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 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Feb 25, 2024 15:00
 Subject: DAC7 information - what will BL pass on?
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 Topic: Taxes
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It's Q1 again and the annual income tax review is here again ....

On the Dutch tax office website it says the following for operators like BL:

The collection and verification requirements on sellers already registered
on the platform as of 1 January 2023 [so-called "existing sellers"] must
be completed by 31 December 2024. You must report information on these sellers
by 31 January 2025.

This means for sellers already active prior to 1-1-2023, the sales data has to
be shared before 31-1-2025 and the verification data needs to be collected by
BL before 31-12-2024.
Right?

Some questions arise and I have not found the answers on the forum (tax, DAC7
etc.) or in the Terms of BL:

1) How can one check what data BL has passed onto the different national governmental
tax offices in the EU over FY2023? A company that processes personal digital
data has to provide information to these persons regarding what data was shared
with what other agencies and how this data is stored (AVG in The Netherlands).
2) When will BL start collecting the verification data (passport copies?)?
3) Is the sales value balanced with the value of purchases?

Any help is appreciated.
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Feb 3, 2024 04:37
 Subject: Merge 15 Feb - already in progress ?
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 Topic: Related Software
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Just opened my projects in BrickStore and almost ALL files are edited because
of BrickLink catalog changes?

Are the proposed merges already in progress???

No idea what/which parts are changed and.... why?

Admin, or Catalog people, how did this happen?
 


 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2024 02:32
 Subject: Proposed Changes - script instead of manual ?
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 Topic: Catalog
 Status:Open
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On Feb 15th some merging will occur in the database.
No matter what.

This Wednesday I (we?) received a BL message regarding the upcoming change.
With a link to a Help Page. Nice.
Until I clicked it....

If a seller wants to 'add a short line of text' for each lot affected,
sellers need to enterl more than 4000 numbers to check IF they are in their inventory.
And than manually editing the NOTE field.

This will take every seller hours of entering numbers, checking the results,
editing note-fields en checking for the edits to be correctly made.

Urgent request: can BL please provide a script or simple change page where
this actions can be (partially) automated?



Question for Admin_Russell: what happens exactly with my affected inventory entries
when nothing is changed on the sellers end?
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Dec 25, 2023 02:48
 Subject: ChatGPT creates amazing box art - experiences
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 Topic: My Own Creation
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Stumbled upon a ChatGPT-extension (Brick Box Generator).

ChatGTP Plus is required, so I can't access it.
Anyone else used this already and what share some results here?

https://chat.openai.com/auth/login?next=/g/g-Xce18FwVX-brick-box-generator
 


 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Dec 12, 2023 15:20
 Subject: POSTNL problemen met brievenbuspost???
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 Topic: LANG Nederlands
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Collega's,

afgelopen 2 weken meerdere onaangekomen brievenbuszendingen gehad.
Op diverse plekken in het land.
Meer ervaringen mee?

Kan de pre-Kerstdrukte zijn, maar vind het wel heel vroeg dat het al mis gaat
bij PostNL.
Julliebeeld?

StarBrick
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Oct 22, 2023 05:41
 Subject: 7 smaller '80 Classic Space sets added
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 Topic: Sales
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Just added 7 smaller Classic Space sets from the eighties. And 1 Futuron set.
8 more to follow in the next weeks .

Priced at roughly 6 months average sale price.

 
Set No: 886  Name: Space Buggy
* 
886-1 (Inv) Space Buggy
11 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1979
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6801  Name: Moon Buggy
* 
6801-1 (Inv) Moon Buggy
17 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1981
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6805  Name: Astro Dasher
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6805-1 (Inv) Astro Dasher
23 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1985
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6806  Name: Surface Hopper
* 
6806-1 (Inv) Surface Hopper
18 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1985
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6808  Name: Galaxy Trekkor
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6808-1 (Inv) Galaxy Trekkor
24 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1987
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6820  Name: Starfire I
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6820-1 (Inv) Starfire I
29 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1986
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6823  Name: Surface Transport
* 
6823-1 (Inv) Surface Transport
22 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1983
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6849  Name: Satellite Patroller
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6849-1 (Inv) Satellite Patroller
36 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 1987
Sets: Space: Classic Space
 
Set No: 6884  Name: Aero-Module
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6884-1 (Inv) Aero-Module
91 Parts, 2 Minifigures, 1987
Sets: Space: Futuron

To follow are a 6927 and 6970!
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Oct 19, 2023 11:47
 Subject: Technic part ID help needed....
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 Topic: Catalog Identification
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Can't seem to find this part (maybe electric engine replacement part?).
Found 4 of them.
 
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: May 30, 2023 14:41
 Subject: When tax becomes governmental theft
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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If this is right, something must be very wrong....

2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
 
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Mar 4, 2023 05:56
 Subject: 60666 - incorrect stud length?
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 Topic: Catalog
 Status:Open
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This part:

 
Part No: 66606  Name: Cone Half 6 x 4 x 10 (Elliptic Paraboloid)
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66606 Cone Half 6 x 4 x 10 (Elliptic Paraboloid)
Parts: Cone

is described as:

Cone Half 6 x 4 x 10 (Elliptic Paraboloid)

But it actually is 12.2 studs long, not 10..... (below from Stud.IO)

Please correct?
 
