Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Mr_Rofl  | | Posted: | Apr 2, 2024 02:53 | | Subject: | Re: Shipping to iceland/VAT | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| I know it is confusing, but Iceland is not part of the EU. Yes it is Europe,
but not EU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
In Shipping, Tgr1992 writes:
| | First time shipping to EU. Do I need a vat for this sale? If yes what is the
process for producing a vat receipt or whatever I need? Thanks!
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2024 11:16 | | Subject: | Re: WARNING! Login from new device phishing emai | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| Maybe we can contact Pierogi from scammer payback or Jim Browning to make an
item about this kind of scam. And put the video out on the website with a warning.
I`m not saying I will not fall for it, but I always save my username and password
in my browser. If the browser does not automatically come with my credentials,
then I go in maximum save guard. Usually closing all tabs from that website and
typing in the correct url to see what is wrong with my saved credentials.
In Problem, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Problem, chetzler writes:
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I don’t envy the task that management has ahead of them, but they need to take
some substantive action soon.
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But what kind of “substantive action” can BrickLink take?
Buy the website names that may look like bricklink.com? The 3 millions of them
(org, .net, .«country», etc., briklink, brickslink, bricklinck, etc., brıcklınk.com¹,
briϲklink.com², etc.)?
MFA? They did that with OTP.
Mandatory OTP? They did that last week. It’s annoying and people are opting
out (like you did at first).
Send messages? They did that.
But they only talked about “brickslink” (or was it “bricklinks”?) and you almost
got caught by one of the 2,999,999 others. Should they send a list of the 3
millions possibilities?
Put a warning on the front page? One that can also be faked and diverted by
phishers?
Okay, what they could do is have a 24/7 helpdesk and quick procedures to at least
block an account… but then how do you ensure these procedures are fast and secure
and not abused? Another round of passwords and MFA? Another procedure that
can be copied / faked on a phishing website like they copied the OTP one?
In the end, phishing is a problem that can’t be avoided without the user being
diligent, without the user taking action.
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¹ Dotless i.
² Greek sigma instead of c.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2024 13:03 | | Subject: | Re: Account hacked -> poukra | | Viewed: | 79 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| Strange they reopend the store while admin closed it.
My opinion is, you should report it again. Until you have control back at your
account it should stay closed.
In Help, realPoukram writes:
| | In Help, Nubs_Select writes:
| | By chance did you follow a email link or ad link that said it was from bricklink
recently? There have been multiple fake phishing sites recently
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Not at all, I'm still searching where the problem occurs. I'm changing
all my password right now.
The store have been open again, and he add a new set ...
Watch you buying ! Scammer is in :/
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Mar 11, 2024 09:07 | | Subject: | Re: Account hacked -> poukra | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, realPoukram writes:
| | Hi !
My account has been hacked yesterday, since that my email adress was change,
my password was changed and then my username (from poukram to poukra)
The hacker add a set (75021) new and sealed for 250€ .... Now is not on store
anymore, hope someone don't get screw.
I've message the support, but no answer at all since yesterday.
Is their a way to make a break for an account ?
Many regards
the real poukram ...
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report the nickname via
https://www.bricklink.com/problemMember.asp
Explain the situation and refer to the support message you made.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 11:56 | | Subject: | Re: How do I get my double paid VAT back?? | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In Taxes, Poncke writes:
| | I have paid VAT at time of purchase, then my local postal service collected VAT
again, because the IOSS number was not correctly entered on the system. They
confirmed this to me in an email. They also told me to get the VAT back from
the seller. In this case Bricklink collected the VAT. I have logged a ticket
with BL, but that has gone into a dark hole.
I am willing to die on this hill. So how do I get my VAT back? I can log a claim
with PayPAl to get my VAT back, I doubt this will work. And I can file a chargeback
with my Bank. Other ideas?
But I will move heaven and earth to sort this out. And Bricklink have a responsibility
here to support me with this. The seller's hands are tied as well.
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If I can remember correctly you can read Dutch.
I think Dutch tax authorities (belastingdienst) are quite clear about this situation.
They even give an example which can apply to Lego and your situation as well.
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/internetaankopen/content/ik-moet-te-veel-invoerrechten-betalen-voor-mijn-pakket-uit-het-buitenland-wat-kan-ik-doen
I`m not aware if such helpful pages do exist for Irish citizens, but since it
is also EU the same rules might apply for you as well.
