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 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2015 07:17
 Subject: Re: EU directive // For Sellers who charge PP%
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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Store: StarBrick's BrickShop
VS, Canada, Europa I**
0,5% = balance payment
3,9% + vaste kosten = credit cards

That's for Belgium sellers receiving payments from for instance Holland.
Correct?
Or am I looking at the wrong tables?
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2015 07:12
 Subject: Re: EU directive // For Sellers who charge PP%
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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According to my table that's for credit card payments through PP, not balance.
Or am I wrong here?
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2015 07:10
 Subject: Re: EU directive // For Sellers who charge PP%
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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Mmm, checking


  If I buy from you and apply what PP tells me

PayPal charges sellers a fee of between 1,7% and 3,4% of the total sale plus
€0,35 EUR per transaction within the Euro zone.


Then you're still cooked
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2015 07:02
 Subject: Re: EU directive // For Sellers who charge PP%
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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Made me adjust my PP costs anyway. I was way over the current table of costs
at the PP site. Thanks for pointing me to that!
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2015 06:53
 Subject: Re: EU directive // For Sellers who charge PP%
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Incorrect article? Where is art. 19 regarding payments?
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jan 25, 2015 06:51
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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These rules you refer to, apply to commercial business only as far as I can follow
it through. So this might only be applied to those.

As all sellers and buyers alike we are expected to operate within the law.
So either we should implement ALL laws from ALL countries BL has members from,
or there's a general rule that we all stick to the local laws from the country
the seller is based in. No need to add some specific rules and leave others out.
It's either ALL or NOTHING....
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Oct 29, 2014 09:33
 Subject: Re: Stop Bogus Sellers
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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  How would they do that??

Easy, follow up fast on this kind of notification. BUT: report them through HelpDesk
and NOT only in the forum. The forum gets far less attention by CS than the HelpDesk
calls!
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Oct 1, 2014 13:05
 Subject: Re: Set quoting OFF in forum posts
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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  All you have to do to avoid that is simply to delete the text you didn't
write!
This feature would be completely pointless when designers could be
working on more important things!

Like cosmetic overhauling the front page ?

I do delete the non-relevant parts (see this reply for instance) in my replies.
Most users don't, that can be annoying to quickly read through a thread with
20+ replies.
I guess your activity on the forum is not that big, so your not annoyed by it
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Oct 1, 2014 07:08
 Subject: Re: Set quoting OFF in forum posts
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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How do you change the setting to "off" anyways?

You can't as a user. It is coded in the system....

  And lastly... use a screen of proper size and resolution, so you dont need to
abuse your mouse/PGDWN keys

Try to find a monitor that big......!
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Oct 1, 2014 06:50
 Subject: Re: Set quoting OFF in forum posts
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That option is better indeed, but needs more programming
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Oct 1, 2014 06:39
 Subject: Set quoting OFF in forum posts
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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In replying to forum posts, the standard system setting is to quote the post
you are replying to. This generates LARGE texts that one has to scroll through
to get the additional post made by the poster.

Please set this standard to OFF:

- makes the forumposts cleaner
- readingspeed increases
- mouses/PGDWN-keys will last longer due to less scrolling
- less data storage needed on servers

(has been requested two times before, no follow-up unfortunately)
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Sep 23, 2014 09:02
 Subject: Re: Cap on number of message i can send
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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there's a 4 -letter word in his username that is quite odd too
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Sep 18, 2014 15:58
 Subject: Re: Negative Feedback Note
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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Thanks!
Voted YES!!!
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Sep 15, 2014 02:25
 Subject: NSS / NRS Overhaul
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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(probably multiple times suggested before....)

Overhaul of the NSS/NRS system required.

Regarding recent posts of blocked shops due to a cummulation of three (!) NSS's
over the last few years (!!), this system needs an overhaul.

1) NSS / NSR are in effect NO longer than a fixed time; for instance 6 months
2) users can ALWAYS review their scores on ALL the codes (NSS/NRS/NPB/OCR/etc....)
availabe for classifying orders (the data must be in the database.


Short post, needs more work, I know. Please add when wanted....... or when you
miss stuff.

