Market place tweaks for 2022 £777

[Kiwi]

Hi BC'ers,

 

We've implemented some minor changes to how the market place functions, these are intended to make our modding team's life a bit easier while affecting the minimum of members.

 

1) There is a new autolock feature.  If your item has sold, just click on the title for a second or longer and add SOLD or WITHDRAWN to it.  The thread will automatically lock and it'll save the mods having to keep an eye out and monitoring every title change.

 

2) If you have had an advert running for longer than three months and would like it to stay active, please give it a bump to avoid autolock after 12 weeks.  We did a review and there are nearly 1400 for sale ads that haven't been active in over a year so for the sake of keeping things organised it'll be a big help.

 

3) We were inundated with complaints in the latter half of this year about members listing volumes of items that would rival many bricks and mortar retailers.  In one case, we estimated the member would have needed to pay about £4000 in Ebay fees to sell the same amount of kit.  It places the mods in a fairly unenvious position in having to deal with complaints while not having a clear and fair basis in the terms and conditions on which to take action.  So we have introduced a fair use policy that places a limit of ten listings per month.  That's 120 items a year and the counter resets on the first day of every month.  If you need to list more than ten items/month then we can discuss your needs in more detail, just drop us a line.

 

I'm sure you'll appreciate that the mods have a difficult job to do sometimes and they're all volunteers, so every bit we can do to make the job easier for them will make a difference.

 

Thanks for your understanding.