Divide up the for sale section?

seb1899

seb1899

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Any thoughts about sectioning the For Sale Section?

I think if it were divided by Cues and Other it would be helpful and if the Cue Section was divided by $ it would make for better shopping.

How about <200, 200-500 and 500+

I am looking for a lower cost cue and I do not have time to wade through all the ads - I just do not bother looking
 
Usually placing a want to buy ad works to get most of the current offers within your stated budget.
 
blah blah said:
How about this one:

Everytime you "Bump," you have to lower the sale price by at least $5.

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Or how about...no bumping. There's a thought. Worthless "bumps" drive me absolutely crazy. I stay away from the whole wanted/for sale section for the same reason. I'm not wading through all of the garbage to find what I'm looking for.

It feels disorganized and hard to find what you're looking for. If I were a seller I'd prefer that there not be the endless "bump"ing of threads. Should be a section much more like CL.
 
Another option -- which probably requires reprogramming of vBulletin -- is to let each separate member have a "store" space with a list of types of items for sale.
 
Change?

seb1899 said:
Any thoughts about sectioning the For Sale Section?

I think if it were divided by Cues and Other it would be helpful and if the Cue Section was divided by $ it would make for better shopping.

How about <200, 200-500 and 500+

I am looking for a lower cost cue and I do not have time to wade through all the ads - I just do not bother looking
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As awesome as az is the mods or powers that be are not receptive to change. Maybe it cost money to make changes, I don't know. And yes, the bumps are pretty silly. A limit on bumps would make sense. I wish AZ was perfect. I wish I had every car I ever owned. I wish I would have gone to that Sadie Hawkins dance with Barbara cause she turned into a stone cold fox when she got out of high school! I wish just once one of my wishes would come true.
 
Another Option

When you want to sell something, have the seller fill out a form and answer a few questions.

What are you selling?
Price Range?
etc.

That way, you could search by those parameters.

For example, I want to search for a cue for sale in the $1500-$2000 range. You could click on the "Cue" and the "$1500-$2000" boxes and see the items for sale under those parameters.

Would probably need some recoding to do it, but would be nice.
 
I think this is a pretty good idea, it would help clean up the entire section and help make navigation easier and more efficient. Someone looking for something in particular wouldn't have to wade through hundreds of other items and useless bumps while looking for what they want and if they don't find it, at least they will be passing by items related to their search.

Something as simple as this would help a great bit I believe.


◆ Production Cues (Mezz, Predator, Schon, Joss, ETC)

◆ Custom Cues (Gina, Szamboti, BB, Prewitt, ETC)

◆ Cases (Could be sub-diviided by size, price, or Custom/Production)

◆ Pool Tables (Brunswick, Diamond, ETC)

◆ Chalk (Kamui, Pre-Flag, Antique, Blue Diamond, ETC)

◆ Instructional (Books, DVD, Training Aids, ETC)

◆ Accessories (Gloves, Chalk Holders, Tip Tools, ETC)
 
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laserbrn said:
Or how about...no bumping. There's a thought. Worthless "bumps" drive me absolutely crazy. I stay away from the whole wanted/for sale section for the same reason. I'm not wading through all of the garbage to find what I'm looking for.

It feels disorganized and hard to find what you're looking for. If I were a seller I'd prefer that there not be the endless "bump"ing of threads. Should be a section much more like CL.
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then we will have multi post about the same cues etc and the -$5 evrytime you bump there would be some that will have to give you $ lol not saying any names i agree we need a better system but for the life of me i cant think of it
 
There are some valid points being brought up as far as separating things but I'm probably the only one who likes viewing everything all at once....... I might not be in the market for say an old meucci original but if one comes up for the right price I might jump on it. One of the things that should probably be addressed is posting without a price. Another forum I frequent will remove any thread where no price is listed. There's a few higher end cue dealers that for some reason don't ever post a price???? Don't know why, but they don't. What does it matter if it's a 200.00 meucci or a 20k Szam? Just post a price. Oohs and ahhhs are great but I want to see a price without having to visit another site. Just my opinion I guess....
 
I think there should be two sections - one for dealers and flippers, the other for regular individual sales.
 
Thank god you said something I sure wanted too but felt it wouldn't be my place being so new.

The for sale section is nearly useless as it is for me as a buyer. I wanted to look for tables and still do want to, but every day there's a hundred cue bumps and people don't always put pool table in the ad, maybe it just says gc3 or olhausen table etc, and often no location or you have to look deep in each ad to figure out the location which on a pool table is really worthless unless you have all the time in the world to sort through it all.

