Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | StephenB76  | | Posted: | Feb 18, 2022 09:16 | | Subject: | Lego Ideas - Mental Health Head | | Viewed: | 127 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| Hi All,
Some of you may have seen some of my previous posts around my Lego Ideas submission,
I have recently done and uploaded a video of the completed model inside and out
to my YouTube channel, the link is here: https://youtu.be/Am2s1H9E0Ng
check it out if you want and feel free to support and share the Lego Ideas submission.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Feb 18, 2022 09:07 | | Subject: | Re: First time buying, need lots of parts | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, illuminati1556 writes:
| | In Buying, psusaxman2000 writes:
| | In Buying, illuminati1556 writes:
| | To make a long story short, I saw a very cute build for something my SO would
love on Etsy. But I discovered it long after it sold out and restocks will be
minimal, if at all. I sat down with this site, and a picture of the build and
actually managed to find every single part number.
What is the best way to try and purchase all of these parts though? I can check
one store at a time to see if they have more than just a single piece, but that's
like finding a needle in a haystack. Most of the set is random assortments of
hodgepodge minifigs. I'm really out of my depth here and could use some guidance
on affordably tracking these pieces down. If not, it looks like I'll have
to spend $5 in shipping per part, and $125 just for the minifig parts (hair,
head, torso, legs, accessory) seems excessive to say the least.
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Welcome to BL.
Your best and easiest way is to create a "Wanted List". In the upper right,
click the Heart, then create a list. From there, you can then "buy" your list
and it will search the seller for parts to build your order.
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Thanks! I didn't know it had that function. That'll make shopping through
stores so much more efficient. Now I just need to copy all the item numbers from
excel to the site hah.
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I would recommend using the buy all from your wanted list rather than the easy
buy option the buy all is actually more efficient as I have previously used the
easy buy and even though some parts I added were available from one of the sellers
showing it sourced them from another seller, so now I only use the buy all or
go to a store and search using the wanted list tab in their items.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Feb 14, 2022 05:42 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | Thank you, I’ll try that.
I noticed that the online info says they are sold out.
In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | I don’t want to spend hours going through the numerous strings regarding storage,
I still might not find what I want.
Would someone in the U.K. be kind enough to point me in the right direction for
a good storage system for my stock, like most I don’t want to spend too much
but I don’t want something that won’t last very long.
I expect i’ll need a large number of boxes/trays to cover all the categories
/ groupings.
Looking to push stock towards 200,000 pieces once I start up again.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Stuart
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Although they normally tend to sell out quick, my local Aldi still had some of
their storage racks in stock yesterday. But they were only the ones with the
larger containers down the middle and not the small drawers across the whole
thing. If you have one local to you. you might also get lucky.
Although when I bought mine, I made sure to get their early on the first day
and bought the six with smaller drawers that the store had and have added to
them a couple at a time when they come in again.
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I got one of each delivered from Online on Friday I will probably get another
of the 33 drawer ones as for me those will be the more useful, as I want to avoid
using the resealable bags which I have used at the moment in the bigger blue
drawers. Due to quantity I have for some of the more common parts I split them
over multiple drawers these were 1 x 1 plates, 1 x 1 round plates and 1 x 1 slopes
- with the first one I was able to just split between solid colours and trans
colours, with the other two I had to split the solid colours further to light
and dark
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2022 08:38 | | Subject: | Re: Who should leave feedback first? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, peregrinator writes:
| | All -
I'm interested in doing a bit of a study. For myself, as a seller and
as a buyer, I'm firmly of the belief that the seller should leave feedback
first. I myself leave feedback when I've shipped the order, even in some
circumstances once the order is packed - at any rate, definitely before the buyer
would leave it. Some have the opposite opinion - that the buyer should leave
feedback first.
Limited evidence (I have a small store, not many orders, maybe my store attracts
a certain kind of buyer?) suggests that leaving feedback when I do has a positive
effect on whether or not I receive feedback in kind. The reason I say this
is that my feedback-to-orders ratio has consistently been between 65-70%, and
yet I've heard that the average feedback-to-orders ratio across BL is more
like 50%. Now I try to be professional and communicative, and because my store
is small I can ship quickly, but many other stores on BL that are larger than
mine offer exemplary service, and I don't think my service is so good as
to account for the higher feedback ratio.
So, if you're willing to answer, would you mind answering with:
- when you leave feedback (before or after the buyer: I don't know if it
has to be specific)
- what your store's current feedback-to-orders ratio is
Thanks!
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I'm finding the discussions interesting as a buyer only here my feedback
ratio currently is about 99% posted and 94% received, I leave my feed back when
I mark order as complete whether the seller has left it for me.
I can see the reasons behind why people do the different approaches and can understand
them.
For example:
If you leave it once you have received payment/shipped it the buyer has in essence
completed their part of the transaction and anything that comes up after that
is around after sales service
However if you wait until it is marked complete or a specific timescale and leave
it then you are ensuring that the full transaction including any potential after
sales incidents have been dealt with.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Feb 11, 2022 08:30 | | Subject: | Re: Who should leave feedback first? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, firestar246 writes:
| | In Feedback, Elkenwood writes:
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Buyer always leaves feedback first. The transaction isn't complete on the
seller's end until the buyer is happy with their order.
