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| In My Own Creation, Admin_Russell writes:
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This up and down republishing activity was done ostensibly to deal with a bad
actor in the Gallery who was targeting members and their designs.
Before we developed tools to handle the abusive behavior, some members would
unpublish their designs as a way to prevent the bad actor from hitting their
model comments during the hours when the BrickLink office was closed. They would
then republish when it was "safe" and content could be reported and taken down
immediately.
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Okay, so that makes sense that the design are still ‘popular.’
| | Is this the only user that has been republishing designs recently?
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Seems not: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1357765
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 15:15 | | Subject: | Re: Stolen MOCs and front page manipulation | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| In My Own Creation, IBrickedItUp writes:
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Thank you! There are a couple other users doing similar unpublish/republish tricks
too. It just seems manipulative to me.
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Yes, it is. And all that to have their 15min vainglory on the Studio Gallery.
I hope the devs will quickly find a simple block for that.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 13:25 | | Subject: | Re: SYSTEM ERROR/BUG: Negative Order Quantities | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, jennnifer writes:
IIRC, there’s been a couple others recently… without real reason / solution…
except “wait & look again after maintenance.”
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 13:10 | | Subject: | Re: Am I adopted? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, maxx3001 writes:
| | ………….
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Brr, creepy.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 13:09 | | Subject: | Re: Random question: | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, BricksOfFaith writes:
| | I’m going to start up my eBay account here soon, and sell some Lego on there
too. Am I allowed to advertise for that on my store splash page and maybe on
the BL forum along with my BL store’s Sale announcements for example?
Thanks for any help!
Please don’t be mean. I feel like every time I ask a question, y’all get mad
at me.
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The answers are in the ToS:
— Forum: 16.6, no active promotion of competitors, no links to them.
— Selling: 10.5, no link to other sites (any other site) in your store.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 13:05 | | Subject: | Re: Please Explain Rejected Changes | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog Requests, Admin_Russell writes:
Hmm, ‘Tourist’… I wonder in what countries this is a firstname
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 12:55 | | Subject: | Re: Stolen MOCs and front page manipulation | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
| In My Own Creation, IBrickedItUp writes:
| | For the last several months, the user Bill_FM has published, unpublished, and
republished their MOCs in order to manipulate the "popular" page. For example
their Lamborghini was just "published" yesterday, yet has comments dating back
to May. That same MOC is also not even their own creation. It is the work of
the user Alex_Qwerty that Bill_FM recolored and called their own. At one point
they credited the original designer in the description, but that has been removed
in the current iteration.
My question is if publishing, unpublishing, and republishing the same MOCs multiple
times in order to garner likes and remain on the default popular page an acceptable
practice? Or is it more appropriate to allow users to see new models from many
different designers instead of the same 3-4 MOCs from a single user?
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Hi, I forwarded to the admins in charge of the Gallery. They’ll look into it.
And something may be done to prevent the gaming of the popular page….
For copyright infrigements, as explained in section 25 of the ToS, the official
way is for the author/right-holder to contact customersupport@bricklink.com …
but you may also report the member through the Problem Center (link at the bottom
of every page) with links to the infringed & infringing designs: https://www.bricklink.com/problemMember.asp
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 09:22 | | Subject: | Re: all sets you own | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, TheCuteGiraffe writes:
| | About 50 hours I think.
I have about 250-280 sets,
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Hmm, that’s 10-12 min per set.
Are you Flash? Or are they all polybags?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 15, 2022 09:20 | | Subject: | Re: Issue with fees | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| (No e-mail addresses on the forum, please.)
In Help, Tiny_TNT writes:
| | I have an issue with BL regarding store fees that were paid on June 7, but never
properly credited. My store have been suspended twice . . . I have now paid
the fees three times to get it opened. Frustrated. . .
They have not responded to this issue after multiple emails.
How can I contact a specific individual to get this resolved?