At least it should be divided into subforums for cues, tables, and other. It would be nice if it were further divided into subforums under cues for break and jump too, then price ranges because I simply won't wade through hundreds of regular cues most of which I could never afford anyway every single day to find whatever few other items I may actually be interested in and that are in my price range or my area.

Even if I wanted to look for a shooting cue I wouldn't look here because it's too much of a nightmare to wade through everything when I can't drill down to type or brand or price to narrow my search to the things I would actually want or could actually afford.

It would also be nice if there were no bumps or if each bump or repost made the prior ad go away if there is one.
 
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i personally think it is fine the way it is... i would have to say, out of the entire forum, that is the section i spend the most time in and i dont have a problem with it..

chris
 
ChrisOnline said:
i personally think it is fine the way it is... i would have to say, out of the entire forum, that is the section i spend the most time in and i dont have a problem with it..

chris
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+1 Chris. I totally agree. I like it just the way it is. You can start a thread
looking for what you want to spend, and you can use the search function
if your looking for a certain brand. If nothing in the title line catches your
attention, just go to the next thread.:smile:
 
ChrisOnline said:
i personally think it is fine the way it is... i would have to say, out of the entire forum, that is the section i spend the most time in and i dont have a problem with it..

chris
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And there is the difference. You like spending all day there browsing to find something you "might" want, but many of us dont and just want to get to the meat of what we want or just plain won't bother, and therefore sellers loose out because we can't or don't want to spend all day at it.

Big difference...

Even if it were divided you could still browse everything and spend all day there every day if you wanted too. That wouldn't stop you one bit.

You can't get a good search for certain things when people don't always use the right key words or whatever in their ad. When I'm looking for a pool table yet it might be listed only as gc1, gc2, gc3, olhausen model whatever and nowhere in the ad does it even say pool table.. I'd want to see all anniversaries and centennials and all brunswicks really but just pool tables, but not all the the brunswick cues or racks or chairs or pee bottles or lights or out of state snooker tables.

Or location might be left out or not come up as oregon, instead it could be medford or. I can't search on "or" that's for sure, or every city around me, yet I'm certainly not interested in an out of state pool table.

What about wanting a diamond table, that's a search term I've tried that really sucks. You get all kinds of cues and or tables where someone says something about the diamond in the rails or diamond inlays in a cue which rolls straight on a table or whatever, but not very often a "diamond brand table".



Or I might just want some simonis cloth, yet a search for simonis will bring up mostly pool tables, but not all pool tables to where I could use simonis as a keyword to catch all tables and not only simonis cloth it will bring up every ad that says such and such crap cheap cloth plays "like" simonis or comparable to simonis... You get the idea.

Even if there were a form to fill out requiring all the right fields and models and locations and prices yet it was still all lumped together at least it would be easier to search.
 
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Granted I can see where it might be frustrating to some and the ideas for improvement are all good. Myself, I don't have a problem with it the way it is.

I enjoy browsing/wading thru all of it. If you are just looking for a cue in a certain price range, you might be missing out on a killer deal in a lower range but you won't know unless you click on it.

Same a EBay, I type in Pool Cues and start browsing.

We have a Search feature here. Click on Search, Advanced Search, type in Scruggs (for example) and click on Wanted For Sale.
It will show you all the Scruggs cues currently listed.
 
There will be loads of individual preferences, so keeping everyone happy will be impossible. I'd definitely support the idea of separating customs and productions, however. I'd also like to separate the flippers and the private sellers, and ideally a sub forum that caters for overseas buyers - it can be very annoying to see cues that you'd like to buy but can't because the seller won;t ship internationally.

I suggest it would be good practice for all sellers to include the price in the title bar.
 
Obviously looking at my iTraider i dont actually buy much, but I do enjoy that section and if it was split i would definitely brows the cheap stuff as im broke all the time. Though I would miss seeing the really nice stuff i cant afford. So i guess i can see it from both sides. I love looking at stuff I cant afford, but if I was actually buying a price section could be nice. Maybe just add a filter to the forum section for price. just a thought.
 
it can be very annoying to see cues that you'd like to buy but can't because the seller won;t ship internationally.
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Well there is a kind of easy way of that one. Have the cue shipped to a trusted member. He will ship to you. Cost you the extra shipping to the North American address.

I once offered that to a guy who was looking for a special cue. I had to go back on the offer when he asked me to start making long distance calls on his behalf. Too bad because I would have gladly done the rest of the leg work for him.
 
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