Closed/concluded questions and answers

Ratshot · March 19, 2010

It might be your Internet connection, mine does weird stuff all the time. Sometimes I can't see Youtube videos that have been deeplinked.

Edited March 19, 2010 by Ratshot

**Big Cam** · March 19, 2010

No it's definetaly not that.

I reloaded the page over ten times, and tried to edit the post at least ten times.

It's weird, I'd have a bunch of text in the text box, hit submit and then the post is blank, so I click edit, adn the text box is empty, like I never typed anything.

It's still doing it on one of the index pages in the RA.

Ratshot · March 19, 2010

I'll go take a look.

**Big Cam** · March 19, 2010

Well I copied small portions of the post in question adn it took about 6 edits, but I got it the way i wanted it. I'm not sure what on earth could ahve caused this, as it did it to 3 other posts total. I'm chalking it up to my work computer, since Bonie talked with me and he hasn't noticed anything.

Thanks for your help Ratshot, Mod's/Admin's, this thread can go to the way side.

cedric_1202 · March 20, 2010

Hello, I am looking for someone in the UK, interested in a Lego export business with Switzerland. Please, if interested, send me a mail at my house or in my car or somewhere else because there is no way we're allowing this here. I will be happy to explain to you my plan on msn. Best regards, Cédric.

Edited March 20, 2010 by Shadows
Removed Email Address

polarbomber · March 20, 2010

my cousin lives in swissland , says that they are very strict on import duties , they do their shopping in france and then smuggle the groceries back across the border , he claims the border guards stop and search folk for food . what you need is a lego smuggler to bypass the border guards

cedric_1202 · March 20, 2010

my cousin lives in swissland , says that they are very strict on import duties , they do their shopping in france and then smuggle the groceries back across the border , he claims the border guards stop and search folk for food . what you need is a lego smuggler to bypass the border guards

Nothing is illegal here !

roamingstop · March 20, 2010

So someone else has discovered the joy of buying Lego Shop at Home in the UK and shipping out to Switzerland...

Im English - but have lived in Switzerland for 9 years. Ive regularly checked out the import / export side of things. The only way I have made things work out in my favour is to purchase items, get them sent to my parents (in UK) and then pick them up in hold luggage when I next visit.

By the time you buy in England - pay postage to a UK address, then repackage, get posted in UK (use royalmail based estimates using box sizes and weights from bricklink) to Switzerland you only save around 20-40 CHF (especially for the large sets). Postage is typically 30-40 GBP per large box. That assumes you do not get stopped for import duty in Switzerland - which is based on import price AND the postage costs.

When looking at buying items: e.g. Fire Brigade; Carousel; Grand Emporium etc I found I would save at most 10-15 CHF max (per item). And if I shop around (for non-exclusives) using toppriese.ch I can often get the same deal here in Switzerland. E.g. Creator Cabriolet worked out cheaper to buy via a toppreise.ch deal than getting shipped from the UK.

I recently bought the Carousel from ebay.co.uk and got shipped here for around 60% of the Swiss price. But stung by customs (for 80 CHF) because the seller had put the full price value. In then end I saved around 80 CHF. Not to be 'sniffed' at by any stretch - but nothing to really make a business from.

The whole thing only really works if you regularly hop between countries, which isn't what it sounds like you are planning, so I think this is a bad idea and Mr Import Guy man will target individuals who have multiple deliveries to the same Address. The Swiss are very good at this.

**Shadows** · March 20, 2010

No, I don't think this appropriate at all, especially coming from a brand new member.

Just no.

**JimBee** · April 3, 2010

Alright, so not to start a new topic for close to nothing or anything, but I've noticed that the "Hot Topic (Unread)" icon had been out of whack lately. At least on my computer. Usually, the icon is a filled red suitcase-like box, but lately it's been different variations of this:

The image code says "Christmas" in it, so is it an old board icon? And when I say it had different variations, the image still looks like a small map, but "torn" in different places. It seems like there's a new one every day.

Sorry if this seems like a waste of a topic, but this is really strange. Just curious to know how it happened.

BTW, I still get the regular "hot topic (unread)" icon sometimes for some topics.

EDIT: It looks like the problem has been solved (for now, at least). The image in this post has changed from the weird image to the regular one, and so has every other Hot Topic (Unread) thread icon. Thanks to whoever. :thumbup:

prateek · April 3, 2010

I don't have issues with this, so maybe it's just your computer. BTW, why are you worrying about EB? Shouldn't you be setting up your beloved Euroblox now? :tongue:

**Big Cam** · April 7, 2010

Hmm, I have never seen anything but the standard red one you have pictured.

Palms · April 12, 2010

When I tried to respond to someone regarding a trade I got this error:

The error returned was:

You cannot send another PM until Apr 12 2010, 12:54 AM

As that is tomorrow it shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I would really like to know 1. Why this happened and 2. is this happening to other people?

**Siegfried** · April 12, 2010

How many PMs have you sent recently and over what period? The board has a feature that limits PMs for anti-spammer reasons. What's the limit? Not sure; the board setting just mentions the time period between PMs, and that's set to 1 minute. Thus, you might be able to send one now.

Palms · April 12, 2010

How many PMs have you sent recently and over what period? The board has a feature that limits PMs for anti-spammer reasons. What's the limit? Not sure; the board setting just mentions the time period between PMs, and that's set to 1 minute. Thus, you might be able to send one now.

It's the first PM I sent for 2 weeks, and It still doesn't work. This time it told me 2:30 or so :wacko: .