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| | | Author: | miskox  | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 14:59 | | Subject: | IP geo location | | Viewed: | 162 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| In an Order placed email we receive there is buyer's IP address. It would be
good to see a note next to this IP address with a geo location where this IP
originates from. Not very hard to implement I think.
Maybe somebody gets an order from a *US* buyer but IP is really from Nigeria.
Saso
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| | | | | Author: | eileenkeeney | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 15:28 | | Subject: | Re: IP geo location | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, miskox writes:
| | In an Order placed email we receive there is buyer's IP address. It would be
good to see a note next to this IP address with a geo location where this IP
originates from. Not very hard to implement I think.
Maybe somebody gets an order from a *US* buyer but IP is really from Nigeria.
Saso
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Sure,
Why not, it is easy enough to implement, and very useful information.
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| | | | | Author: | StudsOnTop | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 15:45 | | Subject: | Re: IP geo location | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, miskox writes:
| | In an Order placed email we receive there is buyer's IP address. It would be
good to see a note next to this IP address with a geo location where this IP
originates from. Not very hard to implement I think.
Maybe somebody gets an order from a *US* buyer but IP is really from Nigeria.
Saso
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It would definately be nice to have this integrated into Bricklink, but until/if
that happens, you can do a lookup yourself here:
http://www.ip2location.com/
Use the 'Live Product Demo' on the right hand side and it will match IP addresses.
It's not 100% accurate all the time, but is pretty good.
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| | | | | Author: | bagelboybugle | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 16:04 | | Subject: | Re: IP geo location | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, miskox writes:
| | In an Order placed email we receive there is buyer's IP address. It would be
good to see a note next to this IP address with a geo location where this IP
originates from. Not very hard to implement I think.
Maybe somebody gets an order from a *US* buyer but IP is really from Nigeria.
Saso
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No
for one very simple reason.
I just checked out a variety of IP addresses of buyers against addresses. many
were 50-100 miles from the buyers actual location. Thus its very easy for someone
to be falsy given an incorrect country, especially if they live close to the
border.
Dont assume that people will only panic about differences as large as US/Nigeria...
people will raise questions every time they have a buyer in France whose IP comes
from Germany
G
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| | | | | | | Author: | BrickMick | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 16:43 | | Subject: | Re: IP geo location | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, bagelboybugle writes:
| | In Suggestions, miskox writes:
| | In an Order placed email we receive there is buyer's IP address. It would be
good to see a note next to this IP address with a geo location where this IP
originates from. Not very hard to implement I think.
Maybe somebody gets an order from a *US* buyer but IP is really from Nigeria.
Saso
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No
for one very simple reason.
I just checked out a variety of IP addresses of buyers against addresses. many
were 50-100 miles from the buyers actual location. Thus its very easy for someone
to be falsy given an incorrect country, especially if they live close to the
border.
Dont assume that people will only panic about differences as large as US/Nigeria...
people will raise questions every time they have a buyer in France whose IP comes
from Germany
G
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Apparently I am in London, between Westminster Abbey and Big Ben, thats 125 miles
away from where I really am!
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| | | | | Author: | donja_nl | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 16:06 | | Subject: | Re: IP geo location | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| Sometimes I order something when I'm not at home (country).
Then it would be strange for the seller to see this, although it wouldn't be
Nigeria.
Jos
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| | | | | Author: | leggodtshop | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 16:16 | | Subject: | Re: IP geo location | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, miskox writes:
| | In an Order placed email we receive there is buyer's IP address. It would be
good to see a note next to this IP address with a geo location where this IP
originates from. Not very hard to implement I think.
Maybe somebody gets an order from a *US* buyer but IP is really from Nigeria.
Saso
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IP geo location is already implemented on BL used to check whether a buyer is
inside/outside EU in order to show store prices including/excluding VAT.
It seems to work very well, I haven't seen problems reported on the Forum...
(but then again I don't read the Forum all the time).
Arnoud
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| | | | | Author: | steekstra | | Posted: | Mar 27, 2011 16:41 | | Subject: | (Cancelled) | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| | | | | Author: | vgo | | Posted: | Mar 28, 2011 08:37 | | Subject: | Re: IP geo location | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| You can't really tell the location of any given IP, for example the IP I'm at
now is in Paris, France according to the lookups and I'm in Finland...
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Slovenia
USA, Oregon
United Kingdom, England
United Kingdom, Wales
Netherlands, Zuid-Holland
Finland, Etelä-Pohjanmaa