BrickLink Discussion Forum

Wicked good move....

In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:

We have just promoted our Catalog Associate, StormChaser, to the Catalog Admin
position. This change will give him privileges on the inventories side of the
catalog while he retains the catalog side privileges.

Thank you, StormChaser, for your continued efforts to improve out catalog system!

Author:

popsicle

Posted:

Nov 21, 2020 13:39

Subject:

Re: Increase in fees, loss of members and stores

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Topic:

Selling

In Suggestions, 13thWarrior writes:

I have enjoyed Lego most of my life, but it seems that Lego seems to want to
make me give up on them. I have had to increase shipping rates and add a processing
fee to offset the increasing fees. The addition of the VAT taxes has made it
nearly impossible to make money on Bricklink. It increases the final sale which
in turn, increases the fees that both Bricklink and PayPal take from you. You
have to notice the huge decrease in stores and customers. What is everyone else's
thoughts on this?

Not really seeing a suggestion here to vote on. Switched topics to what I though
would do best.

btw, great username! Care to share with the others? https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1231631

-popsicle

Author:

minibricks

Posted:

Aug 20, 2020 12:57

Subject:

Re: mx1142m

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Topic:

Transparent M Modulex does exist in 1x1, 1x2, 1x4. I have all of those.

Karyn

Transparent M logo may not exist, I am still hoping to find one.

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Jun 11, 2020 20:24

Subject:

Re: Bricklink Gift Cards

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Topic:

Payment Methods

PayPal offers gift cards. Many sellers here accept PayPal, so that would be
an option.

David

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

May 28, 2020 23:20

Subject:

Re: Retail Pricing

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Topic:

Retail

Bricklink tried that once years ago. A lot of people didn't like it, so
it didn't last long. You can always check retail prices on Brickset.

David

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

May 26, 2020 11:49

Subject:

Re: Don't show impossible discounts

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Topic:

Buying

In Buying, crazylegoman writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

Why does bricklink show this? A simple IF statement could be used to only show
a discount when it is possible for a buyer to achieve. Then it doesn't make
the store look stupid by offering discounts that a buyer cannot possibly take
advantage of.

The older version of Bricklink used to do this automatically. It's a bug
that they've never fixed.

David

Yeah, I thought it used to work correctly but couldn't really remember. It
is difficult to tell whether something automatically disappeared or the seller
removed a discount.

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

May 26, 2020 09:01

Subject:

Re: Don't show impossible discounts

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Topic:

Buying

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

The older version of Bricklink used to do this automatically. It's a bug
that they've never fixed.

David

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

May 25, 2020 22:18

Subject:

Re: Comments during instant Checkout

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Topic:

Feedback

In Suggestions, tEoS writes:

I have never seen a feedback, as long as, your most recent neutral. I thought
we were limited to 80 or so characters?

Yeah, what's up with that? I thought all feedback (positive, negative and
neutral) had the same character length limit.

David

Author:

Acorn04

Posted:

Mar 13, 2020 14:50

Subject:

Re: Bricklink Discord

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Topic:

Announce

Could I get a discord invite?

Author:

rick_holl

Posted:

Mar 9, 2020 13:04

Subject:

Re: 8 x 8 dish

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Topic:

In Catalog, rick_holl writes:

Hi,
Anyone knows what finish the 8 x 8 DBG dish that is included in 75159 death star
comes into? There seems to be 2 variants of finish on this one (smooth and shiny)

Author:

Sadler_Bricks

Posted:

Oct 10, 2019 03:37

Subject:

Re: mx1142m

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Topic:

Nice mix here

I'm doing something similar to create a nice color grid for my store I do
3 high but yes will be harder to get all the colors I have most at the moment

Sadler_Bricks

Author:

maxx3001

Posted:

Oct 9, 2019 16:56

Subject:

Re: mx1142m

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In Modulex, yoavheskia writes:

Hi there.
Maybe one of the modulex experts here knows how many colours this brick have?
I have 14 colours and I know that I'm missing at list 4: mx medium blue,
mx violet, mx pink-red & mx light bluish grey.
Is there more colours I'm not aware of?
Thanks in advance,
Yoav

There are two different M logo bricks, the old ones and the newer ones.

There are even a few very rare colors found, like dark red and a bluish green.

See picture for the standard colors, row one are the LEGO logo bricks, the middle
are the old M logo bricks etc.

