Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | randyipp  | | Posted: | Dec 1, 2023 21:43 | | Subject: | Re: Cigarette Smoke - Try to salvage or Return? | | Viewed: | 72 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, Cob writes:
| | 1. Is there an effective way to thoroughly clean and remove odor from figs, polybags,
and parts without ruining them?
Dawn soap and water
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This has never once worked for me, the only thing that has ever worked is letting
them air out, sometimes for years.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 30, 2023 13:36 | | Subject: | Re: EasyPost | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, peregrinator writes:
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Mine have been EasyPost for a few days now.
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Yes, mine changed before I saw the "Hey we changed the labels" notification.
The only thing I don't love is the relocated rubber stamp but I just need
to get used to looking there for it and not at the bottom.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 28, 2023 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone getting an uptick in crushed elements? | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Lonely_Brick_OH writes:
| | We purchased a number of LEGO sets to "break" about a year ago.
We just opened them (damaged box sets) and unlike the year before when we did
the same thing this time around we found quite a few damaged elements.
Anyone else have this happen?
Very odd. The minor damage on the box should not have had such defined damage
on the elements.
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Not here. Damaged box sets are usually perfect for a parts seller.
A strange thing I have seen recently was a part swapped out for a completely
unrelated part, that was pretty odd to me. The only other thing was this little
baby short shot, my first ever.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2023 23:53 | | Subject: | Re: Best way to motorize the old holiday train? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, jasonpenn writes:
| | HI All
I have the old 9V holiday train and the 9V has finally died. I'd really like
to make it go again but I am absolutely not up to speed on all the new motors
and what not. Whats the best way to get it moving again with new parts?
TIA
Jason
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I have to agree, if just the motor died why not just go get a new 9v motor?
The lack of giant battery box plus the cost of batteries makes it a much less
desirable option if you already have all the 9v components.
Most of the retrofits of the PF components make the tender look a little funny
due to the size of the battery box.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 27, 2023 09:36 | | Subject: | Re: Accept quote | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Harmonieuse writes:
| | As a buyer, how can I accept a quote when only option is to cancel.
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So if you go to your quotes request page, what is the current status of the quote?
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 26, 2023 17:38 | | Subject: | Re: Multiple streets? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, sasquatch_eater writes:
| | Blank No.10, blank, blank, blank district.
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In China, the street information often has the form of [Town name] - [Village
name] - Street (Road) name -[Block number]- House number. The components within
the brackets [ ] are optional components in the address, and may often be omitted.
- Town name: The town name is usually followed by the suffix 镇 , 乡, or 堡.
- Village name: The village name is usually followed by the suffix 村, 新村.
- Street (Road) name: The street (road) name is usually followed by one of these
suffixes 路, 大道, 街, 大街, 里.
- Block number: The block number is usually followed by one of these suffixes
弄 , 巷 , 厅 , 胡同.
- House number: The house number is followed by the suffix 号, and the house name
is a unique number within the block or street/road.
Pulled from an SAP help pages but you get the idea. You can google each one
or potions of them to determine which goes into what field you need to fill.
You can also use the Business name/company as well, that is an additional field
that will be added to the CN22. Lastly If I get an address that gives me even
the slightest amount of trouble I'll print a second label with their name
and address and slap it on the other side of the box exactly how they sent it
to me.
If you are truly stuck send me a message and I might be able to help decipher
the exact address to enter into the label creation process.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 22, 2023 00:24 | | Subject: | Re: HELP! Part Designer is Super Tiny! | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Help, Zeldafan writes:
| | I literally just downloaded partdesigner and the ui is miniscule. Is this intentional?
Is it glitched? How do I change it? Please help!
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Studio forum has your answer.
https://forum.bricklink.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=8576
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2023 18:22 | | Subject: | Re: bricklink.com without www does NOT work | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, chrisweb writes:
Looks like the root DNS entry is wrong. The www entry and root entry point to
2 different addresses, both amazon but one must be bad.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Oct 23, 2023 19:29 | | Subject: | Re: Order Placing without knowing the Postage | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, RICKIREDVAN writes:
| | What a stupid System, Place an order without knowing the Cost.
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Agreed. I do like the quote option that many provide, the last step of checkout
you can quote instead of complete purchase if they have it enabled.
Though I did just make a large purchase from a polish store that had excellent
shipping breakdown in their terms and it was 100% spot on upon receipt of invoice.
Keep your eye's out for stores like this. I do know that a few countries
mail services have significant price differences based upon the thickness of
items and know that Royal Mail is one of those, often thickness questions show
up in the forums.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Oct 16, 2023 19:35 | | Subject: | Re: How do sellers ship baseplates? | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, outofthe60s writes:
| | I have about 40 32x32 baseplates I'd like to add to my store. Problem is
that I'm not sure of the best way to ship them. Do sellers just typically
ship them in large bubble envelopes or boxes? Large envelopes seem the most economical
but I'm concerned about damage to the plates. Boxes seem the most safe but
more costly to ship. What are your recommendations? Thanks.
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Shocked no one mentioned this but I use record mailers. You can make them skinny
if they only order a couple baseplates or a bit bigger to add parts with baseplates.
They are cheap/lightweight and easy to use.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 14, 2023 12:44 | | Subject: | Re: SHIPSTATION SLOW | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, pitz8008 writes:
| | Is anyone else having a problem with Shipstation. It's either taking forever
to load or not loading at all. Anyone else?
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I think I have tried it 3 times, 2 of those times it failed to even load.
FYI pirate ship now has PayPal import working.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jul 23, 2023 22:06 | | Subject: | Re: label printer | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, 1001bricks writes:
| | Anyway, the absolute best is Zebra.
Expensive though.
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Here UPS gave them out for free to customers so you will find tons of decent
ones used on eBay for around $50-75 in the US. Found my LP 2844-Z about 5 years
ago (I think) been going strong ever since.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jul 23, 2023 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: Store remarks update | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Gotvaldas writes:
| | So my question is how do I update all of my remarks on Bricklink store? I did
download .CSV file and added all the 0's that ive wanted, but how to I upload
it back to Bricklink without ruining all quantities and everything else? IS there
an easier way?
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You best bet is to use Brickstore. You can download your store into brickstore,
change there or edit the bsx file manually with a notepad program. Then highlight
all of it and export - mass update (bottom box on page that opens), click verify
file, then submit updates.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jul 18, 2023 19:41 | | Subject: | Re: Bulk minifig parts - wedding | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, graemekoz writes:
| | I wanted to buy a bulk variety of heads, hats, hair, torso and legs and people
can create their own.
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Bulk minfigure lots would be best sourced on other platforms designed for bulk.
On BL you pay a premium because they are checked for quality and are also identified
parts. Sometimes sellers list bulk but they can be a bit tricky to find.
I'd say check those other bulk and auction sites and even sites like etsy.
The alternative is your post may have been seen by someone with bulk minifig
parts and may setup a listing for you but I would say that would be fairly rare.
Seems like this would be a pretty fun idea, I would have liked this to go along
with my wife's idea of a little candy station.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2023 15:29 | | Subject: | Re: Selling privileges revoked. | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, macebobo writes:
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IDK what you are seeing, but I am seeing 99.77% feedback with over 12,000 orders,
that is pretty darn good, IMO.
