Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies Author: | SylvainLS | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 11:14 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 53 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
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| Just food for thought (although not even sure I like this solution, haven't
read into it much), but in Canada the primary "debit" method that folks use is
Interac E-transfer. There are some solutions like PremierPay (with a transaction
fee of course), and can be setup with API etc. I'm assuming IBAN likely has
some other paid solutions that assist in facilitating the transaction, but again,
probably less popular due to the fees associated (even if less than PayPal).
From a buyer's perspective, it's potentially a bit easier though. And
it could probably allow BrickLink to facilitate tax collection as well.
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First, “IBAN” is a misnomer, it’s just bank transfers, to be precise, an International
(not only EU) standard for Bank Account Numbers (i…b…a…n…!). It’s very unfortunate
that BL named this method this way, or, rather, it’s unfortunate it’s the name
under which it was publicized or at least collaquially adopted in some countries
(NL).
Even more unfortunate, this method actually covers many situations of bank transfers
but not all bank transfers: different currencies not only EUR, national or international
transfers but not “only EU” (or even “only Europpe”), and with or without fees
but with no way to know beforehand (depends on both seller’s and buyer’s banks).
I strongly believe BL should not have added this method, “bank transfers” was
sufficient, or should have given it a narrower meaning… and then, maybe, should
have created more than one.
| From what I understand, several countries have their own preferred interfaces
for IBAN transactions. Outside Bricklink my Dutch customers pay by iDEAL and
my Belgian customers sometimes by Bancontact. As far as I know they're similar.
The cool thing about Stripe is that you can just accept these payments without
even knowing what they are, so adding these methods would be great for most on
Bricklink worldwide - the only exception being sellers outside the EU who only
sell domestically. (and of course it's great for the buyers in the countries
where these payment solutions are used)
The Dutch one is very popular here in spite of the fee. The fee is only €0.29
regardless of the amount, and even if a store/organisation/restaurant/etc would
offer both options, I'm assuming people just go for the onsite solution,
even if the seller passes on the fees to the buyer. That's what I do anyway.
It seems to me that offsite bank transfers are becoming less usual in daily life
here, with the main second hand trading site now also offering onsite payment.
It's going to be a matter of time before Bricklink (and Lego.com!) are going
to have to follow along.
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In France, it’s mostly cards (with the possibility of chargeback, contrarily
to bank transfers) and I expect it will stay that way. Though, with the new
SEPA instant payment rules now in place and implemented, maybe the banks will
do something.
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Author: | Teup | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 11:00 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 51 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Emporiosa writes:
| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| 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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Just food for thought (although not even sure I like this solution, haven't
read into it much), but in Canada the primary "debit" method that folks use is
Interac E-transfer. There are some solutions like PremierPay (with a transaction
fee of course), and can be setup with API etc. I'm assuming IBAN likely has
some other paid solutions that assist in facilitating the transaction, but again,
probably less popular due to the fees associated (even if less than PayPal).
From a buyer's perspective, it's potentially a bit easier though. And
it could probably allow BrickLink to facilitate tax collection as well.
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From what I understand, several countries have their own preferred interfaces
for IBAN transactions. Outside Bricklink my Dutch customers pay by iDEAL and
my Belgian customers sometimes by Bancontact. As far as I know they're similar.
The cool thing about Stripe is that you can just accept these payments without
even knowing what they are, so adding these methods would be great for most on
Bricklink worldwide - the only exception being sellers outside the EU who only
sell domestically. (and of course it's great for the buyers in the countries
where these payment solutions are used)
The Dutch one is very popular here in spite of the fee. The fee is only €0.29
regardless of the amount, and even if a store/organisation/restaurant/etc would
offer both options, I'm assuming people just go for the onsite solution,
even if the seller passes on the fees to the buyer. That's what I do anyway.
It seems to me that offsite bank transfers are becoming less usual in daily life
here, with the main second hand trading site now also offering onsite payment.
It's going to be a matter of time before Bricklink (and Lego.com!) are going
to have to follow along.
