Marketplace Features Requests
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Currently you would contact the market using the email address found by clicking the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page. The seller is then contacted to see if a resolution can be found. Either the seller responds and completes the trade or I send your money back.
At 14 days the sales get chased to resolve and close them.
We get a few auctions from people who do not intend to buy the product.
I think under these conditions a cancel sale button can be present.
No funds have been sent
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(Buyer has not entered in any delivery details
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Buyer has entered delivery details but not sent funds (1 week wait?))Cancelling and then relisting would do the following.
On Buy Now auctions add quantity from sale to quantity total on live item, if Buy Now auction is closed open the item with quantity of the sale or for a standard auction start it with the original details.
That should make this easier for the seller to handle these situations.
Before I do any work on the market I need to fix the Buy Now system in WeBid. I got it working in our market but only after a rewrite. I volunteered to fix the Buy Now in original WeBid system so intend to do that over the next couple of days. It should not be a huge task as I have all the answers already :)
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I’m going to start listing some stuff on the Marketplace soon, but I have a few suggestions for features:
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A make an offer option
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Immediate payment required setting
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Report an item
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A make an offer option would be a great idea and would encourage a bit of good old fashion haggling. I’d also like it so we could set the price as 0 with the option to make any offer you wish. The reason is, there’s lot of stuff I have to sell like collectables and other stuff but I really have no idea how much they’re worth and would just like to get a bit of coin for them, so I’d like to entertain any offers on those particular items. I don’t want to put a ridiculous starting price in case it’s far too much, and I also don’t want to put a tiny starting price in case I undersell it, so I’d like to just get some offers on those things.
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Self-explanatory, but the buyer has to pay for for the item before the listing is closed, if the seller chooses this option. Non-payers are a real annoyance and waste of time.
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There seems to have been a few prohibited items listed recently â€" weapons, used panties* (lol), and users essentially just begging for donations, and I haven’t seen any report an item function.
*Not that I’m bothered or against this, but I think I read this kind of listing was prohibited in the rules, could be wrong though.
If you could implement the ‘make an offer’ option ASAP I’d massively appreciate it. Apologies if these features are already implemented or have already been proposed. Thanks.
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That’s three really good suggestions.I will be back on market functionality later this week. We will also be moving to a separate domain feathercoinmarket.com.
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“44665” timestamp=“1387126366”]
That’s three really good suggestions.I will be back on market functionality later this week. We will also be moving to a separate domain feathercoinmarket.com.
[/quote]Thanks! As I mentioned, I’d be very appreciative of the suggestions being implemented. I really think the FTC Marketplace is a great addition to the community and a big draw for others. Hope to list a lot of stuff soon :).
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“43975” timestamp=“1386974674”]
Request : Ability to cancel/relist unpaid auction.
[/quote]There is now a ‘Cancel Sale’ button available for all auctions that have been sold but no delivery details have been provided. Once hit But Now only auctions have the quantity added back on to the auction and normal auctions get moved to closed auctions where the item can be relisted.
Through doing this I uncovered an outstanding bug that I have chased before where some auctions show up with 0 quantity. The system was allowed auctions to be relisted from the closed auctions page which had 0 quantity. Closed auctions no longer shows auctions with 0 quantity. To relist a sold out auction you would do so from the sold auctions page using the sell similar function.
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Sometimes the server takes nearly 1 minute to process requests, such as going to pay for an item or enter my shipping information. I noticed there was 24 users currently online.
Maybe a nice feature upgrade as the market becomes more popular would be an increase in concurrent users or the like?
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[b]Feature Request[/b]
A set of toggle-able features to alert Marketplace Merchants/Customers of any Marketplace happening (bid, sale, auction won, new message, etc) right here on the forum. Like a little red blurb at the top of the page beside the Marketplace link. It could start out like shown below and if found useful expand to designate which “happening” it is that needs attention by showing separate icons for messages and the #, sales #, bids #, etc.