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If you click on a store, and select feedback it will show the statistics for
the last 6 months, kind of a way to see where a store might be headed. This
seller does actually have excellent feedback overall, I hope to have that kind
of percentage over 12k orders!
| | People in glass houses, and all that, you know.
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Not sure that phase makes sense here, while I do have shortcomings (obviously),
it has never been a lack of customer service. Someday I might just forget to
pay my fees!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2023 15:19 | | Subject: | Re: Selling privileges revoked. | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, edk writes:
| | Curious why you see the need to hijack this thread and dump on me. 100% inappropriate
response in my opinion. MY CS is fine, some customers are impossible to please.
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I'm sorry you feel that I was dumping on you. I guess I should have also
stated I've never been late either, and also imply how easy it was to be
on time, that would be helpful!
Frankly I was pointing out to you that not everyone is perfect, we all make mistakes,
as do you.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jul 15, 2023 13:55 | | Subject: | Re: Selling privileges revoked. | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, edk writes:
| | I have never been close to having an issue. I get the fee due notice and pay
it. Im 30 days early with every payment.
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Impressive.
Maybe that perfection would be better spent on customer service seeing your 98.33%
positive feedback in the last 6 months.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jul 4, 2023 23:39 | | Subject: | Re: Counterfeit torsos with Lego markings onstud? | | Viewed: | 97 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, pashah writes:
| | We are considering two explanations:
- these are genuine red Lego torsos with counterfeit printing (which makes sense
but why go through the effort of counterfeiting quite common plain red torsos?)
- these are counterfeit Lego torsos (with counterfeit printing)
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I doubt they are counterfeit torsos. They are probably just from this set
During this time when they were still removable there were some serious quality
issues with the parts, particularly red ones.
I have some royal guards from the same era from magnet sets and the red is very
off, almost slightly translucent.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 30, 2023 14:45 | | Subject: | Re: Win a Canada Post Truck on Canada Day | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| In Contests, TorontoLego writes:
| | Respond to this post with an interesting fact about Canada for one free entry.
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More than 60% of Canadians live south of Seattle.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2023 20:24 | | Subject: | Re: Part unrecognized in BrickStock | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Inventories, AkinOstrich writes:
| | Part #x346 is not registered in BrickStock
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Update the database, they both work fine for me, But I agree w/Nubs make sure
you are using Brickstore.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 26, 2023 23:52 | | Subject: | Re: USPS Ground Advantage | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, sasquatch_eater writes:
| | For weight let's say less than one pound and for zone let's say the package
would be destined for California.
--Claude
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Zones are not just locations or states, they are basically distance relative
to your shipping location.
https://www.pirateship.com/usps/zone-map
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 25, 2023 22:21 | | Subject: | Re: Spam & Forum Community Poll results!!!! | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, DeLuca writes:
Thanks for that I keep forgetting to bookmark the site and then try to guess
the letter combination and I am always way off. The I need to scour the forum
for all posts with "comic" in them.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 25, 2023 22:16 | | Subject: | Re: Spam & Forum Community Poll results!!!! | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, PlanetEarthToys writes:
| | Spam & Forum Community Poll results!!!!
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Why am I being screamed at?
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 10, 2023 18:57 | | Subject: | Re: What kit is the start of? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Would it help if we raised the number of items searched for from 3 to 5? This
has been suggested before.
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That would be great, you could probably narrow down a set considerably with 5
easy to identify common parts.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 10, 2023 12:51 | | Subject: | Re: What kit is the start of? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, dbstallman writes:
| | Does anyone recognize what this might be?
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Hey Brian,
Just a heads up, you can use the appears in search to fairly easily find these
partial builds. It may take a bit of time to identify 3 parts and their color
but this search is amazing if you spend a couple minutes using it (for the future).
Sometimes, if you pick generic parts, you may have to do it twice then cross
reference the results
Also very helpful for evaluating lots you haven't purchased yet.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 9, 2023 11:15 | | Subject: | Re: No PayPal credit - will buy MUCH LESS FROM SE | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, PAPalmer writes:
| | Very unhappy that brick link can't fix this. PayPal credit doesn't work
at all. Notice to my sellers, I not a large buyer but there are probably more
like me out there. My orders will dro significantly. Very angry about this. Brick
link has done NOTHING! DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR INCOME!
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I am a bit surprised about this as well. Using PayPal credit was always an option
until somewhat recently. I assumed it wasn't available because my last 2
orders involved a different currency and maybe it wasn't offered for currency
conversion transactions but then I just tried with an order from Big B (clearly
a business account) and PP credit was not an option.
They should definitely think about resolving this as PP credit is a very valuable
tool to use, this is the first site I have seen that accepts PayPal but will
not take PP credit, must be something going on behind the scenes. Would be nice
to know they know there is a problem and it is being worked on.
If you think this is not a big deal as a seller think about it like; all of a
sudden they stopped accepting Amex payments and didn't tell anyone (or any
one of the major credit companies).
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 5, 2023 09:54 | | Subject: | Re: moulding ips and fake beams | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, tec writes:
| | Can we tell a fake by where a moulding pip lays?
These beams i bought have a pip placed between holes, instead of laying on the
side as in current beams (pic 2 is reference).
I never seen these moulds before.
Absence of (C)
Absence of Lego
what u think?
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I don't think the pip can be used definitively in parts that are still in
production as they may have changed. I think it is the first indicator to make
you suspect a clone part though as the pip locations seems to rarely change.
In these cases you can usually determine fake part by closely examining the details
of the items, particularly with a loupe. The rounded edges are usually the biggest
giveaway of clone parts that seem close but lack that attention to detail Lego
is famous for.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jun 3, 2023 02:13 | | Subject: | Re: Request for invoice (backup method) | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Tdejacob writes:
| | Hello, I have never had an order like this, it says, Request for invoice (backup
method), and I can change the status to processing, ready, but there hasn't
been a shipping amount charged, does anyone know why other 65 orders went through
normally but not this one, any advice would be greatly appreciated
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Use this search to avoid in the future, it is invaluable.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 21, 2023 12:34 | | Subject: | Re: Torso cracking | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, Hmdrztzgdn writes:
You risk breaking the torso taking the arms out and putting new ones in. The
new arms you put in might also be very loose. The only reason why you would
do this is if you had cracked arms already and wanted to replace them, otherwise
it is a very bad idea. You might try to purchase an armless torso and add more
modern dark brown arms to it. There are also similar older and more modern torsos
you could buy and use that might give you the look you want, though a lot of
them have a braid of hair.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 8, 2023 19:32 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone ever carelessly cut open... | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | No scissors, all my Minifigures are opened like that !
Nicolas
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This is the way!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 8, 2023 11:56 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone ever carelessly cut open... | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, pcthurman writes:
| | If you just want to verify what fig it is, then a 1 inch cut near the top to
look inside and now you can seal it up with tape, never having touched it!
Cass T
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I used to cut them behind the rear flap, about 1" so I could verify the figure
but found pulling them apart to be just as easy and still requires no tape with
zero chance of damage.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 8, 2023 01:33 | | Subject: | Re: Why is Bricklink so long? | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, jennnifer writes:
| | The OP didn't say when he sent the Help request, if he received a ticket
number, or how long he's waited for a reply.
