BrickLink Discussion Forum

In General, donja_nl writes:

I just got order 25000000 of Bricklink.
Quite a milestone.

Congratulations!

The chance that a seller will reach this milestone and also be an active member
of the forum is almost zero.

I'm coming up with something: couldn't Bricklink organize a competition
where sellers receive a prize when they reach a critical order number? For example,
a free set 10305 for the seller who has order 2510000?

@adminrussel

10305-1 (Inv) Lion Knights' Castle
4392 Parts, 22 Minifigures, 2022
Sets: Castle: Lion Knights

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Apr 12, 2024 11:38

Subject:

Movements in Item Type and Category #7

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Topic:

Catalog

Status:

Open

Today we received this update of items that were moved to another category:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2599

I strongly object to the movement of below parts to the Arch category.

4190 Arch 2 x 2 Inverted Corner with Recessed Stud
Parts: Arch {Dark Bluish Gray}

and

73682 Arch 3 x 3 Inverted Corner with Raised Hollow Stud
Parts: Arch {Black}

The definition of an arch according to the Oxford dictionary is:

a curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting
the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.

Neither of those parts fulfil that description. They do not span an opening.
They maybe help to raise an adjoining element.

This becomes more obvious if you look at the 39 parts that are now categorized
as Arch.
There are exactly two parts that don't look like any other part in this category,
the other 37 parts do.
See picture below or this link: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catString=6

I strongly suggest to undo the movement since it is not at all logical, not following
the definition of an arch and certainly doesn't a help a user to search for
an item like 4190 or 73682.

My suggestion is to move these items to Plate, Modified or Tile, Modified.

Please support my suggestion by replying with an upvote -- no need to cite
my post, just say +1

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Apr 4, 2024 11:48

Subject:

Re: Show me how you organise your inventories!

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General

In General, JimsBricks writes:

Hey All, ive been a seller for a good few years but now im looking to do bricklink
as a full time job, i believe all the best ideas are stolen from other people.

ive got some Racco draws to start with, so what im asking is how you number things/also
what do you use to put numbers on the draws.

ive watched countless youtube vids talking about bricklink.

So if you all could show me how you organise/label your draws or drop me any
hints or tips.

I hope your all having a great day

Jim

I suggest to buy a labelprinter, for example a Dymo Letratag. This is what I
use to make my self adhesive labels.

Aditionally for certain parts I also glue the part itself to the drawer to make
it easier to identify the drawer visually when I'm parting out sets. Picture
shows.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Apr 4, 2024 11:35

Subject:

Re: Incorrect parts price inflation

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In Selling, jennnifer writes:

In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:

I observe that some parts are regularly offered for exorbitant prices when there
is actually no reason for this.

Take for example this part

19730 Minifigure, Headgear Helmet Rectangular (Minecraft)
Parts: Minifigure, Headgear {Pearl Gold}

This was previously only available in set

21127-1 (Inv) The Fortress
959 Parts, 4 Minifigures, 2016
Sets: Minecraft

and

21137-1 (Inv) The Mountain Cave
2822 Parts, 6 Minifigures, 2017
Sets: Minecraft

These sets were limited in number and are much sought after.

Since 2024, a new set

21252-1 (Inv) The Armory
196 Parts, 2 Minifigures, 2023
Sets: Minecraft

has been available that contains this part.
It can be purchased in any LEGO store or reseller. But I still see that every
new seller of this part bases their price on the original price when this part
was still rare.

This it totally nuts imo.

I'm thinking of parting out 10 sets containing this part and pricing them
at around 50 cents to change the price guide which will force future sellers
of this item to sell this item cheaper.

To the sellers: do you also experience these kinds of crazy things?

You really think sellers are checking the pricing and availability of every item
in a part out? They set it 'just below the 6 months average' and click
the button.

When I part out a set and set to 6 month average I globally check the prices.
When I see a high price for a particular brick I always check the price guide
to get a better idea and sometimes I also check the sets the part is coming in.
I agree that not every seller is doing this.

By the way, if everyone keeps doing that, the prices will all hit bottom. Like
every book on amazon costing $.99

I don't think so. Most parts that have a high sales volume have a fairly
consistent price. The most important factor for prices going down hill is when
they come available in pick-a-brick, e.g. the 1x2 masonry brick in lbg.

~Jen

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Apr 3, 2024 11:59

Subject:

Incorrect parts price inflation

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Topic:

I observe that some parts are regularly offered for exorbitant prices when there
is actually no reason for this.

Take for example this part

19730 Minifigure, Headgear Helmet Rectangular (Minecraft)
Parts: Minifigure, Headgear {Pearl Gold}

This was previously only available in set

21127-1 (Inv) The Fortress
959 Parts, 4 Minifigures, 2016
Sets: Minecraft

and

21137-1 (Inv) The Mountain Cave
2822 Parts, 6 Minifigures, 2017
Sets: Minecraft

These sets were limited in number and are much sought after.

