Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Erikmax  | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 10:44 | | Subject: | Re: WARNING! Login from new device phishing emai | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, chetzler writes:
| | I had a couple of these this in my inbox this morning. They looked completely
legitimate. I did login in to BL from my work computer yesterday. When I have
logged in from work before, I have never gotten an email like this, but I thought
that maybe it was a new security feature.
Anyway, with a very official looking email in hand, I clicked the suggested logout
from all devices link and had just about entered my credentials in the new window
to log back in when I noticed two minor things that seemed just a bit off. I
won’t mention those things in case the fraudsters are reading. I looked at the
URL and it was very close to BrickLink’s (it was not the .net one that was mentioned
before). Needless to say, I immediately changed my PW and reenabled the one-time
PIN (I had turned it off because I was being repeatedly prompted for a new PIN
over very short time spans even when I hadn’t logged out). I’ll also be downloading
my inventory
BE DILIGENT! I’m a pretty suspicious person when it comes to online activity,
but, in my groggy state when I woke up this morning, I almost fell for a phishing
scheme presented as a very authentic looking email.
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Had the same about one week ago and also placed a warning in the forum. These
warnings cannot be repeated too much and I think there must be a permanent warning
for this on the welcome page. it certainly will prevent a lot of trouble. Not
everyone reads the forum and not everyone is aware of this.
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I don’t know why BrickLink has suddenly become such a juicy target. These people
have no hope of accessing any of my monetary accounts. I assume the goal is
to gain access to a legitimate shop so they can list high-dollar items to scam
other members.
I don’t envy the task that management has ahead of them, but they need to take
some substantive action soon. This is not a primary income stream for me, so
at some point, when all the gummy spam, phishing attempts, and slow helpdesk
response times become too much, I may simply close my store for a while. I don’t
need the extra headache of worrying about online security for a part-time job.
Had I fallen victim to this phishing attempt, I’m really not sure how much effort
I would have put into trying to recover my account. BrickLink just feels like
a dicier selling proposition lately.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 10:42 | | Subject: | Re: WARNING! Login from new device phishing emai | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, chetzler writes:
| | I had a couple of these this in my inbox this morning. They looked completely
legitimate. I did login in to BL from my work computer yesterday. When I have
logged in from work before, I have never gotten an email like this, but I thought
that maybe it was a new security feature.
Anyway, with a very official looking email in hand, I clicked the suggested logout
from all devices link and had just about entered my credentials in the new window
to log back in when I noticed two minor things that seemed just a bit off. I
won’t mention those things in case the fraudsters are reading. I looked at the
URL and it was very close to BrickLink’s (it was not the .net one that was mentioned
before). Needless to say, I immediately changed my PW and reenabled the one-time
PIN (I had turned it off because I was being repeatedly prompted for a new PIN
over very short time spans even when I hadn’t logged out). I’ll also be downloading
my inventory
BE DILIGENT! I’m a pretty suspicious person when it comes to online activity,
but, in my groggy state when I woke up this morning, I almost fell for a phishing
scheme presented as a very authentic looking email.
I don’t know why BrickLink has suddenly become such a juicy target. These people
have no hope of accessing any of my monetary accounts. I assume the goal is
to gain access to a legitimate shop so they can list high-dollar items to scam
other members.
I don’t envy the task that management has ahead of them, but they need to take
some substantive action soon. This is not a primary income stream for me, so
at some point, when all the gummy spam, phishing attempts, and slow helpdesk
response times become too much, I may simply close my store for a while. I don’t
need the extra headache of worrying about online security for a part-time job.
Had I fallen victim to this phishing attempt, I’m really not sure how much effort
I would have put into trying to recover my account. BrickLink just feels like
a dicier selling proposition lately.
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Had the same about one week ago and also placed a warning in the forum. These
warnings cannot be repeated too much and I think there must be a permanent warning
for this on the welcome page. it certainly will prevent a lot of trouble. Not
everyone reeds the forum and not everyone is aware of this.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2024 18:57 | | Subject: | Re: Account hacked -> poukra | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, realPoukram writes:
| | Hi !
