Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Author: | SezaR | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 06:09 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 1048-1 | Viewed: | 22 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| Yes, I should be!
You still unaware of my recent communications with Morris (lego.12vtrains) and
wannes_dn in which we have discussed some odds and surprises that we cannot figure
out at all. It is just crazy! (let's put aside that even if we figure out
how to fix it, we wouldn't know how to convince bricklink's inventory
admins, specially the one who drives McLaren P1!)
Did Dan consider any prize for those who submit inventory change requests in
a row for vintage train sets?
In Inventories Requests, StormChaser writes:
| In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| The above source supporting this inventory change request is undeniable and fact-based.
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Oh, you're just jealous because I found a 1980s train set which has the parts
list printed right on the set box, which makes it ridiculously easy to see exactly
what was included.
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Author: | pedrogcosta | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 06:05 | Subject: | Re: Classic Wanted List Unavailable on June 5th | Viewed: | 88 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Thank you!
In Administrative, SylvainLS writes:
| In Administrative, pedrogcosta writes:
| Hi,
There is any way to see, in the new wanted list, the most cheap stores for each
part in a wanted list as I can do in the old/classic wanted list?
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Yes.
Open a WL.
Click “More Options” next to its search field.
Right column, “Items for Sale Options:” click “Show” and look at the options
below, especially the sorting option as by “Store Name” is the stupid and useless
default.
Then click “Apply”.
Note that there’s a “Best Price” sorting option next to “Lowest” and “Highest”
but no one knows what that means.
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Author: | StormChaser | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 05:47 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 1048-1 | Viewed: | 23 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| The above source supporting this inventory change request is undeniable and fact-based.
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Oh, you're just jealous because I found a 1980s train set which has the parts
list printed right on the set box, which makes it ridiculously easy to see exactly
what was included.
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Author: | SezaR | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 05:37 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 1048-1 | Viewed: | 18 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| | Did you know if you submit the exact same inventory request 37 times in a row that you will get a prize? It's a super-secret Easter egg built deep into the site code by Dan himself.
I never believed it myself, but one day I tried it just to see and it's true! About a week later I got a brand new McLaren P1 delivered to my house - and it wasn't a toy or model, but a real automobile.
I've heard from a very reliable source that they send someone to eliminate you if you try it more than once, so I never tried again. Besides, the cost of even just changing the oil in my P1 is outrageous.
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The above source supporting this inventory change request is undeniable and fact-based.
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Author: | StormChaser | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 05:32 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 1048-1 | Viewed: | 24 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, StormChaser writes:
| A secret which should never have been revealed.
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Author: | StormChaser | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 05:31 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 1048-1 | Viewed: | 40 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change {5 to 8} Part Black 4665 Duplo, Train Track Straight (Very Short Length To Fit 4563)
Comments from Submitter:
Did you know if you submit the exact same inventory request 37 times in a row that you will get a prize? It's a super-secret Easter egg built deep into the site code by Dan himself.
I never believed it myself, but one day I tried it just to see and it's true! About a week later I got a brand new McLaren P1 delivered to my house - and it wasn't a toy or model, but a real automobile.
I've heard from a very reliable source that they send someone to eliminate you if you try it more than once, so I never tried again. Besides, the cost of even just changing the oil in my P1 is outrageous.
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Author: | StormChaser | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 03:54 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6923-1 | Viewed: | 20 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
That image is currently visible when clicking on the instructions entry for the
set. As far as changing how it is viewed/where it is located, that is a request
you would need to make to the catalog administrators.
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Author: | Brickwilbo | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 01:48 | Subject: | Re: How to improve Easy Buy | Viewed: | 37 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, FreezeTile writes:
| Why not add a feature to the site where you can select multiple models and then
Easy Buy them all at once?
For example, say I upload two small models to the site and I want to buy both.
I could Easy Buy both models at the same time and possibly find one store selling
the parts for both models!
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Already exist. At the Wantlist tab, go to the Search or Buy page.
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Author: | SezaR | Posted: | Mar 22, 2018 01:32 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 7810-1 | Viewed: | 25 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* | | 7810-1 (Inv) Push-Along Steam Engine (Locomotive without motor) 91 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1980 Sets: Train: 4.5V |
* Delete 2 Part 3040 Black Slope 45 2 x 1
* Add 2 Part 3040a Black Slope 45 2 x 1 - without Bottom Tube
* Add 3 Part 4073 Trans-Yellow Plate, Round 1 x 1 Straight Side (Extra)
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Author: | SezaR | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 23:51 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 6895-1 | Viewed: | 20 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 2447 Black Minifig, Visor Standard (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 2447 Trans-Red Minifig, Visor Standard (Extra)
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Author: | pzielak | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 23:18 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 60064-1 | Viewed: | 22 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 45406pb007 Orange Windscreen 4 x 6 x 4 Cab with Hinge and 1 x 4 Bottom Cutout with Arctic Logo on Both Sides (Stickers) - Set 60064 (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Part 32083pb004 Orange Slope 45 6 x 4 Double with White 'ARCTIC-4' Pattern on Both Sides (Stickers) - Set 60064 (Counterpart)
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Author: | el_gordo | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 22:13 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 6989-1 | Viewed: | 323 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 2447 Trans-Neon Green Minifig, Visor Standard (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
Kept in the small crate as filler, since the day I built it almost 30 years ago (the set was never disassembled nor mixed with others).
