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| | | Author: | Cysoth  | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:00 | | Subject: | Know store's city | | Viewed: | 130 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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| | | | | Author: | psusaxman2000 | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:09 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
| | It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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Even if this was implemented, I would think it would have to be optional for
the seller to include this information. Not all seller would like to have closer
proximity available to the buyers and would not want to do local/personal pickups.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Cysoth | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:14 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, psusaxman2000 writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
| | It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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Even if this was implemented, I would think it would have to be optional for
the seller to include this information. Not all seller would like to have closer
proximity available to the buyers and would not want to do local/personal pickups.
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Indeed, an option to say if they want local pickup or not !
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:10 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
| | It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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Sellers are free to tell you this information if they want to allow pick-ups.
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| | | | | | | Author: | Cysoth | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:13 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
| | It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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Sellers are free to tell you this information if they want to allow pick-ups.
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It could be more pratical (for the buyer and seller) than asking 100 differents
store their adresse.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | prickly_bricker | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:33 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| I like the idea. It could be an optional field that shows in parentheses after
the store's name. Adding a maps function to pull up stores close to your
location would be an awesome feature, but would involve a lot of development.
So maybe a phased implementation?
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 22:23 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 27 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, prickly_bricker writes:
| | I like the idea. It could be an optional field that shows in parentheses after
the store's name. Adding a maps function to pull up stores close to your
location would be an awesome feature, but would involve a lot of development.
So maybe a phased implementation?
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Is it really that hard? BrickLink already has everyone's address; sellers
would just need to opt-in to or opt-out of the program. Surely, there must be
an API that they can use. Google Maps? OpenStreetMap? However, I'm sure that
there would still be some programming involved. But I'm no software developer.
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| | | | | Author: | bje | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 11:47 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
| | It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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Probably will not be implemented as most of USA market do not have a payment
method to accommodate in store collection and cash payments are not allowed except
in the few states where taxes are not an issue. New sellers also will not be
able to accommodate requests such as these as they can only work with onsite
payment methods for the first 10 orders, so no cash payments there either. It
is probably also not efficient to ship with tracking in the same town.
It is a legal requirement for me to disclose my address in my terms, and it is
done. I would prefer it not to be in my terms only as buyers tend not to read
and still ask. I think a lot of sellers would prefer this to be an opt in and
not a have to.
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| | | | | | | Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 22:15 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bje writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
| | It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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Probably will not be implemented as most of USA market do not have a payment
method to accommodate in store collection and cash payments are not allowed except
in the few states where taxes are not an issue. New sellers also will not be
able to accommodate requests such as these as they can only work with onsite
payment methods for the first 10 orders, so no cash payments there either. It
is probably also not efficient to ship with tracking in the same town.
It is a legal requirement for me to disclose my address in my terms, and it is
done. I would prefer it not to be in my terms only as buyers tend not to read
and still ask. I think a lot of sellers would prefer this to be an opt in and
not a have to.
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What is wrong with paying onsite and picking up in person? The seller would lose
seller protection if the buyer paid via PayPal (no proof of shipping), but it
is their decision whether or not to take that risk. I think the OP is only talking
about local pickup or shipping and not cash payments. Even when you are shipping
within a state, postage rates may vary from one city to another. Transit times
also vary. However, whether or not those time and money savings are worthwhile
is debatable.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | qwertyboy | | Posted: | Dec 30, 2020 22:38 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Suggestions, bje writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
| | It would be practical to know store's city in the case we want to do local
buying (buying bigger lots, bigger pieces, save on shipping or only buy local).
We have already the list by country and province/state.
We could add the city.
Also in the Buy Wanted Lists/Items for sale, we could add with the country and
the contient, a "near by X kms" or something like that.
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Probably will not be implemented as most of USA market do not have a payment
method to accommodate in store collection and cash payments are not allowed except
in the few states where taxes are not an issue. New sellers also will not be
able to accommodate requests such as these as they can only work with onsite
payment methods for the first 10 orders, so no cash payments there either. It
is probably also not efficient to ship with tracking in the same town.
It is a legal requirement for me to disclose my address in my terms, and it is
done. I would prefer it not to be in my terms only as buyers tend not to read
and still ask. I think a lot of sellers would prefer this to be an opt in and
not a have to.
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What is wrong with paying onsite and picking up in person?
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Nothing at all, our customers do it all the time.
Niek.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | bje | | Posted: | Dec 31, 2020 01:23 | | Subject: | Re: Know store's city | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Suggestions, bje writes:
| | In Suggestions, Cysoth writes:
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Probably will not be implemented as most of USA market do not have a payment
method to accommodate in store collection and cash payments are not allowed except
in the few states where taxes are not an issue. New sellers also will not be
able to accommodate requests such as these as they can only work with onsite
payment methods for the first 10 orders, so no cash payments there either. It
is probably also not efficient to ship with tracking in the same town.
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What is wrong with paying onsite and picking up in person?
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Buyers lose buyer protection for paypal payments. Site management has stated
that arrangements where buyers lose buyer protection are not allowed on BrickLink.
If the buyer pays paypal onsite whilst at your premises and it is funded by a
card (you would not know), the transaction is not valid if the seller does not
display VISA/Mastercard signs at the premises;
If the buyer pays with stripe at your premises, the transaction is not valid
if the seller does not display VISA/Mastercard signs at the premises;
The payment method allowed for in person pickups using paypal is a paypal generated
QR Code. BL has not implemented that. You might be able to use stripe, subject
to certain provisos for card issuers and stripe themselves. You cannot use any
other payment method in the USA where taxes are collected by BL on behalf of
the buyer.
Also, your taxes are collected by county, not so? If the address for record purposes
is your house and the buyer lives in another county with a different tax rate,
who is responsible for collecting the correct tax and paying it over? And if
you can move goods without paying the correct tax, why do we have bother with
this on BL?
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seller protection if the buyer paid via PayPal (no proof of shipping), but it
is their decision whether or not to take that risk. I think the OP is only talking
about local pickup or shipping and not cash payments.
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Local pickups probably has to be paid for with an acceptable payment method for
BL to collect your taxes. The seller protection is not the only issue in the
USA.
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within a state, postage rates may vary from one city to another. Transit times
also vary. However, whether or not those time and money savings are worthwhile
is debatable.
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See the note with the taxes above as well. I personally do not see anything wrong
with in person pickup or in fact deliveries. Buyers have always been very happy
when I deliver orders in person, but I can collect the monies in a suitable manner.
For USA users this seems to be an almost impossible thing to do.
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