Welcome to the official feedback and suggestion box for the SitePoint Marketplace. Let us know what you’d like to see, and vote for your favorite ideas, as submitted by other marketplace users.
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1,154 votes
Don't allow owner to delete member comments
Don't allow auction owner to delete member comments in his auctions. It should at least apply to certain auctions like domain sellings where experienced members are warning about fake domain PR's of fradulant sellers. Even if you allow them to delete the comment, at least people should see owner ... more
We’ve been discussing this at length here. Right now, comments as an anti-fraud measure always lead us to a no-win situation. If we take the side of the commenters, we see abuse of the commenting system. If we take the side of the sellers, we see abuse of the comment deletion system.
Our approach in the short term will be to enhance the Marketplace with additional anti-fraud features that enable buyers to better gauge the legitimacy of listings (e.g. domain name ownership validation, site traffic verification, etc.).
As we do this, we will continually re-evaluate our policies on comment moderation. If it becomes practical and sensible to remove the 'delete comment' feature for sellers, we will.
Keep those votes and comments coming so we know your opinions on the subject!
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281 votes
Integrate an escrow service
I suggest that Sitepoint integrate an escrow service into the marketplace. Something like the way rentacoder has. For a Buyer, they would have to deposit funds before they could bid on any item. This requires alot of think, but it's just an idea that I think should be considered.
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260 votes
Adult sites should also be allowed for buy/sell
Every user watch porn/adult whenever he has time and i think sex is also a necessary part of our life like food, air and all. so i dont think there is any harm in allowing adult sites for buy/sell section. it will generate more business for all buyers/sellers + business for SP. (though i think th... more
One of the primary reasons we don’t allow adult sites (even hidden from users who don’t want them) is that SitePoint staff would be required to moderate those auctions. We do not currently have any staff willing to work with adult material on a regular basis.
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135 votes
Improved Search Functionality
Allow searching by category, site name, allow sorting of search results by end time.
Status: startedWe recently introduced an Advanced Search feature that provides some of the functionality requested here. We’re not done yet, though!
We are currently working on a major revamp of the Marketplace, where you will be able to filter your view by any aspect of an auction/listing. Additionally, you will be able to sort you view by many different properties, and end time will be one of them.
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116 votes
Restore listing view counters
Marketplace 1.0 had a view counter associated with every listing. Users have asked to have this feature restored to Marketplace 2.0.
Status: plannedBringing back view counters will be a technical challenge, but it is a very high priority on our list. We currently hope to have this feature back within the next few months.
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86 votes
Verification of AdSense income
Many sites are sold based on Google AdSense income; however, it is difficult for buyers to verify claims made by sellers about the amount of income being generated through AdSense.
The Marketplace system should (with seller’s permission) reach into the seller’s AdSense account and pull out incom... more
Status: under reviewAs a few users have pointed out, automated verification of income may not be possible. We may instead provide a “SitePoint-verified income” upgrade that the seller could pay for, after which a SitePoint staff member would contact the seller and work to verify the stated income.
Let us know what you think!
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86 votes
Let sellers require bidders to make a deposit before bidding
since multiple account making is not new on SP or on any other popular webmaster forum, its just useless giving -ve feedback to anyone as he is free to make a new id anytime he wants and as regarding calling and verifying through telephone number, i feel this will also not work out. for example s... more
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74 votes
Provide a list of Auctions Ending Soon on the homepage
Sellers have reported that their auctions only seem to get noticed when they are first listed, because once they slip off the home page of the Marketplace they are much less visible.
By providing a list of auctions ending soon on the homepage, we can give prominence to auctions as they near their end.
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59 votes
Show current bid price and BIN price in lists
Follow eBay's example. They list the current bid price and BIN price in the search results. For buyers, this would be very helpful in helping to narrow the results based on the price I am willing to spend.
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58 votes
Allow people to gift Marketplace Credits!
Say someone helps you in one of the coding forums, you can reward them with some of those sweet sweet marketplace credits.
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44 votes
Lower prices for marketplacte credits
The marketplace gets to be very expensive for small business owners and I can not afford to utilize the services very often
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38 votes
Let users search for listings by username
Currently you must find a user’s profile page in order to see a list of listings they have created. A link to this page is not always easy to find. It would be better if we could just search by user name.
Status: startedThis is actually already possible! Just type user:"username" in the search field on the Marketplace. We‘ll add an advanced search form to make this easy to discover.
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36 votes
Proxy bidding like eBay
Then I can set my maximum bid price and go away and the Sitepoint system can keep raising the bid automatically as and when needed.
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35 votes
Don't Force Sellers to Sell to the Top Bidder
Right now there are a lot of auctions that have to be relisted because of deadbeat bidders who don't follow through. This wastes the time of the seller who is forced to relist and of other legitimate bidders who lose out on sites because someone outbids them and doesn't follow through. Let's go b... more
Currently, sellers are able to reject any bids they don’t like. So you aren’t forced to sell to the highest bid, just the highest bid you have accepted. Is this not working for you?
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32 votes
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31 votes
Show a user feedback/trust level icon next to every username
Calculate the trustworthiness of a user based on their feedback profile and past Marketplace activity and show that as an icon next to every username.
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27 votes
a way to get notified of new listings
a way to get notified of new listings in categories of your choice ( maybe keyword related as well )
We provide feeds for each category, as well as for search results, that you can subscribe to. Let us know if these do not meet your needs.
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27 votes
Automatically get traffic/page rank details
When a user creates a new auction, SitePoint should automatically grab unique/hits of the site, as well as PageRank, and Alexa, based on its independant source.
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23 votes
Add Monthly Revenue AND Profit to the search listings
It would make it easier to find sites that are of interest if we could see the Monthly Revenue and Profit in the search listings. So if we are looking for sites with certain levels of revenue and profit, we can easily see it. I look at too many listings only to find that they are making no money ... more
Status: plannedWe are currently working on a major revamp of the Marketplace, where you will be able to filter your view by any aspect of an auction/listing, including revenue and profit figures. Stay tuned!
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17 votes
Change the feedback system
I received negative feedback from someone that clearly wasn't very bright, he was in the wrong and has admitted so via PM. I was told that the only way I could have the feedback removed was by getting him to agree to it, however now that I've helped him and given him what he wants, he no longer c... more