My account has been hacked yesterday, since that my email adress was change,
my password was changed and then my username (from poukram to poukra)
The hacker add a set (75021) new and sealed for 250€ .... Now is not on store
anymore, hope someone don't get screw.
I've message the support, but no answer at all since yesterday.
Is their a way to make a break for an account ?
Many regards
the real poukram ...
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See my new post
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1458867
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2024 18:56 | | Subject: | BEWARE! HACK TRIALS!! | | Viewed: | 410 times | | Topic: | General | |
| Hi
This below may be a duplicate warning.
We got an e-mail that ' someone logged in to my account', 'contact
support' and then "Log device out of your account'.
Sender: support@brickslink.org
So is this the way accounts are hacked? If so, Bricklink should place a warning
to prevent this!
Regards
Erik
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 18:23 | | Subject: | Re: Unknown bricks in set 309 | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| In Catalog Identification, Stuart9 writes:
| | Some images :
In Catalog Identification, Erikmax writes:
| | I have a set 309 first box desgn(1958-1959) with bricks that look almost new.
The 2x4 red bricks are the 3001 old without side supports. There is something
strange with the 2x4 white. These bricks have the type bhol04, however they do
not have LEGO on the studs but a big word LEGO in the inside of the bricks. I
can't find them in the Bricklink catalogue. there are some other unknown
bricks in this set, 2x 1x2 red end 1x2 white with a channel that is much thinner
then 4216.I don't think these are early Chinese immitations 
But what are they? I don't suppose the set is changed in any way. In all
respects the set looks 'as being sold'.
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Hi
Yes it is the brick in the lower left corner. So it was a clearing of old stock?
And stock of old and newer times have been mixed, since the set also contained
the later version of the 2x4. (bho4).
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 16:37 | | Subject: | Re: Unknown bricks in set 309rt with the slots fil | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| In Catalog Identification, Stuart9 writes:
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The 2 x 4 is an unlisted variation, it’s a bslot04 of some sort with the added
hollow studs.
I believe it to be the transition to the normal hollow stud hollow bricks from
the original slotted bricks.
Does it have ghost slots at the ends or even on the sides, slot lines still visible
but filled with plastic ?
I believe I also have these with Lego logo on the studs and underneath on the
same bricks.
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Thank you for ther identification of the bslot vricks. No, the 2x4 do not have
a ghost slot. There are inly two of them in the set, the other ones are the bhol04
type.
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In Catalog Identification, Erikmax writes:
| | I have a set 309 first box desgn(1958-1959) with bricks that look almost new.
The 2x4 red bricks are the 3001 old without side supports. There is something
strange with the 2x4 white. These bricks have the type bhol04, however they do
not have LEGO on the studs but a big word LEGO in the inside of the bricks. I
can't find them in the Bricklink catalogue. there are some other unknown
bricks in this set, 2x 1x2 red end 1x2 white with a channel that is much thinner
then 4216.I don't think these are early Chinese immitations
But what are they? I don't suppose the set is changed in any way. In all
respects the set looks 'as being sold'.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Mar 1, 2024 16:01 | | Subject: | Unknown bricks in set 309 | | Viewed: | 115 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
| I have a set 309 first box desgn(1958-1959) with bricks that look almost new.
The 2x4 red bricks are the 3001 old without side supports. There is something
strange with the 2x4 white. These bricks have the type bhol04, however they do
not have LEGO on the studs but a big word LEGO in the inside of the bricks. I
can't find them in the Bricklink catalogue. there are some other unknown
bricks in this set, 2x 1x2 red end 1x2 white with a channel that is much thinner
then 4216.I don't think these are early Chinese immitations
But what are they? I don't suppose the set is changed in any way. In all
respects the set looks 'as being sold'.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 19:10 | | Subject: | Re: Allow for longer order history... | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, blueclad1 writes:
| | Hello Friends at Bricklink!
I have a suggestion for the "Orders Placed" page. Please allow for a
longer history of orders. I (as well as other professional builders) get to write
off our Bricklink orders on our taxes, and it doesn't help that my orders
expire from the page. If I need to reference them for tax season, they aren't
there. Currently I only show orders up till September 2023, but not before. It
would help to have access to orders *at least* going back to January 2023.
