Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies taking items off my store from own own wanted - pugwilfy (400)  | Hey all, i might be being silly here, but i cant find an option when i create a wanted list, to check off items i have in my own store. Is it possible to do this without creating [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 17, 2023, to Buying) |
Administration - MarshMan80 (5388) | Good day administration. I have a buyer that is blackmailing me and if you could reach out to me ASAP I would appreciate that. Marshal
(16 months ago, Jan 15, 2023, to Buying) |
Re: Still prevalent today... - infinibrix (4998) | [...] Whats the difference? I really don't get your point because a shipping charge is a shipping charge regardless of whether the seller chooses to include a small amount [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - qwertyboy (7862) | [...] Some sellers put in an additional fee to cover stuff like driving to the post office. Pretty much anyone else agrees these costs should just be considered overhead, and [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - BricksThatStick (6363) | [...] Could be worse... Imagine a Bricklink where sellers could make up their own fictional and inflated exchange rates to convert from USD to their native currency when invoicing [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - jennnifer (3532) | [...] My peeve isn't that sellers are combining costs. It's when they claim they charge no fees and add a handling fee into the shipping cost. It's the claim that [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
Re: Still prevalent today... - manganschlamm (1938) | [...] Be happy that the seller does not charge some absurd lot limit or lot size or whatever lot fee that is not explained properly in the terms.
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - yorbrick (1184) | [...] If the vast majority of your buyers pay with IBAN, I can understand you wanting to keep your prices low for them and then inflating prices for other buyers to cover the [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
Re: Still prevalent today... - peregrinator (776) | [...] "A $3 handling charge applies to all orders for envelopes, padding, tape, gas, waiting in line*, unforeseen medical expenses, wear and tear on automobiles and footwear, [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
Re: Still prevalent today... - Rob_and_Shelagh (26333) | [...] LOL, I can think of a few more! Really the loser in this is BL as they only earn fees on the sale of the Lego. The customer pays the invoice price however that is broken [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - Rob_and_Shelagh (26333) | [...] [...] Exactly that. Also, another way we look at Paypal fees is: "does offering Paypal make us more extra profit after paying the costs that if we did not offer [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - infinibrix (4998) | [...] Shh its hard enough buying here as it is and you'll end up giving sellers even more ideas/reasons for adding fees!! :D
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - infinibrix (4998) | [...] Your massively over thinking it.... I don't think many sellers are necessarily sitting there with a calculator and adding 5% to each part to cover paypal fees, 3% [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - Rob_and_Shelagh (26333) | [...] Terminology varies. Shipping is commonly referred to here as P&P (postage and packing). But yes, the important number for the customer is the "total shipping [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - zorbanj (817) | I think postage and shipping/handling are two different things that are often conflated. Postage = the amount paid to USPS, UPS, etc. Shipping = postage paid *and* other costs [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - Rob_and_Shelagh (26333) | [...] [...] Agreed and as long as it is clearly stated. Usually the price of the Lego is more than the shipping but nobody seems interested in the seller breaking down the [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - infinibrix (4998) | [...] Implementing the cost of packing materials and/or a small handling fee into your shipping cost is standard business practice! We all know that it costs the seller more [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - Rob_and_Shelagh (26333) | [...] We see Paypal fees just as an overhead, like a cost you pay for attracting the order by offering Paypal. Typical part price might be 10pence, it is not possible to even [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - LeeGo73 (1255) | [...] 'just put the charges into the prices' would include the fees for paypal I assume. This would be unfair to a large portion of the buyers within the EU who have [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - jennnifer (3532) | [...] My pet peeve is sellers who claim 'No fees!' and then inflate the postage costs. If you are adding your 'handling' charges into the shipping charge, then [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - infinibrix (4998) | [...] [...] Well yes I've been calling on this for a long time and that's coming from someone who only manually invoices. Since I don't add anything other than [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - Rob_and_Shelagh (26333) | [...] of course markets have their differences. That should not get in the way of the buyer seeing the final price before he buys so he can compare the offers from different [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - EmblaRonja (5206) | That said I agree with many others who say just put the charges into your prices, we have always done that in our store. Total price = parts as priced + shipping as stated. Ha [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - Rob_and_Shelagh (26333) | [...] For all my time here, this has been the biggest issue raised by buyers on the forum. Majority of orders now go through auto checkout so for those orders, if sellers [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - yorbrick (1184) | [...] It is just a note so they can check. If 5% or so is going to make them miss out on buying from that store, then it wasn't that good a deal anyway.
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - LeeGo73 (1255) | [...] Addition and estimating cost based on a percentage does not require an advance degree in calculus I think. What happens if the seller decides to change his approach [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
Re: Still prevalent today... - TheBrickGuys (13278) | Okay, I have the perfect solution for you. In your last post you stated that, in part, you are "trying to enjoy the spending of my money". Well, it just so happens, I [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 13, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - LeeGo73 (1255) | [...] Looks like your seller charges €1,50 handling & packing and 5% for paypal cost. Did the terms of the seller mention this? Could you have calculated the shipping costs [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 12, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - yorbrick (1184) | [...] How are you paying 15% for Paypal fees, you must be placing very small orders for the effective paypal percentage fee to be that high. Even with currency exchange and [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 12, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Still prevalent today... - EmblaRonja (5206) | Yeah - it's easy to sit in the country with the largest market in the world nagging abut fees - not knowing anything about how it is elsewhere... In Europe we have A LOT [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 12, 2023, to Buying) |
Re: Still prevalent today... - Mr_Rofl (98) | [...] Is it really that terrible? With all the governments wanting a piece of the action in international business. Probably paid via Paypal who charges on every cent transfered [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 12, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Am i scammed? - rab1234 (1959) | Agreed. This isn't a one off mistake. It sounds like fraud if he's done this multiple times. Report him and file a paypal claim. You can't sell non-lego here [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 11, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Am i scammed? - BricksOfFaith (149) | Do not just “take the loss.” Please report this member for fraud here: (URL) We cannot allow sellers like this to sell fake trash. Can you tell us what this member’s name is? [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 11, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Am i scammed? - AlcoEmmen (903) | Just reversed image searched it with google. Same seller has soled it via other platforms also To bad it is a definite fake. I will take my loss :-(
(16 months ago, Jan 11, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Am i scammed? - yorbrick (1184) | [...] I see, listed as a custom item so there is no trace of sold ones. If the seller relists one each time he sells one and none of them have boxes or instructions then I [...]
(16 months ago, Jan 11, 2023, to Buying) |
| Re: Am i scammed? - yorbrick (1184) | [...] There haven't been any sales of used sets of the Beijing Postcard here. Where did you buy it? Do you have pictures of the part?
(16 months ago, Jan 11, 2023, to Buying) |
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