~Jen
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Nope, he didn't but the feedback was left Feb 8th.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 7, 2023 16:35 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone ever carelessly cut open... | | Viewed: | 61 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, chetzler writes:
| | ...a blind bag and found that you had done this?
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Am I the only one that pulls them apart from the back side? They split right
down the seam.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 6, 2023 15:19 | | Subject: | Re: Why is Bricklink so long? | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, crazylegoman writes:
| | Since there is no vulgar language in that feedback, Bricklink did do their
job by ignoring the feedback removal request.
David
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While I agree there is no vulgar language here, it could be argued that ignoring
someone is the opposite of doing your job.
Can it be declined, can a message be sent? Surely ignoring 1/2 the people that
keep the site functional is very poor service. I mean it took me longer to write
this than say a message such as:
"Sorry but we do not feel that this violates the feedback rules and therefore
can not remove this feedback."
This on the heels of "Hey look, our support tickets now get answered in a
day".
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | May 5, 2023 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: No "Send Quote" button/link | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, jsalkeld writes:
| | Hello
I don't see a " after submitting changes (populating the shipping cost
field)
Whatup?
THanks
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Apr 24, 2023 19:54 | | Subject: | Re: Motor for train in 79111 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, pcthurman writes:
| | Does anyone know if a supplemental set was ever produced to motorize the Constitution
Train in
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No set for it but I think I saw a YouTube video on it some time ago, they added
a 9V motor to the tender.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Apr 21, 2023 10:07 | | Subject: | Re: Netiquette on the forum | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, SylvainLS writes:
| | Could you please make the effort of cutting out unnecessary quotes when you answer
a post?
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Sadly fallen on deaf ears, even other forum moderators don't do it. Too
bad, on more modern forums it's done by default and you can generally click
to expand for those who don't snip the text themselves.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Apr 11, 2023 09:15 | | Subject: | Re: Reduce time to complete NPBs | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| You could also adopt instant checkout and virtually eliminate NPBs completely.
Seems like an obvious choice to me!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Apr 8, 2023 11:59 | | Subject: | Re: Most boring LEGO set ever? | | Viewed: | 77 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
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| In LEGO products, Macaronis writes:
| | I raise you this set as most boring and the only reason it was both Horrible
and Useful was to add Train rails/motors/boogies/bases/controller to your 9v
Collection.
* | | 4561-1 (Inv) Railway Express with Transformer and Speed Regulator
618 Parts, 9 Minifigures, 1999
Sets: Train: 9V |
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You may be mixing ugly and boring, my son and I have played with this bargain
train set for hours on end. It may be horrible to look at but it has a ton of
play features, more than most train sets even.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Apr 5, 2023 14:39 | | Subject: | Re: I'm such a Doofus.... | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Stonemonkey1974 writes:
| | So after 746 orders I've finally made that schoolboy error and posted the
wrong orders to customers.... Really don't know how I managed it.. Only two,
customer A got Customer B order and vice versa.... I'm such a Doofus! 
Just wanted to share my little episode of ineptitude..
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Yes, it's the worst.
I have done it, and it sucks. Just happened to have 2 orders going to the same
postal code on the same weekend and of course 50/50 shot managed to get it wrong.
Now with Pirate ship I paste in the order number under the "rubber stamp"
section and stick them on based upon order number not postal code.
As crappy as mistakes are they certainly teach us a lot and make us better sellers!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 30, 2023 13:19 | | Subject: | Re: Netiquette on the forum | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Nubs_Select writes:
I think mine is broken.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 29, 2023 18:03 | | Subject: | Re: Just opened my store Smells like brick spirit | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | New Stores | |
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| In New Stores, yorbrick writes:
| | | | FREE SHIPPING TO EUROPE / KOSTENLOSER VERSAND NACH EUROPA, and sorry for the
brits as I cannot ship to them 
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Why not just say free shipping to the European Union and EEA, or whatever criteria
it is that you use to give free shipping rather than using a wider area and excluding
people as you choose not to ship to them.
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All apologies, Something in the way.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 25, 2023 15:30 | | Subject: | Re: label method for bins | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, galeatter writes:
| | what do you use to label acro drawers. getting ready to start switching from
bins to the drawers. hopefully speed up picking orders
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Used to use a handheld dymo but upgraded to a Brother P-Touch PRO-XL (PC-9500)
you can buy for $50 or so used on eBay. I can use a ton of different sizes and
make them all cut to perfect length.
Can print a set of 60 labels in about 2 minutes with no effort as you can use
an excel sheet as a database to print any number you want. Takes a heck of a
lot longer to apply them to the drawers than make them.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 22, 2023 12:45 | | Subject: | Re: IS MY STORE HACKED? | | Viewed: | 69 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Also, you can go into your Bricksync\data\logs folder and open them to find out
exactly why this happened.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 22, 2023 12:35 | | Subject: | Re: IS MY STORE HACKED? | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | In Selling, randyipp writes:
| | In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I have a bsx backup file from my inventory (from Bricksync) but have no idea
how to make this the new inventory for Bricklink.
What's the best way to go from here?
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First download your current inventory as a worse case scenario backup.
Directly from the developer:
Steps to restore that backup:
#0 Shutdown BrickSync
#1 Copy that backup BSX file to bricksync/data/bricksync.inventory.bsx
#2 Run BrickSync
#3 Type "sync"
Make sure your store is open, can change the buy limit to a huge number temporarily.
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Thanks a lot for your help. It looks like you're an expert on this
I'm still working up the courage to take this step. After the backup was
saved I received 2 large orders with a total of 279 lots.
I assume I have to manually deduct this from the updated stock?
Can you use the sub command in Brincksync and then use the relevant order files
from bricksync/data/orders?
Thanks again for your help.
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I never use commands in bricksync other than blmaster on/off as I tried that
once and set all my remarks to the BL part number, basically the reason why I
have an email on how to restore a backup from the developer. The easiest way
to adjust inventory is to open each order in brickstore, mulitply by -1 and upload.
You should not have any orders after the latest backup as each order triggers
a backup of inventory.
Now if you had your store closed on bricklink but not brickowl, and those orders
came in on BO then the sync should trigger and subtract those parts from your
BL inventory.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 22, 2023 09:24 | | Subject: | Re: IS MY STORE HACKED? | | Viewed: | 81 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | I have a bsx backup file from my inventory (from Bricksync) but have no idea
how to make this the new inventory for Bricklink.
What's the best way to go from here?
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First download your current inventory as a worse case scenario backup.
Directly from the developer:
Steps to restore that backup:
#0 Shutdown BrickSync
#1 Copy that backup BSX file to bricksync/data/bricksync.inventory.bsx
#2 Run BrickSync
#3 Type "sync"
Make sure your store is open, can change the buy limit to a huge number temporarily.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 22, 2023 08:53 | | Subject: | Re: IS MY STORE HACKED? | | Viewed: | 76 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Stellar writes:
| | In Selling, Leftoverbricks writes:
| | Closed my store last weekend. Was about to open it again today and saw that my
inventory almost doubled in lots as well as items! I did nothing in between,
except from packing orders. Had my Brick Owl shop closed as well.
