Buying from figure web stores

[MrBMB]

I was wondering if anyone is the same as me on this topic. Along time ago I got Paypal may have been when I signed up to Ebay more than ten years ago, so then I started buying a lot of my figures on there because of the ease of Paypal. The other day after the Pegaso thread on here I went to their site and at last with a change of website I think I could just click what I wanted and pay straight through on Paypal….so easy. The point I am trying to make is, that a lot figure/model website still have this whole.....here fill out all this form with all your details. I just don't get it, even after filling out the forms you can then pay by Paypal……….which then gives them all the form information anyway. I don't like going to every website and having to fill out all my details in all different countries.

I suppose and I guess the companies won't read this but if more companies had a click here and pay by Paypal without having to fill in forms I would just buy direct from them. I bring this up as I was wanting to buy some figures and ask a small company "can I have these figures and just pay through Paypal" and I get the " no you have to go to the website and fill in all your details" and then pay by Paypal, so I just didn't buy them.

To me if you have a straight "click your item" and it goes to "your cart" then you can "pay just by Paypal" without adding in all your details I will shop there, just like I did with Pegaso. This isn't about Paypal its about buying straight from the company/sculptor/figure shops and buying less on Ebay. Also if companies are worried about recasts this is a helpful way to reduce it as I have to admit sometimes on Ebay the recasters are getting smarter as in they don't put a China address on Ebay anymore they put England but when you get the parcel it is from China!!! and no the item wasn't the obvious recast price it was the normal shop price so it seemed like the real deal but wasn't .

Example is I just looked a FeR Miniatures site, looked to see if the new German busts were there (not yet), tested the cart system and had to fill out the form details and then pay by Paypal. So I just thought I will wait till they come on Ebay.

Anyway just wondering if anyone feels the same???

 

[Ronaldo]

Some good points there . as it might be one less or several passwords to set up.
FeR you can get from El Greco or SK

 

[Babelfish]

I agree with your comments.

I don't like being made to jump through hoops, and one of my pet hates when shopping online (not just for figures but generally) is the tedious rigmarole involved in filling out those online forms.

Especially when you finally get to the end, press "Continue" and then an error message pops up saying that such-and-such a box is incorrect/incomplete and you have to start all over again because the whole form (or at least some of it) has then cleared. As you say, PayPal eliminates the need for all that malarkey - or at least it should do - but too many vendors persist with it even though they don't need to.

I also dislike being forced to "Create an Account" in order to buy something. Especially for a one-off purchase from somewhere I know I'll probably never buy from again. In those cases I'll usually not bother and just go elsewhere instead - so they're actually doing themselves out of business by trying to harvest my data. I also don't like having my intelligence insulted by being told that it's for "my" convenience, when it's pretty damn obvious that it's mainly for theirs!

- Steve

 

[MrBMB]

Thanks Steve
I was hoping I wasn't the only one and your right about if you think for the time being you would only order one single item from that store/shop it doesn't seem worth the effort to fill out the form/forms. I don't even mind ordering and then they send a PayPal invoice I just don't want to fill out the forms.