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Author: | jennnifer | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 10:47 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 58 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, BasKrie writes:
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The problem is that we (BrickLink) cannot pay those taxes unless the seller chooses
to use an onsite payment method. We cannot force sellers to make this choice,
so it is up to these sellers to open themselves up to the larger market.
This is why some other members in this thread are advising you to contact sellers
you wish to buy from and kindly ask if they would adopt an onsite method. It
is not a lengthy process - it takes just a few minutes for those who already
have an account.
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What Bricklink could do is inform all sellers that since mid last year they need
an onsite payment option to sell to (almost all) US buyers.
And inform them that in case of an error when trying to send an invoice they
have to check there template.
The Brexit mail was good although nothing was really said in it, but for the
US tax changes nothing has been communicated, while given all kinds of forum
posts a lot of sellers don't know about it.
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Yes, I think there is overwhelming evidence that many sellers did not receive
the message from BrickLink regarding how the sales tax deployment directly affected
their stores. Despite all the problems and like 900 Forum posts about it, BrickLink
prefers to do nothing to solve this problem. The broken template thing was also
a bug they never addressed. Typical.
Jen
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Author: | Emporiosa | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 10:19 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 45 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | Difficult and potentially unstable? How so? BrickOwl doesn't seem to have
that problem, and neither do I in my own website. It works perfectly, just use
Stripe. I managed to get it to work in my webshop in no time at all.
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Same here, I haven't had problems on BrickOwl with any of the Stripe integrations
for local or regional instant bank payments.
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Oh right, Stripe does do debit/bank as well. Works fantastic on BrickOwl for
myself as well. I still get folks that like to do the Interac E-transfer method
(for Canada), so I'm not sure if they specifically support *all* debit features
natively but most.
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Author: | Emporiosa | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 10:16 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 43 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| 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.
|
Just food for thought (although not even sure I like this solution, haven't
read into it much), but in Canada the primary "debit" method that folks use is
Interac E-transfer. There are some solutions like PremierPay (with a transaction
fee of course), and can be setup with API etc. I'm assuming IBAN likely has
some other paid solutions that assist in facilitating the transaction, but again,
probably less popular due to the fees associated (even if less than PayPal).
From a buyer's perspective, it's potentially a bit easier though. And
it could probably allow BrickLink to facilitate tax collection as well.
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Author: | Tracyd | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 10:15 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 46 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, jdinklage 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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Just in case it wasn't clear-I have no problem with the taxes. I have a
problem that Bricklink won't allow me to complete a transaction with many
stores at the moment. I do a fair amount of bricklink buying to put it mildly.
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It is not Bricklink it is the SELLERS you are choosing. Bricklink is following
the law.
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Author: | NelisSolis | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 10:15 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 47 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Teup writes:
| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| 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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Difficult and potentially unstable? How so? BrickOwl doesn't seem to have
that problem, and neither do I in my own website. It works perfectly, just use
Stripe. I managed to get it to work in my webshop in no time at all.
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Same here, I haven't had problems on BrickOwl with any of the Stripe integrations
for local or regional instant bank payments.
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Author: | Teup | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 09:33 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 51 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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IBAN is offsite but it can be used with instant checkout. For offsite payment
methods, instant checkout is just an automatic invoice.
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Author: | Teup | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 09:31 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 44 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:
| In Suggestions, cosmicray writes:
|
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
|
Is IBAN an onsite payment method?
Jen
|
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.
|
Difficult and potentially unstable? How so? BrickOwl doesn't seem to have
that problem, and neither do I in my own website. It works perfectly, just use
Stripe. I managed to get it to work in my webshop in no time at all.
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Author: | Vosblokjes | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 08:37 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 54 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| In Suggestions, jdinklage 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 WANT to pay my taxes. I have no problem with paying my taxes.
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The problem is that we (BrickLink) cannot pay those taxes unless the seller chooses
to use an onsite payment method. We cannot force sellers to make this choice,
so it is up to these sellers to open themselves up to the larger market.
