Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | bje  | | Posted: | May 10, 2019 04:58 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 9257-1 | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 2 Part 4180c02 Black Brick, Modified 2 x 4 with Wheels, Freestyle Red
* Delete 4 Part 3483 Black Tire 24mm D. x 8mm Offset Tread
* Delete 2 Part 4180c02assy1 Black Brick, Modified 2 x 4 with Wheels, Freestyle Red with Black Tires 24mm D. x 8mm Offset Tread (4180c02 / 3483) (Counterpart)
* Add 2 Part 4180c02assy1 Black Brick, Modified 2 x 4 with Wheels, Freestyle Red with Black Tires 24mm D. x 8mm Offset Tread (4180c02 / 3483)
Comments from Submitter:
See my image on the previous request, thanks
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 10, 2019 04:06 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 9257-1 | | Viewed: | 16 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, bje writes:
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 10, 2019 03:52 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 9257-1 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 2 Part 2574 Red Pullback Motor Old
* Add 2 Part 2574c01 Red Pullback Motor Old with Black Tires 24mm D. x 8mm Offset Tread (2574 / 3483)
* Change {8 to 4} Part Black 3483 Tire 24mm D. x 8mm Offset Tread
Comments from Submitter:
These are assembled in the set, from my copy of the set, image to follow
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 10, 2019 03:33 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Gear 851627 | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3070bpb131 Black Tile 1 x 1 with Letter Capital Q Pattern - Smaller Font and Rectangular Line (Alternate) (match ID 1)
* Change 1 Part Black 3070bpb025 Tile 1 x 1 with Letter Capital Q Pattern - Larger Font and Parallelogram Line {match ID 0 to 1}
Comments from Submitter:
From sealed set parted out. Also see https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1138646
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | May 2, 2019 05:47 | | Subject: | Re: Coral | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, Teup writes:
| | In Colors, qwertyboy writes:
Coral: What an unfortunate name for a colour. If there's one thing in the
world that can have every colour imaginable... it's coral. But apparently
that's just me, because Google tells me it's a thing. I'd go for
salmon or something like that.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/living-coral-colour-of-the-year-2019-pantone-millennial-pink-a8670006.html
Barely a 4 months after the poor single colour coral was elevated by Pantone
to iconic status, you have to come along and put it in its place
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2019 03:25 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Gear 851627 | | Viewed: | 10 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, bje writes:
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2019 03:14 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Gear 851627 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3070bpb018 Black Tile 1 x 1 with Letter Capital J Pattern
Comments from Submitter:
From sealed gear item parted out. The part count is actually supposed to be 73 pcs according to the bubblepack. Current inventory shows 72. I do not think there are extra's in this gear, so the regular count for this part should be 3 and not 2.
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2019 12:18 | | Subject: | Re: Keffiyeh vs Turban | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Catalog, bje writes:
| | You want to try and remember bicorne - usually I have to search through pirates
minifigs to get that %^^$%@ name.
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I’ll excuse your French as it so happens that “%^^$%@” could indeed be replaced
by “French”.
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That will not do as my French writing is already limited to some swear words,
cooking terms from Larousse and a bit here and there from a few novels. Wish
I could read Proust, Balzac, Littel and few others in original French.
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Bicorne = two horns
There are tricorne hats too (three horns).
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Horny hats will be even more difficult to remember, it is not a concept I usually
associate with hats or caps.
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| | You might want to bookmark this page. It at
least gives the starting point names of some hat/headdress styles with images,
since I can never remember any of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat
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You’ll note that on that page, keffiyeh is spelled keffiyah.
(While the wiktionary lists kaffiyah, kufiya, and kufiyah as alternative spellings,
but not keffiyah.)
Finding it through Prince of Persia minifigures might be quicker than searching
the wikipedia page then trying all the possible spellings
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2019 11:24 | | Subject: | Re: Keffiyeh vs Turban | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| You want to try and remember bicorne - usually I have to search through pirates
minifigs to get that %^^$%@ name. You might want to bookmark this page. It at
least gives the starting point names of some hat/headdress styles with images,
since I can never remember any of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat
In Catalog, velocity.rex writes:
| | I get a little annoyed every time I encounter this piece.
