TVAG: "Important Notice to Customers and Friends - Please Read!"

The Virtual Armchair General

writes:

Gentlemen,

First, whatever else happens, at this point it still seems best for me to continue using PayPal for payment services, and I'm not giving up them up.

My desperation comes from not receiving a more positive warning than "You might have an issue regarding your 'Buy It Now' buttons beginning in January" (not a verbatim quote). When I first noticed the warnings appearing whenever I logged in (November, if I recall), I tried two or three times over weeks of more lost time trying to learn if they actually applied to my business.

When January came round, word became that the change over was re-set for a date in mid-March. I tried again, and once more could not get past the same familiar sounding fog Our Friend, Richard Brooks, just encountered. It was only about two weeks ago that I actually got to a Tech who succeeded in explaining what was going to happen, and the realization just how much trouble I was in.

For those who, possibly wisely, want to find out whatever's going to happen in mid-March, I would encourage them to keep trying to get a Tech on the line and ask about the changes in PayPal's code governing "Buy It Now" (or equivalents) that might make their current version obsolete.

One possible avenue is to sign in, click on "Tools," click again on "All Tools," and scroll down to "PayPal Buttons," where you should find reference to your current set up. It's through here that the instructions for applying the new code to replace current buttons will be found, and with less than crystal clear instruction on how to generate the new and unique code for each item in inventory with a dedicated "Buy Now" button.

Meanwhile, the service I'm currently exploring does allow "mass" uploads of items to a given Web Page via the use of Spreadsheets--which still, after all, require individual entries of all relevant details of each.

AND… at least one service offers to perform an entire transfer operation over the course of week for just under $1,100 USD. Not practical in my foreseeable future given recent unrelated events.

In any event, please bear with us, and "Good Luck, Everyone!"

TVAG

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The Virtual Armchair General of The (Virtual) Armchair General writes:

Dear All,

Due to recent, arbitrary, non-negotiable, and effectively punitive, changes of the Shopping Cart systems previously provided by PayPal, the "Add to Cart" buttons for every product at TVAG will no longer be recognized by them. This will occur in mid-March, and I will post the date when officially set.

PayPal's proffered "solution" allowing business to continue is a practical impossibility (even their tech who explained it to me said he'd never do it), especially in the time remaining.

I am in the earliest stages of moving The (Virtual) Armchair General to another service provider, but there appears to be no "bulk" means of doing so. Each page must be hand-recreated, and every single product manually entered into the new data base. Fourteen years of site and product creation cannot be repeated in a few weeks, and likely not for many months. More frustrating still is the large number of already completed new products about to be released.

Inconvenient enough, but a recent minor amputation makes work at the keyboard even slower for a while, and a full week has been lost already due to this and related factors.

As TVAG is my passion and livelihood, there is no option of simply shuttering the shop and going to the rocking chair. Therefore, as all this work must be dealt with, however long it takes, I want to provide fair notice to my fellow hobbyists and friends of the situation, and ask for their consideration and cooperation.

Until the domain name is formally transferred to the new service provider, TVAG can and will remain open for business. But once PayPal ceases recognition/processing/notification to customers and myself of sales attempts, I earnestly request shoppers to continue ordering any/all products available. Only please make note of the name and price of whatever is needed, then email me at my continuing address (TVAG@att.net). As ever, I will respond quickly, confirming availability, determine exact postage, answering all questions, and only then invoice the customer via PayPal for the determined amount.

Until enough of the best-selling ranges/items have been transferred, the original TVAG site will remain fully accessible. In this way, the business may continue to operate at some level of support while the Herculean Challenge of the move is being met.

TVAG will operate normally in all other respects until the date PayPal pulls the plug, and I look forward to remaining "The War Gamer's Enabler" for many great years to come.

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