Guys (ADMINS), is there absolutely NO WAY to mark these SOLD items in the thread overview?... You have to read every post and try to decipher which is still available, and all you have to go on as far as availability is concerned are any comments by any kind soul who happens to remember to update their posting...

It's not very efficient.

Okay, I'm done. I've said my piece.

:ptptptptp

They dont care. MANY people have complained about this, but from what I understand, the old ads are kept for bookkeeping purposes. They dont really care about making this forum more efficient for the visitor.

I missed your "Want to Buy" post. Why not post what you are looking for?

some people like to see whats available and if the price is right, buy it.
It's called window shopping or impulse buying.
Not new and very common.

some people like to see whats available and if the price is right, buy it.
It's called window shopping or impulse buying.
Not new and very common.

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to do. However: click. Look around, look around. Oh, it's sold. Huh. Okay hit the forum thread home button. Browse. Oh! Cool! I'll browse this o... Oh, wait. That's sold too...

Rinse and repeat.

I like window shopping as much as the next guy, but I at least like to know when everything in the store is already sold before I step inside to browse.

Basically----We need an icon beside a posting that indicates the item has been sold,
It will prevent us from having to scroll down each for sale thread to find out whether it's been sold or not.

Cheers!

:)

For my admin permissions, editing thread titles in not permitted.

Ya rly... instead of pumping the place full of friggin ads n ****, how about coding in the ****in delete ad function?

This has been like this since the beginning, I've been around here for 9+ years and it's still the same? C'mon man.. that's just idiotic.

It's the main reason I don't come here anymore looking for anything, it's too bloody annoying and futile most of the time.

yow.

I think for this version of VB it's a pain in the arse, and if they are considering a major upgrade to another forum software, why bother?

In the interim, gmark if you're an admin you should have thread title edting. I have it on a vb I admin. But jeez why would anyone have to scurry around chasing ads that are sold anyway?

But how does anyone know it is sold anyways if the seller never comes back to indicate it is sold? I just don't see how this is a site or admin problem.

My apologies.. the current Classified section does indeed suck.

I do care, and have been trying to put things in place to have a better Classified section.

The plan is, this month serious development starts on updating ehMac with some new forum software. This will also involve a new Classified section that will be a lot better. Items can be marked as sold, and/or will expire after a certain amount of time.

Things will be a lot better laid out, with clearer information, clear ways to contact the seller / buyer, have a reputation system for sellers/buyers, and many other good features.

There's no specific timeline how long it will take, once development is done, there will be a 1-2 month testing phase to make sure as many bugs as possible are squashed before we switch over.

But how does anyone know it is sold anyways if the seller never comes back to indicate it is sold? I just don't see how this is a site or admin problem.

If we could eliminate just the people who are begging for their ad to be marked "SOLD" it would be an improvement.

But how does anyone know it is sold anyways if the seller never comes back to indicate it is sold? I just don't see how this is a site or admin problem.

I believe we'll have an auto expiration on ads after a certain time as well, so if there is no activity (For example 30 days) the ad expires. Members will be able to manually re-list the item if it's not sold yet and they want to keep it listed.

The permissions for placing ads will probably be the same. After certain amount of days / post, members can post for free. There will probably be a small fee if someone wants to post an ad earlier.

There also might be some features to pay a fee to highlight an ad on the re-designed main-page but user levels (Like Silver, Gold and Lifetime) will have some features included.

Thanks for the update, ehMax! I always refer new Mac users to this site and encourage them to join. It is a forum that is useful for newbies, more experienced users and others who would like to learn more about the Mac/iProduct they own.

I too frequent the Classifieds and am mystified that almost everything is sold. It would be great to see a "marker" to indicate that the item has been sold.

Thanks

At this time, not _everything_ in the Classifieds has been "sold!"

But once something is sold can't it be archived? Perhaps after a month or so? That way we don't have to waste time perusing items already off the market.