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This sounds wonderful. I’m looking forward to all these great changes. Thanks so much.

Yes, sounds like a move in the right direction…quality is always better than quantity. And even more important is the aspect of accountability to the customer. I’m so glad to see measures being taken to insure the Bonanzle experience continues to be a positive one for those who come through our virtual doors~

1. Can I now collect on the bets I made with others here that that iphone app and the webstores were up next?

2. Sellers who haven’t logged in for a couple months and do not respond to buyer emails will have their items reserved after a given number of warnings …..still gives an awful lot of slack needs to be tighter yet

3. emphasis on building a buyer shopping experience that is tailored around the type of item the buyer is shopping for …We think that giving buyers an experience that is memorable is the key to driving return traffic, and return traffic is the key to making strategies like marketing/advertising become financially viable.
Why does this sound so scary?? Almost sounds like ebay speak

4. So that we know NOW in advance.. are these add on apps going to be something we must purchase or buy by the month? This is very important for us to know now please

YAY!

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see something in the works to cut down on the dump & runners.

We are all working very hard to make this a truly quality site, and it hurts every one of us when even just 1 bad sellers sneaks in.

WTG Bonanzle Crew!

I’m there lol ..sometimes we need more reassurance if one does not understand geek speak! If I don’t ask or make a comment it won’t get understood by me and many others. Just helps to dispel any assumptions

Over the next couple of months should make the improvements ready in 2010 – after the Christmas season.

Sofy, in other words, if the developer is one who believes in Open Source, there wouldn’t be an additional charge. Other developers like to get paid.

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“It’s more fun than…….Adam Sandler at Disneyland”

Lets not get carried away Bill come on lol

Second

“Our focus over the next couple months will be to flesh out Bonanzle with an emphasis on building a buyer shopping experience that is tailored around the type of item the buyer is shopping for”

I never understood the presumption that Amazon and eBay have when deciding what it is I am shopping for. If I were at Bath & Body works it would make sense that it inform me of any discounts/sales …. for their line of white tea and ginger because that is what I buy there in large quantities.

However, this is a marketplace comprised of about 18,000 separate sellers and some with multiple booths offering unrelated products. The range of available product types is huge even with our relatively small size. The breadth of item types available lends itself to Bonanzle having the potential to become a one stop shopping destination for anything a person needs (other than nude art of course)

So as a buyer my issues with a marketplace deciding what it is I am interested in on any given day is so beyond annoying. I cannot fully express how much I hate clicking into those sites to find myself bombarded with a bunch of crap that I am not looking for today 2 months after I bought what is being recommended to me. Worse on eBay counterfeits of brands I have previously purchased.

1) How does Bonanzle intend determine for me what I came to Bonanzle to purchase?

2) Has Bonanzle considered the liability of recommending products that it does not know the authenticity of the product or the reliability of the seller selling the product?

If I come to Bonanzle after having a good experience with a seller on Bonanzle giving me confidence in buying from another seller that Bonanzle is recommending to me and I open my package to find a counterfeit coach bag how do you imagine such an experience will effect my comfort level purchasing from a seller on Bonanzle in the future?

As a seller on Bonanzle do you think it is in my best interest for Bonanzle to be perceived as having that kind of responsibility in a transaction? Bonanzle will not only be a site where the buyer acquired a counterfeit coach bag Bonanzle will be the agent that suggested & encouraged the buyer to purchase the fake bag. In other words Bonanzle will tarnish its perception in the eyes of the abused buyer.

As a seller on Bonanzle it is in my best interest that Bonanzle keeps its nose out of transactions as much as possible, because once someone decides Bonanzle is selling counterfeits I lose as a seller on this site. If Bonanzle acquires a negative reputation Bonanzle will not have any value for my purpose here as a seller.

3) The situation with the absentee sellers has similar or equally negative effects for Bonanzle’s reputation as the counterfeits if Bonanzle unknowingly encourages buyers to purchase from sellers that do not respond, do not ship, or no longer have the item the buyer purchased

As a buyer when I hit submit payment I do so because I really want that product. I do not want to be told sorry I already sold that item. I do not want to make payment and never have my package shipped, because the seller didn’t even realize he/she received payment from a sale on Bonanzle. I want the damn item I hit submit payment to purchase.

If I had a good experience with one seller on Bonanzle that I found in a Google search and I pop into Bonanzle at a later time and on that occasion I am met with product suggestions recommended by Bonanzle and it turns out Bonanzle recommended a product/seller for an item I never received (reasons above) I don’t think I would feel to swell about Bonanzle leading me to a product sold by a seller that does not follow through. Assuming the buyer realizes they are buying from a seller that other than Bonanzle’s recommendation has no other relationship with Bonanzle.