And yes I stand with you, BrickLink should address those problems and acknowledge
the problems and the recommendations from the EU. But even if they handle this
situation correctly for the future it does not help your case for now.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Dec 9, 2023 09:27 | | Subject: | Re: same parts, two entries in the catalog? | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Nicolasamico37 writes:
| | In Catalog Requests, cart_rudo writes:
| | Hi there
some questions about Promotional parts;
what's the difference between part 4066pb513 and 4066pb506? I can't see
any difference.
and what's the difference between 76371pb210 and 76371pb147? There's
also not any little difference to see..
also 76371pb176 and 76371pb110
or 4066pb552 and 4066pb509
and there are many many more entries like them...
regards
cart_rudo
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Hi,
I always see a difference between CENTER / CENTRE, depending surely where the
brick is given and the language of its country.
Nicolas
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See it as a kind of "verlan", but less complicated than the version used
in French.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Dec 7, 2023 12:03 | | Subject: | Re: Poll | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, wildchicken13 writes:
| | heated Topic in the Forum..........
Poll:
What do you Think?
A) no, this is stupid
B) yes absolutely
C) maybe
D) no, but it is a good idea
E) yes, it would be nice
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please just give a simple letter vote, no harrassing others for their vote. we
are a Civilized Lego Society.
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I`m going for F
http://v4ei.com/comics/index.php?id=eight&check=s2300
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Nov 10, 2023 12:41 | | Subject: | Re: Torso Adidas with green stickers? | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, stebav writes:
| | Hello Community,
I found this torso in different colors in the catalog - but not in green. Is
it a fake or am I blind? (Back sticker shows a 10)
Regards
stebav
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The sticker is from this sticker sheet
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jul 30, 2023 15:33 | | Subject: | Re: Corrosion | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Help | |
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| In Help, KACL writes:
| | Hello!
I’m hoping that someone can offer some suggestions that I have not tried yet.
I have set # 7720. It was sitting in the basement for years. There is corrosion
on the metal conductors. I have used white vinegar and baking soda paste which
worked a bit. I also tried Coke but that was not so successful. I popped all
new batteries in and it is not working. There’s still some corrosion so that
might be the problem. Has anyone ever had this issue? What did you use? Did it
work when you were done?
I would appreciate any advice. I would hate to just have to part out this classic
set.
Karen
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Sounds your on the right track. If your vinegar still turns green after the bath,
it is not ready yet. Make sure the parts are not wet anymore before putting new
batteries in. Otherwise motor pieces will die before working again. If they are
completely dry and ready for testing spray (a small) bit of WD40 on the contacts
and in the motor.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | May 30, 2023 10:54 | | Subject: | Re: bricks by rick 24 hours sales | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| Thanks Sylvain for the EU article.
I found one in Dutch. In the past a company already got fined. But recent they
made law more strict.
https://www.acm.nl/nl/publicaties/besluit-boete-meubelverkoper-seats-and-sofas-voor-misleidende-prijzen
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/12/06/misleidende-van-voor-prijzen-vanaf-1-januari-2023-verboden
In Sales, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Sales, bricksbyrick writes:
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that's a pity for you if I want to sell lego with a 20% discount 365 days
a year then that is allowed then I just put 1 month sale 20% discount on parts
and change that every month on the first of the month then that is allowed just
that
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No, that’s illegal in EU.
To be able to put an item on sale, the item must have been in your store for
the base price the month (30 days) before. The base price is the lowest price
that was effective during these 30 days.
Example:
If you propose an item at €1.00 for 30 days, then you can have it on sale for
20% at €0.8 on day 31.
If, in the last 30 days, the item was at €0.90, even for a single day, then your
sale isn’t 20%, it’s 11.11% (0.8/0.9*100%).
And, of course, if the product was always at €0.8, then selling it again at €0.8
is not a sale at all!
See https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/NL/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52021XC1229(06)
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2023 13:37 | | Subject: | Re: (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
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| Just an advice and not to harm you.
But you can look into you shipping table.
I tried to make an order but got confused about the shipping costs.
