New changes to B&S forum - Page 10  

Originally Posted by LA Guy 

We had good reasons to change B&S, but apparently, we also broke some key features. I've enlisted Spoo and am also talking with other long time, hgih volume sellers to fix the system, so that we have a market driven, easy to use (for both newcomera and oldtimers) and easily moderated system, but with the freewheelinjg, fun, spirit of the old system.
Yeah, we're listening, and learning too.

Originally Posted by Jangofett 

I know and I did. I won't buy from interwebz flippers with high markups.

Originally Posted by SpooPoker 

Its a moot point trying to explain, but understand that when you go to the store and buy a pair of shoes, or anything for that matter, and its brand new off the rack - you are paying a markup. A $500 pair of shoes costs $175 or so to produce. You dont say you wont buy them because you dont want to pay a markup, right? A can of Coke costs like 12 cents to make, You still pay a buck for it, right? If someone is selling a pair of Mabis for $75 that they paid $20 for, thats the new cost of goods versus a new "retail" price - regardless of the source.
 

Originally Posted by California Dreamer 


That's great Fok. One thing I'd note that, in addition to the fun, I learned a heck of a lot from comments posted in B&S threads.

Originally Posted by davesmith 

OMG!!! I was just about to post this, that guy is starting to get on my nerves.

 

You pay a profit margin on everything and most of the time the sellers on SF are making less than nordstrom, saks, neiman etc.... are making.

 

In SF B&S you can get the best deals, try walking into bergdorf goodman and saying i'll take 15 hermes ties, how does $250 sound?? let me know what happens.

 

Originally Posted by TRINI 

There's a hella lot of complaining in here. Some valid but some....

Originally Posted by mainy 

Okay, I have been thinking about this. Here is my idea.

When you go to list an item, first you pick the category.

Say shoes.

Then you get a box, for the first pair. Select photo, size, details, and make the payment / shipping terms. You fill it out, and then you hit next. Payment and shipping terms are automatically added to each pair you add from there on out. Then you can add another pair. Etc. Then, in the forum, it shows up - So and So's Shoes for sale. There is a + next to the thread title. You click it, and it expands and shows each individual listing. Or, you can click on the So and So's shoes for sale title, and view them ALL AT ONCE in a thread that adds each individual item together into a conglomerate post. Sweet! You allow everybody to have one of these threads for each category. This would sort stuff out easy, but still allow you to view all of somebody's wares of a specific category at once.

OR, there could be a link (VIEW ALL) next to the seller's name to view all of their listings regardless of category on one page.

Then, if you add a new item to your category, it adds to your index page.

I think this would address the following issues:
Ease of listing: For each category of item, you can keep adding items and it would remember all your terms, etc and it would simply be a matter of clicking through and uploading a different photo and typing in details for the item. No different than before.

Ease of browsing: People that want the bazaar like feel of old SF can click the Category Thread title to view all of the seller's wares in that category, or they can click VIEW ALL to see all of a seller's wares in ALL categories in one big thread like before.

Threads would take up less space as only the titles would be visible, photos would only be visible when a thread is clicked to be expanded. Or, somebody could always change their default browsing setting to view all threads automatically expanded.



This is kind of convoluted but it's 4AM, so hopefully somebody gets this idea.


Oh, and RE: Restoring the Sense of Urgency (TM) for buyers - I think my idea would help this a lot, as it would make all of a seller's items visible much in the way they used to be. But some other potential ideas would be:

SF Selling hotsheet - A page of only items added in the past hour (this is probably easy to set up as is, but if there were a link to it, people might use it). Or notifications when your favorite seller adds a new item.
Special buying privileges - not sure how this would work, maybe long time members get to view listings 10 minutes before everybody else can? Or make it so sellers can make their FS threads viewable to their favorite buyers before the general public. Some form of exclusivity.

I'm going to think on this some more tomorrow

Originally Posted by SpooPoker 


- Remove the price from the main screen (need to click on the listing to see it)

Originally Posted by SpooPoker 

Now, tell me what you guys think about these issues :

- Remove the price from the main screen (need to click on the listing to see it)

Very good
- To pay for bumps, with the ability to bump when you need

Hmmm... any idea on pricing? If it's too cheap it could become a jungle, if its "expensive" people might not be able to and their item will never get sold. Also, what about people with just 1 listing
- How do you feel about the bolding of titles and highlighting of titles? Does it make a difference in which items you focus on?

- To have multiple items listed in a thread, but you need to create new classifieds for each one, and the link to the classified appears in your original post
(basically this is like Mainy's idea where you click one listing, and maybe there is a little number next to the post that reads "[XX] additional items from seller" in the body, and there are links within the classified to the other items you are selling). Right now, these appear on the right hand column of the screen, but rather to be integrated in the body of your FS post

- How do you feel about the current pricing structure for the upgraded PowerSeller program? Fair? Too much for what you get?

- Do you search by category now that it is possible, or do you view the listings by timestamp, and just look at everything in general?

Originally Posted by MalfordOfLondon 

Not sure if I'm considered a high volume seller but I certainly buy a *hell* of a lot