  
| Author: | legoman77  | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2018 10:20 | | Subject: | Re: Save Offsite Paypal! | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| 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.
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Could a seller put in his terms 'Please pay directly through the paypal site
to XXXXX.net (PayPal address)? That would take it out of bricklinks venue.
That could even be put into the listing.
About the hacks,I did mention that before. Bricklink has trouble getting features
to work why should the sellers feel confident that the same people can prevent
hacking?
John P
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Message is in Reply To:  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) |
Message Has 1 Reply: | Re: Save Offsite Paypal! - PurpleDave (969) | [...] Maybe. Then the problem is going through the thousands of sellers here and asking them to add this to their terms, along with a viable means of payment that can be selected [...]
(76 months ago, Mar 19, 2018, to Suggestions) |
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