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Posts: 147 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:54 pm

Subject: {1001-24449} RE: View Watchers , Views & Bidders

PHP Pro Bid Support has responded to your help desk request.

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(PHP Pro Bid Support) [Submitted 1-4-2008-23:46 ]
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Hi Doug,

This is actually something a number of clients have raised as a future change, therefore it is something we are keen to introduce, time allowing to accompany V6.04.

Posts: 4548 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:04 pm

megnelwil wrote:

Erm... I got the shite kicked out of me last time I did that. Apparently people who re-sell this book are evil personified. What we've done is deprive 'real collectors' of getting their hands on it. Despite the fact they had weeks to pre-order and weeks to buy direct from Arc and Chaosium. Whilst commerce is a good thing, the one exception is Cthulhu - apparently. The 1,000 print run is now our fault Mike. Even Pagan weighed in to bleat their innocence and condemn the 'scalpers' (post profit, of course). My intention had been to sell these books at a much lower price than could be had on eBay. Following the hysteria on Yog (no reflection on Paul of course, Yog is a super site after all) I decided, screw them - let them taste the real world for a change. Worth taking a look at what went on. Then you can have a laugh at the irony of the 'bidding war' that broke out on the copy I was trying to get rid of on the cheap. Ah well, such is life. Obvioulsy I don't take it too seriously but a bitch-fest is a bitch fest nonetheless. So I'm keeping my head down for a while.

Oh, yeh, I forgot that whine fest. Actually they had months, not weeks, to pre order the item, not to mention weeks AFTERWARDS while Chaosium had copies in their store...but who is counting. You would figure CoC collectors would realize the worth of somthing with a limited print run, put out by Pagan no less. Oh well.

Mike B.

Posts: 406 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:19 pm

My opinion, but I think the category listings are much more effective now. Thanks Doug. And you got the devs working too! Can't ask for more than that.

Posts: 406 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:23 pm

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Oh, yeh, I forgot that whine fest. Actually they had months, not weeks, to pre order the item, not to mention weeks AFTERWARDS while Chaosium had copies in their store...but who is counting. You would figure CoC collectors would realize the worth of somthing with a limited print run, put out by Pagan no less. Oh well.

I sold a copy on RPGMP a couple of days ago for £20. It had been up for 2 weeks. 1 bidder, good for him. Looks like the 'real collectors' had an open and shut case after all. Anyway, water, bridges and all that.

Posts: 147 · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:45 pm

If you'll take a few min to learn the Bul Lister it's not that hard to use...

I used it to import all my eBay listings originally...

If you have a bunch of listing in the eBay Turbo Lister, you can easily export them to a CSV file... then you import them into the Bulklister...

From there, you can set many of the default options like currency, payment type etc.. that are not available on the site directly.

Then I posted them one at a time since I needed to edit out some of the eBay references and stuff...

When you install the Bulklister, you at least need to get the "updates" from the site so you have all the categories as only the ones that were on the sire at the time I compiled the Bulklister will be in the software (until I recompile it)

Doug

Posts: 406 · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:30 am

I'll take another look at it. Trouble is, I'm trying to find a way to list all my stuff without having to do anything at all. Don't see why magic of some sort can't be offered as an optional extra, seeing this is an RPG site - I'd pay!

Another quick one, on search results pages, only the first BUY NOW button is click-able - all the rest are dead.

Posts: 406 · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:32 am

DELTA GREEN: EYES ONLY HB 1st Limited
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250232874683

Anyone who would like to ask a question about this auction please feel free to do so. I would advise not mentioning RPGMarketplace in your question though (or limit the number of mentions to a reasonable number if you can), because I'll probably make the question public in the auction. Even if this auction ends up breaking the eBay record for most number of questions asked, I promise to do my best to answer them all.

Posts: 147 · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:31 pm

megnelwil wrote:

Another quick one, on search results pages, only the first BUY NOW button is click-able - all the rest are dead.

I logged in to the site, clicked the Advanced search on all Open Auction for Both site & store and I can click on all the BuyNow icons...

How did you do it... since I can't make mine not work

Posts: 1200 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:44 am

I decided to list my Mysteries of Tibet monograph on the marketplace and posted a link in the Yog-Sothoth.com for sale forum.

Also used the opportunity to do a bit of "marketing" for the site at the same time.

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=12 7941#127941

Posts: 406 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:13 pm

ScketreWhisp wrote:

I logged in to the site, clicked the Advanced search on all Open Auction for Both site & store and I can click on all the BuyNow icons...

How did you do it... since I can't make mine not work

Hi Doug, just perform a search eg. "Cthulhu", the first item listed with a BUY NOW button is fine (the button is clickable), every other BUY NOW button is non-functional. HOWEVER! This may be an IE only problem as Safari works just fine.

Posts: 406 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:13 pm

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Also used the opportunity to do a bit of "marketing" for the site at the same time.

Nice one Jason!

Posts: 147 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:57 pm

I use Firefox primarily and Safari for one particular site... and in works in both of those...

Microshaft Internet Exploder ... I didn't even know they still made that product ...

Posts: 406 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:44 pm

Yup, Microsoft still persists with this junk offering and still commands better than 80% of the browser market. I hear IE8 will finally break the Internet once and for all. Mission accomplished. The ProBid developers must have decided to handle it separately.

Posts: 147 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:47 pm

Well, I host a website with over 7500 users and around 4600+ hits a day of late. Been online since March 1, 2003 with over 13 million hits...

the stats show:

MSIE: 68.11 % (8917610)
Mozilla: 28.41 % (3719499)
Opera: 2.028 % (265521)
Konqueror: 0.064 (8455)
Lynx: 0.001 (248)
Search engines: 0.627 (82188)
Unknown: 0.745 (97607)

I'd have to say IE is not in that 80% range anymore Wink

Posts: 406 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:27 pm

Still waaaaaay over 0% though, which is highly unsatisfactory.

Posts: 508 · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:53 pm

megnelwil wrote:

just perform a search eg. "Cthulhu",

Or better yet, perform a search for "Hastur" three times in a row.

Posts: 1079 · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:20 am

ScketreWhisp wrote:

Lynx: 0.001 (248)

Lynx? Good God.

Posts: 147 · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:37 am

Red Bus became the 100th user at RPGMarketplace.com on July 3rd.

He was awarded a Preferred Seller status and pays no fees for anything at all on the site (not that anyone has paid for anything to begin with)

Glad to see people still signing up on the site and a steady stream of sales means eBay isn't getting all the cash anymore

Posts: 1200 · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:56 am

I have sold 3 items so far and have continued to list copies of my monograph.
It was nice not having to see a portion of the sale sucked into that black void of "eBay fees". Very Happy

Posts: 1210 · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:56 am

jasonw1239 wrote:

I have sold 3 items so far and have continued to list copies of my monograph.
It was nice not having to see a portion of the sale sucked into that black void of "eBay fees". Very Happy

yup! i agree! i sold 6 books and i am completey satisfied by the site...

actually i still have some problems in finding (existing) options...

for instance: how to send an invoice/request of payment?

ciaooo