Transparent M logo may not exist, I am still hoping to find one.

2. white, light gray, black, terracotta, buff, red , orange, lemon, pastel green,
pastel blue, pink

3. Light bluish gray, charcoal, light orange, light yellow, medium blue, aqua
green, pink, violet

Author:

Adjour

Posted:

May 1, 2019 12:37

Subject:

Re: Make website mobile-friendly

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Topic:

In General, crazylegoman writes:

I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.

David

I use my tablet to pull orders and its meh, could be better, but I've used
my phone to check prices or sell rates when in a store sometimes and its awful.

I end up just doing "lego" + "set number" + "bricklink" in google to just skip
straight to the entry. It's faster to do it that way then through the BL
site, on my old phone at least.

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

May 1, 2019 12:36

Subject:

Re: Make website mobile-friendly

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Topic:

In General, crazylegoman writes:

I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.

David

It depends what you are buying. If just minifigures, then a normal to larger
smart phone screen would be fine if there was a decent interface. Similarly,
if buying from an already set up wants list, a smaller screen is fine.

Author:

calsbricks

Posted:

May 1, 2019 11:17

Subject:

Re: Make website mobile-friendly

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Topic:

In General, crazylegoman writes:

I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.

David

Couldn't agree more.

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

May 1, 2019 11:12

Subject:

Re: Make website mobile-friendly

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Topic:

I cannot figure out why someone would try to use Bricklink on a phone. A tablet
maybe, but even the biggest phone screens wouldn't be enough to make good
use of this site in any form.

David

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Apr 18, 2018 00:33

Subject:

Re: Negative feedback on orders that are "purged"

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Topic:

Feedback

No feedback, whether positive, neutral or negative, ever expires. It
lasts as long as your account exists.

David

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Mar 3, 2018 11:45

Subject:

Re: "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty" option

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Topic:

Buying

In Suggestions, othellico writes:

Hi,
the "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty" option in wishlists does not work
any more.
Thanks
Claudio

It's a known technical issue.
Report to the Helpdesk https://www.bricklink.com/helpDesk.asp?helpDeskID=114

Author:

PurpleDave

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 22:56

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

In Problem, tEoS writes:

It seems that I don't have a choice of what I offer for PayPal payments,
even though BL says I have a choice between onsite and offsite.

So...if someone switched to Onsite Paypal, it sounds like that's been shut
down to force users to sign up for Marketplace. If you have Instant Checkout,
I'm assuming the same applies. For Non-Broken Paypal, they probably shut
off the ability to add it to your store as an option if it's not already
there. But I just placed several orders last weekend, and all of them were offering
Actually-Works Paypal as a payment option. And of course, since that's what
I selected for all of them, all I had to do was log onto that site that didn't
grind to a halt after being hacked...twice, type in some payment info, and wait
for the shipments to arrive.

Author:

tEoS

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 22:33

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

It seems that I don't have a choice of what I offer for PayPal payments,
even though BL says I have a choice between onsite and offsite.

There is an option to select PayPal marketplace.

It's working fine for me. All I do is select standard "Paypal" as the payment
option (or empty my cart if it's not available), wait for the invoice to
come in, and then log in to Paypal to submit payment. Now, come late April,
it'll be jacked twelve ways from Sunday...

Author:

PurpleDave

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 20:39

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

In Problem, leopard37 writes:

I've had two quotes within the last two days and the quotes have been accepted
and the system has created blank invoices send to the customer multiple times.
I then have to send an invoice manually afterwards for them to pay.

It is most definitely not working fine.

Author:

leopard37

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 17:45

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

In Problem, BigBBricks writes:

In Problem, Admin_Jaclyn writes:

Is the quote function broken? I had a quote come in 5 days ago and I had no notification
or anything regarding it. I only knew because the buyer messaged me last night.
This is not acceptable.

Jac, I had a buyer submit a quote last week and it came through as a purchase
with an unknown shipping type. It is definitely not working just fine. Luckily
I knew it was a quote as they had messaged me before had asking what it cost
to ship to HK and I asked them to submit a quote. This was an experienced buyer,
not a newbie that clicked the wrong button.

BL has tons of bugs preventing people from checking out correctly. Either your
devs and/or support people are lying to you or they are unaware due to lack of
diligence/testing/troubleshooting.

