Itaria No Shintaku

What I heard is that something's cooking for AFOLs. What's that I can't truly tell, I've heard several rumours by different people pointing in different direction. And one is -Ahrrrrr- one we love.

Just two notes. 1) Price increase is not random. Better parts, better prints, licenses (though not a lot of people want them). It's however based on something. We may agree on the fact that we don't need licensed series, or that many minifigures from series 19 were boring, but you can't deny that from the Crash Test Dummy (no headgear, one printed tile and one 0,03€ screw) / Wrestler (no headgear, no accessories but the cape) to the BMX Rider (All printed and a frigging entire BMX Bike in the bag) doubling the price is based on something real.. 2) There is no range for a Marvel Series. I have read this over and over. Hasbro has the license for posable action figures of Marvel Universe, so TLG can't make them. They have to include them in construction toys or give them for free (SDCC, you hear me?)

You are right about that... but I'm still cautious

And for me.

I thought it to be already revealed at this point. I'm quite surprised.

We won't have for at least 3 or 4 months.

No, I don't know, but I have been told it's an in-house theme.

I have talked about that with LEGO Community Managers when asking for more nostalgia stuff. In two different occasions and different people (whose names I won't reveal in order not to get them in trouble) they said their sales were extra poor and that's a reason why they have never been released again.

I can't confirm. If you trust me, Leaf is not a constraction. Confirmation may occur only once I have evidence and not very trustworthy rumours.

Found it at 50% this summer in every French "Jouet" store. Now it's discounted on the shop. To me, that didn't sell well, compared to the fact you got 5 minifigures and a vehicle for ten bucks. That's a set that even in the golden age would have costed more.

This has very very very little to absolute zero chance happen, tending to absolute zero. They changed brown, light gray, pink and dark gray. These colors do not exist any more. Plus, when released, the LEGENDS sets were an absolute disaster, though they were limited edition. Plus, the Benny Space Squad had very poor sales records. So, though I would welcome them wholeheartedly, I reckon there is zero chance they make re-edition of old sets. Not a problem again. You can add a field as much as Accepted Currencies, Accepted Languages then is up on the seller, if they want to spread their market, to allow several different spoken languages. And up on the buyer, a warning "This seller doesn't speak your language do you want to proceed?" Actually, a lot of german or dutch sellers do not speak english, but this has been no problem til now.

No Constraction, No 1HY release.

Oh, but I surely will.

Or that something is thought but they are always in time to change their minds.

Yeah but they have to do the entire site. You know, probably native english speakers will never understand this. You are very lucky. You speak the language nearly everything is written in. I may understand it's a difficult abstraction to figure out how it would be to live in a world where your language is rarely spoken, but that's the case of a lot of people. Not every person is given the mental flexibility to learn a second language. For me, for example, english is my third language, but I think I was pretty lucky because I learnt two languages when I was a kid by having two different based parents. I can easily understand, living in a country in which this happens, the problems many people have in learning a second language when they've been speaking only one for maybe 20 30 40 years. There are a horde of people ready to join bricklink but blocked by the language barrier. Should they remove it, they would make game set match, because their users would double or triplicate and the sellers would be so happy that they would forget all those paranoias about TLG acquiiring BL.

We all are good english speakers. At least you are. But... what if TLG was really interested in doubling or quadrupling the users of BL? What should they do that bricklink never actually did? Well, if they added just 10 languages of multi-language support (like, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese) which would lead in dozens new users and a lot of new transactions that would give them also more data for their market analysis.

Pirate Bay :D For the rest you should wait.

No sir. No islanders 2 that I know. Not that.

Ehm... no, sorry I can't confirm Islanders 2. I'm very very sorry to displease you all. That was just a funny emoticon. But...

Which, well. you know,... may happen...

It is not a rant or issues I have encountered myself, but known issues. I didn't think it was off topic, I just wanted to point out that since TLG bought bricklink they can finally fix problems they have since years. But that's ok, you're a moderator, I'll cut this now on. If someone needs to discuss about this, PM me.

