Author:  WoutR  Posted:  Mar 19, 2018 03:59  Subject:  Re: Save Offsite Paypal!  Viewed:  90 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card WoutR (922) Location:  Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Member Since Contact Type Status Mar 8, 2011 Buyer

In Suggestions, PurpleDave writes:    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. 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? Then all what needs to be done is make the default setting for accepting Offsite Paypal "OFF". (I would not recommend the name "offsite Paypal", I think that name only makes sense within the current discussion. ) Maybe it was this one... https://www.bricklink.com/storeSettings.new.asp And yes, save offsite Paypal as an option.

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Save Offsite Paypal! - PurpleDave (969)

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 [...] (76 months ago, Mar 18, 2018, to Suggestions)

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Re: Save Offsite Paypal! - PurpleDave (969)

[...] 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 [...] (76 months ago, Mar 19, 2018, to Suggestions)

Re: Save Offsite Paypal! - calsbricks (8541)

[...] That page has been disabled for a while, however buyers can choose their acceptable payment methods in the advanced search options and Paypal is still listed there. Not [...] (76 months ago, Mar 19, 2018, to Suggestions)

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 Msg 1 - PurpleDave (969) 76 months ago Mar 18, 2018 to Suggestions
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