  
| Author: | pcthurman  | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2024 02:25 | | Subject: | Re: Important proposal regarding catalog variants | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | Hello everyone,
As a platform, we have decided to take a hard look at some of the mold variants
that we are currently asking you to recognize. For sellers, more variants means
extra sorting and extra work while pulling orders, plus the issues that arise
from variant misunderstandings.
For buyers, excess variants mean that it's harder to assemble a wanted list,
find stores, and ultimately obtain the parts you are looking for.
I have put together a quick Help page to outline these proposed changes:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2625
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I have read through the entirety of this subject, here are my opinions...
Do not change anything that has to do with minifigures! People who buy them OR
parts of them OR sets put a lot of importance on the minifigures being authentically
correct. I appreciate that solid stud heads will continue to have their own entry
in the catalog however it is annoying to order blocked open heads and receive
hollow stud heads instead and I can only imagine the nightmare of what this will
do to minifigure torsos.
Story time: 
20 years ago, this coming April, I did a search of the internet looking for a
resource to buy LEGO by the single piece and Bricklink came up in my search.
It sounded the most promising for the business I wanted to start and so I clicked
that link to check it out. Imagine, if you will, how delighted I was to find
a site that had thousands of LEGO set inventories that I could access, and thousands
of shops to shop at with single parts, instructions, sets (both new and used),
and a chat room full of people that could answer my questions or keep me company
while working LEGO in my office! Of course, I cannot forget to mention the most
amazing catalog.
Bricklink is the reason my business is viable today. I rely on the catalog variations
to find the correct parts for the sets I need to finish.
I consider myself old school when it comes to Bricklink and have had to contact
shops to find out if they have the correct variations. Recently, 2020-2024, it
has become very frustrating when shop owners will not answer the question OR
worse yet, insist they do have the correct period piece and when it arrives,
you discover it is in fact incorrect or you get blacklisted for having the audacity
to ask a question in the first place. It should not be the buyer's job to
teach the shop owner about variations and yet I find myself doing this quite
often.
So, it is not JUST collector's that this will be affecting, it is also those
of us that use Bricklink to do as I have done for 20 years, refurbishing LEGO
sets.
This site was designed for the LEGO collector to be able to find the part(s)
they needed to complete sets, projects, and MOCS and to be able to discuss anything
LEGO with other people who love LEGO.
I feel like that vision is being lost. 
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