Author:  Stone_Goblin  Posted:  Jan 28, 2011 10:06  Subject:  Re: Credit Card required to sell on BrickLink  Viewed:  50 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card Stone_Goblin (4046) Location:  USA, Vermont Member Since Contact Type Status Sep 21, 2005 Seller Store: LibertyBRICK

Building a reputation takes some time, but if you're a good seller it's vastly easier to do than to try defrauding people right out of the gate. Learning from mistakes is tuition itself in life. Buyers will need to learn in their own time about risk and seller reputation. BrickLink has a good reputation on the whole... but if you want to improve upon that, start a certification club like I suggested. Binding people to more restrictive financial mechanisms in order to satisfy a personal concern over the security of transactions is overbearing IMO. John @ LibertyBRICK In Suggestions, locutis writes:    In Suggestions, whooshka82 writes:    In Suggestions, locutis writes:    BrickLink should setup a system where a seller would need to have a credit card to sell on BL, and BL charges the seller a small amount (say $5) to setup the store, and activate it, and verify the seller's information that is on BL against the credit card. The $5 would offset any costs associated with checking names/addresses. Once BL has a card # and a charge on it, they can verify the name and address to the card, and they know that they are dealing with a real person, at a real address. Or, maybe make this an option, and have a store icon that shows that the seller is verified. Or, perhaps make this a requirement only if the seller wishes to sell high value products, or lots of items valued at a high value. I would gladly do this for my store, to show that I'm legit and serious about selling. Locutis Resistance is futile. It's a NO from me, if a fraudster can get around the paypal verification and addresses etc and be paying the BL fees surely they will get around the credit card verification as well. To sell, be it online or a traditional shop - possibly even more important online, a store needs to build a reputation. On BL feedback is the obvious way for building a reputation shared with all, though regular and valuable contributions in chat or on the forum would not go unnoticed. TBH (and truthfully not meaning to offend and apologise in advance should I do so) this concept sounds like a plan from someone desperate to sell and get around the nervousness buyers including myself treat a store with only feedback of 4. Build a reputation buy from other stores to stock your own to build feeback numbers possibly, and the customers will come. I realize that a fraudster can get around verifications, but many can't. This would eliminate the ones who can't get around the verification. I also understand that you need to build a reputation, but what happens when you have accumulated a bunch of Lego, or you source your Lego directly from S@H and now you want to sell it off to make some money? I myself am not all that interested in buying stuff from BL just to increase my FB. I realize that I could easily place 100 x $10 orders to "stock my store" and then have a FB of 100, but then I'd have put out $1000 for stuff I'm not that interested in selling. There are a lot of parts/elements sellers on here (more than sets sellers, it seems) but what about the person who just collects full sets? Buying full sets from other BL members can become expensive. For example, the exchange rate from Canada to the USA is about par, but the S@H pricing is about 30%. I usually order from USA S@H at their better prices, when there are double VIP points, and free shipping. I have my stuff sent to the USA, and pick it up when I can get it back tax free. I then can resell to Canadians (not I don't bother selling internationally) at a price advantage and make some money. The items I target are modular buildings and trains, which, in my opinion can only increase in value over time. By your statement of "only a feedback of 4" I think you may be targeting me, even though you inserted the "not meaning to offend and apologise in advance should I do so". I decided to sell on BL to recoup the costs associated with losing some money. I thought the best way was to buy items I am also interested in, so that should I not be able to sell them, I can always just use them. Right now there is absolutely NOTHING on BL for a seller to go through to open a store and sell. This is unacceptable in my opinion. Forcing a seller to buy from other BL members first and build up a heavy FB rating in order to setup shop is worse than requiring a credit card, in my opinion. Locutis Resistance is futile.

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Re: Credit Card required to sell on BrickLink - Locutis (69)

[...] I realize that a fraudster can get around verifications, but many can't. This would eliminate the ones who can't get around the verification. I also understand that [...] (162 months ago, Jan 28, 2011, to Suggestions)

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 Msg 1 - Locutis (69) 162 months ago Jan 28, 2011 to Suggestions
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