Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 08:47 | | Subject: | Re: How does buy all in the wanted list | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
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| In Wanted, GaryMus writes:
| | A question about the wanted list.
I have included a red brick 2x3 with price set to the lego price. Require say
100 bricks.
I have also inclued brick 2x3 of any colour (N/A) set to a requirement of 200
bricks.
When I buy all and select the top store does this show different combination
of colours of 2x3 bricks starting with the cheapest price, then the next cheapest
and so on until it makes up 200 ?
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Hi,
Nope. Unfortunately 
If you search your WL in a store, you’ll be shown all the lots of 2x3 that have
at least 200 bricks.
If you use the Auto-fill options, _all_ the lots will end up in your cart (so,
if there’s 10 lots, you’ll get 2,000 bricks in the cart!).
If you use Auto-select or EasyBuy, the algorithm will choose a lot in a store
with 200 2x3 bricks in one colour.
I’ve no idea whatsoever how that lot is chosen. Tests have proven it’s not the
cheapest in the store, and it’s not the ‘first’ in the store (in any way you
define ‘first’). And it’s even worse (price-wise) if there’s multiple stores
in the selection.
IOW: N/A is okay when it’s just about finding stores, but it’s not good when
you want to ‘buy’ automatically.
Also: just try. It costs nothing but a little time 
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 20, 2024 07:35 | | Subject: | Re: Import XML | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Hubster357 writes:
| | Hi,
If you have an XML and there are items in that xml that not found can you upload
regardless and ignore the incorrect parts?
For some reason a Moc I purchased must have either an old colour or part number
and it blocks the import, I can edit the xml but curios if there is a simple
tick box option?
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Hi,
The problem would be a old part number (due to a renaming or a merge)… and there’s
no way to correct that on the website
I think BrickStore could be able to automatically correct your XML file… or at
least it’ll have a simple and easy to use interface to find the correct part.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 09:20 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Turez writes:
Ah yes, I see them now the sun is out… and that I was told to look there 
Hmm, to put these arches on the ‘manor’ part, you need other small parts that
are not in the inventory: a 1x2 brick, 2x 1x1 plates and 2x (1 or 2)x3 plates….
You could do without the (1 or 2)x3 plates with the Extra 1x2 and 2x2….
And you can get one 2x3 if you can use the (1 and 2)x10 plates instead of the
(1x2)x8 ones on the walkway… but it doesn’t seem like they did that on the pic.
A head-scatcher….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 06:39 | | Subject: | Re: Variants Thread - April 16 | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, axaday writes:
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How much data space would it take to have two catalogs? One for detailed data
and one for generalized marketplace?
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The problem isn’t space, it’s consistency and workload.
Basically, you’re doubling the workload.
If you make a change in one of the catalogues, should it be echoed on the other
one? To which extent? Can that be automatized?
In the software world, that’s called a fork (external / by another team) or a
branch (internal / by the same team).
We have tools and procedures to follow and “port” (transfer, apply) changes between
branches / versions / forks (‘diffs’ and ‘patches’ and ‘version control system’
(git, bitkeeper, mercurial…)).
And those tools are good and ‘smart.’ They can work around other changes and
differences that shouldn’t change (and (good) devs are lazy: everything that
can be automatized is automatized).
But we ALWAYS need to check the changes. The changes may apply without a hitch…
but they may break the program because they contradict an older change. That
can also be automatized, to some extent. But it’s work again and you can never
predict everything so you always need to check.
Duplicating a database and the changes on the database can be automitized in
the same way: changes are just instructions, like a program. So the same porting
solutions & problems apply: Should that change be applied? Can it be applied?
Should another change be applied instead? And you always need to check, check,
check.
Also, you first need to record these instructions. AFAIK, BrickLink’s changelogs
aren’t complete / sufficient.
TL;DR: It’s the same as the work done by Rebrickable: another catalogue, with
conversion tables, with changes to follow / apply or not, with errors or misses…,
and with a full team to manage it.
It could be a bit simpler and you could save a bit by keeping it inside BrickLink,
but that won’t remove most of the work needed.
Another possibility is to handle that in only one “catalogue,” with two (or more!)
different ways to present its info. The work would be done only once, in the
more detailed catalogue, and there would be mechanisms to hide the details to
the users. But that’s the same as the “umbrella part” solution: you need to
change the whole structure of the database and the way the site works. That
can’t be patched onto what exists now (which is already patched enough with spaghetti
and sauce as it is).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 06:17 | | Subject: | Re: Parting a set into a wanted list | | Viewed: | 16 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, DanCookePhotos writes:
| | Hello,
I'm looking at building up the parts for the UCS Y-Wing (2nd edition, 75181).
I already have set 75172 which is the play scale Y-Wing which I'm looking
at breaking down to give me some of the parts for the UCS scale version.
Is their a way, without going through it line by line, to part out the pieces
from the playscale set into my UCS wanted list?