This is why some other members in this thread are advising you to contact sellers
you wish to buy from and kindly ask if they would adopt an onsite method. It
is not a lengthy process - it takes just a few minutes for those who already
have an account.
|
What Bricklink could do is inform all sellers that since mid last year they need
an onsite payment option to sell to (almost all) US buyers.
And inform them that in case of an error when trying to send an invoice they
have to check there template.
The Brexit mail was good although nothing was really said in it, but for the
US tax changes nothing has been communicated, while given all kinds of forum
posts a lot of sellers don't know about it.
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Author: | jdinklage | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 08:00 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 43 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
|
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 WANT to pay my taxes. I have no problem with paying my taxes.
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Author: | jdinklage | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 07:55 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 52 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Tracyd 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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So you want them to break the law just for you? It is required for Bricklink
to collect sales tax. The sellers are the ones who haven't updated their
policies not Bricklink. Why don't you message the sellers telling them what
they need to do. Be part of the solution not part of the problem.
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The whole purpose of me bothering to write this in the suggestion forum is exactly
to find a solution to this problem. I am trying to do so.
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Author: | jdinklage | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 07:49 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 58 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
|
Just in case it wasn't clear-I have no problem with the taxes. I have a
problem that Bricklink won't allow me to complete a transaction with many
stores at the moment. I do a fair amount of bricklink buying to put it mildly.
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Author: | peregrinator | Posted: | Apr 2, 2021 07:45 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 45 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Sellers (those who have enabled onsite payments) are not paying your taxes at
all, they are simply enabling BrickLink to collect and remit those taxes on their
behalf as required by law for sales in many states.
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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Author: | mcoyle | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 23:46 | Subject: | Re: Please spend more time on taxes | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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.
|
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: | jennnifer | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 19:48 | Subject: | Re: Bigger Image Thumbnails for Easier Browsing | Viewed: | 31 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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: | 67 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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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Author: | leggodtshop | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 18:23 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 58 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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Really? Buyers instructing Sellers how to do their job??? The world upside down.
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Author: | Tracyd | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 18:16 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 61 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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Author: | jennnifer | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 17:44 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 98 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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Author: | Fr0stByt3 | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 17:38 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 74 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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Author: | calebfishn | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 16:01 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 102 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
|
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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Author: | Tracyd | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 14:24 | Subject: | Re: Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 113 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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So you want them to break the law just for you? It is required for Bricklink
to collect sales tax. The sellers are the ones who haven't updated their
policies not Bricklink. Why don't you message the sellers telling them what
they need to do. Be part of the solution not part of the problem.
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Author: | jdinklage | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 14:05 | Subject: | Lego/Bricklink-Very frustrated with you | Viewed: | 394 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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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Author: | brickerking | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 07:55 | Subject: | Re: Please spend more time on taxes | Viewed: | 60 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, patpendlego writes:
| 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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Agreed. Voted YES. I'm holding back on selling until implementation is ready.
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Awesome, only YOU can make BL a tax friendly haven. Every vote counts!
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Author: | Stellar | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 04:27 | Subject: | Re: Phone numbers for orders | Viewed: | 40 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, gogogovro writes:
| In Suggestions, Brick_Qc writes:
| I understand the requirement and the usefulness, but you can't force someone
to give out personnal information if you don't want to give it. Simple as
that.
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Well... we do force buyers to give personal information, don’t we?
Let’s see...
Name
Address
email
I agree with the OP, a phone number should be required. Most shippers are starting
to require it, so why not remove some of the hassle in a smooth BL transaction
by requiring a phone number of all buyers?
Oh, I know why this will never happen... taxes...
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Yeah... On every website you buy online now you put your whole address, email
and phone number. Half of the packets shipped to mine I get a SMS or a call from
the delivery man/woman.
The thing is most BL users that are here more than a few years were not required
to put it on registration, but new ones have it there (optional).
Another problem is you can't add it in your profile: https://www.bricklink.com/pref_address.asp
I found that in XP you have the field available and it saves good to show in
orders: https://www.bricklink.com/r3/user/addressbook.page
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Author: | S_H_M | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 02:13 | Subject: | Re: Please spend more time on taxes | Viewed: | 38 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, gogogovro writes:
| Hey BL,
Please spend more time on taxes,
Who’s with me?