Thank you in advance,
tiny_tnt
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 14, 2022 15:00 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 71700-1 | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, Starlight82 writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 4 Part 44861 Black Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Open O Clip on Top (Counterpart)
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Seems you mean ‘Alternate’, not ‘Counterpart’ 
And you need:
— to give it an MID (‘1’ in this case as there’s no other Alternate groups yet),
— to ‘C’hange inventory item ID 979581 (the lot for the 4x 92280) to add the
‘1’ MID so the two lots are paired.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 14, 2022 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: Bricks and Pieces / Pick a Brick | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, macebobo writes:
| | In LEGO, uticabrix writes:
| | No new parts will be or exclusive parts will be made available to the public.
Only for missing parts in a set.
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Was this on new elementary or elsewhere? This is really a bummer.
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About rules of the new service:
“We have received assurance that the uncommon elements available from Bricks
& Pieces, such as unique printed pieces, will continue to be available on the
new merged platform, although their release may take slightly longer than is
currently the case.”
— https://brickset.com/article/68955
But, AFAIU, concerning parts availability, there’s been delays in setting it
up and logistical problems (following COVID and the lack of containers and whatnot).
Hmm, it’s showing 11139 parts available and 12393 if I show the unvailable ones…
that’s 10% unvailable… but, of course, they are the most wanted ones (like many
animals).
Now, if they are ‘out of stock,’ that means that there’s times when they are
available….
One could wonder if some BL sellers aren’t grabbing them as soon as they are
available 
(Ooh, they finally added an option to have more than 20 items per page!
Just needs a not-DUPLO filter now….)
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2022 18:40 | | Subject: | Re: My Shelves and Pick System Video | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, macebobo writes:
| | In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | do you write contracts in your spare time?
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Looks like a licence agreement to me… and the only people who read them are…
programmers!
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Nope, we don't read them either.
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Guess I’m not a True Programmer then.
| | The only people that read them are the interns at law offices that are in document
review.
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Still, we all recognized what Sylvain wrote….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2022 18:18 | | Subject: | Re: My Shelves and Pick System Video | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | do you write contracts in your spare time?
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Looks like a licence agreement to me… and the only people who read them are…
programmers!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2022 18:05 | | Subject: | Re: My Shelves and Pick System Video | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Yup! But if you use any normal ingredients id think your trying to kill me
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Won’t use mustard for sure
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2022 17:55 | | Subject: | Re: My Shelves and Pick System Video | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Off Topic, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | On a side note is it just me or does it seam like half the forum users are
programmers?
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Many people have some programming experience, even if they aren't "programmers"
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But isn’t one who programs a programmer?
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Let me cook for you, and you'll tell me I'm a cook???
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You sure he’ll be able to say anything after having eaten?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2022 17:53 | | Subject: | Re: My Shelves and Pick System Video | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Off Topic, macebobo writes:
| | There was some interest in my shelving system with LEDs for which I custom wrote
some software, so I took a really quick video to show it off. You can watch that
video here:
https://youtu.be/kpmAs9pOU7s
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You must be a fan of hackaday? - I am!!!
I've found a far more economical system; it says "pick at A01-05", so you
go to columns "A", find the "01" one (the first, obviously), and pick in the
"05" (fifth) drawer.
There's a sticker on it showing "A01-05".
No LED, no wire, no power.
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But you need to read. And even if it’s not long, it’s a bit longer than seeing
a light.
So I’m not sure your system is more ‘optimal.’
Anyway, my system is way better: all in my mind, positional memory.
Now, where’s the remote control again?
| | In short, what you did is a very nice system for sure, but IMHO here, a bit overkill
and not really optimal for production
But, again, sincere congratulations!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 13, 2022 17:42 | | Subject: | Re: My Shelves and Pick System Video | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Off Topic, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | On a side note is it just me or does it seam like half the forum users are
programmers?
