Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Leftoverbricks  | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2024 10:33 | | Subject: | Re: Did my best but still received neutral FB | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, ReclaimedComp writes:
| | I'm very disheartened today. I received my first neutral feedback yesterday
and thought I did everything I could to make things right. While pulling the
order I found one small part that was slightly discolored. I notified the customer
and gave them a refund but let them have the part anyway incase they could use
it. I shipped the order and the customer recieved it quickly (even sent me an
email thanking me for shipping so quickly). Later I received an email that one
of the parts I sent (a 1x2 slope) was actually a MB brand. I try to make sure
all my used parts are LEGO but sometimes one may slip through. I replied to
them (through gmail) on Jan 29th and refunded them for the part. I thought everyting
was fine. Yesterday I received a neutral feedback stating I never replied or
did anything. You try your best to keep 100% praise then one customer kills it.
Chris
RC
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What I do in such a case is also offer the buyer the option that I buy the wrong
part for him elsewhere and then send it to him. Or I have it sent directly
to the customer by the store where I buy the part. I admit this is an expensive
option, but most customers like it because it means they don't have to worry
about it anymore.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 7, 2024 11:26 | | Subject: | Re: R.I.P. BDP page | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Designer Program | |
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| In Designer Program, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Designer Program, Murtn writes:
| | Yep, exactly what I expected, the server broke down...
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That's what you get when you don't hire smart people to program this.
Bricklink + programming = disaster. Not only now, always.
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You like blank screens? Here's one, captured a minute ago.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 7, 2024 11:22 | | Subject: | Re: R.I.P. BDP page | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Designer Program | |
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| In Designer Program, Murtn writes:
| | Yep, exactly what I expected, the server broke down...
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That's what you get when you don't hire smart people to program this.
Bricklink + programming = disaster. Not only now, always.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 6, 2024 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| | Well expressed criticism! +1 |
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Feb 1, 2024 12:27 | | Subject: | Re: How to search parts by number? | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, algiogia writes:
| | I found a minifigure head and wanted to know to which set it belongs.
The code inside reads 3626 10-42. I tried many combinations with no luck.
In the end I had to scroll though all of the 3626 heads and finally found it
3626cpb3290...
No mention whatsoever of 10-42.
Since it's not the first time I search for a part by it's LEGO number
without result, I wanted to know what is the right way to do it?
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Mold numbers are not covered in Bricklink. But when it comes to minifigures this
is my way to go:
Type 3626* (do add he asterisk!) then a space and then try additional words like
grim/smile/ or a colour name. This would reduce the number of items in the search
result.
For all other minifig identification issues I suggest goatleg: http://www.goatleg.com/
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2024 12:01 | | Subject: | Re: Variant merge - specific answers needed | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| I very much agree with all your critical and, in my opinion, justified comments
about this change. Moreover, you are one of the active inventory contributors,
so your comments have a lot of weight for me.
I can only hope that everything goes well, but I honestly don't have much
confidence in it, given the often poor communication by BL in the past. This
is further aggravated by the well-known spaghetti code, which means BL cannot
achieve much when it comes to automation.
Meanwhile it's a definite thing so we can only keep our fingers crossed.
Personally, I cannot escape the impression that now that TLG is the owner of
Bricklink, this has been pushed through.
Martin
In Catalog, jennnifer writes:
| | Hello,
Regardless of my thoughts toward losing some valuable variants in our Catalog,
I have now read the message twice, and read most of the main Forum thread, and
I still have no idea how technically this is going to work.
You are going to take two active catalog items, 3747b and 3747a for example,
choose a main Image, choose one Image for each of the color thumbnails, choose
1 Price Guide (or does this merge also), and add a new Note explaining the 2
different versions. Is an experienced Catalog Expert going to do this or someone
else? Will the deleted info be archived in case of errors?
Then, you are going to merge the two items in the Catalog.