Thank you for considering this. It would make a huge difference to see this change
take place.
Bruce
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Agree. On all other platforms I sell and systems I use for selling, transactions
are kept for many years. For tax purposes 5 years would be the least. The '6
moth's is from a period that data storage costed a multiple of what is cost
now. And in some cases it is practible to an overview of transactions with a
specific buyer. I now have to print all invoices out.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 18:04 | | Subject: | Re: Versturen naar bv Amerika. | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| In LANG Nederlands, StarBrick writes:
| | Oe, dan wil ik graag je link waar jij dat zo goedkoop kunt versturen
Als ik via PostNL een brievenbuspakje (hoezo zwart?) wil versturen krijg ik dit:
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Als zakelijke klant betaal je 8,25 voor een tracked pakje naar de USA tot 100
gram.
https://www.postnl.nl/api/assets/blt43aa441bfc1e29f2/blt5b5dd0e5cdaa0cb4/65302c781b3edf57d2c162e0/landentarieven-zakelijk-2024.pdf
Volgens mij moet je wel netjes bij de KvK ingeschreven staan.
Een gewoon pakje kost 4,25. En daar de BTW zich richt naar de goederen -en die
exporteer je naar buiten de eu- ben je volgens mij dan - anders dan in de EU-
geen BTW verschuldigd.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 18:00 | | Subject: | Re: Versturen naar bv Amerika. | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| In LANG Nederlands, StarBrick writes:
| | Ik heb er enige tijd terug voor gekozen niet meer naar de USA te verzenden.
Sinds COVID zijn de verzendkosten bizar gestegen (ook vanuit de USA naar Europa
overigens).
Inmiddels 12 euro voor een brievenbuspakje met tracking van max 100 gram is mij
echt te gek.
Zélfs als een koper het zou willen betalen begin ik er niet meer aan.
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Het zakelijke tarief voor een track&trace buspakje tot 10 gram naar de USA is
6,25.
Dat valt dus wel mee, want een gewone brief kost 1,75x3-5,25 (zelfs naar Duitsland...)
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 17:54 | | Subject: | Re: Versturen naar bv Amerika. | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| In LANG Nederlands, Familybuild writes:
| | In LANG Nederlands, LineParts writes:
| | Hoe verzenden jullie tegenwoordig naar Amerika.
Is het nog toegestaan om dit in een envelope te versturen met een geprint adres
label, of moet het echt voorzien zijn met een scanbare barcode?
Voor 5 onderdelen wordt het wel een dure grap voor de koper en regelmatig wordt
er gevraagd om het cancelen van de order.
Alvast bedankt.
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Enveloppen zijn eigenlijk niet meer toegestaan voor goederen internationaal sinds
01-01-2020.(bedank ali express maar)
Veel verkopers bieden deze optie nog wel, maar eigenlijk moet het minimaal in
een brievenbus pakketje.
Naar de verenigde staten moet het voorzien zijn van een scanbare code , een formulier
voor de douane met de gegevens van koper en verkoper en bestelling.
Tevens moeten de items ingevoerd worden bij post nl, dit doe ik vrij gegeneraliseerd..
Als een klant 14 minifigs besteld heb ik 1 aangemeld item :
Lego minifigure : hoeveelheid 14..
Dit omdat er maar 5 artikelen toegevoegd kunnen worden in de app.)
Automatisch worden de verzendkosten vrij duur voor internationale transacties.
Gecombineerd met dat de verkoper verantwoordelijk blijft voor de order tot deze
is aangekomen (ongeacht wat de eventuele terms in de winkel beweren) is een ongetraceerde
zending vrij risicovol.
Daarom zou je eigenlijk ook niet moeten willen om goedkoop iets ongetraceerd
naar het buitenland te verzenden..
Groetjes Bastiaan
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Maar dan moet je in het PostNL systeem ook echt voor getraceerd kiezen. Anders
wordt de code alleen maar gebruikt voor het factureren. Dan is het dus wel een
soort bewijs van verzending, maar niet traceerbaar.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 17:51 | | Subject: | Re: Versturen naar bv Amerika. | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | LANG Nederlands | |
| In LANG Nederlands, LineParts writes:
| | Hoe verzenden jullie tegenwoordig naar Amerika.
