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This thread seems to have engendered a lot of discussion. Not all of it is for the long term good of the community, I fear, which is regrettable. I'm hopeful that this post might slow some of it down. I have asked Dan privately to be reinstated. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.off-topic.debate) !!
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(...) I'm not all that good at explaining insanity, but I've been known to state the obvious facts of a situation pretty clearly. Bricklink is a business. If you don't like the way a business operates, do not use that service anymore. If the whole (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Attention all RSS geeks!
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(...) I've become convinced that Atom might be a better solution. If only because it has better mechanisms to ensure that entries are identified uniquely, and support for meta information about authors, etc. (...) If we're using RSS, using a custom (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.org)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) But then the buyer has the risk of buying/ordering a service which is not available? In theory, I suppose the system could be set to offer no more than X sales per time-period or offer customers an indication of the estimated waiting time(?). (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) You could argue that -- it may become undesireable to list a service with infinite quantity if the service proves too popular ... I think that's best left up to the user, though. It would be a neat feature -- and I at least don;t it would skew (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Does that not assume that the service provider's time is unlimited? I’d argue that a hobbyist would have a finite ability to offer a service. In the commercial world a non-specialist service provider would simply find a subcontractor, but a (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | what sets have the large pine tree?
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I own 2 of the large pine trees, one is from the 10128 level crossing. The other I cant place, its almost certainly from something very recent. (something that would have been on the shelves in australia this year) Its definatly not a set that has (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | belville question
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Does anyone have any information on the keyboard part (or mabie its some kind of mixer or console, its hard to tell from the pictures I can find, its the thing next to the speakers in all the online pictures) included in the belville music studio (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) Have you read the post you cited? It is pretty clear he passed on his chance to get reinstated. Given Larry’s role on LUGNET, I thought he’d understand the importance of the ToS: Dan informed me yesterday that I needed to remove that wording (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Attention all RSS geeks!
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Call for technical participation in a proposal for LEGO enthusiast content sharing. BACKGROUND: I've been working on a project for a couple of months that extends the RSS spec to encompass envisioned needs of specific communities, specifically (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.org, FTX) !!
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) He (or anyone) would theoretically have unlimited stock of a service performed after the order is placed [1]. You wouldn't want to change the stock to an obscenely high number as that would skew your inventory stats in a decieving way. Rather, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) this is what i thought it ment but i wanted to be sure. a simple change of the quanity to some rediculus number like 20,000 would fix the problem. i'm still however curious as to what larry would have an unlimited stock of. ondrew (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) Hi OnDrew "perpetual stock" is stock that never depletes. On BL, when someone orders ALL of you remaining stock, it automatically deletes the entry completely from your inventory. In Lar's case, he does NOT want a lot deleted when the item (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) uh-oh. I feel like I'm watching the dimming embers get poked with a stick. I have a comment, completely of my own opinion; a gut reaction to this coming through my e-mail box. Dan might not like Lar, or enjoy being pressured by him*, but in (...) (22 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) Hmm... sorry about the reply to my own message. It seems I should have read the whole thread before typing my previous message. It seems that the people who don't like Larry very much have nothing to do with that. But anyways, there's always (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd like Anne's explanation and PoV on this, because she has been of the the finest dealers I've bought from on BL. I don't know for Larry because I've never bought from him, but I know that some people have expressed some bad feelings about (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Future Lego Services.....
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I have been getting a lot of requests recently about old sets on EBAY, or old sets that folks may already own. And sometimes I tell the people to avoid the set because the parts are not original. Here is an example in the Lugnet data base for (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) Is it something like those "good till cancelled" listings one can put in his/her ebay store? If Bricklink has this the whole thing would not have happened, even though I doubt its usefulness as most of us sell finite amount of bricks and (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: suspended Bricklink shops
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(...) the item (...) and (...) have (...) Not sure, but I might have an idea. Let me explain the problem of why I don't sell my mods on Bricklink. I make the mod AFTER someone orders it. There is no item that I can put in my shop that stays there (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: new pictures from the Lego archive Billund
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(...) Hi Sven, Many thanks for sharing! However, us Canadians would like to think were not "US Only": "US only Set 105" (URL) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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