BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:

Hello everyone,

Today I am very pleased to announce we have a new Catalog Associate! As you may
see from the Hall of Fame, StormChaser has previously held two catalog-type admin
positions - Inventories Admin and the legacy Catalog Admin - and has recently
returned to the site.

We're delighted he has decided to come back, and I know many of you missed
him as well. He has many ambitious plans for the catalog, and now that we have
more staff on board, it's looking as though we can start making some serious
headway.

So please join me in welcoming him.

You can see his familiar profile in line
with the others here:

https://www.bricklink.com/memberAdmins.asp

StormChaser is also the first member to officially join our new Community Expert
Program. We hope to see the other catalog admins joining in the next day or two,
and the rest of our admins within the week.

I didn't get it.
Why my name is not on that list at the position "Beer Opener" ???
Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Dec 21, 2019 18:45

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Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL"

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In General, Teup writes:

It's surprising you're now defending Bricklink as a cash cow because
that would mean they have plenty of budgets to solve their problems, problems
that you often seemed to just accept as the way things are.

Bricklink it is a cash cow.
Bricklink it's a business who generate profit.
Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim bought Bricklink to make a profit.
Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim didn't want to spend his profit on Bricklink.
Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim take his profit and leave it to Lego to invest.
So, Bricklink it is a cash cow.

Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Dec 21, 2019 16:46

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Re: Guardian News Article

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In General, Adjour writes:

My implication was only that there are a ton of toxic people on this board ... sorry ... the same ton of toxic people on this board and
they feed each other. Please do not strawman my post (as you have a pattern of
doing)

Meh. Carry on.

I corrected it for you.
Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Dec 21, 2019 16:41

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Re: Guardian " lego take ovrer BL"

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In General, Teup writes:

but Bricklink is not a profitable site (at least, that's the general consensus)

Wow
So Jung-Ju “Jay” Kim paid millions for a not profitable site than Lego paid even
more millions for the same not profitable site ... interesting way to do business...
Regards
Nectara

Author:

nectara

Posted:

Jun 11, 2019 11:12

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Re: Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell

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Suggestions

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

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Re: Option to Donate to reach min. buy

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Suggestions

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

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Re: Option to Donate to reach min. buy

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Suggestions

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

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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

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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

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Re: The LEGO movie 2 CFM

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