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Many people have some programming experience, even if they aren't "programmers"
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But isn’t one who programs a programmer?
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Hmm, is that a trick question? ‘True Scotsman’ and all that….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 17:14 | | Subject: | Re: I dont have good time managment | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I just spent the last 30-45 minutes editing this photo so it can hopefully be
added as an alternate image for a part which people will barely see how did
you guys spent the last 30-45 min
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I read War & Peace…
… but just the back cover. I thought it was a book about LEGO with a typo in
the title….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 13:47 | | Subject: | Re: Pictures. | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | I resubmitted it now. apparently either 1. I don't know the difference between
125 pixels and w or h of 125. or the size limit message isn't accurate
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(missing a ‘2.’ in there )
125 x 125 pixels,
JPEG or GIF,
and max 50kB.
AFAICT, the image isn’t modified (I downloaded mine and it’s the exact same file
as the one I have locally).
Check if it looks good before submitting as the authorization can take time
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 12:58 | | Subject: | Re: Pictures. | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | […]
Arnt second languages just so much fun
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Personally, I think the fun starts at the first language
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 12:38 | | Subject: | Re: train wire 5306C01 | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Catalog, Erikmax writes:
| | you can see a black round piece around the cable. I
have no idea what it is- maybe something to suppress intereference?
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Yes. That’s what ferrite core are for.
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*cores
sigh…
| | | | I found three cable in a lot I bought that do not have this round piece. The
cables look new in every respect and it is unlikely these round pieces have been
removed. (no sign of cable replacent either and the cnnections look brandnew)
The cables are original LEGO pieces. When searching on the internet, I noted
some similar cables although most have the black round piece.
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Maybe it depends on the legislation about interferences… or cost savings.
| | Is this a variety of the 5306c01? Or can anyone tell me what the round piece
is?
Erik
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: train wire 5306C01 | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Erikmax writes:
| | you can see a black round piece around the cable. I
have no idea what it is- maybe something to suppress intereference?
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Yes. That’s what ferrite core are for.
| | I found three cable in a lot I bought that do not have this round piece. The
cables look new in every respect and it is unlikely these round pieces have been
removed. (no sign of cable replacent either and the cnnections look brandnew)
The cables are original LEGO pieces. When searching on the internet, I noted
some similar cables although most have the black round piece.
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Maybe it depends on the legislation about interferences… or cost savings.
| | Is this a variety of the 5306c01? Or can anyone tell me what the round piece
is?
Erik
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: Pictures. | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | […]
| | And it’s easy for me: I don’t pronounce ‘than’ and ‘then’ the same way.
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Interesting
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Yep, it’s part of the conjecture I’ve about why many non-native speakers are
good with grammar:
— unless totally bilingual, we always at least partially or unconsciously translate
to/from our mother tongue and its grammar,
— we learn english through writing first or at least together with oral, not
oral first,
— we have bad accents that makes us differentiate homophones like ‘than/then’,
‘they’re/there/their’, ‘you’re/your’…
— or we have the same words (or close enough) in our mother tongue and they sound
very different there: ‘effect/affect’, ‘principle/principal’…
— and, of course, we are careful and check before posting
For instance, I learned ‘you’re’ as ‘you + are’ (tu es|vous êtes) and ‘your’
as a possessive (ton/ta/tes|votre/vos). So, even if I manage to get my tongue
to pronounce english correctly (not an easy task) and make ‘you’re’ and ‘your’
sound the same, the sounds come last, so no problem in writing.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 11:48 | | Subject: | Re: Pictures. | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | […]
Updated! Thankyou for finding that!
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Your remark was almost a dare
And it’s easy for me: I don’t pronounce ‘than’ and ‘then’ the same way.
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Yah English was one of the ones I especially didn’t like to much probably second
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‘too much’ 
I don’t understand why: French is so easy that small kids around here speak French!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 10:43 | | Subject: | Re: Pickup Request Lost | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
| In Shipping, SomeRandomUser writes:
| | I'm currently without a car since mine isn't safe to drive currently.
