Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek  | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2018 18:42 | | Subject: | image for hol132?? | | Viewed: | 73 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| How on Earth did this image get cleared by the catmins? 
I have seem some blurry, dark, petite, ... pictures of Lego items in the past
15 years on BL, but a sideways image of a minifig?
I don't even get what benefit there would be from taking a picture this way.
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Sep 5, 2018 13:01 | | Subject: | Re: Bricktober sets: still pending? | | Viewed: | 57 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| True, the name does not make much sense anymore now the remaining European branch
of TRU decided to release these in September (they did so last year as well when
there was still an American TRU), but originally these TRU specials were released
in October only, hence the name. I did notice the boxes sine last year no longer
mention "bricktober" anywhere, but I figured the name is better known in the
community than "TRU specials".
Reki
In Catalog, WoutR writes:
| | Not sure why these sets are called "Bricktober" 
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Sep 5, 2018 12:13 | | Subject: | Bricktober sets: still pending? | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| I was wondering why the Bricktober sets (HP and Jurassic World) are still pending
to be added to the BL catalog?
Seems they are being sold on Ebay and other venues for quite a while now and
in serious quantities, so they must be released in some countries.
Even on BL they are already being sold:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=5005254#T=A
As we have no Toys'r'Us in Belgium I have no idea whether they were already
in the stores last week (perhaps some German members can fill in?).
Is BL awaiting some kind of "official" release or waiting for the US release?
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2018 16:03 | | Subject: | Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| well said!
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2017 16:42 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| BL was sold to a company and the only interest a company has is making profit.
Likewise, a growing group of people on this platform have their livelyhood depending
on selling enough Lego every day to make ends meet.
Not much room for "hobbyists" or Lego enthusiasts anymore it seems at times.
Although, I was pleasantly surprised to see this community come alive again with
the ongoing Brickarms debate. Notwithstanding a few out-of-tune voices, the majority
is appalled by what most feel is an attack on the "purity" (for lack of a better
word) of this Lego platform.
Not that the Chinese owners or any of the admins could give a hoot about what
they probably consider old fashioned whining, but I take (small) comfort in the
knowledge that if they'd take it too far most AFOLs would leave this platform
and take their business elsewhere. That doesn't even need a majority of sellers
to leave to destroy this place, just a majority of the top 50 sellers.
Many years ago I sold so much in one month I ended up in that top 50 list. To
this day I am still astonished as to how many thousands of Euros / Dollars one
has to earn selling Lego to even make that list and I guess by 2017's standards
that nr has significantly been raised.
I think this website has become a selling platform first and a community second.
The "community" has loads of other forums these days to discuss their hobby and
I guess the BL admins are fine with that.
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2017 18:12 | | Subject: | Re: Shopping for Multiple Pieces | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| just use the "classic" (aka "working") version of the wanted list; much easier
and practical to work with and none of the non-essential giddy-ups
(thank god they brought back the classic version; they should never have removed
it in the first place IMO)
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Mar 20, 2017 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: BrickLink you are losing business | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| As long as it stays an OPTION and never becomes obligatory, I'm fine with
it.
It seems some sellers don't care someone is ALWAYS gonna lose money with
such a system: either the buyer being over charged for idiotic flat rate shipping
prices or the seller losing out when people order light but large items that
won't fit in bubble envelopes (for example the minifig wheelchair that came
out last year).
Only really, really big sellers can afford to lose money on shipping. Most (successful)
web stores offer a variety of extremely cheap flat rates or even free shippingbecause
they work together with shipping companies and pay them peanuts for deliveries
as long as the daily packages remain in the double digits.
In any case they are NEVER working together with the standard national postal
service as they rarely offer better prices than carriers.
I realize there are stores on BL who deal with such volumes who might benefit
from such a system, but at the same time I think some people are daydreaming
about incredibly increasing sales volumes because of this one feature (I do hope
for their sake I am wrong about this).
I've been on this site for over 13 years now and in my personal experience
this has always been a place for both "hobby sellers" and professional sellers.
I hope it can remain that way.
This might sound harsh, but if the big sellers are feeling BL is not catering
to their every need, perhaps they should consider seling Lego from their own
website. Let's see how much their sales will go up then when everything is
technically working as desired.
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Aug 27, 2015 15:46 | | Subject: | Re: Prohibit Vigilante Orders | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I get the sentiment of your statement, but all in all, how is Bricklink to decide
which order fits the definition of a "vigilante" order?
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Nov 17, 2013 07:23 | | Subject: | Re: Add a marbled color choice... | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I'm just curious here, but why are people still using the voting / suggestions
topic when it's pretty clear Bricklink admins stopped listening to suggestions
probably years ago?
http://www.bricklink.com/messageList.asp?ID=8&v=c&max=200&status=0
I would be glad if we had a catalog in which new items were actually added within
a 7 days timeframe after uploading and that those additions looked a lot less
random than they appear now from my POV.
