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| | | Author: | cosmicray  | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2022 10:45 | | Subject: | Funding methods for Stripe (and PayPal) | | Viewed: | 71 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
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| Both Stripe and PayPal offer a variety of funding sources for payments. Each
site that implements Stripe/PayPal can enable the ones they feel are best suited.
Pretty much all sites enable credit/debit cards.
Stripe calls these "bank redirects" (e.g. IDEAL, giropay, Sofort, etc).
An alternate site that some of us sell on, supports many of the EU bank redirects.
A seller would then elect to receive payments using those.
Does BrickLink support any of the payment funding sources other than credit/debit
cards (on Stripe or PayPal) ?
Nita Rae
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2022 11:09 | | Subject: | Re: Funding methods for Stripe (and PayPal) | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
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| In Payment Methods, cosmicray writes:
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Does BrickLink support any of the payment funding sources other than credit/debit
cards (on Stripe or PayPal) ?
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The day BL supports iDeal or other bank transfer method through Stripe or PayPal,
even the deafs will hear Teup sing thanks 
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| | | | | | | Author: | Teup | | Posted: | Mar 2, 2022 11:44 | | Subject: | Re: Funding methods for Stripe (and PayPal) | | Viewed: | 50 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
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| In Payment Methods, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Payment Methods, cosmicray writes:
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Does BrickLink support any of the payment funding sources other than credit/debit
cards (on Stripe or PayPal) ?
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The day BL supports iDeal or other bank transfer method through Stripe or PayPal,
even the deafs will hear Teup sing thanks
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You beat me to it  But actually no, I'm just pushing it because the fact
they don't support it annoys me on principle, but financially it's a
blessing Bricklink doesn't care, because it's one of the reasons my business
outside of Bricklink is so successful.
So the answer: You raise an excellent point and no, Bricklink does not support
any other methods, and yes, they've been 'wanting'/'trying'
to add them for years now (the BL team told me in a call 2 years ago that they
were trying to add them). I think there is simply not anyone at Bricklink whose
paycheck directly depends on how much business Bricklink generates - people at
the office just have their positions and want to keep them, LEGO wants to maintain
Bricklink the way it is (at least as long as they don't feel 100% confident
they know the ropes), and that's it. Adding payment methods would be a very
easy and virtually costless way to generate much more sales here, pretty much
a nobrainer for an entrepreneur, but it seems for them it's not important.
By the way, the LEGO website is actually the same way here. Besides Bricklink,
it's the only webshop I know where we can't pay onsite; we have to wait
until Lego sends an invoice. So I don't think the LEGO takeover is going
to inspire much change there anytime soon
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