That isn't a big problem since I work from home but to get packages shipped
off, I have been relying on pickup requests through PirateShip.
I had several packages picked up a few days ago but one of them still says that
USPS is awaiting the item. I'm not sure if I should have asked the buyer
if they wanted a refund, but I really don't want to keep someone waiting
for a package that'll never arrive. I guess I take the loss out of a desire
to keep people happy.
Really disappoints me since it was a $30 parts order after shipping.
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Maybe it was just not scanned correctly. It will be scanned later… maybe only
at delivery. According to many threads here, it happens a lot.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 10:41 | | Subject: | Re: contacting seller | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | Here you can see if the email has been read or not
Nicolas
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Note that it’s only one-way: you can know the message was read, when the ‘no’
becomes ‘yes’, but not that it was absolutely not read because many people get
their BL messages by e-mail and read only the e-mail.
As for delays, wait at least a day or two. It depends on the ‘profesionnal-ness’
of the seller: whether it’s a big store with employees to check all day long
or a hobbyist that only checks every other day or on the week end.
Check their terms & splash screen too.
Some say wether & how they answer questions.
The answer may already be in there too (and it’s often why the seller doesn’t
answer… even if it’s not always very clear except to them ).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 12, 2022 08:37 | | Subject: | Re: Pictures. | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
| In Off Topic, Nubs_Select writes:
| | most of them are probably me checking for spelling errors
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It’s ‘then’ not ‘than’ on the 3rd line
‘Than’ is for comparisons.
‘Then’ is for time sequences or consequences.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2022 13:27 | | Subject: | Re: What can I consider New? | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Feedback, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Feedback, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Feedback, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | I would do the same. People who assemble new bricks (especially plates) are physcopaths
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Agreed - but the same for Minifigs
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So, your buyers are psychopaths? Because I’m pretty sure a lot them will assemble
the bricks and minifigures they bought
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People buy LEGO to be able to have the pleasure to successfully assemble kits
themselves.
This kit or an other one; they wish to decide what to do of those parts.
If I buy this Minifig, it may be to use some of the parts to do something else.
It'd be stupid to get them assembled, THEN have to disasemble them.
It's just "stacked for shipping", silly IMO.
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Agreed totally. I was just making fun of the blanket statement
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2022 13:22 | | Subject: | Re: What can I consider New? | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Feedback, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Ummm... so they don’t rub against each other? Unless (and I’m pretty sure I’ve
seen it before) you do what some people do and individually bag each piece of
the minifigure which it phycotic (except for rare/expensive figures)
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I think that depends how you store and manipulate your bags afterward.
If you put them all loose in a big box and need to stir them to find one, then
yes, they’ll rub.
If they are neatly stored and easy to reach without moving them, then no.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2022 13:13 | | Subject: | Re: What can I consider New? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
| In Feedback, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | I would do the same. People who assemble new bricks (especially plates) are physcopaths
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Agreed - but the same for Minifigs
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So, your buyers are psychopaths? Because I’m pretty sure a lot them will assemble
the bricks and minifigures they bought
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 11, 2022 12:48 | | Subject: | Re: Set 41192 instructions | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, Ciolfi79 writes:
| | Good morning everyone,
I have searched through the topics and posts but, nowhere can I find the solution
to the specific problem.
I searched the internet in every place, I wrote directly to lego that for the
first time did not give me an answer.
I try here: in the second instruction booklet of set 41192, the assembly sequence
from steps 6 and 7 goes to 12 and 13 followed by 10 and 11 and again 12 and 13.
It is a known error on the net, but no one has solutions ...
Even if you understand the assembly, it is possible no one has ever produced,
even on their own, in case, the instructions with the steps 8 and 9 ???
I hope you can help me
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
So, what you want is a corrected version of the instructions?
