Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | whitefane  | | Posted: | Jul 14, 2022 13:41 | | Subject: | Re: PayPal price increase | | Viewed: | 98 times | | Topic: | Payment Methods | |
| Feeling pretty much the same.
I think the LEGO community should work something else out in finding a better
app doing so.....
But the sad thing is, so far it seems like only Paypal can stop the scammer somehow
and solve issues between buyers and sellers.
In Payment Methods, Teup writes:
| | In Payment Methods, cosmicray writes:
| | In Payment Methods, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Payment Methods, racerxmtb writes:
| | Hi
Just received email that PayPal is increasing fees from 0.30 to 0.49 per transaction.
Grrr
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$0.49 + 3.49%, no less (currently $0.30 + 2.9%)
It's too bad. PayPal seems to have a monopoly on the North American payment
market here on BrickLink. Due to the whole sales tax thing, the only viable alternative
seems to be Stripe, and they also charge a 2.9% + $0.30 fee. I wouldn't be
surprised if they raise their fee to match PayPal! Maybe someday, BrickLink will
have it's own payment processing system. But given the slow pace of progress
on this site, I don't think that day is coming anytime soon…
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You need to dig into the PayPal fee change page. My impression is that the fees
we will be charged, will vary between 2.9 and 3.5%, based on the payment type
the buyer presents. for the first few months, this may be a learning experience,
to see what blended number we need to use, to calculate our overhead.
Another site I sell on, has had a variable FVF for quite a few years. My sales
fee is either 0.0%, 2.9%. or 5.9%. depending on how the buyer gets to my product
page.
This is going to make it really hard for sellers (in other countries) to calculate
the PayPal fee in advance, if they want to pass it back to the buyer.
Nita Rae
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Yeah, PayPal does everything to hide their fees. Once they updated (=increased)
their fees, and I couldn't find anywhere in their terms what the new rates
exactly were for each (buyer) country. It took several calls with the PayPal
helpdesk to figure it out, it ended up to be listed in a table as something completely
different (I believe credit card charges) which happened to match the fees that
had been charged in my recent payments.
Recently I commented on a PayPal facebook ad that they're not a viable option
since the fees are just too high, and they removed my comment and banned me from
liking or responding to their posts. Pretty sad if you need to act like that
as part of your business model.
Meanwhile, they do everything to appear on top, even though they're not a
good option. They have a clause in their terms that you're not allowed to
make other payment methods more visible, or say anything bad about PayPal
(like I'm doing now), or your account can be terminated. While at the same
time they don't follow their own standards, because once you enable PayPal
payment in a Wordpress webshop, the whole thing gets plastered with yellow banners
that are like "USE PAYPAL! WHAT IS PAYPAL? CLICK HERE FOR PAYPAL! YOU CAN PAY
BY PAYPAL DID YOU KNOW THAT????" 
What a lame and childish company.
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2022 08:38 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| Thank you! That makes a lot of sense!
I think now it looks good because now the sp00Xnew series are all in uniform
format with blocked open stud head , with the note for the alternative parts!
Today is my birthday too and happy to see on BL that the inventory is updated
today 
CHEERS!
In Inventories Requests, Turez writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, Turez writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3626cp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Hollow Stud
* Add 1 Part 3626bp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud
Comments from Submitter:
This minifigure should have the blocked head instead o the hollow stud. I verified this from multiple sealed sets.
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In which set(s) did you find the figure with blocked open stud?
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Thanks and sorry for being a bit late here, I'm very busy with new set inventories
at the moment.
As already pointed out, the figure came with a hollow stud head ("c style") in
set
so its inventory is not wrong. I have still accepted your requests because we
can be sure the figure first appeared with a blocked open stud head ("b style")
in
and I think it is nice to have everything in chronological order.
I also added the set numbers to the inventory note of
and added the hollow stud head as an alternate part to
That is all we can do here. We don't create separate catalog entries for
minifigures with different head types because probably all minifigures released
during the transition period from blocked open stud to hollow stud (~2011-2013)
can be found with both variants so we would end up with hundreds of "duplicate"
entries.