Author:

BigBBricks

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 17:00

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

In Problem, Admin_Jaclyn writes:

Is the quote function broken? I had a quote come in 5 days ago and I had no notification
or anything regarding it. I only knew because the buyer messaged me last night.
This is not acceptable.

Author:

bagelboybugle

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 16:18

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, SylvainLS writes:

In Problem, bagelboybugle writes:

In Problem, legoman77 writes:

Then why not hire someone that is capable of dealing with older coding or whatever
it is called?

I seem to recall it was mentioned long before the current team joined us that
it is not so much the coding thats the issue, its that there isnt a map of the
codes architecture (sorry I cant remember the proper technical words) which makes
it hard, even for experts to unpick when redesigning because its hard to know
which bit of code does what? or something like that.

A web application has multiple entry points (= pages), so it’s a bit more loose
and confusing than an application (which generally has only one main executable).
But frankly, starting from the database, the code, and actual use cases (just
asking users what they do and how they do it), you can reverse engineer and document
any system.
You just need someone with the proper skills.

From that point, YOU DON’T PATCH the mess, you rewrite it cleanly. (You might
have a team who patches the blurb while you redesign the system, but you don’t
make the new version from the previous one’s spaghetti code, especially not if
you’re still in the “what’s that stuff?” phase.)

Think about an old stone bridge, with a few houses haphazardly built on its top,
that you want to upgrade. You don’t replace every stone arch with a new steel
one one at a time (even though with computers, you can do that magically and
instantaneously). You build a brand new bridge, with brand new, well structured
houses, with all the modern stuff, a bit farther, and when it’s ready, you move
people and trafic to it, just before blowing up the old one.

People have trouble abandoning the old bridge’s stones / the old code. They
don’t understand the stones aren’t really important, it’s the bridge that is.
The knowledge, the processes, the database, all are important, not the code.

(Yes, I’ve done this a few times.)

I think I remembered a right comment from the admins of the time but my lack
of code knowledge led to me asking a totally out of context question, appreciate
the pointer, thankyou

Author:

Reki_Lobsheek

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 16:03

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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well said!

Reki

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 14:36

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

In Problem, bagelboybugle writes:

In Problem, legoman77 writes:

Then why not hire someone that is capable of dealing with older coding or whatever
it is called?

Author:

bagelboybugle

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 13:48

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

In Problem, legoman77 writes:

Then why not hire someone that is capable of dealing with older coding or whatever
it is called?

Author:

yorbrick

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 12:08

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Topic:

This website so slow and frustrating to work with.
It took me over 15 mins. to leave feedback for 10 customers today. This is a
1 min task at most. I am so sick of this.
I have sent an email to IT and still no answer.

Why did it take so long? Was the site slow when you were leaving feedback, or
are you doing it in some convoluted way?

Author:

Brickwilbo

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 08:55

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, Icetrent writes:

I had never heard of Brick Owl until I started reading this forum.
I have logged on and it is actually not a bad website.
If the people here don't fix this website soon I think I will be packing
up shop here and head over there too.
This website so slow and frustrating to work with.
It took me over 15 mins. to leave feedback for 10 customers today. This is a
1 min task at most. I am so sick of this.

It's fast when you click on the Mass feedback link and copy paste your feedback.
Or don't pile up the feedback-to-leave.

I have sent an email to IT and still no answer.

In Problem, nectara writes:

In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

I'm starting to get really frustrated now with Bricklink. Maybe you'll
reply?

Is the quote function broken? I had a quote come in 5 days ago and I had no notification
or anything regarding it. I only knew because the buyer messaged me last night.
This is not acceptable.

Your site has duplicated lots on numerous occasions, this is not acceptable.

Also on numerous occasions I've had customers tell me that they cannot checkout
after ironing out potential issues I have found out it's the site, not me.
I've lost money to this and again, this is not acceptable.

Most things you post are vague from every angle and you sit in the shadows whilst
everyone is up in question. Regardless of if the feedback is good or bad you
still push out the garbage updates anyway. This is not acceptable.

Your site is very slow at times and it's getting more and more frustrating
when trying to work. All of a sudden the site will grind to a standstill. This
is not acceptable.

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling. Why not work on this rather
than Brickarms? that's right. Money. If it won't make you money then
you won't bother. This is not acceptable.

