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 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: Jan 22, 2022 11:01
 Subject: Re: Still a lot of cancelled payments......
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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Stellar (3493)

Location:  Spain, Comunidad Valenciana
Member Since Contact Type Status
Sep 24, 2015 Contact Member Seller
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Store: Stellar Bricks
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In Technical Issues, Teup writes:
  In Technical Issues, Stellar writes:
  In Technical Issues, Teup writes:
  In Technical Issues, peregrinator writes:
  In Technical Issues, Teup writes:
  I received a reply from a user that had multiple failed payment entries in my
list:

" I attempted to check out and purchase an item from your Bricklink store using
Stripe. However, it declined my card multiple times - I would guess due to it
being an international purchase. I ended up purchasing the item from another
Bricklink seller, so I don’t know whether Stripe would have allowed me to complete
the purchase if I had tried again after notifying my bank that it was an authorized
purchase."

Interesting - could well be the case that the card was declined due to its being
an international purchase, if that kind of purchase was out of the ordinary for
the buyer using that card.

I don't know the first thing about creditcards, but at least it would explain
why most of these cases I am seeing are non-EU buyers...

There is a setting on Stripe to decline the payment if the address doesn't
match excatly, I have that one disabled and I experience far less declined payment
and had no errors with those orders.

Interesting, could you tell me where? While I was trying to find it, another
failed payment came in...

The one of the postal code: https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/radar/rules
 Author: randyf View Messages Posted By randyf
 Posted: Jan 22, 2022 10:55
 Subject: Re: Minifig Category Tree: Split SW Ep. 4/5/6
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 Topic: Catalog Requests
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randyf (442)

Location:  USA, Ohio
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In Catalog Requests, Brickadeer writes:
  Hi,

please split the category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" into three separate
categories:

Star Wars Episode 4
Star Wars Episode 5
Star Wars Episode 6

That's how it already works for episodes 1 - 3 and 7 - 9.

The category "Minifigures: Star Wars Episode 4/5/6" includes *by far* the biggest
selection of minifigures in the whole category tree (currently 499).

Since the whole point of separate categories is to increase the handibility of
the interface and thus to create a positive user experience, the current organization
is besides the point.

That becomes especially true if you look e.g. at the category "Pirates I", which
inculdes 4 sub-categories, which include a total of 22 minifigures. Thus, user
navigation becomes unnecessarily complicated by increasing the number of total
objects in the category tree.

That really doesn't make any sense at all.

Please. Look. Think. Change. Thanks!

Best regards,
Brickadeer


I was actually looking at this about two months ago due to some change requests.
My personal thinking was that Episode 1-3 and Episode 7-9 need to be combined
like Episode 4-6 instead of going the other way. In that scenario, it would be
easy for us admins to get it worked out, and it would cut down on the huge category
list that exists in the Star Wars area. But having to separate Episode 4-6 would
need a *lot* of help from a lot of other people besides the admins, because none
of us are Star Wars experts. This would include splitting up all sets, all minifigures,
all gear items, all books, etc., etc. The amount of work is huge. We obviously
won't be doing anything about this in any way without a lot of feedback from
the users, so don't expect to see anything happen in this area for some time.

Cheers,
Randy
 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: Jan 22, 2022 10:50
 Subject: Re: We have a new Inventories Administrator!
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 Topic: Inventories
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Stellar (3493)

Location:  Spain, Comunidad Valenciana
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Store: Stellar Bricks
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In Administrative, Admin_Russell writes:
  Hello everybody,

We have appointed a new Inventories Administrator, member TakeAbrick!

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/member/community_experts.page

She comes to the Community Experts Program with high levels of catalog and inventories
experience. She is also a specialist in early LEGO items and has done extensive
work with the BrickLink system to upgrade the data we have for the 1960s and
1970s:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogListOld.asp?pg=1&itemVerUserID=91173&catType=S&v=1

TakeAbricK has also been a well-known and successful seller for many years, a
Forum contributor, and great member of our BrickLink community:

https://store.bricklink.com/TakeAbricK?p=TakeAbricK#/shop?o={%22showHomeItems%22:1}

Please join me in welcoming her to our team. We are very pleased she is joining
us!


Congrats!
 Author: aboyer View Messages Posted By aboyer
 Posted: Jan 22, 2022 10:28
 Subject: Re: 6086 inventory list for grey 3004 wrong?
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 Topic: Help
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aboyer (227)

Location:  USA, North Carolina
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In Help, 1974 writes:
  In Help, Brickitty writes:

  To be fair to dchamf, these old instructions are VERY difficult to follow

No, they are not. I had no problem building similar sets at age ten

I mean, there are 35 pictures of the castle in various stages of completion.
You just copy the pictures, easy peasy

Now, all the cool alt builds with ONE picture? There's a real challenge

And apparantly way too much for kids these days as TLG has totally dropped the
crazy idea that one could build something else with LEGO

But behold, there are someone out there doing a good deed :

https://www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/?s=6086

(There are NO LEGO sales on that site, in fact I think it drives a good deal
of traffic to BL)

Cheers,

Ole

Perhaps what was meant by that was: “… VERY difficult to follow, when factoring
in the poor quality of the scans available online.”

I struggled to build my Fire Breathing Fortress because the scan obliterated
the piece outlines in the middle of the castle.
 Author: dlaw1_lego View Messages Posted By dlaw1_lego
 Posted: Jan 22, 2022 09:51
 Subject: Re: Advanced search function not working
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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dlaw1_lego (2085)

Location:  Ireland, Kerry
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In Help, SylvainLS writes:
  In Help, SylvainLS writes:
  […]
The empty search page https://www.bricklink.com/searchAdvanced.asp ?
Or the results page after a search (and which search)?

Because everything works fine here.

try searching for custom items/ 'include only custom items ' or try to
search something using the 'search comments' function and you will see
the error message!

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