| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Yo_Yo_Flamingo  | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2024 12:53 | | Subject: | Removal of improper NSS | | Viewed: | 105 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| I've had a buyer place an NSS on a (shipped and received, confirmed by tracking)
Order #23768286.
The stated reason for the NSS from the buyer:
"I am trying to cancel my bricklink account, but it's not letting me
because this order is still active. Please deactivate it ASAP and inform me of
thus so I can cancel."
We're going on 10 days now- the buyer hasn't responded. I haven't
heard anything out of the two Help Desk tickets I've opened, and I'm
growing anxious.
I thought help desk ticket times had been improved, and were in the range of
3-4 days now?
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| Author: | Yo_Yo_Flamingo | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2024 22:54 | | Subject: | Re: CHEAPEST Prices in AMERICA? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| In Sales, rylie_aitch writes:
| | In Sales, ViktorTube writes:
| | Hello! Please check out my store! I try to make all the prices as cheap as possible
and most of my set prices are the CHEAPEST IN AMERICA! So if you need a LEGO
set check out my store first for amazing cheap prices!
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"Some but not all pieces missing" is maybe the most vague description
I've seen on here  You might want to add a photo, or a list of exactly
what is/isn't there
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"Up to 100% off!"
"May contain some pieces!"
Actually I did SOMEHOW sell a set that said "HALO Box. May contain
some pieces" on another market when I was trying to reserve a listing for
a friend. That was a wild experience.
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| Author: | Yo_Yo_Flamingo | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2024 23:30 | | Subject: | Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, WOLKsite writes:
| | In Catalog, NoGravitasHere writes:
| | Thanks for your response, Randy. I really appreciate it.
Only 150 Light Grey Metallic still has problems, and BrickLink's catalogue
doesn't even recognise it as being used in Bionicle. It definitely is, both
repeatedly and often interchangeably with 131 and 296, which themselves were
used interchangeably with each other in some cases. The link on the history of
silvers you have provided is not accurate, and my data conclusively proves that.
If you have the information you need, as you claim, then why have you skipped
150 entirely? Can you tell me what year(s) 150 made its way into the Bionicle
catalogue?
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I believe the problem you're having is misidentifying 131, 150, and 296.
150 Light Grey Metallic is recognized on Bricklink, called "Pearl Very Light
Gray". In BIONICLE, it was ONLY used during 2003 for Kraata & Krana-Kal.
There are no other 150 parts in BIONICLE.
296 is a color that was used very briefly during 2006, introduced along side
"Warm Gold"/"Pearl Gold", but was quickly retired in favor of
the older 131 Silver - effectively all the 2006 sets use 296 in early batches,
131 in later batches. While 296 was used in 2007, this was only in Exo-Force,
for the marbled torsos, and even then, those were soon phased out for solid 131
ones, that's why the 2007 Exo-Force sets have alternate Minifigures.
What a lot of BIONICLE fans don't seem to grasp is that the silver used for
the Kal sockets, the silver used for the Nuva armor, and the silver used for
the 2007-2009 weapon parts, are all 131 Silver, despite how different they look.
This primarily stems from two different things:
- That 131 itself was adjusted several times during its lifespan (as were 148
Dark Grey Metallic, and 297 Warm Gold)
- That LEGO's materials and colors were all adjusted around 2005-2006 as
they moved to mixing colors in-house (at least, that's what I've come
to understand). This would be the source of not only 131 being different, but
also why the Kanohi Rau in the Toa Nokama set differs from that in the Dalu set.
The result of these adjustments is that 131 become more consistent. Before 2006,
polypropylene parts molded in 131 looked noticably different from ABS parts (a
problem not just with 131 but also with other "metallic" colors like
145, 147, and 149). After 2006, the color had a consistently lighter hue, matching
how it had always looked in ABS plastic.
We know when these colors were used - Throughout the LEGO community we have quite
a lot of data to go on gathered from LEGO, palette tiles to compare physical
parts with, etc.
On top of this, all LEGO colors have some degree of variation, both from adjustments
made over time and from poor quality control. This makes for *color variation*,
something not recognized on Bricklink (besides Rust :v) not separate colors.
A somewhat common misconception I've come across in the BIONICLE community
is that 150 is the lighter silver you find in the early 2006 sets, but this not
correct. That color is 296. This likely stems from a second misconception, that
the lighter parts used from 2006 onwards are 296, which as I've detailed
above is also not correct.
Yes, there have been some glaring issues in the BIONICLE part of the catalogue
- All of the ones Randy mentioned I am really happy are being addressed (as someone
who has researched Zamor Spheres, I'll be keeping an as careful eye as I
can at how that develops). There's some others as well, like incorrect listings
of the Kanohi/Krana packs which I've brought up in a past topic.
However, the case of silver is one that at this point stems from many BIONICLE
fans (and I say this being a BIONICLE fan) not knowing the subject as well as
they think they do, either jumping to conclusions or getting all their information
from Bricklink (people still think in terms of Pearl Light Gray and Flat Silver).
The latter is also the primary reason why I want Tahu's eyestalk color recognized,
as BIONICLE fans are just not familiar with Trans-Dark Pink and thus do not realize
it's not the same color at all.
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On top of this, requesting regular sellers to differentiate between variants
of silver is... well, I can already tell you I know that wouldn't go very
well, unfortunately.
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| Author: | Yo_Yo_Flamingo | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2024 23:25 | | Subject: | Re: Modern Buyers? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
| In General, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | I've had a buyer potentially interested in 2 large sets I'm selling.
He asked for pictures. So, I went ahead, checked the inventory once again, took
several pictures, sent to him, unlisted the two items he was interested in (to
give him first dibs). It's been 4 days now and he has not even acknowledged
receipt of the pictures and what his intentions are. Be nice to people they said,
what did I get? I waisted 2 hours and now nothing. Yes, it's part of the
business/hobby, but next time someone asks for pictures well ... we'll see.
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Yeah, that's why I recommend (almost) never doing pictures.
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| Author: | Yo_Yo_Flamingo | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2024 18:33 | | Subject: | Re: Bionicle is handled incredibly poorly | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | | | Are you suggesting that The Lego Group with a valuation of $12.2 billion isn't
capable of hiring a couple more catalogers or even implementing the information
offered here for free? I'm just curious here since surely they could afford
a handful more employees to get on top of things.
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These kind of changes and cataloging require people with expertise in both BrickLink
and LEGO. I would guess there's not a handful of people just hanging around
waiting to be hired.
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Plus find those with a deep knowledge of Bionicle!
I know only one - but it's OP who's complaining in Forum 
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There's a few of us here 
The name might not imply it, but Bionicle is my mainstay
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