Your Terms and conditions says a small letter within the Netherlands would cost:
€0,96
Your Shipping policy say it costs: €4,50
And when checking-out with auto checkout it says: €1.01
Also your sale in your banner says 15% off while you advertise on the forum with
20%
You say in your terms:
So take this as an advise.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jan 12, 2023 13:44 | | Subject: | Re: Still prevalent today... | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Buying | |
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| In Buying, popsicle writes:
| | the added after-commitment costs through inflated shipping or additional charges,
sometimes both. At least with some vendors using the invoice method.
Example: Just paid a member within the EU, for some heads. Having never transacted
with this member before, I initially thought the price good. Silly me. At least
they only used one of the two available "additional charges" columns
In moving forward, what I typically do is create a note for the member (collected
quite a few over the years) so that the next time I am pondering a buy with them,
I’ll know to factor these types of costs (shipping rate and additional charges)
before pulling the trigger. For me it’s that simple.
I gotta say though, that it's been buyer experiences like this, that have
motivated me early on to structure our selling practice with no additional charges
and low shipping costs, to the point that we often subsidize the shipping by
a small amount. I'd rather bake any ancillary costs into our prices than
hit the buyer with them afterwards.
-popsicle
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Is it really that terrible? With all the governments wanting a piece of the action
in international business. Probably paid via Paypal who charges on every cent
transfered (so also the tax piece) and requiring at least tracking.
Try to send this order by your standards back to Europe. Your shipping costs
also start with $14,95. Do you eat the paypal fee over the government tax (in
europe around 25%) and shipping yourself?
Do know, in Europe (or EU at least) there is a free cancallation for all orders
not picked up locally. So you can cancel your order if you don`t want it.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2023 09:46 | | Subject: | Re: Green Feather Inkwell?? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Catalog Identification, krystensprouse writes:
| | Finally found the answer to these mysterious single green feathers I have collected
but now... I can't find it anywhere in the catalog or on the interwebs.
Help??
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Eh, you made it in the comic. Congrats… but run! 
http://v4ei.com/comics/index.php?id=feather
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Specially when both Syl-villain guys reply. Run while you can run. When mustard-pizza
guy wakes up and replies it is to late.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jan 5, 2023 06:18 | | Subject: | Re: Color id | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Catalog Identification | |
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| In Catalog Identification, BricksOfFaith writes:
| | What colors of purple does he use for this design? Thanks! 😊
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Hey!! Where is Perry?
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Dec 21, 2022 06:18 | | Subject: | Re: Gloves to protect fingers while building? | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, zzed writes:
| | Can anyone recommend gloves I could use while building to protect my fingers?
I can't finish a single bag without needing to stop due to fingers getting
chewed up by the LEGO. So I've been fumbling along using garden gloves.
Does anyone know of gloves that would be better? Or perhaps you have a better
solution?
I'm facing a 6,020 piece set I bought to build during Christmas vacation.
Thanks!
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Maybe a solution is to get the room you are building in at the correct temperature.
When I build in a room that is to cold my hands and fingers got brittle and paralyzed.
They crack like paper. But when room temperature is correct nothing happens
and I can enjoy building.
Happy building your hogwards castle!
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Aug 17, 2022 05:20 | | Subject: | Re: Leg pieces | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Searching | |
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| In Searching, kopernikuszm1 writes:
| | Hi, can you help me find out what are these pieces? The legs and the circle ones
as well.
Thanks, Martin
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Aug 8, 2022 03:57 | | Subject: | Re: It’s been awhile... time for a new contest! | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Contests | |
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jul 21, 2022 05:01 | | Subject: | Re: Paid order disputed on paypal before shipping | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| In Problem Order, Mr_Rofl writes:
| | In Problem Order, archmage writes:
| | Hello.
A few days ago a new user bought from my store a set to be shipped from Europe
to the US.
I asked him if he had read the terms page and was aware of high shipping costs.
Having received a positive response, I proceeded with the invoice and after a
few days the user paid the order. Another few days later, just before I sent
the package (luckily), I received a message from paypal informing me that the
user had opened a dispute saying that he had not made the purchase.
