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I just tried to sign up, and found this: " 3. International Use. You must be a resident of the United States to use the Service. International accounts will be available soon." Dang - Now what am I supposed to do? Most business web-sites I've seen (...) (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal only in USA?!?
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(...) You mean it's not? eric PS That's a joke. Really. (24 years ago, 29-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: PayPal only in USA?!?
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(...) Soon in internet time is apparently elastic. Sometimes it's a matter of weeks. In this particular case it has been MONTHS that they have been saying "soon" and it's not any sooner yet that I can see. (...) Get a pal in the US to factor for (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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(...) Actually, I was thinking that you and Dan Jezek could combine services, or BrickBay could add "factoring" and act like a bank the way PayPal does. I suggested this to Dan, and that I could post about it and see what people think, and he said (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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(...) This would be so freakin' cool I'd probably never shop anywhere else for parts. The internal logistics would be pretty straightforward to set up, unless there's something I'm not seeing. It would (ideally) just be another payment option - (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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The problem is getting someone to buy from you in the first place, sometimes it will take a while before things start rolling. If your site sits there for months and nothing moves, you have to foot the bill for each month's worth of non-movement. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Very sensible - I believe he already has a $25 minimum where you don't have to send commission if it's under that, or it's been < 3 months time. (...) Very true - This is where Larry's experience comes in... (...) Hmmmm - What if AucZilla and (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) <imagine> AucZilla and BAYLIT move to BrickBay BrickBay moves to LUGNET BrickBay becomes >the< place to shop for parts and sets eBay traffic declines Pause set db and LDraw parts db tie directly to BrickBay [1] </imagine> Dream well, Andreas (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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Folks, I am no expert in financial matters, but in this whole discussion, it might lead into the government, etc. getting into it because you are handling money, exchanging, etc. Do you really want to go down this road. I wonder what Larry would (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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Actually, since there are no liabilities assumed or assurances given by Dan, and no licenses from any government sought, there is no need for government involvement. Essentially, we become a private consortium --- much like some antique malls or (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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In lugnet.market.services, Steve Chapple writes: <brickBank!> I gotta run, I will respond in depth later, but yes, in principle this idea has a great deal of merit. It is encompassed by the Lugnet Manifesto so it's theoretically coming to here. But (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Indeed. That is *the* sticky point. I have dodged it by keeping things pretty informal, it's just a circle of friends, really. Be careful what questions you ask of whom, though, unless you are prepared to accept the answers you get. And that's (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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Paul, (...) Dan, (...) government (...) malls or (...) account for (...) Hmm... well, maybe I misinterperted it then. It sounded a little risky from what I read. Well, good luck setting it up. It seems a little redundant to me. Scott S. -- Soon to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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In lugnet.market.services, Steve Chapple writes: <brickBank!> I like the idea. Let's say 100 people submit 1 order from each of 100 shops = 10,000 orders (or 10,000 payments being sent back and forth). Each buyer sending 100 checks, each seller (...) (24 years ago, 2-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) The chance of Brickbay moving to Lugnet is unlikely because Lugnet runs on a Unix server [1] while Brickbay runs on NT server. What I'd like to know is what it would take to get other Lego businesses (for example BAYLIT) to move to Brickbay. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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(...) Exactly - Sending money once to create a positive balance would be MUCH more efficient, and that doesn't even take into account the initail reason I had this idea - conversion to US funds for those of us outside the USA In (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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(...) 78% are in US as can be seen here: (URL) is supposed to expand internationally in the near future or so they say. (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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(...) suppose we'd see take place. I know the hour I wasted yesterday getting US$ and stamps hinders me from buying more LEGO on-line. I wouldn't be surprised if non-USA went from 1/5 to 1/2 if we could get free-trade. (Hmmm - NAFTA for LEGO - LFTA (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBay Enhancement (was Re: PayPal only in USA?!?)