It's always the same cycle, I search "turban" because it's very similar
to a turban.
and all that pops up are these;
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So then I remember that the piece I'm looking for is on a few of the Prince
of Persia minifigs so I go to catalog, minifigs, prince of persia, and then scroll
until I find one with the matching headgear, and then drill down into it's
inventory to find that it's called a "Keffiyeh"
to which my response is, "oh, well, I'll probably never remember that..."
I wish the description was "Headgear Headdress Cloth Wrap Keffiyeh (Turban)"
even if it's not technically a turban. It would help me find it faster in
the future.
At any rate, taking the time to type this all out should help me remember in
the future and I discovered that one only has to type "kef*" in the headgear
search and this pops up so I should be able to remember those 3 letters at least
going forward.
Took me awhile to remember "kepi" for this part too, but I remembered eventually.
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2019 07:46 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6736-1 | | Viewed: | 15 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2019 07:45 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 6736-1 | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 2 Part 2453a Light Yellow Brick 1 x 1 x 5 - Blocked Open Stud or Hollow Stud (Alternate) (match ID 1)
Comments from Submitter:
From new set, image to follow
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2019 06:20 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 6734-1 | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2019 06:17 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 6734-1 | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 3 Part 32064c Black Technic, Brick 1 x 2 with Axle Hole and Inside Side Supports (Alternate)
Comments from Submitter:
From sealed set, image to follow
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Mar 28, 2019 00:24 | | Subject: | Re: Welcome our new administrator! | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| | Congratulations Marek! |
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2019 18:16 | | Subject: | Re: Search for parts without dimensions | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Etown writes:
| | In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, Etown writes:
| | I was just coming to suggest this very thing. Before I did though I checked,
and no, there is no such box. That would probably be one of those "inventory
management tools" that were promised years ago but have yet to materialise.
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Hi Jennifer,
Like I said, there is no box to search for "dimensions unavailable". The box
that you've selected only searches for items that you've already set
to 'manual' meaning they can't be included in an instant checkout
order. What we need is a box that selects items that have no dimensions listed
in the Bricklink catalogue so that we as sellers can either enter the dimensions
ourselves or set the item to 'manual'.
Ron
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It is not correct to say that the search only returns results for items you've
already set to manual. That search returns results for the following:
All items set to manual;
All items with no weight at all;
All items with weight but no dimensions and set volume bound (such as instructions).
The images below are from that exact search in my inventory and all of those
items will not be in an IC order
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Mar 13, 2019 09:49 | | Subject: | Re: Search for parts without dimensions | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
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One thing that has not come up here … Is there a 1:1 relationship between which
catalog entry (for parts) have brick stud dimensions and which IC entries have
hidden mm dimensions ? IOW, are the two traveling in sync with one another ?
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No
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I just went and did a Parts.XML download from the catalog. In it I see X/Y/Z
dimensions in studs (just like what's on the Catalog page). Can I reliably
infer that parts in that download missing dimensions are also missing in the
IC database, are that they even match (mathematically speaking) ?
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Alas no
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Then I took one set at random (1356-1) … Both the catalog page and the download
show dimensions in cm. But the fields below a lot entry are in mm. That would
seem to be an easy calculation provided that they are more closely in sync than
the parts may be.
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If you part the set out using Bricklink's tool for doing so and break the
minifigs into parts as well, you will see for that particular set that the minifigs
will be weight bound as well as all the torso assemblies and all the minifig
heads, all the other parts have IC dimensions. The easiest way still to check
inventory for missing dimensions is still the inventory setting for IC not available.
The easiest method to check for missing details when uploading is also unfortunately
to use the part-out tool in Bricklink (I forget to do this as a check from time
to time since I've stopped using Bricklink altogether for uploading inventory),
you cannot get that information from Brickstock either.
Jean
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Mar 7, 2019 12:00 | | Subject: | Re: find nearby stores, based on my ZIP code? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, runner.caller writes:
| | In Suggestions, ejv writes:
A lot of sellers run their business from their homes. There would be a fair number
of sellers who wouldn't want someone coming to their personal home address
to buy a few pieces, and also wouldn't have time to meet across town for
an exchange in person. Sending items in the mail is both convenient and adds
a layer of security.