It shouldn’t be very difficult to do with Studio.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 10, 2022 18:21 | | Subject: | Re: Vertical scroll bar vanished?! | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, scathekh writes:
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I'm afraid it's not that simple. I did every conceivable internet fix
for this issue on Monday. Nothing has worked...
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What browser and which version?
See this previous thread:
https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=324287&nID=1352183
It seems (to me at least ) the cookie banner doesn’t load entirely and then
blocks the rest of the page (including the scrollbar).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 10, 2022 11:18 | | Subject: | Re: Automate Set inventory from lego data feed? | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Catalog Requests, kdwykleingeld writes:
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Should i add 1 extra line for each part that i find 1 extra piece for in the
set (compared to what is the number in the instruction manual) - so as an EXTRA
part ?
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Yes, mostly. The quantities should be checked by building the set (or fake-building:
just counting the parts while reading the instructions).
It’s not unheard of for LEGO to make errors in the inventories.
(And, please, cut your previous text when answering. Having to scroll down is
annoying )
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 10, 2022 10:18 | | Subject: | Re: Automate Set inventory from lego data feed? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Catalog Requests, kdwykleingeld writes:
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Actually - the csv inventory from BRICKSET combined with the codes csv from bricklink
has been of great help to me to generate the XML file that is needed to import
the set inventory into bricklink -- i am just waiting for my new items and
images to be approved ..
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You seem not to have understood my first remark in https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1355609:
“First, LEGO inventories (the same as on Brickset) are already used to
pre-fill BL inventories […]”
… and to have missed / skipped the option when you created that inventory.
IOW, when you create an inventory on BL, you have the option to use the data
from LEGO to pre-fill the inventory.
It does exactly what you did whith your CVS files… but without your having to
lift a finger!
IOOW, what you’re suggesting already exists, but we failed to explain it to you
correctly and you then missed the option when you created that inventory.
Sorry for the extra work you did….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 9, 2022 11:58 | | Subject: | Re: Buying from wanted list filter within a store | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, badlego writes:
| | When I search for "wanted items" via the in store filter, Bricklink displays
all my wwanted items that store sells. great. however it includes items I already
have and have marked as "have". how do I stop displaying already owned items
without deleting them from my wanted list? I'm keeping them for reference.
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Click All Filters then check the box at the bottom.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 9, 2022 09:50 | | Subject: | Re: What is this? Can't find any info. | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, azbrickz writes:
| | I'm not able to add a micro link, but it is this:
Microfigure Lego Champion Female Pink Dress
Item No: 85863pb071
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Just type ‘[ m = 85863pb071 ]’ without the spaces
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 16:54 | | Subject: | Re: Why such a difference in pricing? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Price Guide | |
| In Price Guide, Drevil44 writes:
| | In Price Guide, Nubs_Select writes:
| | In Price Guide, legomalego writes:
| | I have CDO, its very much the same as OCD but the letters are displayed alphabetically
as they should be.
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LMAO
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I think you mean ALMO.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 16:05 | | Subject: | Re: Why such a difference in pricing? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Price Guide | |
| In Price Guide, 1001bricks writes:
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People basing prices on other people's prices?
Wow - that's a scoop
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AFOLs often claim they are OCD… but they don’t check the prices of left & right
aren’t the same or it doesn’t bother them when they check? Pff, not real OCD
then.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 16:02 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out sets with Counterparts | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | One problem with that is that there’s no link between the Counterpart and its
component parts… except its inventory. So you need to import the set inventory
with Counterparts and remove all the inventories for the Counterparts.
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Yep, guessed this.
| | That can be long if it’s not automitized.
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If it can't be automitized (hee hee automitized) there's still the manual
approach in BrickStore which is very easy.
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You, you’re not lazy enough. I’m sure it could be automAtized.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 15:40 | | Subject: | Re: Why such a difference in pricing? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Price Guide | |
| In Price Guide, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Price Guide, Drevil44 writes:
| | Perhaps someone could explain to me why there is a such a pricing disparity between
these 2 left and right parts in Sand Blue colour since they both come only from
the same one set?
