, because of VAT being deducted for orders under 150 Euros. We
still have no assistance and no solution.
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Maybe there was a misunderstanding… or are you asking your buyers to pay offsite?
Did you give Help Desk the error message & reference number?
Have you tried contacting PayPal? (I guess they’ll say it’s BL’s problem… but
well, maybe not.)
| | Anyone familiar with settings as we have Euro enabled in PayPal and in Bricklink
and our current customers are unable to pay so we have had to close international
as an option.
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Looks open to me.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 08:15 | | Subject: | Re: Why did they jump the the model 76913 ? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, M_SKIPPER writes:
| | Hi all
Does anyone know why they did jump the 76913 model in the Speed Champions set
?
Regards
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It was full of sharks?
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| Author: | Dadueven | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 05:59 | | Subject: | International Paypal Issues | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| Hi,
We are in South Africa and decided to open up to EU. We are having an issue with
EU customers paying onsite. They keep getting an error. We accepted Euro as payment,
our Paypal has been linked for two years.
We contacted BL customer service which they admonished us for trying to avoid
fees which we are absolutely not doing we appreciate the service BL provides
and have no problem paying our dues. What we needed was help, so our EU customers
could pay onsite, because of VAT being deducted for orders under 150 Euros. We
still have no assistance and no solution.
Anyone familiar with settings as we have Euro enabled in PayPal and in Bricklink
and our current customers are unable to pay so we have had to close international
as an option.
Regards Angelina
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| Author: | M_SKIPPER | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 03:12 | | Subject: | Why did they jump the the model 76913 ? | | Viewed: | 119 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Hi all
Does anyone know why they did jump the 76913 model in the Speed Champions set
?
Regards
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| Author: | Cepullio | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 22:36 | | Subject: | Shopping cart showing less lots? | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| | How come when I add the items on my wanted list to the cart, the lot number lessens?? |
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| Author: | leggodtshop | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 17:57 | | Subject: | Re: Whitening process | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Luloma writes:
| | I am writing this post because I was wondering if may be possible to obtain the
catalization with the usual procedure for bricks whitening (hydrogen peroxide+UVA)
also wrapping them in a transparent film to preserve the stickers, or if it is
necessary (as I always believed), the direct contact with the material.
Thansk to all
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This’s exactly how I do my laundry: I put all my clothes in a hermetic bag before
putting the bag in the machine. The bag gets out really clean!
But I don’t get why people grimace when I’m upwind to them 
IOW: if the peroxide is not in contact with the plastic, how can they react together?
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My experience on (older) discolored items...
Although peroxide works on discolored white parts, it does not (properly) work
on discolored blue or grey parts.
However putting the items behind glass (e.g. HR+, HR++) in sunlight does work
on discolored white, blue and grey items. Maybe not all, maybe not perfectly
but I have had good results over the past years. Other colors I don't know.
Discoloring however may return after some time.
BR,
Paul
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| Author: | Luloma | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 17:31 | | Subject: | Re: Whitening process | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Luloma writes:
| | […]
LOL. By the way, to reply your answer: I just thouth that maybe it's
not about the contact, but about the way the rays hit the plastic after passing
through the hydrogen peroxide!
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Er, no that’s not how it works.
Last I looked, it would be the “bleaching”/“whitening” effect of the peroxide:
it transforms some molecules so they don’t absorb/reflect the light the same
way, thus changing (back) the apparent colour.
But that doesn’t repair the degraded plastic: it degrades the molecules that
were created by the degradation of the plastic (and may help degrade the plastic
further too).
yellowing:
ABS + (light and/or heat + oxygen) → degraded-ABS + yellow-stuff
whitening:
degraded-ABS + yellow-stuff + UVs + oxygen → degraded-ABS + whitened-yellow-stuff
Whatever you choose to do:
1. Avoid direct sunlight: it has UVc that are very bad for the plastic (and you).
(Put everything behing some glass.)
2. Tell your buyers.
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Thanks for your detailed explanation, and for your time. My buyers are fully
briefed, that's my primary mission! and I needed this informations for my
personal development, not for my inventory.
Have a nice evening!
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| Author: | LYNDA6798 | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 16:39 | | Subject: | Re: Download orders | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, LYNDA6798 writes:
| | Hi
I use a Mac and I cannot download my orders as a CSV file.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
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This is the error message :
The web page at https://www.bricklink.com/orderExcelFinal.asp? might be temporarily
down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 13:52 | | Subject: | Re: Whitening process | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Luloma writes:
| | […]
LOL. By the way, to reply your answer: I just thouth that maybe it's
not about the contact, but about the way the rays hit the plastic after passing
through the hydrogen peroxide!
|
Er, no that’s not how it works.
Last I looked, it would be the “bleaching”/“whitening” effect of the peroxide:
it transforms some molecules so they don’t absorb/reflect the light the same
way, thus changing (back) the apparent colour.
But that doesn’t repair the degraded plastic: it degrades the molecules that
were created by the degradation of the plastic (and may help degrade the plastic
further too).
yellowing:
ABS + (light and/or heat + oxygen) → degraded-ABS + yellow-stuff
whitening:
degraded-ABS + yellow-stuff + UVs + oxygen → degraded-ABS + whitened-yellow-stuff
Whatever you choose to do:
1. Avoid direct sunlight: it has UVc that are very bad for the plastic (and you).
(Put everything behing some glass.)