What could have happened?
Can I revert to my inventory from Sunday?
Help needed!
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Did you also stop the software you use to keep your stock in both stores correct?
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Generally bricksync does not work that way, it is far more likely for a closed
bricklink shop to wipe out all parts on brick owl as a closed store will look
like 0 parts in inventory.
But the doubling has me wondering what might have happened. You don't possibly
have 2 bricksync locations do you? Running an old copy of bricksync with a stale
state file can really cause major havoc.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2023 23:42 | | Subject: | Re: Save progress in Part out Verification | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| CTRL + SHIFT + T
But as another said, don't use bricklink to edit locations on a large part
out. To be fair bricklink didn't do anything wrong, you made a mistake that
was painful to fix (been there myself). Use Brickstock and save frequently for
your own peace of mind.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2023 14:59 | | Subject: | Re: US $0.01 Fee Amount Due | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Help, Marko88 writes:
| | Hi,
I payed my fee, but still 0,01 dollar left. Are there more people with the same
problem?
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This happened to me as well a while back, Admin Russell took care of mine for
me with a forum post like this.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2023 19:06 | | Subject: | Re: Trying to find stores that take other payment | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, petersonfam writes:
| | Hello, can anyone tell me how to find stores that don't just accept paypal?
that take other methods of payment?
I do not have or want a paypal account.
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I thought you could still guest checkout without a PayPal account, maybe that
is gone?
There is no list unfortunately or way to search. If you are buying by wanted
list you would still have to check every store first but it is quick to see at
the bottom of the terms page.
Feel free to shop in my NH store that accepts stripe. Even have some people
pick their orders up to save on shipping if you live near the Bedford area.
Good luck in your search!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Feb 26, 2023 20:07 | | Subject: | Re: How is this not feedback manipulation? | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, zorbanj writes:
| | If the parts aren't available to send suppose the buyer could ask for $100
and it would be fine because this is not feedback extortion but rather the buyer
using a tool to get what they are owed.
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What? The buyer is asking the seller to complete the order as placed or they
will leave neutral/negative feedback.
If the buyer said: "Give me all my money back or I will leave neutral/negative
feedback" that would be extortion as it does not comply with the contract
of X dollars for X parts (aka the order that was placed).
You can't just straw man an argument to win it, use the facts on hand not
whatever you want...
Read the the site for yourself, pretty simple:
Feedback Extortion: As a Buyer, demand additional goods, services or refunds
over and above what was agreed in the original transaction with the threat of
negative Feedback if the Seller does not comply with such demand. Sellers are
not allowed to require Buyers to leave positive Feedback or revise existing Feedback
in exchange for shipping items, completing refund requests or providing monetary
compensation. Sellers are, however, allowed to ask the Buyer to leave positive
Feedback at the end of a successful transaction. Please note that we can't
accept reports of Feedback extortion received through email outside of the Site
because these can be easily falsified. In order to protect yourself, we recommend
you always use the BrickLink messaging system to communicate with your Buyer
or Seller. If you have experienced feedback extortion, please contact
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2023 21:45 | | Subject: | Re: BrickStore | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, alexography writes:
| | Hello. I'm trying to update several lots in brickstore. I am just adding
remarks. If a lot had the remark field blank and I am populating it. When I
try to export the update it only shows a small portion of the updated items.
There aren't any errors when exporting and all have lotids. I've tried
with several different bunches of lots. But if I modify and export 20 lots,
only 6 show up with the reflected update after hitting the verify button. Any
ideas? Thank you!
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If you select mass update it only mass updates any lines/lots with actual changes.
So if you grab 3 lots that don't need to be updated, mass update - you get
nothing. If you grab 3 lots that all have changes, you get all 3.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Feb 20, 2023 21:30 | | Subject: | Re: Brickstock | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
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| In Technical Issues, Ninjamantis writes:
| | Is anyone else encountering issues with brick store, 'copying values from
store document'?
Im new to using brick store and use it to upload new part out sets to my inventory
on brick link. I have copied the existing remarks from brick link to my new file
successfully numerous times before, but now its not working and doesn't upload
the existing remarks. I use this method to keep track of where my parts are located,
as i find it difficult to do part out sets on brick link.
Not sure why this is happening. Not completely ruling out user error, but was
wondering whether this is a known error to anyone else or not?
Cheers
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Nope, just uploaded recently, what version are you on, are you up to date?
Latest is 2022.11.2
I have accidentally forgotten to change from Old remarks to New remarks when
uploading, that does happen if you move too quickly.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Feb 3, 2023 00:54 | | Subject: | Re: More reason to love Bricklink! | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, pcthurman writes:
| |
Every time you or someone else on Bricklink bashes or makes fun of eBay, you
are also bashing or making fun of those Bricklink members who also use eBay.
Just my $0.02
Cass T
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Strange that comments about the selling platform specifically reflect on those
who use it without specifically mentioning the people who use it?
If I make fun or poke at facebook (and not its users) and you have a facebook
account is there also a correlation there?
To me it seems like a very strange way to look at the world. I mean unless you
own eBay or facebook then maybe offence would be warranted.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2023 12:07 | | Subject: | Re: Paypal Shipping | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, Shiny_Stuff writes:
| |
My favorite part of using a third party shipping vendor is earning back my 1%
from Paypal. That doesn't happen if you use Paypal/ShipStation (or at least
it didn't before the ShipStation changeover).
My little shop has done well by PirateShip as far as saving money for me and
my buyers. I have been using PirateShip for just a little less than 2 years.
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Oh man, you just blew my mind....
I have been seeing so many small cash back notifications by using my PayPal debit
card and for some reason my brain never linked the fact that I use that debit
card to pay my shipping. I rarely use that debit card so I was wondering where
that cash back was coming from as I never stopped to think about it. This is
funny and quite obvious after you pointed it out to me.
Free cash back and I don't have to use shipstation, pirateship just got even
better.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Feb 2, 2023 01:29 | | Subject: | Re: Paypal Shipping | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, legoman84 writes:
| | In Shipping, legoman84 writes:
| | Recently I noticed that I was getting substantially higher shipping cost for
USPS domestic mail when creating a shipping label on PayPal/ShipStation. For
example it will tell me that a Priority Mail Package is $8.82 but when I purchased
the label it is $12.99. Is anyone having the same problems with PayPal shiping?
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I find it strange that I have to purchase the over price shipping label then
void it in order to purchase the shipping label at the correct price.
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I have come to find it easier to paste a full address into Pirateship vs hoping
that shipstation works that day. All the help I can offer!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 31, 2023 21:43 | | Subject: | Re: Different Pear Golds? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, krystensprouse writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, jennnifer writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, krystensprouse writes:
| | I keep seeing 2 obviously different color "pearl gold" studs in my collection
Is there another color I'm missing or are they that different
Ps, it's not metallic or chrome
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https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1383134
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Flat dark gold. Got it. Thanks!
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The most important part of that entire post is this:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1383159
"People will debate the nuances, but for the purposes of selling they are
all
Pearl Gold. If you want to list them as two lots under Pearl Gold you can, with
notes for the different shades. Up to you."