Is het nog toegestaan om dit in een envelope te versturen met een geprint adres
label, of moet het echt voorzien zijn met een scanbare barcode?
Voor 5 onderdelen wordt het wel een dure grap voor de koper en regelmatig wordt
er gevraagd om het cancelen van de order.
Alvast bedankt.
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Mag eigenlijk niet, ik zend soms wel een klein elementje of een sticker in gefrankeerde
enveloppe. als je een zakelijke account hebt is het in sommige gevallen (gewichten)
veel voordeliger met een barcode via het PostNL systeem te verzenden. Het is
wel een hopeloos systeem, zeer traag, als je een adres invult dat al in het systeem
staat kun je opnieuw beginnen, je ziet ook niet wat het kost. Voordeel is wel
dat je (door bevestiging ontvangst en notaspecificatie) vast legt dat je echt
verzonden hebt. Veel gepuzzel geven koreaanse adressen, ik moet regelmatig vragen
'wat wat is' en ze passen niet altijd op het label. Met voortgaande online
adresseringen is het echt een groot probleem dat dat op bricklink niet eenduidig
is.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Dec 16, 2023 18:34 | | Subject: | Valse verwachtingen track&trace brieven | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| Een deel van onze klanten vraagt om verzending als brievenbuspakje. Daarbij hoort
een tracking nummer. We kregen de laatste weken meerdere klachten van klanten
die mededeelde dat de zending volgens track&trace bezorgd was, hetgeen niet het
geval was. Ook zelf heb ik bij de ontvangst van post ervaren.
Ik heb de postbode om verantwoording gevraagd. deze vertelde me dat de postbode
niet meer scant bij bezorging, maar dat de pakjes VOORAF (!) in de sorteercentrale
op bezorgd worden gezet.
Op zich heel bizar, want het is van track&tracve juist de bedoeling dat je weet
in welke status een zending is.
Maar het is nog veel vreemder: Deze zendingen worden 3 tot 6 dagen bezorgd NADAT
ze de status bezorgd hebben gekregen. Logisch dat de ontvanger ongerust wordt.
Zo is de tracking nog wel een bewijs dat de zending verzonden is, maar daar houdt
het dus bij op....
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Dec 10, 2023 08:11 | | Subject: | Re: 3% handling charge | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| In Buying, hpoort writes:
| | In Buying, Erikmax writes:
| | I ordered two 200 euro sets. To my surprise there was besides the postage costs
a 12,17 handling fee on the invoice what i did not expect. Yes it was mentioned
in the terms -3% handling fee- but I did not notice it, I am a very frequent
buyer but never have seen such a practice before.
I regard it fair when someone adds external costs such as paypal charges and
packing costs. But this is simply a raise of the price. In my view orderpicking
costs simply should be included in the product price. And charging over 12 Euro
(the handling was also calculated over the postagen costs) for 'picking'
two sets looks as bit adsurd to me.
Maybe I am wrong...the same set was offered from two anothe Dutch dealers for
200 euro
as well. But a surcharge of 3% on the price makes the pricelist less transparant
as well.
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Voor de Nederlandse markt is deze vorm van prijsopslag volgens mij niet toegestaan:
https://www.acm.nl/nl/verkoop-aan-consumenten/consumenten-informeren/prijzen-vermelden
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You are absolutely right, I think it is for the whole European market. When you
buy you need to see all costs as soon as you buy. I did not mention it, because
dealers who do not chooses automatic checkout will not see the postage and other
costs. I do not mind if the extra costs are reasonable costs for postage and
paypal. I am adding these costs myself in my oswn shop. But when someone simply
adds a % to its prices it is undoubtedly \agains European rules, even when mentioned
in the terms.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Dec 10, 2023 06:47 | | Subject: | 3% handling charge | | Viewed: | 133 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
| I ordered two 200 euro sets. To my surprise there was besides the postage costs
a 12,17 handling fee on the invoice what i did not expect. Yes it was mentioned
in the terms -3% handling fee- but I did not notice it, I am a very frequent
buyer but never have seen such a practice before.
