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 Author: ACExperience View Messages Posted By ACExperience
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 19:10
 Subject: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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ACExperience (669)

Location:  USA, Ohio
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Store: 0 A Collectible Experience
Anyone know why or how to solve this issue?

My store and others are showing 0 lots for my family and I. Others can see my
store.

Is it my IP?
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 19:14
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1001bricks (52462)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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In General, CollectibleLEGO writes:
  Anyone know why or how to solve this issue?

My store and others are showing 0 lots for my family and I. Others can see my
store.

Is it my IP?

Yes - you made too much requests for a day.
Wait for tomorrow EDT time.

Anoter solution would be to use BrickStore for your searches; it caches infos
and does less requests. Free, open source.
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/releases
 Author: ErwinNL View Messages Posted By ErwinNL
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 19:50
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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ErwinNL (622)

Location:  Netherlands, Overijssel
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Store: TheBug
In General, 1001bricks writes:
  In General, CollectibleLEGO writes:
  Anyone know why or how to solve this issue?

My store and others are showing 0 lots for my family and I. Others can see my
store.

Is it my IP?

Yes - you made too much requests for a day.
Wait for tomorrow EDT time.

Anoter solution would be to use BrickStore for your searches; it caches infos
and does less requests. Free, open source.
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/releases

Really? I highly doubt that...

Check the browser console, maybe your AV is blocking something (F12 bottom left).
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 20:12
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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1001bricks (52462)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Member Since Contact Type Status
Sep 6, 2005 Contact Member Seller
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Store: 1001bricks
  
  Yes - you made too much requests for a day.
Wait for tomorrow EDT time.

Anoter solution would be to use BrickStore for your searches; it caches infos
and does less requests. Free, open source.
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/releases

Really? I highly doubt that...


Doubt what? The query limit or about BrickStore!

I'm sure of both.

About BroickStore, I have 50000 pics and prices automatically saved and managed
by BrickStore which updates them whenever it's needed, or not.


  Check the browser console, maybe your AV is blocking something (F12 bottom left).

No no it's real, see many threads about this in forum.
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 20:18
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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1001bricks (52462)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Store: 1001bricks
In General, 1001bricks writes:
  
  
  Yes - you made too much requests for a day.
Wait for tomorrow EDT time.

Anoter solution would be to use BrickStore for your searches; it caches infos
and does less requests. Free, open source.
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/releases

Really? I highly doubt that...


Doubt what? The query limit or about BrickStore!

I'm sure of both.


I just found 2 examples, but they're plenty - but searching in the Forum
is a pain

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1321957
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1316188
 Author: ErwinNL View Messages Posted By ErwinNL
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 20:24
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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ErwinNL (622)

Location:  Netherlands, Overijssel
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Store: TheBug
In General, 1001bricks writes:
  
  
  Yes - you made too much requests for a day.
Wait for tomorrow EDT time.

Anoter solution would be to use BrickStore for your searches; it caches infos
and does less requests. Free, open source.
https://github.com/rgriebl/brickstore/releases

Really? I highly doubt that...


Doubt what? The query limit or about BrickStore!

I'm sure of both.

About BroickStore, I have 50000 pics and prices automatically saved and managed
by BrickStore which updates them whenever it's needed, or not.


  Check the browser console, maybe your AV is blocking something (F12 bottom left).

No no it's real, see many threads about this in forum.

He has the same size store as me, I don't know what he does on BL, but I
can refresh/search all day long without issues. I'll check the forum for
any admin response to this, it makes no sense for BL to block its customers unless
you do something malicious.

If there is a limit, I have never hit it (excluding the API).
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 20:32
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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1001bricks (52462)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Store: 1001bricks
  If there is a limit, I have never hit it (excluding the API).

There is - see the posts I posted the link to, and there are tens like this.
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 20:39
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 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 20:41
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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1001bricks (52462)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Store: 1001bricks
  He has the same size store as me, I don't know what he does on BL, but I
can refresh/search all day long without issues. I'll check the forum for
any admin response to this, it makes no sense for BL to block its customers unless
you do something malicious.

It has a sense; BL's resources aren't illimited.

In fact, it's easy to reach a maximum.

A Shop page, showing 50 lots is a few queries already + 50 images
= say 55?