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jun 6, 2013 14:47 | | Subject: | Re: Probably has already been suggested but... | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I agree, this would make for a very useful feature, especially when in a store
and wanting to the opposite: just selling the minifigs of a set
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2013 14:29 | | Subject: | Re: REAL photos near the sets for sale: | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I don't think it would be very practical as some sellers literally have hundreds
of sest to sell ...
For a lot of people (the non-professionals I mean) Bricklink is already too time-consuming
and it would only add to their workload.
For 99,95% of the cases I don't really see the point either: why do you absolutely
need to see a picture of a 70$ set? It can't be very rare for that price, so
I don't think box condition can be that important.
No, I think it's only logical you ask the seller for a picture of the set; if
he/she's refusing you that, just shop somehwere else; there's literally thousands
of sellers here.
Reki
PS: by the way, there's no point at all in posting a "suggestion". No one from
the admins has bothered to even look at suggestions for over 2 years now. 
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Sep 9, 2012 09:32 | | Subject: | Re: Please add a step to form the contract | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| you have my "yes" if the porposal includes an automated blocking to the store
in question, so abuse can be avoided.
Meaning, a clear banner stating "if you click "deny" you agree to being blocked
by this seller and will not have the option to place an order in this store again".
I think all fees should be made clear in advance (meaning be written in the store's
TOS) and that any unmentioned fees should be able to lead to a cancellation of
the order and an automated negative FB for the seller including the denial of
leaving FB themselves.
I believe any situation in life enholds rights and duties for both parties involved.
You have the right to drive your car on the road (if you have a permit that is),
but that enholds the duty to follow ALL traffic laws. If you do not know the
traffic laws, it will not free you from a fine when breaking them.
Same should go for Bricklink IMO: clicking "submit" on an order means you AGREE
to the store's TOS and all complaining afterwards is 20/20 hindsight and should
not be accomadated in any way.
ONLY when unexpected fees arise, but that is in my experience very rarily the
case on Bricklink, your proposal would make sense.
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2012 12:01 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution (Requirements by German Law) | | Viewed: | 80 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| "easy" for those who have a very expensive detailed scale and too much time on
their hands to submit data to the catalog (which I can only assume big sellers
do not have?), yes.
But for the other: they will add for example weight of a certain item: 1g (as
their scale is not scaled below that) which is perhaps more than the actual weight
(which might be 0.4g).
If that seller sells 1,000 items of this object, the weight will be 600g too
much and thus the shipping costs way too high.
Again, I do think in itself it's a brilliant idea, but the practical use on our
website (as we know it today) is very remote at best.
There's just so many dozens of examples of trouble-scenario's I can think of.
One last example perhaps: the sometimes VERY big difference between being able
to send an order in a padded envelope or in a box. When shipping in a box the
shipping costs are usually higher, though the line between having to use a box
instead of an envelope is a very thin one indeed.
How are the sellers going to define this in advance? Because, again, the seller
might end up paying more shipping costs than the buyer will.
Are German sellers (or any sellers for that matter) really willing to cough up
the extra costs?
Most people seem to compare this system with Amazon, Ebay and so on. THe biggest
difference is that the majority of those auctions / sales are for single items
where the seller can weigh in advance what the package will weigh and what kind
package is necessary for that item.
That is NOT possible on Bricklink as you have no idea in advance what kind of
parts a buyer will order.
Yet one more example then: ordering four 48x48 baseplates. The weight won't be
that spectacular, but I can assure you the total weight including the very big
box will be spectacualr compared to someone ordering the same weight in minifigs.
How would the Bricklink system take something like that into account?
No, sorry, I am really not sold and I feel sorry in advance for the people that
are obliged by law to use something like this as it is extremely impractical
(again, if you're not charging flat rates for shipping which will lead to overcharging
for a lot of small orders).
But hey, I welcome the technical people to counter my worries by nullifying all
my statements, but I do not have the feeling (yet) this has been thoroughly thought
through (now there's a tongue breaker), both from the BL people as by the German
government (no news there, politicans and law makers vary rarily think something
through in advance ).
Reki
In Suggestions, franz76906 writes:
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A seller is always responsible for all items listed and offered in his store.
Even now he can check if there are any items in his inventory with missing weigths
and in future he will have to add the weights to these items if he wants to avoid
mistakes and losses.
Quite easy, isn't it?
Kind regards
Thomas
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2012 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution (Requirements by German Law) | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| as far as I remember Ebay charges fees on the total price, including shipping
costs.
So in Rohnny's example a seller would be seriously F******. 
Reki
In Suggestions, DagsBricks writes:
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So the more upstanding sellers will just refund any significant difference after
they post. That's what I would do; bid high on shipping, give back the unused
portion.
Brian
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2012 08:25 | | Subject: | Re: Button Solution (Requirements by German Law) | | Viewed: | 91 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| It's a nice dream, but I'm afraid it's nothing more than that.
When ordering on BL the system uses the weight as mentioned in the catalog.
That weight is supplied by BL users and for new(-er) or very rare items (that
cannot be double-checked) that information might be incorrect or, as in a lot
of cases now, not mentioned at all.
Are you German sellers, by law, obligated to honour the shipping quote mentioned
on the checkout page, even if this price might not even come close to the actual
price paid?