Seller shop inventory
Seller's shop items will be merged unless they paste a specific string of
text on the entry ahead of time. If not, they will not get to choose which price
is used or any of the other lot data. They will not be given a log of exactly
what was merged or changed.
It's not as if sellers are already prone to blaming BrickLink for errors
in their inventory. Now BrickLink will be actively changing their store listings.
We have no way of testing if this going to work and no way of flagging or logging
errors created.
Set Inventories
All Set Inventories that have these items will change to just one item. Any sets
that have the parts listed as Alternates will ?? Any Match ID's affected
will ?? Links to Change Requests discussing these items will ??
Everything else
All Wanted Lists that have these items listed will have the parts merged? What
if they are in separate projects? Isn't there an issue with Wanted Lists
already that involves problems with duplicate items?
All external links to one (or both) of the item variants will break or ??
All the people who write related software will have to adjust, rewrite, debug,
and ??
To sum up:
There is a reason it took so long to Mark Items for Deletion and then actually
delete them. It's to avoid all this trouble and uncertainty.
What happens 3 months from now when a seller who's been away reopens his
shop and doesn't understand what happened? You simply cannot count on every
single member receiving, reading, and understanding the email message sent out.
Will they receive any Action Items within BrickLink to understand the changes?
I wonder how much Catalog Credit will just vanish on Feb 15th. Credit for images,
items, inventories, ... all gone.
Thanks,
~Jen
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 12:32 | | Subject: | Re: Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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I've read all comments so far.
Question remains: how can a rather new seller list 163 highly desirable sets?
Where do you buy such sets or has this seller accumulated those sets privately
for 10 years and suddenly decided to sell them? I still think this is fishy.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 11:33 | | Subject: | Fishy store? | | Viewed: | 316 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| This store has zero feedback as a seller. They have 1 FB as a buyer.
Yet it has many very desirable sets available at mostly lower costs than average.
The combination of desirable sets is suspect.
They also added a large number of those sets in the past couple of weeks.
Death Star UCS, Mountain Cave, BDP sets....
This is ringing all the alarm bells for me.
https://store.bricklink.com/Misterutrecht19#/shop
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2024 11:03 | | Subject: | Re: Catmins: What happened to min094? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, jennnifer writes:
| | In Catalog, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi,
Minecraft minifigure min094 is missing in the catalog. We have a continuous range
from min001 until min159. But 094 is not there 
Is there a catalogue admin who knows the story? It must happened somewhere in
2021.
And can we fill up the gap somehow?
For instance with the next variant of the Iron Golem which now counts 4: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=iron%20golem#T=M
Another suggestion is to use min094 for a future variant of Steve (009) or
Alex (017), like when they appear with legs or helmets in a new colour.
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My understanding is that Catalog numbers are not reusable. If a minifig or part
needed to be deleted for some reason, it is skipped permanently.
~Jen
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That would be a nightmare for numberphiles like me! However, I always get happy
to receive a response from you since you are a Minecraft aficionado/catalogue
expert.
Nevertheless similar things happened before.
I think that in 2021 randyf decided that Iron Golems should be considered
a minifig and not a mob, so he added it to the catalogue in 2021 as min093. This
also meant that set 21128-1 from 2016 was updated with a new minifig. (I'm
assuming this rather than knowing because there are no detailed change
logs about set inventory changes.)
If you view the list of minecraft minifigs sorted by date you will see that min093
appears in 2016 while the numbering was still in the 040 range.
My question remains: where was 094 used for initially? If it only briefly entered
the catalogue but was sold never then it could be reused. Basically: if one would
be able to search the entire database of Bricklink - a question only the owner
of the database can answer - would it bring up a result for min094?
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2024 10:23 | | Subject: | Catmins: What happened to min094? | | Viewed: | 126 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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| Hi,
Minecraft minifigure min094 is missing in the catalog. We have a continuous range
from min001 until min159. But 094 is not there
Is there a catalogue admin who knows the story? It must happened somewhere in
2021.
