BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, jshuber writes:

In searching through the categories for Lego sets, I could not find one that
included Lego games. Over the years Lego has produced many games: chess sets,
mazes, Heroica, etc. Is this omission an oversight or is it because there is
little market for used game sets? In either case, I felt disappointed in the
absence of such a category.

I voted NO. It's already there under main category 'Gear'.

/Asger

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

May 27, 2019 06:00

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Re: Helpful but ....

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Voted YES - it's a really good proposal for a simple improvement.

/Asger

In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:

Firstly let me say that we know suggestions are not being implemented and according
to MP no work is being done on the classic site however this is a small request
which doesn't require huge amounts of development time and would make life
a bit easier.

Currently the method of manually adding inventory is long winded, provides no
audit trail of what has been done and at best is clumsy.

We use Brickstock for most of our updates to our store. It is much easier, quicker
and provides us with a complete audit trail - the only real snag is what happens
when the file gets to Bricklink, The verify screen drops off the Bricklink part
number for some reason so we are left with an audit trail which, when variants
are involved, isn't really all that helpful, although to be fair we have
used this for some time.

Simply placing the bricklink product code on the verify screen would be very
helpful and this is not a major programming issue. At the same time give us a
print button to print that screen Using the print command from the browser doesn't
work well with the page setup falling short of what is needed.

This is a simple matter and could be resolved in minimal time - please implement.

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Apr 15, 2019 06:12

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Re: 7018 Viking Midgard Serpent - 2 x red horns

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Inventories

In Inventories, Cavalady writes:

I've just put together set 7018 (Viking ship battles the Midgard Serpent).
Inventory calls for 8 red horns (53451). Six are for the serpent but I can't
for the life of me see where the other two are supposed to go? Anyone able to
help?

Cheers!

Brick By Brick Shop

The serpent uses 8 red horns, 2 for the head, 2 for the first body part and 4
for the third body part.

/Asger

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Apr 1, 2019 05:01

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Re: Make paperwork optional

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In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:

As this has been a controversial topic recently, perhaps we should make it a
buyer select-able option.

Allow the buyer to choose to receive paperwork with the order, or to have the
order shipped without paperwork. The seller would then be obliged to follow the
buyer's selection.

thank you, Nita Rae

I voted No.

I will soon pass 10.000 orders and I have never printed any of them as I find
it waste of paper, ink and extra weight to ship causing more pollution than necessary.
I pick orders from my PC placed in my storage room.

Giving buyers the option not to have printes orders will leave other buyers to
expect printed orders in the parcels/letters - a feature I will not comply with.

/Asger

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Jul 30, 2018 10:31

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Re: 4495, now 4495a and 4495b

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Catalog

In Catalog, Dino1 writes:

In Catalog, Hygrotus writes:

In Catalog, uvt203 writes:

In Catalog, runner.caller writes:

There is seriously a differentiation now between RH and LH on such an invaluable
part?
What a chore it would be to try to sort and separate them given they look so
similar at first glance. Won't have the time or inventory drawer space to
bother trying to separate these. Guess they will be going in the "do not sell"
pile.

I fully agree. However I chose to do the work and spent almost 2 hours going
through all my flags, separate them and relist as A or B. And again the much
too slow update on Brickstock made it impossible to use that handy programme.
And all this for just such an irrelevant mould difference! Please don't come
up with more of these!

/Asger

Other users wanted it to be separeted

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1024776
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1090308

And which clown decide to delet the origin entry?

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Jul 30, 2018 09:15

Subject:

Re: 4495, now 4495a and 4495b

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Catalog

In Catalog, runner.caller writes:

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Jul 15, 2018 10:49

Subject:

Re: What's the deal about bluish gray?

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Colors

In Colors, StormChaser writes:

In Colors, mhortar writes:

I thought the color change was in 2004, but I could be wrong.

You are correct. The changeover from older grays and brown to the newer shades
occurred in 2004.

Sorry my mistake - time runs faster and faster with age.....

/Asger

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Jul 15, 2018 03:04

Subject:

Re: What's the deal about bluish gray?

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Colors

In Colors, Pippyblocks writes:

It's because Lego replaced light grey with light bluish grey a long time
back so now all the light greys are harder to get, unfortunately.

In Colors, LeGoLem writes:

I am looking for gray bricks and part, but anywhere I look people only sell dark
or light bluish gray instead of regular gray parts. Why is that? Where are the
good old light gray parts? Why did regular gray become so rare?

That's correct. In 2006 LEGO changed Light Gray to Light Bluish Gray, Dark
Gray to Dark Bluish Gray and Brown to Reddish Brown. So all sets from after 2006/2007
have these 3 new colors and all before have the old colors. So the old colors
become more and more rare - especially in new conditions.