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[b]Feature Request[/b]
I think it would be nice if the auction only displayed views from potential buyers in the stats.
Currently the auctions view count is factoring in the merchants visits to the page which can then be manipulated by a merchant to make their auction appear more active than it is and at the same time hide the auctions actual popularity from the merchants that prefer to know the (actual popularity) # of visits excluding the merchants visits.
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“46286” timestamp=“1387486179”]
There is now a ‘Cancel Sale’ button available for all auctions that have been sold but no delivery details have been provided. Once hit But Now only auctions have the quantity added back on to the auction and normal auctions get moved to closed auctions where the item can be relisted.
Through doing this I uncovered an outstanding bug that I have chased before where some auctions show up with 0 quantity. The system was allowed auctions to be relisted from the closed auctions page which had 0 quantity. Closed auctions no longer shows auctions with 0 quantity. To relist a sold out auction you would do so from the sold auctions page using the sell similar function.
[/quote]Excellent, thanks! Yes I was able to do what you describe in the 2nd paragraph. It caused much confusion between myself and a buyer, so thank you for fixing both of these.
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[b]Feature Request[/b]
A Marketplace API so someone can create a desktop app to alert if an auction completes, new message comes in, etc.
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Feature Request
The ability to embed Youtube videos in marketplace listings.
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Bug fix on the market today, the ability to cancel sales was only supposed to be there until the buyer had entered delivery information. However this option was there until the item was marked as dispatched. This explains why some sales have disappeared from the system.
If you need to cancel a sale where there is no cancel sale option please contact the Feathercoin market email address on the site. I plan to add a refund address to sales for the buyer so that cancellations can be used throughout the transaction process.
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The number of items shown on the front page has been limited to five per user. This prevents sellers with a large number of auctions from dominating the front of the site.
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“55822” timestamp=“1390989063”]
Bug fix on the market today, the ability to cancel sales was only supposed to be there until the buyer had entered delivery information. However this option was there until the item was marked as dispatched.
[/quote]This was actually helpful to me when I had bidders that were not paying for an item. I could cancel the sale and re-list the item. I have had to do this 2 times before and was planning on canceling another later today if the escrow account has not received payment. If that is no longer possible:
Feature Request:[list]
[*]Have sales timeout and cancel after 24 hours if a payment has not been made.
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Feature Request (minor issue):[list]
[*]Extra email setting for receiving emails for auctions that ended, but will be auto re-listed. I’d prefer to not get emails that my auction just ended if it is being auto re-listed.
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[quote author=Bushstar link=topic=4038.msg55837#msg55837 date=1390997079]
The number of items shown on the front page has been limited to five per user. This prevents sellers with a large number of auctions from dominating the front of the site.
[/quote]Great improvement!
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You can still cancel but only if no delivery information has been added. I was wondering about how to handle cancellation if the seller may be sending payment. I think the best way is as I mentioned in my post above by asking the buyer for a refund address. Then you could cancel at any time but from the backend I can still refund any coins sent to that address.
I can look into disabling the item ended email if the item is being relisted. So you would only get an email when the item has finished and is not being relisted.
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Any way to have the messages that are sent to us at the marketplace be e-mailed to us? Maybe with a link to click to get back into the messages area? Am I missing somewhere that option can be turned on? Then I don’t have to login to the marketplace every day just to look for messages.
Thank you!
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I have no idea if this has been said before, but can we get a [b]wanted section[/b] in the marketplace?
I want more computer hardware for sale.
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Just an idea, how about a wanted section?
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what about premium listings where seller could pay a few ftc to have Items listed and highlighted on first page, maybe funds gained from this could go to something important ???
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[quote name=“netnerd” post=“58594” timestamp=“1392159139”]
what about premium listings where seller could pay a few ftc to have Items listed and highlighted on first page, maybe funds gained from this could go to something important ???
[/quote]Well, even just as a vertical service/value add for the site itself.I don’t gather the marketplace is operating comfortably in the black, yet.