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2022 07:26 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| How to add alternative parts? I am very new here actually. I spend about several
hours to find out how to submit the request.
In Inventories Requests, Stellar writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Thank you. That makes sense. I don't have the first set that you referred
to. But I am purchasing four of that first sets now to see what kind of head
it has. If both sets have the blocked open stud, then still this inventory is
wrong.
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You can submit the alternate head as an alternate in the set inventory instead,
minifigs invs can't have alternates.
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In Inventories Requests, jennnifer writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Yes I saw that, however:
1) what is "B" and "C" style head.
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'b' style are all the heads indicated with a 'b' in the Item
Number and 'Blocked Open Stud' in their name.
[p=3626b]
'c' style are all the heads indicated with a 'c' in the Item
Number and 'Hollow Stud' in their name.
[p=3626c]
| | 2) But why?
All the sealed set that I have only have "blocked open stud head". None of them
have "hollow stud head".
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This figure appears in 2 sets. The one you have and set 5002812-1
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My reason 1) Hollow stud head is a much newer mode which came out much later
than this set.
2) All the other new reissued version spaceman (black, yellow, red, blue) have
blocked open stud head. Why only this white new version 2 is different? Why this
one is so special and could carry a head which was issued several years later?
Based on that, I think the "b" and "c" version of head co-exist in the inventory
is a mistake that needs to be corrected.
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BrickLink minifigure inventories do not allow for Alternate parts. The best solution
we have is to make the note in the inventory which has already been pointed out
to you.
Jen
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In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3626cp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Hollow Stud
* Add 1 Part 3626bp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud
Comments from Submitter:
This minifigure should have the blocked head instead o the hollow stud. I verified this from multiple sealed sets.
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See the inventory note "This minifigure has been found with both the 'b'
and 'c' style head."
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 10, 2022 07:17 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| Thank you very much for kindly reminding me. I believe what you said is correct.
I am still buying it though because I want to see the difference in details myself
between these two versions of the VIP set that I have and the newer 2014 sets.
And yes I did looked up and see that the hollowed stud head came out much earlier
than I thought to be.
So now here is the question: If the 2014 small set version is different as the
VIP version in 2012, why should not there be another category of this figure?
Instead of sp006new2, the newer version of the 2014 version should be sp006new3?
Now I must compare these two figures in two sealed sets and know what other difference
that they have. It is such an OCD TYPE of motivation, haha.
GOOD to know that a lot of person in BL forum is just as nerdy as me (And they
are not only knowledgeable but even remember all the posting history of a head
in a set so they are nerdier than me 100 times) )))))
In Inventories Requests, randyf writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Thank you. That makes sense. I don't have the first set that you referred
to. But I am purchasing four of that first sets now to see what kind of head
it has. If both sets have the blocked open stud, then still this inventory is
wrong.
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Someone in the past found the minifigure in a sealed set with the hollow stud
head, so the inventory is not "wrong". The BrickLink site functionality just
does not allow us to put alternate heads in minifigure inventories. Therefore,
the inventory is technically "right" with either a blocked open stud or hollow
stud head in the inventory.
Cheers,
Randy
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2022 23:20 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| Thank you. That makes sense. I don't have the first set that you referred
to. But I am purchasing four of that first sets now to see what kind of head
it has. If both sets have the blocked open stud, then still this inventory is
wrong.
In Inventories Requests, jennnifer writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Yes I saw that, however:
1) what is "B" and "C" style head.
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'b' style are all the heads indicated with a 'b' in the Item
Number and 'Blocked Open Stud' in their name.
[p=3626b]
'c' style are all the heads indicated with a 'c' in the Item
Number and 'Hollow Stud' in their name.
[p=3626c]
| | 2) But why?
All the sealed set that I have only have "blocked open stud head". None of them
have "hollow stud head".
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This figure appears in 2 sets. The one you have and set 5002812-1
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My reason 1) Hollow stud head is a much newer mode which came out much later
than this set.
2) All the other new reissued version spaceman (black, yellow, red, blue) have
blocked open stud head. Why only this white new version 2 is different? Why this
one is so special and could carry a head which was issued several years later?
