Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Nov 25, 2021 14:38 | | Subject: | Re: Refusing to sell or ship because of location. | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, mcmcmahan writes:
| | "If you are unwilling to ship to every Bricklink
user then you need to leave and sell your wares elsewhere"
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You mean every seller has to ship to every user? How about Bricklink simply showing
correctly whether the seller ships to you or not? Seems like a more feasible
solution to me.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 25, 2021 13:00 | | Subject: | Re: IC and maximum Volume | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, cosmicray writes:
| | Shipping Methods currently have the ability specify a maximum volume.
In the USA, that might be used to trap orders that require dimensional shipping
(i.e. greater than 1728 cubic-inches). Some orders contain multiple items, and
the cumulative weight is less important than the fact that dimensional will require
a higher dimensional weight (and corresponding rate).
I suspect, that I can put a maximum volume on a shipping method (to satisfy those
with non-dimensional requirements) and implement a fall-back shipping method
with the same group number.
The problem that arises is, there is no way (that I can see) to specify the conversion
from volume (in cubic inches) divided by 166 to arrive at a dimensional weight
(in pounds), which could then be sorted out by the weight bands. Nor can I use
a volume band to directly apply the volume calculation,
Any thoughts ?
Nita Rae
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How many "volume bands" do you need? You could consider making a separate shipping
method for each one and put them in the same group.
When you work with volumes, keep in mind "Bricklink volume" is some 50-70% of
real-life volume. I had to reduce the volume of the method by about half to get
orders that just fit.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 25, 2021 04:23 | | Subject: | Re: Parts smelling like cigarette smoke still new | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, CSC writes:
| | Would you and/or Bricklink consider parts/minifigs that smell like smoke new?
It is not just a bit of a smell, it is horrible on each minifig I ordered.
I also contacted the seller after placing the order that he should not send the
items if they smell like smoke as I saw that in his feedback. The seller never
responded but shipped the parts AFTER I sent my message.
Any ideas on how to handle this?
Thanks
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In my experience the smell is gone within like 2 weeks. I once bought a huge
batch of plastic bags from an excessive smoker for packing lego, it smelled horrible
but even that was fine eventually, I am still using those and they just smell
like plastic now.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 25, 2021 04:07 | | Subject: | Re: When are you going to reopen my store? | | Viewed: | 124 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Dino1 writes:
| | Hello Bricklink!
When are you going to reopen my store?
I have always paid my dues. The last payment was on 08/05 for the July contribution.
Until you issue a tax correct invoice, I am not obligated to pay taxes on it.
I pointed this out on the forum over a year ago. By the way, Bricklink's
accounting seems to be in a desolate state. My total of 4 payments were not taken
into account and are always re-invoiced, although I have pointed out the first
2 payments additionally by e-mail.
In addition, I expect the immediate deletion of the note "Reason: non-payment
of fees" on the store page.
This is a lie and also damaging to my reputation. Such a thing is illegal.
Regards
Werner
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https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1312127
Why do you repost if you didn't answer that?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2021 17:19 | | Subject: | Re: BUGS in Distance selling / OSS | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, jbricks writes:
| | A bit of a confusing answer.
Removing B2B sales would be an amazingly designerror.
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In reply to this point which I also made:
Actually I think I was wrong and the problem is of a slightly different nature:
You can't "remove" B2B sales as such, B2B transactions are a fact of life.
Fact 1: When a business buys from another business, they have a legal right to
an invoice.
Fact 2: And the correct way of invoicing businesses in other EU countries, is
by charging 0% VAT.
Conclusion: It is not a separate optional service, it's simply the correct
way of doing it*
In other words:
Bricklink's choice is not whether or not to allow B2B selling, but whether
their VAT stats (and features around it) are going to reflect reality or not.
If they are going to go with this design error, it simply means that sellers
need to add a credit and do their correct administration outside of Bricklink
(which is a smart thing to do anyway, I would never trust Bricklink - again proven
right). Any VAT amounts that Bricklink indicates over a period of selling is
just going to be inaccurate, as it includes VAT in B2B sales that wasn't
there.
* This is what a specialised employee of the tax agency told me, but they do
make mistakes, so I'm about 80% sure this is correct
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2021 16:12 | | Subject: | Re: BUGS in Distance selling / OSS | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, kaat writes:
| | In Help, Teup writes:
| | In Help, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Help, kaat writes:
| | In Help, TDH_Bricks writes:
| | Confirm this BUG from my side. It was happened to me as well but I was not sure
if it was my fault or BL did it.
Happily there was only one EU order at that time and we switch OFF the OSS promptly.
As regards the VAT calculation - we do it same way like you described. This is
the best way for both sides. Difference between VATs we credit (lower recipient
VAT) or charge (higher) as Additional Charges 2. Sellers cannot be responsible
for higher recipient VAT rates.
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I've reported these bugs to BL yesterday and was just informed the issue
where a status change would switch the VAT off was fixed. Haven't tested
it though. But great this was resolved fast!
VAT checkbox is still disabled, that isn't fixed yet.
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This is expected behavior - it is disabled by design. When Distance Selling is
enabled in the VAT settings, this box will be automatically checked and disabled.
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Huh? Why? How to do B2B transactions with Distance Selling enabled? 