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And why do you feel like buyers are happy with their order only if they leave
feedback? I'd assume as long as they don't complain they're happy.
There are many times (not on bricklink) that I just never got around to leaving
feedback though I was satisfied with my purchase.
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I rarely leave feedback/reviews on purchase I make on other sites regardless
of what there for, admittedly that maybe partly because of what use I plan for
them
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2022 13:49 | | Subject: | Re: U.K. VAT buying from EU | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Stuart9 writes:
| | Looking for buyers experiences of being U.K. based and buying from EU.
I’m looking to buy a number of low value purchases from the EU but don’t want
to pay VAT twice plus the collection fee.
I believe that I might, with great difficulty, get a refund of the VAT in this
situation but I wouldn’t get the collection fee back which in this scenario is
the main cost I want to avoid paying.
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I've done multiple EU purchases over the last several months and had no issues
with being charged VAT twice on any occasions.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Jan 25, 2022 08:26 | | Subject: | Re: Looking for storage units in U.K. | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, BrickCompulsion writes:
| | I did see a post on FB that said Lidl get them later in the year. I accept no
responsibility if this is not correct as I don't know ! ha ha
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I think they both do them a couple of times a year. It is just a case of looking
out when they get them at a local store.
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It’s been a couple years I haven’t seen them advertized in Lidl’s flyers & app
though.
And they are advertizing LEGO Ninjago bed sets for next Monday… 
Small size… 
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Just get two or more, split them down the side and sew them together
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Jan 21, 2022 11:29 | | Subject: | Re: Meatloaf | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, legoman77 writes:
The only musician I've had the opportunity and privilege to see live in concert
(and that was twice)
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Jan 8, 2022 04:17 | | Subject: | Argos support for Lego purchase | | Viewed: | 109 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Thought I'd share this as it made me laugh, yesterday I bought and got delivered
from Argos a Lego set 60281 and a pack of 3 smart light bulbs. This morning I
got an email from their support team offering support for my recent purchase,
and thought it might be the smart bulbs, nope it's for the Lego set.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Dec 2, 2021 04:21 | | Subject: | Re: Packing slip or not? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, Alico64 writes:
| | Hello everyone,
Just wanted to see what you are thinking about adding the packing slip/order
overview to a shipment. Do you prefer this as a buyer? Or are you typically verifying
your order with your tablet or laptop at the side?
Curious to see if the packing slip improves the buyer experience or not. 
Cheers,
Arnold
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For me I don't find it necessary as probably about 80-90% of the parts I
order are from wanted lists that I have so I always have to go online to be updating
those, which depending on what wanted list they are means deleting them from
there or updating the have quantity.
A lot of the parts I order are to complete second hand sets and I have a Spreadsheet
saved to Teams which I update simultaneously as it allows me to allocate the
parts to the relevant set and spares to a tub to be placed with other parts the
same.
I think it can have merits depending on the order size and if it is what you
have used to pick the items and you are not printing just to include it, as we
all need to be aware of the impact on the environment of what we are doing.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Dec 1, 2021 09:52 | | Subject: | Re: Hide Cancelled Messages | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Alico64 writes:
| | Hello everyone,
It seems like when I go to my BL settings and check off the Hide Cancelled Messages
at the Discussion Forum Settings and press save, it's not actually saving
the setting at all.
When I leave the settings menu, and go back to the settings, the checkbox is
unchecked again, and the cancelled messages are still visible on the Community
page.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I've been having this issue for months and it was raised previously on the
forum
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Nov 30, 2021 12:27 | | Subject: | Re: Buying experience on BL | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, Poncke writes:
| | Placed 6 orders in order to get 1 feedback to open my own store
1. Order placed, cancelled due to too high shipping cost. Left positive feedback
regardless.
2. Order received in a very damaged LEGO box, packaging was taped to the Lego
box. Left positive feedback regardless.
3. Order placed, shipped two weeks ago, not received.
4. Order placed, never shipped, ignored all my messages, NSS case and Paypal
claim. Left negative feedback.
5. Order placed, shipped a week ago. Hoping to receive it at some point.
6. Order placed, cancelled, owner on holidays, can't ship.
So one month and 6 orders later, not one order received and not one positive
feedback left for me.
One person, who I never dealt with, has blocked me, and ignored my message asking
why.
Is this normal? I take the blame for order 1 being cancelled, that was a learning
curve. The other 5 orders don't fill me with confidence using this marketplace.
Thoughts?
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As others have said I would definitely say not normal I try to use instant checkout
stores more so I can see the shipping costs first or try and check them out
before as like you I don't want to place an order and have to cancel.
I checked my stats just now and since being a member and most of them within
the last calendar year I've placed 184 orders a handful have had issues either
incorrect/missing parts, some have been picked up by the sellers first all have
been resolved quickly and positively by mutual discussion. of those I currently
have received feedback on 172 of those orders.
hopefully you will be able to get a feedback from one of those orders soon
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2021 08:47 | | Subject: | Filter Sales in stores that don't ship to you | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I think it would be good to have a setting in the forum for sales notifications
to avoid seeing notifications of sales from stores that don't ship to you.
