In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
No explanation, no prior warning.
Increasingly disappointed with Lego.
Pietro Perizzollo
It looks like your store is closed rather than blocked.
I am currently in Brazil, but yes, all my items that are in my Bolivian store
are already in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia. I made this move solely because
of the ban from my original country. My girlfriend is already living in Santa
Cruz de la Sierra and was going to help me with the operation from there.
The information that started appearing in my Bolivian registration is that my
country is disabled for buying and selling.
In Selling, yorbrick writes:
In Selling, perizzollo writes:
In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
No explanation, no prior warning.
Increasingly disappointed with Lego.
Pietro Perizzollo
It looks like your store is closed rather than blocked.
In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
No explanation, no prior warning.
Increasingly disappointed with Lego.
Pietro Perizzollo
So you made a new account in a country that you dont live to circumvent the ban.
All my inventory are already there and will be sent from there by my girlfriend
who lives there. I'm in the process of moving there.
Even Bricklink now requires documentation confirming identity, proof of residence,
and proof of inventory, and everything was submitted correctly as they requested.
In Selling, RebelliousBrick writes:
In Selling, perizzollo writes:
In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
No explanation, no prior warning.
Increasingly disappointed with Lego.
Pietro Perizzollo
So you made a new account in a country that you dont live to circumvent the ban.
All my inventory are already there and will be sent from there by my girlfriend
who lives there. I'm in the process of moving there.
Even Bricklink now requires documentation confirming identity, proof of residence,
and proof of inventory, and everything was submitted correctly as they requested.
All that documentation has been a requirement for years.
How can you supply proof of residence when you don't physically live there
yet???
In Selling, RebelliousBrick writes:
In Selling, perizzollo writes:
In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
No explanation, no prior warning.
Increasingly disappointed with Lego.
Pietro Perizzollo
So you made a new account in a country that you dont live to circumvent the ban.
I has residence in Bolivia and ID from Bolivia.
The problem is that they banned a country that wasn't even announced for
buying and selling.
In Selling, RebelliousBrick writes:
In Selling, perizzollo writes:
All my inventory are already there and will be sent from there by my girlfriend
who lives there. I'm in the process of moving there.
Even Bricklink now requires documentation confirming identity, proof of residence,
and proof of inventory, and everything was submitted correctly as they requested.
All that documentation has been a requirement for years.
How can you supply proof of residence when you don't physically live there
yet???
In Selling, RebelliousBrick writes:
In Selling, perizzollo writes:
In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
No explanation, no prior warning.
Increasingly disappointed with Lego.
Pietro Perizzollo
So you made a new account in a country that you dont live to circumvent the ban.
In December it was announced that 35 countries would be blocked on Bricklink,
including Brazil, my countru. But Bolivia wasn't on the list. I created a
Bolivian Bricklink account with the help of my family who live in Bolivia, and
I planned to make my sales from that country. Why did they block Bolivia for
buying and selling if it wasn't on the list of blocked countries?
No explanation, no prior warning.
Increasingly disappointed with Lego.
Pietro Perizzollo
This kind of edge cases normally occur in software. If a software engineer doesn't
take such cases then a bug occurs.
But in this case, it's a business / personal defect,
So in effect,
When deciding on the list of countries to block and announce they got the list
so that each country that is blocked have at least a store exist. (Maybe they
manually revised and extended the list to account for some countries, don't
know)
Quick google reveals that there were no stores existing in Bolivia until you
opened one. You were able to proceed normally until some witty person (which
why I described the phenomenon similar to a software bug in the first place)
spotted the bug/mistake they did.
So it seems the countries that are blocked way too many than the announced ones.
For example Uruguay, no sellers, possibly that would also be blocked if someone
tries to open a store.
Bricklink/LEGO's mentality at the moment is not about getting deep into the
core (which what the Bricklink actually is) of the Lego culture, they are interested
in/delved into just the surface of the whole market.
What was about to happen was you were just bringing the three keywords together
on the google search : Bricklink, Lego, Bolivia... Yes unfortunately one witty
person just spotted that bug and fixed. Hope you find it another way to continue
your endevaour,
Regards,
Nejat
ps: here is the cached google search result
BrickLink
https://www.bricklink.com › browseStores
BrickLink Stores: Located In Bolivia. 1 Open Store: Bloco Digital Bolivia - 4,660.
BrickLink. About Us · History · Dan Jezek.
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