| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | mcoyle  | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 23:46 | | Subject: | Re: Please spend more time on taxes | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, gogogovro writes:
| | Hey BL,
Please spend more time on taxes, that is definitely the one aspect of this site
I care the most about. As a seller, please, please don’t waste your time on developing
seller tools, tools are for dummies. Also, please don’t fix website bugs, they
don’t hurt anyone. And furthermore, please don’t spend any time on catching up
on support desk requests, why bother?
There are only two certainties in life, death and taxes. You can’t develop website
tax implementation when your dead, so please, let’s get these taxes right! From
now on it’s taxes, taxes, taxes! That’s why people visit BL right?
Who’s with me?
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Give me Exemptions or give me death!
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| Author: | Fr0stByt3 | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 20:44 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 84 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Tracyd writes:
| | In Suggestions, ZacharyWathen97 writes:
| | In Suggestions, calebfishn writes:
| | In Suggestions, jdinklage writes:
| | Please stop blocking my access to the parts I need. I am extremely annoyed that
you won't allow me to buy items from so many sellers I need to because they
aren't paying my taxes. They "don't support orders that ship to Massachusetts".
You are literally screwing up my access to rare parts that are only available
on this site. You are hurting part of this hobby for me. STOP IT! I am only
a buyer and not a seller. I understand you must be going through some growing
pains trying to get all the sellers to pay taxes, but don't take it out on
the buyers. Seriously stop blocking my access to the parts I need. Not allowing
me to ship items to my home from sellers who are willing to ship them to me is
a legitimate reason for me to be pissed. You are forcing me to go buy clone
parts off site when I don't really want to as an immediate direct result
of this action.
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If you don't want to pay your sales taxes to the great state of Massachusetts
then I suggest you use your democratic rights to elect legislators who will change
the law.
Or, you could move to a different jurisdiction that doesn't charge sales
tax.
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I heard the Bahamas are pleasant this time of year.
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Sand + LEGO equals scratches.
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I can't argue with that logic, ha ha.
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| Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 20:09 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 125 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
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The trick there, is that IC only supports PP and Stripe. You can't do IBAN
with IC and collect the sales tax.
Nita Rae
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Is IBAN an onsite payment method?
Jen
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It is possible in theory to incorporate IBAN into an onsite solution, but apparently
it is very difficult and potentially unstable. So we consider IBAN to be offsite
only.
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 19:48 | | Subject: | Re: Bigger Image Thumbnails for Easier Browsing | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jjprbr writes:
| | Browsing is a chore due to the very small thumbnails attached to each
set, item, etc. Please consider a listing format that can take advantage of modern
online retail listing standards. At this point, you're almost better off
browsing elsewhere (Amazon, eBay, etc), then coming here to plug in the item
number. Keep us here.
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Actually, I think that browsing is much more efficient with the small thumbnails
as long as the images are good enough. Larger images would only mean a lot more
scrolling. Different users have different needs! I hope any updates or changes
would acknowledge both needs.
Jen
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| Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 19:45 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 58 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | Well, you will be fine as long as you offer an onsite payment method. Paypal
can be used onsite and offsite. I don't believe that you can offer offsite
methods as a new seller anyway.
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That's correct - I think 2017 was the cutoff from what I've read here
in the forums.
I switched to a seller account just last year and never had a choice off onsite
vs. offsite - just PayPal, Stripe, or both.
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| Author: | hsousas | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 19:27 | | Subject: | Re: Bigger Image Thumbnails for Easier Browsing | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jjprbr writes:
| | Browsing is a chore due to the very small thumbnails attached to each
set, item, etc. Please consider a listing format that can take advantage of modern
online retail listing standards. At this point, you're almost better off
browsing elsewhere (Amazon, eBay, etc), then coming here to plug in the item
number. Keep us here.
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I agree, it's a pain. And the bandwidth is not that much, just move the images
to a static-serving webserver.
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 19:10 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, roguemjr writes:
| | Jen, I just got approved to sell, but have not opened yet. Where can I go to
look at this info in the forums? I am not familiar with what is being talked
about here.