Since 2024, a new set

21252-1 (Inv) The Armory
196 Parts, 2 Minifigures, 2023
Sets: Minecraft

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 31, 2024 11:35

Subject:

Re: Finally open for U.K. buyers

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Topic:

General

In General, Stuart9 writes:

Sorry I can’t offer items outside U.K. as I’m not prepared to do all the red
tape.

I think the title of your post should be: We no longer sell to countries outside
the UK

Good luck, you Brits voted for excommunication and this is what you got.

This may sound like gloating, but it is not intended that way.

Until Brexit, I bought a lot in England. Lego, but also a lot of books. That
has now become unaffordable.

I my own shop I also no longer sell to the UK, but I do sell to all countries
in the EU.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 27, 2024 12:36

Subject:

Re: Store suspend

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Topic:

Help

In Help, macebobo writes:

In Help, Leftoverbricks writes:

In Help, First4Duplo writes:

My store has been suspended for 3 or more completed NSS, I have looked at the
cancelled orders and can only find 1. I have confirmation the parcel was sent
and delivered how do I send proof of purchase to the help desk? I have also
refunded the person. The order was placed by a new Bricklink member and they
where very aggressive via communications

Your overall praise rating is 98.20% which is rather low for a seller with 5825
orders.

Orders do not equal feedback. They have 2550 feedback of which 46 are non positive.

2550 feedback on 5825 orders is a very low feedback percentage, 44%.

My store has 1763 orders with 1350 feedback, that is 77% of buyers who left me
positive feedback. I have 0% negatives and 0% neutrals.

This store has serious problems that they need to address.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 27, 2024 12:00

Subject:

Re: Store suspend

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Topic:

Help

In Help, First4Duplo writes:

Your overall praise rating is 98.20% which is rather low for a seller with 5825
orders.

This means that you have had 104 orders where something was wrong and you got
neutral or negative feedback.

So I'm not surprised, but of course I don't know the details. As a buyer
I would hesitate to buy from a shop that has less than 99% positive feedback.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 27, 2024 11:48

Subject:

Re: Moving, selling store. Looking for guidance.

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In Selling, steffenme1 writes:

Hello Bricklink, I'm moving across country in a few months and I won't
be taking my store with me so I need to get working on offloading my inventory.
Would prefer to sell the whole lot rather than have a fire sale; would really
like to hear from any others who have had to do the same.

Sold my shop a month or two ago.* My shop was around the same size of your inventory.

I sold it for 24% of my inventory value and it was a great deal.

Don't be tempted by a general sale of 50% or something like that. This
way you only sell the valuable things and are left with the unsellable items.
Good luck!

*By the way, I have continued my store but with a very small number of items
that I can easily handle and without taking up much space.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 13, 2024 12:59

Subject:

Re: Unjustified Neutral Feedback

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Topic:

Feedback

In Feedback, yoavheskia writes:

Hi,
I got my first Neutral Feedback without any justification.
The buyer made the order at 17.2, I shipped it at 18.2 and he received it at
21.2
Although it took less then a week and although the Israeli PO is not under my
command (I wish it was!) the buyer gave me the following feedback:

Everything I asked for arrived, even the used one feels like new but the shipping
time takes quite a long time

I submitted Feedback Removal Request.

My questions are:
1. What to expect? The feedback will be cancel?
2. How long does it take normally?

Thanks,
Yoav

We do not often see sellers form Israel posting in the forum.

Currently there are only 11 Israeli shops on Bricklink: https://www.bricklink.com/browseStores.asp?countryID=IL
Which is strange: Israel is #25 on the world list of biggest economies (https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/)
For comparison The Netherlands is #18 and has 1241 stores.

Perhaps Israeli are not much interested in LEGO?

On topic: I wouldn't give it moo much thought. Some people are just very
impatient. Unless your buyer was in the Gaza strip, then you have a problem.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 13, 2024 11:24

Subject:

Re: Inventory Sorting by Part Type

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Topic:

Help

In Help, jennnifer writes:

In Help, SDF_Bricks writes:

The default inventory list is sorted by color. Is there a way to sort it by 'Part
Type' e.g., slope, modified plate, technic connector ... etc?

My parts are all sorted by type, and it'll be easier that way to 'rebuild'
sets.

Do you mean the default Set Inventory list? There's a drop-down menu for
Sort Items By: right at the top.

~Jen

From that drop-down list you should choose 'By Category', that will sort
by part type.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 10, 2024 10:02

Subject:

Re: How to delete the contents of a stockroom?

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In Selling, Brickwilbo writes:

In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:

How to delete the contents of a certain stockroom (A, B, C) and not make changes
to the available items?

Go toy My Inventory, Select By Availability, check the checkbox and selet Delete
items, submit changes.
https://www.bricklink.com/inventory.asp?itemView=7

Thanks.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 10, 2024 08:02

Subject:

How to delete the contents of a stockroom?

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Topic:

How to delete the contents of a certain stockroom (A, B, C) and not make changes
to the available items?

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 5, 2024 11:38

Subject:

Re: Proposal: new organization of magazine sets

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In Catalog Requests, randyf writes:

In Catalog Requests, Leftoverbricks writes:

In Catalog Requests, Stellar writes:

In Catalog Requests, Leftoverbricks writes:

In Catalog Requests, Bonacieux writes:

Here in Germany they all comes from the Contributor Blue Ocean.

