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View Thread Re: Save Offsite Paypal! - PurpleDave (969)
[...] I know stores can select which payment options to accept. I also know that when looking up an item in the catalog, you can filter by any type of payment option. Once [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 19, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Save Offsite Paypal! - PurpleDave (969)
Bricklink famously ground to a halt, twice, because it got hacked. The site may have been restored to working condition, but a lot of us want nothing to do with risking exposure [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 18, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Enable instant checkout, and it won't stop anyone from selecting any other payment option offered. Restrict payment to instant checkout, and you lose all the customers [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 18, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Some people probably are dealing with people intentionally jerking their chain when it comes to false orders. Either they said something here that ticked someone off, [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 18, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Search Locally - PurpleDave (969)
[...] My favorite example of misunderstood geographic scale in the US (in part because it shows how full of it foreigners are for griefing us over lack of world geography [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 6, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Search Locally - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Much of that travel time is probably tied up in wading through NYC itself. I was once in the LA area and suggested getting together some evening with some friends of [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 6, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Search Locally - PurpleDave (969)
[...] That's not true in my experience. Yes, there are sorting hubs all over the US. If the package is shipped from the same region as the destination, it only has to [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 5, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Search Locally - PurpleDave (969)
[...] First Class (letter) postage is flat rate. When you get into packages, I know weight and even size can come into play. I believe distance is also a factor with [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 5, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Search Locally - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Some shipping is the same, like first class stamps. Other shipping costs are based on distance. But the critical thing for me is that shipping _time_ is based on distance. [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 5, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Search Locally - PurpleDave (969)
[...] I know how to get a list of all stores in the US split up by state, but that has zero compatibility with the Want List. So, yeah, you're pretty much shooting blind [...]
(75 months ago, Mar 5, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink - PurpleDave (969)
[...] So...if someone switched to Onsite Paypal, it sounds like that's been shut down to force users to sign up for Marketplace. If you have Instant Checkout, I'm [...]
(76 months ago, Mar 1, 2018, to Problem)
View Thread Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink - PurpleDave (969)
[...] It's working fine for me. All I do is select standard "Paypal" as the payment option (or empty my cart if it's not available), wait for the invoice to [...]
(76 months ago, Mar 1, 2018, to Problem)
View Thread Re: Getting Frustrated Now With Bricklink - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Exactly. New, you part out and list an entire set all at once. Used, you track down and list a single piece. Then the next one is the same piece, but you have to list [...]
(76 months ago, Feb 28, 2018, to General)
View Thread Re: Search Locally - PurpleDave (969)
[...] I'd be happy enough with being able to filter by state, or cluster of states in the US. Europe has something very similar to this in being able to search by individual [...]
(76 months ago, Feb 26, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 7735-1 - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Introduced =/= exclusive. Old molds can be run alongside new ones for various amounts of time. Old parts can be in inventory for years as they bleed the stock down, [...]
(76 months ago, Feb 23, 2018, to Inventories Requests)
View Thread Re: The utter powerlessness of buyers - PurpleDave (969)
[...] It should. And maybe it would be if the feedback system wasn't abused by individuals on both sides of the transactions. As it stands, there's a ton of retaliatory [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 26, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: The utter powerlessness of buyers - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Bricklink is a community on top of being a place of business. I suspect that influences decisions very differently than being purely profit-motivated. They also never [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 26, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: The utter powerlessness of buyers - PurpleDave (969)
[...] When you're shopping in a Bricklink store, the feedback percentage is visible in the upper right. The problem is the feedback system here is so unreliable that many [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 24, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Add option to Exclude Paypal for EU - PurpleDave (969)
[...] I know someone who got scammed, once, in a way that tracking probably wouldn't prevent. It was for a set, and I suspect those are more likely to be targeted by scam [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 14, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Add option to Exclude Paypal for EU - PurpleDave (969)
[...] I don't really have to worry about that, since anyone who wants US buyers pretty much has to offer Paypal. But what I miss now is the feature that I very briefly [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 11, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Add option to Exclude Paypal for EU - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Heh. I hadn't ever thought of that, but it does sound inconvenient to have a Paypal account that's flush with Euros if you can't find anyone in the EU who [...]
(77 months ago, Jan 11, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: wanted list - PurpleDave (969)
[...] When you submit an order, there's a link on the next page that brings up any and all Want List items that are included in the entire order (not just the latest [...]
(78 months ago, Jan 2, 2018, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: Login problems on ipad - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Inside it's just a regular old iPhone with a bigger battery and screen. It even runs the same basic OS as an iPhone. It's a mobile device, and, as Apple seems [...]
(78 months ago, Dec 23, 2017, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: No Instant Checkout = Force must offer Quote - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Multiple currencies cease to be much of an issue when, as a seller, you can choose to only accept the one you actually use on a daily basis, and when, as a buyer, you [...]
(79 months ago, Nov 30, 2017, to Suggestions)
View Thread Re: No Instant Checkout = Force must offer Quote - PurpleDave (969)
[...] Yeah, I got that. I didn't at first, but I only had time to read the first post before I got home. By the time I did, you'd clarified your position. However, [...]
(79 months ago, Nov 28, 2017, to Suggestions)

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