And can we fill up the gap somehow?
For instance with the next variant of the Iron Golem which now counts 4: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=iron%20golem#T=M
Another suggestion is to use min094 for a future variant of Steve (009) or
Alex (017), like when they appear with legs or helmets in a new colour.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Dec 17, 2023 11:11 | | Subject: | Re: Valse verwachtingen track&trace brieven | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, Erikmax writes:
| | Een deel van onze klanten vraagt om verzending als brievenbuspakje. Daarbij hoort
een tracking nummer. We kregen de laatste weken meerdere klachten van klanten
die mededeelde dat de zending volgens track&trace bezorgd was, hetgeen niet het
geval was. Ook zelf heb ik bij de ontvangst van post ervaren.
Ik heb de postbode om verantwoording gevraagd. deze vertelde me dat de postbode
niet meer scant bij bezorging, maar dat de pakjes VOORAF (!) in de sorteercentrale
op bezorgd worden gezet.
Op zich heel bizar, want het is van track&tracve juist de bedoeling dat je weet
in welke status een zending is.
Maar het is nog veel vreemder: Deze zendingen worden 3 tot 6 dagen bezorgd NADAT
ze de status bezorgd hebben gekregen. Logisch dat de ontvanger ongerust wordt.
Zo is de tracking nog wel een bewijs dat de zending verzonden is, maar daar houdt
het dus bij op....
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Soortgelijke ervaringen hier, zowel als verzender als ontvanger.
Het vreemde is dat buspakjes tracked naar het buitenland wel volledig getracked
worden en vaak ook nog goedkoper zijn dan buspakjes tracked in NL. Ik verstuurde
in november een pakje naar Polen voor € 4,70 met volledige tracking....
Mijn idee en ervaring met Postnl is dat er gewoon een hoop vrijbuiters werken.
Postnl heeft veel uitbesteed aan derde partijen die het met de regels niet zo
nauw nemen. Het zijn opvallend vaak mensen die geëmigreerd zijn naar Nederland
en de taal nauwelijks spreken, laat staan alle ins en outs weten.
Tekorten op de arbeidsmarkt enzovoort enzovoort.
Ik ben een ouwe lul. Ik herinner me dat er vroeger twee postbezorgingen per dag
waren. Binnen dezelfde plaats/stad kon je 's morgens een brief posten (of
een pakje) en die werd dan 's middags bezorgd.
Kom daar nu eens om. Ha ha!
 Martin
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Dec 17, 2023 10:58 | | Subject: | Re: Shop Leftoverbricks te koop | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
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| In LANG Nederlands, StarBrick writes:
| | ... en welke hobby is nu de gelukkige ?
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Papierkunst: schilderijtjes, kaarten, pop-ups, verf, inkt en stempels
Papier is net als LEGO materiaal om mee te bouwen en creatief mee te zijn. Maar
ik houd LEGO ook als hobby.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2023 11:20 | | Subject: | Re: Received a really big order from new account | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| | Communicate with the buyer. |
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Dec 14, 2023 11:17 | | Subject: | Re: Shop Leftoverbricks te koop | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
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| Hi,
Ik heb mijn shop verkocht. Er hebben 4 potentiële kopers gereageerd, met één
daarvan ben ik tot een overeenkomst gekomen. Dank aan iedereen die reageerde!
En vooral aan de koper natuurlijk
groet, Martin
In LANG Nederlands, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hoi,
Ik overweeg om mijn shop te verkopen. De voornaamste reden is dat ik de afgelopen
twee jaar minder belangstelling voor LEGO heb gekregen en ben geswitcht naar
een andere hobby.
Voorheen gebruikte ik mijn BL winkeltje voornamelijk als inkomstenbron om daarmee
nieuwe LEGO sets te kopen. Maar ik koop nauwelijks nog nieuwe LEGO.
