| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | PurpleDave  | | Posted: | Sep 9, 2018 15:57 | | Subject: | Theme-exclusive elements? | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Colors | | Status: | Open | |
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| Recently someone on an AFOL blog posted a rather cryptic bombshell that Brickheadz
and Dimensions were allowed exclusive access to certain elements (part+color).
It didn't go into any real detail, asked that you not ask how the author
came to know this game-changing piece of information, and left it at that. When
the subject came up again in a way that didn't really support the original
claim, and I asked for clarification, my post was deleted, the original text
from the previous article was deleted, and the only explanation left labelled
the original claim both "contradictory" and an "insight". I don't expect
to get a clear answer there, so I'm asking here:
Does anyone know of any rule that Brickheadz (and before it Dimensions) can call
up elements that nobody else can use?
My understanding is that if you design a set that needs a Glow-in-the-Dark 2x4
brick, then as long as you've covered the cost of getting it into production
under your budget, any other set designer has access to that element for free,
basically. According to the original claim, it sounded like those two themes
could potentially bring a GitD 2x4 brick into existence, and every other theme
would be prohibited from using it.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2018 21:52 | | Subject: | Save Offsite Paypal! | | Viewed: | 321 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Bricklink famously ground to a halt, twice, because it got hacked. The site
may have been restored to working condition, but a lot of us want nothing to
do with risking exposure of our financial accounts to anyone who may be lurking
behind the scenes. Sellers don't want to give Bricklink the level of control
required to accept payments through Bricklink. Bricklink has announced that
in about a month, they plan to scuttle offsite Paypal as a payment option, without
even taking any input from their core membership. The reason stated was that
new, usually one-time buyers, can't figure out where the payment button is
when they select offsite Paypal as a payment option, so they plan to basically
cut off any buyers and sellers who refuse to use any other form of payment, and
who especially want nothing to do with any onsite Paypal options.
Make offsite Paypal an opt-in payment option. Sellers obviously have to select
up front which payment options they will accept. Make all _buyers_ voluntarily
choose to see offsite Paypal as a payment option when checking out. If a seller
does not accept any other payment options, have them flagged as "does not ship
to you", just like if they were from another country and didn't have your
country enabled for shipping options. If a new buyer signs up, they should be
required to read an explanation of how offsite Paypal works, and confirm that
they want to be able to choose that as a payment option before they even see
it appear in lists.
But seriously, don't chase away a bunch of your regular customers in the
hope that you might be able to "grow your business" on the bank accounts of people
who just get sent here to buy a replacement part that LEGO Consumer Affairs can't
provide, or who are looking for just one retired set, and will never log in again
after they receive their shipment.
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