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 Author: rickcraine View Messages Posted By rickcraine
 Posted: Jan 25, 2024 13:10
 Subject: Re: 3847 vs 3847a
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In Inventories, archmage writes:
  Hello everyone.
I know that Bricklink is close to operate significant variations merge operations
on its inventory, so I don't know if the subject part is also part of this
operations (but I hope it will).
I have used very often Bricklink inventory as reference to complete my sets,
but lately I have noticed that part 3847 seems to have replaced part 3847a in
many old castle sets inventory, and not as an alternate part.
As a lego-castle loving child and then adult I have owned and built many of the
sets I see now listed with 3847 swords and in my experience they doesn't
appear in most of the ones I recall or still have built for exposition.
This post in not meant to be a rant about something I see as a discrepancy, but
more curiosity about how you're dealing with that. For instance I assembled
set 1596 and 1547: both show in the box photos a 3847a sword, but both have as
inventory only a 3847 sword. Should I list them as incomplete, or being a mold
variant I should not?

Thank you for your time and, maybe, answer

Another great example as to why things should stay the way they are. Personally,
though, saying it has a mold variant seems like it would be the only logical
thing to do.

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View Thread 3847 vs 3847a - archmage (324)
Hello everyone. I know that Bricklink is close to operate significant variations merge operations on its inventory, so I don't know if the subject part is also part of this [...]
(4 months ago, Jan 25, 2024, to Inventories)

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 Msg 1 - archmage (324) 4 months ago Jan 25, 2024 to Inventories
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