Level 0150 p
Data Verdict
Built on current public information. No purchase needed.
- Review history20
- Comparable basket15
- Clear shipping and price value10
- Quality of store information5
A rating you can check
Two review levels.Clear limits.
What the Brick Verdict Index measures, how the weekly data is collected and checked, and how future store verdicts are scored.
Level 02+50 p
Mystery Order
An anonymous purchase shows whether the store's promises hold in practice.
- Correct items in the order15
- Correct condition15
- Packaging10
- Time to dispatch5
- Communication5
85–100BuyVery strong evidence
70–84CompareStrong, compare alternatives
50–69Be carefulImportant drawbacks
0–49AvoidThe evidence is not enough
No Data Verdicts or Mystery Order Verdicts have been issued yet. Every profile is unreviewed until the evidence is in.
Method
What the Index measures
- The Index measures publicly listed inventory and its net change. It does not measure sold items or store revenue.
- Net change = previous count − current count, matched on the BrickLink store ID. Stores that are new or have disappeared are not counted as zero, so only stores present in both measurements are compared.
- Net decrease is not confirmed sales: removals, corrections and moved inventory also lower a count, and restocking can hide sales. Known corrections are flagged and excluded from rankings and badges.
Method
How the data is collected
- Once a week (Mondays 06:00 Swedish time) we read BrickLink's public directory of Swedish stores: store ID, name, region and listed item count. The region is left blank when BrickLink lists none.
- Every fetch identifies itself with a user agent and contact address, follows BrickLink's robots.txt, and makes two requests in total (robots.txt and the directory).
- The raw page is archived together with a SHA-256 hash and the check time, so every published number can be traced back to its source.
- Completeness check: the number of unique stores we parse must equal the number of open stores BrickLink states on the page. If it does not, the update is aborted, a visible error status is published and the previous verified snapshot stays in place.
The principle
Data, verdicts and sponsorship are kept apart
- Public inventory observations, editorial verdicts and sponsorship are stored separately. Sponsorship can buy visibility, which is always labelled as Sponsored, but never a rank, a badge or a score.
- Badges are computed from the data alone. Verdicts are only shown once the evidence behind them exists.
Source update pausedBrickLink's public registerNo verified snapshot has been published yet.Automatic fetching is switched off until BrickLink has approved it. The last verified snapshot stays published.