For Sale UURGH! Irritating! Everything is SOLD!?! - Page 2

ehMax · Feb 1st, 2012, 09:55 AM

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.

Macfury · Feb 1st, 2012, 10:19 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Joker Eh
	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.

ehMax · Feb 1st, 2012, 10:59 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Joker Eh
	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.

sateach · May 9th, 2012, 04:27 PM

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

HowEver · May 9th, 2012, 05:19 PM

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

GerryS · May 24th, 2012, 07:12 AM

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.