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You are free to donate any amount of taxes you want. 20%, 33% of 50% the choice
is yours
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Author: | leggodtshop | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 01:18 | Subject: | Re: Please spend more time on taxes | Viewed: | 44 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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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Agreed. Voted YES. I'm holding back on selling until implementation is ready.
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Author: | brickerking | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 01:09 | Subject: | Please spend more time on taxes | Viewed: | 135 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| 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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Author: | brickerking | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 00:58 | Subject: | Re: Phone numbers for orders | Viewed: | 39 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brick_Qc writes:
| I understand the requirement and the usefulness, but you can't force someone
to give out personnal information if you don't want to give it. Simple as
that.
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Well... we do force buyers to give personal information, don’t we?
Let’s see...
Name
Address
email
I agree with the OP, a phone number should be required. Most shippers are starting
to require it, so why not remove some of the hassle in a smooth BL transaction
by requiring a phone number of all buyers?
Oh, I know why this will never happen... taxes...
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Author: | Brick_Qc | Posted: | Apr 1, 2021 00:45 | Subject: | Re: Phone numbers for orders | Viewed: | 34 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wolbar writes:
| International shipments from Canada have to have the receiver's phone number
for security purposes. Please have users enter their phone numbers along with
their addresses for orders automatically.
Thank you
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I understand the requirement and the usefulness, but you can't force someone
to give out personnal information if you don't want to give it. Simple as
that.
Personally I put my own telephone #. Never had a call in 15 years...
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Author: | wolbar | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 23:35 | Subject: | Phone numbers for orders | Viewed: | 106 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| International shipments from Canada have to have the receiver's phone number
for security purposes. Please have users enter their phone numbers along with
their addresses for orders automatically.
Thank you
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Author: | Vosblokjes | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 10:20 | Subject: | Re: Filter for buying in stores | Viewed: | 29 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, lcgs13 writes:
| Hi there.
As a buyer I often use the wanted lists filter for buying in stores.
But, annoyingly, I always see all the parts the store has from the selected lists,
instead of only the parts that I am still missing.
Just add the flag of hidding items where wanted quantity
Thank You!
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I think that what you are looking for is already there, but somewhat hidden.
After selecting the list open the 'All Filters', the last option in there
is "Hide Items if Have Qty is ≥ Want Qty"
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Author: | lcgs13 | Posted: | Mar 31, 2021 09:15 | Subject: | Filter for buying in stores | Viewed: | 50 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hi there.
As a buyer I often use the wanted lists filter for buying in stores.
But, annoyingly, I always see all the parts the store has from the selected lists,
instead of only the parts that I am still missing.
Just add the flag of hidding items where wanted quantity
Thank You!
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Author: | BrickEmAll | Posted: | Mar 30, 2021 03:21 | Subject: | Re: Country flags by usernames, feedback support | Viewed: | 40 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Any progress here?
Grts BrickEmall
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Author: | BigBBricks | Posted: | Mar 28, 2021 19:16 | Subject: | Re: Suggestion: More structured help-desk process | Viewed: | 49 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, FigBits writes:
| I'd like to see some small improvements to the way that help-desk tickets are
handled.
First, an auto-reply of receipt, with a ticket number, would be great.
I'm not sure what the help desk process looks like on Admin's end, but I would
expect that tickets can be (at the very least), marked with status updates, and
merged (for duplicates). If so, having an autoresponder could also take advantage
of this structure -- when a ticket is closed, the autoresponder could send the
ticket status update to the person who opened the ticket (any anyone else whose
tickets were merged).
Think about the timeout issues we've been seeing lately. It's fantastic that
Admin has come on to the forum to give us some updates on the status. But only
about ... what ... 1/20 BrickLink users reads the forum? Less than that do it
regularly, and we know how fast posts scroll off the first page.
If status updates could be sent at least to the people who mailed the help-desk,
I think that would go a long way toward keeping those frustrated users "in-the-loop",
in case a significant portion of them are not forum readers.