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 29, 2023 19:01 | | Subject: | Re: Double invoice text | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, BrickScope writes:
| | Question for all of you who use custom invoice messages. All sent invoices automatically
include standard BrickLink payment instructions in addition to the payment instructions
I provide in my custom template. This is rather annoying since the BL text basically
says the same as what I say later. I want the customer to read the start of my
message before blindly clicking on the "pay now" button. Any way to turn
off the auto text?
Zoe
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If you edit your store you can change the message templates (last under shipping
options) and remove whatever default text you like from any of the templates.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 29, 2023 13:52 | | Subject: | Re: Messages are not forward to email | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, peregrinator writes:
| | In Problem, randyipp writes:
| | DKIM is super important these days. I had to look into why our organization
was getting categorized as spam by gmail and it was due to DKIM not being setup.
The nice part is that it only takes an hour to do this. I too got a 10/10 (without
dmarc).
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Really? I found DKIM to be incredibly tedious to set up. But now there are companies
that will do it for you (that is, you just relay through their email servers
rather than trying to do all the work on your own). And maybe the Windows tools
are better these days (10-15 years ago running Postfix on Linux was the only
really good option).
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Well it might be tedious if you do it for free, but for $300 there is a tool
that walks you through the process from emailarchitect.net. It was worth every
penny and is a lifetime license. This is exchange, not sure about the Linux
world, my knowledge of Linux is super limited.
My 1 hour statement could be wrong though, it's like when you go into a situation
and you have to learn it all as you go you feel like it will take forever, then
next thing you know you are done. It was like one of those kind of hours.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 29, 2023 13:16 | | Subject: | Re: Messages are not forward to email | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Unofrtunately what you are saying about the blservice email address is true.
We get blocked by many ISPs and it takes the user themselves to unblock us or
request that we be unblocked.
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While this is technically true, the root of the problem is bricklink's email
configuration.
This is only going to get worse over time as more email hosts will require dkim
(anti-spoofing config).
I urge you to point the technical team/it dept towards this permanent solution:
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1389918
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 29, 2023 13:08 | | Subject: | Re: Messages are not forward to email | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, 1001bricks writes:
| | Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC)
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Failed... (email from December 2022)
Authentication-Results: spf=pass (sender IP is 54.208.31.131)
smtp.mailfrom=bricklink.com; dkim=none (message not signed)
header.d=none;dmarc=pass action=none header.from=bricklink.com;compauth=pass
reason=100
Received-SPF: Pass (protection.outlook.com: domain of bricklink.com designates
54.208.31.131 as permitted sender) receiver=protection.outlook.com;
client-ip=54.208.31.131; helo=blsmtp.bricklink.com; pr=C
Received: from blsmtp.bricklink.com (54.208.31.131) by
DKIM is super important these days. I had to look into why our organization
was getting categorized as spam by gmail and it was due to DKIM not being setup.
The nice part is that it only takes an hour to do this. I too got a 10/10 (without
dmarc).
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2023 17:44 | | Subject: | Re: I want the Model Team sets brought back. | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, legoranger00 writes:
| | I missed out on the Model Team sets. I want Lego to make them again. Does anybody
else want them brought back? If so help me make it happen. Share your ideas and
suggestions on how we can get Lego to do it.
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Honestly the only good thing about model team sets is the nostalgia, everything
else now a days is so much better. Some things are meant to stay history and
not be drudged back up from the depths of the 80's and 90's.
If you are feeling nostalgic pick up some of the sets in modern colors and parts,
with a few substitutions I bet they aren't too bad.
Do you at least have one of these?
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 18, 2023 19:39 | | Subject: | Re: star wars, star wars, STAR WARS!!! | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| In Sales, Poncke writes:
| | In Sales, Bricks_Ahoy writes:
| | Want star wars minifigures? Well stock has arrived!
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all 23 !! 
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Well to be fair there are 66 in 23 lots, sounds a lot better that way.
And FYI you may want to add a weight to Dwarf Spider Droid as that will prevent
instant checkout. Since you are an instant checkout store check out this feature
that may help avoid issues in the future. Located on your inventory page.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 18, 2023 00:13 | | Subject: | Re: How much did I earn? | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In Taxes, kayteelee3 writes:
| | Aside from adding up each order, one by one, is there a way to discover how much
in sales I had last year? I'm just not seeing anything.
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Easiest way is to download your orders (next to mass drive through button) in
CSV or Excel format and it is totaled at the bottom.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2023 00:05 | | Subject: | Re: "Ships to me" Issues | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, holtning writes:
| | Howdy, All!
I've been having some issues with both national and international shipping.
The stores in question say they ship to me in the USA. When I checked out, the
stores said they don't ship to my state. I live in the middle of the USA,
and I'll even get this from other sellers in the USA. I've reached out
to a couple of the owners, and they have tried to adjust the settings with no
luck. Any info would be fantastic!
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You can just tell them to add an onsite payment method to resolve this, either
PayPal or Stripe will resolve the issue. Basically this is needed to collect
sales tax.
Surprised after 2 years or so this is still the message they give and haven't
changed it to something that actually makes logical sense!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 12, 2023 20:08 | | Subject: | Re: Yellowed Clear Pieces - Brand New Sets | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Big_Al writes:
| | Has anyone else run into this? Is this "normal"?
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Unfortunately with trans-clear pieces there has been a ton of variation lately,
this is very common. You will also notice shade/color variations in trans light-blue.
Up to you to decide if you want to create a different lot and add notes. Personally
I consider it a normal variance, much like pearl light gold can have a range.
When I pick the parts I always try to grab like color variation parts to fill
an order.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 11, 2023 00:26 | | Subject: | Re: Bricksync Load a Backup File | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Related Software | |
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| In Related Software, Groovyavalon writes:
| | Hi,
I re-used bricksync after not using it for a while, and had some issues anyway
seems I got it to ‘work’ but lost around 3000parts of the most recent I added.
I think I have found the correct back-up file.
I copied it into the main folder and renamed it bricksync.inventory and moved
the old one out, restarted and typed sync, but it seems to just reset it to the
current BL inventory.
Not sure what I am doing, can I ask it to verify, or add over and above items
from the back il file somehow?? I’m ok with computers but no expert either, Bricksync
works well if I keep it running and remember to use blmaster, otherwise seems
I’m struggling though!
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Sounds like you are doing it right. Make sure your store is open when you do
this, you can just set a huge min buy if you don't want orders.
Old bricksync installs should never be used if they are too out of date, better
to start with a fresh install. You can save backups but delete everything else
as a safety precaution to never accidentally run an old bricksync with an old
state file.
Worse case scenario delete your inventory and mass upload the backup in chunks.
Then start with a fresh bricksync install. You'll lose historical data
like date added and last date sold but the inventory will be correct.
Bricksync is powerful and sometimes scary but the writer decided that it should
backup inventory like a crazy person, which is why I love it so much. Remember
that your data can pretty much never be lost as every time it does anything a
backup is taken. Finding the right one can be painful but just take you time
and be sure you found the correct one. And I can't stress this enough, never
run an old bricksync and never have multiple copies of the data folder (besides
the backup folders).