If you browse 100 pages of 50 lots, of course assuming you've nothing in
your browser cache (which is wrong if you're often on BL), and boom you're
out.

As you can see, it'll more happen to begninners with their empty cache.

In short; don't browse random long lots pages randomly, or just to watch.
Use search, Wanted-List, reduce the results.
If you're "browsing" you can be limited.
 Author: wildchicken13 View Messages Posted By wildchicken13
 Posted: Jun 7, 2022 22:52
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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Location:  USA, Illinois
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In General, ErwinNL writes:
  He has the same size store as me, I don't know what he does on BL, but I
can refresh/search all day long without issues. I'll check the forum for
any admin response to this, it makes no sense for BL to block its customers unless
you do something malicious.

Not necessarily. BrickLink is an old website with limited server capacity, so
it makes sense to limit the amount of requests that a user can make per day.

  If there is a limit, I have never hit it (excluding the API).

Same here. I have never experienced going into a shop with actual inventory and
seeing nothing. But then again, I also try not to spend too much time on BrickLink,
so maybe I have not hit the limit yet.
 Author: ErwinNL View Messages Posted By ErwinNL
 Posted: Jun 8, 2022 04:17
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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ErwinNL (622)

Location:  Netherlands, Overijssel
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Store: TheBug
In General, wildchicken13 writes:
  In General, ErwinNL writes:
  He has the same size store as me, I don't know what he does on BL, but I
can refresh/search all day long without issues. I'll check the forum for
any admin response to this, it makes no sense for BL to block its customers unless
you do something malicious.

Not necessarily. BrickLink is an old website with limited server capacity, so
it makes sense to limit the amount of requests that a user can make per day.

  If there is a limit, I have never hit it (excluding the API).

Same here. I have never experienced going into a shop with actual inventory and
seeing nothing. But then again, I also try not to spend too much time on BrickLink,
so maybe I have not hit the limit yet.

I completely understand BL protecting themselves against scraping, that is fine
but we don't know if the topic starter did this (or just requested too many
pages), he doesn't give any information, just that it doesn't work for
him.

I just thought 1001bricks jumped a bit quick to a conclusion, and I wanted to
check other possibilities.

I hope the site works again for him today, if not we can continue troubleshooting.
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 8, 2022 10:43
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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1001bricks (52462)

Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Store: 1001bricks
  I completely understand BL protecting themselves against scraping, that is fine
but we don't know if the topic starter did this (or just requested too many
pages), he doesn't give any information, just that it doesn't work for
him.

I just thought 1001bricks jumped a bit quick to a conclusion, and I wanted to
check other possibilities.

I'm only here since 2006


  I hope the site works again for him today, if not we can continue troubleshooting.

Of course it'll work today; it's the next day.
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Jun 8, 2022 10:47
 Subject: Re: My Store and Others showing 0 Lots
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Location:  France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
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Store: 1001bricks
  I'm only here since 2006

As a seller, I meant.
 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: Jun 8, 2022 10:48
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In General, 1001bricks writes:
  
  I'm only here since 2006

As a seller, I meant.

Osh... I was gonna comment haha

I started selling at the end of December.
 Author: wildchicken13 View Messages Posted By wildchicken13
 Posted: Jun 9, 2022 03:14
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In General, ErwinNL writes:
  I just thought 1001bricks jumped a bit quick to a conclusion, and I wanted to
check other possibilities.

This is a known issue which has been brought up on the forum many times. It could
also be due to the browser. I don't work for BrickLink so I don't know.

  I hope the site works again for him today, if not we can continue troubleshooting.

It will work again for him today… then it will stop working again.
 Author: ACExperience View Messages Posted By ACExperience
 Posted: Jun 9, 2022 12:29
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ACExperience (669)

Location:  USA, Ohio
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In General, wildchicken13 writes:
  In General, ErwinNL writes:
  I just thought 1001bricks jumped a bit quick to a conclusion, and I wanted to
check other possibilities.

This is a known issue which has been brought up on the forum many times. It could
also be due to the browser. I don't work for BrickLink so I don't know.

  I hope the site works again for him today, if not we can continue troubleshooting.

It will work again for him today… then it will stop working again.

It started working an hour or so after 1001bricks reached out

It was my wifi I think - when I searched on data it was fine