Asger

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Jan 25, 2018 16:44

Subject:

Inventory Change Request for Set 2556-1

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Inventories Requests (Entry)

Status:

Open

Please make changes to the following inventory:

2556-1 (Inv) Ferrari Formula 1 Racing Car
580 Parts, 1998
Sets: Model Team

* Add 1 Part 2431pb506 Black Tile 1 x 4 with Ferrari Logo Pattern (Sticker) - Set 2556 (Counterpart)

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Aug 23, 2017 16:44

Subject:

Inventory Change Request for Set 8051-1

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Inventories Requests (Entry)

Status:

Open

Please make changes to the following inventory:

8051-1 (Inv) Motorbike
467 Parts, 2010
Sets: Technic: Model: Riding Cycle

* Add 1 Part 4150pb181 Light Bluish Gray Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Speedometer Pattern (Sticker) - Set 8051 (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Part 4150pb182 Light Bluish Gray Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Tachometer Pattern (Sticker) - Set 8051 (Counterpart)

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Aug 23, 2017 16:42

Subject:

Inventory Change Request for Set 1660-1

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Inventories Requests (Entry)

Status:

Open

Please make changes to the following inventory:

1660-1 (Inv) Kronprins Frederik Ferry
157 Parts, 1996
Sets: Universal Building Set: Ferries

* Add 1 Part 2626pb04 Black Boat Bow Brick 6 x 6 x 1 with 2 White Bow Thruster Signs Pattern on Both Sides (Stickers) - Set 1660 (Counterpart)
* Add 2 Part 3622pb073 White Brick 1 x 3 with 5 Windows Pattern (Sticker) - Set 1660 (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Part 3010pb179L Black Brick 1 x 4 with 'Kronprins Frederik Korsør' Pattern, 'Korsør' on Left (Sticker) - Set 1660 (Counterpart)

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Mar 8, 2017 08:24

Subject:

Re: "Help" and "To Top" icons, what gives?

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In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:

In Suggestions, Jan_K writes:

In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:

In Suggestions, Jan_K writes:

Just curious...don't you find that the Page Up, Page Down, Home and End buttons
on your keyboard are a thousand times more efficient then using the scroll bar
or any floating buttons you have to find and click?

No, I don't. I browse with my right hand on the mouse, not on the keyboard.
I tend to use buttons all over the page when browsing, so keeping my right hand
on the mouse appears to be the best way for me.

Interesting...I use these keys with my left hand, but I am extremely fond of
keyboard shortcuts.

The little arrow on the eBay pages does not cover up any content on the site.
Navigation aids are all well and good (especially for mobile devices) but covering
actual content with them is as bad as any pop-up ad in my opinion.

Honestly, I wonder which screens are actually affected - I do not even use full
HD screens (but 1680x1050 on two different computers) and nothing* is covered
when I brwose the site...

I always have at least 3 or 4 windows open so I have them side by side on my
screen. I couldn't work without this! It is also a pain when using my tablet
for inventory work.

Hopefully, the BL team can find a solution that works for a variety of users.
In the meantime, I was able to block the intrusive things with Adblock Element
Hiding Helper on Firefox.

Take care,
Jen

Cheers,
Jan

*I just noticed an exception: when browsing a store, the green "Add Items to
Cart" button is indeed covered for a moment if I do not scoll to the very end
of the page.
That's stupid, of course - and should have been spotted by this "world class
development team" before implementation, no excuse.

Thanks for this tip - it works very well on Safari too.

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Jun 9, 2016 02:36

Subject:

Why not give us BL 1.0 as an option?

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Discarded

In many updates of web portals like the one BL just had - there is an oppotunity
for users to select 'the old version'.

If you look at paypal they offer 'Switch to Previous Account Layout'
at the bottom of their main page.

As far as I know BL runs on a SQL database with a web MMI on top. I guess that
BL2.0 has not caused changes in the database - just in the MMI.

So the old version BL 1.0 should probably be able to run side by side with BL
2.0 for a while until all bugs and errors have been fixed in BL 2.0.

It would be great for all if we could have the option to run our business in
the well proven old system while the BL team gets the new version to run perfectly.

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Jan 22, 2016 10:09

Subject:

Re: Add Complete/Paid order to Not Yet Shipped

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In Suggestions, Proprietor writes:

In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:

I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but you are not supposed to mark
an order as "complete". That's for the buyer to do when he received and checked
it.