Obviously, this could open a niche market for sellers that are willing to do
this. It would be pretty rare in my area, so if a local buyer contacted me, I'd
probably be happy to meet them.
But I think we need to allow seller's to opt into the option of "Allow buyers
to find my store by zip code" if this were to become a reality.
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I run my store from home myself, but have the town I live in right there in my
store terms. Pity there is no search function for store terms, as I have gotten
numerous e-mails asking me in which town in the province I'm situated So
I'm left wondering if it is actually worth it to have it in there at all.
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Feb 19, 2019 08:19 | | Subject: | Re: Weight of set 41614 Owen & blue | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, 211eric writes:
| | Hi,
Have check the weight of set 41614 Owen and blue Brickheadz. The weight wright
on bricklink is wrong. The real weight is 244g not 664g. Check other brickheadz
and the weight is similar of the weight have.
A member have idea for change them.
Best regard
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Fill in this form:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogReq.asp?itemType=S
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Feb 16, 2019 14:13 | | Subject: | Re: We need a modern way to part out sets. | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| | In Suggestions, ToriHada writes:
| | In Suggestions, HallBricks writes:
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| | There are of course lots of different features that could be implemented to make
the Part Out tool even more powerful, like more advanced ways to set up automatic
prices, like 10% below average etc.
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When I was selling here I was very strongly opposed to the idea of automating
pricing to undercut the Price Guide Average. My thinking then was that nothing
would increase downward pressure on prices or accelerate the "race to the bottom"
some sellers here engage in more than giving them a way to automatically, easily,
quickly and repeatedly price thousands and thousands of lots BELOW the Price
Guide Average. The tedious manual process was one significant check that reduced
the downward pressure on prices.
But since I am very unlikely to ever sell here again, and quite likely to resume
buying at some point, I would LOVE to see a feature that helps to reduce prices
even more. So I would vote yes if this were a formal suggestion.
Foster
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Agreed. Actually, the system as it is is already working in your favour as a
buyer - thee part out system being so poorly designed and unstable drives alot
of sellers to use Brickstock. Brickstock retrieves prices WITHOUT VAT - which
means that for all European sellers, it retrieves prices that are significantly
lower than what you get parting out on the Bricklink website. The result is sellers
underpricing without being aware of it, fuelling the global race to the bottom.
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Maybe, maybe not. There are a lot of sellers in that bottom end of the market
that make up prices with fees and charges. You cannot compare prices in the price
guide without factoring fees etc. If the average is 10c and the minimum price
is 7c, if one seller sells at 10c with no fees, he is no different to the seller
at the bottom at 7c with charges and fees that knocks the price back over 11c.
I had me one like that just last week: no fees on the terms page when I got the
invoice, fees and charges excluding shipping were 40% of the order value, knocking
all of the individual prices that seller was asking on those parts from the bottom
5% to way over the average price.
When you actually spend some time really looking at those prices, virtually all
of them are exclusive of fees and charges - meaning the price guide is actually
just false advertising since hardly any of those sellers are actually prepared
to sell at the price they have listed at. And those are just the ones that are
honest enough to tell you upfront about extra fees, there are still a large volume
of sellers who charge those fees included in the shipping charge, sometimes an
extra 50% over and above the actual shipping charge. They are very very aware
of where they are pricing, and it has nothing to do with a race to the bottom,
but everything to do with luring unwary buyers.
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| Author: | bje | | Posted: | Feb 10, 2019 03:21 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 31075-1 | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 5 Part 55982c05 Light Bluish Gray Wheel 18mm D. x 14mm with Axle Hole, Fake Bolts and Shallow Spokes with Black Tire 30.4 x 14 Offset Tread Band Around Center of Tread (55982 / 92402) (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Part 2584c003 Black String Reel 2 x 2 Complete without String with Light Bluish Gray Drum (Counterpart)
Comments from Submitter:
From new set parted out
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