I sell on BrickOwl too and I've never had a single issue. You may be the
market leaders currently but your cockyness will catch up with you soon. I pay
my monthly fees on time every time and this is the mess I have to work with?
Can't it just 'work'? Why is everything difficult and half made?
Not acceptable. I'm tired of apologising to customers because of the issues
on this site. I dread to think how many people have turned away from my store
and not said anything.

I'm just frustrated and the quote issue lastnight was the tipping point for
me. Fix your site.

I'm aware there's trolls on here so please keep your witty comments to
yourself.

Thanks
Reece

Hi
I don't want to say Bricklink is a high tech online selling platform quite
the oposite
I don't want to say Bricklink is working flawless
Nothing is perfect in this world
You know this I know this.
Why you don't simply accept that here on Bricklink is exactly like in the
real world.
Stock loss? Never think about it? Every commercial company have a calculated
stock loss.
How big is your's?
You complain about a lost Quote...
What's about Bricklink going offline for a week because of a server problem?
What's about Brickling losing their database? Must have backup?
Maybe they lost their backup together with the actual database? In a fire?
There are so many possibility that something will go wrong that I have no time
to think about?
Just try to overcome?
Drink one beer?
Regards
Nectara

Author:

bb680938

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 05:10

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Hey, I was not expecting that. I appreciate the time you've taken to reply
so thank you.

Regardless of the issues the buyer has now gone through with the order and thankfully
was very understanding of the issues. I'll check my emails later as I occasionally
do get them sent to spam folders.

I've adjusted what I can regarding shipping methods and for bigger more obscure
items I have started to set as manual invoice. I had a buyer who wanted to buy
some plates from me and couldn't even after I explained possible work around
that have worked for other customers.

Regarding your business decisions; not everything makes you money.

If you're having to declare you're staying up until 3am then maybe its
time you actually employ someone. That would be really great on the help desk
side of things as it's practically none existent.

If the code is very fragile then employ someone who knows what they're doing
and that can do it effectively. If a hospital needs a surgeon they're not
going to get a caretaker are they?

Based of what I've read, Lawrence over at BrickOwl listens to his community

I'd send info to the help desk but as I've been ignored before I've
lost hope in that area.

Regarding my used inventorying. I do not mean in the way of parting out new sets
etc. I mean if you're pulling used from a bulk lot. Instead of adding parts
one by one create an onsite way of adding in bulk batches like Brickstock does.
I know this won't make you money but it would be a great addition. Adding
used lots one by one is painful onsite.

I noticed you left out;

Most things you post are vague from every angle and you sit in the shadows
whilst
everyone is up in question. Regardless of if the feedback is good or bad you
still push out the garbage updates anyway. This is not acceptable

Can you please explain why the Bricklink team are so atrocious in explaining
and clarifying situations. Questions are rife on the forum yet I see no answers.

Thanks
Reece

Author:

bb414973

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 03:38

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, Speg writes:

The comment section is great for adding whether or not a piece if mint or has
issues. Honestly, any real universal grading system would result in a nightmare
for both buyers and sellers.

I understand, grading would be difficult if it was on a mandated scale, but each
store should be able to differentiate between Used (Like New), Used (Fine) and
Used (Poor), etc. Vast majority of stores don't add comments so buyers have
no idea of the quality until it's actually received.

Author:

Addict2Brick

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 02:50

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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People talk about leaving all the time. I didn't agree with a recent change
and because of that I reached out and found other selling platforms besides this
one. I never would have even known about the other sites if that change didn't
occur. That said, it's not really any of my business if things change here.
I can only sit back and enjoy or dislike the ride and if I do dislike it enough
then I'll go somewhere else because there ARE options. It's certainly
inconvenient for me to leave, but not impossible.

The only reason I'm saying that is because since you just got here (heck,
me too) I don't want you to think that the end is near and that everybody
is leaving. People will come and go and they'll do that with or without change.

Author:

Addict2Brick

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 02:36

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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The comment section is great for adding whether or not a piece if mint or has
issues. Honestly, any real universal grading system would result in a nightmare
for both buyers and sellers.

Author:

bb414973

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 01:24

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, crazylegoman writes:

In General, PurpleDave writes:

In General, SylvainLS writes:

With New, you can easily part out sets into your inventory. With Used, when
you don’t know which sets the parts are from (and whether they are all there),
it’s more work.

Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track
down and list a single piece.

