Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | infinibrix  | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2021 12:55 | | Subject: | Re: Are EBay new rules going to affect Bricklink | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, cosmicray writes:
| | In General, tpr writes:
| | Hi
If I've read the latest e-mail from eBay correctly - they are going to stop
payments into Paypal and pay into your bank account instead.
If less money is going into paypal accounts, will it stop some buyers from purchasing
on Bricklink ? I know you can pay thru debit/credit cards on Paypal, but those
using their balance to buy will it affect them?
tpr
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eBay has been forcing sellers to on-board into managed payments, but I had not
heard anything about PP being disallowed. If they cut PP out of the picture,
it's going to hurt them in the long run.
Nita Rae
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To be honest I would'nt be surprised if it works out good for both parties
because its not as if ebay are not accepting paypal payments on their platform
and so paypal are still taking their cut but now they only have to deal directly
with ebay with regards to the ebay transactions which may help free up some of
their resources compared with having to deal directly with lots of different
end users and from ebays point of view they now have better control over the
tranactions from start to finish which I think is what they wanted in order to
have better control over transaction disputes etc...
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2021 12:25 | | Subject: | Re: Are EBay new rules going to affect Bricklink | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, tpr writes:
| | Hi
If I've read the latest e-mail from eBay correctly - they are going to stop
payments into Paypal and pay into your bank account instead.
If less money is going into paypal accounts, will it stop some buyers from purchasing
on Bricklink ? I know you can pay thru debit/credit cards on Paypal, but those
using their balance to buy will it affect them?
tpr
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I've been transfered over to ebay managed payments for some time now and
its a good thing overall as by cutting out paypal it saves ebay sellers around
1% in their overall selling fees. ebay essentially hold the paypal account and
transfer the money directly to your bank account instead just as you have pointed
out but by people not having as many funds in their paypal accounts won't
affect anything as when your paypal balance reaches zero the funds are taken
straight from your linked bank account instead
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2021 03:56 | | Subject: | Re: We have a new Inventories Administrator! | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
Congrats, keep up the good work and contributions!
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2021 06:51 | | Subject: | Re: Minifigure sw0737a | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Hygrotus writes:
| | In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | In Catalog, axaday writes:
| | In Catalog, Thargor writes:
| | I just saw that Minifigure sw0737a Poe Dameron was added to the catalog. This
Minifigure is included in set 75149 and comes with helmet and hair piece.
In the past we often had Minifigures that had both helmet and hair piece but
they were only listed once in the catalog e.g. sw0416, sw0772, sw0407 ...
Why is Poe now listed twice as sw0737 with hair and as sw0737a with helmet?
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Maybe the new one comes with the 4+ X-wing
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It does, but why is it not a new number? It is a different figure as it has different
parts. There are other figures that are similar but different and appear in different
sets and have different numbers. Such as
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I totally agree with you
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1190568 (and whole thread)
but as I see admins have different opinion about that.
I also think it should be new number.
...but I give it up and I don't care any more 
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Oh thats a shame to hear.... having glanced over your previous post I think I
pretty much agree with your proposal as I've just posted similar in this
thread though you may think some of my examples go a step too far with just relying
on different print decal but that is as least how I truly see minifigs being
unique enough to warrant their own ID
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 24, 2021 06:38 | | Subject: | Re: Minifigure sw0737a | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, yorbrick writes:
| | In Catalog, axaday writes:
| | In Catalog, Thargor writes:
| | I just saw that Minifigure sw0737a Poe Dameron was added to the catalog. This
Minifigure is included in set 75149 and comes with helmet and hair piece.
In the past we often had Minifigures that had both helmet and hair piece but
they were only listed once in the catalog e.g. sw0416, sw0772, sw0407 ...
Why is Poe now listed twice as sw0737 with hair and as sw0737a with helmet?
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Maybe the new one comes with the 4+ X-wing
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It does, but why is it not a new number? It is a different figure as it has different
parts. There are other figures that are similar but different and appear in different
sets and have different numbers. Such as
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If anything those Yoda’s are actually more similar to each other than the Poe
and so if we’re adding the letter ‘a’ to the end for similar items then we should
probably start with renaming them as sw0471 and sw0471a if we insist on keeping
the one with the bracket in the catalog?
Likewise the same for minifigs like these (jwo23 and jwo23a for backpack)
I would even extend further by saying maybe minifigures should only warrant a
new/unique reference where the minifig specifically has unique print decal be
that on the head, torso ,legs etc… the point being that adding a backpack, changing
the colour legs or style of hair is essentially just accessorising that same
minifigure differently thereby these Han’s would become sw0612, sw0612a, sw0612b
And even these Zane’s although they may look very different they are still essentially
the same minifig with the same print decal on the head and torso and just accessorised
differently and so may benefit from njo106 and njo106a:-
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2021 10:24 | | Subject: | Re: Two Weeks?! | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, bje writes:
| | In Catalog, psusaxman2000 writes:
| | In Catalog, infinibrix writes:
| | In Catalog, BricksThatStick writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Catalog Newsletter which went out yesterday.
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Guess my copy is stuck in the postal system somewhere...
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Same! I thought it was just me only I don't see any news letter either?
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This was an email that came from blservice@ bricklink . com
Double check your spam folder as it looked to be a mass blast.