Plesae don't speak as "we". You do that. I have had over 2000 feedbacks stuff like: People choosing untracked service and asking me the tracking. Then doing paypal claim when items didn't arrive because I didn't give them tracking. People giving neutral feedback for no reason People giving negative on retaliation after they misbehaved People telling me a piece wasn't in there asking me to send it again when I double checked it was in there People sending me less money than I required then stating they sent the correct amount. People wanting me to cancel their orders after weeks after keeping on adding stuff. People continuing infringing my T&C. Arrogant people. Unpolite people. People asking me if I did ship the same day they paid an order. At 18pm. Most bricklink buyers under 200 feedbacks are a russian roulette. If you aren't lucky they don't read your terms (and mine are super easy) and they want to be treated as kings. Of course it is the seller's responsibility to address correctly every zone for IC and every part in their shop with a correct weight. I spend time doing it and every seller should do it. If a seller doesn't do that and he's least favourited by someone, he deserved that. Plus, in shipping tables, you should remember to add a % of bricklink errors. You may want to say in your T&C that if you pay less shipping than the buyer actually paid, you'll refund them. I have experienced both paying more and less shipping very very seldom. When I paid more than required, I shut up as it was my fault and carried myself the excess. When I paid less than required I always refunded the buyer. Probably these are reasons because I get many positives.

I believe you missed the point. I can spoil a lot your business even with a smaller order than your whole shop. I mean. I have 156k pieces. Did I receive orders of 3/4k pieces? Yes I did. Did they pay? Not always. Was it clear that they weren't to pay? No, it wasn't. Would it have been a good idea restock the items in the meantime, with the risk of the buyer actually paying them? No it wouldn't have. Would the admin block the buyer? No, they will treat him/her as a normal NPB. Did I had thousands of pieces blocked for 3 weeks? Yes I did. Would a forced instant checkout / approval after payment would have solved the problem? Yes. Plus, you state that an IBAN transfer can take days to fulfill. That is correct, but a receipt with a CRO is generated instantly. The receipt is enough to grant that the person is serious. If a person is also willing to falsify a bank receipt, then I give up, but that is a little fraudulent, I could even refer to the police for that. Is that worthy for a bogus order? I don't think so. So, with all due regards as I always like to read you on EB, I don't agree with you on this very point.

Yet you don't solve the problem that I can buy your entire shop and then either you accept a negative feedback or you have to wait until up to 21 days to have your shop available again. Instant checkout solves this.

You can't do this on Amazon. Why? Because you first pay then the item becomes unavailable. The bigger problem within bricklink is this one: instant checkout is not compulsory. It should be. Having not compulsory instant checkout forces the ones that have it to offer a side-non-instant-checkout solution for stubborn users who don't want, for any reason, pay instantly (or who cannot, there are countries in which paypal doesn't work). When I do make an order on BL I always ensure I have the money to make it available and if there's instant checkout, that's better. If there isn't, I pay within minutes from when I receive the invoice. I would gladly welcome a mandatory instant checkout. Bricklink isn't applying it, so whoever does it, saves the day. Now, you probably are already thinking: what if someone wants instead to pay via IBAN/Bank Transfer/Moneygram/Western Union/Cash on Delivery etc? Those people who clearly do not (or cannot) want to keep up with the times, can be offered the chance to however do their purchases but previous approval from the buyer. Like quoting! Super easy! You receive an order that's gonna be paid via IBAN? Western Union? You check the order and approve it as much as you would do with a quote! Or you want to make even super easier? You give the users two options: QUOTE and INSTANT CHECKOUT. If you cannot pay the moment you order, the pieces aren't yours. If someone instant buys them, the pieces are his/hers. If you want to ensure them, you instant pay them. It may seem to remove a customer right, but that's not it... as much as on whatsapp I was able to see all the messages and now they changed it and I can remove my messages whenever I want preventing people from reading them any more. Is this removing my right to see all the messages. No. It's just a new feature. You don't remove the customer the chance to buy outside instant checkout, but you make this chance subject to the seller's approval. This way everybody is happy. The seller may say "I will approve the order previous payment". Or "I won't approve the order". If the buyer has no malicious intent, the buyer is as much happy as the seller. This would really halve the problems within buyer and seller that we have now on BL.