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Hi,
I was just wondering does anybody else think that the thresholds for GWP are getting consistently higher. 250 euro spend to get 40583 Houses of the World (348 pieces) seems high to me. I know you are also getting the lunar add on pack 40605 and the lunar rabbit 40575 at the same time but 250 is a lot. I'm sure they are probably trying to encourage us to buy the new jazz club 10312. I am still not sure about that one. The new a-frame cabin 21338 coming in February kind of grabs me more. Also I thought there was supposed to be a van gift for purchasing the modular in February. At this rate they will be asking for more that 250 euro for a GWP soon.

Bricknerd is raising funds for Fairybricks by donating all their Amazon affiliate link income from christmas sets.
So if you're buying christmas sets from Amazon, doing it through the link on Bricknerd will help Fairybricks.

A Festive FUNdraiser for Fairy Bricks: Buy LEGO to Give LEGO

I have noticed that the mosaic maker set

40179-1: Personalised Mosaic Portrait (2016)

Next round of crowdfunding opens at 6pm our time next Tuesday 17th.

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/introducing.page

The projects up for grabs if they reach the requisite numbers are:

Brickwest Studios €289.99
1950s diner €109.99
Studgate Train Station €339.99
Winter Chalet €169.99
Working waterfall €189.99
Space troopers €169.99
Mountain View observatory €269.99
Steam powered science €249.99
Modular construction site €269.99

I can't help but think some of these have been priced out of the market for what you get.

The winter chalet seems decent value to me and the diner might gather support but my favourites, the brickwest studios and the train station, are higher priced than I expected

Hey

I recall someone looking for yellow 1x1 plates around lugbulk but I can’t remember who.

They are now on PAB in Sheffield and will probably pop up in other cities also.

I see that there is a notice on the main bricklink page this morning saying that there has been a cyber incident with one of its partners. Certain transactions are not currently possible, namely all non-EU to EU sales and non-UK to UK. Intra-EU are not mentioned as impacted. Given the nature of the transactions it might be tax related.

[Edit: they advise that an update will be shared as soon as possible and no later than the 16th March ... not a fix in an hour then]

From LAN. As some of you may have noticed Bricks and Pieces is not available today.

"Today is a major update in the PaB Merger experience

March 11th: Around 2pm CST paid B&P will be closed down in all markets. One of the learnings from the first 5 countries was that there did need to be a longer window between closing B&P and merging experiences in order to prevent orders from being negatively impacted.

March 16th: The merged experience will go-live in the remaining countries.

Novelty Elements: There are still internal discussions about whether novelty elements should be immediately made available on set launch day or not. As the conversation is still happening the PaB team will error on the side of caution and 2022 novelty elements will be removed from the merged PaB experience.

Looking for some knowledge on two issues ive just encountered on BrickLink.

First is a NSS (non shipping seller) and second is a seller who has stopped replying to messages because i asked for a refund on a tracked order that has not arrived.

I opened a dispute with PayPal for both transactions.
I have not needed to do this before so im wondering how long this process usually takes and is there anything I should / should not do to speed up the process.

From what i can gather, the seller is notified I have opened a dispute so I have to wait for them to make the next move!?

There is an option to escalate the clames but at what point do I do this?

I tried to buy 2 elephants, 2 lions and 2 lioness's from sellers in Holland, Belgium and Norway............all of them want around €25 - €30 in postage, that doesn't include insurance..am I missing something here?

After fees and postage it worked out not far off same to buy the two sets 60307,60302 from Zavvi and Smyths.

I’m delighted if it’s true- Lego store opening in Dublin in July?….