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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.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
SRC <SteveRC@StarTrekMail.com> wrote in message
news:G060yq.Cnz@lugnet.com...
> > Get a pal in the US to factor for you. Someone who has time and who is
> > around a lot. Right now I am a month behind on getting factor forms
> > processed (because I discovered one I missed, else I would be only 2
> > weeks behind, but still...) so not me.
>
> 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 sure, get that thread started. So here it is. :-)
>
>
> PayPal only works in the USA, so the rest of the LUGrs of the world need
> a similar service to easily transfer funds to pay for LEGO. If BrickBay
> were to accept funds by cheque, PayPal, etc. in addition to the "cyberLEGO",
> things would be greatly simplified. Rather than a shop having to handle
> dozens of money-orders, etc. from each buyer, one payment could be made
> at the end of the month from BrickBay to the shop owner. Dan's cut would
> be a breeze to administer, and buyers could shop in multiple stores and
> only have to send a single money-order or cheque or cash (or PayPal).
>
> Trading would be the best way to use the system. Let's say I buy $10
> (including postage) worth of parts from each of five different shops on
> BrickBay, but I also have a shop with some older sets in it, and a few
> shoppers buy some of my sets totaling $72. A few columns in the spreadsheet
> are adjusted, and ta-da, everybody's LEGO is paid for, and I've got $20 or
> so to go and do some more shopping sometime. In the meantime, Dan keeps
> the interest earned on the left-over funds sitting there, just like PayPal.
>
> The physical shipping of the LEGO would still be directly between the
> buyer and the seller of course, with e-mails confirming receipt. It
> seems like the proverbial "no brainer" to me, but it of course assumes
> that Dan is willing and able to take on the additional responsibility (and
> commission) that such an upgrade would entail. What do others think?
>
> I would especially like to hear from you Larry, as well as Tom - I mean
> TODD 8-) - and of course Dan the man himself.
>
> SRC
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