Author:  nectara  Posted:  Aug 21, 2017 05:01  Subject:  Re: Offsite payment no longer possible??  Viewed:  54 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card nectara (6580) Location:  United Kingdom, England Member Since Contact Type Status Dec 14, 2015 Seller  Store: LondonBricks

In Suggestions, Teup writes:    In Suggestions, nectara writes:    In Suggestions, Teup writes:    In Suggestions, nectara writes:    In Suggestions, Teup writes: and basically, PayPal is something for internet nerds. That is simply a reality. Limiting Bricklink to PayPal is limiting it to internet nerds and lose a massive market.. Your huge market is almost NON in other country's From 1300 orders in my store only 3 where payed by IBAN Saying that PayPal is for nerds... ,,This payment volume was generated through the 1.73 billion transactions which PayPal processed during that quarter. In 2016, the payment provider's annual payment volume amounted to 354 billion U.S. dollars.,, mean the nerds one pay half of the volume of your country in one year ,,The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Netherlands was worth 770.85 billion US dollars in 2016.,, As MarieA put it, this is not about opinions, arguments, preferences. I don't like this kind of d*measuring contest but anyway, UK and NL are not that far apart in size on Bricklink. In the NL and many other countries PayPal is limited to a handful of internet nerds, such as me. This is simply a fact that does not change depending on what numbers you throw at it. These numbers are just total sums and say nothing about distribution. The vast, vast majority of people here who buy online either don't have it, don't know how it works, or have never even heard of the name. You may not like it, but this is simply a reality. PayPal-only would mean virtually eliminating a portion of Bricklink turnover that is really significant, bigger than the UK portion. Even if you would explain to the European (and perhaps Australian) consumer how PayPal is really the bees knees, they will not understand why they should pay money for a transaction. It's an anachronism to them. These are just realities, I'm not talking about what payment method is best. If the entire world suddenly decided to pay by doing a silly dance, I will happily do silly dances. I don't care how, I just want to be able to pay my bills and not be cut off from my customers.. they want IBAN, so I want IBAN. Don't understand me wrong I agree with you but bank transfers are so yesterday and without any protection I do offer IBAN and Stripe but I don't like them I prefer to pay PayPal fee but to be protected None of the payments platforms offer protection like PayPal so be sure PayPal will be bigger and bigger...

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Re: Offsite payment no longer possible?? - Teup (6610)

[...] As MarieA put it, this is not about opinions, arguments, preferences. I don't like this kind of d*measuring contest but anyway, UK and NL are not that far apart in [...] (83 months ago, Aug 21, 2017, to Suggestions)

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Re: Offsite payment no longer possible?? - Teup (6610)

[...] -For clarification: this is the realm of opinions and is therefore off the topic of the suggestion :) - Actually, I don't see PayPal replacing bank transfers [...] (83 months ago, Aug 21, 2017, to Suggestions)

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 Msg 1 - Teup (6610) 83 months ago Aug 19, 2017 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - Baarlo_Bricks (3440) 83 months ago Aug 19, 2017 to Suggestions
 Msg 3 - kaat (8738) 83 months ago Aug 19, 2017 to Suggestions
 Msg 4 - peterab (526) 83 months ago Aug 20, 2017 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 - Volt_Bricks (95) 83 months ago Aug 20, 2017 to Suggestions
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 Msg 8 - nectara (6580) 83 months ago Aug 20, 2017 to Suggestions
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 Msg 10 - Teup (6610) 83 months ago Aug 20, 2017 to Suggestions
 Msg 11 - nectara (6580) 83 months ago Aug 21, 2017 to Suggestions
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 Msg 13 - Teup (6610) 83 months ago Aug 21, 2017 to Suggestions
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 Msg 21 - Teup (6610) 83 months ago Aug 20, 2017 to Suggestions
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