 | | My worst E-Bay/LEGO Experience-A Story, A Warning
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I've wanted to share this story since I first started posting to LUGNET, but couldn't find the information to share until doing some digging around the house on other LEGO related business this evening. This story is a warning to my LUGNET friends (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | PayPal rates going up July 14 (was Re: US Postal Rates go up July 1, 2001)
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(...) FWIW, PayPal is splitting their business rates on July 14. Up until now, PP had two rate structures: Personal (very small volume and free) and business/premier (larger volume and not free). PP appears to have decided to segment the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: Brickbay Down?
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(...) Hmmm.. I just used it, seemed fine to me (other than the 389 active users <g> ) Also note that email is working again. Lets hope it last longer than one day this time. Ray (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Brickbay Down?
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TO All, I tried going on Brickbay, it is crashing everytime, I saw the last user count was 542. Is that right? It is really weird! Scott S. -- (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: large number of Brickbay users??
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(...) Or for the conspiricy theorists out there, is Interland falsly exaggerating the amount of traffic on BrickBay to support their campaign to dump the site without honoring their contract? (Insert X Files like music here) But then, I'm one to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: large number of Brickbay users??
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(...) I'm wondering the same thing. It started sometime just after 2pm EDT today. I was updating some picture links on a few parts, and watched it climb from mid- 50s, 200, 300... I think it topped out about 850, then slowly decreased to what you (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | large number of Brickbay users??
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In the last 10 minutes I have seen the number of users reported on Brickbay climb from one hundred something to over 300: You are 1 of 345 Active Users. Is Brickbay getting hit with some sort of attack? /Eric McC/ (23 years ago, 17-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: More PayPal Changes
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(...) Yep, the most annoying is the change to the fee structure for payments below $15. It used to be a flat 30-cents. Nows its 30-cents + 2.2% regardless of the amount. The 2.2% being an adjustable rate (although I'm not sure if its pegged to the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | More PayPal Changes
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Now PayPal is charging a $1.50 fee to withdraw funds by check. Withdraw by electronic transfer is still free for the time being. This is the major change, but there are also some other changes that they posted that you should know about so take a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | International Paypal withdrawals
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Has anyone successfully withdrawn money from their paypal account? I have had an account for ages and registered a UK bank account once I could not use a credit card. I tried to withdraw some of my money a few weeks ago and have never received it. (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Good news for users of paypal
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I saw this and reposted to market.services where this sort of thing will be welcome news! Thanks Mark! (...) ++Lar (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal policy change
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(...) Thanks Ben, I did call them. My intention were to skip the first layer of answering people, and go directily for a manager of some type. The first lady I spoke to insisted on that she were the one to talk, and that there were no need to go (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal policy change
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Helge Viker wrote in message ... (...) difficult... Could you send it to someone you trust in the US and get them to send you a MO? If it's a one-time thing not ongoing, I'd do it (I'm in Canada). Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal (ugh!)
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(...) Go back to using factoring, I guess... (and I was so hoping that PayPal was going to put me out of the factoring business) ++Lar (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal policy change
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Hi Kyle, The answers you have received from Paypal are in fact better than the ones I have received, but are still not very informative. (...) Agree, they now demostrate a complete lack of competance for doing web transactions internationaly. And (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal (ugh!)
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Hi Amy, Thanks for the answer. money (...) excuse my ignorance; what is FTC ? (...) I went Paypal only (I have also accepted cash, but prefered Paypal) because Paypal was fast, easy and cheaper than many other options. Now that they have showed (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal policy change
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(...) G'day Helge, I've had the same problems. I had no warning sent to me that a new policy was to be implemented. They took the money out of my PayPal account that I was going to send to a seller. And I sent several emails that went for days (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal policy change
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(...) from the bottom of (URL) How can I contact customer service? If you have questions regarding our service, you can contact us via email at service@paypal.com or via telephone at (402) 935-7733 Monday through Friday between the hours of 4am and (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal policy change
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(...) Have anybody actually received a sensible answer from Paypal? I have now sent them about 5 - 7 mails regarding this. All have been answered, but they are not answering my quesitons. They just send out some standard answers which contain (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-01, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.services)
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