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 Author: bb-2762314 View Messages Posted By bb-2762314
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:14
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bb-2762314 (47)

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I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it
 Author: Ziegelmeister View Messages Posted By Ziegelmeister
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:19
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Ziegelmeister (624)

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Are you feeling okay?
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:21
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Nubs_Select (4916)

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In Suggestions, Ziegelmeister writes:
  Are you feeling okay?

+1 no company is perfect, many sellers also offer stripe which probably is no
better/worse then paypal
 Author: uticabrix View Messages Posted By uticabrix
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:32
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uticabrix (19378)

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In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it

Wow, no reason to be that upset over something!
Paypal is by far the largest financial app out there. Not to mention they bought
out Venmo which was the second largest. My point is, close to 95% of people
use Paypal.
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:50
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1001bricks (55907)

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In Suggestions, uticabrix writes:
  In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it

Wow, no reason to be that upset over something!
Paypal is by far the largest financial app out there. Not to mention they bought
out Venmo which was the second largest. My point is, close to 95% of people
use Paypal.

Our shop for 2022, official numbers:
PayPal 76%
Stripe 10%
SEPA/IBAN 14%

And we accept more than 10 currencies; some people seem to appreciate to pay
in their currency - I can understand this every time I buy in HUF or see Shipping
prices in Zloty

It's an extra cost for us, but maybe an extra order also
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 19:40
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Play_It_Again (5110)

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Of the 688 orders I've had this year, 590 were PayPal and 98 by Stripe.
That yields 85.75% for Paypal and 14.25% for Stripe. You point that PayPal is
the largest still holds true, but a lot of people are not a big fan of them and
would use others if given the chance.

In Suggestions, uticabrix writes:
  In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it

Wow, no reason to be that upset over something!
Paypal is by far the largest financial app out there. Not to mention they bought
out Venmo which was the second largest. My point is, close to 95% of people
use Paypal.
 Author: uticabrix View Messages Posted By uticabrix
 Posted: Sep 2, 2023 07:04
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uticabrix (19378)

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In Suggestions, Play_It_Again writes:
  Of the 688 orders I've had this year, 590 were PayPal and 98 by Stripe.
That yields 85.75% for Paypal and 14.25% for Stripe. You point that PayPal is
the largest still holds true, but a lot of people are not a big fan of them and
would use others if given the chance.

In Suggestions, uticabrix writes:
  In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it

Wow, no reason to be that upset over something!
Paypal is by far the largest financial app out there. Not to mention they bought
out Venmo which was the second largest. My point is, close to 95% of people
use Paypal.

You misread what I said. I never said just BL, I am talking about Paypal overall.
And those stats are just based on your store. I understand. But my point
is world wide, not just on BL. But even on BL, it is the dominating financial
go to.
 Author: Play_It_Again View Messages Posted By Play_It_Again
 Posted: Sep 2, 2023 10:16
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Play_It_Again (5110)

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I don't disagree with you, PayPal is a massive fee collecting machine.
That said, I'd bet that my store percentage is plus or minus a percent or
two of the greater Bricklink community that offers both payment methods. I also
still feel that a lot of people are not a big fan of PayPal, and would use other
options if given the choice, which is why offer Stripe. It's really not
hard to setup a Stripe account, and I'm surprised more sellers don't
offer it. If 25% of my 98 Stripe orders this year would only use Stripe and
I didn't offer it, it would have cost me approximately $500 in lost sales
based on a $20 average order.

Just for fun I went back to last year's numbers as well. 115 of my 1056
orders were with Stripe for 10.9%. If that kind of growth persists for a few
more years, sellers who are PayPal exclusive are going to be missing out.

  You misread what I said. I never said just BL, I am talking about Paypal overall.
And those stats are just based on your store. I understand. But my point
is world wide, not just on BL. But even on BL, it is the dominating financial
go to.
 Author: tEoS View Messages Posted By tEoS
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:36
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tEoS (5330)

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Well, there's no comparable alternative.

In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it
 Author: popsicle View Messages Posted By popsicle
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:37
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In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it

You have to understand the "people that are selling on here" are being
corralled into only accepting those payment processors BL is working with, due
in part to the site itself being corralled (by recent legislations) into collecting
requisite taxes on most transactions.

Pull back and focus at least some of that understandable ire on those that influence
such things, and less on the sellers here

-popsicle
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 17:46
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1001bricks (55907)

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In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way?

You don't have to have a PayPal account to pay using PayPal, AFAIK - at least
that was possible years ago.

And there's also Stripe, SEPA/IBAN, personnal check, etc.

I've had zero problem with PayPal for 18 years, and it's even cheaper
than our bank!

So, I don't *like* PayPal, but frankly it's not the worst.

I'm not sure how this could be arrogant.
 Author: BricksOfFaith View Messages Posted By BricksOfFaith
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 18:59
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BricksOfFaith (174)

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In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it


Ok, first off take a breathe and calm down. Secondly, bricklink only allows sellers
to use certain company’s, and PayPal is the only one that is most usable. We
can’t do bank transfers even if we wanted. Not the sellers “arrogance” just bricklink
trying to avoid scammers.
 Author: HoosierNinja View Messages Posted By HoosierNinja
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 20:54
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Then leave.
 Author: TravelBound View Messages Posted By TravelBound
 Posted: Sep 1, 2023 23:48
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In Suggestions, Kaje007 writes:
  I'm quite frankly disgusted at the number of people that are selling on here
that will only accept PayPal. I don't have it, I don't want it. Why be
so narrow minded and arrogant to expect people to only pay your way? I'm
frigging sick of it

So how would you like to pay?
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