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(...) Black, Blue, Green, Red, Brown, Light Gray, Dark Gray, Yellow, White, Tan, Purple and Orange. More colors are coming. I'm working on the next 15 now, which includes the transparent colors and some more of the "light" solid colors. The images (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) I've noticed that too, while adding parts today. Not enough of a contrast between lit and shaded surfaces, mostly. Other than that, cool! James (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Thanks to Troy Cefaratti for providing BB with 20,000 Color Images of Parts
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(...) Thanks, Troy and Dan. That must have taken a lot of work. I have a few questions & observations: * what are the 12 "basic" colors? I see dark pink is not one of them, although it is very common in Belville sets. * If the color is not one of (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Upcoming factoring changes due to PayPal fee structure.
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(...) kept (...) anything in (...) miss (...) When you yourself have a merchant account and accept credit cards, it is againsts the terms of the agreement to pass the cost of the transaction on to the customer. Like saying product X is $10 if you (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Thanks to Troy Cefaratti for providing BB with 20,000 Color Images of Parts
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(...) Is there an easy way to convert lugnet hosted images (which all have the same pattern, for example: (URL) is a 1x1 cone) to Brickbay ones? Going into view/update inventory I don't see a way to try asking for the image from Brickbay again... On (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Thanks to Troy Cefaratti for providing BB with 20,000 Color Images of Parts
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(...) Cool! I don't suppose these images are available just generally, are they? I'd like to see them directoried out on Brickshelf or something. Or maybe there is a public source of these already? Chris (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Thanks to Troy Cefaratti for providing BB with 20,000 Color Images of Parts
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Troy has generated color images all official Ldraw parts (1,600+) in the 12 basic colors which are now available when listing parts on Brickbay. Existing images of wanted lists and BB-provided inventory images have been converted to the colored (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Upcoming factoring changes due to PayPal fee structure.
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In lugnet.market.services, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) <more snippage> OK, I understand that when someone has a 'merchant account' (with the corresponding merchant agreeement), but something about what you said here kept bothering me. So I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal Changes
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(...) I don't know what an X account is, but if you can send $ via X's PayPal service, the email address to send to is: paypal@lugnet.com --Todd (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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In lugnet.market.services, Julie Krenz writes: <snippage> (...) <more snippage> (...) OK, theres a couple of thing about this that bug me... First, PayPal is taking a variable amount (see above) on an inbound payment. Part of that inbound payment (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Below is the email I received from them. Needless to say, I was very disappointed with this, and if they don't change it, I will make sure to tell many people to avoid them. I will wait a few more days to see if they will change it (not (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Checks strongly discouraged for Factoring for the next few weeks
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Who is Josette?? Can you get more training for her? or, as a last resort, replace her with someone else? :-) (I think I know the answers already) Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 FUT: lugnet.off-topic.fun (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Yes, merchants can choose a servicing agent or bank. There are lots out there. Even Costco is getting into the act, contracting with a servicer to provide CC service to executive memebers for 1.75% (or maybe less - I didn't notice). Other than (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Upcoming factoring changes due to PayPal fee structure.
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(...) Charging a simple fee is tempting but based on my analysis not practical. I still have to allocate the fee among myself and the factoree(s) involved and in some cases the exchange rate haircut that one factoree or the other takes exceeds the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Hmm...have you considered charging an overhead-covering fee of, say, the lower of 5% or $5.00? If I needed to send someone in Europe $75.00 and I could pay you $78.75 via PayPal to make that happen, then in the absense of direct P2P (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Since you already know the amount Paypal is going to eat I suggest you simply add that amount to the factoring fees you are currently charging. However, since they can be quite large that might make people use paper (cheques/MO's) more, so you (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Checks strongly discouraged for Factoring for the next few weeks
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As with when I went to Zurich, processing factoring checks will be difficult for me while I am in the UK which is carded to last 5-6 weeks. So, as I did before, I am surcharging factoring checks with the "Josette handling fee" on receipt, and the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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I think I am going to have to institute some factoring changes beyond the rebalancing I alluded to earlier. PayPal is very convenient. The upcoming changes in PayPal mean that they are essentially creating two classes of money. Unless I refuse to (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Top 10 Wanted Parts
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Here are some interesting statistics. Top 10 wanted parts in the order of how many people are looking for them showing in reverse order: 10. Door 1 x 3 x 2 Left (5) 9. Brick, Modified 1 x 14 with Groove (5) 8. Black Slope 33 3 x 3 Double Convex (5) (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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