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Monday, December 20 2010New Year! New Classifieds! In 2011 kingsnake.com will be giving our entire classified system an overhaul and we want you to help!
Give us your input about the rules, the software, how your ads look, or anything else to do with the classifieds -- we want to hear what you have to say. Post your ideas here, or send us an email and let us know what you'd like to see in the new classifieds. Happy New Year, and happy new classifieds from kingsnake.com! UPDATE: - We are getting some great suggestions! Please make sure to mention suggestions others have already made so we can get an idea how many people would like to see those features. While some of these would be difficult to implement without causing problems (i.e. unlimited ads would allow retailers to post page after page of ads every day, making hobbyist ads run off the front page in minutes rather than hours or days), others are relatively easy to implement into our current systems as they are based on technology or policy issues that are no longer relevant today as opposed to 1997 when some of these policies and systems were implemented. Expect to see some of your suggestions implemented in January, with a full overhaul sometime in March. Keep those suggestions coming! |
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I used to post alot in the Kingsnake.com classifieds, but have not done so for quite some time now due to the cost.
I have now been posting my ads on another site that has no limit to postings per day and only costs $25 per year to do so, plus the site deals strictly with the same type of species that I breed.
Thanks, Walter
Your prices, etc, are all perfectly reasonable considering the massive amount of site traffic through here. Better functionality to allow customers to find what they're looking for quickly would improve on that.
2. How about a quick video- how to post ads on Kingsnake 1-2-3 step by step
3. Have you thought about a pay per ad rate?
4. More user friendly/graphical way to manage ads.
Oh, and surprisingly, I think the pricing is fair on Kingsnake
Thanks for asking for feedback.
Wally
location (state). I too would like a counter to see how many hits my ad gets. I have no complaints with the current price structure.
searching within one category would be good.
Better divisions; like, part out the milks and kings because there are tons of each up on the classifieds.
Searching by seller location is nice.
i would add and remove some categories. as well. for example.
i would remove gray band kings as its own category and separate kings and milks into 2 categories.
hognose are getting quite popular so maybe they could get a spot of their own.
thats all i can think of right now. but i would like to reiterate the limitation of ads to be removed. i currently dont have an account for that specific reason and would jump on board with you if you removed that limitation.
put that annoying thing in the upper right corner or somewhere else out of the way. it jumps up out of no where every time i want to send a pm or even get my mouse near it.....moving that would make the site better... for me at least.
Move the share button.
Robert Franklin
2. I only keep turtles/tortoises. I'd like to entertain trades, but only for other turtles and tortoises. Allow me to specify that in my ads rather than having to specify it separately in the TRADES section. I don't think anyone really goes to the TRADES section anyway.
3. Feedback would be cool but would need to be controlled so that only actual buyers can post it. Maybe seller can provide buyer with a confirmation code?
4. I'd ask that potential buyers be forced to read the ENTIRE ad before emailing questions, but I know that's impossible so I'm just airing a general gripe.
Thanks.
2. User friendly format for pictures and video
3. Lower price to place ad.
2. Ability to queue adds to post when you want them to post (i.e. for sales, etc.).
3. Split up sections a bit more so people don't have to look through long lists when they are searching for a specific type of animal.
2. Allow us to post what we would be willing to TRADE for in addition to listing the price. The current TRADE section is like a flea market with non reptile items in it.
3. Try to bring back more private sellers. There are too many commercial poster's that list the same thing everyday.
4 lower price to get private sellers
Hognose to have their own page, along with kings and milks, great idea.
no limit on postings per day
auto resize of photos would be nice
I would like auto-relisting abilities for 2 days. Not every day, again too spammy, but every 2 days would be nice. Every 7 days isn't worth anything for me.
And yes, banish that share button to the far corner of the universe, on all parts of the site.
Is it possible that it only comes with enhanced account, that is why I see it?
We have auto relist for 1 day already, but only after ad expires for first time. Then when you relist it,above submit, it asks for relisting ad entitles to **** for and box with the amount of time you can choose, then below that it says enable auto re-list and it relists it daily at same time. There is also an view counter? Does this stuff only come with enhanced? Cause I see it everytime I log in to delete/relist ads.