2. Tell your buyers.
|
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| Author: | Luloma | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: Whitening process | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Luloma writes:
| | I am writing this post because I was wondering if may be possible to obtain the
catalization with the usual procedure for bricks whitening (hydrogen peroxide+UVA)
also wrapping them in a transparent film to preserve the stickers, or if it is
necessary (as I always believed), the direct contact with the material.
Thansk to all
|
This’s exactly how I do my laundry: I put all my clothes in a hermetic bag before
putting the bag in the machine. The bag gets out really clean!
But I don’t get why people grimace when I’m upwind to them
IOW: if the peroxide is not in contact with the plastic, how can they react together?
|
LOL. By the way, to reply your answer: I just thouth that maybe it's
not about the contact, but about the way the rays hit the plastic after passing
through the hydrogen peroxide!
|
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| Author: | MiniRoz | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 12:29 | | Subject: | Re: Whitening process | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Luloma writes:
| | I am writing this post because I was wondering if may be possible to obtain the
catalization with the usual procedure for bricks whitening (hydrogen peroxide+UVA)
also wrapping them in a transparent film to preserve the stickers, or if it is
necessary (as I always believed), the direct contact with the material.
Thansk to all
|
I’m not sure I 100% understand your question, so forgive me if this reply doesn’t
answer it. Hydrogen Peroxide does not need a “catalyst” to to whiten, but UV
rays seem to help it with the oxidation process. Hydrogen peroxide is the main
active ingredient in most teeth whitening products, and they do not require UV
rays. As far as whitening LEGO, putting white parts in a clear container in direct
sunlight for at least 6 hours definitely helps remove discoloration. This happens
bc it targets electrons and sort of breaks down the atoms that cause staining.
I have no evidence that this harms the parts, but I would not use this process
on bricks I would sell because it seems like anything that causes molecules to
fall apart can’t be good for the integrity of LEGO. Again, I have no evidence,
and humans use it on their these without damaging the enamel, so maybe do a google
search.
As far as using that method on a part with a sticker, I definitely would not
try that, even with plastic wrap over the sticker (not sure how that would even
work). Hydrogen peroxide can and will get under the edges of stickers and loosen
them - you know how you pour it on a little paper cut and it starts to bubble?
That, but under a sticker. If you’re hell bent on it, don’t try to just cover
the sticker with plastic wrap.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 12:25 | | Subject: | Re: Whitening process | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Luloma writes:
| | I am writing this post because I was wondering if may be possible to obtain the
catalization with the usual procedure for bricks whitening (hydrogen peroxide+UVA)
also wrapping them in a transparent film to preserve the stickers, or if it is
necessary (as I always believed), the direct contact with the material.
Thansk to all
|
This’s exactly how I do my laundry: I put all my clothes in a hermetic bag before
putting the bag in the machine. The bag gets out really clean!
But I don’t get why people grimace when I’m upwind to them
IOW: if the peroxide is not in contact with the plastic, how can they react together?
|
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| Author: | Luloma | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 12:01 | | Subject: | Whitening process | | Viewed: | 166 times | | Topic: | Help | |
|
| I am writing this post because I was wondering if may be possible to obtain the
catalization with the usual procedure for bricks whitening (hydrogen peroxide+UVA)
also wrapping them in a transparent film to preserve the stickers, or if it is
necessary (as I always believed), the direct contact with the material.
Thansk to all
|
| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | May 29, 2023 00:04 | | Subject: | Re: sw0116 | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| | | I have fixed it. 
Cheers,
Randy
|
Perfect! Thankyou!
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| Author: | DennisKlerkx | | Posted: | May 28, 2023 15:16 | | Subject: | View part count | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Question for everybody
Is it possible to view the total part count with submodels in your scene? If
you make submodels, the model view count is on the left bottom in the screen
is with submodels counted as a single part. Is there a way to view the total
amount of the parts in a scene, including the parts inside any submodel?
Thank you very much in advance!!
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| Author: | randyf | | Posted: | May 28, 2023 14:45 | | Subject: | Re: sw0116 | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
|
| In Technical Issues, Nubs_Select writes:
| | For some reason this figure
which is marked as "Cannot be Inventoried" still shows as if it has an
inventory but it forever loads. none of the other Light-Up Lightsaber figures
such as have this issue that i could see
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I have fixed it.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | ghyde | | Posted: | May 28, 2023 00:58 | | Subject: | Re: Order Was Lost in the Mail | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | Brettj666, as a buyer with a lost package, you can chosse not to file a complaint.
You will give your word and (I’m sure) stand by it. And there’s a good probability
no authorities will come after you¹.
But it’s not so simple.
As Sylvain said:
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You're SylvainLS.
Who are you and what have you done with SylvainLS?
Cheers ...
ghyde
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | May 27, 2023 23:56 | | Subject: | Re: sw0116 | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
|
| In Technical Issues, UTLF writes:
| | Maybe someone started inventorying them, got lazy, and then decided that they
can't be inventoried in order to not do the work
I think, at the very least, the light-up Jedi minifigures should have their hear/headgear
& 4L bars as the minifig "inventory"
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Looks like you may be in luck
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1396137
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | May 27, 2023 23:49 | | Subject: | Re: sw0116 | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, UTLF writes:
| | If you click "view older version" it shows the inventory, which is just
the headgear:
|
Interesting. Perhaps it’s what was used as a reminder for the inventories they
hope to add?
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