| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Admin_Russell  | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2021 03:20 | | Subject: | Re: New Packing Dimensions Feature | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | Just to note, you have snipped the image starting with the 2x4 brick but not
included its dimensions. I got confused with the first set of dimensions x, y
and z until I realised they are for the slope and not the brick.
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Sorry about that. Here is another screenshot:
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Apr 6, 2021 01:30 | | Subject: | New Packing Dimensions Feature | | Viewed: | 321 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| We are pleased to announce that a major new feature was deployed to the catalog
today - Packing Dimensions!
We started a Packaging Dimensions Topic in the Forum in the Fall of 2017 so that
members could input dimensions to help Instant Checkout work properly. It was
only supposed to be a temporary solution, and it took a lot of time and dedication
for both contributors and admins to handle each request manually.
Now there is much better way - just input the data like you would any other catalog
data. Notice the upgrade to the Change Item form:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogReq.asp?itemType=P
The first thing, though, that we want to tell you about this new feature is that
it's only a start. This is actually just phase 1 out of 3 phases. We did
it this way so we could get the basic functionality opened up as soon as possible.
This means that the Add Item form does not have Packing Dimensions input fields,
and we haven't touched the seller interface either which still shows millimeters
and only allows the upload of custom dimensions.
We are also a bit behind on the new Help Page:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2510
There are 4 areas we still need to tackle with the Help Page: Minifigures, Gear,
Books, and Catalogs. Those sections will be filled out over the next few days.
If you could please hold off on uploading dimensions for those Item Types until
the Help Pages are finished, it would be appreciated.
As you may have noticed, we changed the name from Packaging Dimensions to Packing
Dimensions. Let us know what you think and of course report any bugs. And there
is no need to post in the Packaging Dimensions Topic any more. We'll keep
it there for a while in case something happens to our new system, but when we
wrap up with phase 3, we will officially decommission that part of the Forum.
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 08:08 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jdinklage writes:
| | In Suggestions, calebfishn writes:
| | In Suggestions, jdinklage writes:
| | Please stop blocking my access to the parts I need. I am extremely annoyed that
you won't allow me to buy items from so many sellers I need to because they
aren't paying my taxes. They "don't support orders that ship to Massachusetts".
You are literally screwing up my access to rare parts that are only available
on this site. You are hurting part of this hobby for me. STOP IT! I am only
a buyer and not a seller. I understand you must be going through some growing
pains trying to get all the sellers to pay taxes, but don't take it out on
the buyers. Seriously stop blocking my access to the parts I need. Not allowing
me to ship items to my home from sellers who are willing to ship them to me is
a legitimate reason for me to be pissed. You are forcing me to go buy clone
parts off site when I don't really want to as an immediate direct result
of this action.
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If you don't want to pay your sales taxes to the great state of Massachusetts
then I suggest you use your democratic rights to elect legislators who will change
the law.
Or, you could move to a different jurisdiction that doesn't charge sales
tax.
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I WANT to pay my taxes. I have no problem with paying my taxes.
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The problem is that we (BrickLink) cannot pay those taxes unless the seller chooses
to use an onsite payment method. We cannot force sellers to make this choice,
so it is up to these sellers to open themselves up to the larger market.
This is why some other members in this thread are advising you to contact sellers
you wish to buy from and kindly ask if they would adopt an onsite method. It
is not a lengthy process - it takes just a few minutes for those who already
have an account.
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 20:09 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 125 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
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The trick there, is that IC only supports PP and Stripe. You can't do IBAN
with IC and collect the sales tax.
Nita Rae
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Is IBAN an onsite payment method?
Jen
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It is possible in theory to incorporate IBAN into an onsite solution, but apparently
it is very difficult and potentially unstable. So we consider IBAN to be offsite
only.
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: Items Moved Today | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | In Catalog, Turez writes:
| | And am I seeing it right that there are some additions (especially the category
changes) which were not part of the original list that was published one month
ago? Despite the fact that it was said there would not be any additions to that
list after March 1st?
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Yeah, that cross plate was NOT in the list before; I'm certain. Also the
Arch name change; they literally had a statement on that page a couple days ago
saying that no category name changes or additions would be approved.
Hopefully the new method that Stormchaser has mentioned will help with this confusion.
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I'm preparing a statement about this current round of changes that will help
explain the decisions that were made. But real quick, while I am reading this,
I can let you know that all three of those parts WERE included in the original
list. They were listed under the 2 x 2 corner as related parts that would also
be moved.
Two of them were moved, and two remained behind.
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