Maria2000 on Nostr: #Shopstr #Cashu I am having second thoughts about using shopstr. I have a listing on ...
#Shopstr #Cashu
I am having second thoughts about using shopstr. I have a listing on shopstr, and made my first sale. Luckily for me the buyer was unable to figure out how to pay on shopstr, as i have seen that it is buggy. So the buyer DM'd me and just zapped my Alby address, easy peasy. I have since learned from another shopstr seller that if a buyer pays directly on shopstr, the seller has to set up a Cashu wallet to receive payment, and she (seller) was not notified that someone had paid her.
To me, this sounds like too much unnecessary friction for the seller, especially if the seller is not familiar with cashu wallets. And from what i have been reading, these cashu wallets are still in beta, not a good thing for a seller imo.
So I am wondering why Shopstr would not simply allow a buyer to pay the seller via lightning address on the shopstr interface, for simplicity, rather than going the Cashu route. I am not super techy, and I may be missing something. These are simply my observations as a seller. The fact that this seller would not have known about that sale had the buyer not dm'd is not a good thing. Plus i dont see why a seller should be made to use Cashu, which from the warnings i have seen on some of the cashu wallets, is still experimental, is not a good thing. I appreciate the nostr marketplaces, and all the hard work done by the devs, but as a user I feel that i should point out these things. Again, if i'm missing something, please tell me.
I am having second thoughts about using shopstr. I have a listing on shopstr, and made my first sale. Luckily for me the buyer was unable to figure out how to pay on shopstr, as i have seen that it is buggy. So the buyer DM'd me and just zapped my Alby address, easy peasy. I have since learned from another shopstr seller that if a buyer pays directly on shopstr, the seller has to set up a Cashu wallet to receive payment, and she (seller) was not notified that someone had paid her.
To me, this sounds like too much unnecessary friction for the seller, especially if the seller is not familiar with cashu wallets. And from what i have been reading, these cashu wallets are still in beta, not a good thing for a seller imo.
So I am wondering why Shopstr would not simply allow a buyer to pay the seller via lightning address on the shopstr interface, for simplicity, rather than going the Cashu route. I am not super techy, and I may be missing something. These are simply my observations as a seller. The fact that this seller would not have known about that sale had the buyer not dm'd is not a good thing. Plus i dont see why a seller should be made to use Cashu, which from the warnings i have seen on some of the cashu wallets, is still experimental, is not a good thing. I appreciate the nostr marketplaces, and all the hard work done by the devs, but as a user I feel that i should point out these things. Again, if i'm missing something, please tell me.