Marketplace off list

[Michael L. Riebs]

Say, how hard would it be to add fields to the marketplace for inputting the
sale items, so that searches could be made according to category?

For example, in the search window, making a pull-down to find all
"lighting", "body parts", "Electric components", etc. and another pull-down
for auto type: "5000", "100", "4000", "80/90", "200", etc.

Have no idea what it would take, and I greatly appreciate those who are
running the list free of charge. It's just a thought, spawned by my first
visit to the marketplace last night. The lack of ease in searching was the
first thing that came to mind.

Then again, after a few minutes of being overwhelmed by the mass of ads, and
trying to plow through them, I suddenly realized the much desired search
function is already built into my browser. Simply use "find (on this page)",
which in my version of Explorer is under the "edit" menu. I put in V8, and
the browser found all occurrences of "V8" in the listing.

Perhaps, instead of putting in hours of work trying to add the
aforementioned fields and pull-downs, a small instruction on how to use this
feature, for people who are less "computer savvy" than I am. I know there
are at least 2 of them out there.

Michael Riebs
Grand Rapids, MI
'90 V8Q
'98 A6QA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at mediaone.net>
To: "Larry C Leung" <l.leung at juno.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>; <brett at cloud9.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: marketplace on list


>
>
> > Some of us whom have text email access don't always have web access, so
> > we'd miss the sales....
>
> not a very compelling argument, there.  So that a few, couple, however
> many people can read the ads, the other 2000 or so will get them in
> their inbox and thye will also forever reside in the archives.
>
> On the dorf truck list, a "for sale" posting I saw was immediately
> scolded by the list owner/moderator!  (so was my sending in a link to my
> Haynes-derived simplified schematic, oh well)
>
> There are also the tougher questions - for sale items not owned by
> poster, and want to buy stuff.  We all "feel" more secure doing it on
> the list, but a simple ban would change our tune, right?  The
> marketplace could always have a section or comment added on cars for
> sale to say they do not belong to the person who listed them, right?
>
> Personally, even though in the past I have bought and sold many parts,
> even cars, via the mail interface, I think it would be a big improvement
> now that the marketplace exists to keep the trading there, where it
> vanishes when it is over and only those interested have to wade through
> it.
>
> It has advantages, too - the busy person looking for a car might need to
> delete rather than read their digests, but could peruse the ads at
> leisure, because they have a reason to do so.
>
> just my 2-3 cents, I guess
>
> > If y'all want to stop seeing stuff for sale posted here on the list,
> > then:
> >
> > a)don't reward people by answering them when they post something for
sale
> > b)browse/search the marketplace more often
> > c)when you have something FS or something wanted, put it on the
> > marketplace rather than posting to the list
> >
> > If we basically all agreed that from now on, no for-sale items should
> > go on the list, and we all knew that the next time we needed to
> > find/sell something we looked in the marketplace, the problem would
> > be reduced somewhat.
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
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>
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