Netherlands?

[JaBaCaDaBra]

11 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

@ks6349 You do indeed seem to take every opportunity to badmouth Bricklink (and sometimes LEGO Stores and LEGO employees). That you have some problem or perhaps bad experience with Bricklink is your business, but has nothing to do with this thread.

Bricklink is beloved and widely used the world over, though especially in Europe, the North America and Australasia. The OP has brought up an interesting point for discussion, and received mostly interesting answers.

If you have nothing to contribute on the actual subject, don't contribute.

Hmmmm
BL is indeed a great place to buy parts for projects, most sellers are great and give good service.
Just read reviews first before ordering and compare prices.

About the complaints.
There is indeed something seriously wrong with the administrators, they are expremely arrogant to name just one of the smaller problems. But okay, this isn't the correct topic for that.

[Peppermint_M]

Was that really necessary? 

Could people keep on topic?

[Jack Sassy]

Well, this went way off-topic, I am really sorry everyone.

10 hours ago, Peppermint_M said:

Was that really necessary? 

Could people keep on topic?

I guess I am to be blamed in this too, though I tried to keep it in its borders.

 

 

Anyway, I think I've got all the answers I needed to my questions, if anyone else has some good versions for my original question, I'd be glad to hear it.

[Borex]

I think we always had good and a lot of toyshops in the Netherlands too. When i was a kid it was 100% you would get a lego set on your birthday. It was the perfect present to give, because it was affordable, you could play with it, it was quality and it had bricks. I even used lego to build spaceships for my kenner sw figs.  You could mix lego with every toy that you had.

That whole generation has grew up with lego and they are now still passing it on to their kids. 
We even had a seasonal newspaper about lego in the 80’s 

So, probably why there so many BL sellers from the Netherlands could be that we just have so much bricks lying around overhere. The younger generations aren’t in those classic sets that much, so the old bricks are being sold off maybe? I like snooping around in thrift stores, but you seldom see lego there. Sometimes i think that those thrift shop owners use those stores to get cool stuff for free to resell online (and not only lego)
 

Fun thing is that we were pretty late with getting an official Lego Store. 
 

link to those newspapers:

[link]http://www.miniland.nl/legokrant/legokrant lezen.htm[/link]

Edited November 1, 2021 by Borex

[Jack Sassy]

42 minutes ago, Borex said:

We even had a seasonal newspaper about lego in the 80’s 

 

42 minutes ago, Borex said:

link to those newspapers:

[link]http://www.miniland.nl/legokrant/legokrant lezen.htm[/link]

These are quite something, never seen anything like it. If I understand correctly, Lego stopped making them in 1993.

[Borex]

11 hours ago, Jack Sassy said:

 

These are quite something, never seen anything like it. If I understand correctly, Lego stopped making them in 1993.

Yeah, and they already started making them in the 70’s 

i wonder if there were other countries with these lego newspapers as well

 

[danth]

Well, to follow up on my Bricklink order from Budapest that somehow shipped from the Netherlands, it arrived! I'm the USA by the way. But anyway, I started getting shipping updates soon after the order was placed, and then no tracking updates for like 10 days while it was "en route to country of destination", and then finally more updates when it arrived in the US, and then it was at my door in a few more days.

And all the parts were perfect and like new, nothing messed up at all. Yay!

[TeriXeri]

3 hours ago, danth said:

Well, to follow up on my Bricklink order from Budapest that somehow shipped from the Netherlands

Netherlands has the largest cargo port of the world outside of East Asia , so if it were shipped by container it makes sense to pass through Rotterdam, Netherlands.

10 days with no updates sounds like it was on-route to cross the atlantic by ship.

If it were shipped via air, Netherlands still has the 3rd largest Air Cargo Airport in Europe as well.

Edited November 7, 2021 by TeriXeri

[TeriXeri]

On 11/1/2021 at 9:56 PM, Borex said:

I think we always had good and a lot of toyshops in the Netherlands too. When i was a kid it was 100% you would get a lego set on your birthday. It was the perfect present to give, because it was affordable, you could play with it, it was quality and it had bricks. I even used lego to build spaceships for my kenner sw figs.  You could mix lego with every toy that you had.

It used to be the case there were a lot of toy shops but there has been a sharp decline of them in the last 10 years.

[Borex]

9 hours ago, TeriXeri said:

It used to be the case there were a lot of toy shops but there has been a sharp decline of them in the last 10 years.

100% true. Those were the days back then

[anothergol]

There are also very noticeably more BL shops in the dutch part of Belgium than in the french one. Yet Lego is very popular everywhere here. I would also consider that the dutch part, probably like the Nederlands, has more entrepreneurs in general. It's just not in the mentality here to open a BL shop.

A lot of shops in the Nederlands, shame that their shipping rates are so high. It's cheaper to get stuff from like Portugal than from my neighbor country.

[Pinnacle]

On 10/23/2021 at 6:04 PM, 1963maniac said:

You know, I have noticed this situation too, and wondered about it. There are a lot of Lego AFOLs from the Netherlands. What's the story guys?

Since LEGO was available in The Netherlands in about 1957, it was enormously popular from the first moment. I was ten years at that moment and got my first LEGO on my birthday. 

And I loved it immensely. And all my friends also got LEGO. And as far as I know, almost every dutch child got the plastic bricks. And this has been going on until now.  

Also, almost nobody throws their LEGO away. It travelled from father to son or brother to brother. Or it was stored in attics or cupboards to be found later on.

I think that thát one of the reasons is that er so many LEGO is around in The Netherlands.       

[1963maniac]

On 11/9/2021 at 11:35 AM, Pinnacle said:

Since LEGO was available in The Netherlands in about 1957, it was enormously popular from the first moment. I was ten years at that moment and got my first LEGO on my birthday. 

And I loved it immensely. And all my friends also got LEGO. And as far as I know, almost every dutch child got the plastic bricks. And this has been going on until now.  

Also, almost nobody throws their LEGO away. It travelled from father to son or brother to brother. Or it was stored in attics or cupboards to be found later on.

I think that thát one of the reasons is that er so many LEGO is around in The Netherlands.       

That is so true. Why would you throw away such a good toy. Lego is so durable!! You just keep them for the next child. However, I never thought I would be the next child. My inner child still loves them. I just won't give them up. They taught me math, geometry physics, engineering, the ability to envision, etc. My son, the engineer says I'm a process engineer. I asked "what's that?" That's what you do when you make building instructions. I'm still like a child, I do it, but do not know what it's called.

[Khasen]

I'm in Germany and have ordered from several Bricklink stores in the Netherlands.  I have had only good experiences.  All the sellers I have ordered from package their parts well, service is good, everything arrives relatively quickly.  One of them, ilovebricks, even packages parts in their own easy-to open-bags, all well organized.  

[ImGettingOld]

Every seller from Netherlands i had a chance to buy from, was extremely helpfull and pro..... if they had time :). At least i know what i'm paying for - their set descriptions are very accurate / nothing to hide. Shipping is costly but not always - direct DHL works just fine and is cheaper than post.nl.