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Normally, if a EU based company buys from a company in another EU member state,
the VAT id is verified and a 0% VAT transaction is done. VAT accounting is then
delegated to the buying company and handled in the quarterly VAT report. Many
(if not all) of the larger EU sellers are companies. There is also a lot of design
agencies that build models that are also companies. We need this to do business
with each other.
I've done 0% VAT B2B transactions on BL for many years and would like to
continue doing so. It's a normal business procedure in the EU.
It also just works as-is. When you manually remove the disable property, it does
what it needs to do. Like it did for many years. Please reconsider.
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Russell's response really confused me. Now I have so many questions.
-So Bricklink decided to... remove the feature of B2B selling? Which is significant
activity here on Bricklink?
-...because of some unrelated tax issue?
-...although only for members who have that feature enabled?
-...without warning them?
-...and not a mention about all of this in advance; We're just removing b2b
selling and expect it will all be fine and nobody cares? Did it occur to Bricklink
that maybe people want to make an informed decision...?
-Or are people expected to do b2b only with offsite payment or add credits
or something like that to substitute the old feature? Is that the idea?
This really needs some explanation, they can't just casually drop this information
like that.
| | There might also be an alternative:
If you could improve the BL invoices / order overview page, in a way they are
compliant and actual invoices, then when domestic VAT is charged we might be
able to claim it back at the tax office that way. However, right now the BL invoices
for orders do not meet the legal requirements. Would be great to improve that
too 
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Well I always make proper invoices, and you can always ask sellers for one. But
AFAIK even with an invoice you cannot claim foreign VAT back domestically, hence
the 0% construction.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2021 15:45 | | Subject: | Re: BUGS in Distance selling / OSS | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Help, kaat writes:
| | In Help, TDH_Bricks writes:
| | Confirm this BUG from my side. It was happened to me as well but I was not sure
if it was my fault or BL did it.
Happily there was only one EU order at that time and we switch OFF the OSS promptly.
As regards the VAT calculation - we do it same way like you described. This is
the best way for both sides. Difference between VATs we credit (lower recipient
VAT) or charge (higher) as Additional Charges 2. Sellers cannot be responsible
for higher recipient VAT rates.
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I've reported these bugs to BL yesterday and was just informed the issue
where a status change would switch the VAT off was fixed. Haven't tested
it though. But great this was resolved fast!
VAT checkbox is still disabled, that isn't fixed yet.
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This is expected behavior - it is disabled by design. When Distance Selling is
enabled in the VAT settings, this box will be automatically checked and disabled.
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Huh? Why? How to do B2B transactions with Distance Selling enabled?
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2021 15:28 | | Subject: | Re: EU Distance selling feature is now live! | | Viewed: | 155 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
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| In Administrative, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Dear BrickLink Members,
We have released our Distance Selling feature for sellers who plan to or have
reached the EUR annual 10 000 distance sale of goods threshold. To see where
your current BrickLink sales totals are, you can download the order information
here:
https://www.bricklink.com/orderExcel.asp?orderType=received
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Don't forget to exclude VAT in that calculation, and also no-VAT (B2B) transactions
| | or foreign VAT registration information and provide valid documentation. Once
enabled, the prices of your items will remain the same on your storefront, however
the VAT rate charged and collected will be changed to match the country’s rate
in which the buyer is located.
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Uhm, that's kind of a dirty workaround solution. The whole reason for the
new legislation is making competition more fair. As far as I can see, keeping
the prices the same for all EU customers kind of negates the idea. Not saying
it's necessarily wrong, but did you check properly that this type
of approach is at least legal for a marketplace?
And be ready for sellers who are not going to be happy about this, and they have
a point. Profit will depend on who you are selling to, which is weird. Hopefully
there will be a more accurate solution in the future.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2021 11:58 | | Subject: | Re: No longer can ship toys to france or germany | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| | | | | Yeah, it might be down to labelling for LEGO pieces eapecially for Germany although
a boxed set with warnings is still a toy, so doesn't really make sense. If
this is the individual countries taking action and not the EU, presumably they
also apply for EU to EU transactions.
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Can’t be. As Teup said, goods (and persons) are free to move in EU, no customs,
no borders.
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Yeah, and at the same time, rules that don't apply at the border make no
sense either. The whole problem with Brexit was the issue with the Ireland/N-Ireland
border potentially becoming some kind of import "leak", which made sense. Would
be weird if the EU was actually suffering that type of problems all the time
because of having free movement in the EU but quirky national import rules at
the same time..
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Nov 24, 2021 10:50 | | Subject: | Re: No longer can ship toys to france or germany | | Viewed: | 108 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SimplyBricks writes:
| | In General, Mmartin1980 writes:
| | I dont know if this has come up yet but ive just been to my local post office
and the wonderful ladies there gave me a copy of the new prohibitions list for
France and Germany
they have now added:
Toys, games and sports requisites, parts and accessories thereof
they mentioned it to me as they know me from my daily drop off and that i sell
lego, and now i cant ship it to France or Germany
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I think your ladies have their knickers in a twist!
It specifically says 'games and sports requisites' which has nothing
to do with Lego! Lego is a toy!
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It literally says "toys" though? And even "parts and accessories" .. pretty accurate
description of LEGO.
I don't understand though A. Why there would be rules for some specific EU
countries at all? You can technically then send it to another EU country and
send it to those countries from there without a single check, it would be a completely
inconsistent rule. and B. Why precisely for Germany as well as France, exactly
the same rule, at the same time
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