Felicitations said she has experienced this on more than one occasion. Felicitations has a bond with this site and an understanding of the dynamics involved. For Felicitations the seller is at fault because she knows what Bonanzle is all about. However, someone that stumbled upon Bonanzle while searching the internet takes the leap of faith to purchase on a site he/she has never heard of before. If I submit payment for a product on a site I have never used and I do not receive my item for whatever reason – no longer available, seller didn’t realize something sold…- well I don’t think I will go to that site and submit payment in the future.

Why do these sellers get multiple warnings? Really you are allowing these sellers multiple opportunities to hurt us all. I personally don’t appreciate being sacrificed to allow for other sellers to abuse numerous buyers negatively effecting Bonanzle’s reputation and by extension my own. I feel that Bonanzle’s considerations should focus on sellers that do not harm all of us in this one marketplace comprised 18,000 sellers/people many of which actually are active and who have bills to pay, kids to feed, and brows to have waxed rather than plucked hopefully again someday.

I don’t want these people to have multiple opportunities to hurt me. Why do you want to allow them multiple opportunities to hurt me? I’m here everyday, I respond, and I have the products I list (other than the 3 glitches that caused me to over sell and for one of those I could not find it elsewhere to buy and send. So I had to tell someone – for the first time ever – who trusted me enough to hit submit gee I’m sorry I don’t have that product. I know you really wanted it too, because if I had had it it would have been the last available on the planet. I know you are disappointed and will never come to my booth again…) anyway aside from any factors beyond my control I am an asset to this site. Why do you want to break down my value by allowing sellers multiple opportunities to harm me?

4) As for the offenses that can result in a seller having their items put on reserve

What does it matter how often a seller logs into Bonanzle? I know several people that do not spend all day every day on Bonanzle. I know sellers who only log in when they receive a notice something sold. I read a post a couple months ago written by a seller who had forgotten he had listed his items here until he received a notice something sold. Not only did he follow through he started working his booth.

Point the frequency of login does not necessarily dictate the quality of the seller. So in my opinion, the seller’s last login should not be considered reason enough to put the seller’s items on reserve

I know it does not count for much, but in my opinion Bonanzle should only allow two opportunities for deviant sellers to harm us (Bonanzle, sellers, and buyers) 1- to point out the obvious (don’t list what you don’t have or if you are not on top of your business enough to know something sold) 2- eviction notice

This is the point where consideration of the seller’s profile to determine if it is a deadbeat seller or a victim of a system glitch or the item was damaged in someway would be needed for appropriate action to be taken.

Third
“custom shipping calculator tailored to a seller’s needs”

Would something like this be the solution to dealing with the calculated shipping deficiencies in our current shipping tool or an optional tool for enhanced customizations. In other words do you intend to enhance our current shipping capabilities or do you intend to wait for a developer to create one for sellers who use calculated shipping to purchase in order to be able to display accurate buyer attractive shipping prices as opposed to buyer deterring shipping prices?

Sorry so incredibly long, but that’s just who I am lol

Applause and bravo’s to you guyz!
I for one appreciate to crack down on slackers, for all it takes is ONE bad experiance to turn someone off this site.

Everyone needs to remember … QUANTITY is good … BUT QUALITY is FAR better.
People want GOOD items at GOOD prices with Friendly Fast service. Period!

Love the WAY Bonanzle Operates! I’m VERY Impressed, and I’m VERY Grateful to BE Here! Keep UP the GOOD Work!

The dump and run sellers really bother me. On a personal level, because I have bought and paid for items and never received them, and on a professional level, if it happened to me it can happen to those coming from outside Bonanzle, and in my opinion, that just doesnt look good for any of the people who are really trying to sell here. I will be happy that they seem to be on the list of improvments here.
I always look forward to the new changes here and I do hope we can keep the momentum going and keep Bonanzle as a shining example of how to do e-business..

Just read the Auction Bytes blog & comments on the latest news from, E***
http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/comments/2009/11/1257694387.html/2/20#comments
In case you haven’t read it, I thought I’d send the link because I think that the comments, especially those of E***call home, are especially important, if you are interested in the collectibles and antique market. Many of the comments point out the unique needs of the community such as search communication, etc. It’s a huge community and of all the sites I’ve looked at and am using, Bonanzle is my favorite.

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