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Not a chance - there is no blocking on my mail servier for blservice or bricklink
- in fact all mails are coming through as normal although late, not even the
***SPAM*** thing in front of orders and additions. Maybe only went to the USA?
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Yes I think BL may need to check whats happening as my inbox is super organised
and any filters very specific to only true spam.
I use gmail which is very easy to search and I've searched for newsletter
and via bricklink email address but nothing anywhere?
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2021 10:08 | | Subject: | Re: Two Weeks?! | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, BricksThatStick writes:
| | In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Catalog Newsletter which went out yesterday.
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Guess my copy is stuck in the postal system somewhere...
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Same! I thought it was just me only I don't see any news letter either?
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 16, 2021 06:50 | | Subject: | Re: Two Weeks?! - personal solution | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Teup writes:
| | In Catalog, StormChaser writes:
| | In Catalog, Teup writes:
| | I can't help but feel like we're
soon gonna have the catagories we want to have and these large projects aren't
necessary anymore, but maybe I'm wrong...
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Well, that's absolutely the goal. This time around we created photographic
definitions for all the shape-based categories (brick, plate, tile, wedge, slope,
ring, ball, cone & dome, cylinder, etc.). Many of the movements will be done
for those parts, but some will remain undone (brick categories, slopes, and wedges).
Getting shape-based stuff sorted out was huge, so that's a lot of
progress. They're also probably the most impactful categories, so we're
getting them (mostly) out of the way first.
I know people want the large figure parts / Technic / Bionicle categories looked
at, so we'll have to get into those at some point. And theme-based categories
need to be looked at (Friends, in particular).
And another thing to keep in mind is that we want to have submenus for the Parts
category tree at some point. When that happens we'll probably create additional
categories to separate things further within the submenus (minifigure body parts,
for example, can be split up into multiple smaller categories once we can move
those into submenus).
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Thanks for the fast replies guys, now I understand a bit better what the attitude
to the catalog is. Seems category based sorting is not reliable now but there
might be some "light at the end of the tunnel" for my situation - I am going
to wait and see where where it goes, while my store is closed at the moment anyway.
Before I open up again at some point, I'll either align my entire store to
the new Bricklink categories (if they're "finished") or use a remark system
(if they're still fluid).
If I use remarks, I will write a tool. This tool will automatically assign custom
category names to all remark fields in the inventory, based on the part number.
It reads a text file that contains category/label names and a list of part numbers
that should belong to it. If anyone would be interested in such a tool, let me
know and I might start working on it a bit sooner 
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Whilst it can be helpful to use the remarks field for random parts where you
might choose to have them stored away and labelled in trays 001 to 500 or whichever
solution you choose don’t be afraid of using different filing methods for different
parts .
For instance where I always hold stock of a certain part I just store and file
them by design I.D
For instance I always hold stock of design I.D 3901 in various different colours
therefore I have a location for 3901 with all the available colours in the one
place that means I never need to update any remarks for those particular parts
However when picking I sometimes notice that the Bricklink catalog doesn’t always
put the most up-to-date design ID or at least the most common I.D in the main
prominent spot which would be handy
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 15, 2021 05:24 | | Subject: | Re: Option to search for unprinted parts | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, The_RealRedHex writes:
| | Maybe an option to search for unprinted parts could be implemented. This would
include stickers, printed parts, and stickers over assemblies.
Regards,
Theo - The_RealRedHex
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Search:
-pattern
The word pattern is included in the name of nearly every decorated part.
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Whilst unofficial Stormchaser has drafted up that he does not want to see the
word pattern included for minifig parts and possibly extending that to other
parts in the long term?
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2506
"Excluded Words - The following words should not appear in figure titles: "figure"
and "pattern.""
Either way when I suggested trying to enable people to be able to search for
non decorated/patterned legs like this:-
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1256683
The change was made only to be reverted back because yourself and then other
people looked too deeply into how two-tone somehow had anything to do with dual
molded?
Two-Tone = A visual colour combination made up of two colours
Dual Molded = A manufacturing process
The point being that anything that can help narrow down peoples searches can
only be a good thing
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| Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Mar 14, 2021 04:19 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifig sw0100 | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, randyf writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, dcarmine writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3901 Dark Nougat Minifigure, Hair Male
* Add 1 Part 3901 Dark Orange Minifigure, Hair Male
Comments from Submitter:
I have an original figure, and I know what dark orange looks like.
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But do you know what Dark Nougat looks like?
This is the only hairpiece ever made in Dark Nougat (and is one of the only pieces
known to exist in Dark Nougat), and Dark Nougat is very similar to Dark Orange.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126975831@N07/14890173099/
And this set definitely came with that hairpiece in Dark Nougat. (The official
LEGO data for this set confirms this as it also says it came with Dark Nougat
hair.)
If your original figure came from a sealed set with *true* Dark Orange hair,
then another minifigure will need to be created instead of altering the inventory
of this one.
Cheers,
Randy
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also just to add that within that same set it actually comes with Kenobi with
hair described as Dark Orange and then the Anakin hair is officially described
differently as:-
Color Orange-brown
Description Dark Nougat
I'm not sure why Lego use two colour references for that same part but its
certainly intended to be different to Dark Orange thats for sure
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