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 Author: magicalbricks24 View Messages Posted By magicalbricks24
 Posted: Jul 8, 2021 22:07
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magicalbricks24 (605)

Location:  USA, Pennsylvania
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Jun 8, 2018 Contact Member Seller
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Store Closed Store: MagicalBricks
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 Author: magicalbricks24 View Messages Posted By magicalbricks24
 Posted: Jul 8, 2021 22:08
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Location:  USA, Pennsylvania
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 Author: RedTardis View Messages Posted By RedTardis
 Posted: Jul 8, 2021 22:25
 Subject: Re: ERROR: EVERY STORE SHOWING 0 LOTS/ITEMS!!
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RedTardis (2098)

Location:  USA, Texas
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Aug 4, 2017 Contact Member Seller
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Store: Trini Toys
In Problem, magicalbricks24 writes:
  In Problem, magicalbricks24 writes:
  I was shopping and every store (including my own) shows as 0 items and lots.
I checked on multiple devices and nothing works. Is anyone else experiencing
this or know when it will be resolved?


Thanks!

-Nicholas
magicalbricks24

Here is a screenshot as well:

I see everything like normal, inventory looks fine. Might be a temporary glitch.
 Author: magicalbricks24 View Messages Posted By magicalbricks24
 Posted: Jul 8, 2021 22:42
 Subject: Re: ERROR: EVERY STORE SHOWING 0 LOTS/ITEMS!!
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Location:  USA, Pennsylvania
Member Since Contact Type Status
Jun 8, 2018 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store Closed Store: MagicalBricks
In Problem, RedTardis writes:
  In Problem, magicalbricks24 writes:
  In Problem, magicalbricks24 writes:
  I was shopping and every store (including my own) shows as 0 items and lots.
I checked on multiple devices and nothing works. Is anyone else experiencing
this or know when it will be resolved?


Thanks!

-Nicholas
magicalbricks24

Here is a screenshot as well:

I see everything like normal, inventory looks fine. Might be a temporary glitch.

I just got an order so it’s definitely not affecting everyone. I’ll wait until
maintenance tonight and if nothing happens, I’ll contact the help desk. It’s
probably helping me actually, people can order from me but I can’t order. At
least I won’t be spending money , lol.
 Author: Brickitty View Messages Posted By Brickitty
 Posted: Jul 8, 2021 23:11
 Subject: Re: ERROR: EVERY STORE SHOWING 0 LOTS/ITEMS!!
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Brickitty (6451)

Location:  USA, Colorado
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Aug 13, 2014 Contact Member Seller
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Store Closed Store: Brickitty
Happened to me a few months back, and daily maintenance fixed the problem. I
was told that it was a problem with cookies or muffins or some other type of
baked goods. Maybe a biscuit got stuck in my computer and Bricklink nicely cleaned
it for me while I was asleep?
 Author: hpoort View Messages Posted By hpoort
 Posted: Jul 9, 2021 01:43
 Subject: Re: ERROR: EVERY STORE SHOWING 0 LOTS/ITEMS!!
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hpoort (410)

Location:  Netherlands, Groningen
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In Problem, magicalbricks24 writes:
  I was shopping and every store (including my own) shows as 0 items and lots.
I checked on multiple devices and nothing works. Is anyone else experiencing
this or know when it will be resolved?


Thanks!

-Nicholas
magicalbricks24

The problem appears to be due to a limit on the number of store pages you may
visit in a day. It will be resolved automatically, until you browse 'too
much' again.

Please raise a helpdesk ticket as it appears the limit (to prevent web scraping?)
is set too low, causing problems with normal shopping like yours.
 Author: Teup View Messages Posted By Teup
 Posted: Jul 9, 2021 03:49
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Teup (6595)

Location:  Netherlands, Utrecht
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May 6, 2004 Contact Member Seller
Buying Privileges - OKSelling Privileges - OK
Store: BLOKJESKONING
In Problem, hpoort writes:
  In Problem, magicalbricks24 writes:
  I was shopping and every store (including my own) shows as 0 items and lots.
I checked on multiple devices and nothing works. Is anyone else experiencing
this or know when it will be resolved?


Thanks!

-Nicholas
magicalbricks24

The problem appears to be due to a limit on the number of store pages you may
visit in a day. It will be resolved automatically, until you browse 'too
much' again.

Please raise a helpdesk ticket as it appears the limit (to prevent web scraping?)
is set too low, causing problems with normal shopping like yours.

This scraping prevention is annoying in general, they should simply allow it,
up to a fair limit. Doesn't even need to be much, but right now it blocks
you way too fast. I've been doing it for many years to find what sets to
part out and sell on Bricklink, and I'm not apologising for it. Just how
are sellers supposed to find what sets to part out? Are they expected to manually
check the part out value of every single set that is on the market? Useless questions
of course, because Bricklink doesn't use Bricklink and doesn't realise
what sellers need to be able to sell... IMO they should simply allow for example
up to 100 visits a day with, say, 2-3 seconds interval in between, I don't
think that's too much asked. If that's a problem, then improve the API!
So you don't need scraping limitations.