Ik heb mijn winkeltje in een eigen kamer en alles is goed georganiseerd met veel
ladekastjes. Foto's op verzoek.
Behalve de voorraad wil ik ook af van de ladekastjes en een flinke voorraad aan
luchtkussenenveloppen en ander verpakkingsmateriaal.
Ik prijs mijn artikelen meestal op het niveau van 6 months average. Zie plaatje
Mijn winkel is in Zwolle.
Als je geïnteresseerd bent ga dan naar mijn winkel en klik op Contact. Ik heb
er geen haast mee. En het kan ook een paar dagen duren voor ik reageer
Martin
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 11:49 | | Subject: | Re: Shop Leftoverbricks te koop | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
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| O ja, over de kwaliteit van mijn steentjes hoef je je geen zorgen te maken. Ik
heb een 100% positieve feedback score.
In LANG Nederlands, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hoi,
Ik overweeg om mijn shop te verkopen. De voornaamste reden is dat ik de afgelopen
twee jaar minder belangstelling voor LEGO heb gekregen en ben geswitcht naar
een andere hobby.
Voorheen gebruikte ik mijn BL winkeltje voornamelijk als inkomstenbron om daarmee
nieuwe LEGO sets te kopen. Maar ik koop nauwelijks nog nieuwe LEGO.
Ik heb mijn winkeltje in een eigen kamer en alles is goed georganiseerd met veel
ladekastjes. Foto's op verzoek.
Behalve de voorraad wil ik ook af van de ladekastjes en een flinke voorraad aan
luchtkussenenveloppen en ander verpakkingsmateriaal.
Ik prijs mijn artikelen meestal op het niveau van 6 months average. Zie plaatje
Mijn winkel is in Zwolle.
Als je geïnteresseerd bent ga dan naar mijn winkel en klik op Contact. Ik heb
er geen haast mee. En het kan ook een paar dagen duren voor ik reageer
Martin
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 11:44 | | Subject: | Shop Leftoverbricks te koop | | Viewed: | 214 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
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| Hoi,
Ik overweeg om mijn shop te verkopen. De voornaamste reden is dat ik de afgelopen
twee jaar minder belangstelling voor LEGO heb gekregen en ben geswitcht naar
een andere hobby.
Voorheen gebruikte ik mijn BL winkeltje voornamelijk als inkomstenbron om daarmee
nieuwe LEGO sets te kopen. Maar ik koop nauwelijks nog nieuwe LEGO.
Ik heb mijn winkeltje in een eigen kamer en alles is goed georganiseerd met veel
ladekastjes. Foto's op verzoek.
Behalve de voorraad wil ik ook af van de ladekastjes en een flinke voorraad aan
luchtkussenenveloppen en ander verpakkingsmateriaal.
Ik prijs mijn artikelen meestal op het niveau van 6 months average. Zie plaatje
Mijn winkel is in Zwolle.
Als je geïnteresseerd bent ga dan naar mijn winkel en klik op Contact. Ik heb
er geen haast mee. En het kan ook een paar dagen duren voor ik reageer
Martin
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jun 15, 2023 11:42 | | Subject: | Re: sick and tired about selling to England | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Desired option would be to exclude buyers from a specific country to buy from
me below a certain threshold.
In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I have no minimum order amount in my shop. I compensate for (very) small orders
by adjusting my shipping price.
However: shipping small orders to the UK requires filling in custom forms and
for an order of 59 cents I do not want to do that. Currently there's no way
to tweak your shipping options to exclude the minimum order amount for specific
countries.
Therefore I have decided to completely stop shipping to England unless I'm
allowed to add a handling cost for England.
Personal note: the Brits who voted for secession should know that this is one
of the consequences....
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Jun 15, 2023 11:40 | | Subject: | sick and tired about selling to England | | Viewed: | 251 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| I have no minimum order amount in my shop. I compensate for (very) small orders
by adjusting my shipping price.