I also can download pics off my hard drive already. Maybe it is bonus with enhanced accounts only...havent looked into it. But if it is, then sure go ahead for non enhanced accounts as well!
2. Edit/remove/replace photos in an ad versus just a typed update below the ad. Links break and the photos cannot be replaced-the ad has to be deleted and then rebuilt.
3. Pricing is fair-no complaints there.
4. Ad counters are a nice indicator of what is getting looked at-definitely a plus.
5. A rating system will open a can of worms-there are other/better ways to protect sellers/buyers.
Ad view counter would be nice.
Price is good, keep the spammers away!
Seller rating/review/comments system (similar to ebay).
Move the share button.
Iphone app would be GREAT!
2. Edit/remove/replace photos in an existing ad.
3. Ad views counter.
4. Ability to keep inactive ADDs without them being deleted.
#1….My main issue is the ease at uploading photos for the classified advertisements. I have pretty much stopped loading current photos because I do not like to take the time to resize each photo to meet the 150 KB size limit. Photos are extremely important to buyers (kingsnake users)…. But I often do not have time to resize a dozen recent photos before posting. I like the system that facebook has which lets you drag and drop any size photo, and some mysterious program does all the photo resizing to their specifications. I know that this is of interest to many people besides me…..#7 Peter; #13 Mitch; #19 Shane; #28 VM….and others.
I think if it were easier to get a current photo from your camera to the classified ad, the whole section would be easier to use, more current, more honest, better for the customers, and it would save a lot of time among all your classified posting clients. I would use the site more often (and post better content) if it were more user friendly.
#2….I agree with #18….(Josh’s Frogs)…..Because I do not get online to post ads very often, I often log on to find that not only have my ads have expired, but they are not in memory any longer. This requites me to re-compose the ads before I re-post basically the exact same advertisement (usually cut and paste the exact words from a MS word document). If you keep the ads in your memory a little longer before erasing them, it would be helpful to me. (I just have the basic subscription; I post for 30 days at a time so I can make use of your website without visiting more often; I only sell my babies and the ads are current until I sell out).
#3…. I agree with #21 (Sal) and others who suggest an I-phone app. I imagine that this would increase users.
#4….I agree with #10 (Varnid) and others about seller feedback. I know this can get messy, but it will reward the outstanding sellers with good customer feedback (either anonymously or feedback linked to the buyer). Even the less than perfect comments can be useful to sellers because they pin-point areas where we may need improvement. Even if it were a solely a customer ranking system (like 1 through 10), on different topics….(customer service, quality of shipping experience, health of animal on arrival, general thoughts on vendor, would you order from this seller again?....and so forth). This would help future customers separate the good guys from the others. Although I do not look at it…the idea behind the Fauna Good Guy Ranking has some merit.
#4….Have a section of kingsnake.com which works like a social bookmarking site. This would allow your users to post informative content about their products. Because of your high page ranking, this will also help raise the search engine rankings for the users who use this (SEARCHABLE) feature. Think, Digg and Delicious.
Thank you for the opportunity to critique your website and voice our collective suggestions. This is a characteristic of many successful companies, and I hope that you can put some of these suggestions into effect. I look forward to an improved experience for all users…. Thanks again, Bryan Hummel.
high speed is the norm now; this isn't 97 when we were lucky to get 56k
As a buyer, search is the most important thing for me hands down: I want to be able to search quickly and accurately for what I'm looking for. Second is to get some feel for the reputation of the person selling (if I've never dealt with them before). you'd have to have something to avoid blatant abuse though; I don't know what safeguards you'd put in place.
The only thing I believe the site needs is a feedback section for buyers and sellers. Ther are other site that have feedback, that although humorous are unproductive for the most part. There should be no third party input. It had been mentioned that E-bay was a good example of a good feedback system. I have made sure I have kept a perfect rating on E-bay because it makes it eaiser for me to buy & sell. The majority of the folks selling here good & honest people btu it would be nice to weed out the dirtbags. A feedback system would make it less of a gamble to buy & sell reptiles on-line and it would also increase your revenue.
Also, allow classified account holders to keep their posts saved for more than fifteen days....perhaps thirty days to save a post after it has expired?
Thanks for letting us give some input!
Tim Tytle