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 7, 2023 20:43 | | Subject: | Re: New here | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, Adjour writes:
| | Not sure who you are buying from but if you are bargain hunting you probably
get what you pay for.
Some variants just cause issues, just message a seller beforehand and ask them
to verify the variant (or in the note with the order). But no need to send a
novel about it. Just please verify part is XYZ not ZYX.
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Strange post.
First this isn't a variant issue, it is correct or not. I mean if we have
to start sending messages to sellers to ask if all the new parts in a new minifigure
are correct then why even buy new?
Second, he told us exactly what he spent on the figure $17 and $27, so not really
bargain hunting.
Finally, when you say something like "Not sure who you are buying from but
if you are bargain hunting you probably get what you pay for." are you really
trying to tell people that this issue of wrong parts is on the buyer? That is
huge steaming pile and makes me angry to see.
And to the OP, sorry man, some sellers here are excellent. I'd say the majority
are but a handful also don't really care too much. I have found that success
rate here is better than most other platforms due to this being more of an enthusiast
place to shop. Since this is a marketplace do yourself a favor and check the
feedback left BY sellers as well, this will indicate how they handle issues and
give you an idea if they are a bit crazy or not.
In the end there is no reason why a used figure should ever be sold as new, some
people honestly have no ethics. Usually you can flush out those sellers by their
feedback, sometimes you just have to look close.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2023 00:42 | | Subject: | Re: Seller privileges revoked- New owner trying t | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| Not super helpful but can you download your inventory with Brickstore in the
mean time?
I think you made the right move, creating a post that will hopefully gain some
attention.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Dec 21, 2022 20:27 | | Subject: | Re: "FIGURE IT OUT" SITE | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, pitz8008 writes:
| | That website to help find torsos "Figure It Out" all of a sudden stopped
working for me. When I input the torso color, everything shows up as normal.
But when I input the arm or hand color, it says that "No items were found".
Anybody else recently experience this problem?
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Looks like they changed the way the search works with quotes, it doesn't
work with them at all any more.
I also agree that it is much faster, though that is not really relevant to the
post.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Dec 12, 2022 09:13 | | Subject: | Re: Buyers, do yourself (and sellers) a favor. | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, tons_of_bricks writes:
| | It all depends on what you view as fair. Pulling orders in a linear order in
which case a 1 lot order might have to wait for a 400 lot order to get done first?
Having people with strict time limits wait while we do other orders where the
customer doesn't mind waiting simply because they got their order placed
first? As long as we're shipping orders out within our stated time-frame,
I don't see how we're being unfair.
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I suppose the same could be said for a 1 lot order having to wait because a 400
lot order asked if you could ship asap.
Linear is not really fair or unfair, it is by timestamp. It also does not involve
you coming on to a forum asking people to send a message if they need their order
sooner, to me that seems strange. How about asking people to send a message
that says "no rush" if they don't need it by Christmas, that seems more logical
to me. I mean if they all start coming in with "please ship asap" then what
has really changed?
Luckily this is a big store problem, not a little guy one so I don't have
to deal with it.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Dec 10, 2022 22:12 | | Subject: | Re: Common Courtesy | | Viewed: | 78 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| This is why I always think those who are buyers who in turn become sellers are
the best places to shop from. They know what it's like to be shortchanged
a part or two with zero options, sometimes almost no communication and just outright
bad service. The phrase "easier to ask forgiveness that permission" is an overused
and frankly obnoxious way to live for everyone on the other side of it.
I know with instant checkout this site is inching ever closer to the anonymous
amazon type experience but how hard is it to send a message? I have always found
it simple to send a quick message with issues and in turn am very happy with
a seller who does so before refunding a part and shipping it anyway. This very
basic understanding of customer service seems to be something that is dying.
The only real negative feedback I ever left was due to this very reason. This
was also the first time it ever happened, like I was supposed to be happy about
a $.23 refund that would cost me at least $4 to fix. Seller didn't even
say they didn't have the part they just sent the refund and figured I'd
be delighted. Much less tightly wound these days so I generally just avoid giving
any feedback if I am bit disgruntled. Funny though when I pull up the emails
from 2014 on this transaction I instantly jump back into annoyed when I read
the messages sent, lol. Still I think back to this every time I make a mistake
and know exactly how the buyer feels.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2022 00:19 | | Subject: | Re: Storage Options - Akro-Mils prices way up ??? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, randyipp writes:
| | In General, ImperialFleet writes:
2018, those were the days. I guess it is true, you don't know how good you
have it until its gone.
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Ugh, can barely make that out... try number 2
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2022 00:14 | | Subject: | Re: Storage Options - Akro-Mils prices way up ??? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, ImperialFleet writes:
2018, those were the days. I guess it is true, you don't know how good you
have it until its gone.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 9, 2022 16:24 | | Subject: | Re: Fix contradictory rules - assembled minifigs | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
| | An oblique reply to your scenario, and a reason why pre-assembly may be in the
best interest of all parties ….
About a year back, I parted out a 70111-1. In it is the Furty minifig. When I
attempted to assemble the Furty, the torso snapped and cracked. That was during
the period in which some colors have been described as brittle. While
that was unusual, it did prevent a problem from being sold, and then having to
be remedied. All the subsidiary bits were then listed and sold on their own.
The torso was round filed.
Nita Rae
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So, assembling dozens? hundreds? thousands? of minifigures in 22 years helped
you not sell ONE bad torso?
And the exact same reason could serve for other parts: I assembled all your (Blue,
Reddish Brown…) bricks because I wanted to see if they would break.
But you don’t assemble other parts than minifig parts, do you? 
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I am still yet to hear a good reason to assemble new figures. I think my favorite
is to stop the parts from rubbing together, even though they were removed from
a plastic bag filled with other parts.
I have always had the mindset that no one ever cares if they get an unassembled
figure, but if 1 in 1000 cares it's assembled why even take that chance?
Also it doesn't bother me if the seller actually notes that the figure is
assembled because at least then it is impossible to miss.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 6, 2022 18:16 | | Subject: | Re: Trimble SX10 Scanning Total Station | | Viewed: | 223 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, 1P writes:
| | In Help, randyipp writes:
| | In Help, TheCuteGiraffe writes:
| | Doesnt look like lego, there isnt a lego logo on the box and from what I can
see, no logo on the parts.
The Cute Giraffe
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May not be an endorsed Lego set but those all look like actual Lego parts from
the photos.
Probably not worth much more than the parts unless you find the right buyer.
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The 1x1 modified bricks in the photos have a hole in the top, the official lego
ones don't
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Good point, I was thinking it was a 1x4 modified but even that doesn't have
hollow studs.
Who knows what I was thinking!
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Nov 6, 2022 17:09 | | Subject: | Re: Trimble SX10 Scanning Total Station | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, TheCuteGiraffe writes:
| | Doesnt look like lego, there isnt a lego logo on the box and from what I can
see, no logo on the parts.
The Cute Giraffe
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May not be an endorsed Lego set but those all look like actual Lego parts from
the photos.
Probably not worth much more than the parts unless you find the right buyer.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2022 14:49 | | Subject: | Re: Annoying Feedback | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, ImperialFleet writes:
| | Yeah, I tried explaining, but haven't heard anything. I haven't left
them feedback and am tempted to leave them neutral as well. I don't want
to be vindictive, but I also want to show how my feelings were about the situation.