Many thanks,
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Hi,
To part out a set: hover over the white, heart-shaped “Want” icon and click “Part
Out”: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/partout.page
But you can’t “apply” a Wanted List (or an inventory) to another one on BrickLink,
to remove the parts you already have. You need to use third-party tools, like
BrickStore (application) or Rebrickable (website).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 19, 2024 04:05 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, SylvainLS writes:
| | […]
Ah ha! On the alternate build shown on the instructions, we can see a 3rd arch
used (and we can infer a 4th one on the other side).
So, according to the rules, at least these two should be Regular 🤔
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And there’s already three LG plates (a 1x10, a 2x2, and a 2x10) in Regular that
are not needed for the main build and that are not visible on the alternate.
The plot thickens 🤔
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 18:21 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, SylvainLS writes:
| | […]
Weird that there were no images of their use on the box….
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Ah ha! On the alternate build shown on the instructions, we can see a 3rd arch
used (and we can infer a 4th one on the other side).
So, according to the rules, at least these two should be Regular 🤔
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 18:07 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Inventories, Randa82 writes:
| | Buonasera,
Volevo sapere cosa si intende
Per articoli aggiuntivi nel catalogo
Di questo set nella descrizione
Delle parti su brick
Sono articoli presenti in origine ??
Spero di aver espresso ben domanda
Simone
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Hi,
That’s a strange one indeed. The “Extra” section is for parts that are found
in a sealed box but are not needed for any of the builds seen in the instructions
or on the box.
I had that set when I was a kid… I don’t remember 3 unused arches 🤔
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Well, I just checked my parts: there indeed must have been 5 Light Gray 2339
in that set because I’ve 9 and the 4 others are from 6085.
Weird that there were no images of their use on the box….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 17:57 | | Subject: | Re: Set 6074 | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
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| In Inventories, Randa82 writes:
| | Buonasera,
Volevo sapere cosa si intende
Per articoli aggiuntivi nel catalogo
Di questo set nella descrizione
Delle parti su brick
Sono articoli presenti in origine ??
Spero di aver espresso ben domanda
Simone
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Hi,
That’s a strange one indeed. The “Extra” section is for parts that are found
in a sealed box but are not needed for any of the builds seen in the instructions
or on the box.
I had that set when I was a kid… I don’t remember 3 unused arches 🤔
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 16:56 | | Subject: | Re: Possible phishing emails | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, SylvainLS writes:
| | Please, don’t post personal info on the forum. Your e-mail address was in the
pictures. Obfuscate it before repost the images.
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*reposting
And I forgot: sorry I had to cancel your post, but we can’t edit posts here
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 16:54 | | Subject: | Re: Possible phishing emails | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| Please, don’t post personal info on the forum. Your e-mail address was in the
pictures. Obfuscate it before repost the images.
In Technical Issues, stabo2855 writes:
| | I saw a couple of posts regarding emails stating, "Someone has signed into
your account." The ones I saw were from support@policyking.net. The one I
received appears to come from bricklink support. I did not click any links. I
immediately logged out of my account and changed my password. I'm using my
phone b/c my PC is down right now so I could not hover over the address. But
the drop down arrow shows the address as well as encryption details. (see attached
screenshots).
Thanks, SB
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 14:35 | | Subject: | Re: Adding parts from stud.io file to wishlist? | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, dethkruzer writes:
| | So I was looking at some fan-made stud.io instructions for a few builds I've
been looking to do. Thing is, these builds have a fair few pieces that would
take quite a lot of time to search and add to a wishlist manually. But as I was
looking through some discussion on reddit, I saw someone mention something about
using a stud.io file to find all the needed parts, or something like that?
Could someone please explain how i could go about doing this?
Thanks.
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Hi,
From Studio: https://studiohelp.bricklink.com/hc/en-us/articles/5705925898135-Upload-as-a-Wanted-List
From the website: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/wanted/upload.page
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 12:26 | | Subject: | Re: Closing in on purple brick | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Dhobeck writes:
| | In General, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Congrats! Don’t forget to celebrate with pizza! 🍕🍕🍕
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And ice cream 🍦 🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦
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Ice cream pizza?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 10:03 | | Subject: | Re: "Pay" button on invoice, orders page, etc. | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| In Problem Order, zorbanj writes:
| | […]
Maybe there's a language barrier at play here, but this is not tax fraud.
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AIUI:
If the amount paid/pocketed includes the tax:
— The seller is collecting tax money when they aren’t authorized to and have
no way to remit it. That is tax fraud.
— The buyer is giving the tax money to the seller, who, again, is neither authorized
to collect it nor in any capacity to remit it. Knowingly or not, that is tax
fraud.
(From what was said, the seller is taking the tax. So this is the situation
discussed here.)
If the amount paid/pocketed doesn’t include the tax:
— The buyer is not paying the tax they owe. That is tax evasion, a.k.a tax fraud.