Based on that, I think the "b" and "c" version of head co-exist in the inventory
is a mistake that needs to be corrected.
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BrickLink minifigure inventories do not allow for Alternate parts. The best solution
we have is to make the note in the inventory which has already been pointed out
to you.
Jen
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In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3626cp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Hollow Stud
* Add 1 Part 3626bp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud
Comments from Submitter:
This minifigure should have the blocked head instead o the hollow stud. I verified this from multiple sealed sets.
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See the inventory note "This minifigure has been found with both the 'b'
and 'c' style head."
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2022 10:40 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3626cp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Hollow Stud
* Add 1 Part 3626bp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud
Comments from Submitter:
This minifigure should have the blocked head instead o the hollow stud. I verified this from multiple sealed sets.
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See the inventory note "This minifigure has been found with both the 'b'
and 'c' style head."
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Does "a" style means solid stud, "b" means blocked open stud, and "c" means hollow
stud?
This is my guess. I am a little confused about this "a" "b" "c" category.
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2022 10:36 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| In Inventories Requests, Turez writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3626cp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Hollow Stud
* Add 1 Part 3626bp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud
Comments from Submitter:
This minifigure should have the blocked head instead o the hollow stud. I verified this from multiple sealed sets.
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In which set(s) did you find the figure with blocked open stud?
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--------------------VIP set 5000438----------------
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2022 10:27 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
| Yes I saw that, however:
1) what is "B" and "C" style head.
2) But why?
All the sealed set that I have only have "blocked open stud head". None of them
have "hollow stud head".
My reason 1) Hollow stud head is a much newer mode which came out much later
than this set.
2) All the other new reissued version spaceman (black, yellow, red, blue) have
blocked open stud head. Why only this white new version 2 is different? Why this
one is so special and could carry a head which was issued several years later?
Based on that, I think the "b" and "c" version of head co-exist in the inventory
is a mistake that needs to be corrected.
In Inventories Requests, axaday writes:
| | In Inventories Requests, whitefane writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3626cp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Hollow Stud
* Add 1 Part 3626bp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud
Comments from Submitter:
This minifigure should have the blocked head instead o the hollow stud. I verified this from multiple sealed sets.
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See the inventory note "This minifigure has been found with both the 'b'
and 'c' style head."
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jan 9, 2022 04:27 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Minifigure sp006new2 | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Delete 1 Part 3626cp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Hollow Stud
* Add 1 Part 3626bp01 Yellow Minifigure, Head Standard Grin Pattern - Blocked Open Stud
Comments from Submitter:
This minifigure should have the blocked head instead o the hollow stud. I verified this from multiple sealed sets.
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jul 3, 2021 22:25 | | Subject: | New Store opening 4th of JULY SALE 10 % off | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Sales | |
| Happy 4th of JULY
Sale on sets up to 20% off.
Free shipping on order of over $58 (not including
shipping or tax).
Have a fantastic holiday weekend!
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| Author: | whitefane | | Posted: | Jul 2, 2021 01:10 | | Subject: | Re: Credit Card required to sell on BrickLink | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| Agree! Not every honest seller has credit cards. And it won't stop bad seller
at all. Actually it is very easy to get a credit card and a link of the credit
card cannot stop anything.
In Suggestions, Stacey_Love writes:
| | In Suggestions, locutis writes:
| | BrickLink should setup a system where a seller would need to have a credit card
to sell on BL, and BL charges the seller a small amount (say $5) to setup the
store, and activate it, and verify the seller's information that is on BL against
the credit card.
The $5 would offset any costs associated with checking names/addresses. Once
BL has a card # and a charge on it, they can verify the name and address to the
card, and they know that they are dealing with a real person, at a real address.
Or, maybe make this an option, and have a store icon that shows that the seller
is verified.
Or, perhaps make this a requirement only if the seller wishes to sell high value
products, or lots of items valued at a high value.
I would gladly do this for my store, to show that I'm legit and serious about
selling.
Locutis
Resistance is futile.
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I Vote NO, many people do not have credit cards.
and it will not deter fraudsters, sorry but no from here.
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