--
Marc.
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Bump, because the request for better trouble ticket support has been open for
more than ten years with no response from BrickLink.
We asked for this over ten years ago, a fact that The LEGO Group and @CE_Tanja
may not be aware of.
- Big B
Because 1000 characters is not enough to begin to tell someone all the suggestions
that have gone unheard.
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Author: | Anthony_NL | Posted: | Mar 26, 2021 08:01 | Subject: | Updating ancient Help Center items | Viewed: | 88 times | Topic: | Suggestions | Status: | Open | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Hello,
I came accross some old images of how a message alert looks like on https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=125.
But since BrickLink doesn't look like that anymore, my suggestion is to update
the pictures. It is (or at least sounds) very simple and turns these useless
images into helpful ones. Maybe there are other images (or even texts) that ask
for an update too, but I only came accross this one.
Regards,
Anthony.
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Author: | iggugak | Posted: | Mar 26, 2021 03:34 | Subject: | Re: Color Addition | Viewed: | 27 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I made the same request in July 2019, but it was declined. I still don’t understand
why. It makes no sense at all.
https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1148774
In Catalog Requests, starbeanie writes:
| Can we please add Chrome Red to the catalog? It's the only Chrome color missing.
Thanks, Bret
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Author: | randyf | Posted: | Mar 25, 2021 12:47 | Subject: | Re: Color Addition | Viewed: | 39 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I would definitely be fine with adding this color to the catalog. It obviously
would not be linked to any inventories, but at least arms and legs from these
keychains could be listed under the proper color for commerce purposes. I see
no reason not to do this.
In Catalog, starbeanie writes:
| Chrome Silver ones seem to sell.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=981982&colorID=22
If your making a minifig for a MOC, Chrome Red arms might be perfect.
In Catalog, crazylegoman writes:
| In Catalog Requests, starbeanie writes:
| Exactly, the arms and legs should be made available for sale. Just because they
weren't released outside of being a keychain, doesn't mean we shouldn't
be able to sell them.
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But for what reason? I cannot know the wants of every member, but I imagine
the demand for just chrome red arms and legs without the rest of the body would
be slim to none. This seems like more of a request to allow every possible part
ever made into the BL catalog for the sake of catalog "completeness" as opposed
to an effort to provide a method to sell and buy something.
David
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Author: | peregrinator | Posted: | Mar 25, 2021 12:36 | Subject: | Re: Color Addition | Viewed: | 31 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I don't know what the effort involved might be, if it's minimal it might
be worth it regardless of whether they sell frequently or not.
We might have spent more effort talking about it!
In Catalog, crazylegoman writes:
| This seems like more of a request to allow every possible part
ever made into the BL catalog for the sake of catalog "completeness" as opposed
to an effort to provide a method to sell and buy something.
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Author: | yorbrick | Posted: | Mar 25, 2021 12:33 | Subject: | Re: Color Addition | Viewed: | 33 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Catalog, crazylegoman writes:
| In Catalog Requests, starbeanie writes:
| Exactly, the arms and legs should be made available for sale. Just because they
weren't released outside of being a keychain, doesn't mean we shouldn't
be able to sell them.
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But for what reason?
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Because they exist.
What is the point of the catalogue if things are left out because there is no
other reason to put them in?
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Author: | starbeanie | Posted: | Mar 25, 2021 12:30 | Subject: | Re: Color Addition | Viewed: | 34 times | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Chrome Silver ones seem to sell.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=981982&colorID=22
If your making a minifig for a MOC, Chrome Red arms might be perfect.
In Catalog, crazylegoman writes:
| In Catalog Requests, starbeanie writes:
| Exactly, the arms and legs should be made available for sale. Just because they
weren't released outside of being a keychain, doesn't mean we shouldn't
be able to sell them.
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But for what reason? I cannot know the wants of every member, but I imagine
the demand for just chrome red arms and legs without the rest of the body would
be slim to none. This seems like more of a request to allow every possible part
ever made into the BL catalog for the sake of catalog "completeness" as opposed
to an effort to provide a method to sell and buy something.
David
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