I regard it fair when someone adds external costs such as paypal charges and
packing costs. But this is simply a raise of the price. In my view orderpicking
costs simply should be included in the product price. And charging over 12 Euro
(the handling was also calculated over the postagen costs) for 'picking'
two sets looks as bit adsurd to me.
Maybe I am wrong...the same set was offered from two anothe Dutch dealers for
200 euro
as well. But a surcharge of 3% on the price makes the pricelist less transparant
as well.
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2023 06:13 | | Subject: | Address problems | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
| Formely I copy/pasted adresses, but for some years now I have to fill in an online
formular to ship abroad.
But addresses are unclear in some cases, especiallaly from South Korean and Chinese
customers.
So I often have to ask what-is-what, sometime building names, room numbers, steet
names and numbers come in one line - too long anyway to put in the formular and
in many cases impossible to untie.
This often gives a lot of extra communication and delays. The english language
or let me say my english language- is not allways understood.
It will also cause improper addressings.
So what I suggest is making a fixed format for addresses according to the standards
postal administrations use for their online fomulars.
So a line for street, a field for streetnumber, a line for building name, city,
provibce/region etc.
This would make it much easier to ship, avoid a lot of communication and delays.
regards
Erik
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2023 05:04 | | Subject: | Re: Problem CN22 custom declare | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, Ddriver writes:
| | In Problem, 129samot writes:
| | from what I know shipping costs are included in declared value
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Incorrect.
Best regards Daniel and stay healthy.
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I allways exclude shipping costs from the CN22 formular. However, when I ship
goods to the UK all other costs are added up to the value by Bricklink and the
VAT is calculated for the total. Sorry I did not check the whole thread for this,
but this brings uo the question to me: Is this correct?
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Jan 5, 2023 17:38 | | Subject: | Custom uphold in USA | | Viewed: | 112 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| Every year we ship a lot of parcels to the USA, but recently we had two problems
with shipping upholded by the US customs for 4 weeks and arriving after 6 weeks.
The most recent case is a parcel of about 400 euro, send to Colorado.
order paid 08-12
order shipped by us 09-12
order received in dutch sorting center 10-12
order reached the US 17-12 (So it took 7 days..)
order under inspection sinnce 17-12.
Our buyer is very upset about this and asked me for action. But what else can
I do than just wait?
All papers are correctly added to the shipment, I supplied the tracking to the
buyer.
Someone told me that the custom handling in some states takes very long. Does
anyone has similar experiences?
Erik
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Sep 22, 2022 11:39 | | Subject: | Re: Fake grima's? | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, Erikmax writes:
| | Way back in 2013 I bought a very large number of LOR sets and splitted them,
offering the parts and kept the minifigs as an investment. I now offer part of
my stock in my shop. recently I sold one of the Grima's (lor072)I have.
After receiving the shipment I was contacted by the buyer that he wanted to return
the figure because he thought the grima was fake, because
" I have a question about the Grima minifigure you sent. Your shipped Lego figure
will not have as rounded shoulders as most other Lego minifigures. They are sharper."
As I am very sure I shipped genuine figures, can this be explained?
I offered the buyer to return, because I want my buyers to feel comfortable with
what they bought.
Erik
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In fact I feel a bit sad about this. Despite his post buyer still wants to shop
back. I pointed him to my privat website where I offer 5x the sticker and the
manual for the set grima came from. It is his right anyway to return so i have
to accept it and I think that a buyer should feel satisfied with his order, But
in this case i don't understand. Costed 14 Euro to ship it...And for the
buyer 14 Euro to ship it back...
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| Author: | Erikmax | | Posted: | Sep 22, 2022 11:32 | | Subject: | Re: Fake grima's? | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
| In Problem, zorbanj writes:
| | In Problem, Erikmax writes:
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As I am very sure I shipped genuine figures, can this be explained?
I offered the buyer to return, because I want my buyers to feel comfortable with
what they bought.
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Buyer may be trying to return a fake and keep the genuine figure that you mailed.
See what you get back.
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Hi
Yes I do so, but I trust my buyer just like I want him to trust me...
We have 9 copies to compare...
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