Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | PurpleDave  | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2018 04:50 | | Subject: | Re: Save Offsite Paypal! | | Viewed: | 68 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, WoutR writes:
| | Was there not a page in my account settings where I could select my payment methods?
And a filter that hides stores that do not accept my payment types?
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I know stores can select which payment options to accept. I also know that when
looking up an item in the catalog, you can filter by any type of payment option.
Once you get to the Wanted List level, the only option I can find is "store
accepts Instant Checkout", which is worthless to me. There _used_ to be an option
there where you could select "store accepts X payment option" I believe, but
it's been geared more towards their vision of the future now. I have no
idea where you can set a global default for buyer payment options, but I'd
really love to know where that might be. Although, in a month, there might be
no point, as I'm not going to buy here if I can't do offsite payment.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2018 21:52 | | Subject: | Save Offsite Paypal! | | Viewed: | 321 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Implemented | |
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| Bricklink famously ground to a halt, twice, because it got hacked. The site
may have been restored to working condition, but a lot of us want nothing to
do with risking exposure of our financial accounts to anyone who may be lurking
behind the scenes. Sellers don't want to give Bricklink the level of control
required to accept payments through Bricklink. Bricklink has announced that
in about a month, they plan to scuttle offsite Paypal as a payment option, without
even taking any input from their core membership. The reason stated was that
new, usually one-time buyers, can't figure out where the payment button is
when they select offsite Paypal as a payment option, so they plan to basically
cut off any buyers and sellers who refuse to use any other form of payment, and
who especially want nothing to do with any onsite Paypal options.
Make offsite Paypal an opt-in payment option. Sellers obviously have to select
up front which payment options they will accept. Make all _buyers_ voluntarily
choose to see offsite Paypal as a payment option when checking out. If a seller
does not accept any other payment options, have them flagged as "does not ship
to you", just like if they were from another country and didn't have your
country enabled for shipping options. If a new buyer signs up, they should be
required to read an explanation of how offsite Paypal works, and confirm that
they want to be able to choose that as a payment option before they even see
it appear in lists.
But seriously, don't chase away a bunch of your regular customers in the
hope that you might be able to "grow your business" on the bank accounts of people
who just get sent here to buy a replacement part that LEGO Consumer Affairs can't
provide, or who are looking for just one retired set, and will never log in again
after they receive their shipment.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2018 21:36 | | Subject: | Re: Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | Enable instant checkout in your store.
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Enable instant checkout, and it won't stop anyone from selecting any other
payment option offered. Restrict payment to instant checkout, and you lose all
the customers that don't trust Bricklink to be secure enough to make exposing
their payment info to whoever might be watching.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 18, 2018 21:34 | | Subject: | Re: Have all members pay BL $1 to buy and/or sell | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, calebfishn writes:
| | Your suggestion will not screen out "false" buyers. But it will discourage and
dissuade all the first time people who come to Bricklink to look around. I get
very few orders that are not paid, and the ones that don't pay, are in my
opinion people who are experimenting with the order system.
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Some people probably are dealing with people intentionally jerking their chain
when it comes to false orders. Either they said something here that ticked someone
off, or they did something in relation to a previous sale that had the same effect.
Creating fake accounts just to place false orders would be a way to pester someone.
You couldn't really take credit for it (not if you have a valid account
that you wanted to keep clean, at least, though if you'd already been banned
I guess it wouldn't really matter), so the victim would never know _why_
they kept getting bogus orders. But if someone is the sort to go through that
effort for such petty vengeance, I doubt logic and reason really factor into
their decisions.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2018 04:44 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, renhoffman writes:
| | I agree, an option to show sellers within a certain area would be nice, for example,
within 50 miles. When I lived in western NY, I was probably asked twice a year
if I could meet someone in NYC, a 7 hour drive each way.
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My favorite example of misunderstood geographic scale in the US (in part because
it shows how full of it foreigners are for griefing us over lack of world geography
knowledge) was a story that a friend of mine from college loved to tell. His
family lives in western Michigan, and had relatives visiting from Germany. They
thought it might make a nice day trip to go check out the Grand Canyon.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 6, 2018 04:39 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ZacharyWathen97 writes:
| | 7 hours? That is what it took for me to move from Kentucky to Kansas City almost
six years ago. I passed through from the south of Illinois to St. Louis, then
straight across the northern part of Missouri.
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Much of that travel time is probably tied up in wading through NYC itself. I
was once in the LA area and suggested getting together some evening with some
friends of mine who were living on the other side of the city. They said it'd
take several hours just to get across town because of how overwhelmed the traffic
grid is there. Parts of NYC can be even worse if you're trying to get around
by car (there's a reason Manhattan's streets are a sea of yellow cars),
and transferring to public transportation would be far more expensive than just
covering the shipping cost. In contrast, Detroit proper is about 1/3 the size
of NYC, but you can skip across it in maybe half an hour if it's not rush
hour due to the more robust freeway system (there being an almost total lack
of useful public transportation in Metro Detroit).
