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In Administrative, CE_Anastasia writes:

Dear BrickLink sellers,

Please kindly note I opened a ticket about this years ago (not resolved), so
we still do NOT receive e-mails sent though mailchimp or whoever you use to send
Announcements.

But if sent from @bricklink or @lego, no problem of course.

So, please inform sellers from bricklink and not through the mass e-mail
provider.

Thank you!

Author:

CE_Anastasia

Posted:

Apr 29, 2024 13:16

Subject:

Changes for EU Sellers in 2024

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Dear BrickLink sellers,

As the next step in making sure that we are in compliance with the EU DAC-7 regulations,
we will start collecting additional information from BrickLink Sellers shortly.
To see if you qualify as a Business Seller, please check with Article 8ac of
the EU Council Directive: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021L0514

Information that we will be collecting includes the following:
 - Name of business, 
- Business registration number, including a supporting document. As different  rules
apply for each EU member state, refer to your local authority for directions,
 - Tax Identification Number (TIN), including a supporting document: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/tin/#/check-tin 
- OSS Number and/ or VAT ID for each country of registration:  https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/online-sellers_en

You may be aware that we already started requesting this from new Business Sellers
last year. For more details, go to our previous forum post regarding DAC-7: https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=332298.
We are now starting the process of collecting this information for all of our
existing Business Sellers.

Existing Business Sellers should add this information to their accounts by December
31, 2024. After submission, documents will be reviewed by BrickLink.

To ensure that everyone’s requests are handled in a consistent and timely manner,
we will be requesting account updates in waves, by country. We strongly advise
our members to add information to their accounts by the deadline for their corresponding
countries. We will be sending out emails with further details and instructions
for each country in accordance with a schedule. We recommend that you start collecting
the required documentation as soon as possible and await further instructions
for how to add this to your account.

Kind Regards,
The BrickLink Team

Author:

cosmicray

Posted:

Apr 29, 2024 07:26

Subject:

Re: US sellers: Shipping methods update

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In Administrative, dcarmine writes:

I changed to the new API last Wednesday and all orders stopped. I don't
think it's working yet? No way for me to tell exactly, I changed mine back
to a my manual chart. Maybe you can test it on your side.

Thanks
Donna

An observation, is that orders (without any shipping method changes) went into
a very slow patch for a several days. Do you have a test account ? Might be worth
putting a few things into a shopping cart and see if they calculate correctly,
and based upon the correct zone.

What is not clear (from the announcement) is ... how is BL arriving at the zone
(and the correct postage). The old API method pre-dated when USPS switched to
zone based PM and FCPS. With the new system, you can do it via a API call to
USPS or by loading your own tables and doing a 2-step table lookup (one lookup
for the ZIP-code to zone calculation and one lookup for the actual postage values).

More recently USPS has applied a need for package dimensions, because larger
packages get surcharges. Presumably the API calls also have to supply package
dimensions, else then will generate incorrect results (or possibly refuse to
generate any result). Any table lookup methodology should also need to be sensitive
to package size (because large packages have surcharges).

If BL is using the API calls, then the package dimensions would be a requirement
(just like they are on Pirate Ship). I hope someone from BL can enlighten us
about how this was implemented.

Nita Rae

Author:

dcarmine

Posted:

Apr 27, 2024 22:11

Subject:

Re: US sellers: Shipping methods update

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Dear BrickLink sellers in the United States,

We have removed these outdated API-based shipping methods:
• Domestic USPS First-Class Packages (retail),
• Domestic USPS First-Class Packages (commercial).

Starting from today, you will be seeing the following shipping methods in your
Store Settings instead:
• USPS Ground Advantage (commercial),
• USPS Ground Advantage (retail),
• USPS Priority Mail (commercial),
• USPS Priority Mail (retail).

As usual, you can access the new USPS rates for Courier API methods upon selecting
each method in the Rate Chart.

Thank you,
The BrickLink Team

Author:

popsicle

Posted:

Apr 25, 2024 14:07

Subject:

Re: Direct Seller Fee Payments

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In Administrative, CE_Anastasia writes:

So you're still offering "3 as before" payment methods, only on a
case-by-case basis? How about rephrasing your announcement to "Please submit
your fee payments via these 2 methods, the third is no longer desired - Thank
you, Your BrickLink Team"

Usually, this happens when
a) Sellers are closing their stores temporarily or permanently,
b) Sellers have an outstanding balance that is below the annual threshold for
collection. Accounts like that are billed on December 5th every year, more about
this here: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=38 in the Minimum Bill Requirement
section.

Please reach out to us or comment here if you have any questions.

Just my (hopefully helpful

) comment.

Thank you,
The BrickLink Team

Author:

CE_Anastasia

Posted:

Apr 25, 2024 13:08

Subject:

Direct Seller Fee Payments

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Dear BrickLink sellers,

Starting from today, we will be accepting monthly seller fee payments made in
2 ways, instead of 3 as before:
1. Paid with your PayPal account by using the 'Pay with PayPal' button
on your Fees page,
2. Paid with a debit or credit card by using the 'Pay with Card' link
on your Fees page.

Seller fee payments that are sent to our PayPal account at billing@bricklink.com
will not be accepted anymore except for cases when sellers need to pay off their
remaining balance immediately.

Usually, this happens when
a) Sellers are closing their stores temporarily or permanently,
b) Sellers have an outstanding balance that is below the annual threshold for
collection. Accounts like that are billed on December 5th every year, more about
this here: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=38 in the Minimum Bill Requirement
section.

Please reach out to us or comment here if you have any questions.

Thank you,
The BrickLink Team

Author:

cosmicray

Posted:

Apr 24, 2024 17:50

Subject:

Re: US sellers: Shipping methods update

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In Administrative, CE_Anastasia writes:

This is great news ! Now, will they (the new and improved methods) correctly
identify and select the zone (as determined by the first 3 digits of the seller's
zip and the first 3 digits of the buyer's zip) ? All of the Priority Mail
methods (ignoring flat rate) and all of the Ground Advantage require knowledge
of the zone.

The old API methods did not identify/use the zones.

Nita Rae

Author:

Stellar

Posted:

Apr 24, 2024 05:44

Subject:

Re: US sellers: Shipping methods update

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In Administrative, CE_Anastasia writes:

Seems a good change, hope it gets emailed to all USA sellers.

Author:

AlternatePieces

Posted:

Apr 24, 2024 01:25

Subject:

Re: US sellers: Shipping methods update

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In Administrative, AlternatePieces writes:

In Administrative, CE_Anastasia writes:

Looks like this change removed the method I was using to do automatic invoicing
for packages under 16 oz (since First-Class were restricted to 16 oz or less)
and manual invoicing for all others. I've poked around on the shipping methods
page and can't figure out how to get that working again. Any suggestions?

Note that the First Class shipping method I was using also automatically changed
to USPS Ground Advantage, which let an order I would have manually invoiced through
and cost me ~$4 in shipping fees beyond what the customer paid. At least I know
why it happened now.

Author:

AlternatePieces

Posted:

Apr 24, 2024 01:19

Subject:

Re: US sellers: Shipping methods update

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