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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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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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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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.
Status: started -
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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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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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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16 votes
BBCode or HTML option for formatting auction descriptions
Everyone time a seller lists an auction they have to reformat and recolour their listing text. This is incredibley wasteful.
Allow us to use basic BBCode (color, italic, bold) so we can roll out new listings without duplicate effort.
Status: plannedA work-around that is currently available is to disable JavaScript when creating a listing. The rich text editor for the auction description will revert to a plain textarea into which you can type (or paste) HTML code.
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7 votes
Don’t allow deletion of info after auction close
From a buyer's perspective, if I lose an auction, I find it helpful to see what the final selling price was of the site I didn't win. It helps me prepare for bidding on similar type sites. However, a number of sellers remove listing information after the auction closes. In an open auction, this i... more
Status: plannedWe have planned a feature that will allow the auction holder to make a completed auction “private”, which will remove it from the view of users not logged into the Marketplace. This will leave it visible to the bidders.
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6 votes
Bring Back Domain Name Auctions
The previous domain auctions worked - as we can set a price / buy it now etc.
Now all the domains are listed in "domain classified section" - the term "classified" sounds cheap and nasty - you cannot set prices and people cannot place bids etc aprt from messenging.
I use sit... more
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2 votes
Publish a Marketplace Newsletter
In a similar vein to SitePoint's other newsletters, with the addition of paid advertising slots for a limited number of auctions
Status: started
