BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Suggestions, skybound13 writes:

Matejo,

I’m not saying that I think any little fee should be part of the solution, but
if a fee were implemented maybe it should be considered an “order processing
fee” and be paid to the seller to be credited towards the order assuming it wasn’t
a fake order, otherwise seller keeps it. But even if the buyer turns out to
be fake then that $1.00 hardly seems like adequate compensation for wasting the
seller’s time.

As a recent new member, would I have paid $5.00 (or whatever) for a lifetime
BrickLink membership? The concept would have bothered me a little at first,
but yeah, I would have paid because I wanted buyer privileges. If that fee were
refunded back after so many orders, great, if not, not a big deal really.

Hmm, as I think more about it, such a payment would at least confirm that a buyer
is a real person and has a means by which to pay for orders online.

Ted

The solution is already here called Instant Checkout

Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Jun 1, 2019 10:00

Subject:

Re: Option to Donate to reach min. buy

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In Suggestions, Brickochet writes:

shop a) has fig 1 for 1.99, and fig 2 for 2.99 that I am after - with a min buy
of 5.00 I am at 4.98. 2 cents away

Just buy a 2 cent brick!!!
Your time writing this worth more than a few cents and to be honest I do not
need such big business on my store. Usually, the penny pickers are the trouble
maker and they are never happy whatever you do.

Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Jun 1, 2019 06:42

Subject:

Re: Option to Donate to reach min. buy

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In Suggestions, Brickochet writes:

This is a fairly bad marketing idea for shops that probably don't work out
in the shops favour. I know a majority of my browsing has ended up in me taking
my business and money to another shop. Where I am either buying from someone
without a min buy, or selecting other items I actually want to hit that minimum
purchase amount. So my suggestion is to add a donation field/possibility to finish
passing the required purchase line.

I have only made 3 purchases since I joined but these 3 people are profiting
by shop deterrence over the min buy. One of which was a difference of 3 cents
to the min buy vs. paying 1 cent more for the same thing because it didn't
have one.

If a few cents deter you to buy then maybe Lego hobby it's too expensive
for you.
Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Apr 20, 2019 04:08

Subject:

Re: Help recognise piece

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In Catalog, Alang41 writes:

I bought a job lot of older Lego and there was a lot of plants and trees. And
there is 3 parts I can’t recognise from anywhere

2488

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Feb 12, 2019 13:39

Subject:

Re: Allow AFOLs to "Bricklink" the ADP sets

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In Suggestions, Brick.Door writes:

There are no plans to do so, but I hope that once the regular sales period is
finished Bricklink allows the inventory of these sets to be added to the catalog
so people can add them to a want list and buy the parts they need to build them.
Since they use mostly common parts, I think many AFOLs would prefer to build
them with the parts in their own collection, and just buy any ones they are missing.

Not only would this generate revenue for Bricklink by increased sales, it would
be an olive branch to the sellers who have been completely excluded from this
promotion.

Bricklink has done so much to build the AFOL community and it has become a verb
within our vocabulary (much like Google has in the general population). It would
be a sad irony if the sets created by Bricklink to celebrate AFOLs cannot be
Bricklinked by AFOLs.

I voted no.
They are MOC's not officials Lego sets.
Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Jan 31, 2019 08:35

Subject:

Re: The LEGO movie 2 CFM

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In Catalog Requests, zack_attack writes:

In Catalog Requests, axaday writes:

In Catalog Requests, MarshMan80 writes:

Anyone know when the new LEGO movie 2 CFM figures will be added to the catalogue?
I have some that I’m waiting to upload.

Thanks

Thursday. The street date is February 1.

They are already available in French Lego store, also in the French catalog the
release date is January (bottom left of the picture).

Most of supermarkets have them for sale in the last 2 weeks.
I already sold a few on BO which list them 2 weeks ago but Bricklink...
Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Oct 16, 2018 12:55

Subject:

Re: Instant Checkout testing simulation

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In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:

Please implement a testing framework for Instant Checkout such that …

1. Any seller can determine a number of test cases to valudate their IC shipping
parameters.
2. Those test cases can each be expresed as a script (textual or GUI object based).
3. The seller can then select all, or a subset of the test cases.
4, The seller can then submit those test cases as a batch request.
5. The BL system will then schedule and run those test cases.
6. The seller will then receive an email back showing which test cases were run,
what shipping methods were allowed, etc. This would be roughly analgous to what
is reported via the shopping cart display.
7. This would not involve actually taking any items out of inventory, nor creating
any real orders, but would be a test case simulation of that.
8. The seller could retain those test cases for later reuse, as various parameters
are modified.

thank you, Nita Rae

For what?

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Sep 30, 2018 04:18

Subject:

Re: Help identifying part.

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In Catalog Identification, qwertyboy writes:

In Catalog Identification, jblock writes:

In Catalog Identification, TheBrickGuys writes:

I can not for the life of me figure out what this is or where in the catalog
it exists.

Any ideas?

[P=bbw008]

I tell you, for as often as I see questions about what this part it in the forums,
BL should put its picture and identifier on the front page for all to see...

There are a few parts that come up with some regularity:

http://www.qwertyboy.org/files/parts.php

Niek.

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Aug 25, 2018 03:50

Subject:

Re: 75203-1

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Inventories

In Inventories, Hygrotus writes:

In Catalog Inventories, nectara writes:

Hi
What's going on with 75203?
More than one month still ,,Inventory In Progress,,
Regards
Nectara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfc4eim6XCA

Not only this one from SW is still missing inventory, also 75220 and 75221.
BTW Sandcrawler was added on the beggining of July, so almost two months without
inventory now

If you want to do it I can release this set to you to inventory it?

Hi
I have no idea how to do it
Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Aug 24, 2018 07:36

Subject:

75203-1

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Inventories

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Open