[Raion]

Updated rules a bit with dealer feedback. I appreciate everyone involved here.

[Raion]

Barring no further objections we will be launching the new marketplace tomorrow in the evening assuming that there are no delays on my end.

For now I think I can manage listings and other things myself but we will have to go through some rigmarole involving threads that are in the old market place. I will probably update a couple of posts and make some for sale posts for myself to help provide examples and jump start how we're going to do this. There will also be a template available.

[Raion]

New Marketplace is online! I have updated our announcements to mention it.

[Raion]

I have successfully moved most threads that meet the requirements over to the new marketplace. There's a few stragglers around, but overall the remaining threads and old boards are now deprecated. You can still reply to them, but we will be requiring all new posts to conform to the new marketplace rules and expectations! Thank you for understanding.

[kubatyszko]

I really like that location is mandatory, this has been haunting each and every forum so far.

Cheers.

[Raion]

We're going to be rolling out dealer labels quite soon. If you're interested in participating in the forums and you sell your own original stuff, it's a good thing to have.

[kubatyszko]

First dibs for my ATX Adapters dealer label please ?
Scratch that, it seems that's not for me.

[Raion]

You would qualify for the dealer label. I'll put you on the list.

The only real difference is that dealers get a different role color and there are some special perks down the line if we can afford them. Eventually I want to expand how we do things here a little bit more.

[sgiseller]

So I've been meaning to drastically improve the marketplace. Among the changes I want to make, and we (the staff) are still talking about, are rules regarding how transactions should be carried out, expansion of categories, increased oversight over transactions (basically, make sure transactions close) and encouragement of people to do transactions on the site, so we can better assist if there's a problem. 

This is in addition to common sense things, like preventing idle chatter in for sale things, ending auction advertisements in marketplace forums (That's why the Ebay thread was created), adding transaction feedback, and an overhaul of categories and removal of closed transactions from the throughfare. 

I understand this will probably create a burden on me and others here, so we will also likely be looking to appoint people to help moderate feedback and handle thread closures in these areas. If we end up doing this, you will be exclusively privileged to that area of the forums. But that remains to be seen. 

The feedback system we're going to use is called "EZTrader" and is a free plugin. 

If anyone else have suggestions, I'm all ears. I may also be willing, once this overhaul is done, open up the OPEN threads to both search indexing and to non/guest users. I think this will give us an edge in helping to provide a better area for both users and traders to share parts.

so many rules, so little time

[Raion]

> so many rules, so little time

I understand this will be an adjustment for people here. But I have a vested interest in advancing the community along, so I hope you'll stick around for the ride. A huge inspiration for this is the website Amibay.com