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(...) You can save on time by buying "bulk"...I typically get US stamps (which are really just ordinary stamps, but $0.55 worth instead of $0.46) in multiples of 10, and only need to pick them up once or twice a year; most drugstores have them. I (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) BAYLIT - (for my part) I'll be short and to the point. Brickbay is great, but it still doesn't answer the needs most builders have for volume parts. Maybe LEGO Direct will, but I still have my doubts. They're out to increase profits. Case in (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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Jon: You've got your own site (BAYLIT), and you seem happy doing your thing. That's great. I just felt the need to address some of your comments. (...) Is that because of Brickbay's design/services, or just because people aren't selling in (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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In response to your question about what it would take to get other business to move to BrickBay, I don't really think that will happen. Before I explain, let me point out that the concept of BrickBay is wonderful. In fact, Bricksonthebrain.com's (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) ?? To paraphrase any number of sources... "Brickbay is only a venue." Why can't a business use it just as easily as an individual? This is honest curiosity - I just don't get why you think it wouldn't work for a business. None of the points (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) I have to comment on the above paragraph: Brickbay by itself is registered as a business and it provides a service to either individuals or businesses to sell their Lego. That is the whole idea behind it. How each shop (whether it is a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) it to be very frustrating because of all the tags needed for it... would it perhaps be possible to use a .csv spreadsheet file instead (that way it stays OS independant, I'm using Linux :-) with lugnet partref, amount, color, price for (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Why do you say it is OS-dependent? Whatever OS you are running, you still need to generate the same text. If you do so by writing a simple Perl script that massages your csv file into the correct format, what difference does it make whether (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Since so far some "advanced" features are for Windows users only (Excel sales list for instance) I mentioned it, since all these neat things simply don't work for me. I also had some problems browsing the site, although most of those are gone (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Try star office on Linux. It seems to handle Excel and Word docs for me on Solaris, so it probably does on Linux too. (...) This particular transformation looks trivial. I bet you could learn enough Perl to do it in less than an hour. (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) for (...) Just to chime in here. It's been a while since I checked BAYLIT, and I'm not "most builders" but I have been doing most of my buying via Brickbay. Several thousand USD worth since it opened. That's because I have been finding the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Yes. Me. I just haven't had time to fiddle much yet. ++Lar (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) <snip> (...) Actually, it didn't seem to me you had all that many parts. The scale of parts seemed like it would fit BrickBay very nicely. That said, I was very impressed with your formatting and layout. An impressive site, just not much on it (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) No, that's not it. You're not out of stock because you have a lot of parts, you're out of stock because you've priced your parts high enough to shut the people who buy loads and loads of parts at once out. That's a good strategy, make more on (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Actually it's not about how many parts are listed but how many lots - 1,000 parts or 10 parts listed in 1 lot don't make a difference. I think the problem here are the fees - why not list Baylit's existing inventory with prices 2% higher than (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) LUGNET runs on a descendent of UNIX called FreeBSD. --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Todd, Would you mind sharing what kind of a database Lugnet runs on also? :-) - Dan (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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In lugnet.market.services, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> (...) I don't know if its more work. Actually what I do is when I buy a bunch of sets I take out the parts I would LIKE to keep then price everything else within reason. Then because I am (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) Todd, can you offer any opinions regarding FreeBSD v. Linux? At work we are using Linux, but I often hear how FreeBSD is just a tad more stable. Of course, Linux has all this buzz going for it. Whaddaya think? How has FreeBSD served Lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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(...) It runs a Perl database called PDB. --Todd (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | FreeBSD/Linux
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(...) I like both. Linux is what I run at home on my main system. Linux has excellent disk write caching, but I think by default it writes things in disk-spin order rather than temporal data-write order, which could affect integrity in the rare (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: FreeBSD/Linux
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(...) I don't know anything about that, but one related issue is that Linux does not yet have a journalizing filesystem which means that power failures can be a real pain, especially if you have to fsck a large disk. There's a bunch of journaling fs (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Apology (was Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement ))
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(...) I owe Jon a public apology. When Dan mentioned having 500,000 parts on BrickBay with Baylit added, I got curious and looked at Baylit again. After browsing through over 50,000 bricks, thousands of plates, and even over 10,000 Technic pieces, I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Apology (was Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement ))
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(...) A smarter man than I suggested it might be (URL) I was thinking of, and that was indeed it. A very nice web-site layout - clear, clean, concise, complete... Hmmm, many more Cs can I come up with? :-) SRC (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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