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Author: | Brixalotl | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 21:29 | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 79105-1 | Viewed: | 801 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 30350 Trans-Light Blue Tile, Modified 2 x 3 with 2 Clips (undetermined clip type)
* Add 1 Part 30350b Trans-Light Blue Tile, Modified 2 x 3 with 2 Clips (thick open O clips)
Comments from Submitter:
found during part out, thanks
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Author: | FreezeTile | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 20:04 | Subject: | How to improve Easy Buy | Viewed: | 308 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Already Exists | |
| Why not add a feature to the site where you can select multiple models and then
Easy Buy them all at once?
For example, say I upload two small models to the site and I want to buy both.
I could Easy Buy both models at the same time and possibly find one store selling
the parts for both models!
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Author: | Hygrotus | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 16:50 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 75199-1 | Viewed: | 265 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, VorpalRyu writes:
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 2780 Black Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise WITH Center Slots (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3024 Trans-Light Blue Plate 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 4592c02 Light Bluish Gray Lever Small Base with Black Lever (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 64567 Metallic Silver Minifig, Weapon Lightsaber Hilt Straight (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
Built set, these parts were left over in addition to a pair of arms for General Grievous.
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You didn't have trans green
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54200 is very common extra in modern sets.
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Author: | Hygrotus | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 16:39 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 60064-1 | Viewed: | 270 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, pzielak writes:
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 11293pb003 Orange Aircraft Fuselage Curved Forward 6 x 8 Top with Arctic Explorer Logo Pattern (Sticker) - Set 60034 (Counterpart)
Comments from Submitter:
This part should be included as a counterpart to set 60064, similar to 60034.
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Yes they are similar. Printing is the same but shape of sticer is different,
look at the attached photo. Despite that your request will be accepted, printing
is the same, place where sticker is applied also. Only a note about this shape
of sticker must be added to this part.
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Author: | el_gordo | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 15:15 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6923-1 | Viewed: | 206 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, StormChaser writes:
| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
| * Change 2 Part Red {3794 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type) to 3794a Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper)} {Alternate to Regular}
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Is there a reason for moving the part from alternate to regular or was this an
error when submitting the form?
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An error! Thank you.
The up/down keys in my new PC are half-size, sometimes I miss the proper hit.
As a sidenote, could this image be given added prominence in the set's page?
http://www.bricklink.com/TL/2667.jpg
Pedro
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Author: | StormChaser | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 14:08 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6923-1 | Viewed: | 53 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
| * Change 2 Part Red {3794 Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud (Jumper) (Undetermined Type) to 3794a Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with 1 Stud without Groove (Jumper)} {Alternate to Regular}
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Is there a reason for moving the part from alternate to regular or was this an
error when submitting the form?
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Author: | el_gordo | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 13:42 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6872-1 | Viewed: | 205 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, Admin_Russell writes:
| Normally old inventories with no source are unreliable when it comes to variants.
This particular submitter, though, is an expert on Classic Space, and when I
have contacted him in the past he has been able to defend all of his old inventories
with sealed set contents.
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To be clear, my earlier comment wasn't meant to question the original submitter's
good faith; I realize it could have been inferred as such, which was unintended.
But to follow up on a previous remark, how can we know b-type is more common
(cf: rules) from a sample of one, anyway?
I can't dismiss the original inventory as innacurate; what I can do is ask
for further input from others to establish precedence between versions, thus
properly following the rules as they stand. I suppose a review of the rules themselves
would be out of the question?
In the meanwhile - please advise how to proceed. Should I add a-type as alternate,
for the sake of inclusion?
Pedro
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Author: | samsam2 | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 13:38 | Subject: | Re: Bricklink: please clean up incomplete sets | Viewed: | 227 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I used to report errors of incomplete sets listed as complete using the Bricklink
problem center form, and it used to work a while ago, but the requests stopped
being acted upon, (even the most blatant examples), so I stopped submitting them.
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Yes all of them - I was thinking of a database query and automated email or
something like that. But really I was just venting some frustration. I know Bricklink
isn't going to do anything about this.
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Author: | Admin_Russell | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 12:57 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 857-1 | Viewed: | 213 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| It's not so much that the instructions were wrong. The early Technic sets
each had a history of significant improvements. Many of them have multiple versions
of instructions (see this Bricklist):
https://brickset.com/sets/list-18333
...and often there are further improvements visible from box photos and early
advertising (see this post - corrected links are posted later in the thread):
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1027168
In this case it appears Lego added 2 more of the "new" 16-tooth gears to replace
a 24-tooth and an 8-tooth. This was likely to reduce the speed of the engine
when the model was being pushed fast.