I only plan to sell in US and only plan to accept paypal.
Thanks,
Michael
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Well, you will be fine as long as you offer an onsite payment method. Paypal
can be used onsite and offsite. I don't believe that you can offer offsite
methods as a new seller anyway.
If you search 'sales tax' here in the Forum, you'll get more info
than you would ever want.
Here is the Help section:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2467&q=sales+tax
Good luck with your new shop!
Jen
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| Author: | jennnifer | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 19:00 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
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The trick there, is that IC only supports PP and Stripe. You can't do IBAN
with IC and collect the sales tax.
Nita Rae
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Is IBAN an onsite payment method?
Jen
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| Author: | cosmicray | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 18:56 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, jdinklage writes:
| | Please stop blocking my access to the parts I need. I am extremely annoyed that
you won't allow me to buy items from so many sellers I need to because they
aren't paying my taxes. They "don't support orders that ship to Massachusetts".
You are literally screwing up my access to rare parts that are only available
on this site. You are hurting part of this hobby for me. STOP IT! I am only
a buyer and not a seller. I understand you must be going through some growing
pains trying to get all the sellers to pay taxes, but don't take it out on
the buyers. Seriously stop blocking my access to the parts I need. Not allowing
me to ship items to my home from sellers who are willing to ship them to me is
a legitimate reason for me to be pissed. You are forcing me to go buy clone
parts off site when I don't really want to as an immediate direct result
of this action.
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You are blaming the wrong people for the wrong things. Blame BrickLink for not
doing more to educate their sellers about the recent changes to the site that
directly affected their stores. Sellers received only one communication about
the tax update, and the relevant information was buried in it.
All you need to do is contact any sellers from whom you can't order, inform
them that they need to enable an onsite payment method, and direct them to the
Forum if they have any questions. You will be doing them, yourself, and lots
of fellow BrickLinkers a great service.
Also, many sellers have conflated onsite payments with Instant Checkout and have
resisted changing their stores for this reason. Instant Checkout is confusing
to implement and imperfect, so try to be understanding. Here is a handy chart
you can use if anyone needs convincing.
Good luck,
Jen
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The trick there, is that IC only supports PP and Stripe. You can't do IBAN
with IC and collect the sales tax.
Nita Rae
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| Author: | roguemjr | | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 18:35 | | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Jen, I just got approved to sell, but have not opened yet. Where can I go to
look at this info in the forums? I am not familiar with what is being talked
about here.
I only plan to sell in US and only plan to accept paypal.
Thanks,
Michael
In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| | In Suggestions, jdinklage writes:
| | Please stop blocking my access to the parts I need. I am extremely annoyed that
you won't allow me to buy items from so many sellers I need to because they
aren't paying my taxes. They "don't support orders that ship to Massachusetts".
You are literally screwing up my access to rare parts that are only available
on this site. You are hurting part of this hobby for me. STOP IT! I am only
a buyer and not a seller. I understand you must be going through some growing
pains trying to get all the sellers to pay taxes, but don't take it out on
the buyers. Seriously stop blocking my access to the parts I need. Not allowing
me to ship items to my home from sellers who are willing to ship them to me is
a legitimate reason for me to be pissed. You are forcing me to go buy clone
parts off site when I don't really want to as an immediate direct result
of this action.
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You are blaming the wrong people for the wrong things. Blame BrickLink for not
doing more to educate their sellers about the recent changes to the site that
directly affected their stores. Sellers received only one communication about
the tax update, and the relevant information was buried in it.
All you need to do is contact any sellers from whom you can't order, inform
them that they need to enable an onsite payment method, and direct them to the
Forum if they have any questions. You will be doing them, yourself, and lots
of fellow BrickLinkers a great service.
Also, many sellers have conflated onsite payments with Instant Checkout and have
resisted changing their stores for this reason. Instant Checkout is confusing
to implement and imperfect, so try to be understanding. Here is a handy chart
you can use if anyone needs convincing.
Good luck,
Jen
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