[ Closed ] Release 3.0: Deckbox Market (Page 2 of 4)

The update seems to have compressed the address boxes in trades to a single line.  That's fine shipping to countries I'm accustomed to, but it makes international shipping harder because I don't know where the address line breaks should be.  Any chance that gets changed back?

Sorry if I missed it sebi, but I still can't find anywhere to clarify if non-system based, forum sales are prohibited from now on.  I love the new system, but I also like to provide the cheapest cards possible, which is harder when there is a 11% fee tacked on (deckbox+paypal).  I would like to use both systems still, but am not sure if that is allowed.  I don't want to break any rules.

This issue should have been addressed in the rules, and I should have already have a solid answer for it, but... . We discussed this a couple of times, did not reach a solid decision and somehow forgot about it. But we will discuss and I will post my thoughts on this tomorrow.

Cool, thank you sebi for the clarification.   Let me just say, I really appreciate the work you guys put into the new system and I do look forward to using it.  Having both options would be nice though!

You guys are amazing! Thanks for making a great site even better!

First off, thanks so much for this site. Without it I would never have started trading and would just have a bunch of little pieces of cardboard filling up shelves and not realizing their true potential. I'm sure this new update and the Selling options will be a good thing for the site and help it grow.

On a user page you have User Info/Bio, Seller Profile, Trading Opportunities. On a page for a specific card, however, you have Card Image/Info, USERS SELLING, Inventory/Tradelist, In Your Decks, Wishlist, Trading Opportunities. Personally, I would rather not have to see/scroll past a list of people selling the card. Now I would never request that it be removed or be able to be turned off because that's where you're trying to go with this site by adding the Buying/Selling and if you can make this place profitable then it can only lead to improvements for us users. My suggestion, however, would be to move the Selling information farther down the page order: Card Image/Info, Inventory/Tradelist, In Your Decks, Wishlist, USERS SELLING, Trading Opportunities. This way users wouldn't have to scroll past a list of people selling the card just to get to the fields used to update their inventories.

I hate to be "that guy", but why not allow for BTC payments as an alternative to Paypal?

In general, I worry about the changes here not giving users the sort of wiggle-room in terms of communication and negotiation that Deckbox trading normally allows. Namely, I'd like to sell cards but I worry that it could create problems if my inventory is out of date or there's a pricing error or some other sort of hangup that is resolvable through the normal trade process. It'd be nice if I had the option of having to approve orders or something, just as a precaution. If these kinds of features aren't implemented I think there's going to be an extremely rocky period where buyers will be placing unreasonable service expectations on sellers because they figure that once they place the order everything should work perfectly. I think sellers need some sorts of options to review orders before having to fulfill them.

We might in the future. We just started with the most popular option and the easiest to integrate in the trading process for all sides (us, sellers, etc)

I definitely understand this concern. But (as with my previous post on returns), it would make everything less solid. We want a system where sellers can trust that once the money is received, it is theirs. Also we want the buyers to trust that once they paid for something, they will get it on their doorstep in a few days.

In short, we want a smooth and efficient system. This sadly has the downside that it requires everyone to tolerate less wiggle room. It requires sellers to accept they have to be quick with price changes and shipping cards , and buyers to accept that they can't just change their mind about buying something out of the blue.

That said, we want to provide tools that help with this. As I mentioned in a comment earlier, we are thinking of an Analysis view for a sellers tradelist, where he could quickly see which of his prices are way below market value or way above market value. Still designing this, but it will come.

Last edited by sebi (2014-03-25 11:26:31)

I've noticed now that when I confirm my address for a trade that my state and zip code are reversed.  State should come before zipcode, but it shows after it.  I don't think this is an issue for most people that live in the US to figure out, but it's a bit awkward looking.

To be fair, your last question will be one that only time and actual involvement will tell. Sure, if you compare this selling feature to  those other sites that are already established in that front, its going to be hard to argue to pick the new when you have the old.

Also all those sites you listed (aside from TCG) do not have the interface that deckbox does nor the complete functionality of being able to manage your entire collection, build decks, trade and now sell all in one place. I understand your question was in regards to selling but my point is for some this will complete the package of having everything and doing everything on one site opposed to many.

Last edited by Helios52 (2014-03-25 14:39:23)

Nope, not yet. But I've added it on the list.

In addition, as part of the "controls" others have mentioned that they hope sellers will have, it would be nice to auto-block anyone with a bad reputation. This is particularly valuable as sellers do not get the option to approve of a sale. Make it a setting sellers can change-- how bad is "bad," or disable the auto-block entirely, or make an exception for this one dude, etc.

Man. That sounds like a lot of coding for just one little thing. The initial ability to block probably wouldn't be so bad, but having white lists and auto-blocking filters could be more time consuming to code and test. Glad you're doing it and not me.

I haven't looked, but are there options for different shipping rates? Two-day vs standard, or a bulk discount?

Last edited by Xan (2014-03-25 14:52:57)