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| | | Author: | crazylegoman  | | Posted: | Dec 22, 2010 23:02 | | Subject: | Password for payment type | | Viewed: | 104 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| I don't think that this exists yet, though I could be wrong. I searched the
Help section and couldn't find anything about it.
I think it would be useful to have a password-guarded option to let certain
people pay a seller by a method that is not available to other buyers.
My store has PayPal, Cashier's Check and Money Orders as payment methods. Just
today I had a person, who I've been friends with for years in my own LUG, order
from me. Typically when he orders from my Bricklink store, I bring the parts
to our next LUG meeting, and he pays me in cash. My store doesn't accept cash
as a payment type (which is pretty typical here). My friend has to click one
of the 3 payment types to let the order go through, despite the fact that he
knows he won't be paying by that method.
Now you may be thinking, "Why don't you just add 'Cash' as a payment type in
your store? Only the people who are going to see you in person to pick up their
order would click that payment method." Yeah...that should be how it
would work. I have a feeling that if I add "Cash" to my payment methods, someone
would inadvertently click that payment type, when that's not really what they're
going to use.
If this suggestion is implemented, I could add Cash and Check as payment options
to my store, and give out the password only to members of my LUG. I would set
the other 3 payment types to be the default set of payment options in my store
and not require a password. Then there should be no mixups when people who I
will never see in person or newbies select how they want to pay.
David
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| | | | | Author: | Brickwilbo | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2010 01:41 | | Subject: | Re: Password for payment type | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, crazylegoman writes:
| | I don't think that this exists yet, though I could be wrong. I searched the
Help section and couldn't find anything about it.
I think it would be useful to have a password-guarded option to let certain
people pay a seller by a method that is not available to other buyers.
My store has PayPal, Cashier's Check and Money Orders as payment methods. Just
today I had a person, who I've been friends with for years in my own LUG, order
from me. Typically when he orders from my Bricklink store, I bring the parts
to our next LUG meeting, and he pays me in cash. My store doesn't accept cash
as a payment type (which is pretty typical here). My friend has to click one
of the 3 payment types to let the order go through, despite the fact that he
knows he won't be paying by that method.
Now you may be thinking, "Why don't you just add 'Cash' as a payment type in
your store? Only the people who are going to see you in person to pick up their
order would click that payment method." Yeah...that should be how it
would work. I have a feeling that if I add "Cash" to my payment methods, someone
would inadvertently click that payment type, when that's not really what they're
going to use.
If this suggestion is implemented, I could add Cash and Check as payment options
to my store, and give out the password only to members of my LUG. I would set
the other 3 payment types to be the default set of payment options in my store
and not require a password. Then there should be no mixups when people who I
will never see in person or newbies select how they want to pay.
David
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When getting paid in cash, it doesn't matter what they choose, money is money.
Just make a "Note on order" like "Cash at LUG". 
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| | | | | | | Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Dec 23, 2010 10:30 | | Subject: | Re: Password for payment type | | Viewed: | 18 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, Brickwilbo writes:
| | When getting paid in cash, it doesn't matter what they choose, money is money.
Just make a "Note on order" like "Cash at LUG".
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Yes, they can do that if they want, but sometimes my friends from my LUG actually
do pay me with PayPal, so there would be an actual use for a special payment
option. I once had a friend who ordered parts from me, and I was going to see
him in about 2 weeks. He wanted to pay by PayPal and have me ship the parts
to him because he needed them to finish a MOC he was working on. It would be
nice to have a Cash payment option available to just certain people so that when
they choose their payment method I could be sure of how they want to do the transaction.
David
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