[baiwl]

>To put this into perspective, the total combined population of these countries exceed 2.5 billion, or just about 30% of Earth’s population which is wild.

Doesn't look like anybody can make 35% of their revenue from those countries though, does it.

[hoherd]

Sure, but sellers in those countries found the service to be very valuable. The framing of this situation as being beneficial to the cooperation and detrimental to the consumer feeds the narrative of the Evil Corporation, which is sad.

It's really unfortunate that LEGO acquired Bricklink, and then did this, but it's such a common storyline.

[jacquesm]

Make no mistake: Lego makes a great product but they are an evil corporation. They have been so from the day they started making bricks (they stole the design, the marketing content and even the boxes), they continued when they sued everybody and their dog for doing the same thing that they themselves did, only much worse, and finally they did it again when they acquired Bricklink and started merging accounts with the Lego website. And probably many times in between when they created incompatibilities between older and newer sets just to drive sales.

[PostOnce]

Lego... incompatibilities?

Isn't compatibility a huge part of the draw of Lego?

I've never heard of incompatibilities, what are they?

The only problem I've noticed product wise is there are now mold defects after they started adding recycled plastic, only one or two minor (visual surface) imperfections per box, but before, there were none.

[bombcar]

Perhaps a reference to the change of the color grey (now in time immemorial) to “bley” or bluish gray.

Tons of e-ink spilled over it and some never recovered.

[butvacuum]

Probably the bionicals... Disaster?

Lots of those pieces look like technics, but aren't.

[jacquesm]

You'd be surprised where Lego buyers from bricklink are from. When I was active there I got sales from just about all over the world.

[BrenBarn]

Maybe not but it does include some countries with very large economies.