Any come's monthly (City, NINJAGO ...) , other 6 - 8 Magazine (p.a. Friends)
per Year.

The newest magazine is DREAMzzz

Don't forget the older magazines NEXO KNIGHTS, LEGENDS OF CHIMA and Hidden
Side, stopped some Time ago.

And there is a special Theme NINJAGO Legacy

The Theme Explorer stopped in 2023 from an other Contributor.

Thanks for the additions. That makes it all the more clear how difficult these
things are to find in the catalogue.
The need for a better organization remains as high as ever.

Easiest solution would be to ask the addition of Blue Ocean Co-Brand to all these
sets, all on the back have an imprint mentioning Blue Ocean Entertainment AG
so these appear here:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=S&promoCatID=384

But on some magazines there were Polybags like in Ninjago and Technic.

Also these are available in Spanish too.

Co-branding is different for different countries, in my country it is Billy Bones.
So that doesn't help either.
Best way in my opinion is to advance with 'magazine gift' in the title.

As far as I know, the magazines are published by different companies in different
regions, but the sets are all produced through the Blue Ocean partnership.

... but nobody knows that and will not search for Blue Ocean when they in fact
are searching for sets that come with magazines.

Since you are a very experienced catmin, I am very curious to hear your thoughts
on my original proposal to create a separate description for it.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 5, 2024 10:56

Subject:

Re: Proposal: new organization of magazine sets

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In Catalog Requests, Stellar writes:

In Catalog Requests, Leftoverbricks writes:

In Catalog Requests, Bonacieux writes:

Thanks for the additions. That makes it all the more clear how difficult these
things are to find in the catalogue.
The need for a better organization remains as high as ever.

Co-branding is different for different countries, in my country it is Billy Bones.
So that doesn't help either.
Best way in my opinion is to advance with 'magazine gift' in the title.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 4, 2024 22:56

Subject:

Re: Proposal: new organization of magazine sets

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In Catalog Requests, Bonacieux writes:

Thanks for the additions. That makes it all the more clear how difficult these
things are to find in the catalogue.
The need for a better organization remains as high as ever.

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 4, 2024 10:49

Subject:

Proposal: new organization of magazine sets

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For:

Catalog Associate

Status:

Open

How to better deal with the sets that come with LEGO magazines?

situation
Currently there are LEGO magazines with added sets (they are glued to the magazine)
in 6 countries, each in the language from the country where they are published.
- Germany
- Czech Republic
- Poland
- Netherlands
- France
- Sweden
It is painfully obvious that there are no English speaking countries in this
list.

The frequency in which they appear varies a bit. I have no exact data but 6-8
magazines per year seems to be sort of average.

themes
The magazines come in 8 themes (not each country get the same themes covered):
- Avengers
- Batman
- City
- Friends (this is the oldest one)
- Jurassic World
- Minecraft
- Ninjago
- Spiderman

current Bricklink coverage
The extent to which all these items are included in the catalogue depends on
the cooperation of volunteers in different countries. As far as I have been able
to determine, the sets are always added to the catalogue, but the magazines in
which they appear are not always added - they need a separate entry in the catalogue.

how to find these magazine sets on Bricklink?
Until recently you could find them by searching for the theme and add 'foil
pack' to your search criteria.
For example here is the list of Minecraft Foil Packs: minecraft+foil+pack
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=foil+pack+minecraft&tab=S#T=S

However, somewhere in 2023 TLG began to replace the foil packs by paper bags
glued to the magazine. Accordingly, Bricklink catalogue admins understandably
changed the description from foil pack to paper bag.
The result is that you now also have to search for the paper bags minecraft+paper+bag:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=paper+bag+minecraft&tab=S#T=S

Currently there are about 500-600 sets that are part of a magazine. And there's
no easy way to find them all in a single search or a limited search by theme.

therefore my suggestion about how to deal with this
I looked at the way how Brickset deals with the same problem and they have a
very clever and simple solution for it. They just call all the foil packs and
paper bags 'magazine gifts'.
If you want to search for these items you can do so: https://brickset.com/sets/subtheme-Magazine-Gift

My suggestion is to follow this example and change the description of all those
sets. For example

662308-1 (Inv) Alex, Baby Llama and Bee paper bag
32 Parts, 1 Minifigure, 2023
Sets: Minecraft

would become: Alex, Baby Llama and Bee - Magazine Gift

Even more nice would it be to make additional changes to the sets catalogue tree:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=S
and add a new subtheme called 'Magazine Gift' for each of the 8 themes
TLG has magazines with sets. Star Wars already has 45 subthemes so one more wouldn't
hurt

This way we have several options to search for the magazine sets: by keyword
(Magazine Gift) or by browsing/searching for the theme and selecting the subtheme.

Martin

(And of course I offer to help with this. I have lots of free time.)

Author:

Leftoverbricks

Posted:

Mar 3, 2024 09:16

Subject:

Re: about latest additions to minecraft minifigs

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