While it might make sense that buyers should mark orders as complete, sellers
can do it too. BL help doesn't say that sellers should not mark them as complete,
and doesn't say that buyers should do it either.

http://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=41

Wrong link. It's a Buyer obligation:

http://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=1138

In part:

Buyer and Seller each have tasks to do during the lifetime of an order. These
tasks called "Action Items" are located by default on your myBrickLink page (if
there are any). The following is an explanation of what each action item means:

Buyer:

Change Order Status to Completed - When you have verified the contents of your
package and consider the order completed. You can also change order status to
Received when you have received your package (but have not yet verified its contents
or there is a problem). The option to change order status on your Orders Placed
page appears when order has status of Shipped or Received. The myBrickLink action
item includes orders you placed where the order status is Shipped or Received.

Yes in an ideal world it works so, but many buyers - especially new buyers -
never change status to received or completed and do not post FB either. Therefore
as a seller you need to have the option to put an order in status completed -
and I guess - this will cause a line on buyers action items list that a FB for
an order is left to be posted.
I put many orders in status completed - about 25% of them actually. Normally
after one month within Europe and 2 months for worldwide buyers. Often but not
always will this result in a FB from the buyer.

I have tried to contact buyers that they have unfinished business when order
should have been received but I find this time consuming and quite often without
any result.

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Nov 18, 2015 09:52

Subject:

Re: Buyer status when recieving an order

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I too have many orders never changed from shipped to received or completed by
the buyers. I set them to completed when they are 1 month old for European orders
and after 2 months for world wide orders. And then file them. I too was a little
annoyed when I was a new seller that buyers did not take the time to finish the
transaction, but have stopped letting it affect me. When it comes to FB I always
post FB (whenorder is apid) on buyers who do the same. If repeat buyers don't
give FB i do not either.

In Suggestions, 1974 writes:

Hi Marc

Smart thinking Batman, but I do "file", but then I check out "all" my orders
and then they pop up ..

I just want to know if my buyer got his stuff. But with the current system it
is too much to ask for, bummer

I understand, but does not approve

Cheers,

Ole

In Suggestions, FigBits writes:

I would suggest finding a way to not make it annoy you.

One idea is, once you have shipped an order, "file" it so that you don't
have to see it anymore.

--
Marc.

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Aug 20, 2014 10:28

Subject:

Re: BL Development Team: Test before rollout!

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In Suggestions, lovaquero writes:

Bricklink World Class Programming & Customer Serivce team -

Test before release. This concept is not hard. Perhaps in your eagerness to
pacify the crowd with pitchforks and torches you have forgotten it. Perhaps you
may just not know. Here is how you do it:

For EACH (individual) change to Bricklink:
-----------------------------------------
#1 - Scope your change to know its impact
#2 - Write your test plan to match the requirements for the change
#3 - Recognize that there are at least three (3) internet browsers to support:
Chrome, Firefox & Internet Explorer (IE)
#4 - Make sure that the test plan fails before any change is made
#5 - Implement the change, and only that change, in a development environment
#6 - Execute the test plan (in an isolated environement that matches the live
environment) for Chrome, Firefox and IE
#7 - Repeat steps 5-6 until the test plan passes for all three (3) browsers
#8* - Run the full test plan on the ENTIRE site to ensure everything still works
#9 - If anything fails, return to step #1 and repeat
#10 - Release the change to the live site.

(* Bricklink is written with ancient software that has so many dependencies,
querks, gotchas and 'hidden' features that it is impossible to know what
a change will do to seemingly unrelated features. That is why the software used
to run Bricklink is no longer used nor even supported, not even by the company
that originally created the software...)

Your new mantra must be: "test! Test! TEST! And then test it again!"

Any modern development team worth being paid - especially one that performs
web development - knows this.

Regards,
Rodney
Software Systems Engineer
Solution Infrastructure - Guidance & Machine Automation
John Deere Intelligent Solution Group

Don't forget Apple's browser Safari. Runs on millions of macs over the
world.

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Dec 6, 2013 03:33

Subject:

Re: mega blocks, kre-o, best lock etc.

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In Suggestions, Prismiad writes:

I would like to see some other brands of bricks available on the site, obviously
they would have to have a seperate category because no one wants a mega block
when they thought they were getting lego. Lego is obviously the best but the
other brands have certain parts that are very useful, wheels and weapons being
the best examples.

A big NO from me. Sometimes (and thank God they are still rare in Denmark)
I get hold of that kind of copy-crap. They go straight in the bin to be burned
and used for central heating in my town.

Author:

uvt203

Posted:

Feb 7, 2012 17:29

Subject:

Re: Highlight Checkboxes on Order Detail Pages

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