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It's almost always the same for wedges, wedge plates, etc.
They're mainly NOT used to rebuild the original Set, but to build personal
creations or downloaded MOCs...
... in which only one of the pair may be used.
Which then creates a difference in price (because offer / demand).
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Seems those offer/demand things have a long hysteresis because when you look
at the stock, some have decades of stock and there’s still a price difference.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 15:31 | | Subject: | Re: Parting out sets with Counterparts | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Inventories, 1001bricks writes:
| | In Inventories, Yo_Yo_Flamingo writes:
| | Is there any way in which to part out sets including their counterparts (such
as Groot, Fluffy, etc) as a single assembly, and not have those parts listed
twice (once as the counterpart, once from the main set inventory? Either Brickstore
or Bricklink parting out would be fine.
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I'm not sure what you exactly wish, but with BrickStore you can almost do
whatever you want, either when parting out, or just after in the list (sort,
select, delete...) a few clicks.
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AFAIU, they don’t want to choose between importing the Counterparts or not, they
want them imported as an assembly and removed from the Regular parts.
Import a car: get the 4x wheel+tyre assemblies but not the 4x wheels + the 4x
tyres.
One problem with that is that there’s no link between the Counterpart and its
component parts… except its inventory. So you need to import the set inventory
with Counterparts and remove all the inventories for the Counterparts. That
can be long if it’s not automitized.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 09:08 | | Subject: | Re: Not Lego ? | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | As I’m human like anyone else ( you may disagree ) , I’d like to check that I
haven’t missed anything.
Not Lego to me, anyone know better ?
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The golden weapon looks like:
and
to join them, but your 92690 seems too short (and I guess they
are all one piece).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 07:39 | | Subject: | Re: 6980 Galaxy Commander - parts 4081a & 4085a | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Catalog Requests, peregrinator writes:
| | […]
I don't know much about 4085b but I'm very skeptical that 4081b was produced
when this set was released. The page for 4081b gives production years of 1980-2022
but I would be shocked if that were true - it would mean that the two different
molds were used from the start.
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‘Production years’ for parts are automatically derived from production years
of the sets they appear in. So they are mostly wrong.
Say the real dates for variant A were from 1980 to 1987 and for variant B from
1985, as soon as there’s a set produced from 1980 that was also found with a
B, B’s years are extended to cover this set’s years and therefore become 1980-2022.
One way to correct this error would be for the site to not take into account
the sets for which the part is only in Alternate.
And for real accuracy, we need to be sure that for all Regular/Alternate couples
in inventories, the older part is always in Regular and the newer always in Alternate.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 07:32 | | Subject: | Re: Looking For Part | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, eaglem1 writes:
| | Well normally, that would work. But I am making a custom street lamp post that
a wire can go all the way through the post to the lamp to light it up.
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So, if you need a Technic pin, and if you need its inner tube to stay empty,
that means you want to connect the pin into a Technic hole, no?
In that case, you simply & directly connect the Technic hole to the stud at the
top of the cone.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 15:27 | | Subject: | Re: Call for Help from EXPERIENCED sellers!! | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Help | |
| In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | They have education in America?
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The best you can buy.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 15:22 | | Subject: | Re: LBG and DBG used as a color in a search field | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
| | In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | It would need lots of repetition in names.
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Depends. It's possible to set up a search index to include synonyms at index
time (so you would say that "DBG" is a synonym for "dark bluish gray" for example)
or at search time (so that "DBG" and maybe "dark bluish grey" and "dark bley"
translate to "dark bluish grey"). Modifying the search functionality is probably
the easiest thing to do here on BL (to change the indexing would mean re-indexing
everything).
