| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | Feb 22, 2022 04:19 | | Subject: | Re: Enabling of B2B transactions for EU orders | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | Administrative | |
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| In Administrative, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | In order to make use of this new feature, simply click on the 'Verify your
VAT ID' link under the Order Summary section to enter your valid VAT registration
number during checkout
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Quick tests:
I tried in 3 different shops including Brick24, and couldn't see no "Verify
your VAT ID" link or whatever even close to this, up to the very last step of
the check out (4th).
It's late, tired - please have a good evening!
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Looks like it only works on stores outside the EU, I wonder why? I like how it
works, I think the same could be applied to EU stores, no? Or should stores be
able to refuse accepting them? According to the tax agency helpdesk here, it's
not something stores are allowed to refuse, but I've also seen on the forum
that intra-community transactions are problematic for sellers in certain member
states.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 18:45 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, Teup writes:
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Useful tip: When it's really busy (holiday season), it could be smart to
send out orders on Tuesday. Mondays are sometimes so busy for PostNL that they
leave some of the Monday bags untouched until a week later to avoid a domino
effect. So shipping out on Tuesday in busy times can actually make things arrive
faster.
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And now everybody will post on Tuesday, so Monday will be okay again… or maybe
better post on Wednesday 
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Actually yes that's right, what they told me is that it's Monday "and
sometimes Tuesday"... so Wednesday is safest  But for me so far, almost all
of my delayed orders can be traced back to Monday batches 
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 18:32 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, tonnic writes:
| | In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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For me it is not getting the orders on monday but most of the time monday is
‘shippingday’.
I receive the orders during the weekend, pack them and ship them on monday.
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Same here, and it's actually the usual pattern for webshops. People tend
to do their shopping in the weekend. (But Lego parts orders are complicated so
maybe in the OP's case people just finalize them a little later)
Useful tip: When it's really busy (holiday season), it could be smart to
send out orders on Tuesday. Mondays are sometimes so busy for PostNL that they
leave some of the Monday bags untouched until a week later to avoid a domino
effect. So shipping out on Tuesday in busy times can actually make things arrive
faster.
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 12:23 | | Subject: | Re: Why most orders on Mondays? | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Hi all,
I am puzzled by the fact that I receive most orders on Monday and not on Saturday
or Sunday.
I understand that you use the weekend to spend on your hobby, but why do you
place the order on Monday, the day you should be at work? And not on Sunday evening?
Do you use Sunday night to 'sleep on it?' And if so, why?
Of course I understand that orders from the USA that are placed on Sunday evening
will only arrive on Monday evening. But I'm not talking about that.
It is the orders from Europe that always arrive on Mondays. And the rest of the
week you can just forget about: no orders. This, of course, only pertains to
my small shop.
Anyway, I have packed my weekly 3 orders placed on Monday (all from The Netherlands)
and ship them tomorrow.
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I agree that's odd, and most of mine actually are on Sunday evening. Monday
and Tuesday are sort of the cooldown days for my shop where I have a change to
catch up with everything. It can't be a timezone thing either, because BL's
timestamps are earlier rather than later.
As for this particular Monday: A lot of people are staying indoors these days
because of the storm and it caused a huge surge in orders for me, like a lockdown
kind of effect.
Maybe some business buyers who were missing parts for their weekend orders?
I can't really think of a better possible reason...
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| Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Feb 21, 2022 11:44 | | Subject: | Re: List of renamed/recategorized items. | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, 1001bricks writes:
| | | | That's just your personal method and opinion. I have soooo many benefits
to category based sorting that remark based sorting seems really stupid to me
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Sorting is way faster when you're searching something different.
Imagine you're searching for a Black small part in a stack of Black parts
on your table.
It'll be long, tedious and subject to errors.
Now if you're searching for the same part in between many different colors,
it'll be different and way faster.
And if it's the only Black part, then there couldn't be any possible
error.
Of course - but in both cases - assuming your inventory is correct.
In short, searching 1 Torso in between a drawer of 50 different bags of torsos
is like the above solution.
At the contrary, if it's the only bag of Torsos in a drawer with bags of
different parts, you don't have to think at search; your visual search is
optimal, and you read the sticker just to be sure, you don't have to search
using the stickers (reading is long and subject to errors).
Conclusion: I don't sort by Color neither by Category; it's way better.
And it may be an error to think this is stupid
Sylvain
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Not sure if I see the analogy with colour, but on the topic of colour: I've
noticed that most of my many-lot orders have the same part in multiple colours,
so I get them all out of the same bag. (And there's no need to waste time
searching, either, because the bags are transparent and none are so big that
you can't see the part you need) - just one out of many advantages of category
based sorting.
Well, I'm exaggerating saying it's 'stupid', I know it's
not As clearly many sellers are doing it, so clearly it works for many people.
It's just something I don't understand well, because I haven't learned
how to do it, because I don't have any problems that it could solve. I don't
understand how the remarks get there in the first place (in a way that doesn't
require lots of extra manual labour), or how it works when a lot grows bigger
so you need a different location for it, or what the chronology of the workflow
is when you add parts while some already have locations and some don't. Probably
interesting to watch a video on how it works sometime, but as I said I don't
have any problems - I can stock parts immediately and pick the immediately -
so there isn't really much I could gain from that method even if it was perfect
and remarks were all automatic.
One exception though is minifig parts, your torso example is a good one. I've
got those sorted on minifigure series number, or year, as it would be too
much in one category otherwise. So I am kind of using remarks there. But it's
extra work that's only really worth it for problematic categories like those.
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