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 Author: Graham. View Messages Posted By Graham.
 Posted: Jan 11, 2021 09:03
 Subject: Show customer location by order IP address
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Graham. (2157)

Location:  USA, Tennessee
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Would you please consider adding customer IP address country in order detail.

I've had a good number of orders going to freight forwarders usually in Delaware,
Florida and Oregon

I'd like to know what country the order is actually going to, showing the
customers geographic location based on where they ordered from would be helpful

Thanks
 Author: zorbanj View Messages Posted By zorbanj
 Posted: Jan 11, 2021 09:42
 Subject: Re: Show customer location by order IP address
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zorbanj (809)

Location:  USA, New Jersey
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Curious, why would you like to know what country the order is actually going
to?

In Suggestions, Graham. writes:
  Would you please consider adding customer IP address country in order detail.

I've had a good number of orders going to freight forwarders usually in Delaware,
Florida and Oregon

I'd like to know what country the order is actually going to, showing the
customers geographic location based on where they ordered from would be helpful

Thanks
 Author: peregrinator View Messages Posted By peregrinator
 Posted: Jan 11, 2021 09:57
 Subject: Re: Show customer location by order IP address
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peregrinator (772)

Location:  USA, New Jersey
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In Suggestions, Graham. writes:
  Would you please consider adding customer IP address country in order detail.

I've had a good number of orders going to freight forwarders usually in Delaware,
Florida and Oregon

I'd like to know what country the order is actually going to, showing the
customers geographic location based on where they ordered from would be helpful

Thanks

If BrickLink implemented this than people could get around it simply by using
a VPN
 Author: randyipp View Messages Posted By randyipp
 Posted: Jan 11, 2021 10:23
 Subject: Re: Show customer location by order IP address
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randyipp (3473)

Location:  USA, New Hampshire
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In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
  If BrickLink implemented this than people could get around it simply by using
a VPN

They used to do this, a quick check back in my orders shows customer order IP
addresses disappeared around 10/3/2019.

No idea why anyone would care besides maybe the extra PayPal fee for currency
conversion, as far as I am concerned it is just the cost of doing business.

And yes, a free VPN would allow this to be bypassed quite simply if anyone wanted
to.
 Author: cosmicray View Messages Posted By cosmicray
 Posted: Jan 12, 2021 10:54
 Subject: Re: Show customer location by order IP address
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cosmicray (3490)

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In Suggestions, peregrinator writes:
  In Suggestions, Graham. writes:
  Would you please consider adding customer IP address country in order detail.

I've had a good number of orders going to freight forwarders usually in Delaware,
Florida and Oregon

I'd like to know what country the order is actually going to, showing the
customers geographic location based on where they ordered from would be helpful

Thanks

If BrickLink implemented this than people could get around it simply by using
a VPN

and then you get into the issue of people using smartphones, and the cell operator
is using CG-NAT, which means the physical location has very little relationship
to the IP address.

My IP address (for the moment) says that I'm in a small town about 90 miles
away.

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 Author: Brick_Qc View Messages Posted By Brick_Qc
 Posted: Jan 11, 2021 10:49
 Subject: Re: Show customer location by order IP address
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Brick_Qc (3729)

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I really don't know the answer, would there be a privacy concern ?
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Jan 11, 2021 11:00
 Subject: Re: Show customer location by order IP address
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SylvainLS (46)

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In Suggestions, Brick_Qc writes:
  I really don't know the answer, would there be a privacy concern ?

I think there is, and I think that’s why it was it was removed (besides not being
very useful).