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[SubStrider]

Hello Andy,

We have recently moved to IPB and are using your add-on quite successfully. http://www.techencla...om/classifieds/ To give you a sense of scale our forum based market had over 19,000 sales threads.

We really wish there was a feedback system but will anyway get something done from a third party developer soon.

Now coming to the query. I want to give my members unlimited edit rights but only to the price. I do not want them to edit the description. Lets face it, the description of a product is never going to change. However the memebr may want to keep reducing the price till he manages to sell it.

The reason we do not want to allow description change is because it may lead to fraud later. The seller may advertise a 1TB HDD with no bad sectors and after selling the HDD can change the desciption to 750GB HDD with some bad sectors.

We will not be in a position to make out whether the seller is genuine or the buyer.

So can you suggest me what changes do I need to make in the templates so that we can give our members unlimited edit rights to their own adverts' price.

Thanks

[lordsugar]

As a compulsive tweaker I wouldn't want to see edits being restriced. You do remember things to add to a listing - often to improve the saleability, to correct errors and to clarify, sometimes to include things relating to an item you just found, etc. So I dispute the contention that the description is never going to need to change. It also sounds to me that price changes could well bring on disputes too. The inflexibility of eBay on edits is one of the many things which has turned me off it.

The simple solution seems to be to archive advertiser changes, and possibly make these snapshots visible to buyers. It really all depends on how much the site owners are prepared to get involved in dispute resolution. Someone is always going to try and pull a fraud at some stage no matter what. Caveat emptor as the say in Rome! Rep maybe needs another look though? What do others think?

I for one don't want to see this system go beyond simple fixed price selling. The complications of an auction format would be a big turn-off for me. Also the price of the software would have to rise a lot, else you'd get a third-rate auction system. I'd rather see a first-rate fixed price selling system. So anything which takes the system towards an auction format I think is bad and should be guarded against (not saying that your are suggesting this, but others have). Sellers can always re-list once they've learned what the market will bear, and that's good for the site - bringing more listings over a longer period.

BTW, congratulations, good site! [Another listing tweak ]

[SubStrider]

Oh you wouldn't believe the kind of demands users are putting on it. I am going to tweak the listing page as well in coming days. The users have started a new feedback thread with the title

The new Market section is sad, really sad

So I am trying to tweak as much as I can to make it "user friendly" according to their wishes.

As for archiving changes, yes I agree that would be a better functionaility to have.