— The seller is helping the buyer not paying the tax. That’s helping and abetting
tax evasion. Tax fraud.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 18, 2024 07:02 | | Subject: | Re: Closing in on purple brick | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Made it. 
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🥳 Congrats! 🥳
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 17:08 | | Subject: | Re: "Pay" button on invoice, orders page, etc. | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| In Problem Order, WildBricks writes:
| | […]
The only solution we have been able to work out is for me to email my buyer my
direct paypal link and take payment that way, then we can at least move forward
with getting their parts to them.
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FYI: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1401495
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 17, 2024 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: sprache | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | LANG Deutsch | |
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| In LANG Deutsch, joelcat writes:
| | hallo wie kann ich das spiel auf deutsch machen? lg joelcat
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Hi and welcome
If you’re talking about Studio, you can’t: it’s English only
Also, the dedicated forum for Studio and PartDesigner is https://forum.bricklink.com/
(hover over the red Studio icon on every page, then click “Studio Forum”).
Please search the forum for your question before posting a new one (the search
box is in the very dark grey banner).
There’s indexes of known bugs and suggestions that you can browse first:
Studio: https://forum.bricklink.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5579
PartDesigner: https://forum.bricklink.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5589
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 16, 2024 15:19 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 70400-1 | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, 1001bricks writes:
| | […]
A new set opened described in 15 pictures; nowadays it's a 15 minutes video
with people showing themselves, plus an ad of SouthVPN or StarBurks Coffee
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15 min only? That’s the abridged version watched at 2x (or more)!
| | Happy I've Firefox+add ons and have never seen an ad - ushhhh
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yt-dlp for the win!
Then you can use a real player and change the speed, navigate, do image by image,
screenshots, etc., without banging your head.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 14, 2024 16:22 | | Subject: | Re: wich set is this from | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Searching | |
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| In Searching, Saitobricks.ca writes:
| | […]
That’s some of the worst spelling I have ever seen!
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How’s your Dutch?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 14, 2024 04:06 | | Subject: | Re: My Childhood Home | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| In My Own Creation, joshlobe writes:
| | It is finally finished!
Over 50 hours of stud.io design work.
8,214 pieces.
614 lots.
27 BrickLink orders.
34 inches wide.
42 inches deep.
250 ounces (15.5 pounds).
About 40 hours build time.
Many small easter eggs relevant to my childhood.
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Very neat!
Put it on the Gallery? https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/gallery.page
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 14, 2024 04:03 | | Subject: | Re: How to actually stay logged in. | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, UTLF writes:
| | It's been broken for years now, nothing you do will keep you logged in
Check the "stay logged in box" and it logs you out
Accept all cookies, still logs you out
Use a different browser, still logs you out
It's busted
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Works well here. Chromium-based browser, only accepting the Preference cookies.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 13, 2024 16:12 | | Subject: | Re: I am wishing to sell unopened sets but i can' | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Please don’t quote messages with forbidden content.
In Selling, sasquatch_eater writes:
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Hi and welcome to Bricklink! You can't sell on here without first making
a purchase and receiving positive feedback from the buyer. I always try to leave
feedback for new buyers right away so if you see anything you like in my shop,
I'd be happy to help you with your first order!
--Claude
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 13, 2024 16:10 | | Subject: | Re: I am wishing to sell unopened sets but i can' | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Hi,
Sorry but:
You can’t advertise items that are not for sale in a store.
You need to open a store.
And, yes, you need some feedback first and that means buying something.
These are the rules.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 13, 2024 11:36 | | Subject: | Re: International sales. Why VAT? | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In Taxes, peregrinator writes:
| | In Taxes, Hm79 writes:
| | Hi,
I sell items from Vietnam. Some orders sold to Germany
automatically added VAT.
How can I eliminate the VAT since it is
International sales?
Thank you!
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You can't eliminate VAT - it will be collected either by BrickLink (if the
order is under 150 euro) or by customs in the buyer's country (if the order
is 150 euro or more).
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To be clear: it’s German Import VAT, not Vietnam VAT.
BrickLink collects taxes from the buyers in these situations:
— US Sales tax: most US buyers, when they buy from any seller for any amount,
— UK import VAT: UK buyers, when they buy from non-UK sellers for less than £135
(items total),
— EU import VAT: EU buyers, when they buy from non-EU sellers for less than €150
(items total).
— Australian GST: AU buyers, when they buy from non-AU sellers for less than
AU $1,000 (items total).
— New Zealand GST: NZ buyers, when they buy from non-NZ sellers for less than
NZ $1,000 (by item).
— Norway import VAT: NO buyers, when they buy from non-NO sellers for less than
NOK 3,000 (by item).
UK/NO/EU VAT and AU/NZ GST are directly paid by the buyer for other amounts.
Domestically (intra-UK, intra-NO, intra-EU, intra-AU, or intra-NZ), it’s handled
by the sellers when necessary.
More info here:
US: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2467
UK: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2514
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2511
EU: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2517
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2518
AU: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2597
NZ: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2617
NO: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2616
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