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:41 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Speg writes:
| | Other than actually picking the item up from someone in person, even same state
shipping isn't much faster than a state that's 1000 miles away. For example:
if I wanted to mail my immediate neighbor a letter, the mail person has to pick
up the letter, bring it back to the mail hub, sorting facility, then back out
for delivery the next day(s).
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That's not true in my experience. Yes, there are sorting hubs all over the
US. If the package is shipped from the same region as the destination, it only
has to process through one regional hub (two of my recent shipments only processed
through the Detroit Regional Hub in Allen Park). If it's from another region,
it has to sort through their Regional Hub, which forwards it to your own Regional
Hub, and generally loses at least a day in the process. If it's shipping
from the opposite end of the country, I find it loses a second day just due to
increased drive time. If I'm trying to build something on extremely short
notice, that's the difference between arriving the day before a weekend show,
and the day after.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:32 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | Do you pay the same postage prices for both within and between states?
In Europe, the postage cost within a country is often cheaper (sometimes significantly)
than between European countries.
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First Class (letter) postage is flat rate. When you get into packages, I know
weight and even size can come into play. I believe distance is also a factor
with certain classes of postage. But for sure it takes longer to get shipments
from across the US than from within your own district.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:29 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, NicoBuma writes:
| | I guess that Europe has this option, because Europe is no nation, but a continent
with different countries... We're not a nation with differen states, so shipping
is different for each country and shipping from like Netherlands to Portugal
(both EU countries) can be a different price if I send from The Netherlands to
Portugal, than if I were to send the same from Portugal to The Netherlands. In
the US all shipping is the same (I guess).
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Some shipping is the same, like first class stamps. Other shipping costs are
based on distance. But the critical thing for me is that shipping _time_ is
based on distance. For instance, our LUG got contacted on short notice to do
a layout for a Harry Potter festival this past weekend. I spent the weekend
before designing a MOC of the Ford Anglia flying car, and spent a few hours building
a Want List and finding stores in nearby states on Sunday night. I sent e-mails
requesting invoices be sent immediately, and paid them at my earliest opportunity.
Out of the eight initial orders, I received five of them by Friday, one of them
on Saturday during the first day of the show, was informed right away that one
of them would be significantly delayed, and I'm still waiting on the eighth.
For the delayed order, I placed two more, neither of which I've received
yet. I'm in Michigan. The two "emergency" orders that have not yet arrived
are from New York state. They may have been significantly delayed by the massive
snowstorm that pounded the area going into the weekend, but even if that weren't
the case one of the initial orders was also from New York, had a full day head
start, and didn't arrive until Friday. So, the best I could have expected
from the other two was apparently arriving on Saturday with the other "late"
order. That order came from North Carolina, which is even farther away than
New York. And the other missing order didn't even get handed off to the
Post Office until today, but coming from Connecticut it should have had a fair
chance of arriving alongside the first New York order. Mostly I try to stick
to Michigan (obviously), Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and maybe expand out into
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin if I need to. Unfortunately, needing a small pile
of assorted Medium Blue parts means I had to go farther afield. Fortunately,
even though I only had half of my orders arrive by Friday, I was able to figure
out some substutions to get the model built well enough that I could display
it for the whole event.
| | I can however see you'd want an option like that.
As a seller I would also like an option to set prices automatically based on
the last 6 months of sales in my country and not worldwide; which I haven't
found yet, or it doesn't exist either.
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I have no idea about that, as I've never set up shop as a Seller. But like
the OP wanting to be able to buy locally, and me wanting to be able to buy from
nearby states the way you can from nearby countries, I doubt this is something
they would ever set up without being asked.
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| Author: | PurpleDave | | Posted: | Mar 5, 2018 18:02 | | Subject: | Re: Search Locally | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, leopard37 writes:
| | If you navigate through the following you can filter by your own state. It doesn't
help you with what pieces those stores have but you could at least choose the
largest.
SHOP - Stores - Find Stores - choose your country, it then lists all stores
within that country - Filter by your state
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I know how to get a list of all stores in the US split up by state, but that
has zero compatibility with the Want List. So, yeah, you're pretty much
shooting blind with the biggest stores in-state until you either find what you're
looking for or hit the point where you run out of enticing options (about the
point where you go from having a single clear "next" to 1-2 dozen). Or you can
search by Want List, filter by country, and keep opening stores until you find
some that are within striking distance. Even being able to _see_ which state
a store is located in from the Want List result list would be helpful as I could
then quickly scroll through and either select a store or dismiss it.
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