If you're parting out a new set, yes; the same doesn't hold true for
adding Pick-A-Brick to a store or other parts bought as new for the purpose of
reselling.

It's extremely obvious that you would have to find individual parts in the
catalog here when adding used parts to a store. It's been that way from
the beginning. I just don't understand why OP was getting upset with that
method. What does he expect—a BL scanner to identify used parts?

David

Adding a part to your BO inventory is a 3-click, same-page process once you've
found the part. I get the feeling that BL has a far more convoluted method, but
I use BrickStock and Bricksync so I wouldn't know.

But I read the OP as meaning that all used bricks are treated the same; there's
no grading built in to the system. Everything is binary, either new or used.

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Mar 1, 2018 00:05

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, PurpleDave writes:

In General, SylvainLS writes:

With New, you can easily part out sets into your inventory. With Used, when
you don’t know which sets the parts are from (and whether they are all there),
it’s more work.

Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track
down and list a single piece.

Author:

legoman77

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 23:14

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, Admin_Jaclyn writes:

Is the quote function broken? I had a quote come in 5 days ago and I had no notification
or anything regarding it. I only knew because the buyer messaged me last night.
This is not acceptable.

Hi there,

Fortunately, the quote system is working just fine. Even if you did not receive
an email, the quote notification was displayed on your My BL page, on the My
BL hover icon in the navigation bar, and a count of all pending quotes would
have shown when you hovered over the My Store icon as well.

If you didn't receive an email notification about the quote, the email either
got sent to your spam folder or was blocked by your ISP. Please add both "blservice@bricklink.com"
and "noreply@bricklink.com" to your email contacts and safe senders list. We'd
be happy to contact your ISP to request that our domain is unblocked if you would
provide that information.

I see that everything has been worked out with the buyer and that the quote resulted
in an order, which is great!

Also on numerous occasions I've had customers tell me that they cannot checkout
after ironing out potential issues I have found out it's the site, not me.
I've lost money to this and again, this is not acceptable.

I'm sorry to hear that! The error could be caused by several different things,
many of which are seller settings that you would need to adjust yourself. It's
likely that your shipping restrictions need to be adjusted to accommodate sets
and large part assemblies.

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

Could you please clarify what you mean?

Why not work on this rather
than Brickarms? that's right. Money. If it won't make you money then
you won't bother. This is not acceptable.

Not all business decisions are that straightforward.

Can't it just 'work'? Why is everything difficult and half made?

Despite the countless hours we spend checking things in a test environment, there
are always issues that don't show up we've deployed to the live site.
We stayed in the office testing and checking the forum/helpdesk until 3am after
we deployed Instant Checkout. It's not that we aren't trying.
We are unique in that our site was coded 18 years ago and was untouched for nearly
14 years. The code is VERY fragile. I'm assuming that BO has fewer issues
for several reasons but mainly because Lawrence doesn't have to tinker with
such old/fragile code and also that their user base is significantly lower than
ours.

I'm just frustrated and the quote issue lastnight was the tipping point for
me. Fix your site.

Understandable. We WANT to fix anything that's broken on the site. It would
be super helpful if you could send specific information to the help desk the
next time you encounter a problem. The correct email address is customersupport@bricklink.com.

-Jaclyn
BrickLink Customer Support

Then why not hire someone that is capable of dealing with older coding or whatever
it is called?
It seems like there are so many excuses. This site used to be user friendly.
What happened?
John P

Author:

Admin_Jaclyn

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 22:08

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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Is the quote function broken? I had a quote come in 5 days ago and I had no notification
or anything regarding it. I only knew because the buyer messaged me last night.
This is not acceptable.

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

Could you please clarify what you mean?

Why not work on this rather
than Brickarms? that's right. Money. If it won't make you money then
you won't bother. This is not acceptable.

Not all business decisions are that straightforward.

Can't it just 'work'? Why is everything difficult and half made?

I'm just frustrated and the quote issue lastnight was the tipping point for
me. Fix your site.

Author:

PurpleDave

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 21:36

Subject:

Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, SylvainLS writes:

With New, you can easily part out sets into your inventory. With Used, when
you don’t know which sets the parts are from (and whether they are all there),
it’s more work.

Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track
down and list a single piece. Then the next one is the same piece, but you have
to list it differently because you want to note differences in condition and
price them accordingly. The only reason I can figure that people can make any
money at all on Used is they can often get hugely undervalued lots on sites like
Craigslist or by hitting up garage sales. Or, you know, you can price it higher
than New and hope people will buy it without paying attention because "Used is
always less expensive".

Author:

SylvainLS

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Feb 28, 2018 21:08

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, crazylegoman writes:

In General, SylvainLS writes:

In General, crazylegoman writes:

In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.

Replace “to inventory” with “to put in your store’s inventory.”

That definitely changes the meaning, but it still doesn't make sense. Has
there been some change in the way parts are added to a store when they are used?

With New, you can easily part out sets into your inventory. With Used, when
you don’t know which sets the parts are from (and whether they are all there),
it’s more work.

I understand a lot of people use BrickStock (or similar) but sellers tools are
scarce on BL.

(And tote that I’m a buyer only

)

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 20:52

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, SylvainLS writes:

In General, crazylegoman writes:

In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.

Replace “to inventory” with “to put in your store’s inventory.”

That definitely changes the meaning, but it still doesn't make sense. Has
there been some change in the way parts are added to a store when they are used?

David

Author:

SylvainLS

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 20:03

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In General, crazylegoman writes:

In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.

Replace “to inventory” with “to put in your store’s inventory.”

Author:

crazylegoman

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 19:50

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

I have no idea what you mean by that. The inventories in the catalog are submitted
by users, and they're generally inventoried using new sets, not used.

David

Author:

legoman77

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 19:43

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Good post.
Do not expect BL to answer. When Jennifer first announced that BL would answer
ALL questions and concerns before implementation. They never have. I just do
not understand whey they would say things that are not true.
I have been here for a very long time and have sold almost $500K in Lego, mostly
here and a lot on ebay and many from my posting on Lugnet. This site is not
what it used to be. At one time the site took the feelings and suggestions from
their members. They actually answered questions and more importantly, listened
to the members. That is no longer the case. Perhaps silence should be replaced
with give and take, and that just might help the site grow in a more positive
manner. It is really sad what has become of Dan's dream.
John P
Just a question; how much money can a site make off of this paypal change?
John P

Author:

qwertyboy

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 19:40

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, StormChaser writes:

In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

What specific problems are you having with inventories and what suggestions do
you have for improvement?

Not wanting to put words in OP’s mouth - to me it sounds like he is not having
issues with set inventories, but more with uploading used parts from a bulk lot
(so to put used parts in your inventory). That process, if only using BL-provided
tools, is painful. If it weren’t for BrickStock, I am sure our shop would not
flourish like it does right now.

Niek.

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 19:32

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, Icetrent writes:

In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Don't understand me wrong but on my side I need 5 seconds to leave a feedback
Regards
Nectara

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Icetrent

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Feb 28, 2018 18:54

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In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 14:53

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Author:

StormChaser

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 14:43

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, CheshireBricKs writes:

Your ability to inventory used Lego is appalling.

What specific problems are you having with inventories and what suggestions do
you have for improvement?

Author:

chetzler

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 14:06

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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In Problem, WhiteHorseMatt writes:

In Suggestions, CheshireBricKs writes:

I sell on BrickOwl too and I've never had a single issue. You may be the
market leaders currently but your cockyness will catch up with you soon. I pay
my monthly fees on time every time and this is the mess I have to work with?
Can't it just 'work'? Why is everything difficult and half made?
Not acceptable. I'm tired of apologising to customers because of the issues
on this site. I dread to think how many people have turned away from my store
and not said anything.

Reece

I've been on BO for 3 weeks and in that time over 50 stores have opened.
Bricklink has 100 fewer stores than in the summer last year (UK stores). Small
sample size, but a sign of things to come?

I just listed 25 vintage sets on BrickOwl yesterday. I have a few other small
lots there but haven't haven't had a sale yet even with with my 800 feedback
boost (not really surprising, I guess, owing to my dearth of inventory). My
difficulty is deciding if/when to synch my inventory between both platforms.
I know there is software that will do this, but I just haven't had the time
required to sit down and learn it.

BrickOwl currently only accepts BrickStore and BrickOwl formats for inventory
uploads. I think if Lawrence developed an upload template that would accept
a BrickLink file format, he might see a surge in new sellers.

Author:

bb680938

Posted:

Feb 28, 2018 13:42

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Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink

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