If there IS a way to check your scores, please post it here AND (@ADMIN/@TECHSTAFF),
add it to the MyBrickLink page PLEASE.

Cheers
StarBrick
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Aug 21, 2014 14:03
 Subject: Re: Store View Tabs Missing [SOLUTION]
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Cool,
love the forum, love the members here!
Cheers!
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Aug 21, 2014 13:18
 Subject: Re: Store View Tabs Missing [SOLUTION]
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Wow, did you post this to the helpdesk too?
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Aug 20, 2014 15:33
 Subject: Re: BL Development Team: Test before rollout!
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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Scott,

You just joined the gang
When's the first meeting at the clubhouse?

Cheers

StarBrick
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 10:55
 Subject: Re: Fee deduction program
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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In Suggestions, speshy writes:
  Sorry to be the only voice of dissent so far, but I am going to have to vote
"no" for this one, and it's not just because I haven't yet contributed
anything to the catalog.

No need for a sorry, free speak, free thought

  I would also not be so interested in accepting "points" as payment, because my
fees aren't too high to begin with, being a small store. Points for free
sets, though? That I like.

So, basically you do favor a rewarding system, but don't agree on the reward?
Confusing.... You can not be pro another reward and be anti the rewarding system.
That doesn't add up.
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 09:50
 Subject: Re: Fee deduction program
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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  I think it would be automated. No different than fee accumulation, and any other
data that BL is handling at the moment. This site is already set up for this
sort of information.

Yes indeed it is. Just other ways of using the data, easy for the coding wizzards.
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 09:49
 Subject: Re: Fee deduction program -> BAP!!!
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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  And what about those who already contributed massive amounts of work on the catalog??
Kinda unfair since at this point there is more in the catalog from prior people,
than being added.

Where that came frome is stored in the database, so that can be used to give
points to admissions placed already. Also that's a small coding job I guess

Data is there, infrastructure too, it all needs some thinking and programming
and then LAUNCHING the BrickLink Appreciation Program = BAP!!!
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 09:47
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Who will do all the bookwork for these points? Will BrickLink end up paying
someone to do it, or will it become another chore for the volunteer admins?


With all those programming experts on board this must be a piece of cake to automate
that process!

Even some MOC-Shop coding could be re-used. That was the purpose of the platform
right? For Bricklink 2.0 or 2.1 or 3.0.... ah, you know what I mean, nudge, nudge,
wink, wink...
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 08:34
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In Suggestions, mabccc writes:
  I voted no. For the simple reason that if you give discounts for inventories
and so on, then more people will grab them as soon as they can, possibly not
have the set anyway but copy the inventory based on lego's database or the
one imported into brickset or similar, or make errors because they have reserved
too many inventories for themself and need to rush through them to get their
discounts.

Than you must not vote no to this idea. Your NO is pointed at the incorrect additions
to the inventory. Only correct (checked, double checked, triple checked, whatever-ple
checked!) additions qualify for points. So that needs to be ruled out.
Errors in additions might also result in deduction of points.
Your vote changed?
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 07:47
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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Interesting distinction between sellers and buyers, but ANY member can contribute.
So as a buyer doesn't have to pay BL fee's indeed, they might be up for
a generic store coupon on redeeming points. This coupon should be redeemable
at ANY store.
Nice addition !
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 07:28
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  I voted yes.

Thanks
  
I think a points system would work well, different weightings for different things
you do to the catalogue, points = money off your fee's.

Agreed, didn't work that out as there are many ways to do this. Indeed there
has to be a weight factor and time factor to earn points that you can redeem
as fee discounts or coupons at specific stores. Hey, that just sounds like
a membership programm!!
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 Posted: Jun 16, 2014 06:26
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Location:  Netherlands, Gelderland
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As this is still a community build and moderated site, all efforts by members
to improve the site, listings, behaviour of members etc, should result in a discount
on fees to be paid.

Bricklink should have a program that rewards members who:
- catalog contributions
- image improvements
- price guide corrections
- listings corrections
- adding help files/video's/translations
- .....

At this day, only BAD behaviour is santioned (NSS, NPB's, site and forum
bans etc....). Let us not emphasize the negative behaviour but reward the positive
behaviour.

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