Comparing the names of paypal and bricklink accounts, I imagine that a boy placed
the order using his mother's paypal account and that she later denied the
purchase. In the problem order section I have no options, as the order is paid,
so I wanted to know how to proceed to cancel the order and refund it (I have
not shipped anything so I have no problem to refund) without paying fees or (if
possible) having any negative feedback canceled.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Chargebacks are lazy users, who blame they have no control over their kids to
the sellers. Worst cast Paypal will take your money and charge another high fee
on top of that for "investigion"
Refund it, report the account to Bricklink for underage AND fraude. Start a NPB
proces, finish it after the time sitout to protect your feedback and give apropiate
feedback after that.
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In addition: You might want to give the feedback earlier, to warn other seller.
For the lazy reply, for people who feel offended by it. The proper way to solve
this is to contact the seller via bricklink, write what happend and work things
out with the seller. By jumping to your creditcard company you will get the creditcard
company and Paypal charge (extra) high fees, while clearly the parent should
fix what their kid did wrong, and maybe reimburse the costs which comes with
it.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jul 21, 2022 04:55 | | Subject: | Re: Paid order disputed on paypal before shipping | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Problem Order | |
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| In Problem Order, archmage writes:
| | Hello.
A few days ago a new user bought from my store a set to be shipped from Europe
to the US.
I asked him if he had read the terms page and was aware of high shipping costs.
Having received a positive response, I proceeded with the invoice and after a
few days the user paid the order. Another few days later, just before I sent
the package (luckily), I received a message from paypal informing me that the
user had opened a dispute saying that he had not made the purchase.
Comparing the names of paypal and bricklink accounts, I imagine that a boy placed
the order using his mother's paypal account and that she later denied the
purchase. In the problem order section I have no options, as the order is paid,
so I wanted to know how to proceed to cancel the order and refund it (I have
not shipped anything so I have no problem to refund) without paying fees or (if
possible) having any negative feedback canceled.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Chargebacks are lazy users, who blame they have no control over their kids to
the sellers. Worst cast Paypal will take your money and charge another high fee
on top of that for "investigion"
Refund it, report the account to Bricklink for underage AND fraude. Start a NPB
proces, finish it after the time sitout to protect your feedback and give apropiate
feedback after that.
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| Author: | Mr_Rofl | | Posted: | Jul 6, 2022 03:15 | | Subject: | Re: Studio 2.0 Zoom and Rotation unlike other CAD | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Designer Program | |
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| If studio will go the professionalization side they probably will need to support
3d mice as well. I never got used to the zoom settings of solidworks (or any
drawing program), so I switched to the 3d mouse early.
For the connecting large assemblies they probably need a function to connect
by surface and axles.
In the beginning when studio got launched (I never used LDD), I sticked to drawing
lego in Solidworks, since it was also my profecion. I was way faster using solidworks.
But now many years down the line I completely switched to studio for lego creations
(although I still like building it from scratch out of a pile of lego). That`s
mainly because the community with a large fanbase adds parts faster than I can
draw them.
Thanks community!
In Designer Program, FastBuildinFred writes:
| | I'm pretty new to Studio 2.0 and its been years since I used LDD, but as
an Engineering Student I've gotten very used to the PTZR (Pan Tilt Zoom Rotate)
system that normal CAD programs such as SOLIDWORKS use. I added a GIF of me moving
around a SOLIDWORKS assembly.
I think there are two main differences between Studio and SOLIDWORKS. In SOLIDWORKS
you can zoom to the cursor (like Google Maps). You can see me zoom on each triangle
in the GIF just by moving the cursor (then using the scroll wheel to zoom).
You can also rotate the viewpoint around an object instead of the point in space
by beginning your dragging on the point you want to use as your center. You can
see the second one in SOLIDWORKS in the GIF I attached where I am rotating around
the pink point (which is where I began my drag (SOLIDWORKS uses the scroll for
the rotate tool, but which button does what isn't a big deal).
This has made it problematic and extremely annoying to use the PTZR system that
Studio uses (and iirc the PTZR system that LDD used). I have only seen one other
post on this topic, I'm assuming because many people are used to LDD's
PTZR and don't encounter this issue.
Am I alone in hating the PTZR of Studio? Would the Studio devs be interested
in adding an optional PTZR system like SOLIDWORKS? PLEASE? I BEG IM GOING INSANE.
Alternatively if you're not a dev, any suggestions like a hotkey to swap
the center of rotation to a certain part (I think LDD had this).
Best,
Fred
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