I see a huge window of oportunity for BL users to seriously abuse German seller
by ordering items that do not have the weight added to the catalog (yet).
I could for example order 200 minifigs of which only one lot shows the weight
and then pay the price of 2-3€ for shipment, whereas the seller will pay a multitude
of that.
On Amazon, Ebay and so on the sellers (apparently) weigh the item before putting
it up for sale, thus having reliable figures to base their shipping quotes on
OR they use flat rates for shipment.
Only in that case (using flat rate) I see this proposition have any chance of
actually working (but still with room to abuse).
I am curious how they are going to find solutions for all the issues this proposition
is showing, but am not very optimistic.
Let's say it does work in the end (perhaps on BL 2.0): doesn't that create a
very unfair advantage of professional sellers towards "lay people" sellers as
those people will not be able to use flat rates and thus have very little use
for that system?
I know we're at a very early stage in this and many things have to be thought
through before proceeding, but thus far this "button" seems to raise a lot more
questions than it answers (IMO).
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Nov 20, 2011 08:53 | | Subject: | Re: Differentiate private and business sellers | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| big "yes" from me
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jul 13, 2011 21:23 | | Subject: | Re: On a lighter note...emoticons? | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| on a sidenote: I don't think any suggestion got implemented since Autumn last
year ...
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jul 13, 2011 21:22 | | Subject: | Re: On a lighter note...emoticons? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I made this suggestion about 5 years ago and back then it seemed nobody was willing
to do the job of implementing these into BL, which I always figured a shame.
Big "yes" from me!
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2011 13:25 | | Subject: | Re: Remove Top 10 Forum Posters League Table | | Viewed: | 55 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| well spoken, my Watson 
Reki
In Suggestions, Chickaroo writes:
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At a guess, I'd say the 10 people who spend most of their time in chat 
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Apr 22, 2011 04:22 | | Subject: | Re: Add optional European flag to location | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| voted "yes" on this one being a EU lover and member of a country without any
real identity
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2011 18:47 | | Subject: | Re: Credit Card required to sell on BrickLink | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| very undemocratic suggestion IMO, so I voted "no"
I realise in the US a credit card might be as mundane as a normal bank acocunt,
but in Europe a lot of people don't own a credit card (because we simply don't
really have much use for it except for putting ourselves in trouble with debts
piling up ) and it seems plain wrong to me that a seller here would have to
own one to be able to sell here.
It would be the death of Bricklink as we know it*.
Reki
* I'm well aware that this is an exaggeration
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jan 16, 2011 18:15 | | Subject: | Re: Option to Block Orders from Sellers | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | Build in a fully operative end-to-end shopping cart (one that accepts payments
automatically).
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And how would you see this work in the Bricklink reality????
I find myself being frustrated time after time when invoicing before packing,
finding out that the package weight exceeds my estimates (for example due to
needing a bigger box than anticipated).
How would this "automated shopping cart" work then? What kind of shipping cost
would be linked to the ordered parts?
Don't forget Amazon works sort of with fixed shipping prices and Ebay works with
selling single items per auction.
The majority of sellers here are people like me: hobby sellers with no option
to set fixed shipping prices.
It's a nice dream, but that's all it is I'm afraid ...
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2011 17:02 | | Subject: | Re: Cancel Order & Block FB for Customs Fraud | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| big "yes" from me
although it doesn't seem BL wants to get involved in any way, so I strongly doubt
they're gonna implement this one, especially since BL has followed Feebay in
protecting buyers a lot more than sellers and making the FB-removal process a
serious PITA.
And for the record, I am one of those people glad to have men like Thor and Rob
giving a boost to a more professional environment where it's OK to say out loud
"this is not OK".
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Jan 1, 2011 11:35 | | Subject: | Re: Ability to view Favorite Store Comments | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| "yes" from me
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Dec 11, 2010 11:28 | | Subject: | Re: Stop purging data | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| as nobody else seems to ask this, I will: to what purpose?
I mean, I wouldn't mind if promise could be made it wouldn't slow down the website,
but I'm just wondering why it would be necessary?
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Oct 31, 2010 16:51 | | Subject: | Re: Option to select 'minimal packaging' | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| I concurr: seeing you are a seller yourself: recycle the material when you send
your packages.
I've been doing that for years and never heard any complaints about it ...
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Oct 20, 2010 14:32 | | Subject: | Re: Allow Banned Subjects. | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| even though I am a strong defender of free speech in general and "fought" for
that right here in the Forum as well, I have never seen any good come out of
such discussions.
I think the decission to ban certain objects has merit and has improved the Forum
over time
after all, this is a Lego website and if people want to discuss non-Lego related
items, there's blogs and Forums in excess all around to do that on
so "no" from me
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2010 18:37 | | Subject: | Re: Pre-Registered Accounts | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| wow, you're really on a roll Thor!
Reki
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| Author: | Reki_Lobsheek | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2010 12:10 | | Subject: | Re: Remove hi/lo prices from Price Guide | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| voted yes
I think it's a great idea; would have even voted yes if the proposal was for
making this a standard for the price guide in general
Reki
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