However: shipping small orders to the UK requires filling in custom forms and
for an order of 59 cents I do not want to do that. Currently there's no way
to tweak your shipping options to exclude the minimum order amount for specific
countries.
Therefore I have decided to completely stop shipping to England unless I'm
allowed to add a handling cost for England.
Personal note: the Brits who voted for secession should know that this is one
of the consequences....
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 10:51 | | Subject: | Re: how to upload xml file to wanted list | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
Yeah, finally, this is the way to go!
Wouldn't it be great if we got tutorials on BL how to solve problems like
this?
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 10:43 | | Subject: | Re: how to upload xml file to wanted list | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | […]
Actually now that I see the Wanted List the quantity is not correctly loaded
in the WL: quantity for each item is empty.
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Inventories and Wanted Lists are different.
The main difference si QTY (inventories) versus MINQTY (WLs).
See https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207
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I edited my xml by changing QTY to MINQTY, that did the trick.
Isn't strange (to say the least) that BL allows us to DOWNLOAD xml files
from an inventory but at the same time doesn't allow us to UPLOAD the very
same file to a Wanted List?
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 10:02 | | Subject: | Re: how to upload xml file to wanted list | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I can't find where or how to upload a .xml file into a new or existing wanted
list.
It should be possible since you can download a wanted list to a .xml file.
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Want icon | Upload, that leads you here: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/upload.page
You want the second tab (see pic). And you paste the content in the field.
For some unknown reasons, it’s separate from the other file formats and you need
to paste it, while the other formats can upload a file (loading the file or even
drag-and-dropping it).
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Thanks Silvain, that was fast!
It worked well, but I had to delete the extra items* from the xml before it could
be processed successfully.
*I downloaded the inventory for the set from this page: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
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Actually now that I see the Wanted List the quantity is not correctly loaded
in the WL: quantity for each item is empty.
XML:
"ITEM"
"ITEMTYPE"P"/ITEMTYPE"
"ITEMID"3743"/ITEMID"
"QTY"22"/QTY"
"COLOR"11"/COLOR"
"EXTRA"N"/EXTRA"
"ALTERNATE"N"/ALTERNATE"
"MATCHID"0"/MATCHID"
"COUNTERPART"N"/COUNTERPART"
"/ITEM"
(I changed the brackets in the xml for quotation marks otherwise I couldn't
paste it into a message)
Result in wanted list:
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 09:41 | | Subject: | Re: HELP! | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Classicsmiley writes:
| | In Catalog, brickfrero writes:
| | In Catalog, brunocandeias writes:
| | Hello!
Any help with this part number...
Thanks!
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23186
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This is the way!
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 09:40 | | Subject: | Re: how to upload xml file to wanted list | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I can't find where or how to upload a .xml file into a new or existing wanted
list.
It should be possible since you can download a wanted list to a .xml file.
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Want icon | Upload, that leads you here: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/upload.page
You want the second tab (see pic). And you paste the content in the field.
For some unknown reasons, it’s separate from the other file formats and you need
to paste it, while the other formats can upload a file (loading the file or even
drag-and-dropping it).
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Thanks Silvain, that was fast!
It worked well, but I had to delete the extra items* from the xml before it could
be processed successfully.
*I downloaded the inventory for the set from this page: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogDownload.asp?utm_content=subnav
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 09:18 | | Subject: | how to upload xml file to wanted list | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| I can't find where or how to upload a .xml file into a new or existing wanted
list.
It should be possible since you can download a wanted list to a .xml file.
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| Author: | Leftoverbricks | | Posted: | Apr 22, 2023 08:30 | | Subject: | Re: Whats this minifigure official name and ID | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Poncke writes:
| | Hi, Whats this minifigure official name and ID please? Its a BAM 2021 released
minifig, Australia.
Thanks
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Look like a custom minifig since the torso only appeared in
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