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 7, 2023 10:47
 Subject: Brickstore - strange looking tile....
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 Topic: General
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On uploading some tiles, something odd happened in Brickstore.
See picture, where 3068bpx8 is shown as

[p=3068bpx8]
 
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 6, 2023 14:40
 Subject: delay in updating again?
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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Hitting 'submit changes' on inventory updates ('My Store Inventoryarts
:...' doesn't seem to work.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Earlier this week same thing, after 10 minutes or so it showed the changed pages.
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 1, 2023 06:14
 Subject: Uploads of Dec 30th gone? Others?
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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@Admin:

I've uploaded several parts on December 30th that appear to be gone from
my inventory and are not sold in orders.
See attached picture of 'newest items in store' on the storefront. 29-12
and then 1-1.
Where is Dec 30th? (well Dec 31th was impossible to upload anything).

@all other members:

Can you please check if your uploaded parts/sets/items of Dec 29th and 30th are
IN your inventory?


Thanks for looking!
 
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 1, 2023 05:23
 Subject: All the best!
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 Topic: General
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Happy fellow BrickLinkers,

From a potential firework-free Holland, best wishes for the new year!
Build well, play well, stay well

Cheers
StarBrick
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Dec 31, 2022 10:44
 Subject: Errors site wide not solved !!!!!
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 Topic: Help
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Guys at THD: PLEASE inform on the forum what the status is of the major issues
that are preventing updates on the site!

WHEN will it be fixed!!!!!?????
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Dec 31, 2022 07:19
 Subject: Website broke because..... of surveys?
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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Just noticed the update pages keep hanging on this link:

'waiting for npssurveyinvite.services.lego.com.......'

Is there a survey procedure blocking the update processes of the database?
 
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Dec 23, 2022 11:53
 Subject: NSV changes for business sellers in EU
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 Topic: LANG Nederlands
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Voor de NL members hier, dit lees ik op Blz 19 (definities) van de NL versie
van het document naar wordt verwezen door BL (zie hier: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1383573).

B. Te rapporteren verkopers

1. “Verkoper”: een gebruiker van een platform, hetzij een natuurlijke persoon,
hetzij een entiteit, die op enig ogenblik tijdens de rapportageperiode op het
platform is geregistreerd en een relevante activiteit verricht.

Dat betekent dat ook private personen die géén bedrijf zijn, gemeld moeten worden
door BL. Of lees ik dat verkeerd?

Verderop:

De rapporterende platformexploitant verzamelt alle volgende inlichtingen voor
elke verkoper die een natuurlijke persoon en geen uitgesloten verkoper is: (en
dan volgt een hele waslijst).


En dit is wat BL moet verstrekken over de verkopers:

e) de totale tegenprestatie die is betaald of gecrediteerd tijdens elk kwartaal
van de rapportageperiode, en het aantal relevante activiteiten waarvoor deze
is betaald of gecrediteerd;
f) alle honoraria, commissielonen of belastingen die door de rapporterende platformexploitant
tijdens elk kwartaal van de rapportageperiode ingehouden of geheven werden.


Feedback welkom
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Nov 24, 2022 02:43
 Subject: Refunding : how to proceed ?
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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First full refund made through the BL system.

I expected the order to be cancelled automatically when the refund is completed.
It doesn't. So now it stays in the data as a sold item.
I do not think that is correct. Is it?

And will this sale be ruled out in the monthly fee calculation?

Hard to find help-details on this function on the site.

Any help is appreciated

StarBrick
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Nov 23, 2022 16:44
 Subject: EU Distance Selling - @Admin_Russel plz hlp!
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 Topic: General
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Here's the link to the announcement of the EU Distance Selling tool that
364 days ago (!) was published on the forum:

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1315372

This points to sellers 10.000 euro a year.
Regulations have to be implemented to that group of sellers. NOT everybody.

The new apporach doesn't seem to differentiate between 10K.

@ADMIN's or anyone at BL staff: please clarify ASAP the send e-mails containing
the spooky messages that can not be understood without explanation from you.
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Nov 23, 2022 15:18
 Subject: ... more information ? BL commercial-only?
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 Topic: General
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And in the second part of the message:

If you do not believe this applies to you at the moment, starting from Jan
2023 we will begin requesting more information when applying for new stores.
And further down the line, we will be requesting more information for all current
stores.


What more information is BL going to request?

What is this.... BL sellers are either commercially registered sellers (then
I get this move) or private natural persona like selling in yard sale. In
a private yard sale there are no legislations regarding businesses. As far as
I am aware.

Are we going to see company-sellers only here on BL?
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Nov 23, 2022 15:00
 Subject: Account cleanup 1-1-2023?
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 Topic: General
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Anyone getting mails in their inbox (direct, not through BL system) regarding:

Since EU distance selling has been implemented, we are seeing many new duplicate
accounts and accounts with inaccurate information.

This is why we are requesting that you

1. Double check if the following information is correct and up to date:
• Buyer name;
• Buyer address;
• Store name;
• Store address.

2. Unregister duplicate accounts created with no prior permission from the administration.


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