Especially as some of those sellers provide valuable non sales posts and therefore
don't want to block them and not see any of their posts
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2021 16:28 | | Subject: | Re: UK - Buying overseas post Brexit own goal. | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, monkypaws writes:
| | ANyone had any experience of buying from overseas from UK - either Europe or
other. 3x3 turrets are non-existent here and having found a seller in Norway
with a number I chanced it and a month later still waiting. Happy that the seller
was genuine and posted in good faith.
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I have bought multiple times from overseas, in the EU and outside of it, most
have turned up within a week or two, have they provided a tracking number? the
only time I had a slight issue was one from Canada which seemed to get stuck
in customs and they chased it up and was delivered about a week later.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2021 05:03 | | Subject: | Re: For Cat and Queen lovers | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, legoman77 writes:
That is awesome, had me in stitches, and could definitely see it being their
song
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Nov 4, 2021 07:44 | | Subject: | Re: Please add Variant poicy to mandatory terms | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | | | Don't disagree with what you say. But if Bricklink list it as a variant then
it should belong within a policy statement. So if 15573 is classed as a 3794
variant then that is a Bricklink issue not a store issue. (By the way we agree
with you on that one).
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Thsi is why a definition of what a variant is or is not is needed before you
can have a policy on variants. Does being in a list of "similar to" something
mean it is a variant? After all, some parts, such as this ...
have known variants, as indicated by the note "Part has a variant in which the
two end studs on top are partially hollow."
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Or
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has variants (and two numbers) "This part has variants with noticeable appearance
differences. Part 53968 has around half of the top indented."
Rather than having a variant policy that can vary from store to store, I think
it might be better to have a site wide policy such as listing 3794 as an undetermined
1x2 jumper, with a list of parts that you might get if you buy it. Catalogue
admins can decide whether that is 3794a and 3794b only or whether or not to also
include 15573. Then anyone listing as 3794a must check they are listing the right
part there. If they don't distinguish types, then they should put them into
the undetermined part type 3794.
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One issue I could see with that is when people are searching using their wanted
lists, especially if they have added items through the set inventory as those
are now removing the undetermined types from them. This would then mean that
although stores may have ones that could be used they wouldn't necessarily
show up when searching. I have had this the opposite way round where I was searching
for an undetermined type as that what was in the set inventory at the time I
added it and I could never find it when searching using my wanted list.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2021 09:59 | | Subject: | Re: Where did my designer order go? | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Designer Program | |
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| In Designer Program, firestar246 writes:
| | In Designer Program, psusaxman2000 writes:
| | In Designer Program, firestar246 writes:
| | I pre-ordered two of the sets from the round 1 designer program. When viewing
the list of sets for round two, I noticed a button that says "My preorders".
When I click on it, it takes me to lego.com but it doesn't show my order.
I'm beginning to worry that my order was cancelled for some reason without
me getting any notification about it.
Can anyone help?
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I'm wondering if there is something going on with the Lego website. I tried
logging in a few time as sometimes my order were there and sometime I had nothing.
This included some much more recent purchases that were on backorder that weren't
showing up either. If they don't come in, I'd go through your emails
for your records and give Lego a call.
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Ok, thank you! Btw, do you know when they are supposed to ship out? I'm thinking
January, but I can't remember.
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I wasn't able to get it to take my money to get any, however I believe it
was January for all those ordered in the initial window and then those that were
ordered in the second window would be later. Although everything keeps changing
so who knows
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 08:04 | | Subject: | Re: unmounting 62605pb01c01 ? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO, Courgette writes:
| | Hey there, I just bought a used 62605pb01c01 (great white shark) and it's
quite dirty on the inside part, I've been trying to separate the 2 parts
of the shark (bottom / top of the body) to clean it but it seems it's not
possible. I see several pegs inside and 2 larger ones close to the jaw.
Anyone ever tried that and care to share their method ?
Thanks in advance !
Cheers
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Looking at the catalogue it seems that the head is the only part that comes off
as it says it only comes as 2 parts. in which case I would suggest using a toothbrush
and small amount of toothpaste to clean the inside
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2021 15:36 | | Subject: | Re: Lego Ideas - RU-OKx3 the Mental Health Head | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| In My Own Creation, cosmicray writes:
| | In My Own Creation, StephenB76 writes:
That's actually very well done !
Nita Rae
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Thank you,
I've built a version of it using available colours close to design ones and
discounting the base plate dimensions it is 40cm high, 30cm front to back and
20cm side to side. the physical version is being taken to mental health events
to get people talking.
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| Author: | StephenB76 | | Posted: | Sep 29, 2021 05:52 | | Subject: | Lego Ideas - RU-OKx3 the Mental Health Head | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | My Own Creation | |
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| Hey folks,
I would like to share with you my own creation on LEGO ideas. Hope you'll
like it?!
I'm looking forward to your kind support!
https://ideas.lego.com/s/p:44b8559206694ebc9f9363f3781ab6ba
lets show how much Lego can help with Mental Health issues
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