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https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Man, these new rules are hard to figure out
"...especially under the new default viewing options" isn't a fair statement at all. Under the new defaults, a person who hasn't checked in since Saturday is going to be far more likely to check back all the way to page four than they would under the old system. This is because there is now a very logical order in which the posts show up.I started a knife for sale thread in the production knives section on Saturday. As of right now (Tuesday afternoon), it is already on page four, where no one visits, especially under the new default viewing options. Under the new rules, I am not supposed to close my listing in order to repost it on the first page with a new price, which is the only way it would get any exposure at this point. I would have to wait one and half weeks before I can anything with it. Sure, I can update the price, but again, no one goes to page 4 of the for sale sections. This shows what is wrong with the new system and why sellers may start looking for other options. I know I am, considering my knife will now sit on pages 4-7 for over a week. I was kind of liking the new viewing option as a browser, but curious to know what it would feel like as a seller. Now I know. I say keep the current set up if you must, but allow for price reduction bumping back the first page, or shorten the amount of time before a seller can re-post a knife to less than a week.
Yes. It is possible, though as previously discussed in this thread, not something Spark is willing to do at this point. This is because it would require modding the forum software, which can have it's risks.Can you make it so only the OP can send the thread BTT?A big watch forum I am on does that.It keeps chit chat and questions from bringing the thread back up.
Regarding price drops... I don't know about you, but once I've seen an ad for something and determined I don't have any interest in it, I don't want to see it again. If I am not interested in, say, a Benchmade 940... whether it's NIB for $115 or $50, I don't really care.
Not quite sure what to say about lessening the time before reposts. The biggest con I can see to the new system is that we now have a bunch of "SOLD!" posts sitting on the front pages, slowly creeping towards the back. The problem is that allowing people to delete their own posts would be problematic for monitoring the repost rule and, lets face it, many people wouldn't even bother. Plus, it's nice to have an archive of all this stuff for various reasons.
The only real solution for this would be to have mods manually move every "SOLD!" thread to an archives subforum. Safe to say, I don't think anyone would actually want that job.
But again, that is a solution that Spark is not currently willing to consider, as it would require modding the forum software. By default, there is no option to allow only the thread creator to bump his own thread.The solution that has been proposed, allowing OP's to bump their own thread based on listing changes, would eliminate the need to cancel and repost, and significantly unclog the forum with useless closed threads.
In other words, the buyer who is going to subscribe to a thread so they can keep an eye on it? Because that's a lot faster than trying to dig through 4 pages of threads in randomized order thanks to constant bumps.That's one type of buyer. Another type, as has been stated, is the buyer that isn't interested at one price but is at another. The price does make a difference to them, and suddenly when the price is low enough, people start thinking about it, giving it is a gift, etc.
Modding software isn't going to happen. What you propose isn't possible with the factory installation and I'm not implementing a hack that may introduce future problems.To me, a good solution that has been proposed is to allow the OP to bump the thread to the top with price and important info changes (or to add new knives to the thread), but not let other comments bump the thread. That would allow the OP the same exposure as before whiel cutting down on bumps form other chatting. That's what feels fair to me as a seller on this forum.
I don't see how. "Immediate exposure" happens when you post the sale, and now you are getting the most amount of exposure in the first 24 hours. Afterwards it goes down, but again the people who are really interested are going to search or bookmark. By and large I'm not seeing the traffic dip; the stats sure aren't showing it.Honestly, there are other forums and selling venues that, compared to this system, offer much more immediate exposure to buyers. I would imagine members beginning to migrate where they post knives for sale if they can't get off of page seven for a week, and that would be a shame, since we have such a great marketplace here, and it's one thing that attracts new members and folks to explore the other forums as well.
Consider me unimpressed in general by the new "system". I just found out today when I noticed my last bumps and price drops never showed up on the first page. I assume that the rules changes were brought about because of moderation difficulties, because they sure as hell don't make things easier as a buyer or seller. I'll play for a while and see how it works out, but for the record if I had real jedi mind powers and knew about this before hand I wouldn't have re-upped my membership.
Under the old rules, users were allowed to "bump" their threads in The Exchange once every 72 hours. That is to say, once every 72 hours, they were allowed to make a completely useless post for the express purpose of putting their thread back at the top of page one. The problem was that each and every reply to a topic would send it back to the top, not just these bumps. The most active threads might end up staying on the first page for days at a time, while inactive threads could drop off in an hour or two.what is the 72 hour rule relate to?
Correct.so now is there NO BUMPing?
so now is there NO BUMPing?
I generally ignore those stickies at the top unless there's express cause for concern.
With such a fundamental change in how the FS forum works for most people now it would have been nice to get everyone on the same page.