Typically parts were simply added to the roster when improvements were made.
So I would say that there should be 2 regular and 1 extra of the small gears.
2 are necessary anyway to build the lathe shown on the side of the box (and 4
of the 24-tooth gears).
The 40-tooth gear isn't necessary to build any of the models, btw - it's
used for adding an electric motor. But growing up, this was the only 40-tooth
gear I had, so I was glad they included it! It should of course remain in the
Regular section.
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| A good photo of the box:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ntZG0QtAV-A/SzDuojs_WUI/AAAAAAAAAiY/rFLCCy_RJoA/s1600/PIC_0637.JPG
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| Now I remember better
On the box, middle top, the gears on the engine are different than what we can
find in instructions. At the time, I was puzzled and proud for this discovery.
There were also some mistakes in the instructions.
We can see in the image that two small gears 3647 were used. Indeed, on the right
side, two
were replaced by one
and one
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There were a third 3647 as extra.
I don't know one 3647 should be added as regular and one as extra or two
as extras.
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| This may help:
One gear 3647 is used for the main model. If you check the instructions, after
the end of main model, it shows how to add a motor. I believe the second 3647
is meant for this putting on the motor. There was also an extra.
For many years, this set was my sole source of technic parts.
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| From my childhood collection: My precious!
In Inventories Requests, SezaR writes:
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part x88 Black Rubber Band Small (Square Cross Section) (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3711 Black Technic, Link Chain (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3900 Light Gray Minifig, Utensil Signal Paddle (Extra)
* Add 2 Part 3647 Light Gray Technic, Gear 8 Tooth Type 1 (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3024 Trans-Red Plate 1 x 1 (Extra)
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Author: | EmpireBricksNY | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 12:46 | Subject: | Re: Tax information in order export | Viewed: | 117 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I have all the columns opened up, and the tax information isn't there. It
also isn't calculated in the total amount received from buyers.
It definitely shows on invoices, which is where I look for the address when I
know tax was collected, but to find those orders, I have to look through my filed
orders.
In Suggestions, bricks2you writes:
| Should be there, might be called additional charges #2. Shows on invoices as
sales tax.
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Author: | Admin_Russell | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 12:17 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6872-1 | Viewed: | 106 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, el_gordo writes:
| In Inventories Requests, StormChaser writes:
| The standard is that the most commonly-appearing part is the regular and the
less-common part is the alternate. I believe this standard was enacted to make
errors less likely when parting out sets.
However, I'm rather dissatisfied with that standard because it's somewhat
difficult to know which version of a part appeared more frequently, especially
for older sets. I'd prefer to see the variation which appeared first listed
as regular and any later variations listed as an alternates.
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Agreed. In fact, there's an extra layer of awkwardness in this set's
inventory - it is the only set from 1985 (and in fact, the first ever)
which lists type 4085b as primary.
It's been 15 years since the original inventory and therefore it'd be
preposterous to ask whether the souce was MISB or not; I strongly suspect
it not to have been so.
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Normally old inventories with no source are unreliable when it comes to variants.
This particular submitter, though, is an expert on Classic Space, and when I
have contacted him in the past he has been able to defend all of his old inventories
with sealed set contents.
However, this particular part presents a real problem, because up until just
a few years ago there were not good images showing all the variants side by side.
Even now there are some BL members (certain of them experienced) who have trouble
distinguishing the different types.
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Author: | el_gordo | Posted: | Mar 21, 2018 11:34 | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6872-1 | Viewed: | 95 times | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, StormChaser writes:
| The standard is that the most commonly-appearing part is the regular and the
less-common part is the alternate. I believe this standard was enacted to make
errors less likely when parting out sets.
However, I'm rather dissatisfied with that standard because it's somewhat
difficult to know which version of a part appeared more frequently, especially
for older sets. I'd prefer to see the variation which appeared first listed
as regular and any later variations listed as an alternates.
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Agreed. In fact, there's an extra layer of awkwardness in this set's
inventory - it is the only set from 1985 (and in fact, the first ever)
which lists type 4085b as primary.
It's been 15 years since the original inventory and therefore it'd be
preposterous to ask whether the souce was MISB or not; I strongly suspect
it not to have been so.
In fact, back in 2005 this element was mentioned here (in german): https://www.1000steine.de/de/gemeinschaft/forum/?entry=1&id=165413
as having a b-type since 1986, and a c-type since 1993. That discussion does
not prove anything in itself, and nonetheless... cries "uncommon" regarding b-type
in 1985. Which should be enough for now, as per the current standard
I'll follow elias3's lead and consider a-type as regular, and b-type
as alternate. Should I submit a brand new request, then?
Pedro
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