| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | 1001bricks  | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2024 18:53 | | Subject: | Re: Exchange rate provider change | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, macebobo writes:
| | In Administrative, 1001bricks writes:
| | Note:
* Too bad the currency rate applied still cannot be displayed, IMHO
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You can only have so much transparency a day, otherwise it causes cancer.
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies is the correct link.
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I know, but the Help page doesn't 
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| Author: | macebobo | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2024 18:45 | | Subject: | Re: Exchange rate provider change | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, 1001bricks writes:
| | Note:
* Too bad the currency rate applied still cannot be displayed, IMHO
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You can only have so much transparency a day, otherwise it causes cancer.
https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies is the correct link.
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| Author: | 1001bricks | | Posted: | Feb 13, 2024 17:32 | | Subject: | Re: Exchange rate provider change | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, CE_Anastasia writes:
Note:
* Too bad the currency rate applied still cannot be displayed, IMHO
* https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currenciesm as in your page is an erroneous
link
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2024 21:37 | | Subject: | Re: Important update reg. Ukraine and Russia | | Viewed: | 96 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| i see what you did there  |
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| Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Feb 12, 2024 21:08 | | Subject: | Re: Important update reg. Ukraine and Russia | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, CE_Tanja writes:
| | Dear BrickLink members,
The LEGO Group released the following statement regarding the war in Ukraine.
Our thoughts are with all the children and families suffering as a result of
the war in Ukraine.
Our priority is the safety of all our colleagues. We are in contact with our
Ukrainian team and are providing ongoing support to ensure their safety. We are
also working to support other colleagues around the world impacted by the escalating
crisis including our team in Russia.
We have paused shipments of products to Russia given the extensive disruption
to the operating environment.
We care deeply about the lasting impact on children and together with the LEGO
Foundation and Ole Kirk’s Fond, we will donate DKK 110 million (approx. USD 16.5
million) to emergency relief efforts, with a focus on providing support for children
and families. The donation will be made to existing partners, including the United
Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Save the Children, and the Danish Red Cross.
This is a volatile and constantly evolving situation which we are monitoring
closely.
What does this mean for BrickLink?
The global payment platforms we use on BrickLink are currently not available
in Russia and deliveries to and from the country are severely disrupted. Given
this, buying and selling activities in Russia will be temporarily deactivated.
Members impacted by this will be informed individually.
We are grateful for everyone in our community and never imagined we would face
a situation such as this or witness the heartbreak and devastation we’re seeing
in Ukraine.
Please continue to adhere to our community guidelines and show each other respect
and support.
Thank you for your understanding.
The BrickLink team
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| Author: | Milann | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2024 18:57 | | Subject: | Re: Update on November 3rd incident | | Viewed: | 101 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Thankyou for the update! 🍕🍕🍕
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2024 07:09 | | Subject: | Re: New policy on Forum sales posts | | Viewed: | 89 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, WoutR writes:
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Ehm... I am no specialist but at first sight BrickLink does risk liability if
they share private data that is not relevant for the purpose. […]
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I was only answering the “BL should moderate the sale feature” part, not the
part (in parentheses) about IP addresses.
IIRC, I didn’t say anything about IP addresses because I had nothing to say for
or against it, contrarily to the main point 
Sorry, I should have snipped that part or answered before (thus leaving the quote
but below my answer), to make it clearer I wasn’t addressing it (pun intended).
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2024 18:06 | | Subject: | Re: New policy on Forum sales posts | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Administrative, 1001bricks writes:
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Whaaaat? But this was May 7, 2023?!
(thanks to remember it, I still think it was a fun sale)
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I didn’t remember the exact post, I just knew you never posted sales. I checked
your history and dug the post out
| | That's an iniquitous rule!
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Well, you can’t both complain we don’t implement suggestions and implement them!
Especially it’s your suggestion that’s implemented!
| | What about the Pizza fans - seriously, that's a major problem.
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Posts about pizza with gummies and pizza-flavoured gummies get cancelled every
day!
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| Author: | WoutR | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2024 18:02 | | Subject: | Re: New policy on Forum sales posts | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
| In Administrative, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Administrative, Teup writes:
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...which is actually against EU law
https://sellforte.com/en/blog/eu-law-change-on-promotions/
I mean, it's not my business so I don't really care, but if it's
BL wish to be law-compliant, this isn't enough. They'd have to moderate
the sale function itself, not just the forum. (And, talking about law-compliancy,
change several other things, such as stop pumping seller's mailboxes full
of IP addresses of their buyers, which is a GDPR violation because it counts
as private data and it counts as irrelevant for the purpose).
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BL is law-compliant when BL risks something and, AFAIK, BL doesn’t risk anything
here, only the sellers do. Actually, also AFAIK, nothing says marketplaces should
enforce those laws in acting, preventing, warning the sellers, applying to the
local authorities or whatever.
OTOH, members can apply to the local authorities to investigate the sellers.
But then I won’t bet on the chances of something happening to those small fishes.
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Ehm... I am no specialist but at first sight BrickLink does risk liability if
they share private data that is not relevant for the purpose. (A seller needs
the buyer's address to ship an order, but does for example not need that
IP address). If this data is collected and shared, then BrickLink is the party
doing that. By offering their services in the EU, the GDPR applies. If anyone
files a complaint to the relevant authorities, I think that could make BrickLink
liable for 1) possibly collecting more data than needed, and 2) a data leak because
they share the information with others (the sellers). The related fines can be
serious, so BL does risk something. Compared to other offenders, I think BL is
not at the top of their priority list, but that is no reason not to comply with
the law.
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