What would you do, I'm genuinely curious.
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It's all about communication. Part of it was the lead up to how long the
missing order took to be refunded and part of it is how it was dealt with during
the process and after. As someone not involved in this transaction I can't
tell you much other than you could try explaining to the buyer that a neutral
might as well be a negative due to the feedback system we have in place.
I'd also never leave a reply that looks like that, it sounds Aggressive and
in this case neither one of you are to blame for the loss. You have to try to
leave emotion out of it or try to view it from the buyers perspective, they placed
an order and didn't get what they want and that kind of sucks too. Sometimes
you just have to walk away and come back in a bit with a clear head. Leave your
positive feedback, the buyer paid and did their job. Now it is up to you to
convince them to see it from your perspective, as politely as possible.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Oct 29, 2022 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: Annoying Feedback | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, ImperialFleet writes:
| | I just received a neutral feedback because the post office lost a package. Fully
refunded order and everything, plus now I am out the shipping and parts. 2 cases
were opened with USPS and never found. I know it can't be fixed, it's
just annoying.
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So often this time of year, nothing like a increase in price and worse service!
Honestly I don't blame the carriers I blame the daily "I'm a candidate
vote for me" mail. I counted 13 in one day this week alone.
All you can do is explain and hope the buyer deletes it.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Oct 21, 2022 10:51 | | Subject: | Re: Misprint Blue Torso 6½ buttons | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, yorbrick writes:
| | In Help, ImperialFleet writes:
| | Hello,
This part [973p26c01] comes with six buttons. I have heard of some with 6 and
a half. Is it rare or common misprint? I've come across one in pretty good
shape where part of the button is showing on front and continues on the underside.
I could be horribly wrong, so please let me know!! Thanks!
P.s. I'll post a picture if anyone is interested!
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Going by the amount of threads started about it, it is very common.
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To be fair I am pretty sure it is all from the same person posting about the
same part.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Oct 18, 2022 21:26 | | Subject: | Re: Paypal Fees - Rather High | | Viewed: | 56 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
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| In Payment Methods, peregrinator writes:
| | In Payment Methods, SDF_Bricks writes:
| | I tried to setup a Stripe account and it's asking for more questions than
I care to answer.
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Last time I tried to set it up I got as far as it asking for my EIN. I don't
have an EIN (sole proprietor).
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Strange to then give your opinion on something you've never used.
Stipe is basically the same as Paypal, but does not offer a way to hold your
money or shipping options. I get payouts directly into an online back I setup
for business use (Ally) similarly to the frequency of eBay these days. Stipe
setup requires a tiny bit more work, you need to link to Bricklink privacy policy,
terms, and your store.
For some stats, I signed up in 2018 and have had $20k+ in gross sales with $0
in chargebacks or fraud. People without issues rarely report how things are
going.
Also if you pay your fees by card, you use stripe, kind of says it all doesn't
it?
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 22, 2022 15:05 | | Subject: | Re: Anyone use this to store lego? Good or bad? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, LMAinFLA writes:
| | I'm considering buying a number of these parts organizers from Harbor Freight
this weekend and wanted to know what experience other Lego collectors and sellers
have had with this product.
Thanks
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When it comes to drawers you will be sliding in and out frequently do not go
cheap. I tried one of these years ago and each drawer stuck and slid like trash.
Personally I'd recommend going super cheap zip lock bags first and using
your profits to buy decent drawer units.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 20, 2022 21:51 | | Subject: | Re: Buyer complained before I could respond | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| Posts like this are always concerning to me. This entire issue is just miscommunication
and will only take basic communication skills to fix it. Do not quote your buyer
on a public forum.
First off, take a deep breath, walk away from the computer for a bit to calm
down if you need to so you can think clear-headed and rationally about this situation.
Now, check to see if the order is cancelled, this is not a gray area it is or
is not cancelled. Looks to me that it is not, I see 0 cancelled orders in your
store.
If not cancelled it is time to type up a short, polite message communicating
this. No need for too much text in detail, just also make sure you send the
order out asap. After sending this and the order just wait, be patient and let
them contact you in their own time. Eventually you can apologize again and drop
the link for feedback removal and hope they change their mind. Sometimes people
can act irrational at first and will eventually be able to look back at a situation
and realize that they made a mistake. To put it bluntly sometimes being a seller
is just finding a way to talk someone off a ledge, you aren't just selling
little pieces of plastic you're selling happiness.
Something like:
I'm sorry about the delay and confusion, your order has not been canceled
just a partial refund was issued. This refund was given due to a personal issue
that did not allow me to provide the level of service I expect to provide. You
order will be in the mail tomorrow with tracking number xxxxxxxxx.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 19, 2022 10:51 | | Subject: | Re: Do I have reason to get this Neutral removed? | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Feedback | |
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| In Feedback, electricbaer writes:
| | Indeed, may just have to get on with it and go flat rate. I did reach out to
the buyer to try to make amends, we'll see what happens there too.
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Zone is the biggest argument for instant checkout I see. Bricklink is the ONLY
online marketplace that is or ever has been concerned with exact shipping. I
guess when dealing with parts that are potentially pennies getting shipping just
right was a priority back in the day. These days you are talking about $1 or
$.50 or potentially even less, in the grand scheme of things I'd gladly pay
that convenience fee to know my exact price when I checkout.
Sets are a lot trickier when it comes to instant checkout.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 15, 2022 21:27 | | Subject: | Re: Finally, some changes in Bricklink Website | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, iprice writes:
| | In General, BricxaLot writes:
| | As a web designer and avid user, I could not help but noticed they are finally
updating some fonts and interfaces at Bricklink website! Thank you!
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Am I right in thinking that some icons have disappeared too? I'm sure there
were small images in the Market Menu that no longer appear.
Am I just imagining that? Are other people seeing them and not me? FireFox, latest
update on Windows 11.
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Here is the site from 4-9-2020, don't see any images.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 14, 2022 23:05 | | Subject: | Re: Break sets in set? | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, FlipLego writes:
| | When parting out.... what does this mean exactly. 'Break Sets in Set'
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Prime candidate for this is any:
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2022 19:59 | | Subject: | Re: did your Bricklink font change too? | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, RedTardis writes:
| | did your Bricklink font change too?
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Yes, it finally matches when you go to studio gallery, it used to change my font
when I clicked into gallery and then back when I was anywhere else.
I like the look.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 9, 2022 16:59 | | Subject: | Re: First LEGO set you got | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, LEGOfan1138 writes:
| | So I’m curious to know what y’all’s first set was. I’ll go first: mine was 9496
Desert Skiff. I remember getting it from a close friend back in the day. Still
own my Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett from that set. Sadly the rest has went to
the bin which I sold a few years ago. ( I remember having a 2014 Grand Inquisitor
in there too! 😕
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I could guess but probably never be certain. I can say that I 100% remember
getting this set:
I was completely blown away by how huge and amazing it was, that was a special
Christmas. Honestly makes me wonder if I am spoiling my kids now.