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One could do a local script on one’s browser to replace LGB (etc.) with the long
version(s) when one types it (them) in the BL search boxes.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 12:13 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for a reverse print 973p14c01 | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Wanted | |
| (Adding the image for reference.)
In Wanted, rainbowmist writes:
| | with the reverse print black/red stripes.
Anyone have one for sale????
Thank you.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 11:59 | | Subject: | Re: Sales tax distance selling | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
| In Taxes, sikennedy writes:
| | I am running a store in Luxembourg to sell the bulk of my collection and it’s
taking time because I have 3000plus sets.
My understanding from the tax office and from an accountant is that I do not
have to register because even tho my sales are over 10k I am selling private
lego and I am not a trader. I have never bought to sell or claimed any of my
sets in my store against tax. It’s the same as if I was selling a painting privately.
I have had repeated emails with bricklink but they have limited me to selling
within Luxembourg. What can I do?
I am downsizing so this could become a nightmare for me!any advice appreciated!
Thanks
Simon
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I look at in this way:
Old Rule: When someone sells something in a EU country (theirs or another EU
country), above a given threshold (per country), they have to be registered and
collect VAT (for that country), whatever their status in other countries.
New Rule, OSS: When someone sells something in other EU countries, above €10k
(total on all EU countries except their own), they have to be registered and
collect VAT for those countries, whatever their domestic status. And the old
rule only applies domestically now.
And if you look at your situation back with only the old rule: if country X had
a threshold of €10k and your country had a threshold of €100k, you wouldn’t have
to be registered in your country but you would have to be in country X if you
sold for more than €10k there.
The new rule is the same… it’s just that ‘country X’ is now ‘all other EU countries
together.’
Also, I don’t know the rules in Luxembourg, but in France, when you sell your
personnal stuff for more than €5k/year, you’re taxed on the added
value at a rate similar to VAT (see what I did with bold? ). In all
but name, that places you in the same case as a VAT-registered business using
the margin scheme.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 06:29 | | Subject: | Re: OSS - my price +/- VAT | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
| | […]
[…]
Now I don't get your reply.
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It’s because my last neurons have been steamed the last few days
I read
| | | | | | You uploaded a lot at 10€ and included your HU VAT 27%, so your price is 12.70€
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as: you set the price at €10, you have VAT at 27%, then the price is €12.70.
What I meant to emphasize is that sellers put the final price (12.70€)… and,
sometimes, the VAT is removed from that (which leads to €10).
For OP’s situation, as their store is VAT-doesn’t-apply in Hungary, their price
is €12.7-VAT-doesn’t-apply in Hungary.
They shouldn’t think the price is €10 + 27% VAT because VAT doesn’t apply for
them in HU!
And they don’t export to non-EU at 0% VAT either because there’s no VAT in their
prices. So the price is €12.7 for non-EU buyers too.
What I’m not sure about is whether they can ADD VAT for EU buyers (so €15.4 for
a French buyer) or if it should work as BL works now: that the VAT is considered
included (so €12.7 for a French buyer, of which the seller has to remitt €2.12
of VAT, so earns only €10.58).
That VAT-doesn’t-apply-domestically-but-does-in-EU is indeed weird… but legal.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 6, 2022 06:12 | | Subject: | Re: OSS - my price +/- VAT | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
| | […]
You can be non-VAT AND OSS enabled???
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Apparently, yes.
| | OSS registration needs a VAT-ID, doesn't it?
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Yes. But anyone can ask for a VAT-ID. Having a VAT-ID is not the same as having
to collect VAT.
https://entreprendre.service-public.fr/vosdroits/F23570
“L'entreprise non redevable de la TVA peut, si elle le souhaite, demander
l'attribution d'un numéro de TVA intracommunautaire.”
“Une entreprise dépendant du régime de la franchise de TVA ne perdra pas les
avantages de ce régime s'il demande un numéro de TVA intracommunautaire.”
| | Sorry - I don't understand this seller case then.
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