I dug out all the parts about 10 years ago and put it together again, I kind
of want to do a search for it again. Its one of those sets (along with the forestmen
ones) that really just bring me back.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 9, 2022 00:59 | | Subject: | Re: Pizza Contest! with an actual prize!!! | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 8, 2022 20:06 | | Subject: | Re: WARNING: Young Maxx picture! | | Viewed: | 25 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, maxx3001 writes:
| | From 2013, for the new people that don’t know my history and wonder why I collect
2x4 bricks, this is how it started:
Just found an old picture of when I was younger under a bunch of 3001olds.
(weirdly enough, all pictures are from when you were younger)
I was wondering where that picture had ended up.
That's an old picture of me with my dad.
And in case you are wondering, yes, that is my Mum in the background, shaving
her legs with my dads axe, he would not let her use the chainsaw again after
the unfortunate trouble she got into the last time with the daughter of our next
door down neighbours son in law.
My 2x4 collection started that day a long, long time ago in a far of galaxy where
this brick came out of the sky.
(or it might have been in our backyard, can't remember exactly, it was a
long long time ago after all)
I asked Pa what it was, he scratched his head and got his cigarettes out.
Lit one in a straight line and made a smoke square in the sky next to the crop
circle we found surrounding this weird brick.
Did I mention he was a very square guy, everyone around him thought so.
They used to get round him to keep him from taking a swing into the house which
my mother thought should be outside in the grassy knoll.
After a few puffs he said: "I don't know son..."
My dad has always been a very helpful guy he has.
So from that day forward I took upon me the mission of fighting crimes against
unwanted 2x4 bricks.
Going to places no one had gone before, seeking new bricks and new collections,
getting balder in the process.
Making a better place for those multicolored bricks in a blue, yellow, white
and red dominated world.
So far I have liberated many bricks from oppression, being locked up in dusty
old places and being mistreated.
You should see the scars on some of them as they come in, like they were bitten
or chewed.
Some are black and blue or even worse.
But after a nice welcome, a fair treatment and a nice warm bath in my place they
soon settle down and enjoy the view.
After all those years of being abused they now find themselves in the good company
of my pa, whom had stopped smoking after I told him it was bad for my bricks.
He just looked empty glassy eyed at me and asked me if that was some kind of
slang for balls, filling up his cup again after draining the pond for the coming
winter?
We both build a box to house the bricks in and lit his one to keep us warm and
used mine to sit on in the field to not get wet bottoms.
Pa hated a wet bottom he ones said, I did not ask, but now I knew why mother
always chose that spot close to the fire place.
"Did you ever think of that brick from the sky", I asked him?
"Where it might have come from, were it was going, why it was blue?"
He took him empty bag of cigarettes and lit one, puffed a nice triangle of smoke
to let me notice he thought I was gay for asking.
Now every time a new 2x4 brick arrives, I am feeling very gay, but to make it
so obvious a statement in the air for everyone but my ma to see, she was in the
house making dishes from that fight she had with pa over UFO's.
"No such thing as flying saucers" he said, plates flying over his head, smashing
into the wall behind me.
After a while you got used to the weekly trips to Ikea and started wondering
why we even owned a dishwasher.
He only cost money, so I decided to let my brother go, he could try and earn
a living somewhere else washing dishes.
After putting out his empty and now burned package of cigarettes he koffed and
finally answered my question.
"No," he said being the level minded person he was, he sat down and got back
out into the house using the stairs to go up into the basement, leaving me in
there looking down at the night sky, wondering why me....
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The only disappointing part is that this story consisted of 3000 characters,
without spaces. I mean it was so close, a true oddity.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 7, 2022 15:50 | | Subject: | Re: (C) on Droid legs? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, stearns writes:
| | Hey all,
just picked a
out of a flea market crate, and noticed it has no writing whatsoever on it. So
I'm asking: can anyone confirm they come without (C), "LEGO", part no. or
anything else? Seems strange to me, since the smaller ones (30376) have their
crotches printed all over...
Thanks!
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Many of the older ones do not have Lego in the mold. Most of mine have never
had a logo, I think only the newer ones do.
I have intentionally purchased some fake ones to check and those don't usually
have the injection point on the crotch.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 5, 2022 15:40 | | Subject: | Re: 20 Million orders today. THANK YOU BL !!! | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, helge writes:
| | The first order in my store:
07/08/2000 BL Order ID 70
I have no clue what I sold though.
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Wow, a double digit order is very cool.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Sep 5, 2022 15:27 | | Subject: | Re: 20 Million orders today. THANK YOU BL !!! | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, Schredder writes:
| | Do You still know, what You sold first on Bricklink?
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I had to look it up, my first sale back in 2016 was:
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2022 21:18 | | Subject: | Re: figuring out minifigs from inventory | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Brettj666 writes:
| | I am wondering if there is any solution out there that is like Rebrickable for
minifigs.
By that, I mean, you put in your torsos, legs, heads, accessories and whatnot,
and it spits out "you can make these minifigs"
I know I can go through the catalog, pick a torso, find out what parts it uses
for a mini-fig, but that's really labour intensive.
Rebrickable will take all your bricks and tell you what sets you build, I just
want the same thing for minifigs.
Any and all suggestions are very appreciated.
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https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1305485
If you search "Rebrickable for minifigs" in this forum you'll get more info.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 25, 2022 23:24 | | Subject: | Re: Multiple listings of the same part. | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, legomalego writes:
| | Makes total sense..... Still hitting the back button
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Don't forget to favorite!
Drives me crazy unless they have actual reasons for it such as quality, but 9
lots with the same new part, yeah I'm not shopping there. So glad they gave
us a unique lot column when buying by wanted list.
There was a seller on here, not sure if they are still selling but they actually
never parted out a set, they didn't consolidate any lots, they just put the
set number in the comments. Then they went to each set the needed to to fulfill
an order, I am assuming randomly searching bags frantically looking for parts.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 24, 2022 22:29 | | Subject: | Re: Let's give away $100 to a fellow BL member! | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| In Contests, randyipp writes:
| | In Contests, randyipp writes:
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 23, 2022 21:16 | | Subject: | Re: Let's give away $100 to a fellow BL member! | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| In Contests, randyipp writes:
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 23, 2022 12:13 | | Subject: | Re: My store is destroyed now or is it? | | Viewed: | 95 times | | Topic: | Selling | |
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| In Selling, Tracyd writes:
| | There can also be legal aspect to giving too much information. So speculate
away. You can imagine any nefarious schemes you want on both sides. At the
end of the day every USER be they buyer or seller are here at the whim of the
owner of the site. I am not saying they are acting capriciously but they do
not have to give any reason for their actions. More information on their actions
while nice is not mandated. And yes some sellers livelihood is provided by this
site, the sites concern is for the sites reputation and not anyone's livelihood.
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I can't help but think that there would be little to no speculation if this
was handled a bit better. A simple message to the seller at the same time as
the store suspension should make it clear as to why a store was closed. This
type of communication would certainly cut down on the "why was my store suspended?"
posts on the forum, leading to much less speculation.
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| Author: | randyipp | | Posted: | Aug 22, 2022 22:08 | | Subject: | Re: Let's give away $100 to a fellow BL member! | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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